25 thoughts on “Carley’s Domain Name”

  1. Well, the best role for a Republican VP is as an attack dog vs the MSM. Glad someone is auditioning for the role. Of course, she hasn’t annoyed enough elites yet to have get the Sarah Palin treatment yet.

    = not an authentic woman.

  2. Hilarious. That was expertly played.
    My favorite part is how it exposes how cheap and hypocritical the joke they were trying to have at her expense is, and how really, for them it is even worse.

    She is running for pres and didn’t register a .org domain of her name. Oops? Seth’s show was trying to poke her for not registering a .org domain in her name, and they so lacked introspection and an ability to integrate knowledge of the very topic they were using against her that they failed to check the .org domain in the hosts name. And she exploited that, after she let them play up their joke and stuff that whole foot in their mouth. So funny. The casual “actually it was really cheap” was just gravy 😀

    He played into her hands so nicely I could almost believe it was collaboratively scripted.

    1. You think 30 thousand people without a job is a joke?

      She has demonstrated time and again that she doesn’t get the tech sector. Some people claim it is because she came from marketing. But when I look at successful marketing led CEOs, e.g. Richard Branson, they at least know how to capture and retain clients which is something she utterly failed at doing.

      The best ones also defer technical decisions to technical people. She is buzzword oriented.

      1. How many people are without jobs because of federal policy implemented by Democrats?

        1. Dude. It’s like this. Are you interested in cleaning up the trash or piling it on?

          1. I would never want to downplay people losing their jobs, or blithely dismiss real suffering. However, I very much doubt the choice was between letting 30,000 people go, or giving them all a big raise + a company unicorn for transportation.

            It would be very much more helpful if you could say something along the lines of: “Her choices were A and B. She chose B, but company XYZ chose A and now dominates the market.”

      2. What part of “Meyers tried to make her look stupid, but she used his own methods against him” don’t you get?

        1. The part where she’s trying to become President, and he’s… (correct me if I’m wrong)… not.

          So:

          1. He made a Presidential candidate look stupid.
          2. She may or may not have made him look stupid.
          3. She still looks stupid, and he doesn’t care.

          Seriously, regardless of whether she may or may not have done the right thing at HP, if she’s nominated, the Internet will be full of techies slamming the very business record she’s supposed to be standing on. I just can’t imagine why anyone thinks she’s a viable candidate.

          1. . I just can’t imagine why anyone thinks she’s a viable candidate.

            The same people who though Mitt Romney was a viable candidate. Or that she was a viable candidate in California. Perhaps they need to lose again to learn something.

      3. I don’t get this at all. The measure of her success is how many people she had to fire trying to get her company back on its feet? What is it, a jobs program?
        I’m not in any way saying she did a good job – I know nothing about it. But counting jobs is an absurd measure. I’m afraid that my first assumption is that people who can’t tolerate the idea that a conservative could have done well will just swallow this kind of nonsense without checking it or thinking about it.

        1. If she was trying to save the company, I could agree with you. She wasn’t in it to save HP. She split the company, spins off anything not a computer or printer then buys Compaq? Oh and then expands a completely unrelated service business? This is not how you grow a company – it is how you build an empire. But of course she had an out with a really nice bit of cash and stock whereas the people who were let go (for some really stupid reasons) struggled to find work? Not buying it or her brand of business.

          1. There are a few things you are perhaps unaware of:

            Compaq owned the former DEC at the time. I know because I left DEC just before they became “Compaq’d”.

            DEC was floundering for several reasons but one of them was that in the late 80’s early 90’s DEC was successful and therefore they went into this enormous hire mode and got hugely fat.

            Hugely.

            Then, too, it didn’t help DEC that Ken Olson didn’t think desktop PC’s would be a coming business niche. So DEC declined; Compaq merged or acquired them (I forget which), and when Carly got a hold of HP, HP had already acquired Compaq and therefore acquired DEC’s fat.

            There was a lot of over-hiring in the late 80’s early 90’s. There were positions created such as assistant meeting facilitators, and a lot of silly useless positions. Companies got sclerotic.

            Quite often a new CEO had to wield the axe.

            Now since I wasn’t around when Carly took over, I don’t know what the status of things were. And I do know that a lot of HP employees didn’t like her. But that’s not unusual.

    2. He played into her hands so nicely I could almost believe it was collaboratively scripted.

      I think that sums it up. These are the sort of games she’s played before. Having said that, this still places her above a good portion of her competition. It’s really a terrible field out there these days where even a scripted move like that still stands out as a positive.

  3. The dems ‘know’ they’re smarter. That’s just a given don’t you know?

    She stuck a pin in his balloon. It’s something all repubs need to learn.

    They are buffoons that need to be ridiculed. Publicly. Relentlessly. Without a shred of mercy. Every time. Until they go cower in the shadows, where only other cowards ‘know’ how much smarter they are.

    1. It worked for Obama. One joke about the 1980’s wanting their foreign policy back and asking questions about Russia’s role in world events was off the table for the rest of his term.

      Is that a good thing?

  5. I’ll tell you what….if Carly says that one of the major methods she will use to restore freedom, opportunity and liberty is en masse layoffs in the Federal government I’ll consider voting for her.

    1. I am in agreement with this^

      Not that I’ve done a lot of reading about HP’s layoffs and performance pre and post, but HP is still around, and appears to be doing ok as far as my interest (very little) has discerned. I own a HP laptop, it seems a better value than some I’ve owned built by their competitors over the years. Also potentially limited by my interest, I’ve seen very little in the way of argument that those layoffs were wrong for HP to do, or executed poorly, stupidly, with bad effect to the company, etc. Layoffs are not on their own good or bad, it depends on context, just like amputations.

  6. People I know and respect that were at HP at the time thought she was selfish stuck up thin skinned and incompetent.
    They still work for HP and they have ZERO good things to say about her. The only people that did well in that deal were the executive suite that got huge merger bonuses…

  7. Didn’t know much about Ms. Fiorina before all this, but I gather one of the things people have against her (other than her posing a possible threat to Hildabeast) is that she eliminated jobs. (That is, if I have this correct she eliminated some jobs while making it possible for other jobs to continue.) As someone who was downsized out of a job I held for about 25 years, I find such criticism coming from “liberals” amusing. If you want to see jobs eliminated big time, keep allowing “liberals” to mismanage the economy.

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