eeling great, and I don't think that was the same. It just feels different. So I guess I feel bad for the Democrats because they're affecting their own health at this point.

Apparently Don Jr. is making some provocative news. He's suggesting that the White House is considering, instead of doing the press releases where you've got all the mainstream media asking stupid questions that nobody cares about and not getting answered, that they might replace at least some of the press room with independents. And they use Joe Rogan as an example. Blaze Media is writing about this, by the way. And Don Jr. seems to be confirming that this is at least a serious discussion now. My idea was to have a rotating press secretary. This is better. You remember I told you that sometimes brainstorming is about the bad idea because the bad idea might make you think of the good one. Here I can see that mine was the bad one. So the bad idea was to get the celebrity, if you will, to just do the job of standing in front and trying to represent the president. But since the celebrity would not be as informed and maybe they wouldn't take that seriously and maybe it would look too much like a joke and people would say get back to being serious. So that was my idea, and it has some warts on it. But it would possibly make you think of the idea, well, wait, instead of changing the press secretary, why don't we change the people asking the questions? Oh, now we're good. That's way better than my idea. It's way better. Now, I'm not saying that my idea led to that idea, but I'm just saying it could have. Like in the real world, that's a normal way things could happen. So that's why the bad idea is such a good idea, because it leads to good ideas.

So I'd love to see this. Now, I don't think they need to get rid of all the major media, but if you stuck in some independents and actually got them to ask some questions, I would love that. Because my biggest thing with the press conferences is they don't always ask the right questions, but you put the independents in there and they will. So love that.

All right, here's a story that's sort of close to my heart. As you know, my stepson died of a fentanyl overdose in 2018, and I have been very vocal about what we should do about it and very anti-China and anti-Mexico, etc. And during Trump's first term I had great optimism that he would make something happen in that domain. He did not. He did not. And it's one of my biggest disappointments. Now, later my take on it was there wasn't anything you could do, because unless you're going to attack China, they just will keep doing what they're doing, sending their precursors to Mexico. And unless you militarily attacked Mexico, the cartels will just keep doing what they're doing, and they're all making money. So if they're all making money and the only thing you could do is threaten to attack them, then you've done nothing.

Turns out Trump doesn't like to lose, and he definitely lost on fentanyl. And they definitely made him look like a chump. Let me say that directly. China made Trump look like a chump by promising to do it and doing nothing, nothing to stop fentanyl. And Mexico has a little explaining to do too. I mean, the cartels are the primary pushers of it. So apparently he's decided that that's not going to go down this way this time. So here are the things he's announced so far. Trump is going to put a big tariff on both Canada and Mexico because they're not doing enough to control their borders, partly because of fentanyl. So he's just basically going to take trade out of it.

Now hold on, hold on. I'm waiting for the NPCs to rush into the comments and say, Scott, Scott, don't you understand how tariffs work? Don't you understand that tariffs are paid by the American company that wants to buy it? Why do you not understand how tariffs work? You can't threaten Canada because it's really just coming out of the pockets of the American companies. Okay, you're totally wrong. If you did one tariff that affected one American company, yeah, it would just be coming out of the American company's pocket. If you do a broad tariff about all their goods, you're going to start finding that the market starts to adjust to that. So what you're playing for is the market adjustment. So suddenly somebody in America who didn't think they could compete might say, wait a minute, if I make it here, it's going to be 20% cheaper than Canada. Oh wow, it's a new market. So the long game is that Trump is telling you, you know, your car market, we're going to put you out of business. The whole industry, we're just going to take it out if you don't cooperate. Same with Canada. You like selling your—I don't know what they sell, milk and butter or whatever. Do you like that arrangement where we buy your farm goods? Okay, in nine months we're not going to buy any of your farm goods because they'll be priced out of consideration.

So is it true that Canada is not the one paying for the tariffs? Yes, the American company that wanted to import it or the customer basically pays for it. But the reason you do the tariff is so people will stop buying it and they'll look for another source. So in the short run, is it just a tax on consumers and is it just a cause of inflation? Yes, we all understand that. Are we on the same page now? Are the NPCs happy that everybody understands that in the short run the American company pays for it? So you're not charging China or Canada or Mexico. However, if you commit to that being your long-term situation, you take the entire market away from those countries, and they're not going to put up with that because they need to sell cars and they need to sell. So it's a negotiating tool, and it's a good one.

So he's basically told Canada and Mexico, you're our most important trading partners, but it's not going to stay that way because you're not doing the basics. You're not controlling the border and you're not controlling the cartels. You're not doing the basics. So if you want to be our long-term trading partner, we're going to change that. Long term, every one of you, long term, you're all dead, and we don't even need to do a thing for you. So you need to do this now.

Here's what I've said. I've said this about China and fentanyl: that we should close our embassies. If China, if you promise you're going to stop the fentanyl precursor trade and you don't do a thing, we should withdraw our embassy and say, look, this is the price of talking. You do this first because this is not negotiable. They're acting like it's negotiable. No, killing 50,000 Americans a year is not negotiable. You got to do that before we have anything to do with you. Now, of course we have so much business with them that you can't do it quickly. But if you start giving them a general 20% tariff, they're going to get the idea that in the long run you're—because you can't do this. It's the opening. It's basically the ticket to the show. Get rid of fentanyl and you can be in the show. If you don't get rid of fentanyl, we will squeeze you until there's nothing left, because you got to start there first. That's what I think Trump's doing.

So he makes a phone call to the new president of Mexico, and suddenly the Gallo cartel is killing fentanyl makers themselves. And he's saying he's going to. So even the cartels are trying to get out of the business faster than the government wants them to, I think. And Trump basically says he's going to release US knowledge about the Mexican government being owned by the cartels unless they do what he says, to which I say yes. Now that's a serious play. Please stop sending fentanyl. That's not serious. But we're going to take you out. That's serious. He's basically threatening the government of Mexico that he's going to take them out of power, because that's what would happen if he released the information about the cartels. Now that's serious. And then he says he's also going to send special forces down to basically just kill all the cartel assets and put them out of business. Now, will he? I don't know. He will if he needs to. So I'll say that if he needs to, yes, he will. 100% chance. You know, there's some things I say that Trump won't do, like deporting 20 million people. I don't think he's going to do that. But would he use the special forces if they ignore him again? I think he would take out the government and then he'd send in the special forces and just mow them down, because I think he's in his second term and he's done. I think this is the most humiliating thing that ever happened to him in office. I think China and Mexico humiliated him by ignoring him basically. And now he's going to say you can do what you want, but I'll tell you what you're not going to do is enjoy it. Do whatever you want. You're not going to enjoy it, and you're really going to be wishing you hadn't done it. So that's the current situation. That's the Trump effect. So China would get an extra 10% on top of the tariffs that he wants to give them for other stuff if fentanyl is still shipped to Mexico.

All right. Now I watched a video that Patrick Bet-David had in which he was talking to an author of a book which describes allegedly her group as a sex spy in an elite satanic pedo ring. Now, if this is the first you've heard of this elite satanic pedophile ring running the world, your reaction should be the same as mine. That's probably not true. I mean, there's probably not this— this is where I've been for most of my life. I don't think there's an elite pedophile ring running the world. There certainly are elite pedophiles. That's definitely true, because you have pedophiles in every domain, so some of them are going to be elite. But I didn't think they were organized, and I didn't think they actually ran the world. I just thought, oh well, some rich people doing some heinous crimes. That's not a big surprise. But are they organized and actually running the world?

Well, if you've seen the video—and I recommend it. You can find it pretty easy. Patrick Bet-David, the PBD broadcast, and it just happened, so you can find it pretty easily. I want you to look at it, but I want you to do the following experiment: Turn on your BS indicators to maximum and then watch that whole thing and see if your BS meter gets tripped. Because mine was edged like crazy, but it didn't trip, you know what I mean? Like my BS meter was going and it was ready to go into the red where I was ready to say, all right, none of this is true, this can't be true. And then it was over. It never went into the red. It had all kinds of signals. All kinds of signals that I was like, I don't know, I'm not so sure I believe that. Never got into the red. I sure expected it to. So take this as a lesson. I'm trying to determine BS. I'm going to tell you what was starting to trigger me, and then I'll tell you why it didn't.

All right, the first trigger is it's too extraordinary and too on the n