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Back to episode — Episode 2948 CWSA 09/04/25

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at the company Polymarket, that's an online gambling firm so you can gamble on political things happening, stuff like that, it's been cleared for US adoption after some board CFTC ruling. *Zero Hedge* is writing about this. But what's interesting about it is that one of the investors of Polymarket is Don Trump Jr. and he's also an adviser. So right after, fairly soon after Don Jr. became an inves…

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Rubio said, Marco Rubio said, Secretary of State, he said the US has a long and for many many years established intelligence that allows us to interdict and stop drug boats. So in other words they get tips or they've got some kind of intelligence where they can tell where the boat's going to be and stop drug boats. And we did that and it doesn't work. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them. Well, I don't know if it will stop them. We'll find out. But it's a heck of a theory. I mean I'm pretty in favor of it, as you know.

And saw a video this morning. Judge Jeanine was standing in front of a gigantic warehouse full of barrels. And the barrels, 1,300 of them, were seized by law enforcement. And they were full of precursors that were headed to the cartels. 1,300 full-size barrels.

Now I'm no math user, but correct me if I'm wrong. The physical amount of meth is very small, right? So these are just precursors. It's not the meth itself. But 1,300 barrels kind of suggest I would think that would be all the meth that the entire country would use for months. I mean I'm kind of wondering if that will actually make a difference like people will notice it in their supply and demand but that's a big deal.

So the Trump administration is getting pretty hardcore on this, stopping the big dealers. And at the same time maybe looking at dropping the scheduling for marijuana. So I do kind of like the idea of going easier on the users and harder on the dealers of the hard stuff.

According to *Newsweek*, there's a surge in employees who are testing positive for fentanyl. So even though the number of OD deaths is going down for fentanyl, there are more people apparently using it. One of the reasons the deaths are going down is because they got Narcan so they can save you when you're on death's door. But a lot of employees are taking stuff apparently that has some fentanyl in it. I don't know if they know it. They might not know it, but that's a huge problem.

All right, here's an interesting story. According to Fox News, Pilar Arias is reporting. So the FBI did something called Operation Box Cutter and it indicted 22 Chinese nationals and companies for fentanyl precursors. 22 Chinese nationals and companies. So companies.

So Kash Patel says they've seized enough fentanyl to kill 70 million people and they targeted the fentanyl at a source which is what we've always wanted them to do, right, and that led to identifying some companies in China that were making the chemicals that were precursors.

But here's the thing that just frosts me. The companies in China that were making the precursors were openly advertising it. Openly advertising it that they were making precursors for fentanyl for the cartels. So according to this story the

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chemical companies were openly marketing and selling the precursors used for fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. And so apparently they've indicted Chinese companies. So the FBI knows the name of the companies and has indicted them. What happens when you indict a Chinese company? Nothing, right? It's not like the Chinese company is going to say, oh okay, we throw ourselves at the mercy of the American…

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