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5 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
People on both sides of the aisle think my plan to make Trump the King of Florida is dumb, juvenile, unconstitutional, and totally impractical.

If both sides dislike it I must be doing something right!
A friend working for a Florida legislator once took a phone call from a constituent angry about Obamacare. She tried to explain that he should talk to his member of Congress, that this was the Florida legislature. He screamed at her and insisted there was no such thing.
In Goliath I found that there was a massive speculative land bubble in the Florida town of Nettie in 1925, which collapsed when investors realized that the town didn't exist. Seriously make Trump the King of Florida.
Florida is responsible for the only two stolen Presidential elections in American history. As King of Florida Trump can steal all the elections he wants! Or make them fair! Either way, he's now the King!
I grew up in Miami and many people live in Florida but there's a paradox because Florida itself is fictional.

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Matt Stoller Profile picture
6 Oct
The threats Facebook and Google made to Australia after that country attempted to regulate them come up in the Cicilline Report on big tech. Apparently @davidcicilline is unhappy when big tech monopolies threaten sovereign nations.
“It would be commercial suicide to be in Amazon’s crosshairs . . . If Amazon saw us criticizing, I have no doubt they would remove our access and destroy our business.”

- Anonymous partner of Amazon to the Antitrust Subcommittee
An attorney representing app developers said they “fear retaliation by Apple” and are “worried that their private communications are being monitored, so they won’t speak out against abusive and discriminatory behavior.”

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6 Oct
1. I'm reading Republican @RepKenBuck's leaked views on the big tech antitrust hearing, and it's quite a remarkable document. First, the Chicago School has lost the argument. Buck endorses the the fact there's a monopoly crisis.

"Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook have used...
2. "... their monopoly power to act as gatekeepers to the marketplace, undermine potential competition, and pick winners and losers, all while simultaneously cozying up to unfriendly nations like China in order to further expand their global footprint."
3. "Big Tech's titans, with a combined market cap nearing $5 trillion, have tipped the technology marketplace towards monopoly. These tech titans have used their dominant positions to hike fees, misappropriate third-party data, steal IP..."

It goes on. This is a Republican!
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Matt Stoller Profile picture
1 Oct
Fascinating dynamic at this hearing on antitrust and big tech. You got three Brandeisians testifying, two moderate Dems, two big tech libertarians, and anti-monopoly conservative @rachelbovard.
Ugh, @Jim_Jordan is such a dumb blowhard. In a serious hearing about monopoly power he's continuing to allege that big tech promotes progressives and censors conservatives. Then goes after Dems for trying to "radically rewrite antitrust laws."
Every single Republican on this subcommittee is serious except @Jim_Jordan. Some of the Rs don't want to change the laws, some do. But no one is a clown like Jordan and his clown staffer Tyler Grimm.
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30 Sep
Glad that @Austan_Goolsbee has noticed that market power and corporate monopolization is dangerous, and that the CARES Act radically contributed to the problem. nytimes.com/2020/09/30/bus…
Why are big companies swallowing the world? It's a *political story.* I published this in 2016 and it still holds up. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
I will say, I find the idea that we never resorted to aggressive competition policy during national crises, as @DanielDancrane asserts and @Austan_Goolsbee repeats, is not really true. Image
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29 Sep
Follow-up to the giant big tech CEO grillings. Thursday is a hearing on how to re-write antitrust. I'm hearing that, once again, @Jim_Jordan is pushing for pro-big tech nonsense. Meanwhile @RepKenBuck is actually trying to fight monopolies. Split among Rs. wsj.com/articles/break…
So @Jim_Jordan tried and failed to sabotage the big tech CEO hearing a few months ago. He's relentlessly working on behalf of big tech.
Ok so @Jim_Jordan's witnesses for the Antitrust big tech hearing follow-up are Christopher Yoo and Tad Lipsky. Both are funded by Google, Facebook, and Qualcomm.

There are some good Republicans on that subcommittee but Jordan is owned by big tech. It's embarrassing. ImageImage
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28 Sep
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.
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