Hello all - I hope everyone is well. I am a moderate seeking opinions of people who identify as republicans on the issue of Nationalization of AI. I am not trying to grift, insult, mock, or otherwise be rude. I genuinely want people’s opinions/responses to my below thoughts.

A core driver of the advancement of AI is a quoted “AI Race” between the United States and China. What are your thoughts on the consequences of losing this race? I believe that the first country to achieve artificial super-intelligence (ASI) or artificial general intelligence (AGI), will have an unprecedented competitive edge, if not the power to rule and surveil any country without the technology. It is possible that this “singularity” may never be achieved, but even a small probability of ASI is a massive threat to the established world order - i.e. relative world peace.

To sum up my thoughts: “It is better for America to win the AI Race because we can prevent or deter Chinese world domination.” Is this the general conservative/republican belief? What holes/issues with this assumption do you find?

If we can agree on that assumption, then I would like to present a second idea. Should this technology be *heavily* regulated and/or nationalized?

The power that a private corporation would possess once ASI is achieved would be immense. A domestic non-benevolent company could arise that wishes harm to the American public/government. I believe that it is in the best interest to nationalize the development of AI and integrate it into our defense strategy.

I believe this to be the best for America for two reasons. We could develop the technology without the need to turn a profit. AI capex grossly exceeds revenue and likely will for a few years - the costs of refurbishing existing data centers with new chips every few years is also massive. This isn’t sustainable for our economy and could crash the investment portfolios of common and wealthy Americans alike if this truly turns out to be a bubble.

Secondly, the Department of War will need unprecedented access to AI deterrence and defense tools. There may even be a branch of the military specifically for this purpose. This is a weaker argument, but I think it is compelling nonetheless.

What are your thoughts?

Why Capitalism is necessary and why we need to fight hard to keep capitalism in the 2026 midterms:

Democrats also want to blame the rich people for everything. They want to blame rich people for their high cost of living. But here’s the thing: the top 10 lowest cost of living states are Republican and 9 out of 10 highest cost of living states are Democrat except for Alaska. This is due to high taxes and services cost more in these Democrat states. And most of this tax money is just a waste. 

Want to know why college costs so much? The Bennet hypothesis that was made in 1987 says student loan forgiveness and other college government programs are giving more money and universities know they can charge more. If people went to community college more where you can get the same degree and went to a cheaper 4 year state college and you looked into it then many universities would have to lower their prices to still keep making money. This is the student loan problem inside of America.

Healthcare? Obamacare. Good healthcare companies can no longer compete with each other for better health insurance because the government intervenes too much and the top medical companies stay at the top because they are supported the most by our federal government and no third parties can do much about it. 

The Biden administration injected too much money into the economy, triggering inflation that for a while has permanently raised the floor for food and consumer goods. Now our grocery prices are going to be too high. And what do you want Trump to do about it? Burn all our money? We cannot do that. But from January 2019 to now: the vast majority of that inflation has happened under Biden and since January 2025 it has not risen as much. 

And also, why should we tax the rich people insane amounts? They are the ones who hold the economy. They are the ones giving people the jobs, and when high urban cities tax them they are just going to move elsewhere. Higher taxes on rich people and capital gains can reduce the money needed for business investments, startups, and it makes creating a business really hard and expands the wealth inequality. Therefore, taxing rich people these insane amounts Biden wanted will create something called socialism and it causes countries like Venezuela and the Soviet Union problems.

And you may ask: What about the poor and needy? Extreme poverty has dropped sharply worldwide as free markets and trade expanded over the last two centuries. The rate dropped to 3.5% in September 2019. And for women? It dropped to 3.6% which was the lowest in decades. And for other demographics? Asian women were even lower at 2.7%, latino women at 4.7%, and black women at 5.6%. And was the overall unemployment rate under Biden? 6.4% at the peak and 4.1% at the end. That is worse than 2019 by a lot! And while we could blame COVID-19 for this, January 2025 was years after the pandemic. Biden’s massive federal spending packages, like the American Rescue Plan, fueled high inflation rather than helping the labor market heal naturally. Donald Trump's administration in his first term helped with poverty and homelessness by shifting federal funds away from unconditional housing toward "Treatment First" models that require actual work and find people jobs.

And people want to blame Trump for the national debt reaching $40 trillion, but for the most part he is just inheriting the interest. This is like Andrew Jackson giving the issues of removing the national debt to Martin Van Buren. And also: most of this debt is owed to our own country, not other countries. So we could compromise with our own people instead of blaming the rich people and needing socialism. A kid doing $10 for chores for their mom and dad and giving their siblings $7 of it and they keep $3 and he would rather keep his money than get taxed a bunch on the bond profit interest he makes. 

‘USAID report finds more than 100 UNRWA employees participated in Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7,” President Trump posted on Truth Social this week.

The U.S. Agency for International Development is closed, but its Inspector General’s office is still doing good work holding groups such as Unrwa, the United Nations’ forever-refugee agency for Palestinians, to account. Why, then, is the orphan IG’s future in doubt, even as the President cheers its work?
Preventing taxpayer dollars from enriching terrorists is a worthy objective. This IG’s office is unique in its ability and willingness to investigate such corruption abroad, which requires overcoming obstacles raised by the U.N. and foreign-aid complex. Yet the office is at risk of being swallowed by its State Department counterpart as part of the effort to eliminate USAID.
That would be a shame, especially given the burgeoning success of the Unrwa investigation. The IG’s earlier report led the compromised U.N. agency to fire 70 Hamas-linked employees, and the 108 caught participating in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack is only the beginning. The office expects to expose more than 1,500 Unrwa employees tied to Hamas, according to a U.S. official briefed on the investigation.
The contrast with the State Department IG’s office, which today isn’t on record conducting any misconduct investigations into U.N. agencies receiving its U.S. funds, makes the case for keeping the USAID IG around.
A bipartisan amendment to the defense reauthorization bill would redesignate the USAID IG’s office as the “Office of the Inspector General for Foreign Assistance.” Since USAID is now defunct, the name change is a good idea.
More substantively, the amendment from Sens. Jim Risch (R., Idaho) and Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.) would preserve the IG as its own office in the State Department and expand its authority to follow foreign-aid money across most agencies. The State IG is busy scrutinizing embassies, much as the Agriculture IG focuses on food-stamp fraud. Foreign aid is its own opaque area that other IGs aren’t equipped to handle.

The IG’s work also supports the new Board of Peace in its efforts to build something better in Gaza. For too long Unrwa and the aid complex have subsidized Hamas, hired its members, and kept generations of Palestinians in permanent refugee camps that incubate terrorism. These groups looked away while Hamas tunneled underneath their facilities and stole or taxed aid to support its terror army.

The IG’s latest finding confirms that a Palestinian caught on tape throwing the corpse of an Israeli into a car trunk—to be taken to Gaza on Oct. 7—was an Unrwa social worker who doubled as a Hamas operative. Yet after Israeli leveled that accusation in 2024, a U.N. investigation brushed it off, explaining that “the evidence provided” could prove guilt only if it were “authenticated and corroborated.”
That satisfied the Europeans. If the USAID IG weren’t doing the work of corroboration, as the U.N. never bothered, Unrwa and its many terrorist employees would get away with it.