Bill Maher SCOLDS Democrats To Accept MAGA Blowhards | 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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Bill is so brave for telling us that since he's such a smug, privileged rich fuck none of this administration's policies will really affect him and his life in any meaningful way. Bravo, Bill! How do you do it?!

gsal
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Bill Maher is definitely the guy Malcolm warned us about

bruceleeroy
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Just because you don't spend holidays with trump voters doesn't mean you spend it alone.

lorimoore
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I watched the MSNBC clip Maher was talking about and, shocker, he (like most folks) misrepresents what Dr. Calhoun said. Specifically she said, "...it's fine to not be around those people and to tell them why." She's not saying DON'T be with family, she is saying it is okay to not do so if you don't want to. I imagine a lot of folks in the LGBTQ community, for example, are feeling that this year.

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"But I smoke weed, okayyy??"
*- Bill Maher's tombstone*

afterhourscinema
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No Contact exists for a reason. Being related is meaningless when family treats you like crap. You wouldn't let a stranger do that, why does blood get a pass?

tirsden
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Conservatives 3 weeks ago: "If he loses, it's Civil War 2.0. Yeehaw. Gonna get you, libtards."

Conservatives now: "What do you mean I dont get to eat free food off your table?"

trajan
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Funny how they didn't tell Trump supporters to do the same when Biden won. 🙄

Sandra-lwxu
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How does Maher still have an audience? Insufferable and boring.

mattalexander
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Just cancelled max. I cant stand Bill anymore.

jesuisnoach
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Bill Maher is NOT a Liberal and has never been a Liberal. He is a Libertarian, which is much different. More and more, he has been embracing right wing ideas. I can't stand him.

MothGirl
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13:27 yoo Kyle tears into Maher with one of the most insightful commentaries about society. This just forces you into self reflection and what types of choices one can make through ones life. Worth the subscribe, tip & Patreon! Cheers Kyle! Keep it up!

KenHiroshi
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The irony that is not lost on me is that Maher often criticizes liberals for having no backbone and letting conservatives walk all over them. Then, when some show a little backbone, he freaks out and says they are overreacting. Which is it?

vinniegiordano
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We are witnessing the capitulation and collaboration phase of creeping fascism.

hemlock
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For the record, the alternative to going to Thanksgiving with your MAGA relatives is not drinking alone. What an insulting strawman.

JoshuaWillis
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I give it 8 months until Bill Maher comes on his show with a MAGA hat inviting Trump, and they inflate each others' egos by poking at """woke leftists"""" and "entitled young people". He is already 90% there.

dustingibson
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Thank you for your integrity, Kyle! We so need and appreciate you now.

Nancy-ulmz
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How do you accept a group that wants to unalive you? I have walked away from family and friends who are MAGA, and I don't regret it.

neko
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"Don't let Trump live in your brain" why doesn't this guy shut up about college students 50 years younger than him, and let us think about the fucking president of the country

xibalbalon
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They’re not cutting people off over differences in politics. They’re cutting them off over differences in morality

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