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“The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on YouTube. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news — the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on YouTube, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do — even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks — who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago — the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king — the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best — the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all — class issues,” he said on a recent episode.
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Each and everyone of us has to some degree embraced this idea,whether left,right or middle, our taking the road of convenience be it currency transactions, health, agriculture, We gave the reins to often to others believing they’d be able to lead us and keep our humanity intact. Good Luck
He's NOT GOING TO BE PRESIDENT. MUSK IS INSANE JUST LIKE TRUMP!!! THESE PEOPLE ARE FOR THEMSELVES!!!
I would have loved to see how the Conservative Trump supporters that make up the bulk of the Breaking Points subscribers would react to this information
The dark enlightenment can’t be stopped whether it be the left or the cathedral we will prevail
Yanis Varoufakis saw the techno feudalism coming years ago
They want us to be United States of Corporations. How sick!!! Don't buybtheir crap. Boycott, boycott, boycott.
Gee, saying United States of Corporations doesn't sound so crazy now. These billionaires can buy and control the country. It's pretty awful. Musk stinks!
the reagan administration wanted to do predictive detention. never happened. these ideas come in cycles and go nowhere.
When did elon musk say anything like this?
Technocracy kleptocracy plutocracy
Its interesting because Argentina is flooded with jews and then it becomes minority report. America run by jews and we being pushed into minority report. Yeah i know its antisemtic to say that
Tecno-feudalism
It sickens me that SCOTUS cleared the way for our future Elysium dystopian future. The corporate decisions in favor of unfettered greed and bribery may have sealed our fate. Unfortunately, President Obama light will not end the nightmare. Laborers are voting for three corporate shills who despise them in Trump, Elon, and Peter Theil.
We all know that we have no agency, so we fight amongst ourselves like two dysfunctional chidren fighting over the fake love of an abusive parent. Our conversations reek of learned helplessness. Most people are delighted with being able to complain about being kept from their unrealized potential.
FAFO Elon, FAFO.
Those that want monarchy, cry about democrats destroying what the founding fathers created.
Alex Jones is always bitching about a social credit score, so it's kind of hilarious to see him sucking up to the guys that could put that into place
But if you listen to Knowledge Fight you would know that Alex has been doing this on a pretty regular basis. It's hard to tell if he ever cared about the things he used to bitch about, or does he not see them now that things might start to happen. Or does he just think, he's on their side so he'll be okay
What is going on in these comments? Why are there a bunch of bots mentioning XAI220P or whatever? Creepy
These pieces of shit see Cyberpunk and go "cool, that's an inspiring vision for the future!" … I can't even.
Its a good thing that the largest and most powerful military to ever exist on earth is decentralized from the US government and who's allegiance is to the constitution, not the president. This is why their plan would never work to overthrow the government and constitution. the military doesn't fuck around with that sort of stuff. Remember that the military prevented Trump from his wish to deploy their own troops against George Floyd protesters, they also rotate leadership out frequently so that a coup is nearly impossible. They would never let him "elect" his own generals as much as he might say he will
I disagree with Krystal: Trump is a tool exactly because he's too unimaginative to subscribe to ideological beliefs – he's ruled by base emotions like greed, fear, lust, anger, jealousy. There's nothing more to him and to think otherwise is a serious misread of his nature.
Trump is the perfect puppet for Elon Musk . He just wants to play President and pretend to be important whilst the country is controlled by the billionaires as their companies . CEOs will run the country to their own ends! What a nightmare end to American democracy!
Musk starts the real life Hunger Games
The countradiction is the point of MAGA's dog whistle to fellow Supremists to pay attention.
The US has done this stuff before. Look up Company Towns.
Stupid human.
EM's (a CIA asset) vision is the same as his masters – "you will own nothing and be happy", living in your dystopian 24/7 AI-surveilled SMART city, brain-chipoed into the Internet of everything, obeying commands and oblivious to your plight… The GDC's planned and euphemistically named "gated communities" project in Gaza will be a proto-type for your future life… Gaza is a testing ground for diabolical AI-tech, including lavender, the gospel, where's daddy – targeting individuals with advanced weaponry, armed quadcioters… It's exactly what will happen to anyone resistant to the NWO! I don't even need to watch your video – I've known this since 2020…
There is no difference between the left and right – wake up! Why do you think there is a huge push from all Govts on introducing global digital ID and CBDC???
Bringing us a literal cybpunk world, a literal fictional dystopia into life.. nice!
billionaires exists due to lack of adequate taxation of the rich
you best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, you're in one!