Overstock CEO Resigns Days After Dramatically Butting Into Trump-Russia Story

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.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1244244

“Dramatically”

That’s a rather creative way to put it

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DERP STATE!1111!!!1111!!!111!!

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Kompromat or batshit?

Why are so many acting so cray-cray?

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How and why does he know this or is he just another nut job? And why does he seem to have some sort of relationship with Barr?

“And a nuclear icebreaker called the USS Bill Barr has snuck up on them and is about to ram midship.”

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OH NOES TEH DEEP STATE GOT HIM!!!

I laugh and laugh.

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So many special ways to tank the economy…so many nut jobs to do it

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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:

“I just don’t know who to believe any more”

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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.

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Well, the Overstock CEO is now listed as Out of Stock. No estimate on when this item will be available again.

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It appears brains was not one of the things Bryne was overstocked on.

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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…

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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”

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Obsolete inventory. Overstock just took a write off and scrapped him.

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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.

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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.

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Let’s “take the wrapper off” and talk about who all put what where. Then say eeew.

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What a moronic asshole. Apparently he believes that real Murican patriots support his delusions, but everybody else is a liberty hating, commie pinko.

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