"Never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake." — Napoleon
Charlie Kirk's organization, TPUSA, is a fantastic one that has done a lot of good for this nation. Probably more good than many people understand, but as great as it is, I do think it's perfectly capable of doing the wrong thing. For instance, I think it's making a strategic blunder by opposing Hasan Piker speaking at Yale.
For those who need a refresher, Hasan Piker has become the left's it-boy. He famously said America deserved 9-11, and recently said that someone should kill Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).
Read: Streamer Hasan Piker Says Someone Should 'Kill Rick Scott' Over Medicaid
Piker is known for his extremist rhetoric, which finds its home on the streaming platform known as Twitch, where he enjoys being above the rules.
If you'd like to know more, I made a video about Piker and those in his orbit who are just as bad. Trust me, the things he's famous for saying are hardly the only things he's said, as I go into.
Piker is set to speak at Yale University, and this has upset Scott, who, according to Yale Daily News, has called to revoke the University's federal funding for putting Piker behind one of their microphones:
Sen. Rick Scott called on Friday for the federal government to cut off funding from Yale over the Yale Political Union’s decision to host the left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who previously suggested that Scott should be killed.
Scott — a Florida Republican who spoke at the political union last semester in favor of the resolution “Buy American” — posted on X that the government should “IMMEDIATELY revoke” Yale’s federal funding.
I get it. If someone openly told people to kill me, I'd probably want them booted from participating in any event, too.
TPUSA's Yale Chapter President, Carlos Perez, seems to agree with Scott:
Carlos Perez ’29, a member of the union’s Conservative Party and the president of Turning Point USA’s new chapter at Yale, told the News that while he values the YPU’s commitment to “ideological diversity,” he believes that the debate with Piker is a “very different” situation because of Piker’s rhetoric, “which isn’t just inflammatory, but is blatantly violent.”
“It’s language that is very antithetical to the mission of Yale University in terms of promoting an environment of free speech grounded in mutual respect, in pursuit of the good,” Perez said. “And ultimately, it’s really just anti-American.”
Piker has responded, sarcastically comparing conservatives' love of Charlie to an imam and saying we should uphold his "hadiths."
"If you want to abide by the hadiths of Imam Charlie Kirk, if you want to bless his memory, peace be upon him, then you have to abide by his standards," Piker said.
Popstonox will only ever report the truth pic.twitter.com/WbUT3WPKLa
— Popstonox (@Popstonox) April 13, 2026
Of course, Piker is saying this to try to make conservatives feel like they're being hypocritical, which is one of Piker's favorite lines of attack against conservatives. It's not a good one, given that Piker is, himself, one of the biggest hypocrites to ever exist.
And that's exactly why I think TPUSA shouldn't be standing in Piker's way in any fashion. In fact, if I were Perez and/or Scott, I would be trying to practically push Piker onto the stage to speak his peace.
Perhaps neither are aware, but Piker is swiftly becoming what the internet calls a "lolcow." It's a term for someone who is consistently embarrassing themselves through their everyday behavior. They consistently hang themselves via their crashouts and ridiculous opinions, which are often mixed with a narcissism that makes them overly confident when they do it.
Piker's star may be rising on the left, and even the legacy media has been practically worshiping at his feet, but this has been such a gift for the conservative movement because it basically affirms everything we've been saying about the modern left. They're radical, hypocritical, and undeniably foolish, which is Piker in a nutshell.
Conservatives would do well to let Piker on that stage to say what he wants to say, because he will end up saying things that are so undeniably ridiculous and unrepentantly stupid that picking them apart and holding them over his head would be easy pickin's. We deny ourselves a gift by trying to silence Piker or, at the very least, not allowing him to speak where the general public could see.
At the end of the day, the only people Piker's words are dangerous to are himself, so let him say them.
