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    Martin Shkreli, expert media troll, kicked off Twitter

    Remember Martin Shkreli, who became public enemy #1 after raising the price of a popular AIDS and cancer drug by 50 times?

    Rather than attempting a futile PR campaign, he decided to embrace the villain role. He tweeted constantly, often live-streamed his life, and was unabashedly arrogant and unapologetic. He was a basically a media troll. The media wanted a villain, so he gave them a super villain. It actually worked, as he overwhelmed them and they lost interest in him for the most part.

    Anyway, Twitter -- a company which has long been dogged by cyberbullying problems but only takes action in high-profile situations -- has just kicked him off for photoshopping.

    At issue is this photoshop of Lauren Duca, a Teen Vogue writer who penned an article critical of Trump, Shkreli, and others:



    He photoshopped himself in place of her husband.

    He also invited her to the Trump inauguration via DM.

    He also admitted in another Tweet that he "had a crush" on Duca.

    He also tweeted this today:




    On a side note what's with her eyebrows?

    He claimed that he "admired her resolve". Personally I believe he was never into her, but was just pretending in order to troll her.


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    Called this bozo a socialist on 4 and caught some flack for it. Was told there are no socialist stock traders in the world. LOL. Winds up, he tried to donate to the Sanders campaign.

    Don't get his logic for the big price increase. Who tries to stick it to dying people? He is mega filthy rich. Unless he hoped the govt and insurance would continue to pay for the medicine without batting an eye lash. Otherwise it makes no sense.

    Also the chick he lost his account over is on the horse faced side. Not all that good looking, from OP's pictures anyway. Maybe a 6.
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    He's no liberal.
    I found his live stream on 911 after Hillary fainted via the alt right.
    The thread was "Is he our guy?" Yeah he was their guy, they love indefensible assholes. He had a spot right next to Hitler for a day or two, really.

    I got sidetracked
    That'll get you banned from twitter, damn.
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    I'm really shocked no one has put a bullet in this guy's head. Not for his Twitter antics, but for his general scumminess.

    Most dying people won't kill a death profiteer like this guy because they have children, spouse, heirs, etc. But when you're trying to profit off a population that will often not have kids or a spouse, and young enough to be despondant at a looming premature demise, being so public and obnoxious strikes me as foolish. If you're a gay guy dying of AIDS, you can fade away or go out killing this guy and become a beloved icon/martyr. Many would applaud whomever puts a bullet in this guy's head. I think most would, at minimum, shed no tears.

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    Quote Originally Posted by herbertstemple View Post
    Don't get his logic for the big price increase. Who tries to stick it to dying people? .
    He is Jewish. Case closed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BCR View Post
    I'm really shocked no one has put a bullet in this guy's head. Not for his Twitter antics, but for his general scumminess.

    Most dying people won't kill a death profiteer like this guy because they have children, spouse, heirs, etc. But when you're trying to profit off a population that will often not have kids or a spouse, and young enough to be despondant at a looming premature demise, being so public and obnoxious strikes me as foolish. If you're a gay guy dying of AIDS, you can fade away or go out killing this guy and become a beloved icon/martyr. Many would applaud whomever puts a bullet in this guy's head. I think most would, at minimum, shed no tears.
    skhreli is GOD

    i too thought it was outrageous when i first heard of the price increase, but this is for a very rare drug and for the people who truly have no way of paying for it they can it get for free

    his company makes their money from insurance companies

    #FreeMartin - he is one of the world's best trolls

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by WillieMcFML View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by BCR View Post
    I'm really shocked no one has put a bullet in this guy's head. Not for his Twitter antics, but for his general scumminess.

    Most dying people won't kill a death profiteer like this guy because they have children, spouse, heirs, etc. But when you're trying to profit off a population that will often not have kids or a spouse, and young enough to be despondant at a looming premature demise, being so public and obnoxious strikes me as foolish. If you're a gay guy dying of AIDS, you can fade away or go out killing this guy and become a beloved icon/martyr. Many would applaud whomever puts a bullet in this guy's head. I think most would, at minimum, shed no tears.
    skhreli is GOD

    i too thought it was outrageous when i first heard of the price increase, but this is for a very rare drug and for the people who truly have no way of paying for it they can it get for free

    his company makes their money from insurance companies

    #FreeMartin - he is one of the world's best trolls
    Haha took the words right out of my mouth. This guy is confirmed GOD and if someone actually took the time to listen to him talk at length, they would see that. Been so misrepresented abut that whole situation it is ridiculous.

    He just likes fucking with the media and other dumbasses which makes him a hero in my book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WillieMcFML View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by BCR View Post
    I'm really shocked no one has put a bullet in this guy's head. Not for his Twitter antics, but for his general scumminess.

    Most dying people won't kill a death profiteer like this guy because they have children, spouse, heirs, etc. But when you're trying to profit off a population that will often not have kids or a spouse, and young enough to be despondant at a looming premature demise, being so public and obnoxious strikes me as foolish. If you're a gay guy dying of AIDS, you can fade away or go out killing this guy and become a beloved icon/martyr. Many would applaud whomever puts a bullet in this guy's head. I think most would, at minimum, shed no tears.
    skhreli is GOD

    i too thought it was outrageous when i first heard of the price increase, but this is for a very rare drug and for the people who truly have no way of paying for it they can it get for free

    his company makes their money from insurance companies

    #FreeMartin - he is one of the world's best trolls


    Libtards run amok, the whole thing was misunderstood. he also uses those profits from the insurance companies to make a better and safer drug.

    #FreeMartin

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by snake_in_the_ass View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by herbertstemple View Post
    Don't get his logic for the big price increase. Who tries to stick it to dying people? .
    He is Jewish. Case closed.



    not a jew.


    carry on now
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    Quote Originally Posted by LarryLaffer View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by snake_in_the_ass View Post

    He is Jewish. Case closed.



    not a jew.


    carry on now
    Looked him up once. His parents were teachers in some eastern european country. Don't remember if they immigrated to US or he did. Not sure if he is jewish but at least heavily influenced by socialism. Not just the USA version but the real thing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WillieMcFML View Post
    i too thought it was outrageous when i first heard of the price increase, but this is for a very rare drug and for the people who truly have no way of paying for it they can it get for free

    his company makes their money from insurance companies
    he only rips off the insurance industry, so it's fine? Who the fuck do you think pays the insurance industry rips off to get their money back? and do you really think all those who can't afford it get it for free? Yeah, that doesn't happen.

    fuck this guy. he makes the world a considerably worse place, has the empathy of a brass doorknob, and puts profits over everything, including human lives. worse than wartime profiteers, this guy literally makes the world worse for everyone but himself and potentially his stockholders, but that might not even end up as true after this all shakes out.

    needs to be kicked off the side of a mountain, nevermind twitter.

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    The drug he raised the price on is still one of the cheapest drugs on the market for aids and it only benefits about 1,000 people in the entire united states. he's offered the drug free of charge to people who cannot afford it and also hospital's that cannot afford to keep a bottle of it in rural areas.

    he's forsure not as bad as the media has portrayed him to be but he is a troll. Also he doesn't take a dime of pay/dividends etc with his pharma business that raised the price for this medicine. he said every quarter they have been in business they have lost money and it's not even close, his sister had some sort of rare infection that paralyzed her and he has made it his life mission to fuck up rare infections.

    I'd give him a listen before I just snap judged him based off of liberial media/pundits. my 2c.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
    The drug he raised the price on is still one of the cheapest drugs on the market for aids and it only benefits about 1,000 people in the entire united states. he's offered the drug free of charge to people who cannot afford it and also hospital's that cannot afford to keep a bottle of it in rural areas.

    he's forsure not as bad as the media has portrayed him to be but he is a troll. Also he doesn't take a dime of pay/dividends etc with his pharma business that raised the price for this medicine. he said every quarter they have been in business they have lost money and it's not even close, his sister had some sort of rare infection that paralyzed her and he has made it his life mission to fuck up rare infections.

    I'd give him a listen before I just snap judged him based off of liberial media/pundits. my 2c.

    but the clown himself welcomes being likened to a super villian.

    so fuck him and his fail companies that are being investigated by the SEC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LarryLaffer View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by snake_in_the_ass View Post

    He is Jewish. Case closed.



    not a jew.


    carry on now
    He is an Albanian Jew. Stock market fraud always = Jew.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LarryLaffer View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
    The drug he raised the price on is still one of the cheapest drugs on the market for aids and it only benefits about 1,000 people in the entire united states. he's offered the drug free of charge to people who cannot afford it and also hospital's that cannot afford to keep a bottle of it in rural areas.

    he's forsure not as bad as the media has portrayed him to be but he is a troll. Also he doesn't take a dime of pay/dividends etc with his pharma business that raised the price for this medicine. he said every quarter they have been in business they have lost money and it's not even close, his sister had some sort of rare infection that paralyzed her and he has made it his life mission to fuck up rare infections.

    I'd give him a listen before I just snap judged him based off of liberial media/pundits. my 2c.

    but the clown himself welcomes being likened to a super villian.

    so fuck him and his fail companies that are being investigated by the SEC.
    Acting that way is a means of drawing attention to himself, how do you think Trump won the election? Have you been watching the news the last couple of years? Also why hasn't the media been able to produce a single aids patient that cannot afford this drug that he raised the price on? Because he gives it to them for free.

    And Crowe if you think 1 drug is going to fuck up premiums for regular joe schmo lol I dunno what to tell you. According to the stats 20% of your insurance money pays out for drugs and 80% pays out for hospitals and doctors.

    but yea, this 1 drug is going to crack and crumble the entire system as we know it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
    The drug he raised the price on is still one of the cheapest drugs on the market for aids and it only benefits about 1,000 people in the entire united states. he's offered the drug free of charge to people who cannot afford it and also hospital's that cannot afford to keep a bottle of it in rural areas.

    he's forsure not as bad as the media has portrayed him to be but he is a troll. Also he doesn't take a dime of pay/dividends etc with his pharma business that raised the price for this medicine. he said every quarter they have been in business they have lost money and it's not even close, his sister had some sort of rare infection that paralyzed her and he has made it his life mission to fuck up rare infections.

    I'd give him a listen before I just snap judged him based off of liberial media/pundits. my 2c.
    i have for sure given him a listen, a bunch of times, and he's a good storyteller, but reality doesn't jibe with what comes out of his mouth. Not even close. He didn't raise the price on unprofitable drugs, he raised the price on drugs that the companies were already making good profits from, but Shkreli price-gouges. LOL at not taking any pharma money he earns, some of his former employers seem to think he essentially took/misused tens of millions from them in improper fashion. Also, "everyone who can't afford it gets it free." No, that's really not true with any drug. A portion of people will, but a much, MUCH larger portion will end up going into debt when their insurance will cover a portion but not nearly enough to make the drug affordable at any dosage, or they make doctors come back with alternatives that cost a LOT less but are also less effective. Martin doesn't mention that shit, but its realer than real deal Holyfield. His price-gouging has real world effects on people who are in no position to do anything about it.

    The entire industry is crooked, but Martin puts the rest of them to shame. He's not doing anything new, he's just doing it on a scale most rational people would never consider. You can say not to snap judge him off liberal pundits, and let me assure you I did not. I would say to you, don't judge him by what he says about himself or by the words of people who's only concern is the money being made.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
    The drug he raised the price on is still one of the cheapest drugs on the market for aids and it only benefits about 1,000 people in the entire united states.
    just to be clear, he didn't raise the price on just one AIDS drug. He's done it for a bunch of drugs that were already profitable but had no competitor. It's his business model, for god's sake. Drug price gouging is literally his pharma business strategy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crowe Diddly View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
    The drug he raised the price on is still one of the cheapest drugs on the market for aids and it only benefits about 1,000 people in the entire united states. he's offered the drug free of charge to people who cannot afford it and also hospital's that cannot afford to keep a bottle of it in rural areas.

    he's forsure not as bad as the media has portrayed him to be but he is a troll. Also he doesn't take a dime of pay/dividends etc with his pharma business that raised the price for this medicine. he said every quarter they have been in business they have lost money and it's not even close, his sister had some sort of rare infection that paralyzed her and he has made it his life mission to fuck up rare infections.

    I'd give him a listen before I just snap judged him based off of liberial media/pundits. my 2c.
    i have for sure given him a listen, a bunch of times, and he's a good storyteller, but reality doesn't jibe with what comes out of his mouth. Not even close. He didn't raise the price on unprofitable drugs, he raised the price on drugs that the companies were already making good profits from, but Shkreli price-gouges. LOL at not taking any pharma money he earns, some of his former employers seem to think he essentially took/misused tens of millions from them in improper fashion. Also, "everyone who can't afford it gets it free." No, that's really not true with any drug. A portion of people will, but a much, MUCH larger portion will end up going into debt when their insurance will cover a portion but not nearly enough to make the drug affordable at any dosage, or they make doctors come back with alternatives that cost a LOT less but are also less effective. Martin doesn't mention that shit, but its realer than real deal Holyfield. His price-gouging has real world effects on people who are in no position to do anything about it.

    The entire industry is crooked, but Martin puts the rest of them to shame. He's not doing anything new, he's just doing it on a scale most rational people would never consider. You can say not to snap judge him off liberal pundits, and let me assure you I did not. I would say to you, don't judge him by what he says about himself or by the words of people who's only concern is the money being made.
    So don't take his word for it but take former disgruntled employees word for how he allocated and misused 10s of millions of dollars? K. He's running a publically traded company, the books are open. He is not making any money off of daraprim. He's reinvesting $$$ back into research to find a possibly better version of Daraprim though. Also he's raised prices on a lot of drugs that he owns but of course, lib media just wanted to get those hooks in on one. BTW it's not his fault that he's in business, he's a capitalist not a socialist. That's sort of how the bingo runs around these parts. Clearly the media built this up to an unfathomable level, even yourself just said what he's done by raising prices is not new.

    My entire point is he's not as bad as the liberal media has tried to portray him to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lewfather View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Crowe Diddly View Post

    i have for sure given him a listen, a bunch of times, and he's a good storyteller, but reality doesn't jibe with what comes out of his mouth. Not even close. He didn't raise the price on unprofitable drugs, he raised the price on drugs that the companies were already making good profits from, but Shkreli price-gouges. LOL at not taking any pharma money he earns, some of his former employers seem to think he essentially took/misused tens of millions from them in improper fashion. Also, "everyone who can't afford it gets it free." No, that's really not true with any drug. A portion of people will, but a much, MUCH larger portion will end up going into debt when their insurance will cover a portion but not nearly enough to make the drug affordable at any dosage, or they make doctors come back with alternatives that cost a LOT less but are also less effective. Martin doesn't mention that shit, but its realer than real deal Holyfield. His price-gouging has real world effects on people who are in no position to do anything about it.

    The entire industry is crooked, but Martin puts the rest of them to shame. He's not doing anything new, he's just doing it on a scale most rational people would never consider. You can say not to snap judge him off liberal pundits, and let me assure you I did not. I would say to you, don't judge him by what he says about himself or by the words of people who's only concern is the money being made.
    So don't take his word for it but take former disgruntled employees word for how he allocated and misused 10s of millions of dollars? K. He's running a publically traded company, the books are open. He is not making any money off of daraprim. He's reinvesting $$$ back into research to find a possibly better version of Daraprim though. Also he's raised prices on a lot of drugs that he owns but of course, lib media just wanted to get those hooks in on one. BTW it's not his fault that he's in business, he's a capitalist not a socialist. That's sort of how the bingo runs around these parts. Clearly the media built this up to an unfathomable level, even yourself just said what he's done by raising prices is not new.

    My entire point is he's not as bad as the liberal media has tried to portray him to be.

    c'mon Lewis.

    The SEC has had this imbecile in their sights for a long time. but just like Jordan Belfort, Uncle Sam takes forever. his time will come, just like the Wolf Of Wallstreets did.
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