'I'M SPEAKING': Kamala SNEERS At Pro-Palestine Protesters

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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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[Kathleen-Mariam]

She’s not gonna stop Israel she will support them.

[h]

That incident showed her true face, i would never vote for harris.

[dwr]

I thought they were chanting "we won't vote for genocide". She didn't handle it well, especially considering Michigan is the focus of the uncommitted movement.

[GenocideJoe-xvoz]

Free Scott Ritter from Illegal FBI harrassment

[nicksgottalent]

Whenever I hear someone say Israel has the right to defend itself, I think about someone saying that about a bully at school and acting as if the bully is a victim and dismissing the actual victim

[bikerd]

Does not matter who is in charge of our government. When Israel says, "jump", American politicians says, "how high?".

[SergioLopez-bdgt]

“…we don’t vote for genocide” was what they were chanting

[bloo]

Gotta be a weird situation where you need to campaign for your own administration while fulfilling your duty to support the current administration.

[Genocide]

Vote against genocide. Vote jill stein.

[coolfool]

She had 4 years to speak as a VP. Theres not 1 thing i remember she did, and she want to speak? I dont want to vote for trump . Kamala never took action.

[dipkezy]

NO COUNTRY is ABOVE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW🇺🇸🌎🇺🇳

[lanstar]

Geezus i wasn't bothered til i actually heard her say it. You're empowered by the state to speak. We aren't. The state is us, so you're empowered by us to speak. So we'll let you know when you can speak.

[atlasmoon]

“all she needs to do is lie well enough and we’ll all be good” 🤡🤡🤡

[cheryllynninsananton]

Neither candidate seems to understand that genocide is a big deal.

[ilovenyiloveny]

You want her to lie? She owes her soul to the war machine.

[dfreeman]

See, she opened her mouth. That's her problem.

[dougie]

For a lot of people being complicit in literal genocide is the most important issue, how so many in the comments can't understand that and are dismissing it under a Kyle Kulinski video is truly concerning..

[ajhwood]

Tim Walz record is far from impeccable. Just ask the Arab Americans in MN who had their meeting with him cancelled once he found out they wanted to talk serious solutions instead of crying and giving him sob stories.
Jill Stein 2024💚

[jay]

Here's what I would have wanted a president to say in this situation:

> "I see we have pro-palestinian protestors. You know what, let's talk about Palestine. Let's talk about Gaza. Right now. Someone get them a mic. What questions do you have for me?"

[josephcivitano]

You mean we can have 4 years of avoiding press conferences, interviews or asking any critical questions while she dismisses anything she doesn't a gree with? Is this the way?