Salem Brought a Guillotine

This week's "Who Said It" is about the moon, factories, and robots — and the person who said it has a very specific financial interest in you believing every word of it.Tesla ticked up on news that deserves about as much celebration as a contractor showing up on the day they said they would. SpaceX jumped because interest rates stayed the same, which tells you everything about how these valuations actually work. We run the math so you don't have to embarrass yourself at a dinner party.Russia is throwing everything it has at Kyiv right now and the weapons they're using are banned by an international treaty that neither Russia nor the US ever signed — which raises some uncomfortable questions about the moral high ground. North Korea also brought the whole crew, and the US response was to announce there's no immediate threat — we have thoughts about what "immediate" means when you're lobbing missiles at a European capital. Ukraine's Patriot stockpile is at a third of last year's levels and Trump has stalled on the replacements, but Honeybadgerstan keeps innovating — a new drone debuted this week that's going to make you look up the F-117 Nighthawk, and a certain drone factory director had a very bad week that ended in a hospital somewhere.Trump is suing Capital One and JPMorgan Chase for "debanking" him after January 6th — a story that left the news cycle in under 24 hours, right around the same time the White House announced a crackdown on undocumented immigrants using the financial system. We connect those dots slowly and carefully.Salem, Oregon brought a guillotine to a city council meeting about an AI data center and we are giving them a standing ovation. Andy Ogles lost his primary despite a full Trump endorsement, and Max Miller is doubling down on a race he's losing by double digits for reasons that become very clear once you hear what's come out in his divorce proceedings. It is not a glory hole. It is considerably worse.In case you want to read more about the Ukrainian Bravo drone, here's the linkTriada Robotics’ “Bravo”: Can It Catch Up to Russia?Got feedback? We want to hear it.