Trump's visit to China

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In reply to Anarchistbear • 2:53p, 5/18/26
Anarchistbear said:
Cal88 said:
Elon Musk post from his visit to China:



Musk is constantly feeding off the teat of government so he would be impressed


He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries. Without Tesla, the US automobile industry would have been on life support.

Also, infrastructure projects like high speed rail have a huge amount of positive externalities that supersede short-sighted profitability analyses.
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In reply to Cal88 • 3:45p, 5/18/26
Cal88 said:
Anarchistbear said:
Cal88 said:
Elon Musk post from his visit to China:



Musk is constantly feeding off the teat of government so he would be impressed


He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries. Without Tesla, the US automobile industry would have been on life support.

Also, infrastructure projects like high speed rail have a huge amount of positive externalities that supersede short-sighted profitability analyses.

Here, I fixed it for you: He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries using government handouts.
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In reply to calpoly • 3:57p, 5/18/26
calpoly said:
Cal88 said:
Anarchistbear said:
Cal88 said:
Elon Musk post from his visit to China:



Musk is constantly feeding off the teat of government so he would be impressed


He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries. Without Tesla, the US automobile industry would have been on life support.

Also, infrastructure projects like high speed rail have a huge amount of positive externalities that supersede short-sighted profitability analyses.

Here, I fixed it for you: He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries using government handouts.

Tesla received loans, subsidies, tax credits, and contracts earned through the competitive bidding process. They were hardly handouts in the sense of unconditional gifts with no expectations.
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In reply to Cal88 • 5:59p, 5/18/26
Cal88 said:
Anarchistbear said:
Cal88 said:
Elon Musk post from his visit to China:



Musk is constantly feeding off the teat of government so he would be impressed


He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries. Without Tesla, the US automobile industry would have been on life support.

Also, infrastructure projects like high speed rail have a huge amount of positive externalities that supersede short-sighted profitability analyses.


In places with high density, not the unconscionable Highway 99 full employment act for lawyers route. Highway 5 was a possibility with 20-mile sections with nothing but farmland, and a wide median... almost like our forefathers planned for future transit. When the Highway 99 route was chosen, firms from France and Japan - where they have high-speed rail - immediately pulled out.

I've read assertions that powerful Democrat political families bought land along the H99 route, but haven't seen the proof. They allegedly made a killing reselling the land back to the State.
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In reply to movielover • 5:19a, 5/19/26
movielover said:
Cal88 said:
Anarchistbear said:
Cal88 said:
Elon Musk post from his visit to China:



Musk is constantly feeding off the teat of government so he would be impressed


He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries. Without Tesla, the US automobile industry would have been on life support.

Also, infrastructure projects like high speed rail have a huge amount of positive externalities that supersede short-sighted profitability analyses.


In places with high density, not the unconscionable Highway 99 full employment act for lawyers route. Highway 5 was a possibility with 20-mile sections with nothing but farmland, and a wide median... almost like our forefathers planned for future transit. When the Highway 99 route was chosen, firms from France and Japan - where they have high-speed rail - immediately pulled out.

I've read assertions that powerful Democrat political families bought land along the H99 route, but haven't seen the proof. They allegedly made a killing reselling the land back to the State.


That's how Leland Jr U was built, right?
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In reply to calpoly • 5:28a, 5/19/26
calpoly said:
Cal88 said:
Anarchistbear said:
Cal88 said:
Elon Musk post from his visit to China:



Musk is constantly feeding off the teat of government so he would be impressed


He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries. Without Tesla, the US automobile industry would have been on life support.

Also, infrastructure projects like high speed rail have a huge amount of positive externalities that supersede short-sighted profitability analyses.

Here, I fixed it for you: He's created hundreds of thousands of jobs in key industries using government handouts.


He build a private sector company with a market cap of over $1 trillion in a key sector, that sold nearly 10 million cars around the world. The Tesla market cap dwarfs the public funds it has received.
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9:38a, 5/20/26
Amuse: Xi Warned Trump About the Thucydides Trap. Trump Proved China Is the One Caught In It.

"The International Monetary Fund's April 2026 projections place US nominal GDP at $32.4 trillion against China's $20.65 trillion, a US lead of roughly $11.2 trillion. As recently as 2021, Chinese GDP had reached approximately 75% of US output. That ratio has now fallen back to roughly 65% and is widening in America's favor. The Wall Street Journal reported in December 2025 that China's share of global GDP peaked in 2021 and has been shrinking since....

"Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, the closest thing the demographic profession has to a magisterial authority on China, called the 2025 birth crash "a demographic shock of the sort typically associated with dire calamities like famine or plague." RAND Corporation projects that China will lose 250 million people by 2050, roughly three-quarters of the entire current US population....

"The most advanced AI chips on earth are now being manufactured in Arizona, a fact CEO Jensen Huang has publicly attributed to the Trump administration's manufacturing push. Apple alone has committed $600 billion to US manufacturing over four years, its largest such commitment in company history....

"The American intellectual class has spent a decade teaching Americans to accept a future that the data never supported. Hanson, in three sentences, ended the spell. The Thucydides Trap was never history. It was a political narrative, and its purpose was American retirement. The retirement has been canceled."



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