Catherine Rampell

like illegally coordinate with the Europeans to do what she couldn't do under US law, whatever.

Then Trump comes in, tariffs away any hope of their survival because they do need inputs from abroad.

And now the Chinese own it.

Yeah, for cents on the dollar.

So it's like, you know, the stupidity of both parties really took this company out of commission.

And again, like, I don't know if it really matters if the Chinese own this company going forward.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, my general view is we overweight the value of manufacturing in the U.S.

across the board.

I guess.

But whatever, let's say you grant people the objective of, like, we want this manufacturing renaissance.

We want to make more robot vacuums so cute little babies and cats can ride around with them and create YouTube content, whatever, with an American-made vacuum.

We're doing everything we can to undermine the possibility for U.S.

companies to build products like that.

Thanks for having me.

Doing okay. How are you?

Doing okay. How are you?

Doing okay. How are you?

Well, I don't know. My 401k doesn't look great. Democracy doesn't look great. But I have my health.

Well, I don't know. My 401k doesn't look great. Democracy doesn't look great. But I have my health.