Posted on 01/17/2022 5:10:12 AM PST by Red Badger
What a twisted story. A wonderful quote from the younger Shultz...
“Fraud is not a trade secret. I refuse to allow bullying, intimidation and threat of legal action to take away my First Amendment right to speak out against wrongdoing.
— Tyler Shultz about his ordeal after quitting his job at Theranos”
Tyler tried to rescue his grandfather...but Grandpa was having nothing to do with it...and chose to go down with the ship.
I also liked the movies about the run-up to the 2008 economic crisis. I believe their titles were "The Big Short" and "Margin Call".
I read the book The Big Short and then saw the movie, kind of reminded me of the movie Wall Street with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, Greed is Good
Christian Bale does a good job with his role as the eccentric money-savant.
“…no one ever told me that I couldn’t do those things,”
Didn’t heels-up Harris say the same thing? She is a female bamboozler like Holmes but completely lacking the charm. Both used their “heels up” ability to the max.
Holmes is a lot smarter (and mentally ill) than Harris.
Having worked as a nurse anesthetist and a critical care nurse people get wanemic from the constant need for lab data, especially during very critical periods, then think of lab work for critically I’ll neonates. We had adults getting small samples of blood was difficult. The idea of being able to get the data with small quantities of blood is appealing.
She is obviously smarter and a more talented con man than Harris, but they are cut from the same cloth…and have the same equipment and skills to capture an influential man.
Harris didn’t raise (steal) $700 million. She satisfied herself bamboozling the California electorate and stealing their votes.
She must be a democrat it’s the only place you get that type of training.
Harris is VP as she’s Obama’s yes woman and Obama wanted back in the White House.
What does it tell us when a battle hardened marine corps general known for strategic genius is taken in?
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That he was at least sly enough to listen to the underlings who actually HAD the good ideas and cunning enough to know how to get rid of the bodies.
He was a complete outsider to Washington politics. He had never before run for public office. He didn't have ANY true and trusted loyalists to choose from. Instead, he had to rely on expert advice, much of which missed the mark.
And yeah, the gutter fake news media, working hand in hand with the Demrats, sure didn't help. Not only did they intimidate the pool of potential nominees, but they also encouraged the disgraceful conduct of Mattis, Mark Esper and Jeff Sessions.
Well played.
They both got a leg up by carrying out a steamy relationship with a much older (and influential) man. Both of them were enabled because they pressed the right buttons of a hopelessly corrupt and biased media.
I am speechless that a major research university’s chemical engineering professor was taken in: the prototyping/rollout of industrialized chemical processes is what they *do*.
And she wasn’t good-looking enough for that to have been the answer, either.
“It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled.” - Mark Twain..........................
I liked that too.
It’s possible that he was in on the scam, but was careful enough not to say or do anything that could expose himself to prosecution or liability. An easy way to make a draw a good salary from a no show, no work job while taking care to maintain distance from the fraud that was taking place.
In private business, he could hire who he wanted.
In government, he was only able to have people who would pass Senate confirmation, and who were willing to see their lives potentially destroyed by the Left.
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