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is in India with one of his favorite leader buddies, Modi. They get along really well. And this is one of those cases where I say to myself, the Trump haters, what did they say when they watch Trump go to India and being treated as a celebrity, you know, a superstar? They love him. What do people say about that? Because the complaints against Trump fall into this weird category of things that are…
← Previous segment →ld to discourage it. In fact no president tried harder to discourage kids from coming here because what are we going to do? We have to separate them from the adults because we don't know who the real parent is. Some of them, too many of them, are being trafficked. What are you gonna do?
So I think the Biden candidacy had a weird effect of making Trump look better. And I don't know that it's something that people will recognize in their thinking. I think it's just out there. And now the left's probably the single biggest complaint about Trump that really had an emotional pull was those kids in cages stuff. And it just sort of fell apart when they looked at the fact that Biden did the same thing.
All right, Mark Twain has a quote I like. I just saw it online. Those who don't read the news are uninformed. Those who read the news are misinformed. So I guess it's always been true. You know we think fake news is kind of a new thing but Mark Twain was on it early.
So I guess the administration is going to push the new rules to say if you have a green card you can't get welfare-like services in this country. You have to be able to demonstrate that you can support yourself, otherwise I guess you lose your green card. I think that's how it works. But this is another example, which I tweeted about this morning, in which one of the ways you could distinguish Democrats and Republicans is the Republicans are big on incentives. So they build systems that rely on people having the right incentives, often selfish incentives, but incentives that are really the energy behind the system. So capitalism of course is built on incentives, etc.
But Democrats seem to see incentives as cruel, meaning if you're forcing somebody to do something they didn't want to do or you're giving a penalty for doing something such as going to a country illegally, that you're just being cruel. But are those opposites? I would say no. I would say they could both be true. Incentives are cruel if you're not a person who can easily get a job and work in a capitalist society. Well your life might not turn out so well. It's very cruel. But it's also the only system we know that works as well as it does. So it could be cruel and kind at the sa
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me time because it could be cruel to individuals in certain situations while still being the best solution for the greater good and the long term. And another way to look at this is the child view versus the adult view. The child view is I want candy. Well you know adult says you should have your dinner, there's a nutrition wall. Don't eat candy. And then the child will hear all those good reason…
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