# Fuck You, Martin Shkreli, you worthless, scheming sack of shit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 17, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738 "2015-12-17T23:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/41 "2015-12-19T14:05:32Z")
Does anyone else think Martin Shkreli looks just like the kind of guy who would go purging? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/42 "2015-12-19T14:39:59Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > That’s a rather unhealthy fixation with anal rape… Moderation in all things, eh **'pussy**? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/43 "2015-12-19T14:50:13Z")
You people are being awfully unfair to sacks of shit the world over. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/44 "2015-12-19T15:06:56Z")
It’d be ironic if he got AIDs as a result of prison rape and couldn’t afford the pill he marked up 5000 percent. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/45 "2015-12-19T15:22:01Z")
GrumpyBunny: I believe your last sentiment was O. Henry’s first draft of “Gift of the Magi.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/46 "2015-12-19T15:58:15Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Does anyone else think Martin Shkreli looks just like the kind of guy who would go purging? Yes, and arrogant enough to not get that he’d have a target on his back bigger than the store sign if the Purge were a real thing. Hey, idea for a sequel. 🙂 I haven’t seen these movies and can’t fathom how there’s more than one, but I’d see (in the theater) a sequel with a thinly-veiled Shkreli being hunted and purged as he arrogantly thinks he’s the hunter. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/47 "2015-12-19T17:39:01Z")
My pessimistic side says this shit-stain will never see the inside of a jail. He’ll pay a fine and blah blah blah, get probation. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/48 "2015-12-19T17:57:10Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I’m betting that if the company lowers the price of Daraprim, it will still cost ten times more than before Shkreli’s little misadventure. I would not bet against that. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/49 "2015-12-19T17:57:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Of COURSE he’s a sociopath. Did you ever see the movie _Step Brothers_? He looks EXACTLY like Will Ferrell’s real brother, the one in the helicopter-leasing business. > [@Senegoid](#): > > He looks like WHO? > > I pointed out over in the MPSIMS thread, that pic of him in his shadowy hoodie ([this pic in particular](http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4CFUcDOmmsRCtr62siHuRw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9MTU2O3B5b2ZmPTMwO3E9NzU7dz0zMDA-/http://l.yimg.com/nn/fp/rsz/121815/images/smush/shkreli_fp_635x250_1450460860.jpg.cf.jpg)) looks remarkably like [this guy in his shadowy hoodie](http://static.tumblr.com/ef79c8222fcddf4e6e15f040ead17823/infojte/EHvnwzv26/tumblr_static_pfdvt6s0tog448kcowo8sc0s.jpg). _Pfffft_. Arguable at best. Check these out: [Martin Shkreli?](https://media2.giphy.com/media/Kk9avTE2ogSZy/200_s.gif) or [Adam Scott as Derek Huff?](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_908w/2010-2019/Wires/Videos/201509/Reuters/Images/2015-09-22T134249Z_1_OV31MATZ5_RTRMADC_0_USA-HEALTH-SHKRELI-PRICES-ROUGH-CUT.jpg&w=1484) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/50 "2015-12-24T18:06:58Z")
[Oh Goodie!](http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-nasdaq-to-delist-kalobios-shkreli-20151224-story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/51 "2015-12-24T18:55:58Z")
The guy reminds me of that Nevel character from iCarly. In looks and demeanor. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/52 "2015-12-24T21:56:37Z")
You know, if he were a character in movie or on TV, I’d roll my eyes. Arrogant, smarmy, punchable, stupidly evil, evilly stupid, conniving, scheming…it would seem too much. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/53 "2015-12-24T22:07:31Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > You know, if he were a character in movie or on TV, I’d roll my eyes. Arrogant, smarmy, punchable, stupidly evil, evilly stupid, conniving, scheming…it would seem too much. Even his name sounds like it was made up, like Gordon Gekko. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/54 "2015-12-24T23:53:40Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Oh Goodie!](http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-nasdaq-to-delist-kalobios-shkreli-20151224-story.html) I can’t really get behind this. This was a company doing cancer research on the verge of going under and he saved them. Even with that said, they fired him once this came out. I’m not sure what they’re supposed to do. Not work on cancer research? I just don’t see them suffering for this as an Oh Goodie moment. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/55 "2015-12-25T00:42:48Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > I can’t really get behind this. This was a company doing cancer research on the verge of going under and he saved them. What the fuck are you talking about? He didn’t “save” them. He didn’t have the resources to save them. The whole thing was just another scam on his part. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/56 "2015-12-25T00:43:59Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > You know, if he were a character in movie or on TV, I’d roll my eyes. Arrogant, smarmy, punchable, stupidly evil, evilly stupid, conniving, scheming…it would seem too much. He’s the rich jerk who the female lead is about to get married to before the male lead wins her heart. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/57 "2015-12-25T18:12:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > What the fuck are you talking about? He didn’t “save” them. He didn’t have the resources to save them. The whole thing was just another scam on his part. So, are you saying it’s a good thing they’re going under beccause he scammed them? Hate him or not, do you have any reason to assume their company itself was not pursuing real research? I’ve read nothing like that. I see them as victims not criminals and yeah, it’s ashamed they got burned too. And, yes, for a time he saved them. It didn’t work long term butthey kept their doors open. What happens now, who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/58 "2015-12-25T20:00:02Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > So, are you saying it’s a good thing they’re going under beccause he scammed them? Hate him or not, do you have any reason to assume their company itself was not pursuing real research? I said absolutely nothing of the kind. I don’t know why you’re trying to put words in my mouth. I have no opinion about Kalobios. I’m just pointing out that your own comments that Shkreli’s purchase of the company somehow mitigated his own offenses are stupid. > [@](#): > > And, yes, for a time he saved them. It didn’t work long term butthey kept their doors open. What happens now, who knows? This is total nonsense. He never saved them in any sense. His group only purchased them in November. I fail to see how going down less than two months later is any real benefit to them at all. The sale may actually have made them worse off if it prevented some less shady investor from buying them in November. Now they’re tarred with the association with Shkreli, which can’t help but hurt their possibilities of finding another investor. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/59 "2015-12-25T22:18:09Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I said absolutely nothing of the kind. I don’t know why you’re trying to put words in my mouth. I have no opinion about Kalobios. I’m just pointing out that your own comments that Shkreli’s purchase of the company somehow mitigated his own offenses are stupid. I said no such thing. I was talking about from Kalobios perspective. They were the they I was talking about, not him. I don’t think them going under is an “Oh Goodie” event. Sorry, I just don’t. > [@](#): > > This is total nonsense. He never saved them in any sense. His group only purchased them in November. I fail to see how going down less than two months later is any real benefit to them at all. The sale may actually have made them worse off if it prevented some less shady investor from buying them in November. Now they’re tarred with the association with Shkreli, which can’t help but hurt their possibilities of finding another investor. The company was facing bankruptcy at the time. Their doors were closing. Had Shkreli not been a jerk they would have been very happy but he is a jerk and they got delisted and him fired. This mess isn’t their doing and again, that’s what I’ve been saying, Sorry you’re not accepting that this is my opinion. I’m not going to change it. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/60 "2015-12-26T03:28:17Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > So, are you saying it’s a good thing they’re going under beccause he scammed them? Hate him or not, do you have any reason to assume their company itself was not pursuing real research? I’ve read nothing like that. I see them as victims not criminals and yeah, it’s ashamed they got burned too. I’ll say it. I’m suspicious that they even have any research to speak of. Their pipeline is suspicious, and was non existent before the controversies over the past few months. Now it is filled with completely undisclosed early phase molecules with no declared mechanisms of action for very vague indications. It’s unusual to say the least. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738.md?page=4)