Pharma bro/professional douche Martin Shkreli got so pissed off after Bernie Sanders rejected his campaign donation that he allegedly punched a wall and fractured his wrist. Or so he tweets.
Shkreli was named “the most hated man in America” by several media outlets last month after he raised the price of Daraprim, a drug used by some HIV patients, from $13.50 to $750 per tablet. He dug himself into an even deeper hole when he went on a Twitter rampage firing off smug responses at anyone who criticized him. He later said he was going to lower the price of the drug, though he’s yet to actually do so.
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Last week, Sanders sent out an email soliciting donations for his campaign. Shkreli sent him $2,700, the maximum amount allowed by law and the cost of approximately 3.6 tablets of Daraprim. But he soon had his donation returned.
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“We are not keeping the money from this poster boy for drug company greed,” said Michael Briggs, a spokesman for the Sanders campaign in the email.
Shkreli took to Twitter to express his outrage with Sanders:
SO ANGRY AT @BernieSanders I COULD PUNCH A WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 18, 2015
Then apparently he punched a wall:
Ugh, does anyone know how to treat a wrist fracture without going to a hospital? — Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 18, 2015
Then he tweeted a picture of his x-ray:
This is such bullshit. pic.twitter.com/t0Hgx8xdmy
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 19, 2015
The x-ray, however, was photoshopped. Gawker did some sleuthing and found a reverse image of it on Google. When someone sent a link to the image, Shkreli replied “thats what the doc sent me IDK.” In an effort to prove he wasn’t lying, Shkreli then tweeted this picture of himself wearing an arm brace:
FML. pic.twitter.com/8ModeaBPVB — Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 20, 2015
Since then he’s dropped the fractured wrist act and has instead taken to trolling Bernie Sanders:
Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders @SenSanders raised the donation requested from his supporters by 755% in one day. Price gouging.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 19, 2015
Bernie Sanders, exposed. @SenSanders @BernieSanders pic.twitter.com/nXwAuW6kcB
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 19, 2015
He also took a moment to complain about an unattractive picture of him that’s been circulating around the internet:
WILL EVERYONE PLEASE STOP USING THAT UGLY PIC OF ME. I HATE BLOOMBERG FOR TAKING IT–THERE ARE SO MANY BETTER ONES!!!!!!!!!1111111ONE — Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 20, 2015
Here’s the picture:
Josh447
Someone please photoshop a baby bonnet on that douchebag’s pic. The most hated baby brat poster-boy capitalist drama queen in the world.
Mark Pointon
MarionPaige
The last time the masses had license to dump on someone big time like this was when the video resume of Aleksey Vayner (aka Aleksey Garber) was leaked to the blogs.
The Republican Party still exists because it is expert at giving the masses something to hate.
The guy hiked up the price of a drug, get over it.
All of the people pretending outrage could get together, buy the drug and give it to the people who need it for free, if it was actually about needy people getting the drug.
https://youtu.be/R7Kboormk3Y
1EqualityUSA
The poisonous Shkreli mushroom is a vociferous fun-guy. In quicksand, the more you squirm the faster you sink. shhhhhhkreli! Before we turn your name into a verb.
DarkZephyr
THAT is the pic he hates? That is probably the least gross of all his gross pics.
The one above this article and this one here he is fine with?:
http://queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp/docs/2015/10/Martin_Shkreli__3449094b-360×225.jpg
DarkZephyr
@MarionPaige:
“The guy hiked up the price of a drug, get over it.
All of the people pretending outrage could get together, buy the drug and give it to the people who need it for free, if it was actually about needy people getting the drug.”
You say some really stupid things, but this has got to be the STUPIDEST thing I have ever read from you, Marion. None of us can afford to buy the drug, that is kind of the point of the outrage. Think, McFly, think!
You continue to be a heartless toad. No surprise there.
Brian JC Kneeland
he is a scum bag and deserves none of our time!
QJ201
Perfect pick for Trump’s VP
1EqualityUSA
He should worry about the serial killer photos. They are the ones that show his true colors. This manipulative fun-guy likely loves this photo of which he so vehemently complains, because he would prefer that this photo be the one used over and over again. Even the thick-nostril-ed selfie with the manipulative PBS shirt is gross. He really is an unpleasant creature.
Jane Freeman
This person is human filth.
Martin Steele
Crazy thing is…. if he wasn’t such a prat, he’d almost be cute
Tammie Edgerton
To bad he didn’t fall and break his scull open, then the Dr. Told him it would cost him 20 million to save him. Cash.
Dave Russo
The face of slimy greed.
Luis Collazo
The guy is mental #feelthebern
Andrew Rankin
I’m not even gonna read the article. He’s just slime.
Giancarlo85
I think we should plaster that pic he hates so much everywhere. He’s asking for it.
1EqualityUSA
This creep WANTS that photo used, rather than the creepier ones. #feeltheRalphNader
Douglas Schlitz
Screw that little worm.
RIGay
@Andrew Rankin: I second that. This guy is just a sleazy, scumbag – and has a history of such, too. I can only hope the FTC or someone goes after him.
RIGay
The problem I see is — He >is< that new generation narcissistic douche bag. Not my generation of douche bags, not the previous generation of greedy scum bag. He does not see ANYTHING wrong with what he did, and MY generation is going to pay the cost for him to run amok as we age and have to rely more on the medications his kind are taking control over.
My generation (mid-50's) are more focused on two-person McMansions, ESPN and gunning obnoxiously loud Harleys than the social welfare of the country. We threw away our chance.
I think of my folks and follow their concept to always hope that the generation following us will be better; will improve society — swing it back to a more morally and societal centrist place.
This douche bag totally obliterates that hope.
Cam
We need a review of our Patent laws. That drug is 60 years old, why is it not licensed for Generic use yet? Those patents are supposed to have expired YEARS ago.
Jane Elliott
must be difficult being a narcissistic child trying to find a place in a world of adults that do not like him, shame
Tony Chaplinski
probably did not bleed since you have to have a heart to do that , and he doesn’t have one
Lee Swinney
This asshole is a useless waste of oxygen.
Amy Rogers
Creepy little twerp….
Dieter Michaels
If I ever saw this toad lying in the street on fire, and I had a bucket of water….. I would DRINK it.
Patrick Laney
Go throw your tantrum somewhere else you clown. Just like a screaming child crying for attention if you ignore them it will stop…
Terrance Whitten
The douche couldn’t manage to punch himself in the face?
Marky
We need some kind of televised mockumentary-style reenactment of the whole scenario.
Alex Rothwell
He hasn’t lowered the price of that drug yet. We can’t forget about him.
Billy Budd
I don’t think it is humanly possible to be even more stupid and disgusting than this guy is.
Ken Krahnke
Figured he would have been in a real “accident” by now.
captainburrito
The way he seeks attention and pulls these stunts… it’s almost as if he was running for Republican nomination…
Damich
What a sad little wierdo
Michael Mikolasek
srewball
Michael Mikolasek
screwball
Emery Biggar
How did this moron even come to exist? Why is he now in the news? Can’t The Donald have this guy “taken care of”?
Atomicrob
He appears quite unstable. And all that money, what a shame . . .
David Bache
Ferret face
John Quin
This guy is one Slimeball.
garyrj
Poor baby Martin, did you get a boo-boo??
Just suffer, like the people your denying meds to.
There is a thing such as Karma, you haven’t felt pain yet…
Tom Remillard
What a scum bag
paul dorian lord fredine
narcissistic prick.
Gothrykke
If he weren’t such a product of his toolish existence/times, he might have been handsome.
Dav Dakota
Someone needs to take the trash out!
Cam
The problem is, he thinks he is smarter than he is.
He made some money and people told him he was wonderful, and the women he meets tell him how smart he is so he’ll buy them things, and he actually believed it.
He really thinks that he is smart enough to make people believe him.
What a wake up call for him.
dennis
@MarionPaige:
“All of the people pretending outrage could get together, buy the drug and give it to the people who need it for free, if it was actually about needy people getting the drug.”
You are kind of buying into your assumptions as real here. Why exactly should people assume hardships because one man is greedy and unethical? In what world exactly does that make sense? How does the desire to see ethical behavior from another mean their outrage is “pretend”. looks more like your logic is pretend.
The model in the past has always been the use of venture capital to develop new drugs and then the establishment of a fair market price to recoup investment over time. The model in an ethical market has never been “well, on the offhand chance that a better alternative exists for this old and clearly useful drug, I am going to buy up all the rights, jack up the price and see where that goes.”
You sound kind of like a libertarian, and everyone knows the kind of ethics they have!
1EqualityUSA
dennis, Marion the Contrarian always chooses the opposite of LGBT opinions. You’ll start to see soon enough.
drivendervish
This guy is a jerk and that is being kind. But he’s clearly orchestrated and enjoying his instant fame and like other serial killers I think we should ignore him.
1EqualityUSA
cam, Serial ki!!ers get confused when their vic’s fight back. In their fantasies, the situation is supposed to roll out exactly how they had planned it. When the victim fights back, it stuns them a little and there’s a split moment the can be taken advantage of, when the serial ki!!er is confused by the sudden change in narrative. Shkreli mushroom had no other narrative other than the one his sick brain conjured up. Sociopaths such a Romney and Shkreli have no empathy for such thought. They will always be surprised when society slams them, they never saw it coming, they can’t. Pathetic losers. Money isn’t everything. Having a kind, empathetic heart is not for them. This fuck will get his. When you’ve got so many people hating on you, it like prayers in a sense. When thousands are thinking negatively towards you, it is bound to have an effect.