ek or something. They're still... they say over a thousand missing. The official numbers of 111. Nobody thinks that's close. Nobody. I'm going to tell you something that I was holding on to before but I've seen it on Twitter so now I guess I'll tell you. I think the big reason that we don't have a better estimate of death is because they would have to break it out by children and adults and we're not ready to hear it. That's what I think. I think the percentage of the thousand-ish that are missing, the percent that are children, will cause a national depression. I think the mental health of the country can't handle this news. And I think that this is a case where the cat's on the roof is perfectly acceptable. We need to get used to this. Well, you've got to get prepared for what's coming. You're going to get some news that might be the worst news you've ever heard in the country. It might be the... I mean there are a lot of competitors for that, but it might be the worst thing you've ever heard. So just get ready. Mentally prepare for that.

Rand Paul was tweeting that Rutgers College is requiring freshmen to get fully vaccinated in 2023. Imagine being accepted to college and you're all set to go. Yeah, I'm going to Rutgers. Good school. And they tell you you have to get vaccinated in 2023. Why would you even want to go to that school? I wouldn't want to go to a school that understood something like this is the school that you're supposed to learn things and they're requiring vaccination for young healthy males especially. Right? I mean everybody they want, but the males are more at risk, I guess. Amazing. Like it's just jaw-droppingly amazing that Rutgers can still stay in business. I don't think there would be anything better for the country than all of our colleges going out of business because we would reform education. I mean we wouldn't stop educating people, but there would be startups and there would be online and it would be self-organized educational groups. There was something would happen. But I swear to God we should just make college illegal because all it is is making our students stupid. You don't send people to college and work up a half a million dollar debt to make your kid an idiot, but that's what's happening.

All right. Let me... I just have to do this because I know my audience hates it, but I'm going to mention some things that Joe Biden's administration might be getting really right. It's early. It's too early. But just kind of hold these in your head at the same time. So I mentioned that there might be something happening with an Iran deal that finally could be rationally put together so that even Benjamin Netanyahu is saying at least in the broad brushes of it, even Netanyahu was saying they could probably live with it. So if you could do an Iran deal that Israel could live with and it looks like that's actually a possibility right now, that's huge.

Now I would say, you know, if you want to be political about it, you could say that the Biden administration is benefiting from what the Trump administration started, which was pressure on Iran to the point where they had to negotiate. It just happens to be now because that seems to be why they're getting flexible. They're literally running out of cash. The way the rules work, I don't make the rules, but the rules say that if a good thing happens during your administration, people say at least you didn't break it. You get some credit for that. But we're also saying that the China sanctions from the Biden administration are pretty serious, actually more than I might have expected. And I don't have a real problem with Biden's treatment of China. I actually thought that Trump should have done more. If I would compare Biden's treatment of China to Trump's, I would say Trump probably got the ball rolling and I think Trump reframed China. Would you agree with that? Trump reframed what China was. Where they are a trading partner that is a requirement for our future. That's what it used to be. And now they're an adversary who is stealing our stuff. Trump did that. I would like to think I helped. You know, there were a lot of people on that page, but I like to think I did my part.

But I would say that in my opinion Biden is getting tough on fentanyl. You know, they're moving against the fentanyl dealers. They're cutting them off. So I don't have a big complaint about Biden in China right now. It does look like they're getting serious about this. And then the Russia thing. You're going to see it entirely through a political filter. But if I could be objective about it, we're spending too much money, running up debt, risking nuclear war. Everybody knows the bad side so I don't need to reiterate all the bad things about being involved. But it did look to me, and I think they've said it directly, that the real play here is not Ukraine. The real play is degrading Russia as a competitor both militarily and economically and especially as a competitor in the energy segment. And it looks like that's going to happen. My guess is that there will be some negotiated end eventually so the war will stop. But when it's over, Russia won't be Russia anymore. The United States will still largely be the United States but Russia won't be Russia.

And if you were real Machiavellian and neocon, I guess, and you said to yourself if we can do this set of actions around Ukraine that has the following outcomes, we're going to be better of