On the record · Updated October 1, 2026
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33 things Kyle Kulinski said, verbatim, from July 5, 2026 to October 1, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“Republican senators and John Fetterman, every Republican minus Rand Paul, and plus John Fetterman, they're all voting to shield Israel from any justice, from any accountability.”
on Senate Republicans and Fetterman voting on a West Bank measure
In their own words
“So as you all know, the Houthis in Yemen have successfully attacked uh Saudi Arabia a number of times, have successfully beat back their Sunni proxies in the country of Yemen.”
on Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia during Yemen's conflict
In their own words
“His crime was denouncing the genocide and his crime was making clear, I have an issue with Zionism, not with Judaism or Jews.”
In their own words
“The United States is a terrorist regime. When we bomb a wedding as we just did the other day, the United States is a terrorist regime.”
on US strikes in the Iran war, including a wedding bombing
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“I would say it's probably every single day on this show I bring up that Donald J. Trump bombed a little girl school”
on Trump ordering the bombing of a school in Iran during the US strikes
In their own words
“Spending $730 million to try to change the narrative around Israel, knowing that everybody is correctly accusing them of genocide.”
on Israel's spending to reshape opinion amid genocide accusations
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“this illegal war against Iran, it's a country that didn't threat threaten us. It didn't attack us. It can't really attack us directly here at home. We were the aggressors.”
on US strikes against Iran being an act of aggression
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“If Iran’s off the table as a regional power, that means Hezbollah can’t be funded. Hamas can’t be funded. The Houthis can’t be funded,”
on Iran losing regional power reducing funding to Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis
Breitbart News WATCH: DSA-Backed Candidates Mourn Iran Losing Power to Fund Hezbollah, Hamas ›
In their own words
“Even with the worst vote, it was like half the Democrats voted the right way and like every Republican voted the wrong way”
In their own words
“if he were to do it, it would just be a stunt because they would basically release him right away anyway”
on arresting Netanyahu being an ineffectual political gesture
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“I reiterate again for the 4,000th time that you cannot make peace with the Israelis.”
on the structural impossibility of peace negotiations with Israel
Secular Talk BREAKING: ISRAEL TRIES TO K*LL IRANIAN NEGOTIATORS; JOBS NUMBERS COLLAPSE; HEATWAVE SHATTERS RECORDS ›
In their own words
“And obviously, the reason why all these oligarch are there is they know China is on the rise. They know we're on the decline.”
on oligarchs courting China at Xi's state dinner amid US decline
In their own words
“You would think that in a moment like this, where Trumpism has overtaken the U.S. and the results are absolutely positively catastrophic. Um, you would think that that would wake up the rest of the world.”
on whether the AfD's win in Germany will jolt the world into reacting to Trumpism
In their own words
“So what's happening here is the U.S. is illegally going to sovereign territory, that is Greenland's, and they're starting to drill with no approval whatsoever.”
on US drilling in Greenland without Greenland's approval
In their own words
“So, it was billionaire oligarchs oligarching while 70% of Americans can't afford food.”
on a state dinner for Xi amid criticism of billionaire wealth
In their own words
“Their market manipulation has kept it down and their tricks have kept it down.”
on claims that market manipulation is keeping oil prices artificially low
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“This dude RFK thinks nicotine is good for you. He drinks methylene blue, which is the new right-wing craze.”
on RFK Jr.'s promotion of alternative health substances
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“all their market manipulation to keep the price of oil and gas low is now beginning to backfire. Um the facts on the ground are getting worse and worse. The supply shortage now is about to get just I mean unimaginably bad.”
on oil and gas price manipulation backfiring amid Red Sea tensions
In their own words
“What about the people who were whistleblowers who said, hey, man, AI's already not in alignment with people anymore, and now they're blackmailing people, they're going rogue, they're doing fucked up shit.”
on whistleblowers warning AI systems are misaligned and blackmailing people
In their own words
“MAGA is completely and utterly running out of steam because of a number of reasons, a number of things we've covered on the show, polling data that's come out, Republicans now sprinting away from Trump in the midterms, like even theoretically saying that they're against the Iran War.”
In their own words
“This is not indicative of like last-minute grassroots enthusiasm for Republican candidates, not at all. What this is indicative of is a bunch of billionaire Epstein class perverts who are now shooting the money cannon to try to save Republicans and tank the Democrats.”
on wealthy donors spending heavily to help Republicans and hurt Democrats before midterms
In their own words
“We know you're accusing him of being anti-Semitic. He's not. He's anti-Zionist, and that's crystal clear. There's 30 minute, 30 minute compilations of him criticizing anti-semitism.”
on accusations that a Michigan Senate race figure is anti-Semitic rather than anti-Zionist
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“All the critics of DSA are going to bring up the least popular parts of the DSA platform and hammer away over and over and over and over and over on that. What they won't do is tell you that most of the in the DSA platform is wildly popular.”
on DSA's platform popularity amid Florida primary criticism
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“So if you're going to acknowledge Zoron's doing a good job, just shut the up and hold the L and acknowledge DSA politics are good.”
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“It's like it's like a requirement now that every mainstream media segment of anybody that's actually on the left immediately be grilled over Hasan Piker. They like mandate that you have to grill these left wing candidates over Hasan Piker. It is insane.”
In their own words
“There's absolutely nothing that's extreme about either one of them. Abdul is literally running on let's stop sending money and weapons to Israel and let's instead fund education and health care here”
on Abdul's Michigan Senate primary platform to cut Israel funding
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“The reason why she's saying insane stuff like he wants to get rid of all private property and he wants to abolish all prisons. The reason why she's doing that is because she can't actually engage what with what this man has actually done”
on a CNN host misrepresenting a democratic socialist candidate's actual record
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“He's suing his own IRS and taking the money and going to pay off insurrectionists and terrorists and all of his cronies.”
on Trump's IRS-funded payout fund for allies and supporters
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“All he actually cares about are the vanity projects, right? Right. That's literally all he actually cares about.”
on Trump's motives in the Kennedy Center closure
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“I think it truly is the case that the cognitive decline has now made it so he says the quiet part out loud way more often. Like I always said he was a low filter guy but now he's a no filter guy.”
on Trump's mental state and tendency to say things without filter
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“I mean, to say that this guy is deranged and unfit for the office is the understatement of the millennium.”
on Trump's fitness for office amid the Strait of Hormuz standoff
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“They made a big announcement, they made it seem like it's replacing mainstream media. That's what we're gonna do, and then instantly fell apart.”
on a Trump-aligned media venture collapsing shortly after launch
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“This is new McCarthyism. This is a new red scare, and they're saying you're a terrorist if you are these people or affiliated with these people”
on government labeling political opponents as domestic terrorists
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