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be common sense? So the problem is that most of these conversations are about power. They're not really about what's right or wrong. It's about who gets power. Democrats get power whenever they say that Republicans are doing bad racist things. So it doesn't even matter what the topic is. If you can blame the Republicans for doing bad racist things and you can make that stick, then you can get ele…
← Previous segment →it out now, but he's not backing off from the common sense culture part of it, that clearly some people assimilate better than others. Clearly, it's good for your country if you sort out and make a differentiation between what's easy to assimilate and what's not easy to assimilate. Nobody really disagrees with that. Not really. I mean, not privately.
There's a new poll on Trump's deportation plans. And about half of all Americans are okay with shipping people back to their country of origin even if they didn't have a crime beyond entering the country. So depending on what poll you look at, Trump's immigration stuff is either barely over 50% but a majority or way over 50%.
Speaking of Ukraine, the claim from Euro News is that Ukraine has made enough long range strikes into Russia's oil refining capacity that they've taken out 20% of it. Now, you might remember not too long ago I speculated that if Ukraine could figure out how to degrade Russia's energy situation by 20% that that might be a tipping point of some kind. Now, the reason I call 20% a tipping point while knowing nothing about Russia and knowing nothing about their energy or the refinery or the war. So let me confess no knowledge, no special knowledge of all these things that an expert should know. There is something magic about 20%. So this is wher
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e I'm coming from. If you took a restaurant and said, "I'm going to reduce your business by 20%." They'd almost certainly be out of business because 20% is way more than the margin that restaurants are making. Most small businesses, if you took 20% away from them, they'd be out of business. If you took any politician who's succeeding and you took away 20% of their supporters, never get elected aga…
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