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even a little bit objective and you said who gave you better information about this medical situation, it would be me. I'm not even a little bit unconfident about that opinion. Right? I think you'd agree. All right. I've come up with an idea that's a little half-baked and maybe somebody can help me with this. You know that my startup created its own crypto token. Lots of people did this in the pa…
← Previous segment →t you could legitimately trade some "When" and actually get a roll of toilet paper. And actually you get a roll of toilet paper. Somebody says worst Periscope ever. Well you will never have to listen to another one. Good for you.
So if anybody can figure out how to do that, like maybe it would require an actual warehouse full of toilet paper. And so here's the other part of the deal. You could distribute the "When," which at the moment is worth nothing, virtually nothing, to poor people. And then all the poor people would say oh, I've got these cryptocurrencies but it's not worth anything. And then a big toilet paper company could say we're gonna peg the "When" to a roll of toilet paper. It will actually mail it to you. So if you send us some of the "When" we'll send you some rolls of toilet paper.
The moment there was an exchange so that you knew that a "When" could be exchanged for actual real toilet paper, the "When" would have value. And the moment it has value all the poor people who got some would suddenly have money because they wouldn't have to use it for toilet paper. They could trade it to someone else who didn't need toilet paper. Now this is a half-baked idea. I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with this and how practical is it. You need some big toilet paper maker with a warehouse to sort of back it. But I think it would make a whole bunch of poor people, or at least give them enough to buy food. You just distribute them a bunch of "When" because we've got lots of them. They're not doing anything. And just turn it into money by backing it with toilet paper. So somebody tell me why that's a bad idea.
All right. I put a survey up on the internet in which I asked the following provocative question. Do you think China will kill more people with which of the following methods? Will they kill more people with fentanyl? Because of course they allow their dealers to send it to the cartels who turn it into fentanyl pills and it kills Americans, including my stepson. So that could be 40 to 70 thousand Americans per year. So will they kill more people with fentanyl? And keep in mind this is all intentional because the government of China could stop that anytime they want. They know. They actually know who the fentanyl dealers are. Given 60 Minutes interviewed one of the top ones. The top one. So if 60 Minutes can find you in China I'm pretty sure the government knows who you are too. So that's one number.
The coronavirus? Well we don't know yet. You know, could be 200,000 dead, could be 2 million. That could get up there pretty fast. How about climate change? If China is the biggest contributor to climate change, what would the Green New Deal people say in terms of the number of people who will die because of China specifically? Now of course it takes everybody polluting to get the results you got. But if one of them is the biggest polluter you could probably say well a quarter of the deaths are attributed to China or something like that. Right? So how many would that be? How many people do we think will die from climate change over the next 100 years? And would let's say 25 percent of those deaths be attributed to China? That's the question.
How about the organ transplants? So as you know it's alleged with high credibility that they use prisoners, probably political prisoners, and they kill them on demand to sell their organs to people who are buying their organs from both from China and from other countries. Now because of the coronavirus a lot of people are gonna have their lungs destroyed. There's already information that China may be executing prisoners just to take their lungs and hearts and transplant them into people who would be willing to pay for it because apparently people will pay a lot for an organ. So how many Uyghurs and Falun Gong, whatever that is, how many dissidents and political prisoners will be used for parts? Will that kill more of them than fentanyl or a coronavirus or climate change? I don't know. So that's the question.
Now a suggestion that I've heard a few times is that for every American death caused by China we should kick out of the country the Chinese citizens that are, for example, going to our universities. Apparently that's a big deal for Chinese elites to send their kids to American universities, the Ivy Leagues. So that would hurt quite a bit because the elite really have a pretty big incentive to send their kids to American high-end colleges. So you can just say it's nothing personal. It's just nothing personal. We're just gonna go in alphabetical order and we're just gonna send one student home for every death. And we could just do it weekly, batch them up and say okay, well it was a thousand fentanyl deaths and we think you know 400 people died from coronavirus, so we'll send back 1,400 Chinese citizens who are using this country for a variety of things. It could be rich people who just have houses here. You know, we could send them back and confiscate their houses. We could take their stock. So if they owned any assets of the United States we could just say all right, well no, it's nothing personal. We're just doing this in alphabetical order. And literally just start with the A's, just start sending them back in alphabetical order.
And the thinking here would be if your last name in China starts with an F and you're watching the A's go home and then the B's go home then the C's go home, well the elites who are letter F and beyond are gonna say holy cow, they're not kidding about this. My kid is gonna be sent home from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, wherever. And that's it. They're not gonna have a Harvard education. He's just gonna come home.
So would they start saying maybe we should not be sending fentanyl to the United States? Would the elites say look, this is now bad for me. It was okay when it was only bad for dead Americans. I didn't care, you said the Chinese elite. But now it's affecting me. So maybe we should rethink it because
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I want my kid to go to an Ivy League school. So I think if we were to do this we should do it by formula and it would be cold and effective to just do it in alphabetical order because alphabetical order is such a strong message that it's not personal. Because it isn't. It has nothing to do with the individuals who are getting kicked out. It has nothing to do with that. It's just numbers. And if y…
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