600. Konstantin Kisin LIVE: ‘Things Are So Bad, No One Pretends Anymore’

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Dec 22, 2025

In a candid live chat, Konstantin Kisin, a sharp-witted comedian and co-host of Triggernometry, tackles pressing topics like immigration, cancel culture, and the challenges facing Britain. He argues that wokeness fosters a culture of victimhood, while advocating for personal agency. Kisin critiques mainstream media's failures, discusses the rise of Islamist extremism, and explains the housing crisis's connection to political shifts. With humor and grit, he warns about the risks of AI and surveillance, urging listeners to embrace free speech as society faces growing challenges.

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Water Cut In Tunbridge Wells

Konstantin Kisin described a week without safe water in Tunbridge Wells and comparing the scene to Africa when he saw a woman carrying bottles on her head.
He used the story to highlight failing public services and the surreal normalisation of decline.

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New Media Mirrors Old Media

Konstantin argued new media has become like old media because monetization incentivises clipping and misrepresentation.
He warned attention and money drive context-stripping and ideological amplification on platforms.

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Housing Drives Political Radicalism

Housing affordability drives political shifts and radical ideas gaining traction, Konstantin said using New York and UK examples.
Fixing housing, or moving where opportunity exists, explains voter behaviour better than mere ideology.

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🔥 “Things Got So Bad… No One Pretends Anymore” | LIVE with Konstantin Kisin In this unfiltered live conversation, Andrew Gold sits down on stage with Konstantin Kisin (Triggernometry, An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West) for a wide-ranging, brutally honest discussion about immigration, wokeness, Islamism, free speech, the BBC, cancel culture, and the future of Britain. - Get Konstantin Kisin brilliant book An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408716062 - Follow ‪@triggerpod‬ ! From stabbings on British trains to Islamist extremism, from housing collapse and economic decline to why the culture war may already be over, this is Konstantin at his most candid — no media filter, no political correctness, no safe answers. 🎙️ Topics include: - Why “British people don’t go on stabbing sprees” - Illegal immigration, deportation & assimilation vs integration - Islam vs Islamism — and why Western countries won’t say the obvious - Why the UAE & Saudi Arabia cracked Islamist extremism - The collapse of trust in the BBC & mainstream media - Wokeness on the left and the right - Tucker Carlson, cancel culture & free speech - Housing, cost of living & why young people are being forced to leave - Why victimhood politics destroys agency - Has the culture war already been won? This episode is funny, tense, philosophical, controversial, and deeply human - exactly what Triggernometry fans expect, but in a raw live setting with audience questions pushing the conversation even further. 👇 If you enjoy Triggernometry, Heretics, or long-form conversations that refuse to lie to you - this one’s for you. 👉 Subscribe for more live conversations you won’t see on the BBC. 👉 Comment below #KonstantinKisin #Triggernometry #Immigration #Wokeness #FreeSpeech #BBCBias #Islamism #CultureWar #CancelCulture #AndrewGold #HereticsPodcast Chapters: 00:00 “Things Got So Bad… No One Pretends Anymore” (Trailer) 00:26 “I’m Being Deported Tonight” (Live Show Chaos) 01:45 Britain Without Water: Is This a Failing State? 03:28 Why New Media Became Just as Dishonest as Old Media 05:10 The Ben Shapiro Clip That Went Viral for the Wrong Reasons 07:40 Housing Is Breaking the West (And No One Wants to Admit It) 10:06 Victimhood Is Destroying Young People 12:35 “I Will Defend Your Right to Say Stupid Things” 15:20 “British People Don’t Go on Stabbing Sprees” 18:10 Why People Are Finally Saying the Unsayable 20:02 When Free Speech Becomes Moral Cowardice 22:48 Tucker Carlson, WWII & Historical Illiteracy 26:00 Candace Owens, Conspiracies & Losing the Plot 29:05 Islam vs Islamism: The Conversation Europe Refuses to Have 32:30 How the UAE Actually Defeated Islamist Extremism 35:18 “We Won the Culture War… But It’s Not Over Yet” 38:45 BBC Bias, Media Collapse & Why Trust Is Gone 42:10 Street Crime, Policing & the Real Economic Crisis 45:00 What Every ‘Woke’ Student Should Be Forced to Read 47:55 Meat, Morality & Modern Hypocrisy 53:40 Will Mass Immigration Change Britain Forever? 56:30 Assimilation vs Integration (The Crucial Difference) 59:45 Why Creative Industries Are Ideologically Captured 01:02:20 Surveillance, AI & the End of Privacy 01:04:40 Christianity, Atheism & the Collapse of Meaning 01:07:10 Why He’s Considering Homeschooling 01:08:45 Illegal Migrants on Question Time?! 01:10:20 Can the BBC Be Saved?

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