New topic. Yesterday I did a Periscope in the afternoon on just the topic of how to move forward on this wall border security situation. And what I suggested was that we just asked the Democrats for their plan and asked them to put it on a graphic image so we can see exactly what they want to do compared to what we already have. So it may be a picture that shows the various ways we're protecting the border. From you know here the river does it and here there's a mountain and here there's just some sensors and in this one maybe small place we need some steel slats. Whatever. Why don't we just ask them for their plan?

Because here's the, there's a couple things I left out yesterday. One is if you asked either the Republicans or the Democrats to produce this plan that's simple enough for the citizens to understand, it's just sort of a picture with some numbers pointing to stuff, if either the Democrats or the Republicans produced such a plan I think they would look the same. Here's the trick. I think they would look the same because they're not really talking about different things anymore. And both the Republicans and Democrats would never put out a plan that didn't have pretty widespread approval from engineers and border security experts. In other words the Democrats could never put out a plan that the border security professionals say you know that's okay in this place but you got it wrong over here, this definitely won't work and here's why. They can't do that.

Right now somebody says the border patrol already has a plan. That could be a good way to start. But we don't need border patrol's plan because all that matters at the moment is that one of these parties, Republicans or Democrats, goes first and just says this is exactly what it's going to look like.

Now if the Republicans have that or access to it they're dumb for not producing it. But I think the Republicans have a problem because it's going to show not enough wall and maybe that's a problem politically. But the Democrats can simply show us what they would fund and then maybe the border patrol can overlay some information on that like you know if you don't put a wall here you'll get 10,000 crossings a year or whatever in this area and we know that from the past. So you would want some statistics on it but you'd want to see the plan.

Now the other thing I didn't add is that as you've noticed the Democrats are cannibalizing each other. Part of this has to do with the run-up to the presidency so the various factions are trying to cannibalize each other to take care of some competitors. But you also see the younger Congress people versus the older. You see the AOCs and some of the others who are a little bolder, a little more willing to go against their own party, a little more willing to play outside the bounds.

And here's the interesting thing. The first Democrat who produces that plan with a picture, the picture is the important part. If it's text you're just never going to get any attention. It's got to be a picture. The first Democrat who produces a high-level conceptual picture plan with a budget is the one who gets all the attention. And what are all the Democrats fighting for right now? They're all fighting for attention. It's a desperate kind of flailing around for a lot of different Democrats to get a little bit of attention because there's so many of them now they have to try a little harder.

So far AOC is getting the most attention. You call her, oh some people don't know that AOC is rpos as in the first letter is R and the POS is not point of sale. All right so once AOC came out as a racist I started calling her rpos. And by the way that's not my opinion that she's a racist. Her tweets are pretty clear on that.

So here's my point. There are some Democrats who would have a huge benefit in terms of publicity and in terms of moving the world forward if they just find out what the plan is. Maybe they even start with border patrol's plan. I mean that would be a good place to start, right? Start with the plan that the Republicans have, change it any way that you think makes sense, show it to the world, show it to border patrol and say what do you think, get their opinion, put it on it and show it to us. Just show it to the people.

Now it seems to me that the government is largely broken and maybe will always be so because of the two sides that the press is taking. As long as the press is treating it as a dog fight and a contest between two sides and the way you win is to win in public, you know it's not even the law that's a win it's the looking like you won that matters. As long as the media puts all the politicians in the situation where they have to look like they won or else they're dead, you can't do anything. That's the opposite of an environment in which you can compromise.

So because of the business model of the press which is driven entirely by the fact that we can now measure exactly who wants to click on what stories and which ones get the most attention, it's divided the world into a place where you can't compromise anymore because compromise will be spun as well you lost you stupid dog you weak leader you person who must be working for Russia. So losing is no longer an option for either side and now you see what happens.

But the media doesn't really control the fact that somebody can come up with a plan, show it to the country. Whoever comes up with the first picture wins. Let me say this again as clearly as possible. Whoever comes up with the first visual picture of the border with what it is and then overlaid somehow what they want it to be and what that will cost, doesn't matter which side they come from, whoever goes visual first wins. Because that will be the picture from which all negotiations will have to spring because it goes first. So if it goes first it's locked in your brains. If it's visual you can't beat it. There's no higher level of persuasion and nobody's gone there. It's a completely empty green field.

All you have to do, any politician, Republican, Democrat, senior or brand new, all you have to do is walk into that field, hold up your picture and say this is what I want, this is what it is and this is what it will cost to get what I want. And I ran this past border patrol and hey you networks you should maybe get some experts on and let's have them debate my plan. First person to do that wins. And I mean wins for the country and also wins for their brand and maybe wins for a lot of other people as well. It might even be a big win for the potential immigrants if you do it right.

All right so make it visual and you win. And I'll make another prediction that there will be no agreement until there's a picture. There will be no agreement on the border until there's a picture that the public can understand. A simple picture.