MAHA Is Embracing Elizabeth Holmes. Here's Why.

(politico.com)

25 points | by voxadam 21 hours ago ago

12 comments

  • emmelaich 19 hours ago ago

    Recommended: https://www.thesocialradars.com/episodes with Tyler Schultz, the Theranos whistleblower.

  • anigbrowl 21 hours ago ago

    Game recognize game. Home by Christmas?

  • nacozarina 20 hours ago ago

    she’s an amoral quack. they like that.

    • scrubs 19 hours ago ago

      And misery loves company. The losers can sit around in a mutual admiration society brown nosing and using and be used by each other.

  • TrackerFF 20 hours ago ago

    If not for my morals and sense of ethics, I’d probably spend my days grifting crunchy MAHA folks. I'm 100% sure that if you just push anti-establishment / something contrarian hard enough, they will start lapping it up.

    I can't remember if Holmes was brought down on state or federal charges, but if the latter, no doubt they'll push for getting her out.

    • voxadam 20 hours ago ago

      She was found guilty on four counts of fraud in federal court. I'm amazed she hasn't been pardoned already.

      • DemocracyFTW2 12 hours ago ago

        "Four counts of fraud in federal court" sounds better than "four medical degrees from top medical schools" if you want to be someone in the Make America Poor and Sick Again administration

  • mindslight 20 hours ago ago

    If you'd like the answer to this in musical form, you can listen to DJ Shadow's excellent Why Hip-Hop Sucks in '96.

  • AndrewKemendo 20 hours ago ago

    I’ve been waiting to see when this story arc would come back around

    Can we expect an formal apology/book tour soon?

  • lawlessone 20 hours ago ago

    Thinking i should just start a company, close it and claim political persecution.

    She's right about a lot of silicon valley (and beyond) companies having a fake it till you make it sort of thing going on (something she mentioned elsewhere). But come on... faking blood tests is far worse than some app faking that it can find instances of hotdogs in a photo..

    edit: How do all these prisoners seem to have social media? People being deported and "regular" and prisoners don't.

    • JuniperMesos 20 hours ago ago

      > edit: How do all these prisoners seem to have social media? People being deported and "regular" and prisoners don't.

      Are you sure they don't? White collar criminals in prison are having friends on the outside post on social media on their behalf (and of course we have no way of knowing whether the actual white collar prisoners actually approve of what is posted on their behalf). Imagine a guy who is in prison for 10 years for committing an impulsive murder of another gang member, or who is in immigration detention and does not speak English - even if they did have people on the outside posting on social media for them, would you know about it?

  • nine_zeros 15 hours ago ago

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