Win Your Next Pageant
Get Pageant Questions Written By A Miss Universe Judge
Support The Show On Patreon!:
Subscribe to Krystal Kyle & Friends On Substack!:
Follow Kyle on Twitter:
“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.
Read More Here!:
#KyleKulinski #SecularTalk #news #politics #youtube..(read more at source)
ON SALE: Pageant Resale
GET 365 FREE: Pageant Questions
VIEW MORE: Miss America Videos
LEARN ABOUT OTHER: Beauty Pageants
If all the school meals are free then what will the stereotypical bullies demand from other students? Republicans are really standing up for this underrepresented minority.
My humble tribute to the algorithm.
Having a food program for kids going to mandatory school is not a radical idea at all… In Sweden we've had it for ages and in some schools you even get a "food money card" and can go out and choose different resturants that are participating in the food program. What is radical is the idea is for kids to bring their own food or having their parents pay for the food service… Parents are already paying for their kids to go to school by taxes.
My daughter's schools have had free breakfast since elementary, she is in 11th. The kids can either take them or not. Lunch is still the same, free or reduce if you qualify. My daughter never liked the food much so never eats breakfast at school and always brings her own things to eat. Unluckily usually they are over processed frozen foods.
Lunch cost me 30 cents in the 1970s. What does it cost now I wonder?
Adults are such failures
That fact that this is a lay-up ez win issue has me thinking the democrats will find a way to screw it up.
This is such an *ugly position to be happily & openly against
I'm all in favor of giving free food to poor kids, but giving it to the rich kids too, just to stop this make believe shaming that poor kids supposedly go through, that's just stupid. Me and lots of kids got free lunches, none of us ever got picked on for it.
The "I need punch money" stamp is both somehow terrible and cruel, while also being fucking hilarious lmao
In my school in Pemberton New Jersey just about all of us got free lunch. There were no embarrassing moments for us. We had kids from Ft. Dix Army Base and Maguire Air Force Base go to our school. So I think we got lots of funding from them??
Congrats on your new marriage Kyle! I agree with you on school lunches Kyle, but please don't use the Lord's name in vain!
Dear Democrat politicians (cc Fox News and Peter Kasperowicz),
If these are the kinds of policies you are honestly going to implement then shut up and take my money.
I'm a single man with no kids BTW.
My kids' (old) school would just let him eat nothing if he didn't have .76 cents to pay on the off chance we didn't pay it off in time (I'm talking sums of $3-$5 here)
When I was a kid, they had these free meal tickets for those that applied for the free lunch programs for the financially struggling families. My single parent didn't know English nor did she even know such a program existed. On lucky days someone gave me their ticket, on other days my friends (Bless them) gave me their left overs over split halfsies with me. Kids shouldn't have to starve, I think that should be a bi-partisan agreement.
I got 2 bucks a day for lunch in high school in the mid/late 90s, lol. $1.50 for a slice of pretty good pizza that came from a local spot, 50 cents for a soda or water. I kinda knew I was lucky back then.
This is doing nothing but making climate change worse
The teacher who put any kind of a mark on my child's body would have two broken hands by the end of that night.
And you tell me who cares more about the safety and well-being of children. Is it the Democrats trying to feed kids or the Republicans trying to convince ppl that tr@ns ppl are a danger to our children. The anti tr@ans stuff is just too easy for republican politicians because their solution costs literally NO MONEY. Just take away rights from tr@ns ppl and pretend you are also fixing the problem. The conservatives convinced by this garbage need to wake up and stop taking "how are we going to pay for this?" as a valid criticism for EVERYTHING and to just do nothing meaningful, ever.
I remember being long gone from school before dinner
If you think children should starve and or be a victim of circumstance, you’re evil. If our country can’t do something like this what even is a country?? Smh
If kids had access to good nutritious food on a daily basis, they would be able to focus more and do better in school. Republicans do not want this, they want they kids to be malnourished and dumb.
2:01 Exactly I want to see at least one article from this guy denouncing funding for the military industrial complex, or the bail out of the banks. Yet here he is literally advocating for starving American children 😂
Only the party that calls itself pro-life would object to children being fed.
More Communism. Nobody wants this nasty government food
The v280 aircraft will cost 43 million per unit. Projected cost of the program is 1.5 trillion. We could just reduce the number of v280s we build and that will more than fund school food.