TRIGGERnometry - ICE Riots, Iran Strikes and Reflections from a Week in America - Konstantin Kisin

00:00:00.000 last week was a rather eventful week for america and having just returned from spending that very

00:00:08.800 week in washington dc i thought it might be worth sharing a few observations first for the very

00:00:14.340 online audience that i've no doubt cultivated over the years america is mostly fine it isn't on fire

00:00:20.660 people are not for the most part at each other's throats and washington dc managed to host a pride

00:00:25.480 march and a trump military parade in the same week without incident relaxing one evening in a bar i

00:00:30.820 suddenly found myself in the middle of a conversation between several black democrats a couple of white

00:00:36.260 republican staffers taking a break from working on the big beautiful bill and a second generation

00:00:41.100 palestinian american realtor the conversation mostly focused on the nba finals and which of the two

00:00:46.320 nearby bagel shops is better the indiana pacers seem to be the popular choice for nba honors while the

00:00:52.120 bagel debate was finally settled by the palestinian american who said something no one could object to

00:00:57.460 they're both good man jews make the best bagels as we all went our separate ways jokes smiles and warm

00:01:04.160 handshakes were exchanged by all the polarization and acrimony you hear so much about on social media

00:01:09.320 and in the news are certainly there too in a single 20 minute uber ride i got a real feel for how hard

00:01:15.260 tackling illegal immigration will be for any country which attempts to reverse decades of open border policy

00:01:21.320 my driver spent the entire journey listening to some kind of mainstream radio station in which the

00:01:26.380 anguished narrators told story after story about the impact of the ice immigration raids the mother

00:01:32.400 of one told us that her husband has been here for 20 years he never even got so much as a ticket

00:01:37.620 the son keeps asking for his dad he doesn't understand she said he still thinks daddy is at work

00:01:43.540 this is one of the reasons why allowing illegal immigration is cruel and immoral inevitably many 1.00

00:01:49.440 people get fed up with it express that democratically and the migrants who were allowed to enter or 0.97

00:01:54.820 overstay illegally end up being deported separated from their loved ones and having their lives appended

00:02:00.200 some want to celebrate that this is happening but this is not something to celebrate at a human level

00:02:05.640 what's happening is objectively awful others want to pretend that the solution is simply to allow

00:02:10.740 illegal immigration to go unprosecuted and uncorrected but that can't happen if you want to have a country 0.52

00:02:16.020 you cannot have some people spending years and thousands following all the rules while others

00:02:21.740 simply skip ahead what incentive does that leave for anyone to respect the system the fact that

00:02:27.020 western countries have allowed so many people to enter illegally is the reason for what is happening

00:02:31.640 now when those decisions were made these outcomes became inevitable it's the same reason that failing

00:02:37.720 to teach children right and wrong by setting clear boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable behavior

00:02:42.400 is cruel rather than kind a child who grows up without limits will eventually learn those lessons

00:02:48.120 from life which will be far harsher than loving parents it's always better to do the right thing

00:02:53.400 as early as possible or the problem gets bigger and bigger and a bigger and bigger correction is

00:02:58.060 then necessary president trump appears to have confronted this reality last week he pulled back from the

00:03:03.740 maximalist position with a senior ice official sending out new guidance according to the new york times

00:03:09.300 it stated effective today please hold on all worksite enforcement investigations and operations

00:03:14.940 on agriculture including aquaculture and meat packing plants restaurants and operating hotels

00:03:20.680 the email went on to clarify that investigating human traffic in money laundering drug smuggling etc

00:03:26.280 in these industries is okay but agents must not arrest quote non-criminal collaterals

00:03:31.740 i.e. illegal immigrants not suspected of such crimes polls conducted at the start of last week

00:03:37.300 showed that 54 percent of americans support trump's policy on illegal immigration but i'd be surprised

00:03:42.940 if what those people imagined was quite what they've been seeing on their tv screens over the course of

00:03:47.520 the last week this is also to say nothing of the fact that illegal labor is now so deeply embedded

00:03:52.480 in the american economy that fixing it requires treading on a lot of toes of people who unlike the

00:03:58.160 illegals themselves have money and power over the weekend president trump conceded on this too

00:04:03.700 our farmers are being hurt badly he said they have very good workers they've worked for them for 20 years

00:04:09.300 they're not citizens but they've turned out to be great we're going to have to do something about that

00:04:14.440 we can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what

00:04:19.740 they're supposed to have we're going to have an order on that pretty soon we can't do that to our farmers

00:04:24.700 in the meantime president trump appears to have played an absolute blinder in the middle east

00:04:29.220 i say president trump and not benjamin netanyahu because not a single person with any inside knowledge

00:04:34.920 i met in dc thinks israel acted alone yes the trump administration very publicly did its best to dissuade

00:04:42.080 the israelis from bombing iran but once it happened trump in characteristic fashion found himself unable

00:04:47.940 to avoid the desperate urge to take credit somewhat giving the game away when he posted on truth social

00:04:53.660 two months ago i gave iran a 60 day ultimatum to make a deal they should have done it today is day 61

00:05:00.320 i told them what to do but they just couldn't get there now they have perhaps a second chance

00:05:05.420 officially the administration was not involved this gives them plausible deniability with both iran and

00:05:11.320 their own isolationist voters while ensuring that iran would not cross the final hurdle on its journey

00:05:16.700 of uranium enrichment according to the international atomic energy agency the iaea it was estimated that

00:05:23.560 iran had accrued enough highly enriched uranium to quickly produce material for at least nine

00:05:28.840 nuclear bombs we'll see how this plays out if you enjoy these videos remember that they're available

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TRIGGERnometry - June 16, 2025

ICE Riots, Iran Strikes and Reflections from a Week in America - Konstantin Kisin

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