Jared Moskowitz Sent Hasan Piker His 'Condolences.' The DSA Candidate Doesn't Know Who He Is. And the Free Beacon Found His Brother.

Jared Moskowitz would like Hasan Piker to know he is thinking of him during this difficult time. According to the New York Post and The Hill, Moskowitz sent what he called "condolences" to the streamer following his primary win over a DSA-backed challenger on August 18. Condolences. As in, sorry for your loss. The loss being, apparently, Moskowitz himself.

Darlings, the audacity has teeth. Moskowitz ran his entire primary framing the DSA challenger as a Piker proxy, per Politico, and he was not subtle about it on the way out the door. He won. He gloated. He sent a sympathy card to a man with four million Twitch followers. We love a congressman who keeps receipts and then frames them.

Meanwhile, over on CBS, anchor Gayle King was having what Mediaite described as a flooring experience. The DSA challenger in that Florida primary, Angie Nixon, allegedly told interviewers she doesn't "really know" who Hasan Piker is. Gayle King's reported response, per Yahoo, was essentially: you don't know who he is? The man who is the reason you just ran a primary against an incumbent? That guy is a mystery to you?

We have seen politicians claim ignorance before. We have seen it go poorly before. "I don't really know" is not a denial, it is not a pivot, and according to the clip of Gayle King's reaction, it did not land. The DSA spent weeks reportedly allowing Piker's name and network to function as a calling card for progressive organizing in that race. Claiming unfamiliarity afterward is a journey we were not prepared to take on a Wednesday.

And if all that wasn't enough, the Free Beacon published what can only be described as a full excavation. According to the Free Beacon, Piker's brother is a space engineer who allegedly holds security clearances and has reportedly worked on projects including Air Force One and what the outlet calls the nuclear "Doomsday Plane" for Boeing. The piece is plainly intended to raise eyebrows about the national-security adjacency of a man the right has spent two weeks calling a threat to democracy. Whether those eyebrows go up is a matter of personal taste. What is not a matter of debate is that the Free Beacon waited until peak news cycle to drop it, and that is called strategy.

Channel 4 also published an interview in which Piker reportedly argued the United States needs what he described as a "socialist Trump" to reverse national decline. A moment. That quote will be in attack ads. That quote will be in tweets. That quote will be on a chyron within 72 hours if it isn't already.

This is all happening while the Seattle Times reported that Washington state lawmakers had formally urged the University of Washington to cancel his now-cancelled speaking event, which adds a paper trail to what Piker has called politically motivated. And Moskowitz, who is apparently not done, is now reportedly running his reelection campaign explicitly against the DSA and Piker as a paired brand, per Yahoo News Canada. That is a political strategy. It is also extremely funny.

My loves, the man sent condolences. Prediction: Piker responds on stream, the clip trends, and Moskowitz posts it himself.