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Tim Dillon VICIOUSLY MOCKS Trump's ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Kyle Kulinski Show

2025-07-08 News & Politics
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Support The Show On Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/seculartalk Subscribe to Krystal Kyle & Friends On Substack!: https://krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com Follow Kyle on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kylekulinski "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!: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/kyle-kulinski-bernie-bros-secular-talk-joe-rogan-youtube #KyleKulinski #SecularTalk #news #politics #youtube #biden #economics #left #progressive #viral

Top Comments (10)

@ericmetzger9448 2025-07-08

Sharks with Freaking Laser Beams

739 35 replies
@ReneetheRenegade 2025-07-08

Shout out to Bill Burr for always being a real one

499 24 replies
@McCluerJ 2025-07-08

Have you seen Trump's comments at the Florida camp where he floats the idea of slavery and plantations? He has zero humanity.

498 32 replies
@Ub3rLight 2025-07-08

i dont think you're being too harsh. you're asking them to admit they were wrong, and to admit the stench of trump is still on them. and i think thats completely reasonable

228 2 replies
@jmmclaughlin1989 2025-07-08

Remember, Donald Trump once suggested detonating a nuclear weapon within a hurricane to dispel it, so you know he's the type of guy to suggest wacky, zany solutions to problems.

172 4 replies
@josieford6227 2025-07-09

Eminem made NO apologies when he came out to support Kamala Harris & risked losing millions of fans. He kept his values & didn't swing with these guys who are so willing to change theirs.

144 11 replies
@michellef.thompson0531 2025-07-08

No, Kyle, you're not too harsh. I wish there were more truth tellers like you. Keep up the good work, you make us all proud!

124 1 replies
@Antiasshat 2025-07-08

Trump has the temperament of a spoiled boy king. He wanted an Alcatraz and mean Gavin Newsom was being mean. So DeSantis swooped in with an Alcatraz for Donnie. Look Donnie, it’s even better, it has alligators. And there’s merch!

96 6 replies
@upsidedownside-Antifa 2025-07-09

Whenever they say "socialism never worked" not only do they forget they are living with wildly successful New Deal programs, but they always seem to forget that social democracies Norway and Denmark aren't exactly failed states lmao.

60 8 replies
@ctpaul1261 2025-07-08

How about you force the immigrants to watch endless reruns of The Apprentice? That would be torture.

58 2 replies

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