Martin Shkreli is fascinating

[bennyboy]

Did he, though?

You're forgetting his smirking performance before congress.

He's explained his smirking.  He's said he's been a puppet for political purposes, as witnessed by the timing of his arrest for securities fraud.  He's said the media are targeting him because he's taken such an anti-media stance.  He's said (and the video explicitly talked about it) that it's not normal to bring in people whose laywers have already indicated they intead to plead the 5th-- clearly, they brought him in anyway to make him plead the 5th in front of cameras, and so the judge could lecture him in public.  That reeks of politics, and that makes me think that pretty much everything he said is spot-on.

So he sees it as a kind of parade, and being the narcissistic guy that he obviously is, that means two things: 1) it reinforces his opinion of how important he is; 2) it lets him take the high-road position.  So it's actually a pretty good day for him-- I'm surprised he managed to resist rubbing his palms together and cackling.