Dog-Shocking Leftist Shuns ‘Nazi Tattoo’ Progressive In Democrat Primary Fight

Controversial left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, recently accused of antisemitic comments, has endorsed Maine Democrat Gov. Janet Mills in the Democratic Senate primary over far-left candidate Graham Platner.

Platner is a former Marine and has been endorsed by Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the contentious primary despite the controversy over the candidate’s tattoo, which resembles the well-known Totenkopf or “death’s head” symbol once used by the Nazi SS. Piker posted his video endorsement of Mills on social media Tuesday, in which the streamer reads aloud viewer objections to Platner focused on his past military service.

“I understand that people can change, but he has not earned the benefit of the doubt. He hasn’t properly renounced his [military] service. He hasn’t condemned Blackwater. He has Nazi ink,” Piker read. “He needs to show us that he’s changed. You don’t give people a chance like this as their first second chance. You don’t put them in positions of sweeping political power because there’s a chance he’s changed.”

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Piker appeared to endorse his viewer’s remarks after reading them.

“I mean, that’s why I feel like a lot of people don’t have any argument to when I say, yeah, that’s why I’m a Mills mafia. This is precisely the reason why I am riding with Janet Mills, who has a track record that is clear,” Piker said after reading the comment. “If those are the two options on the Democrat front, you know, if we’re going to — if we’re going to be serious about it, then what do you do? Janet Mills all the way. We’re all Millsionaires.”

Mills sparred with President Donald Trump during his remarks at the February 2025 Governors’ Working Session over the state’s opposition to an executive order to protect women’s sports after he discussed the participation of two biological men in women’s boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Piker has reportedly become an influential figure in Democrat politics, and according to Politico could have an influence on the party’s 2026 and 2028 elections in spite of his polarizing brand.

In November, Piker expressed regret that the United States won the Cold War while on a livestream from Democratic New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s election-night rally. In another November stream that was live from China, Piker said he had “become full Chinese.”

“I have already become Chinese. In my heart, in my soul, in my mind, in my conscience, I have already become Chinese, okay?” Piker proclaimed. “We were already white Chinese in this chat, I have become full Chinese.”

Piker has also come under fire for antisemitic comments, with “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker pressing Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna about the remarks Sunday.

“Some of your fellow Democrats, though, have raised alarms about his views. Here are two members of a left-leaning think tank,” Welker said. “This is how they put it. They wrote, ‘No left-wing agitator is more influential and extreme than Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. He’s referred to ultra-Orthodox Jews as inbred, employed anti-Semitic dog whistles (blood-thirsty, violent pig dog) against an anti-Hamas viewer of his stream, compared liberal Zionists to liberal Nazis and said Hamas is 1,000 times better than the Israeli state.’”

Vice President J.D. Vance criticized Piker for his reported use of a shock collar on his dog Kaya during an October 2025 livestream. Shock collars can cause dogs to suffer from stress and anxiety while also leading them to engage in less desirable behavior and aggression, according to Dogster.com.

Suspicions that Piker was using the device were sparked when Kaya yelped during one of Piker’s livestreams, and multiple instances of the leftwing personality seemingly using the device or the threat of activating the device to keep his dog Kaya in a photogenic location were unearthed by online sleuths in the aftermath of the incident.