"As we approach the one-year anniversary of that fateful day, there now appears to be some determined movement from the federal government with regard to violent activist groups, especially Antifa."
. . . "In the days since, Piker has sung like the proverbial little yellow songbird, in line with the imperatives of the extremely online influencer, for whom nothing, including self-incriminating statements, can be kept private. Indeed, Piker may already have put his foot in it long before the subpoena landed on his doorstep. In resurfaced footage, he talked about how the Cuban government reached out to his “middleman” with a special offer to bring him to the island, which included the promise of uninterrupted internet access so he could remain in contact with his retarded followers at all times.
"In a six-hour stream on Monday, Piker identified the multimillionaire Neville Roy Singham as the main target of the investigation. Piker described Singham as the “funding vehicle” for “a lot of political movements,” adding that it’s “like totally f-cking ridiculous to try and stop the political advocacy of an American citizen.”
"This is a crucial admission, because it’s the funding and logistics of the visit that the feds want to unravel. Piker’s claim he was part of a simple “humanitarian mission” to “deliver aid” won’t hold water now.
"Singham, an American-born businessman who currently lives in Shanghai with his wife, Jodie Evans, cofounder of activist group CODEPINK, is one of the most important big-money backers of left-wing activism in the U.S.—a homegrown George Soros. Since 2017, it has been estimated that Singham has paid close to $300 million to various left-wing groups in the U.S., including the People’s Forum in New York City, CODEPINK, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the ANSWER coalition. After October 7, he threw the weight of his wallet behind the pro-Palestinian protests and encampments, and more recently, as the threat of U.S. military action in Latin America has loomed larger, he’s done his best to support the Venezuelan and Cuban regimes against American “imperialism.”
"Like Soros, Singham uses a network of nonprofit organizations and “dark money” networks to funnel cash to activists. His ties to the Chinese Communist Party have come in for particular scrutiny from his critics. In his youth, Singham was a member of a black Maoist organization in Detroit, and his praise for Xi Jinping and his “new world order” has been fulsome and public. Of course, Singham and his supporters claim he’s just a philanthropist, a patron of noble causes. So far he’s escaped criminal investigation, but that may be about to change.
"Even if Piker isn’t the main target of the federal investigation, he’s still immensely valuable. As much as any other public figure, Piker is responsible for making left-wing violence “cool” for younger generations of Americans and for normalizing the now widespread sentiment that right-wingers, from the president all the way down to the dude with the MAGA-themed house, are fair game for murder.
"Want political change? Don’t wait for the politicians. Pick up a gun and make it happen, one bullet at a time.
"We can debate whether Piker actually believes anything he says. He doesn’t like to be reminded he was once a chubby “red pill” bro who dispensed nuggets of solid-gold dating advice like “Old enough to count, old enough to mount” and “Think with your d-ck.” But the performativity and the cynicism of his rebranding do nothing to detract from the force of his words and the nastiness they’ve helped inculcate, even if we can’t quantify the precise impact of his utterances." . . . More...
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