The biggest issue being that despite having operational fabs here, TSMC still needs to ship their wafers to Taiwan in order to process them into chips.

Sorry, did we invent reasons for the rest of our South American coups? We did like 20 of em in the last century. Just pretended the CIA wasn’t involved.

ChatGPT couldn’t find the original punchline but Gemini is claiming it’s the following:

“Because they have big balls!”

Anyways even if that’s made up, it’s way funnier than ChatGPT’s made up punchlines, and about par for a Laffy Taffy joke.

Edit: ChatGPT and Claude both independently came up with “Because they’re natural at picking up spares!” which is awkwardly phrased by modern standards and oddly specific, so I wonder if that might be the original punchline. A ton of those laffy taffy jokes are just not funny, so it’s possible. Either that or two different LLMs have the same exact sense of humor.