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Southern California-based Hasan Piker, the communist darling of left-wing livestreaming, resorted to gay insults Tuesday night after being upset his “friend” lost to a gay state senator.
That friend, San Francisco congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti, was completely bombed out of Tuesday’s primary race to succeed former Speaker Nancy Pelosi despite spending $10 million of his own wealth.
As of Wednesday morning, the former aide to socialist Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez received just 15% of the vote count with half of the votes in.
Hasan Piker goes on a rant during a Tuesday livestream. Hasan Piker / TwitchThat’s far behind Democrats state Sen. Scott Wiener, who is the frontrunner at 41%, and Pelosi-endorsed city supervisor Connie Chan at around 29%. Scott and Chan will advance to the November general election.
In the Tuesday stream, Piker was staring at the 11th Congressional District results that showed tech millionaire Chakrabarti trailing.
A viewer made the remark that it seems Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are “far more progressive” than San Francisco, given Chakrabarti had established himself as the most leftist candidate but was still trailing in the liberal city.
“You know what it is? I know what it is,” Piker responded. “F–ing car-reliant infrastructure. The more cars you have, the more chuddy the f-ing city is. That’s it. No public transit. No f–ing people living close to one another.”
Piker continued on that argument as he grasped at straws to explain Chakrabarti’s loss. In progressive urban planning circles, car dependency is heavily critiqued for its environmental impact and social exclusion. However, San Francisco is more well-known for its public transportation system than the two Pennsylvania cities.
He then made a sudden switch from ranting on public transportation to the gay community in his critique of the West Coast city.
“It’s just f–ing rich liberals who just want homo-fascism in the country, that’s it. They want gay fascism. They want gay techno-fascism,” he insisted, without explaining what those terms meant.
Wiener is a prominent gay politician in the state who has heavily leaned into his LGBT background. During the campaign season, Chakrabarti had accused Wiener of being wedded with certain artificial intelligence groups that spent to support Wiener’s bid.
In Chakrabarti’s concession statement late Tuesday morning, the flopped candidate claimed he couldn’t overcome “the 7 million dollars of AI, crypto, and AIPAC money that were put into this race.”
People gather at Senator Scott Wiener’s election party. Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via APWiener has denied doing Silicon Valley’s bidding, noting how he authored California’s first-in-the-nation AI safety law.
The state senator is no fan of Piker and has slammed Chakrabarti’s relationship with Piker. He has described comments from the streamer as “disgusting and reprehensible.”
Piker has a history of unabashedly going on controversial rants, and Democratic politicians nationwide have had to navigate their relationship with him. Off camera, The Post exclusively reported that the streamer is sex-driven and boasts about receiving nude photos from fans.
Yet, Chakrabarti has not been shy about embracing the streamer. Piker even appeared at a rally with the candidate that was full of vulgar words.
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