mark, it s good to have you back. hey, thanks, michael. always good to see you. tell stan powers hi. you got it. thank you for that. let s see what your reference to my novel talk, appreciate that, see what you re saying on my twitter and facebook pages. smerconish, could stricter immigration standards in the u.s. result in economic decline as a subsequent consequence of immigrants opting to immigrate to other countries? well, geographically speaking, where are they headed, going south? thinking of mexico in particular, but the more interesting question behind your tweet, i think, is that age-old one of are americans going to do those jobs, are americans going to do the jobs that illegal labor is doing today? and i don t think there s a clean easy answer to that question. still to come, a federal court ruled the north carolina gop improperly rigged its election maps. just one of many swing states being brought into court. are we on the road to fairness?
something curious about the incident. there s no such thing as off the record, and in an internet world where everybody has a smartphone in their pocket, hence a recording and video device, public figures have to assume that everything is in full view. barack obama learned this in 2008 when he was at a san francisco fundraiser and referenced americans who in despair cling to their guns or religion or antipathy towards people not like them, or anti-immigrants sentiment. mitt romney, too, in 2012 when he was recorded in boca ratan saying there s 40% funded by the government. surely a man self described as a stable genius knows this, and he said it in a room full of people, including democratic senator richard durbin. it wasn t a dog whistle. it was a deliberate fog horn.
insensitively in his usual hyperbolic way, they would see it as the context was talking about a merit-based immigration program versus a more humanitarian based. but the context also should include the fact that the president s own plan, as i understand it, i think we need more details, but would bring in the people who pass some kind of a merit and given that the world is mostly nonwhite, it should bring in 75% nonwhite people, as well. so you re comparing two plans that both would get us to a far more diverse place, but one with a slightly better economic situation, which you could argue is less moral, and i think that s worth a discussion worth having. but it s been clear that s been his plan all along. so, you watched the reaction in the last 24 hours. i ve watched the reaction in the last 24 hours, and for many americans, literally, the sky is falling given what the president said. does scott adams think the use of that word by the president in