With all due respect to mjwx, I would have been inclined to mark it -1 Implausible. Wait, that doesn't exist. Okay then, +1 Funny.

None of the $40 million is David Rush's to give to anyone.

Plausible deniability. That's what it is.

They do come in handy in the spy business. Maybe more than one's education and work background.

I plead Poe's Law on this post.

But to the facts: his political affiliation is not clear. There are those who are trying to tie this to the Democrats by pointing out the time-line. The thefts allegedly began in 2009, during the first Obama administration.

On the other hand, it appears the overwhelming majority of the theft (the tens of millions of dollars) occurred between November 2025 and March 2026.

Whatever administration this guy served under (and he served under administrations run by both parties) the amazing thing is that he apparently lied so much on his résumé and yet got a job, not just in some company, or even in some government agency, but in the CIA. What the hell.

Indeed. Not to mention the first two items in the GP's Google-generated list are pieces of legislation that restrict states, not AI companies. Except for some protection for children in the TRUMP AMERICA Act. And protection for conservative free speech.

More like a history of defiance. For example:

- Carrying out deportations to El Salvador, despite a judge's order to halt the transfers.
- Withholding billions in congressional funds for Medicaid, school lunches, and low-income housing, in defiance of a Temporary Restraining Order.
- Misuse of the Alien Enemies Act to deport 100 alleged gang-members, despite a judge's order that they be returned to the US.
- In his first term, attempted circumvention of court injunctions regarding the travel ban from majority-Muslim countries.
- Ignoring legal instructions to restore programming and adhere to editorial-independence protections regarding the Voice of America.

[*blinking*] How ... is that a problem?

OpenTACO?

[oh, I'm gonna catch hell for that...]

I think the term you're looking for is Presumption of Regularity. And yes, the courts are granting it to the government less and less.

TFS says OpenAI and Anthropic support this legislation, but Google and Apple (via Chamber of Progress) do not.

If Google and Apple suddenly change their minds, then I'd say you may be right about this being a "paper tiger."

I have interacted with drnb before. It goes nowhere.

Just stop. You'll only encourage more disingenuous responses from him by replying.

I expect he'll reply to the post I'm making right now. I don't care. He can be wrong, and I can just fold my arms and allow the rest of the world to see it.

You think Huang is encouraging China to buy his products by massively increasing his presence in Taiwan, implying the investment could go to China instead?

I didn't read it that way. If anything, this move seems to sweeten Taiwan as a target for China to take over. And I don't see that as being in Huang's or NVIDIA's favor.

Certainly there are strategic advantages to being in Taiwan, but China's covetousness over the region is not one of them.

The XFL was definitely not enhanced. They were very much against it, actually. But yes, I remember.

The XFL died because of mediocre players, low viewership, and gimmicky production values.

Yup. It's known as a shift of the Overton Window.

Not to mention it was named after a NASA administrator.

The Apollo space program that put Americans on the moon wasn't 100% US-supported either. I daresay nobody will claim it wasn't a "US space project."