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lions of anything, yeah, when it comes to medical supplies you actually go through millions of stuff really, really quickly. So you can see really big numbers of what we shipped and, you know, it might have been one hospital rips through them in, you know, five days or something. So it's not as much as you think. That's the first thing. And as a percentage of the United States total supply of tha…
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Apparently here's a weird outcome of this coronavirus is that the illegal drug business is struggling because they're not getting the necessary chemical components from China. To which I said, wait, what? Now I knew that fentanyl was coming, you know, the precursors were coming in from China and then the cartels were mixing them up and sending them north. So I knew that China was the source of things through Mexico in terms of fentanyl. But I didn't know that that was also true for heroin and meth. So whatever chemicals, I don't know if it's the poppies or something else, but apparently China is also the source for other major drugs going through Mexico into the United States. I didn't fully understand that. I did not fully understand that. I thought it might be limited to maybe, you know, one bad laboratory or two doing the fentanyl stuff. I didn't know that apparently the majority, if you don't count marijuana which is grown in this country now, it looks like the majority of the hard drug stuff, not counting cocaine I guess, is coming from China or at least the ability to make it.
So this has completely revised my opinion of what's going on. Because before I would have said to myself, yeah, yeah, China, you need to try harder to clamp down on those one or two laboratories that are sending fentanyl products. But it felt like an individual problem, didn't it? You get blocked from that to this person who got blocked. Those what they did.
All right. So now that I know that there is a more robust highway of, you know, illegal drug stuff coming from China through Mexico into the United States, now I think you could just say that's just war. I would say that's war. So before I thought, darn it China, you should try harder to stop your individuals who were sending bad things into Mexico and then into our country. But now it doesn't look like that at all to me. It doesn't look like that at all. Now it just looks like a war we didn't know we were fighting. Or I didn't know, I guess our government knew but maybe wanted to interpret it in a different way. But to me this is just war. We're at war with China. They're sending weapons of mass destruction through Mexico into the United States and killing Americans by the tens of thousands.
Try not to swear. Those of you who have been with me for a while, you know that I lost my stepson in 2018 to a fentanyl overdose. And you know that my opinion about China is largely influenced by that. So I'm not an unbiased observer when it comes to China. But I don't think people quite understand that we're in a hot war. It just doesn't happen to involve bullets and bombs. But if China is willingly, and obviously the crisis caused them to have a production stop that was enough to rattle the cartels on the other side of the world, it's pretty obvious, not pretty often, it's completely obvious that the Chinese government is supporting the drug trade through China and killing tens of thousands of Americans a year. And that's war.
You know, I thought, you know, I felt like it was a little bit war when it was just fentanyl and it maybe was individuals. But now that I know it's really a whole, you know, a system, well that's just a war. So at this point I would say to myself, oh man, I didn't try so hard not to curse. I'm gonna try to get through Sunday without cursing in public. See if I can do that.
I can't tell you how much I hate China if that hasn't come through to you. And again I want to be clear, not the Chinese people. I don't think I've ever met a Chinese person I didn't like, you know. But the government is pure evil and we can't do business with them anymore. So we have to decouple and we're gonna have to take them down in the process. So I don't think there's any way that the future looks anything but this. China has some bad years ahead of it. I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure that's true. I can make sure that the country of China, as long as they keep their current form of government which is a cancer, as long as they keep their current form of government, their future is worse. I'm gonna work every day of my life at least a little bit, at least persuasion-wise, to take China off of the top shelf and make sure that they fall and get worse every year from that point on. Economically, militarily, influence-wise and reputation-wise. And I'm sure a lot of people will be joining me in that fight.
But I think at this point if the United States just does business as usual, which I know when this is all done and we just start trading with them like normal, then I would say the government of the United States is my enemy. At least in terms of whatever the administration is that's doing that. And if an administration came along that was promising to stop doing that I would support them over the Trump administration. So it's war. And I don't play a war to lose. Do you? If you're in a war do you play to lose? Do you play for a draw? This is war now. We're at war with China. It's obvious we have been. We just didn't want to cal
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l it that. But now it's kind of obvious. And I'm not even talking about the, you know, the Chinese virus. I don't know what the origin of that is. That feels more like a mistake than intentional. But they certainly didn't help us. They didn't help us the way we would have expected a reasonable country to help us. So at this point I would say that closing the border with Mexico is how you win the…
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