(Texas Attorney General) Ken Paxton, one of the greatest legal minds of our (or any other) age, plans to sue a big tech company with thousands of employees in Texas and *planning* to open new offices and a big new data center there. Gosh, I sure hope he has standing.
When a nearly indicted politician who believes in the laissez faire free market is after you. This is the state where a fertilizer plant blew up a small town and everyone looked the other way. This is as amazing as when Bush blew all the cigbsettlement money and the claimed the Texas miracle of the balanced budget.
Irrational big tech hatred is popular/populist right now - nothing surprising about this at all. This retard, like many other retards, think Google/YouTube/Twitter/etc... are "libruhls tryin' tuh censors muh".
It's funny to me how much the definition of a "monopoly" has changed. Used to be you were someone who had sole or very nearly sole control over something, typically a physically limited resource or one tightly government controlled, think oil or phone lines.
The States that joined Texes in the "Texas v. Pennsylvania" voting lawsuit were: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia
The States that are joining the Google lawsuit are: Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah.
Intersection: Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota, Utah (total 6).
Since Gingrich and company's "revolution" of 1994, Republican elected officials have taken the process of campaigning via legislation and legal action to staggering lows. They pass laws to impede abortion that they fully well know will be struck down by courts, they pass laws to suppress minority votes, and they start lawsuits that they know they will lose solely for the purpose of getting free publicity before their base. The notion of solving problems has disappeared completely from the GOP playbook. The
Irrational big tech hatred is popular/populist right now - nothing surprising about this at all. This retard, like many other retards, think Google/YouTube/Twitter/etc... are "libruhls tryin' tuh censors muh".
It's funny to me how much the definition of a "monopoly" has changed. Used to be you were someone who had sole or very nearly sole control over something, typically a physically limited resource or one tightly government controlled, think oil or phone lines.
Nowadays you can have literally 50 alternati
Interesting.
The States that joined Texes in the "Texas v. Pennsylvania" voting lawsuit were:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia
The States that are joining the Google lawsuit are:
Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah.
Intersection: Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota, Utah (total 6).
Since Gingrich and company's "revolution" of 1994, Republican elected officials have taken the process of campaigning via legislation and legal action to staggering lows. They pass laws to impede abortion that they fully well know will be struck down by courts, they pass laws to suppress minority votes, and they start lawsuits that they know they will lose solely for the purpose of getting free publicity before their base. The notion of solving problems has disappeared completely from the GOP playbook. The