 Okay, political news. In the United States, Senator Sinema, Senator Sinema, Democratic Senator from Arizona has left the Democratic Party or is leaving the Democratic Party. She will register as an independent and she will, while she will probably continue to caucus with the Democrats, that has continued to be supportive generally of the Democrats. She will no longer be an official member of the Democratic Party. She will be an independent. And she's not going to go to meetings of the Democratic Party. She's not going to be affiliated in any way with the Democratic Party, but she's not joining the Republican Party either. So she is an independent, not clear exactly why she did this. Notice she did it after the Georgia election. So the Democratic majority is solid even without her. Maybe she did this to run as an independent in Arizona when she's up for election, I think in two years. Maybe she did it to switch ultimately to Republican Party and then run in Arizona. I don't know why she did it. Maybe she's not running for reelection. She did it out of a sense of integrity that she didn't feel like she belonged in the Democratic Party and doesn't really belong in the Republican Party either. But it is interesting. It'll be interesting to see how this impacts things coming down the pipe from the Senate. I don't know that it will impact anything, but it's got at least a shake the Democrats up a little bit that she left. I think the more progressive winner of the party is probably relieved and probably is happy to see her go, particularly given again that Democrats already have a majority, no matter what. Cinema is one of the last kind of more what you'd call conservative Republicans. Lieberman did the same thing. It was a long, long time ago. And of course a Republican, I forget the name of the Republican also did it the other way. So it happens periodically. It hasn't happened in a while. I think in at least a decade, but it is politically interesting and her political future now is going to be interesting. So we will see. We will see. Wes, thank you. So Wes jumped in with a not a question, but just a support of the show at $50. So thank you, Wes. Get us on the road to 250. All right. So cinema, you know, we'll see. I mean, I don't really like much what she stands for. She resists the very, she resists a very, what do you call it, woke stuff on the left. She was she definitely resists the worst of the worst. But, you know, she she she endorsed certain tax increases. She she lobbied for certain tax cuts. She's very crony in that sense. She's very influenced by the people who fund a campaign. She's very influenced by the powers to be. She thinks of the powers to be in Arizona. So, you know, I'm not a huge cinema enthusiast, but she certainly does beat many of the kind of left leaning Democrats. And she certainly wasn't a. She wasn't an obvious. She wasn't an obvious vote for the Democrats, which was always good. Now she's not a Democrat anymore. We'll see what kind of role that plays. One of the things cinema is involved in is a bipartisan bill that she's working with. I think tell us from North Carolina, the Republican from North Carolina. It's interesting. Now you read these articles with cinema in them and it says I from Arizona instead of D from Arizona. So that's that's a change. Her and tell us are working on a on a bipartisan immigration framework. It's an immigration bill. They hope to get past the Congress in this lame duck session. So before January, when the new Congress comes in because they know they can't get a past then this framework will attempt to kind of solve kind of the border crisis by and also the dreamers. So it is kind of a compromise between Democrats and Republicans where the border patrol agents get a hike. The budget for border patrol goes from 25 billion or increase increases by what is it? No, it's going to be 25 up to $40 billion of increasing for the border patrol in terms of money. And at the same time, it's going to involve a pathway to citizenship for 2 million illegal immigrants protected by DACA, the deferred action for childhood arrival program. It will also supposedly keep in place what's called title 42, which is how to deal with with refugees of people crossing over the border and ability to kick them out or return them to Mexico. And but that's only for a year. So that would keep title 42 in for a year. You know, but generally this is that compromise that they've always talked about will will give the dreamers citizenship or put them in the path to citizenship and on the other hand increase funding for border patrol. You know, I think both of those. I think overall that kind of compromise is probably inevitable. It's sad. It's sad that we cannot come up with a comprehensive program for immigration. We cannot come up with a comprehensive program to increase legal immigration at the expense of illegal. We can't come up with a with a comprehensive guest worker program or comprehensive increase in dramatic increase in H1B visas just generally a system by which we increase legal immigration, which I think just having that will decrease illegal immigration. And a way to at least the DACA kids get them legal status. And it shocks me that we can't come to some agreement about giving legal status to people who've lived here 20, 30, 40 years and illegal and can't without giving them citizenship can't get them some kind of work permits and some kind of way in order to live legally. So I think I think that, you know, immigration policy is just one big massive failure. I of course would like to see a much more open borders, much more, you know, free immigration, even if you want to restrict immigration. I think it would be the only way to restrict it is restricted maybe on on the basis of of jobs that is provide legal entry to anybody who has a job who can get a job in the United States. So a much, much more liberal immigration policy. Instead, they're tinkering at the edges. They're wasting a lot of money. They're wasting a lot of resources. The United States is still in a position where, you know, there is a shortage of workers. There is a massive shortage of workers in particularly particular fields. And yet we have massive numbers of illegals. We should be converting the illegals into legal. We should be opening up immigration status to for more people to come in. So it's a mess. A little tinkering at the edges is better than nothing, but it is a mess and it's only better than nothing. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. 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