The socialist Twitch streamer who claimed America "deserved 9/11" heaped praise on an aide to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who previously professed hope of "impoverishing the White middle-class."Hasan Piker was in the middle of a long riff mocking liberal comic Bill Maher over his incredulity at various socialist platforms on his "Real Time" program when he responded to Maher’s criticism of Mamdani aide Cea Weaver."Mamdani’s top aide, Cea Weaver said, ‘if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over’, and ‘impoverish the White middle-class’," Maher said last week, before Piker interrupted the clip."You know you’re supposed to scare people into voting ‘for’ you, right," Maher quipped.PIKER TELLS MAMDANI TO ‘SHUT THE F--- UP’ OVER CAUTIOUS MESSAGING, CLAIMS MAYOR NEEDS TO BE MORE 'BOLD'Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is facing renewed scrutiny after viewers spotted a framed newspaper front page from Sept.12, 2001, in his background.
(Sam Barnes/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images)Piker interjected that he "love[s Weaver] so much.""Beast mode," he said."One of the things I love about Zohran is that the people surrounding him are oftentimes are so much cooler than he is — but that's also part of the reason why I really respect what he's doing; she's awesome."FLASHBACK: MAMDANI'S HISTORY OF DODGING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE HE STANDS ON KEY ISSUESCea Weaver, a longtime housing activist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was tapped by Mamdani to be his director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.
(Michael Nagle/Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)The phrase "beast mode," referencing total focus and brute power, was popularized in the 2010s by former Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch in an apolitical context.Weaver, who is White, grew up in a wealthy neighborhood of Rochester and attended the School of the Arts in the upstate city, according to a profile in the Roch...