MAGA Cultists Call Hurricane Helene A Democrat HOAX | 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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If Dems had a weather machine that sophisticated, Mar a Lago would not be standing.

warriorscholar
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These people don't believe anthropogenic climate change but believe "they" can control the weather? 🤣🤣🤣

NZZN
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with unarmed people!!!

JJBpilot
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My mama told me Don't waste my time trying to fix stupid you can't do it.

edwardmille
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If Democrats had a weather machine.... I'm pretty sure California would not be having soo many wildfires every single year

-Takoyaki-
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"Do you realize how insane you have to be and how far brain dead ..."
to JUST VOTE FOR TRUMP? These people are beyond salvaging.

capnkirk
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If Trump was President he would have diverted that hurricane with a wave of his Sharpie.

charlesmartin
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Lifelong Asheville resident and longtime daily Secular Talk listener here. I am living through this catastrophe here in my hometown right now. We are still without power, clean running water, and reliable food and fuel supply and cell service, among other things for some of us. This the first time I've had proper internet access in almost a week, and been able to learn about the full extent of the damage in Western NC, East TN, SC, GA, and FL other than what I've seen with my own eyes and heard by word of mouth from my community. As well as what the rest of the country is saying about this disaster. It makes my blood boil to hear that the MAGA cult is using the suffering of so many people as a political tool to promote bogus conspiracy theories that deny obvious reality, but it does not surprise me in the least, it's just par for the course at this point. Also, I have to say that I love you Kyle, and I know that you mean well, but we are absolutely not wiped off the map as you said. We are surviving and coming together as a community to start rebuilding as we speak, with a lot of help from others, which we are very grateful for of course. Downtown is still standing, but some neighborhoods, communities, and nearby small towns are not. But you are correct in saying that we are a Democratic stronghold in Asheville, and trust me when I say that most of us here will still be turning out in force to vote blue in our pivotal swing state, and against the trumpist threat to democracy. Please keep us as well as all the areas affected by Hurricane Helene in your thoughts and best wishes while we heal, and we will certainly do our part in November here in Buncombe County. Asheville and our surrounding communities are strong and resilient, climate change is real, MAGA is a neofascist sociopathic cult, and Secular Talk is awesome. That is all.

avlkush
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but if it's a hoax then why are they whining about FEMA not having the resources to help

JMD-erjq
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My little sister lives in Asheville. I can tell you it's not a hoax. She lost everything.

DanGartman
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Alex Jones would be great to speak on flooding. All his property has been ordered to be liquidated. 😂

CoachRiRiPFWG
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Stupidity the hardest thing to fix. Damn near impossible

stephenbailey
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How do you get through people who are too far gone?

You don't, you just mock and humilliate them and try your best to educate others not to fall in the same rabbithole.

ArmaBiologica
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I live in NE KY. 4" rain and high winds (35 to 45 mph gusts). Thousands lost power, trees uprooted, roofs blown off, damaged houses and buildings. we were fortunate, just some stuff blown around. SE Oh had tornados. And continued north to IN I think. Have family in NW NC. Thankfully safe but stuck. They keep extra supplies in case of emergencies. Saw a thread where people were saying Thrump could fix the roads in two weeks. Have these people ever been to the mountains? How can some people be so stupid! Idiots!

beepayton
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Just say that god is punishing the right for praying to Trump. Maybe then they will change

Tee_
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I am from Asheville. I am working as a therapist and I can tell you just now having power after 6 days and feeling like the lucky one whose house is not floating in the river this shit insults me. I'm trying my best to support what people are going thru with resources but truly we are so hurt it is hard to fathom how to even help in a substantive way. This is my internet access and it's knowing MAGA is exactly as they are as always. It is hard not to have hatred right now for this shit and that's coming from a person that doesn't believe hatred is the answer.

spokenfeelings
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I found the debate difficult to watch, VP Harris should be commended for not knocking him out, so difficult to listen to a liar.

concerned
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HAARP is controlling the weather, but climate change is impossible to be man made? How that work?

KyleChou-dwjy
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Getting real tired of people that don't even live in our reality taking up space in it.

balorana
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Spent 3 days after the hurricane cutting and clearing trees. I'm a democrat in South Carolina and I didn't give a rats @$$ what political party people belonged to. We need to get back to being good people and good neighbors and stop all of this BS.

kamwatkins