CBS’s Gayle King Floored By DSA Candidate’s Claim She Isn’t Familiar With Hasan Piker: ‘You Don’t Know Who He is?’

Jesus fuck the caliber of our journalists these days is so fucking embarrassing

Stellar response. Florida candidate says is focused on Florida. 🙌

These headlines are a psychological propaganda that is meant to add doubt to candidates or make people question democratic socialism off petty bs like knowing who a streamer is

Or even that every political moderate knows Liz Cheney? And she was in Congress. Like, relative to other streamers on the left Piker is a big deal, but he's still just a guy who talks politics online.

Next shocking revelation for Gayle: most people also don't know what the latest drama on Twitter is.

He's a twitch streamer with media training and leftist politics. He's been stepping up with his community to promote progressive challengers to the democratic establishment for the past 7-8 years, really making headway in the last 2-4. He's also Rupert Murdoch's current obsession, so every right leaning network in the English speaking world is obsessed with him right now.

He's a commentator and he's on the left. He has said nice things about China and calls himself a Marxist. He also has a scary foreign name, so he's basically the perfect bogeyman to tie the entire left to.

First time I saw him was about 5-6 years ago. He was role playing on Nopixel. He now does political stuff.

He tortures his dog with a shock device to enforce compliance without regard for the dogs mental or emotional wellbeing. Pure trash of a human

Just another asshat social media celebrity. I think he tried to seduce kids by playing minecraft or something. Most of them seem to do that.

He's also very politically influencial to a non-insignificant demographic whether you like it or not. Feels pretty important to be aware of people like that as a politician.

But this headline is bullshit clickbait. They DO know who he is, they said they don't know him personally.