All right. Sorry. I saw that Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton, who are on opposite sides of politics, are combining to do some kind of a fentanyl sanctions bill against China. So in other words, if Congress is working across the aisle, thank you Congress. Thank you, Chuck Schumer. I'm gonna always call out when the people I don't agree with do something I like. Chuck Schumer is doing something I like a lot. Thank you, Chuck Schumer. Strong play, Chuck Schumer.

So I guess the idea is that they will identify what companies have direct or indirect involvement with fentanyl production in China. And if they seem to be, according to us, if they seem to be involved in any kind of illicit fentanyl trade, that we will sanction them and make them hurt financially.

Now what does that tell you that we need to do that? The fact that we need to do this tells you that President Xi lied to our president when he said that he would increase the penalties on fentanyl and make it a capital case, a death penalty case, and that they would change the law, that they would start getting tough on them.

Now remember what I've said from the start. I said from the start, I don't know that you can believe that. That could be just something they're holding out there. And apparently they were going to hold that hostage possibly as part of the trade negotiations.

Do you know what I say if I hear that China is holding that out as a trade negotiation item? Well, what I say would get me demonetized everywhere because what I will say privately about China if that's what they're doing, if they're holding this out as a negotiating variable, well then yeah, I don't want to say what I'm gonna say because you can think it.

Those of you who don't know, I lost my stepson in October, actually September, to fentanyl, to a drug overdose in which fentanyl was part of it. And I don't think we should do any kind of a trade deal with China as long as fentanyl from there is coming into our country and it's obvious they're not trying to stop it. We should just look for other places to trade.

I noted in the news that Apple is starting to ask its suppliers to consider looking around for different countries to build the parts for the iPhones and the iPads. Now I say to Apple, Apple I'm down by the way. I own stock in Apple, not much, just ordinary part of my portfolio. But I would be willing to take a hit to my stock, 20 percent. I would take a 20 percent reduction in my Apple stock price for them to take on the extra expense of moving to another country, not China.

So Apple, one of the, maybe the greatest, yeah you could argue that Apple is the greatest American company of all time. I don't know how you'd measure that sort of thing. Well you could argue it's the greatest American company. And at the moment the greatest American company is enriching our biggest enemy in the world. And I'm gonna say China is an enemy because as long as they're not doing anything about the fentanyl, they're in a non-shooting war with us at which they're taking maybe 50,000 lives a year and we're taking none.

So I think we should crush their economy. I'm in favor of crushing China's economy because they're still stealing our IP and sending us poison, killing 50,000 Americans per year and trying to dominate us. We should just crush their economy. I'm not in favor of any kind of trade deal. Now if we get one I'm sure the stock will go up, that people will be happy about that. But I really think the long-term move is to get companies out of there and just shut them down. Because they have not, there's a certain requirement to capitalism which is trust.

Now even in the capitalist system of course nobody fully trusts anybody and there are plenty of bad actors, etc. So you have to have a good core system to make capitalism work. But at the moment we don't have these kinds of problems with Germany. We don't have the kinds of problems we have trading with China. We don't have them with, I don't think you pick any other country. Mexico, yeah even Mexico we've got our issues with Mexico but we don't have, well we do have a problem with Mexico. It's a bad example. Yeah let's say India. Actually I think India might be a little bit of a source for fentanyl. I would have to research that but there might be some coming in from India. Don't quote me on that because I'm not sure about that.

But the point is China is not a dependable partner. And capitalism doesn't work unless you have some minimum level of trust. All right, trust but verify. But you have to have a minimum level of at least believing they'll do some of the things they say they'll do. And they don't seem to be in the mold. They seem to have taken themselves out of the capitalist system by simply not being a reliable, dependable, honest, or a fair player in any sense.

So now I say we should move all of our industry out of China as quickly as possible. And I personally will pay extra to get that done.