BIDEN’S GETTING WORSE & UK LABOUR PARTY WINS BIG

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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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[marioreds]

Kyle from his side gig as a lifeguard.

[moonie]

9, 634, 399 people voted for #Starmer's #Labour yesterday.

10, 295, 907 people voted for #Corbyn's Labour in 2019.

Not really a landslide as they are making out. It's just that less people turned out, and more people turned away from the Conservatives.

[Foxxorz]

"I'm okay, it's just my brain." 'Nuff said.

[mainstreammutant]

Almost everyone has had a friend or a family member with some form of dementia. We all know first hand how horribly heartbreaking it is, so the fact that they're still trying to tell us not to believe our eyes and ears when a great number of Americans have seen these symptoms in real life is insane!

[ftargino]

if Biden spent the rest of the campaign claiming to be the first black female president it would be hilarious.

[RJH]

Seeing the US's electoral college which allows someone to lose the popular vote and still become the president the most votes to become the president and UK's FPP system which allows a party to win a landside with about a third of the popular vote makes me feel lucky to have proportional representation here in New Zealand

[blackcrust]

He's a strong, independent black woman, who don't need no man

[codbdup]

Something to think about… Britney Spears was forced into a conservatorship for 20+ years and here we have a clear dementia patient being the most powerful person in the world.

[unmer]

An American calling another countries election system "goofy" is so fucked up 😂

[wackykidz]

This thumbnail was all you needed to validate that Kyle loves his job 😂.

[robertwang]

A big pattern we're seeing here is that in most countries, the voters are overwhelmingly rejecting the party that is in power.

[odinallfarther]

Sir starmer won with less votes that Corbin had when he lost it was also one of the lowest turn outs .

[jacksonrichards]

I’ve followed Kyle for over a decade. He’s always put in more work over any other commentator. So proud to see his success

[Savillianify]

You need to get Owen Jones back on KK&F to explain the UK election results to yourself and Krystal. There's a lot more to the results than seen at a glance.

[AtheistEve]

Also the Green Party candidates won all four of their target seats. So that’s ultra good. 💚

[hugegamer]

We are getting Bernie for president, but just on the weekend…

[Welcome_The_Revolution]

Speaking as a Brit: There's been a huge insurgency from a new(ish) right wing populist party in the UK - Starmer said on the eve of the election something to the effect of "the only way to beat populism for good is to improve ordinary people's lives significantly and noticeably". I agree that we'll have to see what Starmer & Labour do with their new majority but there is hope. We've had literally no hope for the last 14 years under the Conservatives. Really feel for all of you in the US, if Biden doesn't step down I have a very bad feeling...

[Honorbound]

The Labour Party has already been purged and co-opted.

[OhDearOhDear]

I’m so jealous, it’s raining so hard in the uk and your background looks like beach perfection! Hope you and the family have a fabulous holiday, you all deserve it!

[cogito]

This wasn’t even a rejection of the Right but a rejection of the Tories. A big reason the Tories lost was that the vote was split between them and the new far-right Reform Party.