to the migrants, they'll tell you they're coming because of Biden. The interviews I've seen, they say it directly. Would you have come if Trump had still been president? Maybe not. Did you come because Biden said things would be better? Yes, they say it directly. Now I'm not saying that Biden is accurate when he defends himself by saying that the surge is no worse and that he also says that there were facilities in place to handle the surge that Trump dismantled. That's probably a little bit true. So if you were simply to judge whether Biden defended his practice as well just rhetorically, he actually did with the help of the media. And I'm totally surprised, right? I'm totally surprised and I'm not buying their statistics. I do think it's a real surge that really comes because of Biden. Now that's a belief. But they did a good job, a good job of defending their situation. You don't have to believe they were being honest but it was a good defense. I was surprised. It was better than I thought it would be. And even Rubin and Alcindor are on different sides about whether there was anything to that.

All right. There's a weird thing happening in the world with cotton. You know I've told you that one of the things about the simulation is that there's some themes that once you see them they just keep repeating. And it could be just a coincidence. Probably is. But it's always interesting. So cotton is in the news for all different reasons. So I guess H&M and Nike are being boycotted in China because they've made noise opposing the slave labor that picks the cotton that goes into the products. So American companies are being boycotted. Are they both American? H&M I don't know. Are being boycotted for opposing slavery, you know the Uyghurs, forced labor, cancer, etc. And China's pushing back. They're pro-slavery. And so you got that happening.

Then at the same time you've got Tom Cotton who's making some news I'll talk about in a moment. And he also talks about China all the time. And we're also talking about slavery reparations. That's in the news a lot lately, which of course is the legacy of the cotton plantations and everything. Why is it that cotton suddenly became like one of the most common words in the news? What's up with that?

Speaking of Tom Cotton, he's introducing legislation to ban critical race theory training in the U.S. military. Once again I say, are there other senators? The only senators you see doing anything, it's like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Tom Cotton, and we're done here, right? Is it just the same people doing all the work? I'm not sure. I would even consider voting or even supporting, let's say for president, anybody who isn't one of these people. Oh, Josh Hawley, he's making some noise. Yeah, Josh Hawley. But it's just a handful of people. They're doing all the things that matter, it seems like. And everybody else is doing, what the hell are they doing? What's Rubio done? I'm seeing Rubio's name. What's he done lately? I know. But I would say at the moment if you were to judge just on who's taking on things and who's introducing legislation and who's moving the needle and who has their priorities right, it's kind of Tom Cotton's looking pretty good.

And he's als