BREAKING: BIDEN DROPS OUT!

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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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[robertjenkins]

2016: A bird landed on Bernie Sanders' podium.

2024: A bug landed on Kyle Kulinski's neck.

[RushitTahiri]

We should’ve nominated bernie since 2016, America would be way better off…

[truthhurts]

50% comments on Biden
50% comments on bug

[easternsuneasternsun]

Bidens going to be very upset when he finds out.

[thegroove]

Who else was waiting for this video to drop?

[callnik]

The bug on Kyles shoulder is distracting me lol

[sisik]

I'm proud he stepped down. No matter what party what party you stand with. Him staying in was elder abuse

[Hydde]

This whole Biden situation has been bugging me for a while. Glad he finally realized that a second term never was gonna fly.

[brucehicks]

Between excessive throw pillows, Biden dropping out, and the collar bug, my emotions are all over the place.

[wilsonalberto]

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen

[sinistercinemareviews]

Never clicked a video faster in my life. Didn’t even finish what I was texting haha

[Sophylio]

Biden did the right thing for the country, the party, and himself.

[θανοςκολονιας]

This is EXACTLY why we should have primaries

[littledickydolittle]

Just think how mad Biden will be when he finds out he dropped out.

[zcorpalpha]

Robotic Bug 🪳 spying on your shoulder Kyle 😂

[harmonizedigital.]

No way he had 4 years left with his mental health

[redbullking]

That fly on his collar was also waiting for this news to drop 😂

[somedudeok]

What they now need to do is paint it as "we care so much about democracy and the voice of the people that we are even willing to make such big changes this late, if the people demand it. We are the _democrats."_

[dougn]

Biden dropping out will not push voters to go for trump.
This is overall a good thing.

[Sunday_Woodward]

I checked the date to verify that today isn’t April 1st.