ll I might believe them because they're journalists and they don't have an interest in keeping a secret and they probably would want to get there first and have a scoop and all that. But if it's your job to determine what the public hears and what they don't hear, that's their jobs. Does that give them the right or privilege to lie to the American people as long as it's in the interest of the American people? And it would be really easy to imagine a set of circumstances where lying would be the right, I hate to say it but the right answer.

So unfortunately they just have jobs where you have to say to yourself maybe what they're saying is true but you can never know for sure. And even with the journalists you wouldn't know for sure but you'd feel a lot more comfortable that they had no reason to keep it secret from you.

And then also Kash said that the US is working with India to try to stop some China-backed trafficking network. So I guess India has some connection to it and if they work through India they have a little better chance of stopping it. And he suggested that the Chinese Communist Party is strategically targeting the US with fentanyl to weaken its population and he notes that there's an absence of fentanyl deaths in other countries. Now are you convinced? You know I don't want to believe that's true but the opioid wars, if you've looked into the opioid wars you know that the West has targeted them. But it wasn't the United States that did that, wasn't it? The UK. So why would the United States be targeted if it's revenge for the opioid wars? Because we weren't involved with that, right? And the answer would be it just works. You could take out an entire generation of men. You could give them cell phones and video games and fentanyl and next thing you know an entire generation is taken out. I don't know. I'm going to say it seems probable. It does seem probable.

And one of the ways you can know it's probable is do you remember the ex-CIA agent John Kiriakou? Last time I mispronounced his name he contacted me to correct me. He'll probably do it again. But he pointed out that when he was in Afghanistan with the CIA he was asking why are these giant poppy farms allowed to operate? And the answer was because the heroin is all being sold to Iran and it's a way to weaken Iran. And I thought to myself oh my god we're terrible people but it looks like that's just the kind of world we live in and the risk we'll have to take. So given that there's at least one source that says we would do it to another country, Iran, is it much of a stretch to say that China would do it to us? Nope. That is not a stretch. I don't know that it's true but it's not a stretch.

Meanwhile whiskey sales are down according to one of the executives of Jack Daniels. And reasons given are the alternatives of marijuana, weight loss drugs and a lackluster demand from Generation Z. So the young people are drinking less. But I think there's one other variable that's not me