JFC. Last week, my therapist asked me if I knew who Hasan Piker was... it was surrreal... like the internet broke containment and entered real life.

I'm in therapy for stress and anger management... sometimes politics comes up. My therapist is a middle aged wine mom from the suburbs who literally has one of those "Coexist" bump stickers on her Toyota Prius. I told her I disagreed with him on some stuff, but that I'm probably not his audience. She told me she was watching more of his clips on YouTube. I didn't know what to say to that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPGoLzyY-IQ

I remember when Trump first came onto the scene and one of the things he was really good at was monopolizing all the attention. I really wonder if all this attention on figures like Hassan is just playing into their hands. After all, they do say that there is no such thing as bad publicity

Exposed for being a stud, oh god the horror

Exposed for being a hot beefcake. Very cool, very normal stuff from the Republicans.

Ah so that's why Grindr crashed

why are they focusing on a twitch streamer at a political convention

I don't know who this guy is, or why MAGA is so obsessed by him. I've never heard one word from him, and don't even know where Id go to hear him, or see him, or whatever he does. He literally has no influence in my life, at all. I suspect MOST Democrats are like me, and I'm not even a Democrat.

As long as we allow MAGA to keep us on topics like this, we are LOSING. Whenever they bring up this guy, or trans, or Biden, or whatever their wedge issue Boogeyman of the day is, we need to ignore it, dismiss it, bat it away without a single comment about it, and steer the conversation to one of these topics:

Affordability (the big one, it got Trump elected, and it will get Dems elected even more)

Epstein Files: Full disclosure. Trump and his friends are in them

Data Centers: They will destroy everything, and we'll pay for it.

AI: The future is either a permanent 50%+ unemployment rate, or they murder all of humanity.

Flock Cameras: You will now get daily fines in your mailbox whenever you go 3 mph over the speed limit, and they will track you down and arrest you if you have overdue library books.

ICE: They will kill us, they are already doing it.

Taxing Sociopathic Oligarchs and their Corporations: They will pay their fair share of taxes, including on hidden wealth. If they won't disclose it, it will be heavily estimated.

Health Care: What health care?

Student Loan Reform: Sure, just saddle your most productive young citizens with a lifetime of debt as soon as the graduate from college. That won't ever affect the entire economy in a few years, when they can't afford ANYTHING.

MAGA Corruption: Were just going to let this continue like it's somehow legal?

The AmerIsraeliWar®: The Draft is coming. The front line of a war is a great place to siphon your dissidents.

Mass Surveillance: If you aren't doing anything illegal, then what are you worried about? What's illegal? EVERYTHING!

Investigations, Impeachments, Prosecutions of MAGA crime: A president, a Secretary of Defense, a White House Advisor, a bunch of Homeland security turds, a few SCOTUS justices, some congressmen and senators, etc.

These are the real issues, and we need to take control of every discussion, steer them to these issues, and make them defend their record, and their plans for America's future.

"Not only is he an evil socialist leftist, but he's also in great physical shape and rather attractive."

Weird flex, but ok.

The reaction of the average MAGA.