o the US, I think these will come off, meaning the tariffs. But if fentanyl does not end or Trump is uncertain about it, they will stay this way until he's comfortable. He said that on Meet the Press.

Now I hate to be negative Nelly, but I don't really think there's much chance that the tariffs are going to affect in the long term fentanyl. But I also don't have a better idea. It's the only idea that looks serious that has maybe some chance of working. But I would bet against it, unfortunately. Now if I had a better idea I'd say don't do this, get rid of those tariffs, it's a waste of time. We should do this much smarter idea that's different. But I don't have a smarter idea. So if leaning on these countries hard, so hard that it crashes their economy, is the only play we have, I'm in favor of it. I just wouldn't bet my life savings it's going to work. But we don't have any better idea. And you know, even if we went in militarily and took down a bunch of labs, wouldn't they just rebuild them in a week? I don't know how you could possibly stop this problem. It just seems unstoppable. But again, given the size of the problem, if we have to crash a couple of economies just to find out if this works, I'm in. It's a drastic situation. It calls for drastic steps. And it's the only one I can think of.

Well, Trump has indicated that things might get worse before they get better. And I guess that got turned into a headline that he is not going to rule out a recession. Now the stock market seemed to shake that off because just before I got on, the markets were up after he admitted so. Here's what he said to Maria Bartiromo. He said there will be a period of transition because what we're doing is very big. Now period of transition means things will look a little worse before they look a lot better. And I think I've always known that the things he's doing very clearly have a destabilizing effect in the short term because people don't know what's going to happen with tariffs, etc. But in the long term it could work out just great. There's a whole bunch of stuff that Trump's doing that directionally it's all great. So if you could fast forward five years, we might be in an amazing situation. It's very possible. So I'm very optimistic about the future.

But how are the Democrats doing? Let's see. Let's check in with Van Jones. So Van Jones was on CNN and he was talking about the prospects for the Democrats to come back and become a serious party. And things are so bad that he actually was laughing at how pathetic the Democrat Party is. And the host was laughing. It's actually become laughable. But here's how he summarized it. He said this is what the Democrats did. He goes, defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse. Well I guess that didn't work out. So the reflex to be against Trump no matter what had them supporting the status quo that everybody thought was a bad idea. So that's part of it.

And then Van Jones said that offending most people in the country and calling everybody sexist and racist and transphobic and every other name and then saying please follow us, that's not a good strategy, folks. So every time I hear somebody who actually does understand what's going on, and I think Van Jones, you know, he's obviously playing for one team but he understands, this is a very clear statement of the problem. But it doesn't look solvable. That's the funny thing. They've created a situation where there's just no way back. You know, they have too many people who want to be woke and a bunch of people who don't. And you can't reconcile that. The people who are just all down on wokeness, they're not going to give it up. So what do you do?

Well let me tell you what the other Democrats are doing to try to right the ship. According to Politico, this sounds like I'm just making it up but according to Politico, a lot of Democrats have started cursing in public. So they give a whole bunch of examples of Democrats using the F-word and the S-word and the G-D word. And apparently it's sort of a big trend. And I'm thinking to myself they are so out of ideas that they're really doubling down on this. If we can get the messaging right, if we could just get the messaging right. And then they look at Trump and they'll see that every now and then he'll throw an S-word into his speeches and stuff and they'll go, yes, yes, that's what it is. We need more cursing.

But no, I'm joking. It's not they didn't just say we just need more cursing. They also need more cringe videos. And then Elon Musk was pointing out that