n paper, on paper, it looks like Trump is getting exactly what he wants. Tons of money coming into the US and not into China.

I will remind you that one of my strangest predictions, unless I caused it, was that in 2018 I said that China would stop getting external investments because people would realize it is too dangerous and too risky to do business in China. Do you remember what people said to me when I was saying on social media that it was too risky to do business in China? One hundred percent of the people who saw me and commented on it, one hundred percent, said that is the dumbest prediction of all time. China will just get bigger, more powerful, more people will use it. There is not really any alternatives. And here we are. So from 2018, the weirdest prediction of all time that non-Chinese companies would stop putting money into China. I am the only one. Nobody else said that. And here we are. It happened.

Well, on the list of other things that I tried to make happen but they did happen, it does not mean I made it happen, but I was one of the many people who were hoping it would. As I mentioned before, drinking in the US and smoking cigarettes are both way down. An article had a piece on this on CNN. Drinking: 71 percent of adults, I guess, were drinking in 1978. Seventy-one percent. That is down to 54 percent in 2025. That is a pretty big drop. The number of people who smoked a cigarette in 1974 was 40 percent. And today that is 11 percent. Eleven percent from 40 percent. Those are really impressive gains. We have not yet seen it play out in better health outcomes but in theory, theoretically there should be a big difference in health outcomes. I know what you are thinking. There might be that other variable. Do not say it.

I saw a post on X from Matt von Venal who asked people the following question: Have you ever lost a friend because they found out you supported President Trump? And if you really want to be bummed out, you should look at the comments. There were a lot of comments and almost everyone said, oh yeah, I lost family members. The saddest ones in my opinion are the parents who lost children. And when I say lost them, I do not mean they died. I mean they stopped talking to them forever. Forever. Can you imagine the degree of emotional loss that would be because of who you supported in politics?

Now when I was looking at that, the families that were destroyed, the social lives that were destroyed, we really do not live in the country I was born in. I was born into a country where none of this mattered. Politics absolutely did not matter. It was not even, I do not even think it ever came up when I was young. Just never even came up. But now it is like the primary variable for deciding your social structure. And boy did that d