Oh, this is good: “I’m sure there are many ailing individuals out there who might like to remove [Martin] Shkreli’s smile with the business end of a shovel.” For those who don’t remember, Shkreli is that unmitigated jackass who jacked up the price of a public domain drug, then got arrested for securities fraud. Not for jacking up the price, though. What happened there was that people looked into his past in the hopes of finding SOMETHING that could be used to nail the [expletive deleted]er to the wall, and lo! There something was.
So, yeah, I’m sure that Jake Tapper is right. Not that any of us are suggesting that people do that impromptu removal, of course. But this Shkreli certainly has racked up quite the negative reputation, hasn’t he?
To quote that cornerstone of American civics, Blazing Saddles…
Oh no, baby, I have to.
I will note that the solution for people like this is intellectual property reform, not beating this guy to a pulp.
Besides, he’s the kind of shit heel that’d feel pain in his pocket more than on his cranium.
That is what the folding US Army shovel is for.
A style point here – every article about Shkreli should mention that he’s a big-time Democratic donor. I mean, you know they would do so if he’d donated, say, $25 to Ted Cruz…