Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, a far-left YouTube personality, was asked about his $2.7 million California home and his time at the Oscar parties after telling a comedian during a podcast on Sunday that he always wanted to be a champagne socialist.
Piker joined comedian Ziwe, who is known for her satirical celebrity interviews on her YouTube channel, where she often poses purposefully uncomfortable questions to her interview subjects. The Twitch streamer was asked by Ziwe if he’s “always wanted to be a champagne socialist.”
“Yes,” he responded.
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Ziwe asked, “You once said this, ‘Let the streets soak in red capitalist blood.’ How was [sic] the Oscar parties this year?”
“It was weird. Jeff Bezos was there. Terrifying. A lot shorter than I thought he would be,” he said, adding that his favorite part was meeting one of the actors from “Heated Rivalry.”
Piker attended Vanity Fair’s Oscar party, and told the outlet in an interview, “I saw Jeff Bezos for a moment, but I tried to evade his peripheral vision. He’s the boss of a lot of people who were in that room, but he’s directly my boss. He owns Twitch, and my entire life is on Twitch.”
He said, “I bring a lot of positive PR to Twitch, but I bring a lot of heat to Twitch as well, so I have made it a policy to be as invisible as possible. I don’t ever want Jeff Bezos to know who I am.”
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Ziwe also posed a question to Piker about his home.
She said, “Now, Karl Marx said, ‘to each according to his needs.’ You live in a $2.7 million house. Why are your needs more important than 90% of other Californians?”
Piker told Ziwe he thinks housing should be free and that his needs are not more important, confirming that his house was $2.7 million.
“I mean, I have a mortgage. Like, I didn’t, you know, pay cash for it. Some people think I just like literally went with like bags of cash and bought, that I have that kind of money. I don’t,” he said.
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The comedian also said to the streamer, “I don’t know if you can see or not, but there’s sort of this irony, right? You criticize the Democratic Party for enriching themselves off the back of constituents while you enrich yourself by talking about progressive politics. What are your profit projections for the midterms?”
“I have a cooperative corporation, equal say, equal pay. And on top of that, I don’t run any ads. I used to, when I had a contract with Amazon, so that I get banned less often. Sometimes you have to play ball with big corporations to be able to have a platform. So overall, it’s obviously always going to be impossible to have like the most ethical standards and, as long as you’re not engaging in you know harmful or abusive practices. I think I have a fairly decent approach when I do merchandise, for example, I work with union-made, American-made garment manufacturers,” the far-left streamer said.
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“On paper, Ziwe shouldn’t have given Piker a platform. He’s vile. He promotes violence. He is everything wrong with the pundit class, and he already has a huge platform. That said, if you’re going to invite Piker onto your program, the least you can do is press him on his outrageous comments. She didn’t do that nearly enough, but she called out his wealth hypocrisy better than 98 percent of actual journalists,” Christian Toto, editor of Hollywood In Toto, told Fox News Digital in a statement about the interview. “He had no good response, either. That’s what happens when you rhetorically hit a bully in the mouth. Now, could some journalists do their job the next time they’re granting Piker some interview time?”
Piker has hit the campaign trail with some Democrats running in the November midterms and made several media appearances, including one with Axios, during which he said that the U.S. was worse than al-Qaeda.
“Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” Piker told Axios. “We have caused tremendous terror all around the world.”