For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly. Per suggestions, I really should have signed off with:

- Alexis de Kisin 🤣

A lot of people asking how I managed to be so patient with the deranged arguments of my debate opponent.

The answer is I have a lot of practice in dealing with hostile, bad faith, dumb, rude and ideologically possessed people live on air: Debating a climate loon live:

How are people celebrating their political opponents having their bank accounts closed for political reasons?

I don't get how so many people are so incredibly stupid, immoral and dishonest. And I've never had a particularly favourable view of humanity in the first place.

You... ... don't have to like Nigel Farage or agree with him to think it's a terrible precedent to set for our country.

I voted Remain in 2016 and I wasn't happy to be on the losing side. Indeed, I remember feeling both shocked and bitter about it. That was an unpleasant 5 minutes...

I would strongly caution people against celebrating what is happening in Russia. There have been fewer harsher critics of Putin's invasion but chaos is very rarely a good thing.

Prigozhin is not the only one with a private army in Russia. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has... ...a large force under his command who have 0 loyalty to Russia or Putin. They hate Wagner but if Putin has to be rescued by them, why not take him out as well as take over the country?

Will the national guard fight for Putin?

We don't have answers to any of these questions...

Russia latest: reports suggest Wagner column has bypassed major cities and potential fire-fights and is heading straight for Moscow.

Residents of Barabanovo reported seeing the column 30 mins ago.

If unimpeded, Wagner can be on the outskirts of Moscow within 1.5-2 hours. With most combat ready units in Ukraine, God only knows how this ends.

A lot of people asking what is happening in Russia.

Basically, for many years Putin has been funding a mercenary company called Wagner and using them for military operations in other countries, especially Syria and various African countries.

nytimes.com/2018/05/24/wor… During the course of the Ukraine War, there has been growing conflict between the Russian Ministry of Defence and the Wagner Group which has also been fighting in Ukraine. I wrote about it here:

shorturl.at/dkAGS

The Hot Take Mixer:

Part 1: many of RFK's claims are probably incorrect
Part 2: hearing him out does not make you a bad person
Part 3: the best way to challenge "misinformation" is better information Part 4: COVID vaccines were pushed on people who didn't need them
Part 4: most masks don't work
Part 5: faith in "The Science™" was wrecked by cover up about where the virus came from and lies which put public health above truth

I know this is an awfully offensive thing to say but yes, men are attracted to women. Sometimes they will look at them as objects of sexual desire. This does not mean they consider them actual objects. It just means that millions of years of evolution have trained them to be... ...extraordinarily focused on reproduction with a woman who scores as highly as possible on good health and good gene indicators. That's the only reason you are alive and reading this. So yes, if you wear lingerie to the gym, some men will look at you. It's not because of..

Lies, Damned Lies and Media Coverage - Reflections on NatCon Over the last 3 days, I had the opportunity to attend the National Conservative conference in London in my capacity as a member of the independent media. It was an interesting event that rightly attracted the attentions of mainstream journalists too.

Where was I? I was listening to the victims and helping them get their story out.

It's actually over *4* decades old and was ignored by the media, the police, local councils, social workers, NHS staff and politicians for almost all of that time. Worse, it's still going on now.

https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1642789259072483330

5 years ago two comedians sat down in a room above a pub and decided to start a YouTube show together. We were so ill-equipped that when @francisjfoster said to me "if we do this we'll need a producer" my reply was "what for?" 🤣🤣🤣

We had no money... ...no profile, no social media followings worth mentioning, no media contacts, no studio, cameras, microphones or other equipment.

We borrowed what we could, used a comedy club we worked at as the studio and bought what little we could afford.

1/ KNIFE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

It is one of the true privileges of my job that I am occasionally invited to places where I don’t belong. 2/ (You can also access this article as a Substack where it is easier and more pleasant to read: konstantinkisin.substack.com/p/knife-crime-…)

On the issue of Ukraine there seems to be a lot of conflation of things that aren't connected. When people talk about Western support, for some reason they think that to continue supporting them is synonymous with Zelensky worship or means that you support the dangerous and... ... irresponsible rhetoric from some Western politicians who seem to have very little understanding of who they're dealing with or the nature of the current US-Russia stand-off.

As I keep making the point, you don't have to like Zelensky or indeed Western elites to think that...

1/ Putin Withdraws Russia from Nuclear Treaty - Speech Summary 2/ (Sadly, given the emotiveness of this issue I have to start with a disclaimer that I translate Putin’s speeches not out of agreement but out of the desire to communicate to people in the West what his stated motivations are.

My favourite thing about Twitter has always been engaging with my followers. It's the most amazing thing - being able to communicate directly with people.

It's a real pity that the more followers you have the more this becomes unavailable due to the noise problem. I could tweet what I had for dinner and there would be spam, abuse and people bringing up the war in Ukraine. It's frustrating because I always enjoy reading what people say and interacting with them but even though I have a pretty high tolerance for garbage, it's becoming

Gladly.

I am happy to put my body of work on this issue up against anyone, including @MattWalshBlog, you or anyone else.

Here's why:

In 2019, when the mutilation of children you mention was being ignored by most of the mainstream and alt media in this country (UK)...

https://twitter.com/AJA_Cortes/status/1627286408875454466

...we, two comedians working in a woke industry, interviewed Posie Parker, a controversial gender critical activist on our Youtube channel. We knew we were risking having our channel deleted, demonetised or getting a strike. When we released it YT deleted it for "hate speech" and

1/ Liked my viral Oxford Union speech? You'll want to read these viral threads:

The Radical Moderate's Manifesto
Why They Hate Jordan Peterson
What Vladimir Putin Really Wants (in His Own Words)
Why Putin is Angry at the West (in His Own Words)
Why People Are Vaccine Hesitant 2/ The Radical Moderate's Manifesto

https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1542090143087091713?s=20&t=UdeMrSSvSUJnbHwspcMG4Q

The way @jordanbpeterson has been treated by the media class from day 1 is highly symptomatic of where we are as a culture.

The fact is that a powerful minority want men to be weak, incompetent and feeble. They don't understand that in doing so they are sowing the seeds of... ...their own and our entire society's downfall.

Did you notice that the most common question journalists tried to use against him was "the majority of your audience are men so bla bla". You can only ask that question if you believe there's something wrong with men. No one...

Overnight, @ShellenbergerMD released evidence of the FBI deceiving the media and social media companies into censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. This is Watergate+.

How are the British media covering it? The BBC does not cover it at all. Instead it leads with strikes (understable) and the second story is Jab 6.

1/ What Rishi Sunak Should Say and Do About the Strikes But Won't 2/ “Our country is in the midst of a wave of strikes affecting almost every area of our lives, including health, transport, mail, education and the civil service. As Prime Minister, it is my job to grip this issue and today I am making a raft of announcement to do so.

Is the BBC Beyond Saving?

This week @DouglasKMurray wrote a piece in the Spectator entitled How To Save the BBC. For the record, Douglas is a friend and one I respect enormously. His ability to avoid falling into partisan traps and talking point regurgitation is an example to anyone who attempts to think clearly and speak honestly in public.

I agree with much of what he says, too: