{"id":6456,"date":"2026-08-12T22:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2026-08-12T22:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:07:47","slug":"furious-hasan-piker-melts-down-over-francesca-hongs-loss-outlaw-thanksgiving-and-outlaw-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6456","title":{"rendered":"Furious Hasan Piker melts down over Francesca Hong’s loss: ‘Outlaw Thanksgiving and outlaw boomers’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Mao-adoring Twitch streamer Hasan Piker erupted in fury after Wisconsin state rep. Francesca Hong\u2019s shocking defeat in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, venting that boomers should be outlawed.<\/p>\n

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Hong, who was forced to walk back past statements in favor of abolishing police and canceling Thanksgiving Day in the run-up to primary night, led the Democratic field by double-digits in most polling before losing to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley by more than 3,000 votes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Piker, who had stumped with Hong during the final weeks of her primary, blamed older Americans for her loss and struggled to talk about the blow to the far-left.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to read this because I will f\u2014ing kill myself with a gun in a video game,\u201d Piker griped after reading an article about a late-deciding voter who backed David Crowley but noted they liked Hong as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t. I\u2019m in a good mood overall,\u201d he went on. \u201cI want to put boomers in the machine, in the contraption, and not just boomers, like anyone that says that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piker is notorious for espousing radical rhetoric on his streams. <\/p>\n

For example, in 2019, Piker claimed that \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11,\u201d which he later, very begrudgingly,\u00a0sort of suggested was an \u201cinappropriate\u201d remark. Later, he was spotted with a framed copy of a front-page newspaper\u00a0story showing the Twin Towers in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack. <\/p>\n

Piker also argued that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack was a \u201cdirect consequence\u201d of Israeli actions, adding that if a terror group engaged in rape, it \u201cdoesn\u2019t change the dynamic for me. At one point, he also gushed over the \u201cbrave mujahideen\u201d who injured Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas).<\/p>\n

The prince of the far-left had done an interview with Hong, where she expressed support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), government-run grocery stores, a one-year data center moratorium, and more. <\/p>\n

During her media tour before the primary election, Hong took heat for many of her past positions, such as calling to cancel Thanksgiving and wanting to abolish police \u2014 stances from which she had tried to downplay.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe monkey hanged himself. I\u2019m the monkey. And I\u2019ve been staring too much of the median American voter for the last couple of months. I need a f\u2014ing break, dude,\u201d Piker reflected during his reaction to Hong\u2019s loss. <\/p>\n

When the results began trickling in Tuesday evening and Hong was underperforming expectations, Piker quipped, \u201cOutlaw Thanksgiving and outlaw boomers.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the primary battle, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and \u201cSquad\u201d Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declined to throw their weight behind Hong as she faced a media firestorm. <\/p>\n

In contrast,\u00a0 Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota were forcefully backed by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez during their respective Senate primary races and defeated their centrist opponents.<\/p>\n

However, neither El-Sayed, who defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) last week, nor Flanagan, who topped Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) Tuesday night, had called for the cancellation of Thanksgiving.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

More coverage on the primary election results:<\/h2>\n