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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Hasan Piker Derangement Syndrome (with Abdul El-Sayed)

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As we teeter on the edge of war, Epstein chaos, and an AI-induced job market collapse, it’s a comfort to know that Democrats are fighting as hard as they can to defeat… Hasan Piker! The online left’s favorite hunk has created a crisis for establishment Democrats, whose allegiance to Israel and corporate interests has become career-threatening (finally!). Today, Michigander and 2026 senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed joins me to unpack the centrist smear campaign against Hasan Piker, the millions of Democrat dollars intent on crushing the left, and what we can do about it. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Support Abdul’s campaign for senate. Follow Abdul on Instagram. Follow Abdul on Twitter. Find me on Instagram. Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There is one man in the United States that Democrats must defeat if we ever want to come together

0:05.6

as a country again. According to Democratic Congresspeople like Cory Booker and Alyssa Slotkin,

0:11.4

Brad Schneider and John Federman, as well as liberal media pundits like Jake Tapper.

0:16.3

Controversial, if not outrageous, if not bigoted. He's a bigot, a danger to the soul of America, an outrageous man with a checkered past,

0:26.6

whose power in American politics must be curtailed immediately.

0:31.6

He's not the president, you silly dumb dumb.

0:34.6

He's leftist Twitch streamer Hassan Piker. A man I could

0:38.4

uncontroversially label the single most popular and relevant figure in the online left,

0:44.1

Hassan Piker live streams for eight hours every single day and typically has between 20 and

0:49.7

40,000 concurrent viewers with a total Twitch following of more than 3 million.

0:55.0

He's a fierce critic of Israel.

0:57.0

Anti-Semitism is a canary in the coal mine of fascism.

1:01.0

It's one of the oldest bigotries that has caused those of the Jewish faith a tremendous amount of pain.

1:06.0

From pogroms to the Holocaust, Jews have always been singled out by those in power as a scapegoat for instability

1:12.6

and economic volatility people in power cause.

1:16.6

A resilient, nascent anti-Semitism is a constant threat, especially as economic instability

1:22.6

makes those in power seek out old targets.

1:25.6

This is precisely the reason why I am terrified of the conflation of anti-Zionism and

1:31.3

anti-Semitism.

1:33.3

The conflation is dangerous.

1:35.3

Valid criticisms against the state, especially as all of the violence is unfolding,

1:41.3

and everyone can see it, and tying it back to Judaism as a cynical

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