The guy on the left is some right wing youtuber. Mr Divorcelli introduces himself as a "far left political commentator" and the other dude calls himself right wing. C-Span hosted this as a debate between political youtubers.
Surprise, Destiny lying on purpose here. He's spent years seething about lefties and how he hates them. He would never describe himself as a leftist to people who would know what that means. He's only comfortable saying it because it's on TV.
He had to shave it after a person on twitter highlighted the fucked up way he shaped the goatee/cheek connection area. I haven't looked back at pics of him with an untrimmed beard, nor do I really care to, but I assume it's because he can't grow a full beard including that connection area and tried to shape his beard to compensate for that and just fucked it up really badly. If this isn't true, please do not break my fantasy.
This is absolutely cursed. I know the State Dept has done far worse, but something about them trotting out a Streamer of this sort just feels like a remarkable heinous action.