Apparently the Overstock dude is one of Trump's whackjob advisers.

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text:
Mike Dunford
@questauthority
Speaking of mendacious mediocrities, who is this motherfucker?

Patrick Byrne
@PatrickByrne
My involvement is I was in the room when it happened. The raised voices included my own. I can promise you: President Trump is being terribly served by his advisers. They want him to lose and are lying to him. He is surrounding by mendacious mediocrities.

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Oh, good. The overstock dot com dood thinks that Sidney and Flynn have come up with a plan with a 50%-75% chance of success. There's no chance at all that this will turn into the kind of calamity of errors that would, in other circumstances, be comedic.

Patrick Byrne
@PatrickByrne
Replying to @ShaunDEllis1981
It is 100% winnable. No martial law required. Sydney and Flynn presented a course that I estimate has 50% – 75% chance of victory. His staff just try to convince him to do nothing but accept it. As a CEO, my heart broke to see what he is going through. He is betrayed from within.

Seriously -

They're going to write books about Flynn, Powell, Byrne, and Trump.

One of those books is going to be the DSM-6.
8:54 PM · Dec 20, 2020

[catbyte]

1. I'm glad I haven't shopped there in years. I just couldn't get into it.

Yuck.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Overstock always seemed like a trash heap to me.

Confirmed.

[Klaralven]

3. Still getting orders from Moscow Center?

Byrne took an indefinite leave of absence from Overstock.com in April 2016 because of Hepatitis C complications.[8] Byrne returned in July 2016 as CEO after Hepatitis C recovery.[9] He resigned in August 2019,[10] following revelations that he had been in an intimate relationship with Maria Butina and comments he made promoting the Deep State conspiracy theory.[11]

[Vinca]

4. Good to know. I was going to look for a couple of chairs and might have checked there.

[NCjack]

5. Overstock is now on my "No Shopping" list.

[Blue Owl]

6. Hopefully it'll be overwhelmed with impossible-to-sell MyPillows and go under

[ancianita]

7. If anyone's interested (I was, and his history is mixed) this week's New Yorker's got an informative

article on Patrick Byrne, his circles of activity (libertarian, Russian, short sell court fights) how he's made his money, etc.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/14/a-tycoons-deep-state-conspiracy-dive

[Aristus]

8. Overstock.com's spokeswoman was the only good thing about that company.

Anybody know if she has popped up anywhere else?...