our own God that you don't need to use military weapons because that's the old technology. Here's the context. When the only military weapons available were swords, Islam when it was spreading used swords because swords were the weapon that you could use to spread Islam. When weapons improved to the point where you have exploding things and guns and missiles and stuff, at least the terrorist part of the Islamic community — not Islam in general, we're just talking about the extremists — they updated their weapons. So you don't see ISIS using swords, right? Usually you see them using modern weapons.

But I would suggest that we've now passed through that phase and we're entering a new phase where the best way to spread Islam, should you want to do that, the best way to do that would be through ideas and through the internet. And that channel is open for them. They have complete ability to spread their religion through the internet if they trust their own God.

So that would be the key statement would be if you trust your God, open up the internet. Let your country see your opinion. Let your citizens see what other people are thinking. Take your best shot. We're saying we surrender, at least information-wise we surrender. If you have some information all of our channels are open. We will hear everything that you have to say. In fact I would be interested. I'd love to see the argument.

So the escape hatch for Iran, since neither side wants anything to do with a full-scale war and these little back and forths are not really getting it done, the escape is trust your own God. Trust him that he provided you the weapons you need when you needed them. When you needed swords you had swords. When you needed bullets and bombs you had bullets and bombs. Now we can see clearly and unambiguously that those weapons don't work. Swords won't work. Bullets and bombs don't work because there will be economic pressure on top of you that will make a difference.

What works today is economic growth and messages and communication and ideas on the internet. Those are the weapons of today. So instead of saying Iran we will kick your ass, which is obvious because we will if we get to war, say why don't you join us in the year 2019 and bring your message to the people and simply open up your communication. So I would make it a war of ideas. That's my idea.

Have you noticed — I'll bet you have — it seems to me that the Trump administration keeps doing good things in health care in terms of smaller administrative rule changes etc. that are making things more competitive. You know more generics coming online, more competition across state lines. And then there was another big announcement yesterday about health care and I think it was covered by nobody. Did anybody even know what the big announcement on health care was? Because I don't think it was covered. I looked on all of the news sites today and didn't see it. Did everybody see it?

So can anybody give me a hypothesis? HRAs? What's an HRA? Because I looked at the news and I didn't see it. Oh, a small business health care. Right, so I guess the change was that small businesses can deduct the cost of their health care. That was the change.

All right, here's what I worry about. I worry that because the news industry is wholly owned by the pharmaceutical companies that the news will be unable to report progress in reducing costs, especially of pharmaceuticals. If your entire revenue is from pharmaceutical commercials can you run non-stop stories about how the president is beating the prices down on pharmaceuticals because they're too high and too unfair? You can't.

They're the one area. Should you be surprised? Yeah, there's no media coverage on health care. And let me tell you why there's no media coverage on it. Because it's positive for the president and it's bad for the pharmaceuticals and the people who advertise on the news. As long as that's true I don't know if you're ever gonna hear about anything good happening. So watch for that. It's a giant black hole.

There was a story that I thought should have gotten more attention. I think it's true. Somebody fact-check me on this. The story was that Mexico is planning to fund their immigration deal with the United States which would require them to spend some money to put some extra troops on their southern border to keep people from crossing through Mexico to the US. And the story was that Mexico planned to sell the presidential airplane for 150 million dollars to help fund that.

Now my first question is is that true? Is Mexico really going to sell the presidential airplane to fund this deal? So let's say it is true. What would that tell you about Mexico? Because on one level you'd say to yourself my goodness President Trump is the best negotiator ever. Not only did he get them to do it but he got the president to sell his own personal airplane to do it. So the president will be taking the bus. So that president of Mexico will be taking the bus or something. Not really but that's a kind of a funny story.

But let me tell you how I interpret that. Here's how I interpret that story. The way I interpret it is that Mexico, the president of Mexico, would rather sell his own presidential airplane and all of the humiliation that comes with it rather than deal with the cartels on the northern border. Think about that. Because the alternative was that Mexico could secure its own border and we haven't heard much about that, right? Mexico actually can't secure its own northern border because the cartels out in that territory, they can't admit it and they can't do anything about it. Those are the two things that you could do. You can't talk about it and you can't act on it because the cartels are too powerful.

He was willing, the president of Mexico was willing to take the humiliation of selling his presidential airplane to avoid even talking about the cartels. That's what I saw. Now am I over-interpreting it? Because the fact that the cartels are not even mentioned — we have a major immigration negotiation with Mexico and nobody mentions that the cartels own the northern border. It's not even a topic. And in order to keep that out of being a topic the president of Mexico had to sell his presidential airplane or jet I guess. I don't know what I see there is that the cartels are running Mexico. That's the only way I can read it.

All right, let's talk about something else fun. I had suggested that there might be a way to determine when social media platforms are shadow banning you and that the method might be to have multiple social media accounts and see if they move in lockstep or in different ways. If they moved in lockstep it would probably tell you there was just something about your content. Maybe it's something about the season. Maybe it's a rainy day. Maybe it's a slow news day or a fast news day. If all of your traffic moved in lockstep across different platforms you would say okay I'm not bei