Sacks
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first heard Aug 2024
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And all I'm saying is, I think if you had to be a betting person- They settled on that, right?
It was a consent decree. Basically what happened is for 10 years, the DOJ became the product managers of all critical projects inside of Microsoft. Right. The point is this, which is that when Microsoft went through this, the government, and they had broad support, used that consent degree as a way to essentially hobble this company so that other competition could come in.
That competition was- Yeah, I don't disagree.
I agree with you. It wasn't just in the narrow scope of where that initial focus started. I hear you. And what I'm saying is, this judge will read that for sure. And if Google gets away with just having to do something around tack and search- They have dodged an enormous bullet.
No, I think if Sachs gets his way, it'll be a big O outcome and they're going to break the company apart.
Well, Sachs is here. What I'm saying is the little O outcome is meaningfully worse than where this lawsuit is.
No, I have no bashing to do. I will say two things. One is that I think his stance on this trans stuff is a little problematic in these swing states. I say a little only because I think it matters more what Kamala's stance on all these topics are. But I do think that where... there's going to be a big judgment issue around her selecting him is if there is veracity to the stolen valor claims.
And so when Sean Ryan, as an example, incredible podcast, if you guys don't listen to it, it's great. But when he gets to the bottom of this, and he will, Tim Waltz better hope that he told the entire truth.
I saw that quote. That was really jarring, actually.
I don't understand, by the way, I saw the dating process that Donald Trump had with his VP candidates, right? Sachs and I saw some of it really up close. Explain it. Yeah, explain it. Well, I can only speak to what I saw, but it just seemed to me that there was this month long audition where I think they were just trying to figure out, I'm guessing here, completely guessing.
where these folks stood on things, but also he was trying to get a sense of the person and whether they got along and whatnot. But what I also suspected is that this person was being highly, highly scrutinized behind the scenes on everything that they've said or done, where the person who's going to make the pick in that case, Donald Trump, was deciding, can I live with these issues or not?
What the articles about the VP process on the Democrat side was more painted along the lines of there was a meeting and she kind of liked him. And so she went with him. And I agree, I don't think there's an anti-Semitic bone in her body, to be totally honest with you. I don't get that sense at all.
Yeah, that's not the issue, but the calculus, right? But what I would say is, this is the number two person. I mean, maybe you should spend more than a day, and then maybe people should be really vetting this person behind... closed doors on all of the things that could go wrong. And I mean, you have to assume that that happened.
This is what I was going to say. So there's a great quote, and I don't know if this ever made the light of day, but there was a moment where was thought of as a potential VP nomination. He was like a real big Democrat stalwart. And I don't exactly know the claims, but I'm not going to go there. But the phrase that I was told is, doesn't vet.
And what it was, was a way of saying, look, we take our time. We understand everybody's background. We know what skeletons are in folks' closets. In that example, whatever was going on was sufficient enough where he would never really get nominated for something very, very big.
I think that's sort of what comes up here, which is that in this impassioned desire to make a decision quickly, I still think the Democratic Party had an extra two or three weeks to make sure Tim Walz really bets. Now, I don't know whether these claims are true or not.
Again, somebody will get to the bottom of it, but it creates a pall over this campaign too early and where I think Kamala probably wants all of that noise away so that she can define what she stands for. It's sort of what we said last time. go after these five big issues that people care about, go into the five states on these five issues, and try to win this election.
She can't do that if this is like, oh, what is your decision-making like? Why did you pick this person? Why did this person lie? So they have to nip this in the bud very quickly.
CNN reported that Kamala thought that Shapiro was too ambitious.
Shapiro is really sharp. I mean, that guy is unbelievable.
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