Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

So my question is, what is wrong with going and talking to a group of people who have been let down by our politics, cast aside by politicians who aren't talking to the issues that they're talking to?

And I'll just say this, the logic of this is kind of crazy given the fact that Hassan was invited to stream live from the DNC in 2024.

And so I'm only doing what Vice President Harris did in the first place.

I think the question then I would ask any of the folks who are so frustrated about this is, why wasn't there so much more outrage when she did it?

I'll leave that question to you, Abdul.

I'm trying to have conversations with everybody.

And I agree that there's a lot of pain and trauma across our state.

There has been so much pain and trauma across our state.

That's why I've always tried to name that pain and trauma from the jump.

You go back a couple of years, we have watched as Israel has decimated Gaza in a genocide.

And it took two years for my opponent to call it what it was, a genocide.

So if we want to be in the business of understanding pain and trauma, I think it's important for us to name pain and trauma.

And herein lies exactly the double standard.

When we talk about the pain and trauma of some groups of people, that gets ignored.

It gets ignored by the same politicians who tend to ignore the kinds of people who listen to Hasan Piker Twitch stream every single day.

I'm trying to have a conversation with everybody.

I was proud last Saturday to spend my Saturday morning in Jewish prayer services.

I was invited in and I was so grateful to get to share space.

At the end of the day, I think it is absolutely critical for us to understand that pain begets pain.

And the only way that we heal pain is by going and addressing the circumstances that cause it.