Hasan Piker is being attacked for saying America does a lot of bad in the world, and Luke Thomas says the outrage is absurd while Trump sends gas prices to the stratosphere, kidnaps Venezuela's president, blockades Cuba, and deports an Ecuadorian opposition figure into the arms of his torturers.
Luke argues Piker is a million percent right to point at what the United States is doing, and that Martin Luther King said nothing dissimilar about the greatest purveyor of violence in his lifetime. The real question is whether Americans can find the urgency, attention, and resources to fix their own problems while fixated on an Axios interview. He points to military families put through hell under Bush and Obama, friends who came back from deployments as a mess, and a president threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center over his name. The class that benefits from the current world order, Luke says, has acolytes throughout media, finance, and academia who do not want these conversations to happen.
The segment then turns personal. A viewer congratulates Luke on the political channel's growth and asks if it feels less dirty than MMA. That leads to a furious tour of what Trump is doing to Washington DC as Luke sees it every day: National Guard troops in luxury housing at up to six million dollars a day, fencing around the Kennedy Center, the Tidal Basin looking hurricane-struck, trees coming down at East Potomac, gold wrapping on the war statues by Arlington, and a planned Trump arch. Luke calls it the worst DC has looked since Marion Barry and explains why politics coverage lets him be honest in ways the MMA business quietly discouraged.
Listen to the full conversation over on Luke's Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/
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Chapters
00:00 Why Go After Hasan Piker?
00:40 Venezuela, Cuba, And Ecuador
01:30 What MLK Said About Violence
02:15 Military Families Under Bush And Obama
03:00 Do We Have The Resources To Fix This?
03:45 The Elite Class And Hasan's Influence
04:40 Healthcare And A Society Tearing Apart
05:30 Political Channel Vs MMA Work
06:10 Trump Is Wrecking DC
07:30 Worst Since Marion Barry
08:00 Why Politics Feels More Honest
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