So happy birthday, America. I always like to once again thank the founders of this country for creating a system that works really well. I'm not sure there's not a better way to do things, but what they created hundreds of years ago, pretty darn robust.

Why do I say that? Well, let me give you an example. Let's say you had a problem where your government was doing something that people didn't like. For example, putting children in cages temporarily when they're separated from their parents at the border. What would we expect to happen in that situation?

Well, if we had a bad system and a dictator, that dictator might say children in cages, I don't care, let's just leave them there, we'll put more children in cages. If you had a dictator and you had a bad system, well, we don't have that.

What we have is a system that works like this. The press puts a spotlight on this problem and says hey, children in cages. Yes, there were children in cages in the prior administration as well, but the number of people who came is much larger now because this bring your children with you thing works and so there were more of them now. And so the press says this problem used to be small and now it's big. We care. Do something about it.

And then the public looked at it and the public spoke out as one, be they Democrats, be they Republicans, be they independents. They pretty much all said the same thing: children in cages separated from their parents, not ideal. That is not ideal. We must change that.

And so the public spoke as one and the government, wanting to be reelected, wanting to have a good midterm election, wanting to have a good reputation, said okay people, it's not going to be easy but we're gonna sign an executive order and get on it. We'll make it happen right away because things don't happen right away. There are real-world constraints in the real world.

And so what we saw with the whole immigration border thing is a system built hundreds of years ago, pre-internet, pre-digital everything. This still works. It still works. It did exactly what it was supposed to do.

Now you can say the people in this story didn't do everything they were supposed to do. You could say there are weasels in the media. You can say there are weasels on the other side, whichever side you're on. You could say there are people who should have been on this before. You could say there are a hundred ways this should have been better and not have happened.

But today we're talking about the system. The system worked. It worked perfectly. Hundreds of years ago the system was created and it reached through time and it worked. So let's celebrate that. Let's celebrate the system that once again works.