July 28 Open Thread: Facebook Nosedives, and There Is Much Rejoicing
Nothing typifies modern “journalism” better than this attempt to answer the rhetorical question, “Why are people glad that Facebook stock belly-flopped?” If we’re going to answer that, how about, “Because it turns out a guy who can write computer code might not have any other useful skills for running a gigantic corporation in an ethical manner?”
Better late than never, but Facebook has suspended fuckwit-magnet Alex Jones.
Better late than never, but CBS is looking into decades of allegations of sexual harassment by head honcho Les Moonves, an investigation prompted by yet another Ronan Farrow story in The New Yorker. Remember when people feared seeing Mike Wallace at their doorstep? In that regard, Farrow is the new Mike Wallace.
Try to bring up the possibility that Russian hackers didn’t just break into voting systems to see if they could, that maybe they actually altered vote totals, and you’ll be dismissed as a dreaded Conspiracy Theorist. But the hacking of the systems isn’t just a theory, it’s been confirmed, which demands the question: Why would they stop there? Sir William of Ockham isn’t always right, but he’d scratch his head at the idea that they wouldn’t even try.
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who saw nothing, nothing while his Ohio State wrestlers were (ahem) manhandled by the team doctor, flopped bigly with his attempt to impeach Rod Rosenstein, so he’s trying another gambit to get the homo stuff out of the headlines: He says he’s running for Speaker of the House, which is laughable consider his Freedom Caucus controls only a few dozen votes. But White House senior adviser Sean Hannity endorses him, so he’s got that going for him.
If Cohen Is Telling the Truth, That Ought to Be Ballgame – We now stand at a yes-or-no moment in this country’s history.
The venrable Charles Pierce writing at Esquire.
Is Cohen telling the truth? Signs point to yes, as Brian Beutler explains:
https://crooked.com/article/cohen-trump-russia/
Of those… #3 is the only one that checks out. There is a #4 though.
#4 Cohen hasn’t stated, let alone testified to anything yet. The “leak” could have been strategic to make the prosecution look like it is falling apart when Cohen does testify.
I think that falls under scenario #1 — he plans to perjure himself, a la Frankie Five Angels. That only happens in the movies.
Whenever I think of company stock of companies like Facebook, Twitter, etc I think of this quote and it defines this new concept:
“ I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.”