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Sep 27, 2022Liked by Matt Stoller

Matthew:

Please don't be "sorry for the details". To get the condensed insight you offer here I would have to invest my life and money in the pursuit of articles, reports and periodicals I have no trust or interest in. Lift the veil.

It may not be unusual legislative procedure but my anger immediately flared at Schumer and the stalling of the Antitrust Bill's in the face of the coming election. Machinations by elected political leadership, Google, Chinese influence over American Corporation's, the who, what and why of political appointees all exist in some other dimension for most Americans. Likewise the insertion of an implied "big brother" surveillance capitalist threat into almost all media as a "cooler" on discussion and inquiry. In the broad picture it obfuscates and distorts the national dialogue we deserve and creates a sense of numbing hopeless powerless "what does it matter anyway" in the American psyche.

The ongoing Corporate seizure and control of American agriculture is horror on the hoof. The IMF/WEF/CCP assault on Dutch farmers, the recent object lesson, swat style raid and shut down on an independent Amish farmer and reports that WEF poster boy Bill Gates now owns half of all productive American farmland should be THE wake up call. Efforts by financiers to capture control of the worlds water supply (we own the clouds in the sky) is completely ignored.

Manipulated crisis to crisis no solutions allowed. Americans deserve competent political leadership capable of creating a civil and prosperous future not a cabal of mercenary jackals in the service of totalitarian finance.

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Sep 26, 2022Liked by Matt Stoller

Hey, Matt

If you ever have time for a deep dive into Cox Automotive to how they manipulate prices for banks, dealers, and consumers it would be appreciated.

Thanks, and have a blessed day.

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Will have to call Schumer "my" Senator - he's running for re-election - and give him what for, again ....

The guy is a real %$#@&*

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There are few things more important than curtailing monopoly power because everyone agrees it’s out of control.

As workers and consumers it could be argued that we are now more regulated, policed and controlled by a corporate state than by any government. If you worry about democracy worry about that.

Corporations control everything from baby formula to medicine to wars and now housing and are not doing a good job of it. In fact everything is getting worse - more expensive, less available and lower quality. We need a new Cold War against global monopolies because it seems we are back in the USSR. The free market has been squashed like a bug.

Judges have used the slack in the system to act as proxies for corporate power. Politicians have the power to change the laws that judges must follow they need to use ALL that power. At the very least judges need better instructions (so they can’t pretend to misinterpret them) and it’s the job of politicians to write those instructions. Use big letters.

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Thanks for the update.

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The other parties (libertarian and green) are more or less dedicated to one issue each. Maybe thats only a perception and it’s wrong but that’s what the names of the parties imply. So, right off the bat I’d recommend a 3rd party with a generic name, not a name that appears dedicated to one cause. I believe we’ve had the discussion before though.

I’d like to see a populist leaning party that would attract voters from both other parties but you like the Green Party if I’m not mistaken. The Green Party is doomed by its name, also no one from the Republican Party would ever vote for it. If a 3rd party can’t attract voters from both parties it is destined to be nothing more than a vote splitter and not taken seriously.

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