cause of the whistleblowers. So pretty much everything you thought about everything was true on the Hunter Biden story. Everything you suspected seems to be true.

It's a pretty interesting model because sometimes you see stories where you're like, I don't know, that might be true but no way to know. Yeah, maybe, probably not. But you see the Hunter story and now there's a pattern that's developed that no matter how much doubt there is about the story, it turns out it's true. There's nothing you can say about them because they just all turn out to be true.

All right, I would like to challenge that. See if I'm wrong. Do a fact check on me. Name something that Hunter Biden has been accused of, or Joe Biden in relation to Hunter Biden. Name something that has not been demonstrated to be true beyond any real doubt. Can you name anything? He was accused of the paintings as a way to launder influence. I wouldn't say it's proven. It's not proven proven. It's just obvious. You don't need to prove anything about the paintings. That's exactly what it looks like on the surface. All right, yeah, it's pretty consistent. If Hunter is accused of it, apparently that's usually going to turn out to be true. Although he's innocent until proven guilty in terms of the law, like everybody else.

Well, Wall Street Journal again is hammering on how China's economy is going in the toilet. Their 40-year boom is over. They have plenty of empty buildings. So China's big problem is empty buildings. And over here we've got a lot of homeless, but they're not homeless because they don't have homes. They're homeless by choice for the most part, probably 90 percent.

What do you think about China's, let's say, chances for the future? There are at least two things, three things, that the United States has going for it that our adversaries or let's say competitors can't match. Number one, we have the option, which we have not used, of filtering our immigration better. In other words, we can avoid the demographic crash by becoming the only country that people are fighting to get into. And we're taking the ones with the best potential to be good citizens. Usually education would be the top thing. Do they have a skill?

Now do you think China could ever match us in immigration, in sucking up the best people from every country? Now do you think Russia could ever match us in what we could do with immigration? No.

Now here's the weirdest take you're ever going to hear on immigration. Our complete failure to guard our border is in the short term, which might be several years, terrible. Would you agree that on net there are benefits of immigration? Even illegal immigration has benefits. You know, people get jobs, etc. But would you agree that so far, like the last few years, it's more of a net negative because it's just out of control?

But watch this. If you were in another country and you knew that all of the other countries seem to be badasses about immigration, and you knew that the United States was willing to hurt itself to accept you — the United States was willing to hurt itself fairly massively to accept immigration. Now you can say oh it's politics, it's incompetence, it's this, it's you know it's commonly it's not doing the job. That's all it is. But I'm just saying how would it be received by the rest of the world?

So imagine you're in India. You grew up in India. You just went through the IIT system. You're one of the top technical young people in the world because you just went through a system that produces them. And you're saying to yourself, where do I go? Do you go to China? Let's say China said you're welcome, and let's say they put together an immigration attraction thing to get technical people. Would you say that I will be welcomed with open arms in China? No, you wouldn't feel that way. How about Russia? Even if they said they would welcome you, would you feel like that's the place you want to go? Maybe not so much.

Now imagine that you had been listening to the news about America and you found out we had these sanctuary cities and that even though we fought about what is the right level of immigration, the net effect was that we were the most accidentally one of the most welcoming countries for immigration. And we remain, I would say, the melting pot example for the world. Even with all of our problems, we have somewhat accidentally created a situation from the Statue of Liberty all the way through sanctuary cities that America is a place that has built into its DNA a belief that immigration is central to our existence and our experience. Which is not to say let everybody in all the time, right? We're not talking about the way we're doing it. I'm talking about what would somebody in another country feel about the United States when deciding where to bring their high levels of skills to employ it for the rest of their lives.

I don't think anybody can match us. I think we'll be maybe in better shape than Europe. They got a little bit overrun, so Europe's got their own problems. But in the United States we still have a recoverable situation. I don't know that they do in France or Great Britain. Might not be recoverable. But in the United States it is. And I think that if we got, let's say, a Republican president — say