Hasan Piker Calls Musk a ’F***ing Failure as Leftist Meltdown Over SpaceX IPO Intensifies
“He happened to be at the right place at the right time … He’s a horrible person, an unbelievably insecure person, and yet he’s the richest person on the planet.”
I thought the prize for the most ridiculous reaction to Elon Musk’s new trillionaire status had already been claimed by The Globe and Mail, which on Thursday published an op-ed titled, “The SpaceX IPO Makes Elon Musk the First Trillionaire. Here’s How to Properly Hate Him.” One reader pointed out the irony in the situation: the media outlet is “owned by Canada’s wealthiest billionaire family, all of whom inherited their wealth.”
Can I just point out how funny this is, given the paper is owned by Canada’s wealthiest billionaire family, all of whom inherited their wealth.
Should we hate them for that? Of course not, because that would be gross.
But, it reflects our tall-poppy syndrome at its finest.… https://t.co/C7cAV6WcFw
— Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 (@EricDLombardi) June 12, 2026
Remarkably, the antisemitic Marxist streamer Hasan Piker, who believes that America deserved 9/11, and whose name — particularly since New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s November victory — is suddenly everywhere, managed to do just that.
Piker delivered a characteristically ludicrous assessment of the SpaceX founder, whose paper net worth topped $1 trillion after SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history in its Friday debut on the Nasdaq.
Trying desperately to sound profound, the current darling of the Left began: “Meritocracy is a lie. Lying is OP [gamer slang for “overpowered”]. And money is fake. This story that we are watching unfold in front of us is a great example of all three of those classic Hasan Minhaj tropes that I advance over and over again. Okay?
He continued:
Elon Musk is a f***ing failure and yet, in spite of his failures, because he lucked into a, uh, initial — because he happened to be at the right place at the right time, he has failed upwards with his endless wealth. He’s a horrible person, an unbelievably insecure person, and yet he’s the richest person on the planet. Right? We know he doesn’t f***ing work hard because he tweets all the goddamn time.
Hasan Piker: “Elon Musk is a fucking failure and yet in spite of his failures, because he happened to be at the right place at the right time, he has failed upwards with his endless wealth. He’s a horrible person, an unbelievably insecure person, and yet he’s the richest person… pic.twitter.com/1d5EaylsyD
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) June 12, 2026
The sheer absurdity of Piker’s remarks is impossible to overstate. His attempt to portray Musk as a failure requires ignoring decades of extraordinary accomplishments. Musk helped build PayPal into a major success, transformed Tesla from a niche electric vehicle startup into one of the world’s most valuable companies, founded SpaceX and turned it into the dominant force in commercial spaceflight, and launched multiple other successful ventures along the way.
Anyone with a brain recognizes that these achievements are incompatible with any reasonable definition of failure. Piker’s claim is so detached from reality that it borders on self-parody.
Piker’s comments are less a political argument than an expression of resentment masquerading as analysis — a string of assertions that sound insightful to his followers but quickly unravel under examination.
In reality, Piker’s words are a case study in the politics of envy — a sentiment that has been on full display in the days leading up to, and following, the SpaceX IPO.
Needless to say, the Twitch streamer quickly became a target himself, as critics unimpressed by his pseudo-intellectual posturing were eager to highlight some of the glaring contradictions and vulnerabilities in his own record.
One X user posted that Piker was “born into an incredibly rich family, he never had to earn anything. His uncle [Cenk Uygur] gave him his platform which destiny helped boost.”
Fact check: Both true. Piker grew up in a wealthy and highly influential family in Turkey. His father, Mehmet Behçet Piker, was the vice president and a member of the board of directors for Sabancı Holding, one of Turkey’s largest business conglomerates.
And Uygur, the founder and host of the progressive online news network The Young Turks, is his uncle, and that’s precisely where Piker began his career.
Hasan was born into an incredibly rich family, he never had to earn anything. His uncle gave him his platform which destiny helped boost.
Calling someone who makes rockets worthless while literally being one of the most useless people alive will never not be funny pic.twitter.com/6TglclokEl
— Brother Harry ✟ (@brotherharryy) June 13, 2026
Other comments were impossible to confirm, but interesting nonetheless.
he makes money off his idiot followers.
Elon Musk creates jobs and millionaires while Hassan Pecker takes money away from the fools who pay to listen to his bullshit to make himself a millionaire. pic.twitter.com/59snqmiTem
— WTF (@_WTF_1111) June 13, 2026
— Never Mind (@NeverMi49223793) June 13, 2026
What has this useless, nepo baby contributed to society? Oh wait, he does a podcast. 🤔
— Lynne Gegenheimer (@Lorien2733) June 14, 2026
Other leftists, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Stacey reported on her reaction here), Bernie Sanders, and Ed Markey, spent the weekend floating ideas for how Musk’s wealth might be redistributed to fund everything from “free” college to subsidized childcare.
In the end, Piker’s rant serves as a reminder that envy is often mistaken for insight. Rather than engaging with Musk’s accomplishments, he dismissed them as luck, attacked his character, and declared success itself to be fraudulent. It’s an argument that may earn applause from an online audience predisposed to hate Musk, but it is unlikely to persuade anyone capable of distinguishing between resentment and reason.
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Definition: piker /pī′kər/
1. A cautious gambler.
2. A person regarded as petty or stingy.
I’m going with #2.
He’s not stingy. He’s an envious little worm. I will also accept spiteful little worm.
Low IQ retarded poser and his listeners are even worse if that’s possible.
Top Democrat streamer could always buy some shares of SpaceX stock. Then burn the certificates.
“Hasan Piker Calls Musk a ’F***ing Failure”
You millennials needed your own Lyndon LaRouche. Finally you have one.
Hopefully prison is in his future too.
I should be so lucky as to fail the way Elon Musk has. Except in Elon’s case luck has very little to do with it.
Luck is always a factor. Don’t kid yourself.
For example, I worked at a competitor to paypal. My company decided stupidly to go the product route instead of the service route, This left the service route to paypal which became successful and enabled Musk to move onto his next company, If my company went the service route there is a reasonable chance paypal would not have been as successful and Musk either wouldn;t have reaped as much reward for it or had to stary here longer delaying his jump to Tesla. The window for the jump could have closed.
Luck is always a factor. However, part of Musk’s genius is to maximize exploitation of the breaks that do come his way. Most of us can’t do that.
A little bit of luck may be welcome, in business, but, long-term success in business is built on sound corporate strategy and superior products and services.
In business and in the private sector, you don’t get lucky, four time in a row, founding four or five successful companies.
That’s a pattern of demonstrable corporate success that the ruthless Darwinism of the markets would have exposed, a long time ago, if Musk was a poor manager and if his companies were making cruddy products.
Microsoft enters the chat. Terrible products. Predatory marketing though and bought politicians.
I don’t know how much of a manager he is, He might be a good judge of people and if so that could be his best talent.
Lol. Don’t tell me you.think the Mac approach of “you can’t do anything, so I’ll attempt to do it all for you while letting you control nothing” is a good one.
Microsoft’s has had misfires in software, obviously, but from what I can gather, its business Cloud product (Azure), is pretty robust.
Again; you don’t reach ~$3 trillion in market capitalization, with cruddy products. Business customers have vendor choices and can easily switch to competitors’ products, if they are unhappy.
No I’m not a Apple guy.
MS has locked a lot of corporate customers into their products. There isn’t a lot to switch to or there wasn’t 10 years ago when I left the industry. They decimated a lot of superior products through their monopolies and predatory behavior. I’ve watched it and also been involved in competing products. Their marketing has always been their strength,
Exactly the same with Blackberry, very regrettably. Amazing Operating System, but they decided apps weren’t important. Well, they were wrong.
That’s not ‘luck’. That’s your company making bad decisions.
That’s like saying Netflix got ‘lucky’ and Blockbuster got ‘unlucky’. Blockbuster simply refused to adapt their model, while Netflix pioneered. That’s not ‘luck’.
Two companies that successfully adapted their models.
When did American Express last transport a parcel?
Western Union: the last telegram was processed in approximately 2010. Telex and TWX are gone.
That’s not a good comparison. They are not similar companies and didn’t have the same product. Blockbuster exploited the dominant form of home entertainment and was incredibly successful in doing so. Netflix was formed to do it all online with no physical stores.
Blockbuster invested time and money into an online approach. However, they also had a ton invested in stores and so they stayed that course to their detriment.
It has been said that success is to found at the intersection of preparation (hard work) and opportunity (luck).
IMO the true answer is possession of these traits:
1. Willingness to prepare
2. Ability to recognize opportunity when it comes (not once it has passed/hindsight, they too late)
3. Willingness to seize the opportunity when presented
Oversimplified analogy: the back-up Quarterback. Each week he ‘knows’ he ain’t the starter, he gets far less reps in practice with the ‘1s’, must use ‘mental reps’ observing QB1 from the sideline and rigorous film study. Yet…in any game he is one injury away from taking the field to direct his team. Yet if he lacks any one of the three things he won’t be ready, won’t recognize the moment or will be unwilling to meet the moment when/if it arrives. It might not ever arrive.
This back-up QB must demonstrate the willingness to prepare, recognize the lesser opportunity he has as the back-up and be willing to seize the greater opportunity to step into the game if presented. Here’s the ‘luck’ component… he may NEVER get the opportunity to be QB1 in a season and worse each season may be his last due to injury on or off the field, a severe illness, salary cap may get him released, younger options being drafted into the league each year. He’s also gotta have the mental toughness to withstand those pressures and STILL do the three things I outlined or he will fail if that moment comes.
Add willingness to take calculated risks and ability to convince others to fund ambitious endeavors.
Agreed, though I’d say the first is subsumed under ‘willingness to seize the opportunity’ and second is applicable to the smaller subset of entrepreneurs/projectors seeking outside funding to finance the vision.
“Elon Musk is a f***ing failure and yet, in spite of his failures, because he lucked into a, uh, initial — because he happened to be at the right place at the right time, he has failed upwards with his endless wealth.”
That is spectacularly impossible, because if it were indeed possible, we’d be talking about “Piker the trillionaire.”
What has Piker ever done for America or Americans? Nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero, nuttin’!
What has Piker ever done for America or Americans?
Satanist/Communist Puker has spread much fertilizer over the internet.
Who stands in front of full length bedroom mirror in their tight underwear, takes a photo, and shares it on social media?
Hasan Piker, a full-blown narcissist, that’s who.
Like without that, we couldn’t recognize he is a d**k.
Idiocy spoken like a vile, entitled, elitist, lazy, coddled, private sector-avoiding, communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crat, who never worked an honest job in his entire pampered life of privilege, much less accomplished anything of substance.
Ditto for Comrade Sanders, Mandani, Occasional-Cortex, Ilhan Omar, Fauxcahontas, Obama, Biden, et al. — career apparatchiks, who studiously avoided substantive work in the private sector, and who never founded a single business or company, never created jobs, never created collective prosperity for individual investors, retirees, pension funds and endowments, and never contributed or created anything of economic or technological value to the U.S., and to the world.
Don’t forget self-loathing hypocrite. But hey, someone has to lead the useful idiots who listen to this guy.
if not for his daddy, junior would have no ” influence ” at all and would still be going around in kneepads with a patch on his ass
Does history record any committed Leftist who has advanced the human condition in any way?
Dozens of Arab terrorists — the ones who blew themselves up.
let’s see…Mao? Oswald? Gavrilo Princep? Lavrente Beria?…ya got me.
Pecker is one of the few people who if offed would get me to contribute to the GoFundMe for his assassin,
One should always measure themselves by the inverse of those who critique you.
Let’s be honest. Leftists hate people with money *unless* that money is used for leftist causes. Then they only quietly despise the rich. Their fingers get itchy when they see that much useful money doing things like building, employing, growing, helping, and making people’s lives better. That’s their job. They hand money to poor people, and in return, the poor people are supposed to be their obedient slaves, do what they say, hate who they want to hate. And where do they get this money? From evil rich people who refuse to do what they want. They *take* it, through regulations, court cases, taxes, blackmail, and lying to the public. They try to destroy anybody who refuses to bend the knee to their ‘from everybody we hate, to everybody who agrees with us, but mostly us.’
That’s funny because travel back in time a few years, and everybody whining about him being ‘in the right place at the right time’ were laughing at how stupid he was for trying to build rockets.
Hasan is Dr Barbay and Elon is Thornton Melon in this 2026 remake of “Back To School”.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/14/bonus-video-2-monday-june-15-2026/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=jubOrEDX1KMEhzf-3_f8bLknaum3Pr6Ag3erqvb9At8.UXPtrV
I have a few questions for Mr. Piker:
How many jobs have you created?
How many cars have you produced?
How many satellites have you put into orbit?
Do you have a plan to put humans on the moon and on Mars?
Ironic that he calls Musk insecure when he reeks it.
Envy is for losers.
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Most successful failure in the history of mankind! At least up to this point, now that that milestone has been achieved give things a few years. A second one before mid 2030s anyone?
Dude trying to divert attention away from his Cuba junket. He is in real legal trouble.
There will never be a dearth of “paper hangers”
He’s a resentful communist. Interesting.
I had to look up Piker. He is an extreme leftist that puts out stupid videos because he can as he was born in a wealthy family. Except for uploading his videos he has never accomplished anything. His opinion carries zero weight.
Sadly his opinion does carry weight. On YouTube he has nearly 2 million subscribers and his vids there have over a billion views and he has over 3 million followers on Twitch.
The crazy thing is that SpaceX was actually founded before Tesla, almost 24 years ago. This was no get rich quick because of lucky timing company. It took years to build in the face of constant skepticism which still exists today.
It also took massive amounts of capital and the people providing that capital are not stupid. They pour money into companies like this because they believe in the founder. Companies like AMZN, TSLA and SpaceX succeeded because capital allocators believe that their leaders would eventually turn them into profitable, successful businesses.
That is why AMZN could lose money for decades, same with Tesla and SpaceX. Investors believed in Bezos and Musk and gave them billions to create these transformational companies.
Anyone remember Fisker? It was an EV company founder by Henrik Fisker, a European automotive legend, started around the same time as Tesla. They produced the Fisker Karma. A gorgeous looking car that was supposed to run rings around the Tesla Model S. In the end it failed because quality was horrendous and they had a tendency to catch fire. Fisker tried it again and again his company failed. Investors cut off capital because they lost faith in the founder. Happens all the time.
No one should doubt Musk. Smart investors certainly never would.
Did Piker align his opinions with Jimmy Kimmel’s, or the other way around? Hmmm . . .
Progressives projecting their own worthlessness onto the productive. If they didn’t have envy and greed and outright rejection of reality, they wouldn’t have anything at all.
Pure Progressive Projection.. All they got.
‘We know he doesn’t f***ing work hard because he tweets all the goddamn time.”
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In every company I worked for, becoming a trillionaire makes one eligible to take an early retirement.
Oh, Hasan, do the Freudians have a term for you! It usually is apples to women, which you seem to be, and I might term here politely as “appendage envy”. Ya’ just don’t measure up at all, Ken doll, you’re a “smooth bump”, and always will be despite the false bravado.
Piker is a NEPO-BABY. His father was incredibly rich. He was a spoiled kid who went to privates schools, played polo and other upper-crust sports.
His success came from latching on to his uncle (Cenk) and then Destiny, both of whom he stabbed in the back later.
Both of who are first class asshats as well.
Seriously. Unlike Al Bore I actually worked on early ethernet software. Not the earliest but close enough. I apologize for any contributions I might have made which allowed the parasites to flourish, We would be much better off as a society without social media (as I sit her commented on a site) facilitated by the internet.
Likewise society as a whole would be much better off without smartphones. Thankfully I’ve never worked on phones or the software so there is nothing for me to apologize for in this case.
Can’t help noticing that a huge % of the most rabid lefty “influencers” are nepo-babies that have never done anything useful in their entire lives.
Most of them can’t even manage to have a family.
They inherited everything from daddy and spend their days rage posting from his basement.
I’m far more interested in what my cat might be thinking on any given day than in anything that these clowns vomit onto their platforms. That goes double for my goldfish.
“Luck” is not a business plan.
IBM said, “Let’s put our eggs in the hardware computer business. Forget about the software part. That’s a waste of money and time.”
these democrat nobodies are so free about disparaging world historical people. like bacterial chihuahuas barking away.
signed–Hasan bin Sober
Hassan Piker is a boil on the buttocks of America.
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