d, yeah, go ahead, come on in and help us get rid of these cartel people, well, that politician would be dead by the afternoon.

So we can't get Mexico's government's approval, and we can't let a Chinese military proxy force on our border. So I think we have to attack the cartels by wiping out the cartels. Now, if the cartels decided to change their business to something that's not a Chinese proxy military force, well, I might change my idea of what we need to do about it. But given that it is an active attack on the United States by a Chinese proxy force, the cartels, I think we have every right to go in militarily without anybody's permission. And in fact, there's no practical way to get anybody's permission. You could ask, but there's nobody really to ask because it's just cartels and people controlled by cartels.

All right. I was wondering if there's something that might be called a Trump effect that has changed the psychology of the Hong Kong protesters as well as the Iranian public. Apparently the Iranian public is getting pretty serious about protesting and rioting and trying to take down their government or at least influence their government. So there's a lot going on in Iran. We don't have a lot of reporting from it, but it's getting pretty hot down there. And Hong Kong as well.

And the thing that you would say about both of those situations is, what are the odds that Hong Kong could ever prevail over China? Like just on the surface of it, you'd say, well, zero, right? I mean, if you had to bet, if you had to make a long-term bet, all right, 20 years from now, does China have full control of Hong Kong or did Hong Kong somehow win their autonomy? Which way would you bet? Well, you put all your money on China eventually having full control of it. Just geographically, there's just no way that's not going to happen, right?

And yet the Hong Kong protesters are fighting as if they feel they can win. Because if you didn't feel you could win, you wouldn't put up this kind of fight. You'd move or you'd put up with it or something. So there's something about the psychology of the Hong Kong protesters that makes them think they can prevail in what looks like an impossible situation. Likewise, the Iranian protesters apparently feel they can make some kind of a difference, so they wouldn't be doing what they're doing. Yet what are the odds that the street protests can overthrow the regime, given the control that the regime has? Very low. What do you say? No, not impossible. You know, nothing's impossible. But what are the odds that the Iranian protesters will succeed? On the surface of things, looks pretty low. But they don't think so, apparently, because they're working pretty hard at doing it.

So that's what I'm calling the Trump effect. I think there are people fighting for freedom who maybe before didn't think it was within reach. There's something about Trump that makes you think anything's possible. I mean, partly because he got elected and then he keeps doing things that are supposed to be impossible, but he's doing them fairly routinely. How about starting a trade war with China? Impossible. Well, okay, he's doing that. How about wiping out ISIS's territorial holdings? Impossible. Okay, he did that. And you could think of other examples, right? How about moving our embassy to Jerusalem? He can't do that. Okay, he just did that. How about recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel? He can't. Okay, he just did that.

I feel as though there's something about the psychology of the world. And you see the Hong Kong protesters in particular waving American flags and thanking the president for signing that Hong Kong legislation that puts some pressure on China. So I feel as though Trump has changed the psychology of struggling people in oppressive places. He just might have convinced them that they've got a shot.

Now, I hope they're not depending on the United States to step in, because they might be. And I hope that's