Appeals court upholds ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli lifetime ban from drug industry::Martin Shkreli served a criminal sentence for securities fraud related to a pharmaceuticals company he founded.

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    There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.

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      I use this Bush quote a lot, everyone thinks I’m an idiot but I just give them a little shit eating smirk, invade Iraq and claim I won prematurely.

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        I saw George W. Bush at a grocery store in Kennebunkport yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

        He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

        I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

        The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

        When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      Supposedly this was because he realized mid-sentence that he was about to hand his opponents a nice clean “shame on me” soundbite to use in all of their smear campaigns. So he panicked and had to make up the second part on the fly.

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        Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we

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    I remember watching the documentary about him that had a bunch of people trying to humanize him and say he actually wasn’t a bad person but it just made him look like an even bigger douchebag.

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    It’s such a slap in the face that you have to be this stupid to run into trouble for gouging people. Meanwhile every other speculator with above room temperature IQ is getting away with murder.

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    This man has definitely watched homeless people fight to the death at an underground gambling club.

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    All I remember is he’s the original buyer of the “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” album by Wu-Tang for $2MM. I hope he never took a moment to listen to it before it was forfeitted on his behalf by the US government.

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    Oh yeah, that fuck face. Glad to see someone face consequences for their actions. Hollow comfort, but I’ll take it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Fuck this guy. He’s done a few podcasts and how he justifies what he did is just crazy. Hes a total shit piece.

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    LOL did he seriously find a lawyer who would take that one on? Amazing. Also what entitlement.

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    Shkreli legit looks like Emo Peter Parker from Spider-Man 3, and is somehow even more of a dick. Good riddance.