Posted on 07/28/2024 6:40:44 AM PDT by Twotone
If Donald and JD win this November, JD will make one interesting VP.
The NFL. I don’t like it.
Buy a season ticket after paying for license fees. Too many games to pay for so if you sell a few and use the NFL system they charge up the ass. They got ya by the short hairs.
In other words, just because you have a Yale law degree it doesn’t make you knowledgeable about the Constitution.
Assuming the story is true, Vance is engaging in rabid leftism, and using the Commerce Clause in ways the Founders never intended.
Bottom line, there is no enumerated power in the Constitution granting leftists or alleged conservative bureaucrats the ability to break-up companies. “Anti-Trust” law is the bastard child of a progressive/“living Constitution” approach to the Commerce Clause.
If you don’t like that reality, try the empirical reality: do you REALLY trust the Justice Department to break up firms? They’ll do it in a way to make them stronger.
Here a better idea. Big Tech is imploding on its own. Leave business alone. Do something worthwhile, like lowering taxes and shedding regulation.
Populism doesn’t need to be stupid. It is here. And this guy is starting to come across more and more as bright as a dim bulb. Trump should have picked Elise Stefanik.
Populist = democracy?😯
Let’s see. You go to a doctor who’s office paid millions for an MRI machine. Don’t you think they’ll order MRI’s up the king yang?
Dentists and mechanics tell you what you need done and thereby create more work for themselves on a subject you know nothing about. How about separate testing services with no stake in your treatment? Mechanics less so.
Vance and others clearly hold that many Big Tech entities are not free market constructs at all, but government-favored monopolies which would not exist in their current form without the protection and endorsement of the state.
Interesting
He can start with Google; but some regulation might do the job with less effort in certain cases, i.e., by eliminating political discrimination by banking and other large entities.
How many government contracts do these big tech companies get ? They get plenty of cheap labor that we have to import.
There is some logic to breaking them up for security reasons since if one place fails the entire system falls apart
His known role will be to attend international funerals.
No complaints here. Google/Youtube have been banning people not on the left and Section 230 needs to enforced. They also conspired to keep other companies from having access to their app stores. Free market my arse.
Excellent. Bust up Alphabet (ie Google/Youtube). They are the worst of the worst.
After them Facebook, Amazon and Apple and need to be busted up or severely pruned back also.
Vance is on the money here. These tech oligarchs colluded to silence anyone on the right in the last several elections. It was all part of Hillary’s 2016 campaign to silence free speech. If that demon had won, we’d have ‘hate crime’ laws making it illegal to say something they don’t like. And every tech oligarch was fully supportive of it.
When has there ever been an interesting VP?
DoodleBob, you are always on the wrong side. I remember when they broke up Ma Bell and innovation skyrocketed and prices fell. In 1981 a friend of mine had a girlfriend that lived 30 miles away in another town and the little idiot racked up a$250 dollar bill calling her. That would be like $1000 in today’s money.
Make sure you keep up with your clot shot boosters.
People don’t buy a car based on the quality of the spare tire. Vance is ballast for the ticket.
However…see this story
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4252781/posts
Uh oh. Since he’s worked on regulatory legislation with Warren, Brown, and Durbin - who are enemies of capitalism - then he is a leftist on such matters until proven otherwise.
And this story, while trying to put lipstick on a pig, doesn’t inspire confidence in Vance’s ability to pass Econ 101. Anti-Trust=living Constitution, ie leftism. Again.
If Trump makes it back to the WH this guy should be walled off from that wing of the Administration. The populist anti-“Wall Street” rhetoric coming from a former VC guy with a Yale degree is comical.
Populist….Opportunist is more like it. Blah blah blah. What next, will he join an Occupy encampment to show how down he is with the working man?
Again, Trump could have done better but he also could have done worse. Vance is an ok battery backup. Just keep him away from anything related to economic policy until he reads “Free to Choose” by Milton Friedman.
So, you like Elena Kagan, Sotomayor, and KJB’s living Constitutional theories. Got it. Good to know.
Have a blessed day.
lol…. By bringing in skilled and college aged migrants. Their plan to increase the government big business partnership should wake up every American worker or someone whose sons daughters are making a decent living.
The continual meetings with labor unions and woke corporations aren’t fooling anyone… same tactic as the covid tyranny. “Trust the Experts”
Their plans will make the 90s tech worker replacement look like kindergarten games.
When a corporation becomes too big it becomes a government unto itself. It kills its competition and strives to extract as much wealth from the nation as it can without adding any value. Breaking up monopolies doesn’t steal money from shareholders ,it just forces the newer, smaller entities into competition between one another fostering innovation, value and more freedom of choice. I remember when there were only a few types of phones in a few colors and they were expensive.
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