‘I do not agree with this statement, nor do I give much weight to the statements made by a social media streamer,” Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed told Axios this week. “Streamer” is the dismissive sobriquet El-Sayed has applied to Hasan Piker ever since the scandalous online commentator became a millstone around the candidate’s neck. And yet, the pejorative isn’t doing as much heavy lifting as El-Sayed might like.
The comments El-Sayed tried to distance himself from were certainly toxic but, for Piker, hardly uncharacteristic. “Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes,” the “streamer” said when asked by Axios reporter Alex Thompson whether the United States is “worse” than al-Qaeda. “We have caused tremendous terror all around the world.”
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