In this episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone break down a major signal shift at the official collegiate youth outreach arm of the DNC (CDA).

Hasan Piker appeared in a Mao Zedong suit delivering a fiery anti-compromise rant, while Destiny and his circle were reportedly banned from the event—despite having paid for tickets. At the same time, a man recently convicted on multiple felony terrorist-threat charges was allowed in.

Malcolm and Simone examine the two dominant factions now competing for the future of the Democratic Party: the Hasan/Mondami (Islamist, anti-Western) wing versus the Destiny-style progressive wing that still prioritizes LGBT issues, redistribution, and electoral pragmatism. They argue the youth arm’s decision reveals which side currently holds institutional power.

The conversation then turns to the parallel fight on the right—nerd right vs. gripers—why online culture-war battles actually determine staffing, policy, and candidates, and why capturing the next generation of institutions (and AI platforms) matters more than traditional think-tank money.

Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be talking about something that is crazy that it happened, and it shifts a likely permanent shift in American politics going forwards. So at the CDA, which is the official collegiate youth outreach arm of the Democratic National Convention, and this was their major convention this year, okay?

[00:00:22] Mm-hmm. Huh.

[00:00:24] An event happened.

[00:00:26] Speaker: Hasan delivers a Hitler style rant in a Mao Zedong suit. Oh my God.

[00:00:30] Speaker 3: Diese Leute und Hassbewegungen, welche unser Leben zu beherrschen trachten, fürchten am meisten die volkstümliche Aktion der Demokratie des Volkes. Sie fürchten uns aus dem einfachen Grunde, dass es mehr von uns gibt als von ihnen

[00:00:46] Malcolm Collins: Now, if you are somebody who watches American politics, you are probably familiar with the left, that there are a number of factions. And if we were going to say what are the two dominant factions right now one I’ll call the Hasan faction.

[00:01:05] Simone Collins: Okay.

[00:01:06] Malcolm Collins: The Hasan faction is primarily concerned about Islamist politics, the destruction of Western institutions, and doesn’t really care about things like cash redistribution or anything like that, right?

[00:01:18] Apparently now he streams with in the background a framed news clipping of the day after 9/11, which he has called out as, as doing himself. This is how extreme he is on wanting America and the West to fall. Like that’s his core ideology

[00:01:35] Malcolm Collins: Like, they- they’ll talk about that if they think they can get something out of it, but the core goal is the destruction of Israel and America, you know? Death to Israel, death to America. That’s, that’s sort of their thing.

[00:01:45] Hmm.

[00:01:45] And like, Hasan said, like, I- America deserved 9/11, you know. He said that Hamas is really cool.

[00:01:52] Their, their flags are cool. Like, the, I think it was like the Houthi flags are really cool and, like, the... You know, he- he just, generally glazed and said that a pirate who liked killing civilians was like Luffy. Yeah,

[00:02:04] Simone Collins: no, well, ‘cause yeah ... was the most- He was like, “This is gonna be crazy, but have you heard of One Piece?”

[00:02:08] And then the translator explains it to them, and the guy’s like, “Oh yeah, of course.” It’s a cute conversation, honestly.

[00:02:14] Malcolm Collins: It’s a cute conversation. But, but it- It’s very cute ... it- it shows the world that Hasan wants.

[00:02:19] Simone Collins: Yeah, sure. He

[00:02:19] Malcolm Collins: wants America to, to fall. Like, that basically the gist- Oh,

[00:02:23] Simone Collins: yeah ...

[00:02:23] Malcolm Collins: and this is the huge part, or become Islamist.

[00:02:26] And this is a huge part of what a portion of the left increasingly wants. This is where- Mm-hmm ... the Zohreh Mondani faction comes in. This is where they’re much less concerned with what we would consider traditional leftist ideas.

[00:02:40] Hmm.

[00:02:40] The other faction of the left is the, we’ll call them, I think there’s a good sort of archetype of it, the destiny faction.

[00:02:49] Destiny, if, if you look at the scandals that he has, it’s things like letting his wife sleep with other men, like into polyamory, and then she ends up leaving him and th- and be sad about that, and that’s some big scandal. Or, like, you know, weird you know, leaks around, oh, is, is he doing this gay thing or whatever, right?

[00:03:12] The type of stuff that y- one, you know, Hasan, I would not expect a leak that turns out Hasan is, like, secretly gay or letting his girlfriend, who he does secretly have, sleep with other people. By the way, I don’t know if you’ve seen- He has

[00:03:24] Simone Collins: a secret girlfriend?

[00:03:25] Malcolm Collins: Yeah, he has. It’s, it’s pretty well known he has a secret girlfriend, yeah.

[00:03:28] Simone Collins: Oh, I guess he can’t be open about it because there’s all these women who wish that he would cheat on Mikaya. Well,

[00:03:31] Malcolm Collins: she’s also an influencer.

[00:03:33] Simone Collins: Oh, okay, yeah, so she probably can’t also let it be known that she’s unavailable. Okay.

[00:03:38] Malcolm Collins: Yeah, yeah. But she has talked about how she never wants kids and everything like that publicly, so you know, his bloodline ends with him.

[00:03:44] Man. And he’s been pretty upset recently seeing Asmongold get a public and very cute girlfriend. I don’t know if you’ve seen Asmongold’s girlfriend.

[00:03:51] Simone Collins: No. Who is it?

[00:03:54] Malcolm Collins: Just look her up. Oh, that’s cute. She’s been trolling people a lot. Y- just, just Google- Oh ... Asmongold’s girlfriend.

[00:03:58] Simone Collins: Okay.

[00:03:58] Malcolm Collins: But yeah well, well, I [00:04:00] mean, I hope.

[00:04:00] They haven’t confirmed that they’re dating yet, but it seems pretty obvious she’s sleeping at his house.

[00:04:04] Simone Collins: Aw. Aw.

[00:04:07] Malcolm Collins: Right? Very cute. I, I, I will say Asmongold seems to have a type. But-

[00:04:11] Simone Collins: Well, I don’t, she does kind of not look human I, I don’t wanna say it, but she looks like a sex doll. Am, am I wrong?

[00:04:22] Malcolm Collins: I, I can see where you’re getting that, but I think that, Simone, that’s just what Asian people look like when they’re super old.

[00:04:28] No,

[00:04:28] Simone Collins: Yeah, I guess ‘cause, you know, she looks like those, you know those the, the, the AI robots- Mm-hmm ...

[00:04:32] that came from C3 world in China that were just announced in July. Like, I, I, I, she looks like she walked out of that lineup.

[00:04:41] Malcolm Collins: She kind of does. I’ll, I’ll give you

[00:04:43] Simone Collins: that. Then

[00:04:43] Malcolm Collins: come on. She completely does.

[00:04:44] But that’s not really an insult. She’s just saying that she looks like

[00:04:46] Simone Collins: the way you would design a human. No, she’s, she looks optimized. Yeah. Yeah. In the same way that, like, if Kim Kardashian put on an Instagram filter, it would change nothing because the filter has been, like, trained on her face that she is...

[00:04:56] It is, it is good for her. Okay. Yeah. I, now I see a picture of her without as much makeup and she looks-

[00:05:01] Malcolm Collins: So

[00:05:01] Simone Collins: if we’re- No, she still looks like a sex doll. This is disturbing. Okay, I can’t look at it. I... Man, I was happy and now I’m scared.

[00:05:06] Malcolm Collins: If we’re, if we’re back to the, the, the two factions of the Democrats, okay?

[00:05:09] Okay.

[00:05:10] Simone Collins: Yes.

[00:05:10] Malcolm Collins: So, Destiny, if we think about what does Destiny stand for in terms of, like, values and things he fights for? It’s, like, pro-trans stuff, pro-gay stuff, pro-polyamory stuff pro actual social wealth redistribution, trying to help workers and actually pragmatically attempting to win elections.

[00:05:31] Simone Collins: Well, it seems like what you’re trying to say is that he is actually fighting for the things that they say they’re fighting for and Hasan is fighting for the downfall of the United States and-

[00:05:40] Malcolm Collins: Well, he’s fighting for the things they said they were fighting for a while ago. Okay. Hasan is, is just more, like, he’s, he’s not actually...

[00:05:48] He doesn’t have some, like... When he talks about, like, the social programs he wants to see in the United States, he’d be like, “I want it to look like China,” where everyone knows China has a third the social programs the United States has. Even when you adjust for the, the ver- the value of the various currencies China is dramatically less socialist than the United States.

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