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The AMD deal announced on Monday also has a circular element to it. In exchange for agreeing to buy AMD chips for its data centers, OpenAI will receive a warrant in that chipmaker that amounts to a 10 percent stake. As the value of AMD stock grows, OpenAI could use its gains to … well, buy more AMD processors. ................. Some analysts and investors note that

vendor financing was prevalent during the dot-com boom, obscuring the true nature of demand for the industry’s offerings

— something that they worry could also overstate the robustness of the A.I. ecosystem. ...........

Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller. President Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left. Over the past four weeks, he has initiated what amounts to a unique form of partisan civil war designed to amass power in a nominal democracy and defang, decimate and defund the opposition. .......... Trump’s assault on the left combines the use of the available tools of violent conflict — the military, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE in particular — with the prosecution of critics (and people he just doesn’t like), cuts of essential funds for liberal institutions, the use of regulation to threaten businesses with bankruptcy, the criminalization of free speech and the blackmailing of corporate America into obedience. ......... “We will not live in fear, but you will live in exile, because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power, and if you have broken the law, to take away your freedom.” .......... For Trump and his allies, recent developments, including the government shutdown, the indictment of James Comey and the assassination of Kirk, are openings to escalate the attack on institutions and programs identified with liberalism and the Democratic Party. For the MAGA right, any crisis is an opportunity. In fact, every crisis is. ........... The assault has become increasingly brutal as Trump and his allies intensify their demonization of all things left of center, by which they often seem to mean

anything to the left of the hard right.

.......... There is no doubt about what Trump is doing in the wake of Kirk’s killing. His attacks on his political opponents are purely authoritarian, and he sees the killing of Kirk as an opportunity to accomplish what he has been talking about since he entered politics: using the power of the state to punish those who defy him. .......... The reason that the Reichstag fire is such a poignant example of a pretext for an authoritarian power grab is not because it is unique, but rather because the consequences are now seen as so severe. ......... There is a crystal-clear pattern of leaders throughout history using moments of threat to expand power, usually at the expense of legal processes or civil rights. In retrospect, we can see those moments for what they were, but at the time, they are hard to push back on........... Last Wednesday, the Energy Department announced the cancellation of 321 energy project awards totaling $7.5 billion, almost all of which are in states that share three telltale characteristics: They voted for Kamala Harris; they have Democratic governors; and they have two Democratic senators, a group that includes California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington. .......... On the same day, the department announced that it would withhold $18 billion that had been previously awarded to New York City for two massive public works projects: extension of the Second Avenue subway line and a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River. .......... The assault is relentless........ On Sept. 25, the Justice Department, under intense social media pressure from Trump, persuaded a grand jury to indict James Comey, a former F.B.I. director, on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding, in connection with his testimony before a Senate committee in September 2020............... the indictment “represents the most significant legal step yet by the Trump administration to harry, punish and humiliate a former official the president identified as an enemy, at the expense of procedural safeguards intended to shield the Justice Department from political interference and personal vendettas.” ............... the F.B.I. had fired as many as 20 agents who had been photographed kneeling in connection with the killing of George Floyd in 2020. Five days later, the director of the F.B.I., Kash Patel, fired a longtime bureau employee who displayed a Pride flag in his work space. ............ On Sept. 30, Trump told top military officials gathered in Quantico, Va., that some Democratic-run cities should be used as “training grounds” for the military to crush “the enemy from within.” ............... Crucial to the Trump agenda is the drive to “cleanse” the federal work force of “woke” employees, prosecutors seen as anti-Trump — or even those who are pro-Trump but won’t do his bidding — and top-ranked military personnel whose loyalty to Trump is uncertain. ............ the climate of fear and paranoia resulting from a “broad crusade against so-called ‘woke’ ideology in the military. .................... Active-duty troops stationed at bases across the country say the effort has helped unleash a free-for-all of leaks and accusations, feeding an atmosphere of intense suspicion.” ......... taking advantage of a violent event to advance the oppression of a disliked group is a classic technique of aspiring autocrats. ................ Theda Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology at Harvard who has been closely tracking movements on both the left and the right, showed no hesitation in declaring that Trump and his allies “are trying to provoke protests and demonstrations that they can call ‘violent’ even if there are fewer destructive elements than after the usual big football victory or loss.” ........... “Trump’s militaristic posturing and rhetoric is to lay the basis for sending in federal forces to scare away voters in 2026.” ........ “Trump,” he added, ........ wasted no time in blaming the left broadly for Kirk’s killing, and in short notice deemed “antifa” a terrorist organization (despite it not being an organization at all)............... “What we are witnessing,” he went on to say, ......... is not yet a war, but it is far more than mere political division. It is a systematic terror campaign on institutional legitimacy. The president is brilliantly weaponizing the animosity cultivated in the electorate over the past 40 years, using it as a pretext to justify his attacks on his perceived enemies. While political violence and polarization remain serious concerns, our primary focus must shift to countering the deliberate democratic degradation unfolding before us. The conflict is no longer defined by the distance between the left and right, but by the state-sanctioned assault on the norms, laws and institutions that guarantee a liberal society. ................. Trump’s enduring success is not in breaking a specific institution, but in the ideological capture of an entire political party. He has turned what was once Republican anathema into orthodoxy: the weaponization of the Justice Department against political enemies, the use of military force for domestic policing, and the casual suppression of speech. The most permanent damage, however, is the precedent. With these guardrails shattered, the temptation for a future Democratic administration to launch its own campaign of retribution — using a weakened system for its own ends — becomes immense. This is the grim, iterative nature of democratic backsliding: each transgression lowers the floor for the next, creating a cycle of political revenge that, once started, is nearly impossible to unwind. ............... Trump’s goal, in Wilentz’s view: “eliminate all political opponents, as, by definition, enemies of the state. This includes, above all, the Democratic Party, described by Miller even before Kirk’s murder as ‘a domestic extremist organization.’ ” ........... The biggest challenge that aspiring autocrats face is that their citizens still have rights, freedoms and real political power. In a functioning democracy, citizens can still vote their leaders out of office and there’s nothing a democratically elected leader can legally do about it. That’s why autocrats-in-waiting often look for ways to get rid of these constraints. They can rig elections, suppress opposition or, as history shows, manufacture a crisis that justifies emergency powers.......... Provoking violence is a common way to do this.............. The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied. ............... They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely. ............ At this point in his second term, the president’s authoritarian power play is clear for all to see: use pretextual claims of urban violence and immigrant crisis to expand presidential power through emergency powers and intimidate the political opposition through muscular displays of National Guard and troops in urban areas. Pretextual claims, however, must be at least minimally plausible, or they will fail court tests. .............
Miller: "We stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. And for those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us: What do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy! You are envy! You are hatred! You are nothing! You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity."