The US government's filed a lawsuit to stop Microsoft from becoming an even bigger monopoly.
About time, would you say? It, it's long overdue. And, and ironically
what it took was Microsoft trying to buy the video game, video game company, Activision Blizzard.
Yeah. And, and of course we see the monopoly
problems with that. It's, it's almost shocking that Microsoft even had the audacity to say,
we're gonna do this because who's gonna stop us? We're gonna do this because we can.
Yeah. Basically there's, we don't have a, we don't have
a government entity because now, now when you look in the back, you look at really behind this story,
you're seeing that the very people who are supposed to be regulating them have come from
the tech industry. They've come from Microsoft. So what we see is, you know, the tech companies
are simply, it's a revolving door. You move from the tech company to regulatory and nothing ever
happens. I mean, whether you're dealing with antitrust issues, mono, monopoly issues like, it
doesn't make any difference because they all come from the industry. The same thing and I can't,
I can't say this enough time, the movie Dopesick. Now, as you know, we started the, we started the
opioid case right here in this lawsuit. That, that was the national opioid case that we started
right here. And it, I was, I was hesitant to watch Dopesick because I didn't think it would, I don't,
I always think they don't get it right. Yeah.
This movie got it right. But the most important thing that they said is they told the story how
the FDA was responsible for thousands of deaths all over this country, all over the world. The FDA
made the decision that, hey, we're gonna let this happen. And the person who made the decision for
the FDA who told the doctors that the opioid was less than 1% addiction problem, after he did that,
you know, where he went to work, he went to work for Purdue. The people who manufactured
the product. Went to work for the Sackler family, the people who were responsible for thousands,
hundreds of thousands of deaths. And so, it's just that revolving door thing, man. It just never
changes. We, we, I say it all the time, the FDA is completely dysfunctional, utterly dysfunctional.
And when you watch Dopesick, you'll see as, as you're, as I'm watching that, I'm almost, I'm
feeling like I'm living through it because I took, I took the depositions in that.
Yeah. I mean, you know, I was there in the middle of
it taking the deposition, asking these questions, and they really get it right. And you'll go,
you'll get so angry, Farron, when you watch how government entities were captured by the industry.
And, and with this particular suit here, which again, kind of shocked they're even doing it at
the FTC, but good for them. Mm-hmm.
It, it, it's reminiscent, just so people kind of understand what we're looking at,
back in the good old days where you had the movie theaters owned by the movie companies.
Mm-hmm. And they would say, our movies can
only show in our theaters. Our theaters can only show our movies. Big lawsuit obviously broke up
those monopolies. And that's the exact same thing thing here with Microsoft who makes Xbox trying
to buy the video game company. You can't own the platform and the content and everything else under
the sun. So to me this seems like a fairly easy lawsuit. The government should be able to win.
It, it won't. They'll put the dumbest
lawyers they have on it so, so they lose. It's not, the problem I, I've, I've come to
the conclusion after reading, because I've always been so troubled by what in the hell is wrong with
the Department of Justice. What's happened with our governmental prosecutors? And the truth is,
the best trial lawyers coming out of law school, they're not going to government work anymore.
They're going into private industry. And so you have kind of the, I, I call it the, the pencil
pusher nerds. The people who were top of their class where it came to writing and they, you know,
they're great, they're great on memos and they did make great grades. They graduated at the top,
you know, 1% of their class. But the, those aren't the people that you want going to trial.
And unfortunately that's what's happened with I think a lot of these governmental agencies.
Farron, thanks for joining me. Okay. Thank you.
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