It’s another control gate on the economy that he can manipulate. He is basically finding ways to insert himself in his amounts of commerce. It’s a trump tax via bribes

nominative determinism

One of my favorite phrases

Oh yeah that’s right, good point

Yes, I inadvertently emphasized your challenge :-/

Hey I built a micro -atx epyc for work that has tons of pcie slots. Pretty sure it was an ASRock (or ASRack). I can find the details tomorrow if you’d like. Just let me know!

E: well, it looks like I remembered wrong and it was an atx, not micro. I think it is ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T and it has 7 PCIe4.0 x16 (I needed a lot). Unfortunately I don’t think it’s sold anymore other than really high prices on eBay.