Senate legislation challenges MLB’s antitrust exemption. But!

The worst Senators you know made a great point, only they made it in order to demonize the marginalized people they hate.

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You know the whole “The worst person you know just made a great point” meme? The one with the bald dude staring into the camera with a look of annoyed realization and acceptance? This is an article about that sort of thing, except for the parts where I will remind you that these are, in fact, some of the worst people you know, and the point they’re trying to make is mostly cosplay they’ve dressed up in, in order to shout the kind of opinions that make them some of the worst people you know, but professional-like.

Got all that? Well, this should help explain. Republican Senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Josh Hawley introduced legislation to the U.S. Senate challenging MLB’s antitrust exemption. To introduce this legislation, they released a joint statement saying:

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Senate Judiciary Committee is asking questions about MLB’s antitrust exemption

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I can’t sit here and tell you that the Senate Judiciacy Committee questioning the legality of MLB’s century-spanning antitrust exemption is going to go anywhere productive. What I do know, though, is that the lone road to removing the antitrust exemption goes through Congress, and not the Supreme Court, so this is news worth taking note of all the same.

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