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Then open the House for regular order & vote on it. The Speaker controls that.

Just a random idea - negotiate a bill that will get the support of a majority of both houses.

Just a reminder - we’ve been through this. US troops were protecting Syrian Christian’s & we withdrew them unilaterally. And Ukrainian churches & Cathedrals are regularly attacked & destroyed. Churches in Gaza have also been struck & razed, including some over a thousand years old.

Nando, Murph, Mattingly, Delgado.

Serve it to his family on a gold platter.

AI hopefully you’re a democrat even if you’re not a Democrat.

There’s no follow up. Trump is a real brew of emotional, psychological & sociopathic pathologies.

BOC!!

This is is the go-to “I haven’t seen it.” It’s a fave of GOP congresscritters.

I appreciate your responses but I do stand by my point. The article is very clear on the two issues.

The thing with Mike Johnson doing the daily presser reminds me of Trump’s Covid pressers, which were a political disaster. Johnson is totally different of course - nebishy, wormy, whiny, unappealing - but that’s also a problem. That’s the face of this shutdown.

I don’t think this is a bad point at all (insult aside). Yes Cuba is in Venezue & Russia has sent men & assets there & Iran has sent military hardware as well.

You’re talking about the Blackwell chips, right? Or as the learned president says the “super-duper” chips, correct? To answer your question, yes, the Trump2 expansion of recent export controls on our best technology (this is a whole classification not a single product) has been paused.

I asked you to explain your point further. No, to me it doesn’t make sense that the administration finally agreed to terminate access to a wide range of entities to the nation’s most advanced technology then changed course. And it also makes no sense that this dubious rope-a-dope strategy based on the assumption that China will stop researching & stealing our advanced technologies just because we give them access to it would be affected by the opportunity to continue doing it for another year. - All ears, it’s an interesting topic.

So the discussion about tge on again / off again technology controls is at an end. I appreciate the response.

I have to say, the number of people on this board since 1999 must be really, really small.

A pardon to someone he claims he doesn’t even know is worse than even the wildest theory they claimed about Biden.

What expert strategy was behind the administration’s decision to place additional export controls a few weeks ago? And if it’s beneficial to let access continue (on the dubious assumption they’ll just stop spending & stealing to compete) why would limiting the extension to a year matter?

That’s right, it’s strategic vagueness. What’s ridiculous is saying, 1. Xi didn’t raise it, but also 2. China knows which means we’ve told them, and also 3. Trump can’t enunciate it because while China knows it’s also a secret.

The Trump administration is shutting down Radio Free Asia.

The other side knows but I’m not telling you my secrets.

O'Donnell: "Are Maduro's days as president numbered?" / Trump: "I would say yeah. I think so, yeah."

2018 Report - Trump repeatedly suggested Venezuela invasion, stunning top aides

Sounds like Junior & Erik are running the autopen.

This is a little odd - I’m not excluding all your other comments but the Prospect raised two issues, both of which have been well reported elsewhere. - One is the expanded export licensing controls. There has been a loophole in older regulations that has been permitting out competitors & adversaries to access some of our best technology. We belatedly finally tightened that loophole a couple weeks ago, but for some reason - it has no connection to trade, nor should it - it was tethered to Trump’s trade discussions and was delayed another year. Totally, pointless, useless, self defeating. It never should have been a part of the discussions. But Trump *loves getting dragged into “deals” which just allows our adversaries to play him every time by engaging him with horse trading on unlinked matters. - The *other issue, which you do raise, has to do with the US’s Blackwell chips. Here’s the reputed nephew of an MIT professor who also had to get backdoored into Fordham discussing his sophisticated understanding of this technology. - There was even less than ZERO reason for dragging this onto the table. I’d have to think even the likes of Rubio & Bessent had to claw it back off the table to keep Trump from giving it away to ‘his friend’ Xi. All we did was dodge a bullet there. We got to keep a thing we already own but it sounds like it’s being treated as some sort of win by the Ballroom Presidency & lord knows what we surrendered for that privilege..