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Back to episode — Episode 2826 CWSA 05/01/25

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have three friends. Good. Good. But it looks like you'll get some extra ones. Yesterday I talked about a video I saw from Anduril. That's the new defense contractor that does the newest high-tech defense stuff. And they had a man-portable, they call it, meaning one person could carry it, device called a drone killer called the Pulsar. And they showed a video where one of the people demonstrating…

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cartels, are using their own drones to surveil our military that's on the border now. And our military is looking for counter-drone capabilities. Now, wouldn't that be the Anduril device? I don't know how many options they have, but it does seem like if they can see the drones and they know where the drones are coming from and they know they're cartel drones, don't they just have to aim that Anduril device at it and knock it down? It feels like we have the technology to do that.

Kamala Harris gave her first big speech since she's been out of the public eye for a little while. And I got to say, she looked drunk to me. How many of you saw the clips? And how many of you thought she looked drunk or acted drunk? She looked pretty drunk. Well, when I see her, I don't even think Kamala anymore. I think Drunka.

So of course she said that there's chaos and blah blah blah. I thought Carolyn Levitt said that the Republicans are really happy if she does more speaking. She is so bad. So bad that she's the only politician at that level that can't give a decent speech. Oh my god. And I assume some of that is because of alcohol, but it is unconfirmed.

Well, allegedly according to CNN, President Bukele of El Salvador has rejected the Trump administration's request to return that MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Does that sound true to you? Do you think that the Trump administration asked for him to be returned and Bukele said no? Because separately there was a report that Bukele wasn't comfortable putting people who had not been convicted of a crime in his jails. So we're sort of just doing it because Trump wanted it. But do you think that this is organic? Or do you think that the Trump administration said, "Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we pretend that we asked for it? We'll pretend that we tried really hard if you just say no and then everybody wins." Because the court order is just that the Trump administration attempts to facilitate the return. It doesn't say they have to get them returned if it's impossible. So it kind of looks like the fix might be in a little bit. It's like, "Hey, we're gonna ask you publicly to return this guy. Just say no. Just say no." So we'll see what this does to the news coverage. Because you know I don't believe anything in the news. I feel like nearly 100% of the news is not exactly what you think. You know there's always something a little bit missing or there's a hidden story or there's a B story that we don't know about.

Anyway, apparently Nvidia announced $500 billion of investments it's going to do in the United States to make its Nvidia technology. I assume that's over 10 years or something. I assume. But he's very gung-ho on President Trump and the United States and he should be. That's Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia. So he announced that with Trump and I believe that Trump is saying that there's $8 trillion of money that's moved into the US. Now again that would be over 10 years so you know it's still a lot but $

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8 trillion, do you believe that? I think there's something like 5 trillion that's somewhat known and confirmed but you know you have to add the Trump hyperbole to it. Five becomes eight. Eight becomes 20. So we'll see how that goes. Remember I told you yesterday that I doubted that there would really be a Ukraine mineral deal with the United States because it just seemed to me like we weren't rea…

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