As far as being smug, I don't need to be. Merely being 100% correct is more than sufficient.

Sounds just like a certain extremely overconfident President I know, full of undeserved hubris.

And he can't read. He was being smug about his certainty in the original conversation with Albaby over a year ago. I've encountered this before, most of MAGA doesn't realize what the Geneva Convention is. But I remember being woken up at 5am to march down to a stuffily warm hall to get lectures on the Geneva convention at 6 am delivered by an artless officer in a Helen Keller monotone. If you fell asleep they pulled you out and had you do exercise. No coffee. So I dug my fingernails into my hand and the pain kept me awake.

But most of MAGA hears Geneva and says we don't have follow Europeans, screw Europeans. Many of them equate what happened at our border to the caravans that crossed Europe years ago. They think we're imitating and following the Europeans, when the Euros never turned back an initial 15%, and then turned to right way, wrong way for asylum. No one had to prove they feared persecution. They just had to survive the boat ride.