Four people who made me want to punch my screen in 2015

22 December 2015 - 14:20 By Bruce Gorton
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There are some faces that just make me want to punch my screen. That is why I have so few pictures of myself. These are just four of them from the headlines this year.

Josh Duggar

 

Josh Duggar is of a family of really punchable people. When his parents found out that he was molesting his sisters, they sent him to a state trooper who later got arrested for his copious collection of child porn.

They then sent him for "Christian counselling" centre run by a guy who would later end up having to resign his ministry - after it turned out he got a bit grabby with his teenaged staff.

Well, he eventually grew up, got married, and cheated on his pregnant wife with a porn star, who said sex with him was scary and not in a good way. Danica Dillon is currently suing him for $500,000 for battery, saying he manhandled her in such a way that it felt like rape.

And Josh used to run FRC Action, a part of the Family Research Council where he worked on "engaging the grassroots and taking the message of faith, family and freedom all across America".

Fetty Wap

He has a stage name that sounds suspiciously like a euphemism for masturbation - and that's probably what he should have done rather than telling his girlfriend that she'll be a single mom.

She told him that she didn't believe in abortions, and he responded ''You obviously don't believe in condoms either.''

Dude, you're the one with the penis, you're the one who is supposed to suit up.

Donald Trump

He's a racist blowhard noted for a reality TV show in which he fired people.

He claimed Megyn Kelly had "blood coming out of her whatever" at a Republican debate. He wants to build a wall along the Mexican border and charge Mexico for it. He has said that Muslims should be banned from entering the US.

Of course he is the Republican front runner.

Martin Shkreli

Martin Shkreli is the kind of scumbag that would turn Gordon Gecko into a die-hard communist. Shkreli is the CEO of the company that bought out the patent to Daraprim, a 62-year-old treatment for a dangerous parasitic infection.

He then hiked the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50.

There is some justice in the world however, as he has just been arrested by the FBI.

He used to manage a hedge fund called  MSMB Capital Management, while serving as the CEO of biopharmaceutical company Retrophin.

Retrophin is now accusing him of using their money to enrich himself and pay off claims of investors in MSMB, which he had also allegedly defrauded.

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