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They don't yet have, in the way that the neo-Brandeisians or the Lina Khan sort of school has now sort of developed a coherent philosophy. You haven't really seen that yet on what they're calling the new right sort of They have this dislike of big business. You heard J.D. Vance talking at the convention about how the days of Wall Street were going to be over.
They don't yet have, in the way that the neo-Brandeisians or the Lina Khan sort of school has now sort of developed a coherent philosophy. You haven't really seen that yet on what they're calling the new right sort of They have this dislike of big business. You heard J.D. Vance talking at the convention about how the days of Wall Street were going to be over.
They don't yet have, in the way that the neo-Brandeisians or the Lina Khan sort of school has now sort of developed a coherent philosophy. You haven't really seen that yet on what they're calling the new right sort of They have this dislike of big business. You heard J.D. Vance talking at the convention about how the days of Wall Street were going to be over.
Yet at the same time, they're relying on Wall Street for a lot of money and support for their party. And so I think that they haven't truly come up with a coherent philosophy yet, aside from we don't like big tech.
Yet at the same time, they're relying on Wall Street for a lot of money and support for their party. And so I think that they haven't truly come up with a coherent philosophy yet, aside from we don't like big tech.
Yet at the same time, they're relying on Wall Street for a lot of money and support for their party. And so I think that they haven't truly come up with a coherent philosophy yet, aside from we don't like big tech.
Gail is a very interesting individual. She worked at the FTC for 10 years. One of her last jobs while she was there was as an attorney advisor to Julie Brill, who is a Democrat. She is a Republican longtime. Her husband was a longtime chief of staff to Mike Simpson from Idaho. But she is Irish, an Irish-American. She grew up in Dublin.
Gail is a very interesting individual. She worked at the FTC for 10 years. One of her last jobs while she was there was as an attorney advisor to Julie Brill, who is a Democrat. She is a Republican longtime. Her husband was a longtime chief of staff to Mike Simpson from Idaho. But she is Irish, an Irish-American. She grew up in Dublin.
Gail is a very interesting individual. She worked at the FTC for 10 years. One of her last jobs while she was there was as an attorney advisor to Julie Brill, who is a Democrat. She is a Republican longtime. Her husband was a longtime chief of staff to Mike Simpson from Idaho. But she is Irish, an Irish-American. She grew up in Dublin.
So she has a little bit of a different perspective on the world, I think. Right after she left the FTC, she actually worked for the Internet Association, which was at the time, you know, the biggest lobbyist for Google and Facebook and all of the big tech companies. And then, you know, so from there went to work in the Trump White House. Yeah.
So she has a little bit of a different perspective on the world, I think. Right after she left the FTC, she actually worked for the Internet Association, which was at the time, you know, the biggest lobbyist for Google and Facebook and all of the big tech companies. And then, you know, so from there went to work in the Trump White House. Yeah.
So she has a little bit of a different perspective on the world, I think. Right after she left the FTC, she actually worked for the Internet Association, which was at the time, you know, the biggest lobbyist for Google and Facebook and all of the big tech companies. And then, you know, so from there went to work in the Trump White House. Yeah.
But after leaving the Trump administration, she worked for a lot of anti-Google companies, Fox Corp and then Roku. So she's very well steeped in the anti-Google arguments and the problems that I guess sort of like mid to small tech companies have. with the tech giants. She's actually a great pick from that perspective.
But after leaving the Trump administration, she worked for a lot of anti-Google companies, Fox Corp and then Roku. So she's very well steeped in the anti-Google arguments and the problems that I guess sort of like mid to small tech companies have. with the tech giants. She's actually a great pick from that perspective.
But after leaving the Trump administration, she worked for a lot of anti-Google companies, Fox Corp and then Roku. So she's very well steeped in the anti-Google arguments and the problems that I guess sort of like mid to small tech companies have. with the tech giants. She's actually a great pick from that perspective.
She knows the technology world and the problems that have arisen from the big tech companies. It's a question of whether they're actually going to empower her to do what they say that they want her to do.
She knows the technology world and the problems that have arisen from the big tech companies. It's a question of whether they're actually going to empower her to do what they say that they want her to do.
She knows the technology world and the problems that have arisen from the big tech companies. It's a question of whether they're actually going to empower her to do what they say that they want her to do.
You have to remember that this case is not just the Justice Department. It is also 48 states. And that includes a lot of Republican attorneys general. So there have been sort of Republican side input into this entire process, both the lawsuit and now the remedy phase. If they want to make some changes to the remedy, they can in March before we go into the trial.
You have to remember that this case is not just the Justice Department. It is also 48 states. And that includes a lot of Republican attorneys general. So there have been sort of Republican side input into this entire process, both the lawsuit and now the remedy phase. If they want to make some changes to the remedy, they can in March before we go into the trial.