Secular Talk takes AOC’s comments on Morning Joe out of context to claim she is letting moderates lead

There is an under-current of misogyny in Kyle Kulinski’s hostile, repeated scoldings of the squad, most notably AOC.

Kyle Kulinski hasn’t said a word about reports that Jimmy Dore sexually harassed Ana Kasparian at The Young Turks, or about the statement that Emma Vigeland gave on The Majority Report detailing how former TYT co-workers disclosed that Dore treated them with degrading abuse, cultivating a hostile work environment.

As Nomiki Konst highlighted on the same Majority Report episode: “Every single move he makes is intentional about keeping his ratings going and he knows that he and his little buddies in this circular firing squad, who love to go after progressive women or any women. […] They make money off of misogyny and I think that YouTube needs to crack down on that.”

Sam Seder pointed out that Dore purposefully ignores him, instead, cowardly reserving his misogynistic meltdowns for women, and even going to great lengths to edit out any mentioning of Seder’s name on his show.

Emma Vigeland observed “that so much of [Dore’s] commentary about Ocasio-Cortez is informed by misogyny.”

Despite his silence on Dore’s clear misogyny and sexual harassment, Kulinski has found time to attack Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive colleagues, as has the entire male-dominated, “progressive” ecosystem.

“Oh, it’s just so sad, oh, it’s so sad,” Kyle Kulinsk said about the squad, during a recent episode of Secular Talk, a YouTube show that increasingly incites its audience into a frenzy against Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.

Kulinski groaned that the squad supposedly “rolled over” on a $15 minimum wage, wrongly framing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s comments on Morning Joe as relinquishing the lead to moderates: “Joe Scarborough actually said something interesting, he said to her, is your plan to let the moderates work through it and then you interject, and then you bring up your concerns And she basically says yeah, we’re working behind the scenes.”

“You’re not gonna beat these insider goons, these elites, at Machiavellian backroom politics,” Kulinski said. “You’re always going to get destroyed because that’s their home field. Your home field is the public, but her response was, yeah, that’s what we’re doing because we’re working behind the scenes. So in other words, she’s saying let the moderates take the lead, and then we say, ah, I don’t like that, or I want to change this.”

Kulinski spoke glowingly of the 2009 Koch-built Tea Party while claiming that AOC is “not doing what her mission was.” The Tea Party, which was animated by vitriolic racism and a well-funded propaganda campaign, gave it a deceptively grass-roots feel.

“And I know what her mission was because I co-founded the group,” Kulinski said. “I’ve told you guys this before but the original name of Justice Democrats was the Left Tea Party.”

Kulinski ironically noted that “we decided against it because the Tea Party was despised by the media, and it would have given us bad press, it would have had negative connotation[s]. But the philosophy was to be the Left Tea Party.”

“They‘re simply not doing the thing that they were sent there to do, they were sent there to raise hell,” Kulinski said, chiding progressive women of color in Congress, before bizarrely painting Ocasio-Cortez’s old comments as a strike against her.

“She once said I’d rather be a one-term congress person that gets something done than be there forever and get nothing done. It really does break my hearts guys, the last thing I want to do, is come out here, and dump on the group that I co-founded… but I gotta tell you guys the truth.”

Later in the segment, Kulinski absurdly alleged that the squad — six people — had enough leverage, “To block legislation and make demands,” screaming, “You just need to have a fucking spine and do the thing that we sent you there to do!”

Kulinski displayed his ignorance of how government works further, saying, “if the Justice Democrats decided, we will block every single piece of legislation from here on out unless and until Biden takes out that executive order pen and eliminates student loan debt. Or they could say, if they wanted to be a little more reasonable — ” making air quotes with his fingers to emphasize sarcasm — “eliminate $50,000 in student loan debt per person… or they could say legalize marijuana. Take it off the schedule one substances list.”

Then laying out a ludicrous scenario in which the Justice Democrats could “block every single piece of legislation,” until Biden budges.

“Imagine if the Justice Democrats called Joe Biden authoritarian,” Kulinski said before quickly turning his ire back on the squad: “They all call a press conference, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, all of them, call a press conference and they say this isn’t a negotiation, this isn’t a debate. I’m gonna make this crystal clear, I’m gonna make it super simple, nothing else will get done until Joe Biden legalizes marijuana and eliminates student loan debt.”

Kulinski appeared to plead with his audience that he wasn’t letting Ocasio-Cortez and progressive Congress members off the hook, stating, “I need everyone to understand that there is a qualitative difference between being corrupt and being naive and weak, and they’re definitely naive and weak. That’s not a defense of them, it’s just an objective statement of what’s true. Either way, this is the most heartbreaking thing she’s done yet.”

On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez shockingly defeated powerful House Democrat Joe Crowley, by nearly 15 percentage points. Crowley, evidently sore from the loss, did not call Ocasio-Cortez to congratulate her.

The next day, reports that look-ups for the word “socialism” soared.

PBS reported, in an article titled “Democratic socialism surging in the age of Trump,” that “her victory poured gasoline onto a fire,” subsequently followed by the DSA’s paid membership going from 6,000 to 45,000 nationwide.

A google search shows that “the DSA is the largest socialist organization in the United States. As of January 2021, membership grew to more than 92,000 and the number of local chapters was 181.”