TRIGGERnometry - How They Lie & Why They Do It - Konstantin Kisin

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00:00:46.700 On August 12th, 2017,

00:00:49.280 a neo-Nazi deliberately drove his car

00:00:51.440 into a crowd of left-wing protesters

00:00:53.300 in Charlottesville, Virginia,

00:00:55.400 killing a 32-year-old woman called Heather Heyer

00:00:57.480 and injuring 35 others.

00:00:59.760 America and the rest of the world were on a knife edge.

00:01:02.900 The victims were assembled to counter

00:01:04.440 the Unite the Right rally,

00:01:06.160 a demonstration against the proposed removal

00:01:08.100 of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general.

00:01:11.300 And the attack acted as a climax

00:01:13.140 to the nation's increasing polarization

00:01:15.020 and paranoia about President Trump's links

00:01:18.180 with the so-called alt-right.

00:01:19.780 At a press conference in the media aftermath,

00:01:22.320 President Trump made a series of incendiary comments,

00:01:24.680 including saying that there were very fine people

00:01:27.720 on both sides.

00:01:29.140 Like many, I was horrified and outraged

00:01:31.640 by the fact that instead of trying to bring calm,

00:01:34.480 Trump chose to further inflame

00:01:36.160 a highly volatile situation.

00:01:38.020 But not nearly as horrified and outraged as I was

00:01:40.780 when I later discovered that this was all

00:01:43.100 an elaborate orchestrated media hoax.

00:01:45.740 In actual fact, at that very press conference,

00:01:49.140 President Trump made it clear that his comments

00:01:51.580 were describing peaceful protesters

00:01:53.360 who opposed the removal of the statue,

00:01:56.120 saying,

00:01:56.340 I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists 0.95

00:01:59.760 because they should be condemned totally.

00:02:02.160 But the media cut his comments out of context

00:02:04.800 and ran headline after headline

00:02:07.020 claiming he was defending the very people

00:02:09.420 he'd just condemned.

00:02:10.660 To this day, millions of people believe this lie.

00:02:13.920 Last week, I saw it again here in Britain

00:02:16.260 when the Labour Party clipped comments by Matt Goodwin,

00:02:19.680 reforms candidate in the upcoming Gorton and Denton

00:02:22.540 by-election, out of context to claim

00:02:24.740 he'd criticized Manchester

00:02:26.440 when he was in fact criticizing

00:02:28.520 the Conservative Party conference,

00:02:30.860 which had been held in Manchester.

00:02:32.940 This time, the media didn't have to lie.

00:02:35.040 Our politicians did it for them.

00:02:36.800 These dirty tricks are sadly part

00:02:38.620 of the ugly game of politics.

00:02:40.540 More troublingly,

00:02:41.640 they are now increasingly spreading

00:02:43.160 to the arena of public debate more broadly.

00:02:45.540 During my appearance on Question Time last week,

00:02:48.040 the usually decent Labour Minister Douglas Alexander

00:02:50.720 tried to pull a similar move on me.

00:02:53.060 Unable to respond to my criticism

00:02:55.100 of his government's failure on immigration

00:02:56.960 and the attempt to demonize millions

00:02:59.020 of normal British people

00:03:00.200 who dared to notice that failure,

00:03:02.360 he instead tried to suggest that I'm a bigot.

00:03:04.680 You said Rishi Sunak isn't English

00:03:06.680 because he's a brown Hindu, was his retort.

00:03:09.040 This is a skillful lie on several levels,

00:03:11.120 the purpose of which was to deflect attention

00:03:13.100 away from his and his party's failings.

00:03:15.720 Here's how it works.

00:03:16.900 First, he deliberately concealed from the viewer

00:03:19.120 that my comments were made in a discussion

00:03:21.000 of the difference between British and English identity

00:03:23.960 so that it looks like I was saying

00:03:26.020 Rishi Sunak doesn't belong in Britain.

00:03:28.160 That's not what I was saying.

00:03:29.560 Second, he failed to mention

00:03:30.980 that in that very same conversation,

00:03:33.380 I explained that my son,

00:03:35.140 born to two immigrant parents like Sunak,

00:03:37.800 is also, in my view, not English.

00:03:40.160 No matter how evil Douglas Alexander thinks I am,

00:03:42.920 even he could hardly accuse me

00:03:44.240 of being racist against my own children.

00:03:46.280 Third, he failed to mention that Fraser Nelson,

00:03:48.220 the journalist with whom we were having the debate,

00:03:50.620 wrote an article after was describing my view

00:03:53.000 with which he disagrees as a perfectly fair point.

00:03:56.600 Fourth, he failed to mention

00:03:58.180 that Fraser was the one that brought up Rishi Sunak,

00:04:00.960 not me.

00:04:01.360 I don't go around discussing who's English and who isn't.

00:04:03.920 And fifth, finally, and most importantly,

00:04:06.300 he didn't mention that prior to being elected,

00:04:08.780 Rishi Sunak described himself as British Indian,

00:04:11.920 saying, British Indian is what I take on the census.

00:04:15.100 We have a category for it.

00:04:16.360 I am thoroughly British.

00:04:18.320 This is my home and my country.

00:04:20.320 But my religious and cultural heritage is Indian.

00:04:23.520 My wife is Indian.

00:04:24.840 These five steps is how you go from two people

00:04:27.340 having a reasonable discussion about their views

00:04:29.460 of what it means to be English and British

00:04:31.220 to pretending that one of them is evil.

00:04:33.880 Even if you disagree with what I said

00:04:35.780 or thought I didn't articulate my point well,

00:04:38.340 this is dishonest framing.

00:04:39.980 Why do they do this?

00:04:41.340 Because it's easier than addressing

00:04:42.920 the arguments I'm making.

00:04:44.180 On question time, I made two basic points.

00:04:47.400 One is that net zero is industrial suicide,

00:04:50.440 which has destroyed our economy

00:04:51.900 and produced zero growth since 2008.

00:04:54.900 The second is that both Labour and Conservative governments

00:04:57.380 have imported more people into Britain

00:04:59.180 over their respective terms and power

00:05:01.060 than had come between 1066 and 1950.

00:05:04.520 Can they deny this?

00:05:05.920 No.

00:05:06.760 Can they dispute the facts?

00:05:08.440 No.

00:05:09.220 So all they have are the smears and the insults.

00:05:11.800 Over the last few days, there's been an attempt

00:05:13.980 by a few non-entities on social media

00:05:15.940 to have me banned from further question time appearances.

00:05:19.420 These people still think it's 2016 when these tactics worked.

00:05:22.920 Let me explain something to you.

00:05:24.640 You've had the monopoly on the microphone for a long time 0.97

00:05:27.340 and it's made you lazy and it's made you arrogant. 0.62

00:05:30.160 More than 2 million people now watch and listen to Trigonometry.

00:05:33.300 100,000 read my Substack every week.

00:05:35.800 Our show is part of a massive ecosystem of alternative media,

00:05:39.260 which is the reason the legacy media is dying.

00:05:42.120 You can keep trying to cancel people from the conversation

00:05:44.640 to maintain your echo chamber.

00:05:46.760 But even if you succeed,

00:05:48.100 all that will achieve is driving more people into our arms.

00:05:51.220 If you really hate my views and what I stand for,

00:05:54.220 there's only one thing you can do.

00:05:56.040 Make better arguments.

00:05:57.380 Good luck.

00:05:58.240 You're going to need it.

00:06:00.000 One final thing.

00:06:01.380 A lot of people on social media over the last few days

00:06:03.560 have called me a grifter.

00:06:04.640 And because of that, I'd just like to remind you,

00:06:06.280 you can find my work at www.constantantkissen.com

00:06:09.900 and of course, Trigonometry at triggerpod.co.uk.

00:06:14.140 Most people think they're informed.

00:06:16.380 In reality, they're selectively informed.

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00:06:44.760 A major US poll found that Republican voters' confidence

00:06:47.580 in Trump's economic leadership

00:06:49.020 has dropped sharply during his second term.

00:06:51.620 That is not a minor data point.

00:06:53.380 If you only read right-leaning publications,

00:06:55.560 you would have missed this completely.

00:06:57.240 On the other hand, look at this.

00:06:58.680 The UAE drops UK from scholarship list

00:07:01.180 over radicalization concerns on university campuses.

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00:07:07.740 was almost non-existent.

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TRIGGERnometry - February 03, 2026

How They Lie & Why They Do It - Konstantin Kisin

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