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Sobbing “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison

“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli

Total asshole “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli was sentenced to 7 years in prison today for defrauding investors.

Shkreli reportedly sobbed as U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto announced the prison sentence saying he knew he’d made mistakes and apologized to his investors.

Prosecutors had called for a 15 years in prison while Shkreli’s lawyers argued for 18 months or less because his investors in two failed hedge funds got their money back, and their client shouldn’t be punished for being outspoken.

Judge Matsumoto assured the defense team did not take Shkreli’s outside actions into account in the sentencing.

The “Pharma Bro” became infamous for jacking up the price of a life-saving AIDS drug by 5,000% from $13 to $750 overnight. That was followed by trolling his many critics on Twitter with his snarky personality.

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Martin “Pharma Douche” Shkreli Has Bail Revoked After Encouraging Followers To Grab Hillary Clinton’s Hair

Martin Shkreli

Martin “Pharma Douche” Shkreli just learned how his smart-ass ways can get him locked up without bail.

Last week, while awaiting sentencing after being convicted of defrauding investors, Shkreli took to Facebook offering to pay his followers $5,000 if they would grab a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair during her book tour.

In court yesterday, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto found no humor in the antics and revoked his bail.

Shkreli, who faces up to 20 years in prison for securities fraud, apologized in writing, saying that he did not expect anyone to take his online comments seriously, and his attorneys pleaded with the judge Wednesday to give him another chance.

“The fact that he continues to remain unaware of the inappropriateness of his actions or words demonstrates to me that he may be creating ongoing risk to the community,” said Judge Matsumoto, as she revoked his bond.

“This is a solicitation of assault. That is not protected by the First Amendment.”

Shkreli is facing up to 20 years in prison for securities fraud.

He’ll now remain locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until his sentencing in January 2018.

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Rep. Duncan Hunter On Trump: “He’s An Asshole, But He’s Our Asshole”

Rep. Duncan Hunter says Donald Trump "is an asshole, but he's our asshole"

The old phrase “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” comes to mind here.

One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters in Congress, Rep. Duncan Hunter, one of Donald Trump’s first allies in Congress, used colorful language in touting the president as their champion at a Riverside County Young Republicans meeting in a Murrieta sports bar.

“He’s just like he is on TV,” Hunter, R-Alpine, told the group. “He’s an asshole, but he’s our asshole.”

According to the San Diego Union Tribune, Hunter’s chief of staff did not respond to emails for comment. His voice mailbox was filled and could not accept more messages.

I can’t imagine why…

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Massachusetts: GOP State Senate Candidate Ted Busiek LIkes To Use The Word “Faggots”

Ted Busiek

Raw Story has the details on current Republican Massachusetts state Senate candidate Ted Busiek, who recently praised Donald Trump for “putting self-righteous faggots in their place.”

Oh – but Busiek didn’t mean “faggot” as a slur, however that works.

MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes pointed out during a broadcast last week that Trump had complained to the Native American affairs subcommittee in 1993 that some reservations did not deserve to receive gaming licenses because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”

Ted Busiek, who is running for Massachusetts Senate, responded on Saturday by lauding Trump’s remarks.

“DONALD TRUMP. Putting self-righteous faggots in their place since 1993. How I love this fellow,” he wrote.

Busiek later insisted to State House News Service that he did not use the word “faggot” in a “hateful sense.” The candidate said that term was used to show that the congressman questioning Trump was “obnoxious” and “kind of being a jerk.”

“It’s hard for me to get exercised over naughty words,” he explained. “You can insult somebody without being hateful.”

Busiek, who opposes same-sex marriage and adoption rights, said that he was standing up for “anybody who works for a living,” especially those who had “oppressor status” for being white, male and wealthy.

https://twitter.com/TedBusiek/status/749291636304347136
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Tony Perkins: Bruce Springsteen & Bryan Adams Oppose The Bill Of Rights

Virulently anti-gay hate group leader Tony Perkins has his panties in a wad because Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams didn’t want to pretend like it’s “business as usual” after the passage of LGBT “hate laws” in North Carolina and Mississippi.

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He was born to run all right. Bruce Springsteen is blowing off his tour date in North Carolina Friday because the state is daring to let businesses set their own bathroom policies. What a scandalous idea! Like other liberal extremists, The Boss (or is it Bossy?) is furious that the North Carolina government won’t barge into board rooms and tell companies how to operate. Apparently he wants to do away with the free market principles that are making conservative states thrive and orchestrate a hostile takeover of businesses. “Some things are more important than a rock show, and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them.”

“Important things” like letting grown men use a girls’ restroom? Of course, Springsteen hasn’t canceled his two Brooklyn concerts later this month — despite the fact that New York State doesn’t have gender-free bathrooms either. (Nor do 32 other states!) But then, no one ever accused liberals of being consistent. “It’s disappointing he’s not following through on his commitments,” Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) fired back. “Bruce is known to be on the radical left, and he’s got every right to be so, but I consider this a bully tactic.”

And Springsteen isn’t the only singer working in concert with LGBT activists. Bryan Adams is pulling out of his Biloxi, Mississippi stop because he says he can’t “in good conscience” perform there. Ironically, conscience is exactly what this debate is about! Shouldn’t Mississippians have the same right to exercise theirs? Shouldn’t they be able to choose what events they participate in? Because that’s exactly what the new law is about: giving Christians the same rights to live out their beliefs as someone like Bryan Adams. The Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act does what the First Amendment was intended to: guard men and women with natural marriage views from state-sponsored persecution. If you’re against that, then you’re against the Bill of Rights!

Among many things, what Perkins gets wrong here is these “bathroom laws” are not really about heterosexual men wanting to dress up in drag to get a peek at women using the bathroom. There have been no reported incidences of that happening in states which have passed LGBT protections.

What all this mean-spirited legislation is about is retaliation for the legalization of marriage equality across the country.

“We can’t keep gays and lesbians from marrying? Fine! We’ll attack from another angle.”

Let me illustrate how silly these laws are: See this guy in the pic below? This transgender man will now be forced to use the ladies room in these states.

I’d love someone to show this to one of the idiots who voted for these bills and ask how they would feel about their wives and daughters using the ladies room with him?

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Donald Trump Tries To Backpedal On “Schlong” Remark

To be clear, everyone knows that “schlong” is a Yiddish word for “penis” or “dick.” When Trump said Hillary Clinton got “schlonged” in the 2008 election, he meant she got “dicked” or “fucked.”

He knows that’s exactly what he meant. Now, he’s backpedaling because his uncontrolled rant is getting backlash.

Can we really have a president who uses the word “schlonged”?

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Generic Meds Company To Sell Martin Shkreli’s AIDS Drug For $1

Take a look at that smirk. It probably won’t be there much any longer.

After hiking the price of Daraprim (a $1 pill taken primarily by AIDS patients) over 5000%, Martin Shkreli  – the most hated man in pharmaceuticals – is about to be torpedoed by the maker of generic drugs who now plan on selling the pill for $1 again.

San Diego-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Inc., which mixes approved drug ingredients to fill individual patient prescriptions, said Thursday it will supply capsules containing Daraprim’s active ingredients, pyrimethamine and leucovorin, for $99 for a 100-capsule bottle, via its site: www.imprimiscares.com.

The 3 1/2-year-old drug compounding firm also plans to start making inexpensive versions of other generic drugs whose prices have skyrocketed, Chief Executive Mark Baum told The Associated Press.

“We are looking at all of these cases where the sole-source generic companies are jacking the price way up,” Baum said in an interview. “There’ll be many more of these” compounded drugs coming in the near future.

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Fox News Personalities Call Out Donald Trump For Trolling Megyn Kelly

Donald Trump clearly couldn’t resist renewing his attacks on Fox News channel primetime host Megyn Kelly as she returned from her sudden vacation, which happened on the heels of her GOP debate dustup a couple of weeks ago.

Trump even retweeted a supporter’s tweet calling Kelly a bimbo.

After all that, Kelly’s co-workers at Fox News are done with the classless and childish attacks. Check out just a few of the heavy-hitters from Fox complaining about the Donald.