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Much like Due Dissidence , Sabby note those who claim that they are on the American left turn on a dime to support the Democrats now that Kamala Harris has replaced Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.  Once again, they jump on adjacent bandwagons for clicks and subscribers, but "come back" home in time for the election.   Sabby also make a good point that these channels tend to be dependent on political candidates (you only have to watch any of their videos not focused on a presidential candidate or political party to confirm this). Remember: anytime these Young Turks claim Breaking Points with the Democrat Party it's really all Secular Talk.

 This is what INN was referring to, BTW. And hey, t only took him almost 90% of the election cycle:

 From INN's Substack : Krystal and Kyle largely cover the US political horse race on their individual shows, inadvertently helping the Democrats define the policies that their base might want, but everyone on the inside knows the corporate donors will never allow them to enact. They still want to play within this system and win personally, but don’t appear to be as concerned about the financial health of the rest of the country. They get called “the far left” by people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, completely marginalizing everyone who think Krystal and Kyle are centrists at best (like me and LOTS more independents). They are definitely corporate apologists - Krystal even more than Kyle. Kyle’s subscriber base is largely progressive lefty Democrats (amazing there are any remaining at this point!) - holdouts from the Bernie Sanders days who are still blind to how much the party loathes them. Somehow, these people still believe in the viability of federal electoral politics to...

 In other words: when compared to younger versions of his current self Kyle believes that the differences between Democrats and Republicans are minor, but when third parties are involved Kyle believes the differences are vast.

 Kyle Kulinski is a supporter of Marianne Williamson (she officiated his wedding with Krystal Ball). Katie Halper is, at worst, an ally (she was also at the wedding). When Williamson was interviewed by Bill Maher, she made enough left-like points for both Kulinski and Halper to highlight: What Halper and Kulinski both failed to cover was Williamson's appearance on Jimmy Dore: In other words, it's easy to portray Williamson as an ally of the Left when she's talking to an out-of-touch pro-establishment quasi-libertarian. It's much hard to do so when she's talking to a pro-worker, anti-war comedian who still interacts with the people. 

 It appears so: Funny how this is being covered by Due Dissidence, While Kyle Kulinski (who supports Marianne Williamson) is so busy talking about RFK, Jr. , Mike Pence , Ron DeSantis , Chris Christie and RFK, Jr . again.

AOC was one of the Justice Democrats, a political group born of the idea that the best way to get progressive ideas through (at least legislatively) was is to "infiltrate" the Democratic Party. Kyle Kulinski was a founder of Justice Democrats. AOC has endorsed Joe Biden for president (super early). Kulinski is supporting Marianne Williams as a primary challenger.  So as a result, we get this: Note that Kulinski implies two very interesting things: That President Joe Biden is measurably more progressive than Senator Joe Biden; and Marianne Williamson's decision to run in the Democratic Party was a strategically sound move (compared to running independently).  Here's the thing: Joe Biden's " accomplishments " aren't evident enough to get enthusiastic support from average voters; only people who are knee-deep in Democratic Party politics can even list them. If the average lay person can't name something the president to make their life better, that...

Here's Kyle Kulinski going over how CNN is covering Pentagon corruption: And here's Lee Camp going over how MSNBC is covering corruption: Now of course they have different approaches, but the story of the Pentagon being shady beyond all belief is still there.

 All you have to do is replace his personal pick (Marianne Williamson) with any third-party candidate: Again, she's polling less than RFK, Jr., who's at 10%. But Kulinski argues that this is because of the media and the party playing tricks on potential voters. Well, that exactly the argument advocates of third-parties have said for years. Just like America is in the middle of a global economic temper-tantrum over China, the "Infiltrate the Dems" crowd are grasping at anything that can vaguely support their flawed strategy. 

 Consider this yet another reality-check: Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden and will not run in 2024 . One of the pillars of the "Vote Marianne" Left is that she's only a few degrees off from Sanders and therefore is deserving to be his heir apparent. Sanders backing Biden pretty much demolishes that pillar. A number of those pushing for Williamson -like Kyle Kulinski- were Bernie supporters in 2016 and 2020. Kulinski is most likely aware of Bernie's endorsement because he was on top of Biden's announcement . And not for nothing, he made some quick videos about Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon being fired, so "breaking stories" aren't a foreign concept to him.  Then again, we know he's ignored such "in-your-face" stories before when they were inconvenient ; what's to say that he won't do it again? Of course, then these guys would have to explain why their political prophet Bernie Sanders is wrong and go through mental hoops t...

 The reality is this: "for any non-status quo candidate to have a chance, they should run outside the Democratic and Republican parties. Anyone running inside hoping to 'change the party from within' will either be absorbed or ousted."  Most of the American left learned this after two attempts by Bernie Sanders to run for president (some of us suspected even before the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries, but the elections confirmed it).  There is, however, a group that (for various reasons) can't let go. They simultaneously boost the insider strategy while turn away in disgust when offered third party solutions. They have declared Marianne Williamson the heir to Bernie Sanders (even when he has embraced Joe Biden). Now, some of them have put out videos saying that Williamson is being ignored . On the contrary, whatever the media's doing isn't making people ignore a person who ran for office in 2020; in fact, people know and they don't prefer her to B...

 Marianne Williamson is not the solution . It's not stopping her online left-leaning supporters from ignoring reality to the point that they are ironically using the very arguments that third-party advocates used in the last few election cycles.  Case in Point is this: Remember this is the same guy who put up multiple videos saying that Bernie could/should ask for concessions for dropping out in 2020 (which he wasn't/didn't), than proceeded to make "Biden's actually doing some good stuff!" videos. People like him are invested in the Bernie narrative, and can't psychologically break from that.

  Another day, another case of "the populist left" hanging on to national electoral politics as the cure-all for America's ails. Even before Marianne Williamson tried to test the waters with RBN, Breaking Points and their affiliates (like Kulinski) have attempted to convince the American Left that Williamson is the heir to Bernie Sanders, and as such deserving of all the leeway he was given (at least until he told his supporters to vote for Joe Biden because Donald Trump was so scary).  But as mentioned earlier people aren't willing to participate in a part three of "Shepherd the Left into the Democratic Party," so people like Kulinski have to pretend like they haven't gone back and forth on Joe Biden like they have DID and now (as Due Dissidence predicted) do everything they can to portray Biden as "the villain" and Williamson as "the hero" so their dead-on-arrival strategy can appear valid. While this crowd does recogni...

 To say that Kyle Kulinski likes talking about political stories is an understatement. As his YouTube pays states, his channel is "Home of news & politics commentary from the populist left perspective" (NOTE: it used to be from a "libertarian left perspective").  I've referred to him as a political gossip expert. Not in the intrusive TMZ-type way, but if you ever wanted to know who said what about anything even remotely political, Kulinski was the one to follow and watch. Also, whether the topic/subject/person is popular or obscure makes little difference.  So imagine my surprise to find out that Kulinski seemed to completely ignore a political story that one would think is right in his wheelhouse: That up there was a video on Bad Faith where Briahna Joy Gray and Kshama Sawant talk to Ryan Grim about the Squad's role in Congress forcing the railroad workers to accept a bad contract (that while included a bump in pay did not include any sick leave whatsoe...

 Well, let's be honest: they don't say those words. But in their segment about the DNC being more accepting of dark money, they basically admit these two things:

 The former president is notorious for not paying people he owes money to, and now it may cost him the ability to reach the masses:

 As Status Coup notes, there was a very significant victory for Amazon workers recently . It's important to note two things here: the Amazon workers managed to unionize without backing of the usual movers and shakers , and Status Coup was hands down gave the most coverage to this story (a distance second would be Krystal Ball of The Hill and Breaking Points).  Another important thing to note, as a byproduct, is that with this victory, all sorts of people and groups are now standing in celebration with Chris Smalls and others, most notably AOC.  Status Coup , Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball were quick to point out that despite AOC's...jaundiced account, there are Amazon workers that live in her district and she had ample opportunities to promote what was happening via her social media. And to show that even the ones who called AOC out on her political hesitancy are not immune, Sabby Sabs from RBN pointed out that when they (and others like Jimmy Dore ) were criticizing AO...

The black teenager who was beaten and tasered by police who mistakenly identified him as a suspect, sued and was award $18 . The black teenager who was found hung after getting into a argument with another teen; it was declared a suicide and his body was cremated without an autopsy. Buttigieg's contradiction regarding body cameras , after the first two incidents and the recent shooting.  Some of the article from #1:  The family of a black teenager who was punched and handcuffed by three South Bend police officers then subdued with a stun gun in a case of mistaken identity is questioning why jurors awarded them just $18 in a lawsuit accusing the officers of violating his constitutional rights. "We're black, so we automatically lose," the young man's father, Dan Franklin, told the South Bend Tribune. "The boy should've got something  —  they punched him, shot him in the side with a Taser gun — but we had nobody on our side." In its Au...

Let me start by putting it like this: if you're going to call a group out, make sure you are consistent. Because if one of your cousins or ex-coworkers is making the same claims as some jerk you're attacking, you're not serving your cause that well. Jimmy Dore went after some " Democratic Strategist " and Joy-Ann Reid for smearing Tulsi Gabbard. Kyle Kulinski gave his take as well .  Both Dore and Kulinski were right in addressing these smears.  Gabbard is sitting congresswoman, she has an impressive military record, and she sits on a number of important committees. If she was really part of some Russian plot she'd be bagging groceries in Hawaii by now. The "pro-Democratic Party" media is at best The Shaft ; they want the political affiliations to be different but not the policies. Gabbard's campaign (and yes Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang could also be plugged in here) are the antithesis of the status quo and the people who sign Reid's ...

Whistleblowers can't " go through proper channels " all the time because those channels tend to either be corrupt themselves or the reason that the whistle needs to be blown .