"I find the corporation's spin, its post-match prancing, annoying enough to be called out.": It could have been avoided if the attorneys general had refused to settle. As you note, the trial "was reportedly going very poorly for the defendants". IANAL, and I'm too far from the situation to have an informed opinion about it, but it's interesting (a terribly elastic word) that the attorneys general declined to press their advantage.
In a perverse way, it's impressive that "[b]illionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller" submitted a slop-ed: it's more evidence that rich people generally aren't smart - not even smart enough to write an op-ed for an audience of fellow sociopaths - just greedy.
I'm old enough to remember when Paul Gigot had a steady gig posing as that mythical beast A Reasonable Conservative on PBS. He was full of shit back then, too.
"I find the corporation's spin, its post-match prancing, annoying enough to be called out.": It could have been avoided if the attorneys general had refused to settle. As you note, the trial "was reportedly going very poorly for the defendants". IANAL, and I'm too far from the situation to have an informed opinion about it, but it's interesting (a terribly elastic word) that the attorneys general declined to press their advantage.
In a perverse way, it's impressive that "[b]illionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller" submitted a slop-ed: it's more evidence that rich people generally aren't smart - not even smart enough to write an op-ed for an audience of fellow sociopaths - just greedy.
I'm old enough to remember when Paul Gigot had a steady gig posing as that mythical beast A Reasonable Conservative on PBS. He was full of shit back then, too.
Why the attorneys general declined to press their advantage:
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/09/op-ed-metas-5-billion-deal-with-the-state-ags-to-take-down-its-rivals.htm
"The quid-pro-quo is not subtle. It's out in the open for everyone to see, but that doesn't make it any less corrupt or corrosive."