Girlboss: How a 19-Year-Old in a Steve
Jobs Turtleneck Snookered America’s
Failed Ruling Class
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Posted By: Judy W.,
1/17/2022 9:30:09 PM
Alongside all the hype and chatter about the January 6 anniversary, there was another worthy news story the first week of 2022. On Monday, January 3, a federal jury in California convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on three counts of wire fraud and one of conspiracy to defraud investors. Holmes, six years removed from being the richest self-made woman in the world, now faces as many as twenty years in prison, though she will likely receive less.
While it’s always good to see criminals receive their just desserts, there is another upbeat aspect to the Holmes saga. (Snip) It’s a profound and permanent humiliation for America’s entire incompetent, vacuous leadership caste.
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jimincalif 1/17/2022 10:18:37 PM (No. 1042153)
The ruling elites have never been particularly bright, but it was ok when your only interaction with government was filing a tax return and an occasional trip to the DMV. But now that these nincompoops interfere with and seek to control virtually every aspect of our lives, right down to our ability to breathe, it’s time to put an end to their rule. Given events of the last two years many of them should be tried for crimes against humanity.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol 1/17/2022 10:24:50 PM (No. 1042158)
Nothing elite about most of these clowns,she never impressed me.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/17/2022 10:42:25 PM (No. 1042168)
When I first heard about the Theranos pitch, even with my limited knowledge of chemistry and microbiology, I though this was an outlandish scam driven by a glitzy marketing blitz. The fact they were able to con almost a billion dollars of venture capital and lure so many grand poobah government and business elites into their team of backers is utterly unbelievable. Suckers.
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Dinky 1/17/2022 10:55:52 PM (No. 1042172)
There is a PSA test that will only tell you if the PSA is less than 4.0. It uses a drop of blood. The problem is that the blood sticks to your finger, and dries out.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 1/17/2022 11:17:11 PM (No. 1042176)
Great read.
Thanks for posting.
(Reminds me of Felonia: she’s not very bright, but she knows people who know people. … and she is ruthless.
Our elites are like that.)
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Dirty old men with money duped by an attractive young blonde (albeit one with crazy eyes). There's an excellent 20/20 episode that drills deep into this scam for 2 hours, including an interview with Schultz's grandson:
https://abc.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2019-03/15-the-dropout
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lakerman1 1/18/2022 7:44:22 AM (No. 1042355)
When Holmes first became famous, I looked at what she was doing, and based on my military experience as a medical lab tech, I chuckled and ignored her. Anyone with any medical experience would do the same. That is why I am amazed that a famous Cardiac surgeon, Dr. Bill Frist, would get on board., He deserves special shaming.
American Greed did a show about Holmes. She didn't have an affair with her Indian CEO - she lived with him. And when she was charged with fraud, she batted her eyelashes and said an older man took advantage of her, and misled her. A poor, helpless woman!
Worst of all, Holmes somehow convinced Arizona to make it legal for patients to order their own lab work, an incredibly stupid idea - almost as stupid as providing a billion home tests for Kung Flu - and patients died because of the bogus test results.
And one more thing - who did Holmes hire as her legal hit man, who bullied former employees? David Boies, the scruffy lawyer for Al Gore in 2000.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Laotzu 1/18/2022 8:50:38 AM (No. 1042424)
If Buckley were still alive, this is the stuff he would be writing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rushie 1/18/2022 9:09:14 AM (No. 1042453)
“If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance baffle them with you BS”
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as this made american greed yet? was continually amazed at how so much money was thrown at this woman without the slightest effort to verify any of her claims or progress. and by verify i mean disinterested third party testing.
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Strike3 1/18/2022 9:41:50 AM (No. 1042510)
Fascinating. Some of the other "tech geniuses" could be in this same boat if not for people they hired to make their software work. Zuckerberg and Gates aren't particularly bright and are not known for their honesty. Fakebook is just a premium version of MySpace and Windows? No comment needed there, it sucks and always has but it has made many virus-protection companies rich. They just happened to be first on the market. Holmes product succeeded only through a large dose of wishful thinking but she is no more talented than Greta Thunberg.
It's all in the timing. How many miracle gas-saving devices were sold in the early seventies during the oil embargo? How many books on Pyramid Power, Astral Traveling and Reiki were on the shelves in the seventies? I know, I bought some of them too. They were all precursors to the modern scams of Climate Change, All Diets, Diversity, Racism, Green Energy and the hundreds of drugs on the market with thousands of side effects that you need to ask your doctor about. Need some $500 eye drops? How about an electric car with a thousand-pound battery that may or may not blow up?
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bigfatslob 1/18/2022 9:49:36 AM (No. 1042523)
Bamboozled by the blond. Moderate Dog Mattis gets he due. I enjoyed reading this because some of Holmes gibberish sounds like a Kamala Harris speech. Those elites sure are dumb Holmes was the clever one up to a point not realizing she will eventually be caught. Here we are watching the dumb elites getting strung along like the idiots they are but Holmes sold them all nothing, just clever words. LOL
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marbles 1/18/2022 9:50:34 AM (No. 1042526)
So deeply wanting to be in on the next big thing, no one did due diligence.
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Rumblehog 1/18/2022 9:56:43 AM (No. 1042532)
There's a very good documentary, available on YouTube, wherein Stanford Professors are interviewed about Homes. One of them is a Medical Doctor/Professor who knew her as a student and said she was anything but "brilliant." In hindsight this is so ridiculous of a plot that it seems surreal. Poor little rich girl drops out of Stanford with brilliant idea that if it works will resolve her personal fear of needles. From her needle phobia she projects that the whole world MUST likewise have similar fears and she concludes that Needle Phobia is "De-Humanizing" as a way to sell her product and interest old white men to invest. Getting Liberals to buy into her scheme only requires claiming that impoverished third-world nations have disproportionately high numbers of "Needlephobics" in their census and they should get her machines dirt-cheap (i.e. generous Federal subsidies).
Another "red-alert" thing was the whole Steve Jobs schtick, which is the sign of a real loser. Next up was her proclivity to take every question and never allow her Staff to answer anything. Her psychosis was showing by her "me, me, me" personality.
My ever observant wife picked up on her morphing hairstyles, depending on the nature of the event she was attending. If she were at a technical symposium, she'd have her hair disheveled, like Einstein's, and if she were dunning for money among the global elite, she'd have it made covergirl-ish.
In closing, she should have been convicted on the two counts of harm to human life.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/18/2022 10:41:10 AM (No. 1042604)
Now if she were a politician doing the exact same illegal things she'd be GOLDEN!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Penney 1/18/2022 2:27:20 PM (No. 1042949)
Con artists come in many sizes and shapes. Some in politics prove that. ...What is the old saying, 'you can't tell a book by its cover.' Beware.
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This is a very satisfying read.