After abruptly butting into the Trump-Russia narrative in a surprisingly public way, and sending his company’s stock plummeting, the CEO of Overstock.com announced his resignation Thursday.
Right now, Trump is reduced to his minions using, literally, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs in a quest to muddle reality in as many ways as possible before Justice is even halfway applied to Trump. The longer it takes the more muddly it gets. Including stuff that this particular joker is peddling.
Rachel has an intro and exposition, a couple of nights ago, by another outfit doing similar stuff
The goal is for Judy and Joe Sixpack to sit back in their easy chairs, glaring at the tube and saying:
Did anyone see Confessions of a Dangerous Mind? This is like that. The fantasies of an ass, tangled up with some reality and none of it important to anyone. This, of course, was somewhat meaningful to the shareholders who said God who’s running this company and rushed for the door. Ridiculous. Someday these people will matter less, we’ll hear less of them, and life will be better.
OT, but here we go…we’re all familiar with the GOP being the REAL party of minority rights because Lincoln…well, now they’re claiming women’s suffrage and women’s rights…also because something something 1800’s…
Byrne claimed in Carter’s July article that, between 2015 and 2018, he had a relationship with Maria Butina, who would later plead guilty to being an unregistered Russian agent. The relationship, Byrne told Carter, eventually turned romantic.
“Eventually turned Romantic” ? yuck - trying to not guess as to what he meant by that … the plot from “Pretty Woman” ? … or … “Irma la Douce”
The term Patriotic American has lost all meaning. Also too, you want to see someone take action, tank your stock price, reactions to that are swift and decisive.
A close friend of my befriended the CEO of overstock years ago and ended up working for him on a site called Deep Capture. Eventually, the friend, like Patrick Byrne, become more and more unhinged with these deep conspiracy theories. One theory in particular, Naked Short Selling, involved Wikipedia editors, numerous financial regulators in NY, and one Crazy Eddie, the guy who sold discount stereos on the east coast.
I’d get links to podcasts and instructions like, “OK, about 90 minutes in, things get really interesting.” He just got to be so crazy that I stopped speaking with him and cut him loose. It’s really sad — he was a really smart guy - a University of Chicago graduate who was witty, had a keen grasp on economics, and could riff on so many subjects. Down the rabbit hole.