. Martin Shkreli – In the Christmas Holiday spirit – a few days ago added to his work of redeeming himself by wearing a Pepe the Frog lapel pin for a TV interview with Bloomberg News. Pepe the Frog, the new icon of the Alt Right, White Identity, White nationalism, politics and straight up in your face racism.
This to help redeem himself here in at the close of 2016 as 2015’s “most hated man in America.” Not so much for buying the rights for antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raising the price by a factor of 56, from $13.5 to $750 per pill, but bragging and laughing about it with no remorse at all. Of course unlike China where the put such people in front of a firing squad, which we can’t do yet. And after all, that is what Republican laissez–faire, free market capitalism is.
Seems the only reason Donny Little Dick did not choose Martin Shkreli to be Surgeon General is that he rose too many eyebrows after he was subsequently arrested and indicted for fraud with his old Hedge Fund activities. Did I mention he used his hedge fund money to pay his $45 million dollar bond? Like Tyrone Washington and Jesus Sanchez get to do doanyaknow.