'MY HEART IS BROKEN': SOTU Laughingstock Katie Britt Throws Pity Party | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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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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44 thoughts on “'MY HEART IS BROKEN': SOTU Laughingstock Katie Britt Throws Pity Party | The Kyle Kulinski Show”

  4. Legal forms of discrimination based solely upon which god they pray to: this woman doesn’t work for the betterment of the nation but for their god irregardless of whether you believe something else or not.

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  7. I heard a similar response to the criticism of Britt's SOTU response, at NewsNation from a conservative woman with Leland Vittert. She said the left was only attacking her because they're afraid of a strong, intelligent, conservative woman. Some such BS.

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  26. Katie Britt asked in her SOTU rebuttal if we were better off NOW than 4 years ago.

    Uh, what '4 years ago' was that Katie? The one where they were STACKING THE CORPSES UP LIKE CORDWOOD in MOBILE REFRIGERATION UNITS outside of overflowing HOSPITALS and MORGUES while YOUR 'LEADER' was ENJOYING GOLFING and MALIGNING Asian people and FRETTING about his 'RATINGS'?

    Is THAT the '4 YEARS AGO' that you're talking about?

    Cuz THAT'S the only FOUR YEARS AGO that I remember, Katie. I mean, YOUR MILEAGE MAY VERY over there in ALTERNATIVE-FACTLAND.

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  29. A 6 year old child can easily tell how phony she is. I suspect she will also be a prime candidate for all sorts of exploitations by savy politicians in her party.

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  40. I lost little sympathy I had for the bi*** after she blamed liberal news outlets for her screwup.
    Literally everybody left or right was dumbfounded by her poor ''performance''
    It was a very difficult job for SNL to mock this since it was already at the top

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  42. Is she kidding??! Did she see the absolutely vile, disgusting display by her dear leader Trump as he mocked people with a stutter? Did she see that?? Republicans can NEVER complain about being mocked while they condone that revolting debacle

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