The CHIPs act also favored union work and even funneled some money to worker owned shops.

It overwhelmingly favored Intel, for better or worse. And the early influx of cash did nothing to prevent Intel from axing 15,000 jobs.

I’m not here to praise Trump for any of his trade policies. But what Biden pitched through the CHIPs Act was largely a bailout for under-performing domestic producers more focused on dividends than scaled production or R&D. He’d have been better off nationalizing Intel than just handing them bricks of cash in the form of grants and low-interest loans. That is (kinda) what Trump ended up doing when he ordered the Treasury to take a 10% stake in the firm.

MGT is the voice of reason

She’s a contrarian. Don’t mistake Tucker Carlson tier reactionary hot takes for reasonable analysis

US Politicians React

American politics in 2026 sounding like a third string influencer YouTube stream from 2012.

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It’s an outdated legalism. 250 years ago, the patent office operated as an incentive to record and register ideas to the public in exchange for exclusive commercial license.

Now that simply isn’t an issue

quietly

Stop putting “quietly” in your fucking headlines, you hacks. This wasn’t “quiet”, it was very publicly announced.

That said, there sure are a lot of Teslas and Rivians driving around today.

Toyota outsells Tesla 10:1.

You notice Teslas because they look bizarre, while Toyotas fade into the crowd. Same with Rivians. Ford fully outstrips them by volume, but damn if that chasis doesn’t pop.

If you have an electric car that can recharge in the same amount of time that it takes to fill the tank with gas

You don’t. Even the highest end Chinese EVs need a solid 5 minutes to get to 70% charge.

I’m stick stuck on hybrids for the off instance I need to make a 400 mile drive.

Damn shame they cancelled that HSR through Texas. Would love to not drive at all.

one president signed a bill to move chip production to the US then the next president raided the chip-making facility and arrested all those chip-making people for trying to show the locals how to make chips

Chip making production has begun to migrate largely as a consequence of the Trump tariffs. The Biden plan to send Intel a few billion in kickbacks in exchange for a chip fab industry that wasn’t the laughing stock of the planet only enriched shareholders and executives.

I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Maybe Operation Low Voltage, which was a raid on a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia? I can’t find anything about a raid on a chip fab plant.

In fairness to Trump leadership, a bunch of these workers were, in fact, overstayed on their visas. Although, as usual, Trump sent guys in with shotguns to do what a sternly worded letter would have just as easily accomplished.

But these are the two faces of Western Capital. The bailout and the beat down. Liberals throw money at the problem. Conservatives slap you around on the thinnest pretexts. Neither president seems to have benefited the US domestic consumer.

It’s debt stacked on debt. The money isn’t real, just the consequences of decades of credit expansion.

Now we either deal with a cascading wave of defaults (a la '29, '73, '86, '08, and '23) or we rush in with state credit to bail out all the private lenders.

But there’s very little real money in real pockets. At the end of the day, it’s borrowing power that makes you a billionaire.

But he will be gone soon enough.

The fossil fuel lobby is older than Trump and far more influential, digging its roots deep into both major parties back to the Cleveland administration.

groups of demographically and geographically similar kids often grow up to have similar worldviews to their parents

But then you leave your home and co-mingle with other demographics and your worldview changes.

Censorship is never the answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Formally banning certain forms of vulgar and bigoted expression establish a code of conduct for the community, even if they aren’t strictly enforced.

Teaching values and the corresponding ethics and morals that come with it is closer to the answer.

Morality is as much about proactive and affirmative pursuit of justice as internalized codes of conduct.

If there is no social consequence for immoral behavior, there is no reason to believe the act is immoral.

His kids will be raised to be just like him though

Is that what normally happens with kids? Not my experience

fuck yo dumbass little oversized sperm cells.

Hey, let’s not bring the kids into this. You’re not the one who has to live with this thin skinned fascist.

But if Mom wants to lend her little guys to me for a crash course in gender theory, I’m happy to provide.

This money isn’t just vaporizing. Someone is cleaning up on these skyrocketing prices.

Kyrsten Sinema appreciation thread

It’s a look behind the curtain at how political strategists actually think

You can join the IDF, do war crimes, run for office in both major American political parties, and scream antisemitism if anyone suggests being a member of a foreign military implies duel loyalty.

But woe to anyone recounting historical events

Literally just a recounting of historical events.

Hassan has previously been questioned by police over similar allegations and has been under investigation since late 2023 for statements related to Hamas following the Oct. 7 attacks.

Sounds line the government is just harassing her

the post title is ragebait

Seems like the events are rage bait