BREAKING: COUP ATTEMPT IN RUSSIA?

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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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[gaelangaudette]

As a Canadian, I would like to say welcome to Canada. I hope you enjoy your time here.

[emilrogengellschwaner]

The most "let them fight" moment in modern history

[TCt]

Heart goes out to the innocent civilians caught up in this whole mess that started since the invasion

[thebrokenpuppet]

The coup seems to be on hold for now, Wagner’s troops seem to be retreating… but even if this means no coup there’s still going to be some significant fallout from this. I’m interested to see where this leads, if it leads anywhere

[Gada]

Have to admit, getting my news from a guy in a suit adds an extra degree of professionalism.

[silentact]

Kyle really never gets a day off man- kudos to him

[doomgloomNbreakfast]

Kyle is so based, thanks man. As a russian against war, even I don't know for sure what's better, Putin or literal maniac who was involved in execution by sledgehammer and then made this sledgehammer execution into PR. Things are wild, man

[alexanderg.i]

One thing that cannot be ignored is how weak this made Putin look. That cat will never be able to be put away. So, while this ‘coup’ appears to be finished, we’ll have to see what the ripple effects of these actions will be, I mean there was a legit threat of him taking Moscow, as all the elites including Putin were fleeing.

[robertaylor]

Wagner is the core of the Russian military. They are absolute monsters, but they are the among the most experienced Russian fighters. They also use human wave tactics when they are allowed to recruit from Russian prisons. The human waves saw heavy deployment (and casualties) during the drawn out attack on bakhmut.

[jables]

I’m so sick of living through historical events.

[matt]

You know it's a historic day when Kyle's rocking a full suit

[CelticVinnlander]

It's funny that Kyle is sometimes a day or so behind on the news, but this is the first time I've heard of this. Great work! Have fun in Canada.

[johnsayles]

Hey man you didn't have to get dressed up for this, it's just an update on a 3-day special military operation.

[KFrok]

It's like every Russian scenario goes from bad to worse and yet the worst is yet to come.

[intersanctum]

08:28 Jesus Christ, if you don't know who somebody is, then prepare yourself. Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov is a Russian army general serving as the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and First Deputy Minister of Defense. Literally a five-second job.

[spectra]

A likely explanation for why Pregozhin did this and why it turned out the way it did is this:

Wagner PMC are mercenaries staffed with recruits out of the prison system as well as other scum, loyal to Yevgeny Prigozhin. However since their deployment in Ukraine during this war they've been conflicting with Russian military command and causing supplies and ammunition to be diverted away from Russian regulars.

Basically the regime and the military were negotiating for Wagner PMC to be disbanded and rolled into the Russian Army, which would cause Prigozhin to loose his power base. This was due to happen July 1, so in just a few days from the coup date.


Prigozhin almost certainly knew this was coming and prepared for it. It's likely that many of the complaints about ammunition shortage have been from Wagner stockpiling ammo on the side in preparation for this play.

So basically this coup attempt was Prigozhin trying to get the upper hand in negotiations to keep his position or get a better position.

Ultimately it's obvious the gamble failed since Wagner were too far away from Moscow when they started the coup so Putin and the leadership had time to get out of the way. So even if Prigozhin took Moscow it would just lead to a civil war and not the quick negotiated victory he was looking for, which explains the apparently inexplicable reversal where he just gives up and turns around.

Prigozhin was going to loose Wagner anyway if he did nothing, which explains why he was so willing to just give up in exchange for being allowed to go into exile in Belarus since that's probably what would have happened anyway

[jaycol]

First, “Halloween” made Kyle a blonde.

Now, “a wedding” has him in a suit.

I’m getting scared, guys.

[insightfulhistorian]

Not even remotely surprised. I expected a serious coup attempt to happen months ago.

[xq]

Spot on analysis about dictators relying on mercs. Eventually they turn on the leader.

[dougdiamond]

They are the Russian version of Blackwater.