The Actual State of the Union
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Turning from Biden’s gasbaggery to the real issues at stake, our editors discuss what is needed for a digital revival, how the US left a Chinese spy balloon in our airspace for nearly a week without doing anything, and the disastrous situation at the border. Black pills abound, but hope is never lost. Plus: the editors share their favorite articles of the week.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of The Round Table. |
| 0:03.0 | Would that it were so simple as just like picking a policy |
| 0:08.6 | and executing it? |
| 0:11.1 | You know, we've had people say like, |
| 0:13.2 | oh, just close the dang border, like, okay, |
| 0:16.0 | so there's a policy and you can try to execute it |
| 0:20.0 | and it sort of never happens, |
| 0:21.4 | so you just keep saying it and at least I'm saying |
| 0:24.0 | the right words, and then you got folks on the other side |
| 0:26.9 | who are like, well, you know, no, |
| 0:28.3 | we're just like, let him let him in and okay, |
| 0:31.2 | we did that and now what do we do? |
| 0:33.0 | Well, just keep laying them in. |
| 0:34.6 | Well, but why? |
| 0:35.6 | And then there's, you know, |
| 0:37.6 | well, we have a moral obligation to do so |
| 0:39.8 | and that just opens up onto a whole new vista of |
| 0:43.5 | of strangeness or it's the practical argument. |
| 0:46.8 | Well, you know, we need people to do these jobs. |
| 0:48.9 | We've got all these jobs and, you know, |
| 0:50.9 | we're not gonna have economic growth |
| 0:52.4 | unless we flood the zone with quote unquote newcomers. |
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