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Hasan Piker’s Charlie Kirk hatefest is a new low — and Democrats descend along with him

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Hasan Piker is deeply envious of Charlie Kirk.

The hard-left influencer debated Kirk in 2017 and was set to do so again before Kirk was murdered last year.

Yet now Piker is going around mocking Kirk’s assassination — leading a crowd last weekend, during his live podcast tour, in a sarcastic singalong of an AI-generated song called “We Are Charlie Kirk.”

“We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame / We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name,” Piker sang off-key, the crowd howling along, while the celebrity socialist’s co-hosts guffawed and waved their arms in the air.

This wasn’t satirizing a political opponent — Kirk has been dead nearly a year.

Why make him the subject of this derision?

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It’s because Piker knows his audience, and they’re not looking for thoughtful politics: They want a hatefest.

Readers of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” might remember the totalitarian leftist party that runs the dystopian state in that novel regularly held events called the “Two Minutes Hate” to whip up hostility against the regime’s enemies.

Piker has improved on that: His podcast and live events like........

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