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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. “That Raytheon decided they don’t hate gays or trans people — frankly, I don’t really give a shit what their take on that is…”
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If he changes the federal cannabis regulations he will be well over 50 percent in the polls and the republicans will tank in November
Don't mind these polls. Trump always done bad then come 10 months out it looked like he was in the driving seat to win. Only he messed up covid he could still be in office.
Comment for the algorithm
Listen I'ma leftist but I will vote for 10k student debt cancelled instead of none at all plus racism
So basically the "Left" is political irrelevant. There's never a mass progressive movement during a Dem administration and only a very chaotic, frantic mvmt during a Right wing govt. The Left doesn't engage in the system then wonders why things don't get more….left.
I’m voting Republican
I wouldn't even call this surprising given how they've started to do things people wanted them to do. Granted they could be going further but it's a good start.
Dark Brandon Rises
I guess you could say, He has made some powerful friends.
🤣🤣🤣
Looks like the GOP shot themselves in the foot when they overturned Roe v Wade… 😏
How could biden expand ACA / etc and "fix healthcare", before we send any more aid to Ukraine? Wth
Filling out my ballot now. Thanks Joe
I love seeing Republicans suddenly understand nuance when Biden takes credit for something like gas prices. When Trump did the same thing, they crawled up his ass.
So he doesn't think NATO is going to accept Sweden and Finland. Let me laugh for a minute. The acceptances are being gathered as we speak, it's just bureaucracy left. Shows you how much he knows and understands foreign affairs.
You do things, people like you. Imagine that?
Imagine that: being good & doing good…
Thanks!
My mom should not have had me probably. Now they are forcing every chick to have every baby. "SAD" as Trump would say
Polls are fake and the writing is on the wall with what the party really thinks of Biden. But when skip looks in the bullpen and mayor Pete and Kamala are covered in their own shit, then Biden polls surge again smh
This makes me sad! Dems. are supporting the left out of anger over abortion which the left could have CODIFIED but didn't to use it as leverage for fear to threaten the base. He cancels this bs 10k when most people have much more debt. Dems will keep power then IGNORE the base until 2024 and scream vote for us because Orange MAN BAD! This nightmare is on repeat😨
@ 5:30 Why do You say that NATO will not accept Finland and Sweden? Currently all NATO members has agreed to let them in and only 7 nations are left to ratify the decision in their own parliaments (as of today). There is no reason to believe that Finland and Sweden will not become full members of NATO. The only country that opposed the application was Turkey and now when Sweden and Turkey has signed an agreement, Turkey has now dropped their complaints and has signed off on the application.
Shitty take by Kyle… Let regular people, working class Ukrainians, just die at the hands of a brutal invader… because American healthcare sucks?
Ukrainians did not mess up America's healthcare system. This is not an either-or.
It’s doesn’t really matter he should still not run again. If he wants to go out on a high legalize weed and drop the mic and retire to bike rides and ice cream cones .
Only way he had to go was up. Dems were upset with his presidency and all it took was him to do something.
I’m ridin w Biden rn! I hope he keeps it up! Legalize cannabis! Pass some prison reform! Keep doing things we want!
That Twitter Trending Tab is wild
The second there is no help from other countrys for Ukrain russia floods ukrain and they loose. Ukraine has basically no infrastructure to defend themself without outside help. They do phenomenal. Because of the help. I stand by getting them so much help that every country which even thinks about invasions is saying "nope, to risky".
Best thing would even the US being on the nope side.
"i want to spend the money on healthcare instead of Ukraine" argument is wrong, because it does not matter how much money you save and earn, the US will still not provide you with free healthcare. There will always be profit to be made, so they don't care.
On the flip side Republican candidates are denouncing the student debt thing, which will hurt them in the midterms.
NATO has already informally accepted Sweden and Norway as membership countries. But of course I live in Denmark and news travels a lot faster around here.
What the hell is Kyle talking about Sweden & Finland won’t be accepted into NATO? Of course they will, they’re already de facto members!
Imagine! Spending taxes on the taxpayers! Who’da thunkit?
Kyle, it's 1500 people. Chill tf out lmfao
Joe Manchin should be about to pull one of his stunts. Can’t have the democrats win the midterms.
Lol,,,,yeah, and the FBI isn't corrupted by this crazy old man.
He’s still not really done that much 😀
Most of the time I'm in agreeance with you Kyle but this one you are incorrect. The reason Russia invaded Ukraine because NATO kept pushing East. After the Soviet Union fell one of the agreements Gorbachev made was no NATO advancement East and they completely and utterly disregarded that. How would you think the United States would act if Russia invaded Mexico or Canada? Rethink your logic cuz you're wrong on this one.
Keep trying to push the narrative people like Biden see how that works in the elections
I flat out do not believe these polls.
we need socialism now more than ever, help us Joe!
I love how Kyle was saying Biden is done all the time a couple months ago and I was saying this would happen