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le. I do have some things to talk about. Slow news day. Well, not as slow as usual for a Black Friday, which seems racist, but as far as I know it's not. All right. Who wants to talk about the news? Anybody? Yeah, let's talk about the news. All right. So I'll try to give you as much energy as I can, but I can't promise a lot today. Today we're just going to enjoy the fact that we're all here tog…

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er you wanted. You could get work done. You could sip your coffee. But you wouldn't have to do any effort. It just takes you to work and then takes you home.

Well, one of the things it would do is it would make it easier to live an hour away from work. So it could have an impact on real estate prices. So people who live an hour from work suddenly are going to be like, "Hey, this is totally practical. I love an hour of no kids and no responsibility, hiding away in your self-driving car for an hour each way." Sounds pretty good.

I have to admit, since the day I walked out of my cubicle existence, I've thought I would never go back. But when I think about an hour each way in a self-driving car where nobody could bother me and I could just hang out and do what I want, well, I don't know. Maybe I'll go back to work. Maybe I'll get my cubicle job back.

But let's talk about some news. So you all know about the story of the National Guard, the two National Guard people who got shot. And apparently that's made it possible for Trump to go full reverse migration, meaning that he's planning to halt third world immigration from everything that's third world.

Now that seems like a pretty big category and it's something that I think he's wanted to do for a while, but because of the tragic news about the National Guard it sort of creates an opportunity where he can surf the emotional feeling of the country. So these anecdotal situations, you know, where there's this one thing that happens that doesn't necessarily tell you the big picture, there's just one story of one tragic thing. But those things really move policy.

So I don't want to say it's lucky because it's obviously more tragic than anything else, but it does give Trump the opening to be far more severe on his immigration. So he literally wants to audit all the green cards and he wants to ship back anybody who's not here for all the right reasons. So I think there's going to be what looks like a massive increase in reimmigration or what he calls reverse immigration or the news calls it that. I don't know. I don't know who calls it that.

But I'm generally not in favor of using anecdotes, no matter how powerful, to make policy. But in this case it's a policy that at least maybe half the country wanted. So I've got a feeling it'll be very popular with the right wing and it will be called racist by the left wing and that will be just completely normal.

How in the world could we ever vet all the immigrants and keep out the terrorists? How could you even do that? It's completely undoable. So I think the options are either we put up with this continuous threat or we close down immigration completely. There's only two choices because the choice of vetting people really well, that doesn't even seem like it could work, right?

So I think we've had this fantasy that we could vet people and we would know who's dangerous and who isn't. Can't really do that. Not possible. So could be that this is going to be looking at a big change. We'll see.

You know, I wonder how many of our policies are based on fear. Do you ever think about that? This would be another one where if there's a big change in policy because of it, it would be because of fear. And I don't know if fear is the best way to make new policies. But I think we're going to find out.

Trump also says that we're going to begin stopping Venezuelan drug traffickers by land. Where exactly would we stop Venezuelans by land? Do you understand that? I think he means direct military action within Venezuela since if we were going to stop it by land it would already be stopped. In other words, if the

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y tried to get across the Mexican border, the Venezuelans would probably, you know, we've already stopped them. Excuse me while I take a sip from my awesome water thermos bottle that will make you wish you had one. So if you're just joining, I'm using my NPR ASMR voice to conserve my energy so I can go as long as possible. Probably won't go more than 20 minutes, but we'll see. All right. So it…

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