Piker became co-host on the h3h3Productions left-leaning political podcast Leftovers. Political views Piker has been identified as a progressive, leftist, and a democratic socialist. He has advocated in favor of workplace democracy, universal health care, intersectional feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, and gun control; he has advocated against war, American imperialism, Islamophobia, white supremacy and capitalism. Piker has cited his upbringing in Turkey under the Premiership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as an influence on both his left-wing views and willingness to speak out about them. Piker supported the presidential primary campaigns of Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, and has been an outspoken critic of both the Democratic and Republican parties. Controversies During his stream on August 21, 2019, Piker criticized U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw, a SEAL Team 3 veteran who served in Afghanistan, for his support of American military interventionism overseas. On Crenshaw, Piker said, "What the fuck is wrong with this dude? Didn’t he go to war and like literally lose his eye because some mujahideen, a brave fucking soldier fucked his eye hole with their dick?" In the same stream, Piker criticized American foreign policy and made controversial comments relating to the September 11 attacks, including "America deserved 9/11, dude." His statements caused outrage on social media and were covered by Fox News and various other media outlets. Crenshaw said that Piker's comments was a "disgusting defense of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against Americans." The Young Turks host and Piker's uncle Cenk Uygur called them "very offensive," and invited Piker to appear on TYT to apologize. Piker has defended his comments as satirical and cited the U.S.' foreign policy as promoting conditions to make an event like 9/11 possible, but acknowledged that he should have used "more precise" language. Twitch banned him for one week for the comments regarding Crenshaw and 9/11. In August 2021, Piker purchased a $2.7 million house in West Hollywood, California. The purchase was criticized online by people who felt that his lavish lifestyle seemed to be in opposition to his views as a socialist. Similar criticism was aired in February 2022 after it emerged that Piker had purchased a Porsche Taycan. Piker has also been criticized after a large-scale information leak from Twitch, which included the financial earnings of Piker among many other streamers. He responded by stating that his earnings have always been transparent, as his subscriber count has continuously been prominently displayed