Stu Smith
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Investigative Analyst @ManhattanInst 🏛️ Dragging radicalism & extremism out of the shadows and onto the public record 🥷 TCB⚡Views My Own 🧠
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This moment from Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast is one of the cleanest arguments against communism and socialism you’ll hear in under a minute. “It's important to study communism, because all, you know, the youngsters these days, they think it's far out and fly... It's not. It usually results in about 50 million people dying.” “It starts with the seizure of private property. That's f*cking crazy... It's built on the government taking everyone's property. What the f*ck? The government's terrible. I don't trust them with anything.” Comedy podcast or not, Matt and Shane basically nuked the entire ideology in under a minute.
Stu Smith1,198,822 views • 3 days ago
Hasan Piker sounded genuinely offended that a British-born Republican might advance in the California governor’s race. “I cannot believe that there’s a British guy who’s possibly gonna make it to the top two. What a shame. What a fucking shame.” Then he goes full “stop the boats” like he’s Bill the Butcher. “Yeah, stop the boats, dude, that’s what I say. Stop the fucking boats, lad. We’ve got too many British people coming in here, ruining the fucking state that I love.” Which is pretty rich coming from someone who happily boosts foreign-born progressives and socialists when they are on his side. Mamdani, Kiros, Omar, Raman — all fine. But Hilton, who was naturalized only three years after Mamdani? Suddenly Hasan is an immigration hawk. Why? Because this immigrant has an R next to his name.
Stu Smith424,312 views • 1 day ago
🚨 Hasan Names Singham, PSL, ANSWER, and Code Pink in One Breath On stream today, Hasan Piker discussed the reported Treasury scrutiny and said the broader target is “probably Singham” and “his operation,” naming PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, and “anything that he has ever financed.” He then acknowledged that Roy Singham lives in China and has been “a funding vehicle” for political movements and activism in the United States. That is exactly why this matters. This was never just about one influencer’s Cuba trip. It is about the Singham-linked ecosystem, the groups it funds, the delegations it supports, and the political operations built around them. Hasan didn’t refute the network. He mapped it.
Stu Smith4,520,917 views • 10 days ago
🚨 BREAKING: Hasan Piker addressed the reported Treasury investigation on his livestream, and even he admits the news is “not great.” “I’m not gonna lie to you guys. It’s not great. The news is not great, OK? I mean, it’s bullshit, but still not great that they’re after your boy. They’re up my ass.” He then joked with viewers chanting “free me,” responding: “Free me, free me. I can’t believe I’m saying that.” For all the bravado, Hasan clearly understands this is serious.
Stu Smith4,492,129 views • 11 days ago
🚨 Hasan Piker Gets “Black-Pilled” Watching Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton Surge in California Doom started to set in early as Hasan watched California’s returns. But the real panic came when he realized Steve Hilton making the top two for governor could juice Republican turnout and create down-ballot problems for the Left. “I really, really, really did not want Steve Hilton to be in the top two... It’s going to do tremendous numbers for Republican turnout, and it’s going to have down-ballot consequences.” Hasan’s night “started off incredible” with the Hamawy win and ended with “disastrous outcomes for my state.” California is still counting ballots, so these results may shift. But Hasan’s reaction to the early returns says a lot.
Stu Smith93,472 views • 1 day ago
🚨 Teamsters Turn San Diego Card Party Into a $150 Union Toll Booth Card-show vendors at San Diego’s Card Party say they were charged $150 just to roll their own inventory into the event on carts. These vendors are not giant corporations. They’re mostly hobbyists, collectors, and small business owners trying to bring boxes and cases of cards to tables they already paid for. They expected loading-dock rules. What they say happened instead is that the “anything with wheels” rule was allegedly enforced at the front door too. This is union power running wild — a $150 toll booth for ordinary people trying to move their own inventory into a show they already paid to attend.
Stu Smith1,157,838 views • 12 days ago
🧵 What a rough night for Nithya Raman. Hasan Piker put the LA mayoral candidate and DSA member through a full-on struggle session over her record, repeatedly pressing her to explain where she had fallen short of the movement line. And honestly, even as a conservative, I felt bad for her. This was brutal. One flashpoint was a DSA criticism over Raman’s role in a city resolution tied to the UTLA BDS fight. But the exchange was bigger than that. This was not a good-faith interview. It was an ideological audit. Raman mostly tried to answer politically. She came to DSA through housing and homelessness, said this was not her area of expertise, said she had learned more, and promised she was “committed to learning more.” Stick around for more, because by the end of this even Hasan’s chat wanted his head.
Stu Smith1,899,156 views • 19 days ago
🚨 Hasan Piker Says No One Has a Retort to “Hamas Is 1000 Times Better Than Israel” The retort is obvious. Hamas and Hezbollah’s ideologies have helped destroy their own civilians’ futures. Gaza has insane economic potential, including offshore natural gas. It could have been something closer to a mini-Qatar. Instead, Hamas built rockets, terror tunnels, and an underground war machine beneath civilian life. Lebanon could have been one of the great countries of the region. Instead, Hezbollah became an Iranian-backed state within a state and dragged the country into war, paralysis, and economic collapse. So no, “who killed more civilians?” is not the whole moral question. The question is who built a system where civilians are treated as shields, propaganda assets, and future martyrs for a jihadist project.
Stu Smith82,425 views • 2 days ago
🧵 Cox Media heir Fergie Chambers says his job is to move his family’s wealth into revolutionary organizing. That made him a target for Neville Roy Singham’s network, which tried to bring him into its orbit with plans for what Chambers described as a “second People’s Forum.” But the relationship blew up over differing views on the necessity of direct action, leading Fergie to start spilling secrets about what he says sits at the center of the entire Singham network, the Party for Socialism and Liberation. If you want the juicy details of what it’s like to be courted by the Singham network, and why Fergie may have just shown Congress where to investigate next, go read my latest at City Journal!
Stu Smith45,244 views • 2 days ago
🚨 BREAKING: “Death to America” Comes to Virginia Tech At Virginia Tech tonight, Mohamed Abdou opened his “Death to the Akademy” speech by declaring, “We are in a war, a racial religious war since 1492.” He told students America is “the larger monster,” praised “General Sinwar,” called October 7 the “blessed day of Al-Aqsa Flood,” and said jihad can mean defending life “using the sword.” Then he praised students as “a branch of the resistance” and said they were recognized as “a branch of the mujahideen.” And when he explained “Death to America,” he was explicit. “When we say Death to America, we mean, and loud and clear, a total end to U.S. empire. The destruction of this crusading settler colony, their entire project.” Virginia Tech spent the last few days insisting this event was not happening. It happened. And this is what was said. Stick around, because there is a lot more to unpack. We are not even halfway through his speech yet.
Stu Smith955,246 views • 1 month ago
🚨 UVA Graduation Becomes Another Jefferson Struggle Session This is Kenyon Bonner, UVA’s Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer, using graduation to take the now-standard UVA swipe at Jefferson. Bonner said Jefferson’s “ethically corrosive claims about human capacity reflected his ignorance and his hubris,” adding that “ignorance precedes injustice.” That is a pretty sweeping charge to make from the graduation stage at Jefferson’s university, especially when Jefferson’s actual record is more complicated than the flattened campus script allows. Jefferson corresponded with Benjamin Banneker, the Black mathematician and astronomer, and wrote that “nobody wishes more than I do” to see evidence that Black Americans had “talents equal” to others. By the standards of his era, Jefferson showed more intellectual openness than many of his contemporaries. UVA should be the last place beating him with the hammer of presentism. The irony is that Bonner eventually admits the obvious. Jefferson’s blueprint for an educated democracy was “compelling, transcendent, and transformational.” Exactly. That is the point. UVA exists because of Jefferson’s vision and the American university system was profoundly shaped by it. Maybe the Chief Student Affairs Officer who all but rolled out concierge service for the encampment crowd should be a little more careful before turning graduation into another Jefferson struggle session. That’s my two cents. It would have made this clip too long, but this moment was preceded by the usual UVA land acknowledgment, because apparently that has to come before the Jefferson-was-bad acknowledgment.
Stu Smith295,481 views • 16 days ago
Now that Hasan Piker is reportedly under Treasury scrutiny, it is worth remembering that his Nuestra América convoy trip was set up by DSA’s Kate Willett and framed as an “influence delegation.” I wrote about it for City Journal days before the convoy even launched.
Stu Smith183,864 views • 11 days ago
This is where Piker's “interview” really became a purity test. “Do you believe Israel has a right to exist in its current form as an ethnostate that’s currently being investigated for genocide at the International Court of Justice?” Raman answered, “Yes, I do believe that Israel has a right to exist,” but added that she wants countries to operate “without apartheid” and “with equality in their borders.” Hasan immediately followed up: “Do you believe that Israel is an apartheid state then?” Raman said, “I think that it is, yeah.” Then Hasan brought up her 2024 censure from DSA-LA over accepting the Democrats for Israel LA endorsement, asking whether, “knowing what we know now and seeing the videos of Gaza in ruins,” she would still seek it out. Raman said, “I wouldn’t seek it out now,” pointed to her ceasefire resolution, and then tried to bring the conversation back to what a mayor actually does: keeping Angelenos safe, protecting protest rights, and pushing back against both antisemitism and Islamophobia.
Stu Smith312,078 views • 19 days ago
It is pretty funny knowing my tweets are up behind Hasan in what will inevitably become a viral clip of him saying, “I welcome rotting for the rest of my life in a fucking federal penitentiary...” Hasan was responding to me flagging his own comments about partying in Cuba with Kneecap and walking around spending “wads of cash.” He insists none of that was illegal. I beg to differ. I’ll be posting clips from a National Lawyers Guild panel below where the lawyers discuss this exact issue.
Stu Smith157,860 views • 11 days ago
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🚨 This Old Hasan Cuba Clip Aged Like a Federal Exhibit Here is an old clip of Hasan explaining why he canceled a previous Cuba trip. “I did cancel the Cuba trip, yes, because I didn’t want to go to prison.” Now he’s reportedly under Treasury/OFAC scrutiny over Cuba sanctions, and if violations were proven, that fear would look a lot less hypothetical. Maybe Hasan should have listened to Hasan. And somehow, seconds later, he pivots into explaining the “context” for why the U.S. “deserved 9/11.”
Stu Smith123,529 views • 10 days ago