When Harry Met Scully

Detective Fox Mulder of the Revachol Citizens Militia

That’s the neat part — AI comes pre-enshittified!

To be fair, this all started under the Biden administration with the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.

The US is increasingly concerned that, if China invades Taiwan, it will completely lock them out from semiconductor manufacturing and crater the US economy. Rather than flex their soft power and exercise a little diplomacy like the US used to do in decades past, they’ve apparently decided that the invasion of Taiwan is inevitable and the only course of action is to bolster semiconductor manufacturing at home.

Trump, of course, has all the subtlety of a torpedo and his rhetoric here has been needlessly antagonistic… but yeah, this whole thing started under Biden and now Trump is pretending it was always his idea. So really the thing he stole was the policy.

God, I wish I could get groceries for 70…