ion will be horrible. It just won't be fun at all." Because most of the things that they want to say about the president don't work if he's running against Biden. Here are things that don't work. Hey we shouldn't have an old white guy as president. Well that doesn't work. Hey we can't have somebody who long ago said something that you know 32 years ago sounds terrible to our ears in 2019. Well that's what they say about Trump, right? It's the same thing. We can't have a guy who is always giving shoulder rubs and trying to kiss women who may or may not like it. Well that's like the main thing they say about Trump, some version of that. You've grabbed them by the whatever. So Biden is the worst matchup because all of the fun stuff that they want to say about him, oh and what about Trump has business dealings with you know whatever, he's in it for the money. And then you've got this Hunter Biden story in the Ukraine. Completely ruins all of the attacks. There's nothing that the news can use that's juicy and fun that you can use if Biden runs against Trump. There's just, it's just empty.

So here's my prediction. The news business can't let Biden get elected. That's my prediction. And I'll go further than this. I'll go way further. And I want you to observe how far over my skis I am. I'm way over my skis now meaning that I'm making a prediction this should sound crazy to you. And that is that the professional news organizations that are anti-Trump are gonna start trying to suppress Biden's run. It may not be obvious but I think he's gonna be starved of attention and I think they'll start promoting whoever they can figure out might give him a run for his money. Maybe not Bernie. I think they're gonna have to look for something to make it a horse race on the left to make it interesting at least in the primary season and also to make it interesting in the actual election. So I would expect that you're gonna stop hearing about Biden as much as you think you ought to for him being such a front-runner.

Let me ask you this. Is Biden still campaigning? Think about it. When was the last time you saw Biden interviewed on CNN lately? Who is the most important politician in the world who is not President Trump? Biden, because he's the standard-bearer in terms of the polls anyway. He looks like he'll be the standard-bearer. Shouldn't we be seeing non-stop Biden coverage? Shouldn't CNN and MSNBC have him on and his surrogates on all the time? Shouldn't we be seeing clips of his speeches? Shouldn't he be giving what do they call them, sprays and gaggles and whatever, look like doing what Trump does all the time which is answering questions informally with the press? Where's all that? Doesn't it seem to you that they're already starting to downplay him? And when they talk about him do they ever talk about him with interest? When he's being reported on they act like they're going to sleep just talking about it.

So my prediction is this. That the news industry will start to look obviously anti-Biden and it will become more and more obvious. But probably not unless they can test some other competitor to get their visibility up a little. So you may see them testing all the lesser candidates to see if they can get somebody, anybody who would be interesting that they can sort of promote next to Biden and maybe take his place. All right that's my prediction.

I listened to an expert on Chinese trade. He was actually a China expert. He said that the real problem with the China trade deal and the reason that China backed out or at least a big reason that may not be the only reason is the way it was written. And that the trade deal, the one we thought China was almost ready to sign, apparently the language was humiliation. So the deal was written in the form of China if you do this we will punish you this way. China if you do this we will hurt you this way. China if you do this we will treat you like a child. We'll punish you. And the China expert said it doesn't matter if it's a smart deal, a good deal. It doesn't matter if it makes sense. Doesn't matter if the numbers work. None of that matters because it's just a humiliation. And that the hardliners in China looked at it and said I don't care about what's fair or anything else. We can't sign this. This is completely disrespectful. It makes us look like children who needed to be scolded.

And I don't know. I'm not a China expert so I'm not going to put my own opinion on that. But if that's what's happening then the only way we're gonna get past it is some kind of a deal that makes it look like they won while at the same time it looks like we won. So somehow this has to be recast. Maybe they need to add variables. For example there may be something else outside of trade that China wants, something that you know we wouldn't have as big a problem giving them. So there might be something. We might be able to widen this negotiation so that would be something in the deal where the Chinese could say oh yeah we got that. Now there may also be a way to word the deal so it's not humiliating. In other words it could be just the way it's presented. So you could say for example if either side does X the penalty will be Y, knowing in advance that only one side is likely to do that thing. So for example if we said if either the United States or China steals the intellectual property of the other the penalty will be X, even if you think that that will never happen, that the United States will never steal their IP in any important way and that really the only problem is that they're stealing ours. Even if you believe that's true you could certainly write the deal so that you disguise that so that China will sign the deal that says yeah finally we Chinese got a deal that says the United States will stop stealing our intellectual property. Maybe they just need to be able to say that.

So I certainly hope that our negotiators are smart enough to frame a deal so at least on paper it doesn't look like a humiliation. I hope we're smart enough to do that. But at least one person who knows more than I do thinks we're not smart enough to do that. So we'll find out.

I saw a news article that I like to point out positive scientific news just so you know what's coming. Apparently some researchers, I think it was at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, figured out how to make a type of plastic that is easy to recycle. Now that might not sound like a big deal but apparently current plastics have lots of different forms and they've got coloring, dyes in them and other chemicals in them. And if you try to recycle them it's sort of a mess. It's hard to sort out and repurpose plastic the way it's currently made. But in this lab they came up with a form of plastic which apparently is as good as any other plastic but it has the unique quality that you can break it down