Why Hasan Piker is Suddenly a Problem for Democrats

**Josh Holmes** (0:00)
All of a sudden, Democratic leadership has become aware of Hasan Piker.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:05)
The media is like, maybe Hasan Piker is the new Joe Rogan of the left. Remember, they kind of like crowned him with that status, and now they're pretending like, well, we don't know anything about him.

**John Ashbrook** (0:18)
Well, all the energy is with this crazy ass anti-Semite, but I guess he's getting people to get involved. So let him run amok.
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Good Thursday to you. Welcome back to the Ruthless Variety Program. We must be getting close to general election season, because Democrats are trying to become something that they, well, they're not. I'm Josh Holmes along with Comfortably Smug and John Ashbrook. We have Michael Duncan on assignment this week.
Fellas, I don't know if you guys have noticed, all of a sudden, Democratic leadership has become aware of Hasan Piker.

**John Ashbrook** (3:01)
Oh, yeah. They definitely didn't know about him until like just now.

**Josh Holmes** (3:05)
Yeah, no, I mean, it's just, just-

**John Ashbrook** (3:07)
He's not been out campaigning with all their candidates.

**Josh Holmes** (3:11)
Just now figuring out who this guy is.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:14)
You know, it's an internet thing just bubbling up. They just happen to be noticing.

**Josh Holmes** (3:18)
Hey, my word search has just turned up this unusual character. Turns out he's an anti-Semite. I can't believe it.
So you, for a long time listeners, we're repeating ourselves. I mean, part of what we talk about here on the Ruthless Variety Program is Democrats reinvention of themselves to suit the political moment. In recent years, we've called it the Abbey Spanberger routine, which is you present to voters what you think is most likely to get you across the finish line, and then you become the psychopath everybody knew you were when you're in office.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:58)
Yep.

**Josh Holmes** (3:59)
But there's a three-part episode when it comes to primaries, this cycle. Usually, they just overwhelm them and kick basically the minority candidate out of all.

**Comfortably Smug** (4:13)
Schumer's been doing that for years.

**John Ashbrook** (4:14)
He worked in Texas. Yeah, the whole Schumer play. Yeah.

**Josh Holmes** (4:17)
They couldn't get away with that for all the things we've talked about, you know, 16, 20, 24, and this pent-up anxiety that the primary electorate and Democrat parties had, and so they've kind of overwhelmed the system in a lot of ways. So all their candidates end up showing up with this character, Hasan Piker, who is probably the most objectionable person in politics. I was asked, one of the hosts on Fox this morning was like, is there an analog to this cat? Like, did you guys ever deal with anybody who is just super objectionable that like appeared with candidates?