SHOCK: Kamala ENDORSED By 200+ Bush, McCain Republicans | 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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fox news did not air a single second of any republican speech at the dnc convention, even though there was at least one republican speaker in all 4 days

anzumazaki
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They support her now but by 2028 they will call her “too extreme “ lol.

Anthonycheesman
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I think picking Tim Walz is a greater indication to what she wants to do vs these endorsements. I don't think they agree with Kamala, I think the biggest thing about this is anti Trump, anti insurrectionist vote.

jonathonedwardmiller
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None of them are saying they agree with her policies. Just hate Trump so very, very much. I can see that.

cmac
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"I'll fix it so you never have to vote again." - Donald J. Trump. My suspicion is that statements like that, after Jan. 6, is why all those Republicans are endorsing Kamala.

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I'm not that surprised, a lot of Republicans are sick of Trump. Especially the old-school ones.

trax
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They are supporting her to give other republicans to vote Harris permission.

PamelaWilkins-ln
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I'm hoping everyone is just joining Kamala to rid of #45...im so tired of hearing about him and his lies. Hes awful and needs to go away after J6, its disgusting!

biohazard
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Kyle, your overthinking it. The main reason is because democracy is at stake. The American system as we know it is at stake. That’s the only reason.

davidr
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Right wingers endorsing right wingers, not surprising

brosedaleundefeated
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Too be fair this isn’t as concerning as it was for Hillary and Biden. I think they genuinely just think that trump is a lunatic who shouldn’t be near power again.

jackfollansbee
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The race to the center, where nothing fundamentally changes.

bcy
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It’s an old, tired adage, but appropriate here:

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

That’s all this is - and to be fair, they’re all correct: we all need a post-Trump politics.

withthegroove
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Project 2025 is a way more important issue than Gaza, and it should be obvious to everyone. I'm not saying Gaza isn't important, but for one thing we can't actually expect any of the available candidates to come out in complete opposition to Israel. It's still not an excuse for voters to turn away and let Trump get back in. And don't forget she is running with Tim Walz, who actually revealed he has a correct stance on the issue of Gaza.

WinItAll
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When bush, McCain, and Romney alumni are endorsing you, you know you are on the wrong side of politics.

alexwalker
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2:40 You'd like it even less if trump returns to the white house, I bet. I agree with you about the make up your mind how you're gonna do things, but this election was never about republican vs democrat policies, it's about answering the question of: "do we want to have more elections going forward?" and apparently, those Romney, McCain, and Bush people do. We can save the left/right dilemma for a normal election, this one is not.

erix
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This is more of a "This guy's a threat to us, too; this is our only way to get our party back, " sort of alliance. Even arch-rivals will put their schemes to the side when a larger threat comes up.

m.jasondoty
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this is a reach...Her choosing Tim Walz means a lot more than how someone will govern than 200+ republicans.

micahbinns
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Let’s focus on getting elected because we know that if Trump gets elected the situation in Israel is only going to get worse. Project 2025 doesn’t sit well with the core Democratic base. I’m pretty sure they would all agree. Priorities, Kyle.

radavisjr
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This isn’t terrible, Harris needs to appeal more to independents and disillusioned republicans. She already has progressives locked down with Walz.

chandlerfelty