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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Gates? You're fucking Crazy? Trump is similar to Kennedy?
You are a 1st class idiot.. What about the Planet Bill? Safety Net Cuts? Dream Act.. Permanently Extinguished! JUST BECAUSE HE SPOKE TO YOU AND MADE A LITTLE SENSE?
Hes Not a Well Man.. Who turns on a dime. Hes a dangerous non-human. IDIOT YOU ARE!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/12/13/bill-gates-compares-trump-to-jfk.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Not for any sort of innovation but instead to increase the profits of oil and gas.
JHan
(10,173 posts)but... but but.. etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
Initech
(100,112 posts)They didn't drain the swamp. They breathed new life into the swamp.
niyad
(113,662 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)RonniePudding
(889 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,245 posts)genetically modified food.
Trump should be able to help Gates with his endeavors better from the WH than from Trump Tower.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/04/how-bill-gates-and-his-billionaire-allies-used-their-wealth-to-launch-charter-schools-in-washington-state.html
https://usrtk.org/gmo/what-bill-gates-isnt-saying-about-gmos/
Generator
(7,770 posts)I don't want to be in a conspiracy bubble but what he said makes ZERO sense. Trump isn't going forward he's going backward. At this rate I don't know if I can stay in this crazy ass country. "Health breakthroughs?" Even Gates is insane. What has Trump ever done for anybody but himself? He wants to outlaw abortion and that means forced birth. Women will die. People will lose health care. WHAT THE FUCK-yes Trump is going to cure cancer. I am living in some word that isn't real anymore.
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MFM008
(19,826 posts)His fucking mind.
Hopefully Melinda is in charge.
earthside
(6,960 posts)... by Chrystia Freeland.
No matter how 'humble' their origins, those who have the enormous wealth of today's plutocrats soon share all kinds of associations and affinities for their fellow billionaires.
Bill Gates merely communing with one of the few in his same economic and social circle.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)and that is how much is in it for me. Gates found the cash cow when he invested in Charter Schools. Just watched the Bush Crime Family pull off the same .
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,921 posts)I don't believe for a minute that he actually meant what he said.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)I never read such posts..but if I did...I wouldnt remain silent.. Fuck 4profit Education.
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)HOPE so yurbud.
Although Gates has given overwhelmingly to Democrats and this past election cycle he heavily donated to Hillary, he's never to ME been this great guy who wants our kids educated. Whether it's charter schools or modified foods (And there are also some other controversial things about him that I don't like), there's something about Gates that I've never "trusted."
Txbluedog
(1,128 posts)would support a republican President-elect who is going to save him multitudes of millions in taxes.
longship
(40,416 posts)Microsoft is an evil company with horrible products. Wretched stuff.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)but no one will talk about it. Not even me. Because.
flying-skeleton
(698 posts)Why are billionaires so out of touch with common sense reality and not be able to recognize stupidity staring them in the face !!
eShirl
(18,505 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)What in the world would he actually remember about JFK? I watched the Nixon/Kennedy debates, and not with my parents, when I was 11. How old was Bill? 4 years old? I knew all about the Electoral College and stayed up on Election night watching the returns come in. My parents (JFK supporters) and Teachers (Nuns supporting him too) thought I was crazy. Dad, I MUST stay up to see the California returns!
Dear Bill, I came home from school as a Sophomore and cried my eyes out when John Kennedy was assassinated, along with my parents, and a whole lot of people on the streets of NYC. Where were YOU? Dreaming up computers at 8 years old?????
Very, very INSULTING in my book.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,333 posts)Thought you were smarter than that. For one thing Trump opposes you on climate change. JFK was not anti-science.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)But the similarity ends there.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Gates makes the BIG mistake of trying to frame Trump as a force for some greater good. Not gonna happen.
jmowreader
(50,569 posts)In business Gates is absolutely ruthless. During the 1980s and 1990s he attempted to destroy the entire software industry, and in some cases he succeeded. (Try buying a word processor that ISN'T Microsoft Word!) I've had to help people recover from some of Gates' stupider ideas - can ANYONE tell me why being able to reformat a computer's startup drive from a word processor file, which the Word macro language will let you do, is a good idea? - and as a result I have absolutely no respect for the man.
Fuck Bill Gates and fuck Donald Trump. The two belong together. I'm surprised Trump hasn't given him a Cabinet post yet.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)I guess that's true.
The great car salesman Cal Worthington in tv ads stressed that he financed his car sales. He would say "I can sell you a car for a dollar down and a dollar a week" and then add quietly "If I wanted to."
CentralMass
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still_one
(92,479 posts)deaniac21
(6,747 posts)still_one
(92,479 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)Was Bill Gates, dare I suggest, referring to Robert F. Kennedy? Probably not ...
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of these acts will be written the history of [each] generation Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert Kennedy
Johonny
(20,917 posts)Trump sees 50% unemployment, race wars, Putin as a good leader, climate change as fake, and illegal immigration as a pandemic.
Sure during the election JFK did talk about a missile gap that wasn't real, but once he learned the truth he didn't pretend it was still real. Trump ran on fixing problems that aren't real and is fixing problems that aren't problems. Gates sounds out of touch...very out of touch with Trump's actual campaign.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)I hope you realized that by kissing the orange ass, China now has every reason to screw you over.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)and Gates got all weak in the knees.