{"id":179,"date":"2026-05-30T08:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:10:54","slug":"f-around-and-find-out-hasan-piker-could-finally-be-on-his-way-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"F Around and Find Out: Hasan Piker Could Finally Be on His Way to Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last Saturday, odious \u201cMarxist\u201d influencer Hasan Piker\u2014nephew of Young Turk cofounder Cenk Uygur\u2014was served a subpoena by the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control.<\/p>\n

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Piker visited Cuba in March as part of the \u201cNuestra Am\u00e9rica Convoy,\u201d a delegation of \u201ccommunist sympathizers, activists, and influencers\u201d (Fox News) who took supplies to the island\u2019s beleaguered, bedraggled Communist Party and provided a much-needed propaganda boost in the face of mounting U.S. pressure.<\/p>\n

The investigation will consider whether Piker and others, perhaps as many as 40 people, violated U.S. sanctions and laws by visiting the island and, in particular, by supplying the regime with goods. U.S. law imposes a wide range of restrictions on financial transactions with Cuba, administered through the Cuban Asset Control Regulations.<\/p>\n

Piker hasn\u2019t taken the news well.<\/p>\n

After a tough-talking response on X, in which he said, \u201cthe american govt would rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we\u2019ve starved, than punish the Epstein class,\u201d Piker seemed anything but tough in front of the camera.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not gonna lie to you guys,\u201d he said, visibly shaking, his voice fraying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not great. The news is not great, okay? I mean, it\u2019s bullsh-t, but still not great that they\u2019re after your boy. They\u2019re up my ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the days since, Piker has sung like the proverbial little yellow songbird, in line with the imperatives of the extremely online influencer, for whom nothing, including self-incriminating statements, can be kept private. Indeed, Piker may already have put his foot in it long before the subpoena landed on his doorstep. In resurfaced footage, he talked about how the Cuban government reached out to his \u201cmiddleman\u201d with a special offer to bring him to the island, which included the promise of uninterrupted internet access so he could remain in contact with his retarded followers at all times.<\/p>\n

In a six-hour stream on Monday, Piker identified the multimillionaire Neville Roy Singham as the main target of the investigation. Piker described Singham as the \u201cfunding vehicle\u201d for \u201ca lot of political movements,\u201d adding that it\u2019s \u201clike totally f-cking ridiculous to try and stop the political advocacy of an American citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a crucial admission, because it\u2019s the funding and logistics of the visit that the feds want to unravel. Piker\u2019s claim he was part of a simple \u201chumanitarian mission\u201d to \u201cdeliver aid\u201d won\u2019t hold water now.<\/p>\n

Singham, an American-born businessman who currently lives in Shanghai with his wife, Jodie Evans, cofounder of activist group CODEPINK, is one of the most important big-money backers of left-wing activism in the U.S.\u2014a homegrown George Soros. Since 2017, it has been estimated that Singham has paid close to $300 million to various left-wing groups in the U.S., including the People\u2019s Forum in New York City, CODEPINK, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the ANSWER coalition. After October 7, he threw the weight of his wallet behind the pro-Palestinian protests and encampments, and more recently, as the threat of U.S. military action in Latin America has loomed larger, he\u2019s done his best to support the Venezuelan and Cuban regimes against American \u201cimperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Soros, Singham uses a network of nonprofit organizations and \u201cdark money\u201d networks to funnel cash to activists. His ties to the Chinese Communist Party have come in for particular scrutiny from his critics. In his youth, Singham was a member of a black Maoist organization in Detroit, and his praise for Xi Jinping and his \u201cnew world order\u201d has been fulsome and public. Of course, Singham and his supporters claim he\u2019s just a philanthropist, a patron of noble causes. So far he\u2019s escaped criminal investigation, but that may be about to change.<\/p>\n

Even if Piker isn\u2019t the main target of the federal investigation, he\u2019s still immensely valuable. As much as any other public figure, Piker is responsible for making left-wing violence \u201ccool\u201d for younger generations of Americans and for normalizing the now widespread sentiment that right-wingers, from the president all the way down to the dude with the MAGA-themed house, are fair game for murder.<\/p>\n

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Want political change? Don\u2019t wait for the politicians. Pick up a gun and make it happen, one bullet at a time.<\/p>\n

We can debate whether Piker actually believes anything he says. He doesn\u2019t like to be reminded he was once a chubby \u201cred pill\u201d bro who dispensed nuggets of solid-gold dating advice like \u201cOld enough to count, old enough to mount\u201d and \u201cThink with your d-ck.\u201d But the performativity and the cynicism of his rebranding do nothing to detract from the force of his words and the nastiness they\u2019ve helped inculcate, even if we can\u2019t quantify the precise impact of his utterances.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s just one example. In a rant about landlords choosing not to rent out empty houses, Piker screamed, \u201cYeah, kill them. Kill those mother-ckers. Murder those moth-rfuckers in the street. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist blood, dude.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s happy to tell his followers to \u201cgut\u201d and \u201cshank\u201d their opponents\u2014\u201cSlice \u2018em and f-cking dice em\u201d\u2014and he was banned from X briefly for saying anybody who cares about Medicare and Medicaid fraud should \u201ckill Rick Scott,\u201d the senator and founder of America\u2019s largest private health care company. He\u2019s been an apologist for Luigi Mangione too, who he\u2019s claimed Americans \u201cunderstand\u201d and sympathize with because the health care CEO he murdered engaged in a \u201ctremendous amount of social murder\u201d himself. And if in recent months, Piker had been a little more careful with his words, including condemning the murder of Charlie Kirk, his past pronouncements on sluicing America\u2019s streets with the warm claret of his \u201ccapitalist\u201d enemies leave us in no doubt of his \u201creal\u201d beliefs\u2014or, rather, what he\u2019d really like to say.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a long-time criticism of mine, and many others\u2019, that American conservatives are too nice to leftists. That they fail to grasp the elementary distinction between friend and enemy that serves as the foundation of all politics: Reward your friends, punish your enemies. I can think of too many examples to count. There are even scientific studies, mainly from social and personality psychology, which show conservatives extend empathy and understanding to their political opponents that is seldom, if ever, reciprocated. Under normal circumstances, perhaps, conservatives can afford to be generous and enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling that comes from adhering to strict principles, but we\u2019re not in Kansas anymore.<\/p>\n

Apart from a few days after Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder, when patriots like Rudy Giuliani coordinated a massive bonfire of leftist careers, the Left hasn\u2019t really suffered reprisal for its growing reliance on intimidation and violence to achieve its political goals. As we approach the one-year anniversary of that fateful day, there now appears to be some determined movement from the federal government with regard to violent activist groups, especially Antifa. The successful conviction of nine members of an Antifa cell in Texas has established a strong precedent for further action against the group\u2019s members as terrorists, which they are.<\/p>\n

The prosecution of Piker, if indeed it does happen, won\u2019t be for all the moronic, mean-spirited, downright nasty crap he\u2019s said on stream. It will be because he went to Havana and ran afoul of U.S. sanctions. But really, who cares? If Hasan does go to prison or even jail, it will be a powerful demonstration of a simple truth, updated for the internet age.<\/p>\n

F around and eventually, no matter how many followers you have on Twitch, you\u2019re going to find out.<\/p>\n

And in the meantime, as the screws tighten, he\u2019s going to crash out in spectacular fashion, for the whole world to see\u2014you can bet on that. I\u2019ll get the popcorn.<\/p>\n

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