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Gravel Gravy posted:Impressive that he was only 27 and earned an investigation. Its the goal we all aspire to: Pissing off the FTC before our mid life crisis.
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New Florida poll.quote:Trump leads with 36 percent in the poll of Florida Republican voters. Cruz is now second with 22 percent. Marco Rubio is third at 17 percent. Jeb Bush is fourth in his home state, getting 9 percent. Ben Carson has slumped to fifth place with 6.3 percent. Chris Christie is at 3 percent. John Kasich is at 2 percent. GJ Rubio, Bush. I forgot to say last week when we were talking about this mythical business wing rearing up and crushing the Tea Party at long last: Jeb Bush is that attempt.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/12/17/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/?tid=sm_fb apologies if this was posted. more details on shkreli indictment: "In one case, Shkreli allegedly told an investor that MSMB Capital had $35 million in assets. But at the time the value of the fund’s assets was just $700, according to the indictment." (that quote is from the related FB post, not the article apparently)
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Gravel Gravy posted:Seems hypocritical since Putin doesn't much care for businessmen in politics. 
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TheQat posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/12/17/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-arrested-for-securities-fraud/?tid=sm_fb apologies if this was posted. more details on shkreli indictment: MSMB included its brand identity in its asset valuation. It appears this is a disagreement over brand valuation, not fraud.
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Rubio said on Fox this morning that he might slow down the omnibus in the Senate because it lacks a rider about Syrian refugees: “If they’ve got [a] sufficient number of votes at the end, they can always ram it down our throat, but I think if we can add some days to it, the way Sen. [Jeff] Sessions is talking about and maybe some others, that process of slowing it down allows more Americans to wake up to the reality of what’s in the bill and perhaps as a result demand that their elected representatives do something to make those changes on things like the Syrian refugees we’re talking about now." The Senate just agreed on a series of four votes on the omnibus Friday, by unanimous consent. Rubio is in Iowa today.
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Joementum posted:Rubio said on Fox this morning that he might slow down the omnibus in the Senate because it lacks a rider about Syrian refugees: “If they’ve got [a] sufficient number of votes at the end, they can always ram it down our throat, but I think if we can add some days to it, the way Sen. [Jeff] Sessions is talking about and maybe some others, that process of slowing it down allows more Americans to wake up to the reality of what’s in the bill and perhaps as a result demand that their elected representatives do something to make those changes on things like the Syrian refugees we’re talking about now." If Rubio skips the vote, you can attack him for not doing his job. You know what Trump does to employees who don't do their job?
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quote:#MartinShkreli charged with orchestrating 3 schemes. 2 with hedge funds he founded and managed. Third with Retrophin. quote:"This investigation centers on conduct at Retrophin. I don’t know where he got funds for Wu Tang Clan album" #MartinShkreli  His company lost $26 million in opening. Hope that price gouge works out for them.
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My Imaginary GF posted:If Rubio skips the vote, you can attack him for not doing his job. You know what Trump does to employees who don't do their job? It's either fires him like a dog, or hires his VP candidate.
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Dec 17, 2015 19:39
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I don't know who gave MIGF that new avatar, but it's loving hypnotizing me.
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zoux posted:
Is there some sort of museum for gaudy memorabilia from failed Presidential campaigns? Because that'd be perfect.
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Riosan posted:Is there some sort of museum for gaudy memorabilia from failed Presidential campaigns? Because that'd be perfect. Your brother's library.
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Talmonis posted:I don't know who gave MIGF that new avatar, but it's loving hypnotizing me. that flower though
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Cruz gets nuttin' for Christmas.
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Ugh can you imagine your parents dragging you to some Ted Cruz rally 70 miles away on your Christmas break. Poor Republican children.
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zoux posted:Ugh can you imagine your parents dragging you to some Ted Cruz rally 70 miles away on your Christmas break. Poor Republican children. Sometimes we grow up to become socialists... so there's at least some hope for them besides the guillotine line.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Property tax is really the only way because it's super easy for the very rich to skirt income taxes.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Your brother's library. Contrary to popular belief, I am, in fact, not John Ellis Bush (!) Bush. zoux posted:Ugh can you imagine your parents dragging you to some Ted Cruz rally 70 miles away on your Christmas break. Poor Republican children. You get tax breaks for Christmas this year, little Timmy.
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zoux posted:I dunno he just dropped $2 mil on a vanity purchase to troll the United States of America. Once he can't make nearly as much money as quickly anymore, vanity purchases like this and his allegedly far more expensive Picasso are gonna bite him in the rear end. Particularly if they get forfeited/seized or sold to cover legal expenses or fines. Also, old habits die hard. Even in some hypothetical outcome where he doesn't get reamed by the Feds (he's gonna get reamed by the Feds), his career will most likely never ever recover. And once he's had a round of court, do you think he'll just stop spending big bucks to make himself feel better and front on the internet? Even if he gets off with his savings intact, he'll likely Mike Tyson his way through the money trying to live out his rap video fantasy. Hell, maybe it'll only spur him on now to become a media figure. Like, getting busted by the FBI is gonna be his version of Tupac's prison period. CommieGIR posted:Yeah, I remember when he first popped up in the news, even then they'd been investigating him for Fraud for what....5 years? It all plays into his misguided hip hop/mafioso delusion. To him, "jokingly" offering to short stocks on Twitter is like when rappers openly flaunt active criminal ties (RIP ODB) or post pictures of themselves with guns and stacks of bills or bags of product on the internet. Or it's like mobsters like the Gottis in the '70s/'80s operating in broad view and getting away with it for decades while giving the feds the finger. Or like the kids of Russian oligarchs buying diplomatic plates and police lights for their Lamborghinis in order to speed with impunity and recording each other beating up homeless people. zoux posted:
Ugh, that and the Art Basel background from a few days ago.... leave it up to a cynical, one-note, corporatist hack like Romero Britto to be a Jeb Bush supporter. I'm sure they paid him like $10mil for that Picasso filtered through the mind of my 8 year old cousin bullshit too.
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Is it just me or is The New Republic more liberal than it used to be? Back in the 2000 era it was slightly center left and even neoliberal at times, but I've been reading it again recently and seems much more left leaning, probably more left than Vox. It's not to the level of The Nation but it definitely seems more liberal. They've got David Dayen writing for them. I don't think TNR during the previous decade would have had someone like him.
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theblackw0lf posted:Is it just me or is The New Republic more liberal than it used to be? Back in the 2000 era it was slightly center left and even neoliberal at times, but I've been reading it again recently and seems much more left leaning, probably more left than Vox. It's not to the level of The Nation but it definitely seems more liberal. The new owner cleaned house last year and hired people specifically looking to make it better
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theblackw0lf posted:Is it just me or is The New Republic more liberal than it used to be? Back in the 2000 era it was slightly center left and even neoliberal at times, but I've been reading it again recently and seems much more left leaning, probably more left than Vox. It's not to the level of The Nation but it definitely seems more liberal. Yeah, it certainly is. The Marty Perez era was weird. Jeet Heer is doing a good job with it now, though I'm not super into the new website and its "minutes" micro blogging
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Riosan posted:
"What are you cryin' for? That's ten pounds of veal!" "He wanted a choo-choo." "Well then get a job and BUY a choo choo!"
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Jebfightsisis.com John Ellis Bush Fights ISIS 
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Jesus Christ I just remembered how straight up Dark that movie was. That scene still bothers me as a 33 year old man.
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I just realized that Martin Shkreli could be the next Jordan Belfort.
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Talmonis posted:Jesus Christ I just remembered how straight up Dark that movie was. That scene still bothers me as a 33 year old man. ?
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Mr Hootington posted:I just realized that Martin Shkreli could be the next Jordan Belfort. I have no doubt he'll make a comfortable living doing the book/audio/interview tour. So yeah, could happen. Probably will.
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Scrooged. Bill Murray stars in a dark, modern retelling of A Christmas Carol.
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Fried Chicken posted:Jebfightsisis.com 
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*Smashes fist into desk* We gotta get those drat teens!
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theblackw0lf posted:Is it just me or is The New Republic more liberal than it used to be? Back in the 2000 era it was slightly center left and even neoliberal at times, but I've been reading it again recently and seems much more left leaning, probably more left than Vox. It's not to the level of The Nation but it definitely seems more liberal. I've always thought Vox swings way left. Maybe not quite Salon or The Nation levels, but definitely left.
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Vox likes to alternate between articles it knows will enrage its liberal readership and articles it knows will terrify its liberal readership. Like most media outlets, its bias is pageviews.
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A little late to apologize I guess but it was just a joke guys, I don't actually want to see anyone raped in prison. That scene in Office Space is really funny though 
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Thump! posted:A little late to apologize I guess but it was just a joke guys, I don't actually want to see anyone raped in prison. I'd recommend not watching HBO's Oz, then. Do y'all think Obama has seen the new Star Wars?
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I was thinking about the old saying that democrats fall in love while republicans fall in line... doesn't it seem like the opposite is happening this election?
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