‘THEY SCREAM SOCIALISM’: Tim Walz DISMANTLES Right-Wing Hacks | 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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I love that he said "my kids are going to eat here" ..."my kids". Love that.

xavier
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The republicans are always saying ''pull yourself up by your boot straps''...well ''we didn't have any boots.'' Gotta love this guy!

bettyriley
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Another one you missed: "They want to ban books in schools, we want to ban hunger". Classic.

Hyde_Hill
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I've never been this interested in a VP pick before and my god do I love this man. he is EVERYTHING the democratic party should be

margarett
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Kamala, PUT THIS MAN ON THE TICKET!!!! We gotta keep this momentum up for November

TheBlackPanther
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Walz is our governor and I could not be prouder

tylerhackner
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I'm in Minnesota and he is as great as you describe. I've stumped with him and didn't even recognize him when he wears his fishing stuff! lol!

mariaconklin
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Harris(Prosecutor) & Walz(Educator) vs Trump(Felon) & Vance(Venture Capital) is such a clear contrast.

samuelbell
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7days later you have a big smile.
You were my intro to Walz

MrLurch
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I support this becoming a Tim Walz fan channel.

quetzalthegamer
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He's my governor, and can confirm: he is **THAT** good. What you see is what you get with Walz. He CARES about people, works hard to make people's lives better, and he doesn't apologize for it.

terifritsma
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'they scream socialism. we build roads.' 🔥🔥🔥

Masaru_kun
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As a Minnesota resident, I love how Walz has been our governor. I'd hate to see him leave, but to be VP, that'd be AWESOME!

CelticVinnlander
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Also, optics-wise: veteran, school teacher, union guy, open about personal IVF journey, hunter who reversed guns position after Parkland to pass common-sense gun reform. Put him on the ticket!

NotExactlyKB
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Walz for VP! No nonsense/bs in your face & genuine. And, a down to earth progressive.

heynowls
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Teachers know these things because we have to EXPLAIN things so that people understand. We have to remain patient, and we stay in there for the long game constantly checking in with our students. And we don´t just teach curriculum, we have to CARE for our students. As a HS teachers, I have to provide all sorts of pastoral care to students who have never been in my classroom. We have to explain things to parents. We need to know what our students need to know and we map out ways to see that happen. "They scream socialism, we build schools and roads." Walz is the man!

rrickarr
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That “what a monster” line was a fucking BAR

kaula
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Tim Walz is the man. And man, the argument "We'll provide breakfast and lunch to your kid, so you wouldn't have to rush to work." would be the best to win every suburban mom. It will avoid the argument "Socialism, feed the lazy...".

doomdrake
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Oh man, I pray Tim Walz is the one for VP!!!! Just amazing!!!

bkannegundla
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Former Minnesota teacher here. I love Walz. He's very avuncular.

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