“ARREST ELON MUSK!”: Dem Candidate Takes The Gloves OFF

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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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[wsb]

The man says out loud that corporate donations are killing the party. Yes. Thank you, you're one of the few right out there with it, and so young. Perfect.

[SpinX]

As a Canadian, if you do arrest Elon, send him up our way once you're done with him. We need to talk to him about some potential fraud charges.

[wandadiamond]

Prison for Trump! Prison for Musk! Prison for Russell Vought!

[adamduncan]

I paid my own money to go and protest. I didn't see anyone getting paid when I was there. No violence, just concerned citizens

[DerpStick-gvfp]

It's insane that someone demanding that the law be upheld is a SHOCK!

[willboler]

I've seen this dude at every 50501 protest in his suit, shouting down Trump counter protestors. He's a good one.

[Mockingbird-]

Hats off to Krystal and Kyle for having him on!

[jonlee]

Dude is low-key a humble hero..Thank you for stepping up...i feel hope when younger people speak out against inequality and injustice i hope this man wins his election

[exigence]

*Jackson* *Franklin* - his name needs to be out there.

[generalsixty]

Banning corporate donations. That’s ambitious and will require the majority of young people to get on board with that politically.

[rickg]

This was a good interview. I’m from Illinois and live 20 mins from there Indiana. I’m getting behind this guy. And I’m 65 years old. It’s time for our party to let the new guard in. Jackson, get out there and show everyone who you are.

[hugegamer]

Catastrophic damage by the hour, civil court cases take weeks to file, and years to hear. These are clear criminal actions and need a clear criminal response.

[laswastedyouth]

Hell yeah!! I’m originally from Indiana and it makes my heart happy to see this guy running!

[HappyBanjo-ocpc]

Arrest Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Marjorie Taylor Greene too.

[DFowleezy]

I'm a Hoosier from Indianapolis and I support this message!

[mdpurple]

Wow. 25 years old ? He's got his head on straight. Id like to see more people like him stand up, across the US AND OTHER western allied nations. The young ones have the spirit and "fougue", and the oldies got the experience. Together, we can defeat anything.

[wildestthornberry]

Kudos to this young man. I'm an Army Iraq veteran myself. I'd gladly throw myself on the sword of politics but I'm currently fighting leukemia from toxic burn pit exposure. The VA and the PACT Act are keeping me alive. If I have a successful bone marrow transplant, I want to do everything I can to help the VA help others and see that everyone here has healthcare. When a nation invests in its citizens, their healthcare, education and well being, it pays off and then some.

[Bluzin]

Please, Please, Please vote this man in! We need someone young and enthusiastic for a better country not just for themself. I am 61 and so tired of my generation and older flushing all it's ethics down the toilet for greed and power. Without even a second thought or moment of pause.

[Raydensheraj]

Im originally from Berlin Germany....reside now in Indianapolis. We need a lot more than this young man in the State of the John Birch Society, KKK and numerous neo Confederate Christian nationalist goons.

[MargaretR.J]

Thanks for highlighting Jackson Franklin, very passionate, well spoken, and progressive!