Back to episode — Episode 2988 CWSA 10/14/25
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new, right? We all know we're in a bubble. Our economy wouldn't even look good except for AI. If you only took AI out of the economy, we'd already be in a recession. So that's how important it is. But he says, and this would match things I've been saying, that there's a risk, but the new tech is coming. And he says it promises a hundred times better power efficiency for the same AI performance. Wh…
← Previous segment →ho walked through Chinese factories. A lot of them are dark factories meaning they don't need lights because there's no human there. It's all robots. And when he watched what China can do to build a car and he watched that China actually has more high-tech features in their car, he didn't know how far China had come. And he looked at it and said, "We basically we can't catch up. That they've already lapped us and our auto industry might just disappear except for Elon." So who knows if that's real.
And that according to Matt Margolis, PJ Media, some of the big Democrat states are already reducing healthcare costs for illegal immigrants because they found out that they can't afford it. So they have to do it quietly since they're so pro-healthcare for everybody. But apparently California and Minnesota, Tim Walz, and Pritzker in Illinois have all rolled back or frozen Medicaid programs for illegal immigrants. So they are quite aware that there's a spending problem with that category. So apparently California alone spends 8.5 billion annually for medical for illegal residents. 8.5 billion per year. Wow.
In other news, Chris Wright, energy secretary, is going to announce maybe this week the Trump administration fusion roadmap. Today he's going to announce it at a gathering of fusion. So the fusion people as opposed to regular nuclear which is fission, fusion would be the no waste, infinite energy, the thing we've been waiting for for 40 years. But apparently we're underspending on fusion some say compared to what we do on regular fission and they're looking to change that and have a roadmap to get us to fusion. That's very good. It's good that that's happening.
Do you know about the system in Ukraine for drones? You know, as I've told you too many times, the Ukraine war is now a drone versus energy infrastructure war. It's also killing people, but the people killing doesn't feel like it's the big thing. They got to get the energy stuff before winter. Looks like that's the big play. But did you know that Ukraine came up with a bonus point program where if you're on the front lines fighting with a drone and you use a drone to get a good kill, you can submit that and you will be first in line for new drone stuff. So parts and replacement parts and bombs that go on drones and everything. So in other words, they have an organized program where the people who are running the drones can get more drones and more resources by being more successful with the ones they have.
Now, does that seem like a good idea? It really does. It seems like an amazing idea because as I told you the other day, they're competing with Russia that has a top-down system where the entrepreneurs don't really get any benefit if they do something good. So not only do they not make money, but I don't think that they would get extra drones just because they did a good job with the ones they had, but Ukraine seems to understand human motivation better. And I would totally try harder if I knew that if I got my kills and proved it, I could get a better drone. And then I get a better kill, then I get a better drone. So it would definitely motivate me and I would guess it motivates the Ukrainians.
So if you were looking for a long-term prediction of who's going to win in the drone on drone, it does feel like Ukraine has an advantage. They don't have a manpower advantage. They don't have a missile advantage there. They have a lot of disadvantages. But in this one area of innovating with drones, I feel like they got the edge and maybe that's enough. I don't know.
So they attacked a Russian power hub again. The Kiev Post is reporting put it on fire. I feel like they're just nitpicking at this point. I wonder if there's a really big attack that's being planned or if they don't have enough drones for that yet.
But I've got a question. Why is the Russian energy grid still sort of working? Is it my imagination or have you not also heard that the American electric grid you could take out the entire grid in an afternoon if you wanted to? Am I wrong about that? I feel like I've seen so many news stories that say, "Oh, our grid is so vulnerable." And then they... I'm not going to say why because I don't need to put that out there. But there are specific vulnerabilities which if you knew how to attack them, you could kind of take out the entire United States without a lot of work. Why doesn't that work in Russia? Does Russia have some magically better technology? Or are
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we really not in that much risk? Maybe it's not as big a risk as I thought. But didn't it seem to you that any major country could take out the entire electrical grid of any other country really anytime they wanted? Doesn't it seem to you that that's like a thing that anybody could do? But they haven't. They're just picking these individual sites off and the lights are still on in Moscow. So I gu…
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