00:02:42.780I want to explore the Democratic establishment's war
00:02:45.380on Hassan Piker, what it's really about,
00:02:48.660and what they're leaving on the table by waging it.
00:02:50.900To do that, I am so thrilled to be joined by Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for U.S. Senate from the great state of Michigan, who controversially made a campaign stop this week alongside Hassan Piker, and who was admonished for it by many in the Democratic establishment.
00:04:21.800And it turns out that when you actually go and talk to people, you're willing to persuade
00:04:26.040them on what you believe, you can win elections.
00:04:28.420You know, everybody paid attention to our campaigning with Hassan.
00:04:32.220I started my day yesterday on Fox and Friends, where, look, there are a lot of things me and
00:04:36.700the Fox and Friends hosts are going to disagree on. But that doesn't mean that I'm not going to
00:04:40.300go and have a conversation with some lovely boomers who have been duped by the MAGA movement
00:04:45.340into thinking that somehow this president wasn't going to start another war to enrich himself and
00:04:50.360his friends. So, you know, I'm going to go everywhere and talk to everybody because that's
00:04:54.200how you campaign in the year of our Lord, 2026. Yeah, it also looked like the lines to get in
00:04:58.800were extremely long. So I don't know, I guess the college students just didn't hear Jake Tapper's
00:05:04.000condemnations of Hassan Piker. You know, it turns out like tutting people about who they should not
00:05:09.320listen to is the best single way to make sure they listen to that person. Talk about it. In gay world,
00:05:14.500we call that the Streisand effect. Abdul, just for appearing alongside Hassan Piker, your detractors0.93
00:05:21.060have spent the last few weeks smearing you as all sorts of things by proxy. Your opponent in the
00:05:26.940Michigan Senate race, Mallory McMorrow, she likened Hasan Piker to the far-right neo-Nazi
00:05:32.660Nick Fuentes. She's not alone in that comparison. Could you characterize these smears and explain
00:05:40.220where they're actually coming from? Because, you know, as like a Jewish person who respects
00:05:45.500Hasan for his principles and deeply rejects Nick Fuentes, it just feels so dishonest and frankly
00:05:53.660offensive. Yeah. I can't answer to why somebody says what they say, but I can try my best to
00:06:01.520assess the context in which they say it. You know, what's ironic to me is that the last one of us who
00:06:07.220actually campaigned with Hassan was Senator McMorrow at the 2024 DNC when they were both
00:06:14.980there to campaign for then, for Vice President Kamala Harris. And you didn't get this clapback
00:06:21.200from the likes of Third Way, from the likes of the ADL, from the likes of AIPAC when Hassan was
00:06:26.420invited to the DNC. But when he decided to come and campaign for me, there was a whole different
00:06:33.220clapback. And I'll leave it to your very smart, very thoughtful audience to try and figure out
00:06:37.480why. Maybe it has something to do with the similarities that he and I share. Now, the
00:06:41.800reality of it is that the reason I stand against anti-Semitism, the reason I categorically oppose
00:06:47.700any attempt to smear Judaism or the Jewish people is because I love people. And I believe it
00:06:53.840shouldn't matter how you pray. As somebody who is of Muslim faith, I believe that you deserve equal
00:06:58.780rights to peace, dignity, self-determination, equal rights to be venerated and appreciated for
00:07:03.780who you are. It's also the reason I oppose Israel's actions. I oppose genocide. I oppose0.99
00:07:09.660AIPAC trying to tie our foreign policy interests to the interests of a foreign government.
00:07:14.520I oppose sending three plus billion dollars a year to subsidize a foreign military
00:07:19.740That is israel, but that's also egypt. That's also saudi arabia and jordan and pakistan all countries
00:07:24.780Who receive tax dollars that you and I pay to provide for our schools here and our health care here
00:07:31.300I oppose all of those things because I love people. It goes back to the same set of principles
00:07:35.960So don't tell me that you stand against anti-semitism and believe in equality
00:07:40.120when you cannot oppose a genocide being perpetrated by our tax dollars.
00:07:44.300Those two things are one and the same.0.61
00:07:45.700Now, there are a lot of folks who want to stretch the meaning of anti-Semitism to include
00:07:50.020righteous opposition against the actions of a foreign government.
00:07:54.220I will never be okay with that because my principles are fundamentally about justice.
00:07:58.740They're fundamentally about a love of people.
00:08:01.220And so, look, you know, people are trying to make this into some sort of tribal thing.
00:08:05.160But I was raised by my father, who's an Egyptian immigrant, my stepmom, Jackie, who's a daughter
00:08:09.440of the American Revolution. I've never fit comfortably into any tribe. The tribe I'm from
00:08:13.540is the tribe of Michigan. And here in Michigan, we want our tax dollars to be funding healthcare
00:08:17.200in Michigan, in schools in Michigan, to be funding the ability for folks to live a dignified life in
00:08:22.260Michigan. And as the future senator from Michigan, that's going to be my focus. So when I watch
00:08:27.160as folks in DC bend to the power of a super PAC funded by MAGA billionaire dollars in the form of
00:08:33.720APAC telling us that the best use of Michigan tax dollars are somewhere else, I'm going to call0.99
00:08:38.380bullshit. And I call bullshit every time. And Hassan has been calling bullshit too. And people0.99
00:08:41.840are trying to then say, well, that's because of some sort of animus. No, it's because we love
00:08:46.080people. We love Jewish people. We love Palestinian people. We love all people. And it's a responsibility
00:08:51.460to stand up and fight against them. So, you know, I'm going to reject the smear. And at the end of
00:08:56.220the day, what somebody else does in their campaign is really not of my concern. I'm more focused on
00:09:00.740defending the people in the state of Michigan rather than defending myself.
00:09:03.120Come on, principled messaging. I mean, look, as someone who lives in New York and who just saw
00:09:10.520very similar conversations play out over the entirety of the New York City mayoral campaign
00:09:16.300with Suran Mamdani, it is interesting to me how these public figures, whether or not they're even
00:09:23.260running for office, which Hassan Piker is not. So it's interesting that we all have to come together
00:09:28.420to condemn a Twitch streamer. But regardless, you see these public figures turned into symbols
00:09:36.120and sort of proxy wars for people's position on Israel by these bad faith actors. And that's,
00:09:43.500you know, what's so interesting to me is because Hassan Piker, in this case, the reason they call
00:09:47.500him anti-Semitic, Hassan Piker's not anti-Semitic. He's an anti-Zionist, which I am, which, you know,
00:09:53.020Zoran Mamdani is, which many of us are. And for good reason, look what Israel is doing to1.00
00:09:58.400Palestine, to the world. That, of course, gets conflated and they get called anti-Semitic.0.87
00:10:04.040I'll tell you this, Matt, you know, it's sad to me when we lack the courage as a society
00:10:12.740to speak basic foundational truths that are the kind of truths that they write children's books
00:10:18.260about. These things are not that hard. No one group of people has a monopoly on pain. No one
00:10:26.220group of people gets to be better than any other group of people. All people deserve equal rights
00:10:31.260to peace, dignity, and self-determination. Those are not that hard to say. But when you've got
00:10:36.160the likes of the ADL, you've got the likes of Third Way, all trying to ram down our throats,
00:10:43.340something we all know at the pit of our core is just unfair and untrue. At the end of the day,
00:10:51.200a question to me is, where do you stand? And too often we've watched as democratic politicians who
00:10:56.820should know better are now bending over backwards to justify public policies that they know are
00:11:01.860inconsistent with their own beliefs. And I'll just tell you this, like my second ever presidential
00:11:06.440election was for Barack Hussein Obama. I was so proud to vote for him. It was the first time I
00:11:11.500ever saw myself in a politician at all. I mean, you know, his dad immigrated from Africa. My dad
00:11:15.920immigrated from a different part of Africa. He had mixed parents. I was raised by mixed parents.
00:11:20.460You know, he is, he has got a funny name. I got a funny name. He is tall and skinny. I'm
00:11:24.940decidedly not tall and relatively thick. But, but beyond that, like I saw myself in somebody for the
00:11:30.440first time. And the best thing he did was he stood up against a stupid war that everybody understood0.99
00:11:35.780was ridiculous. And he was able to explain it in very simple language. I don't know what happened1.00
00:11:41.380in the next 18 years when our party became the party of war again. And I'm just trying to say0.61
00:11:46.000that if we're about our principles, let's be about our principles anywhere and everywhere.
00:11:50.060Because if there are exceptions, then at the end of the day, our foundational belief
00:11:53.860in equality is not being met. And I just think that that is what people will judge you on.
00:11:59.560Everyday folk want to know that you care about their issues and that you understand what they're
00:12:03.640facing. And if you're more interested in what's happening in somewhere abroad and you are willing
00:12:08.680to send their taxpayer dollars somewhere else to destroy someone else's life, money that could be
00:12:13.460spent to improve our own, they're going to fault you for it. So don't, don't be surprised when we
00:12:18.100don't win elections because we are hypocritical on our own values. And I want Democrats to win
00:12:23.740and I want us to win because I want us to be clear about what we believe. It's not enough
00:12:27.760to be against Donald Trump. Obviously the man is an egotistical, egomaniacal, now genocidal0.99
00:12:32.880maniac who doesn't have the basic cognitive capacity that is deserving of the job. And at0.99
00:12:39.220the same time, it's not enough to just point to him and be like, oh, well, he sucks. Clearly he1.00
00:12:42.480sucks. So why are you better? You got to be fighting for something, not just against something.1.00
00:12:46.920Well, and we when we talk about like this war on Hassan Piker, this war on you, this war on
00:12:53.600Zoran Mamdani, which, by the way, it's very interesting that the people these sort of0.54
00:12:58.540centrist mainstream corporate Democrats pick the biggest fights with all happen to be Muslim.0.78
00:13:02.880But I digress. That war is being waged oftentimes not by Republicans, not by the right. Of course, they're always going to, you know, bitch and moan about everything that we do over here. But it is coming from the people that should be our bedfellows.0.63
00:13:19.880bedfellows. So on the same day Israel passed an ethnically segregated death penalty last week,0.91
00:13:26.880two weeks ago, that only applies to Palestinians in what's been called the very definition of
00:13:32.280apartheid. CNN's Jake Tapper, who I will never shut up about, hosted an eight minute segment
00:13:39.280litigating the ethics of welcoming Hassan Piker into the Democratic Party. Now, I know that eight
00:13:45.540minutes doesn't sound like much for listeners of this podcast where brevity is never my strength
00:13:50.420but when you're doing an hour-long national news show amidst a war it's a pretty shocking
00:13:57.600amount of time to devote to a twitch streamer jake hosted jonah platt the less famous and
00:14:04.060talented son of multi-millionaire producer mark platt known best for his ongoing campaign against
00:14:10.100miss rachel i pulled all 683 of miss rachel's instagram posts from october 7th 2023 through
00:14:17.140march 16th 2026 and what those posts reveal is a story not fit for children wanting kids to live
00:14:24.400isn't anti-semitic if you're already on team rachel or just not paying attention you might
00:14:28.840not see anything wrong with that sentence and perhaps her most explicitly implicit post
00:14:33.000she describes, quote, good people as those who want kids not to be killed or lose limbs.
00:14:39.840Jonah smeared Hassan as anti-Semitic, which of course is what Jake Tapper invited him to do.
00:14:46.220What Piker does that a lot of people of his ilk do, these are the tropes they use. And then he'll
00:14:51.860use the exact same tropes and just sub Jew for Israel. He would never say Jews control the media,
00:14:57.100but Israel controls the media. And, you know, the Jews didn't pull us into the war with Iran
00:15:03.120and control the American government, but Israel does. Is it normal for the media apparatus of0.98
00:15:09.740the Democratic establishment to be fighting this hard against someone, Hassan Piker, who represents
00:15:16.480a huge portion of their potential voters? I mean, it leaves me wondering, truly, like,
00:15:21.580if these people want to win. I'll tell you this, if I've got to choose between being on the side
00:15:26.680of jona platt or miss rachel i'm picking miss rachel and i think most people are oh yeah if
00:15:31.720you're trying to fight a fight a fight against like a woman who's universally beloved by children
00:15:37.220under three who haven't been taught that some people are worthy of hating and others are not
00:15:42.080then at the end of the day you're probably on the wrong side of history and i'm gonna be on
00:15:46.120miss rachel's side of history forever oh yeah i just look i've known jake for a long time we
00:15:51.520worked together at cnn i think jake knows better but wow you have to ask yourself two big questions
00:15:56.620why the ideological push and then what is it about the money and the movement of money you know
00:16:03.000folks like cnn right the entire media apparatus they're losing their hold on the public conversation
00:16:10.520and people like hassan piker are an existential threat to their business model because for a long
00:16:15.780time you had what four or five options to get your news and the people they platformed were the people
00:16:20.260who were going to be heard and the people they shunned were the people they weren't and then you
00:16:23.580have creators like you, like Hassan, like Joe Rogan, right, who are creating platforms where
00:16:30.220other alternative views can be heard. Some of them great, some of them awful. But as a business model,0.54
00:16:35.740it means that eyeballs and eardrums are moving away from the likes of a CNN and moving toward
00:16:40.300the likes of a Matt Bernstein and a Hassan Piker. And they see that as existential. But the problem
00:16:47.080is rather than adjust and start to create a more open perspective and a more open dialogue,
00:16:53.520you've watched as corporate media has just chosen to double down. Why? Well, think about where the
00:16:58.000money goes to corporate media. They monetize eyeballs and ear drums by running ads for big
00:17:02.460pharma to sell you stuff. That's how the business model works. So you just kind of have to follow
00:17:07.240the money. And I'm an anti-corporatist. I have been for a very long time. I believe that small
00:17:11.880business is the keystone of our economy. And I fight against big corporations and everybody
00:17:16.600kind of knows that. So for them, it's just a matter of where the money is. And too often in
00:17:22.580these kinds of newsrooms, there is a party line that gets towed. And too often, it's been the
00:17:27.820same old people with the same old perspectives who've assumed that they have a hold on our
00:17:32.620eardrums, that they can decide who we hear and who we don't. And then they double down, bring
00:17:37.400on people like Jonah Platt, whose whole thing is to smear people like Miss Rachel. So at the end
00:17:41.920of the day, unfortunately, I don't think they really want to win. I think they want to make
00:17:45.540money. And I think by trying to point to these kinds of new media creators and talk about why
00:17:53.000somehow they're not worthy of being listened to, whatever they think, this is about trying to hold
00:17:58.600on to the money making machine that they've had for a very long time. And clearly it's not working
00:18:02.700because more people are listening to folks like you to get a different perspective.
00:18:06.080And they're understanding that at the end of the day, you can take whatever you want out of context
00:18:10.200for a guy who's been streaming eight hours a day every day for 13 years. But there are enough people
00:18:14.880who are paying attention to be like, you took this out of context. And all that shows is that
00:18:19.540your whole approach here is indicting of the fact that your smear campaigns haven't been working,
00:18:24.560should not be working, and are not consistent with the truth, which forces us to ask whether
00:18:28.520or not any of the stuff that you produce is actually worthy of the truth. And you know what,
00:18:32.180when it comes to those like, Hassan Piker comments that, you know, are taken out of context, and,
00:18:38.700you know, they love to make a big stink about like, we need to condemn Hassan Piker, because
00:18:42.760Hassan Piker said that America deserved 9-11.
00:18:46.180And here's what Piker said about the horrors of September 11th, 2001.
00:18:50.900Hassan Piker's past and present is checkered with controversial, if not outrageous, if not
00:21:51.000And you're talking to me about who I'm campaigning with.
00:21:53.680after you kicked off an epidemic that killed millions of people? I'm so sorry, but that's
00:22:00.440not an argument and you're going to lose. And you're going to lose because you look like a
00:22:05.260washed up used car salesman who sold people opioids, took a $14 million payout, literally
00:22:10.540made money on an epidemic that has ended up killing millions of people. Right. And you want
00:22:15.820to comment on morality? Yeah. When you lose the argument, right, you go for character assassination.
00:22:22.320They've lost the argument, so we're going to keep making our argument because it's a winning
00:22:25.400argument. At the end of the day, nobody wants to live in an America where corporations get to
00:22:30.380dictate your future, get to offshore automate your job, and nobody says anything about it because
00:22:34.160they bought off the politicians who are supposed to do something about it. Nobody wants to live
00:22:37.240in an America where you've got corporations who get to raise the prices on the pharmaceuticals
00:22:42.040you need to survive. We don't want to live in the kind of circumstance where we cannot see a doctor
00:22:48.940when we get sick. I wanted to live in an America where everybody is guaranteed the health care
00:22:53.840they need and deserve, where you can dream of owning a home where you send your kid to a
00:22:57.220dignified school. Like these are not hard things. So we're going to keep making that argument. They
00:23:01.500can keep trying to argue about what a Twitch streamer said out of context. And I'm looking
00:23:07.020forward to winning that argument every single day, because you know what? That means that we
00:23:10.200have the opportunity to win a future. Like, like I told you, I'm not here to defend myself at the
00:23:14.080end of the day. I really am not. I am here to make sure that our public policy finally works
00:23:18.080for the 10 million good people here in the state of Michigan who deserve a lot better than they've
00:23:21.560been getting by the likes of a Mike Rogers, by the likes of an establishment that tells them that
00:23:26.200the best way forward is to siphon off yet more and more of their hard-earned money into taxes
00:23:31.220that go to fight foreign wars, or worse, go and line the pockets of an insurance CEO.
00:23:36.040Something that I find particularly infuriating, frankly, is that we have listened for the last
00:23:42.020several years as Democrats and their consultants and mouthpieces in liberal media have spoken about
00:23:49.200the need for a bigger tent. We keep hearing this big tent, big tent, big tent. That is to say,
00:23:55.360welcome more people with differing views into the party for the sake of accruing more voting power.1.00
00:24:02.560Kamala Harris in 2024 famously campaigned with Republican war hawk Liz Cheney.
00:24:08.500You know, this is, I think, one of the reasons why in this election, I actually have the endorsement of 200 Republicans who have formally worked with President Bush, Mitt Romney and John McCain, including the endorsement of former Vice President Dick Cheney and Congress member Liz Cheney.
00:24:30.320And promised to put a Republican on her cabinet if she won, which she didn't.
00:24:35.820Will you appoint a Republican to your cabinet?
00:24:46.900Tom Suozzi of New York said we need to make space in the party for people who are anti-trans.
00:24:53.040Liberal columnist Ezra Klein advocated for anti-choice Democrats, anti-abortion Democrats.
00:24:59.080So these Democrats are very happy to entertain positions to the right of their own.
00:25:06.500But when it comes to widening the tent left, we're immediately shut down. We are smeared. We are counted out. Many on the left, and I just want to speak for many of my own listeners of this show, feel like nobody even wants their vote.
00:25:23.840There's a couple of things. Number one, all the folks that you mentioned spend way too much time talking to Washington, D.C. insiders. What D.C. does is they pull out their telescope and they look through it like, oh, those people over there that we never actually step foot into their state, here's how they think.
00:25:41.360And I'm like, I'm sorry, but stop stereotyping the incredibly diverse, incredibly thoughtful people of my state because I've been in 90 different cities now. I've done 300 public events. And even people who would call themselves independent, they don't sit in the middle of a left right spectrum. Instead, they've got a diversity of different opinions about different issues.
00:25:59.960And the thing that they look for more than anything else is not where do you sit on a made up left right spectrum that makes it easy for people in Washington, D.C. to try and shorthand our politics.
00:26:10.800Instead, they're asking, are you real? Are you really about the things that you say you're about, even if I disagree with you?
00:26:15.480I had a gentleman come up to me and he argued that I didn't believe in the Second Amendment, despite the fact that I do.
00:26:20.440I just have read the Second Amendment. And the Second Amendment is about protecting yourself from the government.
00:26:24.760And at the end of the day, you know, this notion of any gun for anyone, anytime, anywhere is not
00:26:30.720what the second amendment says. And he and I in the middle of a town hall had an argument about
00:26:34.900it. And he comes up to me afterwards with a hundred dollar check. And he says, Hey, I'm voting
00:26:38.280for you. Hey, I was like, I'm sorry. What? He's like, I'm voting for you. I was like, you and I
00:26:43.280clearly disagree. He's like, no, we disagree on one issue. But if you're willing to tell me where
00:26:48.780you stand, you're willing to argue with me. You're not telling me what you think I want to hear,
00:26:53.420but you're telling me where you stand. That means that in those rooms in DC, when they push you,
00:26:57.240you're not going to get pushed around because you believe in things and that's why you're doing it.
00:27:00.780And that's the part that DC never sees. So when we talk about what wins, let's think about
00:27:05.560authenticity because say what you will about Donald Trump, the man's authentic self is like
00:27:09.680a super ego that exists in a body. And so whenever he speaks, it looks like he's being authentic to
00:27:15.280what he believes because nobody in their right mind would ever say the shit that he says.0.99
00:27:19.060And if perfectly inoffensive was what won elections, then why the hell did Donald Trump0.99
00:27:23.180get elected twice. So how about we just say what we believe? And the thing about it is, I'm not
00:27:29.400new to this. I ran back in 2018. I had a lovely old lady at church come up to me after a Sunday
00:27:35.480sermon. She said, you know, you keep saying the same things. I was like, man, I thought that was
00:27:39.220a good thing. She's like, no, you keep saying the same stuff. You got to come up with some new
00:27:41.620material. I was like, look, when we have some new problems, I'll talk about new problems. And there
00:27:45.680are some new problems. I talk about AI. That was not a thing when I ran last time, but at least
00:27:49.160you know where I stand. Because when we ran in 2018, I was the only Democrat not taking corporate
00:27:54.300money then, still not taking it now. I was talking about Medicare for all then, I'm talking about
00:27:58.520Medicare for all now. I was talking about what it looks like to build an economy for small businesses
00:28:02.700then, and I'll be talking about it now, I'll be talking about it in the future. You know where I
00:28:07.100stand. And my job is just to show you who I am. And if you like who I am, and you like what I
00:28:11.280stand for, and you think it would actually make your life better, vote for me. And if you don't,
00:28:14.460don't. But at the end of the day, at least you know where I stand, and I stand on principle
00:28:18.80010 toes down. I'm not getting pushed around by some big corporation or some super PAC trying to
00:28:24.600tell me that the most important thing that we can do in the United States is support Israel.
00:28:27.920I don't get pushed around. We don't back down. And I think people are looking for that. And
00:28:32.300that's what DC seems to be missing. Yeah. How dare you have principles?
00:28:36.040You people disgust me. How dare. Much of the anti-Hassan Piker campaign is the product of1.00
00:28:41.480Third Way, which people on this podcast might not be familiar with, but it's a billionaire funded
00:28:47.120centrist think tank that's very open about its mission to crush the progressive wing of the
00:28:53.300Democratic Party. Third Way opposes abolishing ICE, which 77% of Democrats support, Democratic
00:29:00.120voters, that is. They oppose Medicare for All, which 77% of Democratic voters support. Good on
00:29:06.140the 77%, guys. So in theory, it shouldn't matter what Third Way thinks, except that Third Way has
00:29:11.820something the rest of us don't, money. Third Way, whose co-founder Matt Bennett has also compared
00:29:18.140Hassan Piker to Nick Fuentes, plans to spend $30 to $50 million on crushing the left flank of the
00:29:25.180party leading up to 2028, ensuring that only quote-unquote moderates can survive. Because
00:29:32.280that works so well for Kamala Harris, and for Joe, and for Hillary. One more time, boys, don't give
00:29:37.720up yet. But Abdul, the vast majority of Democratic voters support policies like abolishing ICE,
00:29:44.720like ending funding for Israel's genocide, like taxing billionaires. And it increasingly feels
00:29:49.560like our leaders in power don't care what we want. They are willing to smear representatives
00:29:54.580of the majority, like Hassan Piker, in order to preserve the status quo for billionaires,
00:29:59.840corporations, AIPAC, the list goes on. And so like this feeling that I've been stuck with,
00:30:05.300It just doesn't feel like a representative democracy, where these broadly popular positions
00:30:11.120and people who hold them are like, who do we vote for if we want our views reflected?
00:30:16.140We have to understand what Third Way and AIPAC really are. These are democracy suppression
00:30:19.700machines. Their job is to funnel huge amounts of money from the richest people in society
00:30:25.140to insulate politicians who agree with them from the likes of the public who does not agree with
00:30:32.500them. Third way exists to launder old ideas that have destroyed people's lives back into our
00:30:40.540politics yet again, using the money of the corporations who benefit from those old ideas.
00:30:46.180AIPAC, same thing, MAGA billionaire dollars funneling into our politics. They don't run0.94
00:30:51.420ads about Israel. They don't just come out and say it. They run ads about any which thing trying
00:30:56.180to smear anybody who is not sufficiently allegiant to the state of Israel and what the state of
00:31:01.560Israel leadership wants. And so we've just got to call it what it is. And we've got to recognize
00:31:06.520that they are beatable because at the end of the day, money doesn't vote, people vote.
00:31:10.040And so we've got to be willing to put ourselves where they put their money, right? And that means
00:31:16.380we sign up to volunteer. That means we're knocking doors. That means we're having
00:31:19.800uncomfortable conversations with folks about who we are and who we want to be. It's that people
00:31:24.520power that actually does win elections. And yes, right. I would rather be in a situation where I'm
00:31:29.620taking five bucks from 100,000 people than taking $100,000 from five people. And they think that
00:31:35.920system of politics works. I think it's quite the opposite. So if you want to be able to beat them,
00:31:40.980help us beat them, right? Let me go after them. I'll take all of their shots. But at the end of
00:31:46.700the day, my job is not to protect me. My job is to make sure that yet another generation doesn't
00:31:51.580get broken over the policies that they're trying to force down our throats, policies that tell us
00:31:56.780that the whims and interests of big corporations and their shareholders matter more than the lives
00:32:01.540we get to lead. Policies that tell us that corporations should own your home instead of
00:32:05.060you being able to own a home. Corporations telling us that the $18 million earned by an insurance CEO
00:32:10.340was earned justifiably and that we cannot ever imagine healthcare without those big corporate
00:32:15.960insurance companies. If you oppose those things, help us lead that forward, be a part of campaigns
00:32:21.000like mine, campaigns across the country that are stepping up, stepping out, taking them on and
00:32:26.420beating them. Politico asked 14 potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates if they would
00:32:32.360appear on Hassan Piker's live stream. Again, very funny that this is becoming a litmus test. He is
00:32:37.420a Twitch streamer. Only three said that they would. Among those who said they would not appear
00:32:43.180alongside Hassan were Cory Booker. Do you know who Cory Booker has appeared alongside multiple times?
00:32:49.620Who? Benjamin Netanyahu. Yeah. Yeah, that part. He won't even say he's a war criminal.
00:32:56.420How many people you got to kill? How many kids you got to kill to be called a war criminal?0.87
00:33:01.060You know, I guess millions of dollars, APAC dollars buys your voice box.
00:33:04.620And another who refused to appear alongside Hassan was Alyssa Slotkin, who is a senator who's voted multiple times to send billions of dollars to aid Israel's genocide.0.92
00:33:16.220And then Alyssa Slotkin just last week did happily go on Bill Maher's show.
00:33:22.800Bill Maher, who has called Islam, quote, the motherlode of bad ideas,
00:33:27.420who is currently cheering on Donald Trump's illegal war in Iran,
00:33:32.860saying that he knows he should be against it, but he isn't.
00:33:36.020He said his bigotry towards Muslims can't be racist
00:33:38.900because people of all races can be Muslim.
00:33:43.080And none of this seems to bother Alyssa Slotkin, I guess,
00:33:46.360as much as Hassan Piker being against the genocide of Palestinians.0.61
00:33:50.740I just want to ask, as a Muslim man, I'd imagine you have feelings about the unique past that so much of this country, including this wing of the Democratic Party, makes for Islamophobia.0.93
00:34:02.680I do. And at the end of the day, my job here is not to defend myself.
00:34:06.020My job here is to defend the good people in Michigan who've had a bum deal.