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MalibuGuru
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| nw30 wrote: | mac, mac, mac, mac, mac
That's all I've got to say. |
He's not even president yet, but these liberals are tearing their hair out. It's sad to see the mental breakdown on the left. Imagine if Trump gets 8 years. |
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mac
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| From the two who bragged that orange man would drain the swamp? Praise for the new, bigger alligators. |
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mac
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Fox doesn't report this stuff, do you guys even care? The General intervened to get the military to use Theranos' blood tests, outside of the normal procurement process. Here's how scummy they are, from CNN:
| Quote: | On Thursday, President-elect Trump said he would nominate retired Marine General James Mattis for secretary of Defense.
After retiring in 2013, Mattis became a board director at Theranos, a company founded in 2003 by then 19-year-old Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes.
"The strength of the leader's vision in the military is seen as the critical element in that unit's performance," Mattis said in a 2014 Fortune piece about Holmes. "I wanted to be around something again that had that sort of leadership."
The blood-testing startup was billed as a classic industry disruptor -- offering a cheaper, more efficient alternative to traditional medical tests. And Holmes, whose mother was a congressional committee staffer and whose father worked for government agencies, was the darling of the tech industry. Her company was valued at $9 billion, making her a self-made billionaire on paper.
Related: Walgreens sues Theranos for breach of contract
A Wall Street Journal report in October 2015 put a spotlight on the company's questionable technology and testing methods. It drew closer scrutiny to the company, including the fact that its board was made up of primarily military and intelligence professionals.
It had few people from the medical industry and no big names from the tech or venture capital world.
According to the Washington Post, Mattis' relationship with Holmes dates back to 2011, when they met at a Marine Memorial event. Mattis was interested in Holmes' technology for use on the battlefield.
Holmes reportedly reached out to Mattis in 2012, after a military official flagged Theranos' technology to the FDA. She wanted Mattis to use his authority to dispel any concerns. Mattis forwarded the emails internally, indicating a sense of urgency in moving forward with the technology, but it never took off.
Vanity Fair reported that Mattis denied any FDA interference. He said he was "interested in rapidly having the company's technologies tested legally and ethically."
In the past year, Theranos has voided two years of blood tests, faced federal probes, pivoted away from blood testing -- and Holmes has been banned from owning or operating a lab for two years.
Most recently, it's been sued by investors and Walgreens, once its biggest partner.
Mattis, however, is still on the company's board of directors, according to its website. Theranos did not immediately return CNNMoney's request for comment about his involvement.
Mattis isn't the only powerful figure who has been caught in Theranos' mess.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that its own Rupert Murdoch had invested $100 million in the company. But he'd never been publicly linked to the company before.
Riley Bechtel, chairman of construction giant Bechtel Group, was an investor and board member at Theranos. But as part of changes that Theranos announced on Thursday, it said Bechtel will be retiring from its board. |
He made nearly a million as a board member. Do you guys even care? http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/donald-trump-pentagon-pick-mattis-made-nearly-1000000-board-defense-contractor |
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mac
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Who knew that clean up the swamp meant put an oil and coal guy in charge of public health? I guess killing coal miners by ignoring safety regulations isn't fast enough. Let's loot the public lands! Pigs at a trough.
| Quote: | | The man planning how a Trump administration can obliterate Obama’s environmental legacy is Myron Ebell, a Washington fixture who has long been a cheerful warrior against what he sees as an alarmist, overzealous environmental movement that has used global warming as a pretext for expanding government. Ebell has argued for opening up more federal lands for logging, oil and gas exploration and coal mining, and for turning over more permitting authority to the states. And he has urged the Senate to vote to reject an international climate accord signed last year in Paris. |
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nw30
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Hea mac, you're getting surrounded, the gators are starting to nip at your heels, a couple more of your new different gators and you'll be moving down to Baja in no time. Dean won't mind he's got plenty of room.
Just be careful that you don't get stuck behind the wall. |
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real-human
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| nw30 wrote: | Hea mac, you're getting surrounded, the gators are starting to nip at your heels, a couple more of your new different gators and you'll be moving down to Baja in no time. xxx won't mind he's got plenty of room.
Just be careful that you don't get stuck behind the wall. |
awe troll post... the wall is a figment of your imagination you right wing waco mcveigh clone.
Hey you right wingers inviting the KKK to trumps ceremony, if so you may see a million person march on the ceremony... Now that will be interesting... so is the KKK and other racists skin heads and so on invited.
again he lost by so many votes and yet he still delusionally claims if was a mandate.....
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mac
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Have you hypocrites who whined about pay to play noticed that:
1. WWE founder Linda McMahon contributed $7.5 million. Her purchase? Running the Small Business Administration. Into the ground? Or will everything be fake and scripted?
2. 5 others contributed millions more to score positions.
3. We don't know how much Rex Tillerson paid to buy Secretary of State. Make the Middle East safe for pig oil? We know fossil fuel gave many millions, almost exclusively to Republicans.
4. The big prize? Tax cuts--for the ultra rich. Current estimates for the give back is about $4.2 trillion. The oligarch's like Trump and his appointees will get most of it--nearly $2 million each for the top 0.1%. But the bigger prize is the give away of public assets. And did the Republicans provide any relief for the West Virginia coal miners? Hell no, they threw them under the bus and Democrats pulled them out before they got run over.
Meet the new boss. |
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MalibuGuru
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| mac wrote: | Have you hypocrites who whined about pay to play noticed that:
1. WWE founder Linda McMahon contributed $7.5 million. Her purchase? Running the Small Business Administration. Into the ground? Or will everything be fake and scripted?
2. 5 others contributed millions more to score positions.
3. We don't know how much Rex Tillerson paid to buy Secretary of State. Make the Middle East safe for pig oil? We know fossil fuel gave many millions, almost exclusively to Republicans.
4. The big prize? Tax cuts--for the ultra rich. Current estimates for the give back is about $4.2 trillion. The oligarch's like Trump and his appointees will get most of it--nearly $2 million each for the top 0.1%. But the bigger prize is the give away of public assets. And did the Republicans provide any relief for the West Virginia coal miners? Hell no, they threw them under the bus and Democrats pulled them out before they got run over.
Meet the new boss. |
Has it ever dawned on you, that these guys are all so wealthy they wouldn't be tempted to take $250,000 for speech? Why would a billionaire want to Mickey mouse this opportunity??? It's not your money Mac, and now I can happily say you're not gonna get your grubby hands on it either. |
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mac
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| What a fool. They are keeping score with money, and they are going to dramatically increase the debt. And you are going to chant foolish right wing things about strong men. You guys are pathetic, and your boys (and token women) are crooks. |
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mrgybe
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2016 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| mac wrote: | | You guys are pathetic, and your boys (and token women) are crooks. |
More wild accusations and misogyny from the sub department supervisor. |
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