Chris Power

🚨BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA >SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today >personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock >charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china >used a southeast asian shell company to funnel $2.5B in servers to chinese buyers >$510 million worth shipped in just THREE WEEKS in spring 2025 >built thousands of fake dummy servers to fool U.S compliance auditors >caught on surveillance camera using a HAIR DRYER to swap serial number stickers >coordinated the whole thing over encrypted group chats >SMCI down 12% after hours >faces up to 30 years in federal prison ITS SO OVER…

. You thought I was joking about Reindustrializing America. I was not. Tune in March 20th for the the start - not the end - of the largest private Marshall plan ever devised. Alabama and F4 is the start. Winning the Production war is the end.

You've seen the story that the Headhunters have been retained in recruiting Investment Bankers for an Economic Defense Unit. Here's the Deck going out to potential candidates:

The empire fired off its arsenal trying to intimidate Iran, and all it achieved was exposing the hollow core of American power. A superpower doesn’t scramble for a bailout because a regional state answered back. A superpower doesn’t call defense CEOs to the White House like panicked paramedics around a dying patient. This is what strategic exhaustion looks like. Tehran absorbs the blows and responds with precision. Washington burns through decades of stockpiles in 72 hours and then passes the hat around Capitol Hill. The mask is slipping.

Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as “John Barron,” we want to put this to rest: it was not the president. The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered, in-person White-House meeting with the governors. Tune into C-SPAN for the actual president at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.

I hadn’t appreciated how close the Crisis of the Third Century came to ending the whole thing for good. It was on the path of a standard late imperial crackup. Then a handful of great leaders managed to stitch enough of it back together so it could hang on for centuries.

"The Singularity started while everyone was reading the Epstein files" -- a little too on-the-nose, come on.