get that option but also they recently said if you have a chronic illness that just makes your life terrible you can check out from life on your own. And let's say 15,000 people did it last year. So almost 5% of the deaths in the country are people choosing to do it themselves. But here's the interesting political part. 96% of the people who are choosing the option to end their own lives are white. 96% are white but only 70% of the country is white. So it's legal and it's mostly killing white people. It's legal and it's overwhelmingly mostly killing white people. Now nobody knows why. I mean I could offer some guesses but I don't know why. But suppose they had gone the other way. Suppose for whatever cultural or other mysterious reasons white people weren't taking this option but Black citizens were taking it in an overwhelming number. Do you think this would be legal? Do you think it would be legal to have a law that was disproportionately killing by their own choice but killing minorities? Not a chance. There's not a chance that that would be legal. But as long as white people are killing themselves yeah no problem. And by the way I'm in favor of it so I don't want them to change the law. We have the same law in California. I was part of the lobbying to get that an option in California. You never know if you might need it.

Meanwhile there's a story about McConnell. Some call him Mitch. He thinks that it's a dangerous world and if America stays out of the wars and the business in other countries and we become more isolationist that it would be reminiscent of before World War II. He says even the slogan is the same: America First. That's what they said in the 30s. So Mitch McConnell—you didn't know that I'm in favor of euthanasia. I've always been in favor of it. I'm one of the main people in favor of it. I'm surprised you didn't know that anyway.

So here's my problem with McConnell and the other isolationists. I don't believe anything McConnell says as his reasons for why he wants anything. I just think he's—well let me say it directly. I believe that when somebody is that old and that infirm and they stay in their job in Congress that the only reason for it is they're covering up their own crimes or somebody they care about. Because nobody in their right mind would keep working in this condition. Feinstein, McConnell, it doesn't make any sense. Pelosi. There's got to be some reason that goes beyond serving the country or whatever because they all know somebody else could do a better job. Now some of it might be that when you reach a senior position your own team won't let you leave because they need somebody in the senior position. Maybe they like you in there. But here's my problem. The logic of this isn't holding up unless you think Putin and Hitler are basically the same guy.

Now my understanding of history which is not so terrific is that the problem with Hitler is he was conquering other countries and it didn't look like he was willing to ever stop. So that's a bad thing. If you were staying out of that you could make an argument oh if you stay out of that he eventually conquers everything gets all the resources and then conquers you. Makes sense. But is Putin somebody who's trying to conquer the world or is he trying to maybe increase the Russian Empire but only to Russian-speaking people who are on his border who—and I'm not defending him I'm just describing—that maybe he does have ambitions to increase but not to people who were not Russian-friendly, Russian-speaking, historically Russian. Now I don't think he should be doing any of that but I don't think he wants to conquer Britain does he? Do you think Putin if he could he'd be blitzkrieging across Europe and going for France? I don't think so.

But then let's turn it around. The United States recently conquered Ukraine. The United States conquered a country that's like a cousin to Russia with great history, lots of Russian speakers at least on the border. Are we the Hitler in this case? If you had to say all right who's the Hitler? The United States conquerin