TRIGGERnometry - May 16, 2025


Imagine There's a Border - It's Easy If You Try - Konstantin Kisin


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

150.47055

Word Count

1,439

Sentence Count

85


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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 A claims program for harmed Canadians has begun as a result of a landmark tobacco settlement.
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00:00:30.000 Imagine there's a border. It's easy if you try.
00:00:38.500 Imagine that by some miracle, the result of last year's general election was a crushing victory for reform.
00:00:44.900 Imagine Prime Minister Farage delivering an address to the nation outside of No. 10 Downing Street, in which he talked about the need to put British workers first,
00:00:54.320 denounced Tory failure to control the borders, and warned that strong measures were needed to make sure Britain does not become an island of strangers.
00:01:03.320 If you've even casually followed British politics over the last decade, you hardly need me to describe the inevitable fallout.
00:01:10.520 Endless TV debates, Guardian columns and Twitter meltdowns about Britain becoming a racist hellhole.
00:01:16.120 Swarms of celebrities led by Garolinica promising to leave the country, and they're not doing it.
00:01:21.800 Trans flags flown at half-mast in leafy London suburbs.
00:01:25.300 Until this week, this might have been impossible to picture in your mind's eye, but the mood music of British politics is changing fast.
00:01:32.940 This week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who previously dismissed concerns about mass immigration as scapegoating,
00:01:38.540 made exactly these comments in an attempt to appear tough on immigration.
00:01:42.620 We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.
00:01:49.680 So when you have an immigration system that seems almost designed to permit abuse,
00:01:56.320 then you're not championing growth.
00:01:59.040 You're not championing justice, or however else people defend the status quo.
00:02:04.040 You're actually contributing to the forces that are slowly pulling our country apart.
00:02:10.900 So yes, I believe in this.
00:02:14.200 I believe we need to reduce immigration.
00:02:16.900 Before anyone gets too excited, it's important to say that there is absolutely no chance that his words will be followed by serious action,
00:02:24.080 or God forbid, actual results.
00:02:26.420 That's not my opinion as a Starmer sceptic.
00:02:28.840 It's an observation based on his track record, and even more importantly, his character.
00:02:33.120 The nature of Starmer's political approach became clear long before he set foot in Downing Street.
00:02:38.880 It's often been claimed that asking politicians what a woman is, is a gotcha question.
00:02:43.960 In reality, it's been an extremely reliable way of identifying people who will lie in public about literally anything for the sake of popularity.
00:02:52.100 Starmer infamously failed this basic test of integrity and common sense before the last election.
00:02:57.420 A woman can have a penis.
00:02:58.640 The fact that in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling confirming that a woman is in fact an adult human female,
00:03:26.460 he abandoned his prior obfuscations on this question, is not remotely to his credit.
00:03:31.920 On the contrary, you'd almost respect him more if it stuck to his guns.
00:03:35.440 I bring this up not to admonish him for some pas faux pas.
00:03:38.760 In this week's speech, Starmer claimed that despite his cynical critics,
00:03:42.960 he's now taking a harder approach on immigration because, quote,
00:03:46.240 End of quote.
00:03:51.700 My contention is that if, in fact, Starmer believes anything at all,
00:03:55.660 he certainly does not believe in tackling illegal immigration as a matter of urgency.
00:03:59.940 Nor does he believe that mass immigration is as much of a problem as the British public think it is.
00:04:05.160 If he did, he would have campaigned on these issues and then done something about them after being elected.
00:04:10.660 In reality, every politician who has attempted to deal with illegal immigration
00:04:15.580 has concluded that it is impossible to do without leaving the ECHR.
00:04:19.780 Even Rishi Sunak, who effectively forced out Sir Le Bravman for saying this out loud
00:04:24.560 and has claimed he went too far with his rhetoric about immigration,
00:04:28.560 has since said there is no other way of solving the problem.
00:04:31.980 Despite criticism from the right, I do not believe Starmer is stupid or incompetent.
00:04:36.220 On the contrary, I suspect he compares rather well on both of these measures with several recent prime ministers.
00:04:42.640 My point is something else.
00:04:44.520 Dealing with illegal immigration and unwanted mass immigration is very difficult.
00:04:49.080 It requires doing a lot of things that are popular with the public,
00:04:52.280 but extremely unpopular with the progressive lunatics and Starmer's party,
00:04:56.580 as well as the bulk of the virtue signaling commentaria.
00:04:59.940 These are not things that can be done without genuine conviction.
00:05:03.640 Let's be honest.
00:05:04.380 The Labour government is signaling about immigration in an attempt to nullify the onslaught of reform.
00:05:10.540 This won't work, not only because they don't actually believe in dealing with the problem,
00:05:14.840 but also because we all know they don't believe in dealing with the problem.
00:05:18.840 The Tories, incidentally, face exactly the same issue.
00:05:21.960 After 13 years of Labour governments, which oversaw more people coming to Britain
00:05:25.860 than had come between the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and 1950,
00:05:29.980 followed by 14 years of conservative governments, which were even worse,
00:05:34.480 the British public simply no longer trust either party to deal with this issue.
00:05:38.600 And I don't blame them.
00:05:40.120 As such, Starmer will do on immigration exactly what he did on grooming gangs.
00:05:44.700 When forced, he will talk about the issue as if it's really important,
00:05:48.200 while acting as if it's not.
00:05:49.660 We all saw what the Labour Party really thinks about grooming gang scandal last week,
00:05:54.480 when a Labour Party frontbencher described it as a dog whistle.
00:05:58.080 I don't know if you saw the documentary on Channel 4 about rape gangs.
00:06:02.760 No, we want to blow that little trumpet now, do we?
00:06:05.900 No, there is a real issue.
00:06:07.920 Let's get that dog whistle out, shall we?
00:06:09.800 She's since apologised, but even more telling was that Starmer,
00:06:14.220 who spent weeks promoting the Adolescence Netflix series as a documentary,
00:06:18.760 which must be shown in schools,
00:06:20.760 ignored an actual documentary about grooming gangs that was released shortly after.
00:06:25.260 I rarely make political predictions, but on this I'm fairly confident.
00:06:29.260 Immigration will continue to be a massive problem that goes largely unaddressed.
00:06:33.460 The boats will keep coming,
00:06:35.000 deporting violent foreign criminals will still be nigh and impossible because of their human rights,
00:06:39.120 and low-wage, low-skill mass immigration will continue at a level that isn't tolerable
00:06:44.140 to a larger and larger section of the British public.
00:06:47.520 This will inevitably drive more and more people into the arms of reform.
00:06:51.320 The only question that remains is
00:06:52.940 whether Nigel Farage and his party can capitalise on the opportunity this presents.
00:06:57.720 If you enjoy these videos,
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00:07:09.120 The news moves fast, and it's not just about keeping up, it's about seeing clearly.
00:07:14.380 In a world where headlines are constantly shifting and narratives change by the hour,
00:07:18.820 understanding how a story is being reported is just as important as what the story is.
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00:07:39.340 Using Ground News, we can see that CNN, which leans left, ran with
00:07:43.500 UK Supreme Court says legal definition of woman excludes trans women.
00:07:48.120 The Spectator, which leans right, led with
00:07:50.240 the Supreme Court ruling is a victory for women.
00:07:53.360 Same story, two completely different takes.
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00:08:34.680 A claims program for harmed Canadians has begun as a result of a landmark tobacco settlement.
00:08:54.280 If you smoked regularly before November 20th, 1998,
00:08:58.120 and were diagnosed with lung cancer, throat cancer, emphysema, or COPD,
00:09:04.820 you may qualify for a significant payment.
00:09:07.760 To learn more, call 888-482-5852
00:09:12.240 or go to tobaccoclaimscanada.ca.
00:09:15.380 Thank you guys for thispoint.