BREAKING: MOTIVE FOR TRUMP SHOOTER BECOMES CLEARER
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Published 2024-07-17
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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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All Comments (21)
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There was only three searches on his Google history. Trump bad, Biden bad, depressive disorder. Nice job CIA
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Kyle, have you forgotten about John Hinkley Jr.,? It had nothing to do with politics, Reagan just happened to be famous enough that he thought that he'd impress a specific actress.
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The whole incident was so bizarre. The secret service failed so badly.
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Brooo I said it to my gf last night. I said it’s possible he was just depressed, bullied, and wanted to go out doing something fucking insane. I was like it’s possible it just happened to be Trump that was doing an event near his home and if it was Biden he would’ve done the same shit.
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He got tired of waiting for GTA 6
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The foreign press is far ahead of most of the American press in uncovering this whole event. That is where the thinking person is turning for information.
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Kid watched 'Taxi Driver' 1 too many times 😂
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How the hell did this make anything clearer
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The roof was sloped.....? I can't believe that. "Chip, in the 21st century reality will be indistinguishable from comedy".
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suicide by cop is what this sounds like.
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*Kyle watching the Sopranos with Krystal *Kyle's news alert rings on his phone *Kyle sighs. Puts pillows on Krystal to hide her *Kyle makes video
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He just want to he famous and be part of history. 200 years from today, people will still be talking about him. That’s what he want .
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Still doesn’t answer the serious LACK of security detail…
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Sometimes it’s not political and you’re just trying to impress Jodie Foster 🤷♂️
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I heard on David Pakman's show that he probably didn't donate to progressives as he was 17 at the time, but a different man with the same name who also lives in that area.
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Secret Service is so secret that they don't even know what they are supposed to be doing.
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Kyle he was anti-Trump according to a classmate that knew him. He was anti-establishment in general and hated Biden too.
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Wait a minute, you mean he thinks both candidates were bad for the country? How could that be? They are the best America has to offer. Right?.....
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I need to know why his parents called the cops on him hours before the 🎯 Mom and Dad knew something was wrong. What did they know?
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Our boi Kyle delaying sleep just for a little while longer to give us important news
