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Matt Stoller Profile picture
@matthewstoller
Sep 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Leave Pelosi alone. The New York Times has subpoena power and Congress doesn't.
It's hard to convey how lazy Dem reps are, but I will try.

"House Democrats who have been in hot pursuit of Mr. Trump’s tax returns most likely have no idea that at least some of the records are sitting in a congressional office building." nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"George Yin, a former chief of staff for the joint committee, said that any identifying information about taxpayers under review was tightly held among a handful of staff lawyers and was rarely shared with politicians assigned to the committee."

Glad we elected staff lawyers.
When you work in Congress, everyone with a problem wants to talk to you. It is so easy to investigate and break stories related to public policy if you want to do that.

That is how Dems used to govern. That's how the Antitrust Subcommittee operates actually.

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Dec 18
1. You learn a lot about politicians when the spotlight is not on them. So I want to offer an observation about something Kamala just did - a quiet and almost wholly unnoticed favor to big business and Mitch McConnell - suggesting she would have been a problematic President.🧵
2. In late November, after the election, the Biden White House nominated two people for something called the International Trade Commission. The ITC is the body designed to address cheating by foreign companies who dump products to destroy US producers.

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
3. The ITC is one of those places where free traders have run the roost for decades, crushing industry after industry by refusing to uphold anti-dumping law. It's also a place that few in D.C. care about. Domestic producers? Pffeh, who cares about steel and mattress imports?
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Nov 28
1. This is a useful response in terms of how to understand the Abundance theory of politics. Yglesias is making a *policy* argument about private equity. It's not bad! It depends! We have to be nuanced! Ok, that's true. So what's the problem?
2. People increasingly hear 'private equity' and associate it with pillaging. It's not always true; KKR has done a great job with Simon & Schuster. But it's often true. So demonizing private equity is like demonizing Wall Street - it's a symbol of a society with haves/have nots.
3. That's the *political* story that populists like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump tell. It's a true political story, private equity billionaires are doing horrific things and corrupting politics. We all know that's true. But anti-populists don't like that political story.
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Nov 27
1. There's a fascinating dynamic among Trumpy venture capitalists trying to manipulate the right-wing for their own purposes. For example, here's vc Marc Andreesen saying the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau forces conservatives to lose their bank accounts.
2. Andreesen says the CFPB 'terrorizes' financial institutions and denies them access to the banking system, and says it is going after conservatives. But is that true? Well, as @dorajfacundo points out, the CFPB is doing the opposite.
3. As I've written, Director Chopra has been trying to use anti-discrimination law to *prohibit* debanking. thebignewsletter.com/p/who-loves-wo…
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Nov 22
Trump is a lot like Obama. He is about to destroy the Republican Party as badly as Obama destroyed the Democrats, and for the same reason. He's promised a realignment for the people, he's going to deliver a realignment for Wall Street.
Trump is also a godsend for Democrats the way Obama was for the Rs. In 2024, the Democrats are a spent force, dominated by horrible Obama retreads. By 2028 MSNBC will be gone and a wave of populists will have redefined the Dems as a renewed faction.
Obama and Trump jointly and fully buried the post-Cold War era of domestic politics. Obama took the moral currency of the civil rights movement and openly spent it on Wall Street, Trump proved that voters don't buy into the moral myths of the 20th century anymore.
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Nov 20
1. Identity politics is bad because it's fundamentally a con, a way of ensuring plutocrats control our society. It's the inversion of 'rights' to support authoritarian corporate power. Here are some examples.

*Stopping offshoring is racist.*
2. Regulating trillion dollar social media and search monopolists to protect children from addiction is actually an attack on gay people. wsj.com/politics/polic…Image
3. Another... Getting paid $1500/hour to help steal from chicken farmers is about women's empowerment. Image
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Nov 19
1. Since the new line on why antitrust is bad is the Spirit Airlines bankruptcy, let's talk about what is really happening. Here's a hint. The CEO of Spirit was paid a $3.8 million bonus the week before the bankruptcy. But you don't hear about that. wlrn.org/business/2024-…
2. What's really going on isn't a bad enforcement regime, it's a bunch of greedy incompetent airline executives blaming the government for not letting them violate the law for money. Let's start at the beginning.
npr.org/2024/11/18/nx-…
3. In 2022, there was a bidding war between Frontier and JetBlue over Spirit Airlines. Spirit's board hired a consultant to evaluate, who told execs/shareholders that the JetBlue deal was *illegal." They accepted it anyway since it was more money. financierworldwide.com/jetblues-38bn-…
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