Most Americans are pretty good at leaving each other alone. Vote differently, worship differently, live differently, and go home to your family. But there are lines decent people recognize without needing a political consultant to explain them. Hurt children, brutalize women, or torment a grieving family.
Something basic in us recoils.
Hasan Piker found one of those lines Friday night in San Francisco and danced on it.
During a live performance of his Fears& podcast, Piker led a packed theater in a mocking rendition of “We Are Charlie Kirk,” a tribute song that appeared after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University last Sept. 10.
His co-hosts laughed, the audience cheered and sang along, and Piker later posted a photo from the show with the caption, “Carried the flame tn.”
Jonathan Turley says what many of us are thinking:
What is exasperating is how hatemongers on the left want to enjoy hate speech while accusing others of hate and intolerance. They do so by excusing their actions or views by demonizing those who disagree. Democratic leaders continue the false claim that democracy is dying in America and that this may be our last free election. While made over multiple elections, the claim of the imminent death of democracy (unless they are elected) does not appear to register with their supporters.
Recently the rhetoric has reached hysterical levels. Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon has compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “modern-day slave catchers” and the government is “literally trying to kill us.”
It is a narrative that allows you to speak like a Nazi while claiming to be fighting Nazis.
Piker thrilled the crowd by mocking a murdered man over his faith and his death. It is more than being simply classless. It is commodifying rage. Piker is reportedly raking in a fortune as are other hatemongers like Jennifer Welch. They traffic in rage to a nation of rage addicts.
It is a scene that only reaffirms the work of Kirk who sought to expose the hate and intolerance of the left, particularly on our campuses. Kirk infuriated many by challenging them to debate. There is no room for reason in an age of rage. Those who try to introduce opposing views on campuses are cancelled or attacked.
The timing makes the performance even uglier. Turning Point USA is preparing to return to Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 for a memorial marking one year since Kirk was murdered there.
From Newsmax:
The conservative youth organization said the “Freedom Built to Last” gathering will remember Kirk as a Christian husband and father, a free-speech advocate, and a leader who helped build a movement among young Americans.
“The gathering will honor Charlie as a faith-filled husband, father, and defender of free speech,” Turning Point said in Friday’s release, calling the event “a deliberate act of remembrance, and a call for students and supporters to continue his life’s work.”
The memorial will be held at UVU’s UCCU Center, about a five-minute walk from the amphitheater where Kirk was fatally shot while speaking to thousands of students during the opening stop of his “All-American Comeback Tour.”
Speakers will include conservative talk-show host and Blaze Media founder Glenn Beck; Christian author Frank Turek, a friend and mentor to Kirk; and Turning Point Chief Field Officer Andrew Sypher.
Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow and now CEO and board chair of Turning Point USA, will help lead an organization and a family into an anniversary nobody should ever have to mark.
Piker knew what he was mocking, and so did the crowd.
From Legal Insurrection:
The backlash from conservatives intensified as video of Piker’s disturbing display ricocheted across the internet Saturday.
Appalled by Piker’s deliberate mockery of the man who had once been his close friend and mentor, Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet wrote, “Hasan Piker is engaging in pure, unadulterated evil. ‘Whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.’ Proverbs 17:5”
Conservative firebrand Jack Posobiec noted in the X post below, “Here is Hasan Piker now mocking the murder of Charlie Kirk as we approach the 1 year anniversary of his assassination. The Bolsheviks will kill us all and they will laugh about it.”
Responding to Posobiec, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) wrote, “These aren’t just people who disagree with us politically. They are enemies of everything that is good and holy about our civilization. And they will stop at nothing to destroy it.
His political record deserves attention because he’s no longer merely an internet provocateur shouting into a camera. Piker has said Hamas is “1,000 times better” than Israel, said he had no issues with Hezbollah, compared liberal Zionists to “liberal Nazis,” and previously apologized for calling ultra-Orthodox Jews “inbred.“
Piker rejected accusations that he’s antisemitic and says he opposes anti-Jewish violence. His own words still leave a remarkable record for others to judge.
Michigan Democratic Sen. nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed chose to campaign with Piker at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan in April. El-Sayed defended the appearance as a way to reach young people who feel shut out of politics.
He later won Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary, becoming one of the most prominent progressive nominees of 2026.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) hasn’t swallowed the Democrat Party.
Yet.
Very few Democrat candidates are members. Its growing influence, however, is becoming hard to dismiss. The organization says it has more than 100,000 members and has endorsed 150 candidates this year. Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Sunday that the DSA deserves a place in the debate over his party’s return.
The country remains far less enthusiastic. A July poll found only 27% of Americans believe democratic socialists have at least some good ideas, while 51% say they have few or none.
So Democrats eventually have to answer a difficult question. After a decade in which opposition to President Donald Trump became one of the party’s defining forces, what else has been allowed through the door?
Political movements reveal themselves partly through what they celebrate, tolerate, and refuse to condemn. The first anniversary of his murder is approaching. His widow, family, friends, and organization are preparing to remember him.
Hasan Piker gave his crowd a song while they gave him cheers.
Character sometimes announces itself very clearly.
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