Hasan Piker called out conservatives for hypocrisy in criticizing the hosts of the “I’ve Had It” podcast. He says people who have spent years making fun of victims of police brutality cannot expect anyone to be nice to them when they do the same.
Speaking on his Twitch stream, Piker said the hosts’ laughter at a joke about Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist who was killed, was in poor taste for Kirk’s supporters. However, he said the outrage ignores the way conservatives have treated their opponents for years.
This followed as conservatives moved to criticize hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan. In Thursday’s episode, they read jokes from listeners about the Democrats’ midterm wins and laughed at one that read, “We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.” The hosts kept laughing throughout the jokes without commenting.
Charlie Kirk’s supporters asked advertisers to stop advertising on the show. Cash App announced on X that it no longer sponsors the podcast and does not condone violence. Chewy said it does not sponsor or support the podcast, and Boll & Branch said it would not advertise on the show.
Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan apologized on Instagram on Saturday. They wrote, “It was an insensitive joke, and we should not have laughed. We regret it, and we apologize.” They said they had donated to Everytown for Gun Safety, and the moment was cut from the episode, although clips are available online.
“So. Is this distasteful? Is this in poor taste? Is this in poor taste if you’re a Charlie Kirk fan? Yeah, it is in poor taste,” Piker said.
“But you can’t do a decade of George Floyd memes and memes about every single person that has been killed in the hands of the police. And traffic in such vitriolic sentiment and then turn around and expect the opposing side to be nice to your podcast guy. OK, it’s ridiculous,” he added. “It’s f***ing ridiculous.”
Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020, causing protests across the country.
Piker also cited conservatives who continue to demonize Alex Pretti. Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse, was killed by federal immigration agents in January.
“These guys quite literally still run around and think that they can get away with saying like Alex Pretti was a bad guy. He was a terrorist when he was executed in the hands of ICE,” Piker said. “That only happened a couple months ago. The hypocrisy is palpable.”
Pretti, 37, a U.S. citizen and ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, was killed Jan. 24 during an immigration enforcement operation in south Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security says he charged at U.S. Border Patrol officers with a handgun and resisted violently. Bystander videos do not show him with a weapon, and Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says he did not believe Pretti had a gun. Kristi Noem, who led the DHS at the time, told reporters his actions amounted to “domestic terrorism.” A Border Patrol agent, not an ICE officer, fired the fatal shots.
Piker also cited the double standards in a famous internet meme.
“That’s also precisely the reason why there’s that very famous meme of, you know, anti-woke motherf***ers when you make a joke about someone who isn’t like Black or brown or a minority population,” he said. “Right. I’m sure you’ve seen those jokes before. It’s like these guys trafficking hatred, like pure racial vitriol, pure hatred in every way, shape, and form.”
According to Piker, the reaction changes whenever the target of a joke changes.
“But as soon as you crack jokes at the expense of a white man, a white right-winger, specifically a conservative who himself trafficked in this kind of humor over and over again. And all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose. You destroyed the standards,” Piker said. “So why do you expect grace and humility from your ideological enemies who you have attacked over and over again?”
“Yeah. Dark humor, motherf***ers. When you’re making a joke, that’s punching up. It only goes in one direction,” he added.
Piker also mocked conservatives for taking jokes meant for them very seriously.
“And then they’ll take it super seriously, too. It’s like, oh, these jokes are not jokes at all. This is their real perspective,” he said. “Oh, it’s only jokes when you’re saying all Black people are violent. All Black people deserve death and destruction. You know, your reaction was different for sure.”
“I’ve Had It,” hosted by Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, began in October 2022. The two friends from Oklahoma City had appeared on Bravo’s “Sweet Home Oklahoma,” and the podcast surpassed 1 million YouTube subscribers by February. Piker has appeared on the show and told The Cut last year that it was “the most radical progressive podcast in North America.”
Welch has drawn conservative criticism for her comments about Kirk and his widow, Erika Kirk. After Kirk’s death, she said she opposes gun violence but calls him a racist and misogynist, and the way he died does not change her perception of him. In another episode, she argues that Kirk himself had justified his death by defending gun rights.
This is not the first time that the hosts have been criticized for laughing at Kirk. In October 2025, Welch played a clip of a woman at a “No Kings” protest who was happy about the death of Kirk. The Daily Caller reports that Welch laughed while praising the protester and asking Democratic leaders to “jump on board” with such voters.
In December 2025, Welch called Erika Kirk “an opportunistic grifter” who uses her gender to demean women. In May, Welch mocked a video in which Erika Kirk explains why she attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and shows clips of Charlie Kirk’s previous remarks, while Sullivan sometimes laughs so hard she cries.
Kirk, who helped found Turning Point USA, was fatally shot on Sept. 10, 2025, while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
Piker, who debated publicly with Kirk and condemned his assassination, was criticized in August after leading a live audience in San Francisco in singing “We Are Charlie Kirk,” a meme about Kirk and his supporters. Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet called the act “pure, unadulterated evil.”
