Jon Lovett
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Like the overall context, like what the fuck are you talking about?
By the way, you can go even further than that.
Go further.
I'll go further than that.
And if the immigration system is broken...
If the immigration system is not safe, we should fix it.
We should have better laws.
That does not mean people surrender their basic rights.
That doesn't mean we have to have an inhumane deportation policy of people that happen to have been in the wrong restaurant at the wrong time.
What is the connection here?
Like, what the fuck are... It's like the refusal to just look at the thing, like, in the face.
I don't, like, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, like, I don't think these people have, like... These are not, like, deeply held beliefs.
And I don't even think...
I don't even think sometimes they're saying these things because they're trying to like own the libs.
Like they're just saying what they think they're supposed to say to stay on side.
And they just happened in this case to be so warped by their media environment, by their fear of their boss, by the fact that they haven't really thought
about their deeper moral convictions and in seemingly a very long time, too busy, too overwhelmed, too incompetent, that they misread this situation because it was so egregious, because they've gotten away with it or think they've gotten away with it in so many other circumstances in the first year of this administration.
That's the only law.
Well, I just also, just to that point from Tommy though, it's like,
You realize how few people just have any first principles whatsoever, right?