Writer, PR, public policy persuader in SoCal. logos: The appeal to reason. pathos: The appeal to emotion. ethos: The persuasive appeal of one's character.
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Trump and Musk will pull out all the stops to bury Joe Biden’s economic triumph, including arresting Biden and his top economic aides. But even against Musk’s corrupt spending, facts are stubborn things.
Exhaustingly bad take. Platner’s handlers from the left wing establishment covered up a criminal freak whose debased character would’ve cost us Maine & more. Schumer made an overly safe choice of someone, yes, past her sell by date but who would’ve been an honorable candidate.
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The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far:
- The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT)
- Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg)
- The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT)
- The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT)
- Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia.
- Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia.
- Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia.
- Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world.
What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point.
The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.
US intelligence agencies believe @Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy
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No, the issue here is that Morris Katz is getting glazed as some kind of electoral genius. Morris Katz helped cover up Platner's range of psychopathic behavior, thus endangering a seat in Maine + the Dem party writ large. Morris Katz's continued prominence makes this a story.
You’re so focused on DSA you ignored my first point, the expense of campaigning in FLA & more efficient use of scarce $$ in smaller less expensive states, where polls were better.
Ideally invest more in Nixon. But there was an opportunity cost. You’d have made the same choice.
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While the @DemSocialists were attacking mainstream Democrats, @RepJeffries was lining up candidates in red-to-bluedistricts that included ministers, combat veterans, farmers, prosecutors, and other centrists from blue-collar backgrounds.
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I’m not criticizing her at all. But the DSA affiliation was a mistake that hurt her at the margins.
Jolly’s near miss as a non-DSA is a sign that at least statewide FLA is still solidly MAGA despite all the Trump fiascos. The biggest far-right state left.
“Promised a steel mill?” That was a hoax the GOP let Trump get away with because it happened on a day ending in Y. You lost votes over that by massively underestimating the voters’ intelligence.
You’re being childish ignoring Schumer’s role in identifying & recruiting Talerico. Your cartoon narrative of mainstream Dems flocking to Crockett is both false & racist. Is the Bernie Bro left really bragging about shutting down ANOTHER black woman?
Take the many L’s and STFU.
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I have known Chuck Schumer for 16 years. I worked closely with him and his staff when I worked for Harry Reid. I have a lot of respect for him and have also had my differences over the years.
The job of leader happens mostly behind the scenes. The traits that make a good leader are not the same as what makes you good at social media, etc. Reid was famous for saying off-message stuff—lord knows how he would have fared in the age of social media.
When you’re in the majority, the job is about setting the agenda and passing bills that help people. When you’re in the minority, you’re at the mercy of the majority in terms of the agenda, so the job is mainly to get back in the majority.
By that measure, Schumer succeeded wildly on Tuesday.
He oversaw the biggest Democratic sweep in the Senate since Watergate, recruiting candidates who fit their states and putting them in position to win states many had written off long ago. He was an early believer in Mississippi, for example.
You can litigate this or that decision, and I certainly didn’t agree with them all—but when you step back and look at the big picture there’s simply no way to argue with this historic achievement.
To me, the question of whether Schumer deserves to be reelected as leader after the most dominant performance by Senate Democrats in more than half a century is straightforward, and the answer is clearly yes.
In an underdog race that even in a blue wave would be close, every liability matters. There was no upside to declaring DSA affiliation, and an obvious massive downside.
I bet when Angie runs again in 28, the DSA tie is gone with the wind.
Who bats 1.000? Not your dear leader Bernie. Janet Mills would’ve been a hell of a lot better than that rapist Nazi fuck the left united behind. Platner, remember him? What about Fetterman? He beat a solid center-left guy in the primary. Now he’s all but a MAGA. And Tulsi? OMG.
You are actually saying record numbers of voters voted for Democrats because they wanted to get rid of Schumer and Jeffries?
You should’ve printed that out and looked at for awhile to make sure it made any sense before posting it.
Dear The People,
Do you really think pretending you speak for “The People” persuades any actual people?
Sincerely,
individual people
Almost every Democrat is a progressive, but only a handful are DSA. DSAs thinking they are the *only* progressives is just one of the many DSA self delusions where they lose me. Joe Biden is a progressive but he’s not a narcissist. If he was a narcissist he’d be DSA.
You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. Schumer endorsed both Jackson and El-Sayed. For someone with so many strong opinions you’re weak when it comes to facts.