The Martin Shkreli Storyline has Topped

How a little jerk, who feasted off the lives of people with aids, came into prominence in 2015, is beyond me. This whole saga seemed like a cartoon, with the whole livestream videos of him floating around his office in his hoverboard to playing video games like an overgrown juvenile idiot, live for the world to see.

This, coming after he decided to buy a soon to be bankrupt biotech company, KBIO, at $1.50, pushing it to the sbsurd heights of $40 in a short squeeze bonanza, is almost too much for me to bear. The story I wrote last night about him claiming to be a rapper and offering warnings shots to the Wu Tang Clan, highlighting his hardcore Albanian background as a cause for his enemies to be concerned, was the icing on the cake.

Am I supposed to dedicate inane amounts of valuable site space talking about this clown, discussing his mental fraility and bizaare actions?

Judging by the traffic stats, the answer is a resounding yes. Truth is, people like Martin, sociopaths, blow themselves to smithereens every day. He just made a public spectacle of it.

Is he done?

I seriously doubt we’ve heard the last of the Albanian rapper from Sheepshead Bay. But, I think the storyline has arc’d and it’s all downhill from here, as far as comedic value is concerned.

The story of Martin Shkreli is filled with metaphors, parables and lots of cool punch lines, rather apropos for a year in which the market did nothing but disappoint investors. I am not suprised to see this story play out in a similar vein.