Andrew Weissmann
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 May
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To kind of create this grand coalition of freedom loving peoples who will all trade with one another and none of us will do the kind of business with China that we've done before. Yeah.
And there was an interesting quote in Semaphore, because you bring up Tom Cotton, I don't know if this was Tom Cotton, but it was plainly a person from that kind of Tom Cotton, China hawk wing, just this morning, where he was basically just complaining anonymously to Semaphore about the way this had all been done in such a clownish manner.
So as to not successfully isolate China and not successfully be able to put any pressure on them to decouple from the whole world because of the reasons that I just mentioned. And so I think that I think that it's difficult for them because, again, they don't really want to cut the administration loose or bring down the wrath of God on themselves.
But at no point were the real China hawks really pleased with either the former tariffs or this kind of back off of them now.
Yeah, you wouldn't necessarily have to even put them in the shadow. A lot of them look very similar to one another. Oh, yeah.
Right, right, right. I guess maybe more in the House of Representatives than... Okay, can I just read this to you? This is from Semaphore. In private, some Republicans are still smarting over what they see as Trump's self-inflicted economic wound. So here's the quote. It's been disastrous.
The objective, I thought, and most of my constituents think, is to keep the rest of the world, but China in particular, from ripping us off. So where do we end up? We end up with slightly higher tariffs on China, but we've alienated the rest of the world, one Republican senator told Semaphore. If they can't choreograph a better ending to this, you have to ask, has this all been worth it?
What are we accomplishing? This GOP senator added. So that's kind of the view from from that wing of the party that you're talking about of like, oh, that was all interesting.
Yeah, you're bringing this up to me blind because I had not actually seen this bill.
I do wonder, you say like, you know, images you're sending to your significant other in a different state, but is it even clear just from your description of that, maybe you'd even run into trouble in the same state, you know, if the data itself is somehow bouncing to a data center out of state or something like that. Not a tech policy, tech law reporter, so I don't know how any of that would work.
Let me say one thing on that, which is that I am pretty much of the opinion that the whole notion that like porn is too ubiquitous and sort of universally accessible to do anything about from like a regulatory standpoint. I find that kind of defeatist and lame and not very persuasive. Like smoking used to be totally ubiquitous and we've found ways to curb that socially.
And I think it's pretty bad for people on the whole to just take a modest stance on it.
Yeah, not great. Not great for America to have everybody constantly looking at internet pornography. That's my modest opinion. But I couldn't speak to you about the contours of this particular bill.
The whole internet is just breaking down. The barriers between things just don't really exist and bots are taking over everything. Not just pornography. We're going to have to do something about this World Wide Web, I feel like, Tim.
What would you like to do about the World Wide Web? I don't know. I don't know. It seems bad for people, but it is where we make all of our money. So there's things that go both ways.
Right, right, right. No, I think the best analog to the banning smoking in restaurants things for this is the thing we've seen kind of at the state level, which is these sort of ID verification laws that are aimed at making it harder for kids to access online porn, which I think is a worthy goal in the first place, and also has the useful knock-on effect of just making it
sort of more irritating and kind of tricky for other people to access as well like virginia passed a porn ban or a porn verification law for you know to keep minors off of it and uh you know a few other states have done it as well and like porn hub for instance no longer is accessible in those states um you know obviously all this stuff it's it's the internet people can find ways around all of this stuff but the idea is you know you make it a little bit more stigmatized you you raise some barriers back in the old days before your time not me because you know
Exactly. And those laws have had some success, I think, already. And not just from the MAGA side. I mean, there's been kind of a cross-partisan coalition for some of those things.
I just love this future that we're lurching into where, you know, the median American voter, this kind of swing guy that both sides need to court is this exact guy, this sort of barstool Republican guy, just the dumbest, kind of grossest, most empty headed, smooth brain, like thinking with his dick guy in all of America. And both parties need to court him from now on.
And wherever he goes, they win. And that's just the future of America. So that's really exciting for everybody, especially for me.
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