n, the Taliban just decided, I guess we're just not going to have drugs in this country. They had the ability. Even the Taliban could remove drugs from Afghanistan. So yeah, we have all the ability. It's clearly an unwillingness.

What would cause an unwillingness to solve our biggest deadly problem in the United States, fentanyl? What would cause that? Well, the only explanation is that the government has been co-opted in some fashion. And I don't have a hypothesis of what that fashion would be. But when we look at it, do you think it's a coincidence that the people who have the most aggressive stands are independently rich and outsiders? Independently rich outsiders want to shut down the fentanyl trade, to close the border. People who are not as independently wealthy and have been in the government for a while, they seem to be less willing to do stuff that needs to be done. Do you think that's a coincidence? No, that's not a coincidence.

And we live in a world now where the reality is slowly becoming clear to us all. I'll tell you, the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to our brains. It doesn't feel like it. It feels like it broke your brain. But it's the only way we could get to the next level of awareness. That level of awareness is everything that can be corrupt is. Everything. Everything that can be corrupt, it already is. Except for the elections. All 50 elections, you know, run by the different states. Those are all done properly. Nobody knows why. It's like a mystery. It's kind of. But I tell you, there's no evidence. No evidence. All 50. It's amazing. It's like a big coincidence.

All right. So here's a report in the Wall Street Journal that trade with China is way down. So China accounted for 13.3 percent of U.S. goods imports during the first six months of this year, thus below a peak of 21.6 for all of 2017. The current level of U.S. goods imports is the lowest since 2003, two years after China got into the World Trade Organization.

All right. So this shift — do you know when this started? Do you know when the trade with China started to fall off a cliff? Do you remember what year it all happened? According to the Wall Street Journal, this happened. The shift started in 2018 as the Trump administration imposed tariffs on a range of Chinese products. 2018.

Was there anything else that happened in 2018? What else was happening in 2018 relative to this? 2018 is when my stepson died of a fentanyl overdose. 2018. 2018 is the year that I told you I was going to destroy the economy of China and I was going to make us decouple. The shift started in 2018. Probably just coincidence.

What year did ESG start taking its nosedive? Did you notice that ESG sort of fell off a cliff right about the same? Yeah, it's 2022, wasn't it? What year did I say I was going to destroy ESG? 2022. 2022. Was it 21? I think it was 22. So probably just coincidences, right?

How many of you are looking at this situation and scratching your head and saying, are you kidding? Is this real? You can't tell, can you? Did I just predict well and, you know, get in front of it? Or did I tell you what I was going to do? Did I point to the fence and then hit the ball over the fence where I was pointing? Which of those two things happened?

You know that when I said China, we're going to decouple from