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Boon
Jun 21, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Just got back home, was listening to the BBC World Service talking about the recent debate and Donald Trump:

They were incredulous about Donald Trump actually representing the views of his supporters and instead pointed to Trump's popularity being due to him speaking what he feels and how he feels versus covering it up in political rhetoric. The BBC reporter, in turn, was literally half-laughing at how Trump could likely go "all the way" to become the Republican nominee.

It's just incredibly aggravating to hear this incredulity constantly from NPR and the BBC because if you have even a half-function set of eyes, ears, and a brain and are paying attention to what supporters are saying about Trump it's obvious the follow-up to "Trump really speaks what's on all of our minds!" or "Trump is just doing this as a stunt to get votes." is that the supporters are, in fact, *drumroll* driven by racism and hatred themselves.

I don't get it (or maybe I do?). Are political pundits just driven by blinding idealism about the GOP as being a "serious business" party (and America by extension) that couldn't possibly be this crass, crazy, or hatred-fueled like David Brooks-types or is it willful ignorance and they refuse to acknowledge how proto-fascist and insanely destructive the GOP leaders and electorate has become?

[e]: It's like looking at the recent debate and hearing Trump and Cruz et al explicitly saying we need to murder the families and associates of ISIS and otherwise and then putting fingers in your ears and eyes and shouting "LALALALA! I can't hear you! America is still decent and reasonable in 2015!"

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/h2l2ij/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-who-s-actually-supporting-donald-trump-

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Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

Huh. Okay, so less full-out Nazi hatred and more like literal moth that's attracted to a flame or a bugzapper but can't explain why.

ComradeCosmobot
Dec 4, 2004

USPOL July
Propublica just put out a piece on just how "great" letting business types run a well-known charity really is.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.


The thing that always stands out about these types isn't the greed or anything, it's that it feels like almost to a man (and woman) they all seem to be absolute idiots.

Pixelboy
Sep 13, 2005

Now, I know what you're thinking...

Teflon Don posted:

Lincoln looks depressed

Imagine all the nonsense that bust has been witness to. You'd look glum too.

moller
Jan 10, 2007

Swan stole my music and framed me!

Night10194 posted:

The thing that always stands out about these types isn't the greed or anything, it's that it feels like almost to a man (and woman) they all seem to be absolute idiots.

They laid off a bunch of people and wrote themselves giant checks, which is exactly what they wanted and intended to do though. It's also what the people who chose the leadership team wanted. Where's the idiocy?

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

Night10194 posted:

The thing that always stands out about these types isn't the greed or anything, it's that it feels like almost to a man (and woman) they all seem to be absolute idiots.

Can we not post about the stupidity of nonprofit CEOs? The truth of it is pressing on me, literally pressing air out of my lungs.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

moller posted:

They laid off a bunch of people and wrote themselves giant checks, which is exactly what they wanted and intended to do though. It's also what the people who chose the leadership team wanted. Where's the idiocy?

Yeah, I suppose so. It's just always astonishing that the key to succeeding in business has nothing to do with being able to run an efficient organization, and is primarily based around being able to stay in long enough to loot the place and then talk your way into the next host.

And then everyone talks about how badly we need a businessman as a president because it's excellent prior experience.

Aurubin
Mar 17, 2011

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Aurubin posted:

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

I hope this fuckface is roasted on the news show circuit all day and then roasted again on the night show circuit before being laughed at by his cellmates for being a big-talking shithead.

(Also I hope they confiscate that album and release it to the public or straight up invalidate the purchase contract allowing for its return via one Bill Murray.)

quote:

Retrophin also asserts that Shkreli entered into payoff agreements with as many as 10 MSMB investors who lost money when the hedge fund became insolvent. Shkreli paid some investors through fake consulting agreements and others through unauthorized appropriations of stock and cash, the company alleged.

Complex financial maneuvers were used to conceal the payments, Retrophin said. For example, the company accused its former CEO of fraudulently reclassifying a $900,000 equity investment that MSMB made in Retrophin as a loan. He then allegedly had Retrophin pay off that loan to settle another unrelated legal dispute.

This is just so characteristic of this shitheel, thinking he's a step ahead of everyone and he can just keep finding a new Peter to rob.

Armenian gangs, at least the ones in California, are notorious for long-running bust-out scams (not all of it being laundered through property investments though) so it's cool this happened like 2 days after he talked all that poo poo about being tied in with the criminal underground.

FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Dec 17, 2015

nachos
Jun 27, 2004

Wario Chalmers! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Haha I had no idea he interned for Jim Cramer

Luminous Obscurity
Jan 10, 2007

"The instrument you know as a piano was once called a pianoforte, because it can play both loud and quiet notes."

Aurubin posted:

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

don't worry his gang contacts own this prison

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

nachos posted:

Haha I had no idea he interned for Jim Cramer

MY FORMER COFFEE SLAVE MARTIN? *presses foghorn button* BUSTED FOR SECURITIES FRAUD *sirens* *cell door noise*

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax
Is the GOP debate up on youtube somewhere as one large video? All I can find are 10 minute chunks.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

botany posted:

Is the GOP debate up on youtube somewhere as one large video? All I can find are 10 minute chunks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQe5ShxM2DI

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

Aurubin posted:

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

A good thing to read first thing in the morning :unsmith:

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Aurubin posted:

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

Today is starting out good.

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

Aurubin posted:

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

Merry Christmas America

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

My better, prettier half is getting her doctoral hood today after years of grant writing and mouse slaughter in the name of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience (cliff notes: she learned some neat stuff about how HIV gets into brain tissue and what it does once there, as well as noticing some neat things about ARV treatment against certain types of HIV). While this Shkreli news isn't going to top that, it's still a great start to the day.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Can his board of directors kick him out already

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

botany posted:

Is the GOP debate up on youtube somewhere as one large video? All I can find are 10 minute chunks.
They're trying to prevent alcohol poisoning fatalities.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

Aurubin posted:

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

Someone revealed the Wu Tang secret

Paul MaudDib
May 3, 2006

TEAM NVIDIA:
FORUM POLICE
I hope he comes home from booking only to find Bill Murray with muddy feet up on his couch polishing off the last of his good Scotch.

Optimus Subprime
Mar 26, 2005

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

I hope the feds confiscate the album, and have to stay true to the contract.

The US government will have to protect the Wu-Tang Secret.

(And then I hope it gets released through a FOIA request)

CroatianAlzheimers
Jun 15, 2009

I can't remember why I'm mad at you...


Aurubin posted:

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

A: Goddammit you little poo poo, you're an embarrassment to Slavs everywhere.

B:

quote:

Shkreli both epitomizes the American dream and sullies it.

Lawl, no. The dumb, greedy, short-sighted horseshit he pulled is exactly what the American Dream is. He didn't sully anything, he just let the mask slip a little too much.

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
OK, what the gently caress have they done with the primary threads now. RSF is gone.

Fried Chicken
Jan 9, 2011

Don't fry me, I'm no chicken!

Aurubin posted:

Ha, they arrested this rear end in a top hat for securities fraud. Guess he pulled back the veil a little too far for the rest of the jackasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/

Got my #SWOLEcialism on at the gym, came home to read this; it's a good day

Fried Chicken
Jan 9, 2011

Don't fry me, I'm no chicken!

radical meme posted:

OK, what the gently caress have they done with the primary threads now. RSF is gone.

Sub forum of D&D now it looks like

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

CroatianAlzheimers posted:

A: Goddammit you little poo poo, you're an embarrassment to Slavs everywhere.

Yeah, I think the only way to really get at him would be some good Slavic trolling.

ALBANIANS IS MUD PEOPLE NOT FIT TO SERVE PURE SERB. SERBIA BEST COUNTRY, SEVENTH ROME, JEWEL OF THE WEST.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Hahahaha Shkreli just got arrested on securities fraud.

Edit: I should have known you guys were on top of this.

Tiler Kiwi
Feb 26, 2011
Now is Bill Murry's chance to stage the heist.

e: or maybe this is part of the heist???

CroatianAlzheimers
Jun 15, 2009

I can't remember why I'm mad at you...


WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Yeah, I think the only way to really get at him would be some good Slavic trolling.

ALBANIANS IS MUD PEOPLE NOT FIT TO SERVE PURE SERB. SERBIA BEST COUNTRY, SEVENTH ROME, JEWEL OF THE WEST.

Slav trolling is best trolling. He needs a team of burly, scarf-wearing old babas to beat the poo poo out of him with rolling pins while giving him the guilt, too.

Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.
Are y'all trying to troll Shkreli by calling him a Slav?

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Supposedly he tried to commit short selling violations via Twitter and someone called the SEC enforcement hotline. So he's either going to jail for a while or paying a huge penalty once they're through with all his bullshit.

CroatianAlzheimers
Jun 15, 2009

I can't remember why I'm mad at you...


Swan Oat posted:

Are y'all trying to troll Shkreli by calling him a Slav?

He's half Croatian, apparently.

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

It's adorable people think a white guy is going to jail for white collar crime.

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.

El Scotch posted:

It's adorable people think a white guy is going to jail for white collar crime.

They go to White Collar Prison on the regular buddy.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

El Scotch posted:

It's adorable people think a white guy is going to jail for white collar crime.

The guy was already being investigated for Fraud prior and short selling. I don't think the SEC is going to be kind.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

El Scotch posted:

It's adorable people think a white guy is going to jail for white collar crime.

Oh please, the SEC can throw this guy away for a while and get enough points out of it to let a hundred more serious offenders off.

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BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.
Justice department also released new guidelines say they were going after executives harder in white-collar crime cases, so

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