ivists win and the borders are thrown open.

So I would like to make this challenge. If there's an intellectual as opposed to an activist who can make an open borders case and would like to come on to a Periscope with me, I would love to talk to you and maybe you could educate my audience. But you have to be maybe somebody who's written on it. I don't want just somebody who's got an opinion. I want somebody who's put some real skin in the game on this topic. And I think you would watch their idea just fall apart in front of you. So I predict nobody's going to take me up on that who has the right credentials. But we'll see. And by the way if they have a good argument I'm going to change my mind. I know you don't like that but if they have a good argument I'm going to change my mind. I'm kind of new to the topic so maybe there's something I haven't thought about.

All right, here's another topic. We know that foreign companies or foreign countries like to meddle in other countries' elections. We know that anytime there is a politician that would do good things for you versus one that would do bad, if you have money you're going to try to get that money to the person who's going to help you, assuming you're a big entity with a lot of money, you're a billionaire or something. Now what does that predict about the Mexican cartels and Democratic candidates and Democratic elected officials? Could we not predict with 100% confidence that the cartels have already or will soon start funneling money toward Democrats? Because why wouldn't they, right? If you're a Mexican cartel and you've got a lot of money and you have lots of mechanisms to feed that money through shells and people and different things, wouldn't you identify the politicians that are closest to the border and wouldn't you find a way to get them money? It's hard to believe it's not already happening. And I see a number of you are saying it's already happening. But I don't know any specific cases. But whether or not it's already happened, it's kind of guaranteed, isn't it?

So it seems to me that we've created this super dangerous situation where Democrats and Republicans have this stark difference on how to deal with the border. It's the stark difference that opens it up for the cartels because the cartels can say whoa, we didn't create the stark difference but now that it's there let's have more stark difference. Let's start supporting some people who really want to open that border or whatever. So I would think there's a high likelihood that in the next couple years we're going to have a major story of a name-brand candidate, a Democrat, who is accepting, maybe unwillingly or not unwillingly but maybe unknowingly, accepting money from cartels. I think that's going to be a future story. Because my argument is not that Democrats are bad and Republicans are good. I'm not coming from that position. I'm just saying that one of those two parties has a position that the cartels are going to like and people support the politicians that do things they like. I don't know what would stop this from happening.

All right, last night on Tucker Carlson's show there was a segment on the idea of safe needle places that you can get a safe injection if you're an opioid addict. And the idea is that if you can move the addicts from getting their drugs on the street where they're going to get the wrong kind of stuff, they're going to do overdoses, they're going to have unsafe needles and all that, if you can get them into a legal, safer environment, they're still going to do the drugs because you don't have a way to stop that easily, but at least they'll do it in a way they don't get overdoses while you're trying to figure out how to deal with it.

Now on Tucker's show, I think this was Tucker's point of view and I hope I don't get it wrong, I hate to paraphrase other people's opinions because if you lose some nuance you're not doing anything good for the world, but I got the sense when he was talking to I guess Mark Steyn that both of them were of the opinion that this was a bad idea and that we should go stronger at getting people off of drugs and that the energy should be on getting people off of drugs, not on making a safe place where it's easy to do them.

Here's a problem with that. And I just sent a message, I just DM'd Tucker on Twitter, I don't know if he'll see it or not, but unfortunately I have some experience in this realm. As most of you know, my stepson died a few months ago from a fentanyl overdose. And we dealt for years with his teenage addiction. And here's what I learned that is a real key variable that did not come up in Tucker's conversation. There is no way to get somebody off drugs. That's the end of it. There is no way. Nobody has an idea.

Let me make an important distinction. If an addict has decided to get off drugs and really, really wants to and they have the incentive and they go through processes and they do the right things and they do rehab, they can get there. But the problem is the ones who don't want to get off it. And that was the case with my stepson. My situation was very similar. He had friends who were in the same situation so we knew the parents of his friends whose kids were also addicted, etc. And the big problem was that they didn't want to stop doing it. They liked it. And there was nothing you could tell them that would change their minds. They would all prefer to run away from home with no money and no resources because the drugs are so good that if you say to a 16-year-old, look, 16-year-old, if you keep doing these drugs I'll take away your phone, the 16-year-old will say drugs are better than my phone. Okay, you say I'll take away everything else you have, and the 16-year-old will say I still like drugs better. We will disown you from the family, the 16-year-old will say yeah, drugs still better. And in fact it's not even close. You're not even in the ballpark yet. Do you know how good these drugs are?

The reason that these drugs are killing 72,000 people a year just in the United States from overdose is because they're so good that there's nothing you can offer to take away or to give them that comes close to what the drugs are doing. It's not even close. But here's the real problem, at least in