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The president hates America. No? Then why is he, and his Democratic Party, systematically taking down this nation? Leaders who love their country don’t try to leave it on the ash heap of history. Konstantin Kisin, a Russian-British satirist, recently said on Bill Maher’s show that “people in other parts of the world are not teaching their young children to hate their own country.” Maher, a man of the left, agreed. “This country,” he said, “is better off than a lot of people who are native to it” are willing to admit. It cannot be argued that there is not...

British satirist Konstantin Kisin slammed "woke culture" during a speech at a recent Oxford Union debate and actually won over the left-wing crowd with his confidently delivered points — and he later told Fox News' Tucker Carlson that adults need to find ways to persuade young people instead of being "afraid" of them. What are the details? Kisin — who hosts the "TRIGGERnometry" podcast — last week posted to Twitter a video of his address; it's received millions of views. Early in his speech, Kisin explained that one very un-woke concept — free speech — "is not some right-wing reframing...

A comedian’s searing take on how “woke culture” and climate activism has “gone too far” and “brainwashed” young minds has gone viral. “I’m tired of talking about woke culture. Free speech is not some right-week reframing of whatever — it’s the foundation of Western civilization,” Russian British comedian Konstantin Kisin recently told the Oxford Union Society. “We know that the way to improve the world is to work, is to create, is to build, and the problem with woke culture is that it has trained too many young minds like yours to forget about that,” he added.

John is joined by Konstantin Kisin, himself Russian by descent, for a conversation about the Russian mindset, popular support for President Putin, the Western response to and coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, Western resilience, the role of satire in public discourse, and much more.