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Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years of Marriage
Joshua Caplan 3 May 2021
Bill and Melinda Gates announced in a statement Monday afternoon that they will divorce after 27 years of marriage.
“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the statement reads. “Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives.”
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more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/03/bill-and-melinda-gates-announce-divorce-after-27-years-of-marriage/
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No surprise here. Both are kooks. I think he is just super extreme.
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No surprise here. Both are kooks. I think he is just super extreme.
I think the man is just plain evil.
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I'd love to be one of the lead divorce attorney's.
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So a rich sugar mama is coming available? Woof!
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When will we learn which one is transitioning?
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No surprise here. Both are kooks. I think he is just super extreme.
What would anyone expect when your spouse wakes up one morning and says he thinks dimming the sun sounds like a cool idea.
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Insider tip on Bill Gates - he's not a very nice person. The current CEO of Microsoft (Satya Nadella) is a much better human being.
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His ex wife will be able to buy a lot of dick with Bill's money when this is over. He always had an Low T vibe about him. Did he ever produce a spawn?
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His ex wife will be able to buy a lot of dick with Bill's money when this is over. He always had an Low T vibe about him. Did he ever produce a spawn?
I'd send her my phone number, but heck....I'm pretty sure she has it already. She has a bit of "man-face" about her anyway.
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My take is that there must be money in it for them to be getting divorced. I mean what is the downside to them remaining married? With all the homes and property they own they wouldn't ever have to see each other, they could even be double as environmentally aware flying in two private jets instead of one. What's the downside, that they couldn't both go to the same uber liberal gatherings? Divorced/not divorced it makes no difference, sounds like two attention whores doing what attention attention whores do.
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My take is that there must be money in it for them to be getting divorced. I mean what is the downside to them remaining married? With all the homes and property they own they wouldn't ever have to see each other, they could even be double as environmentally aware flying in two private jets instead of one. What's the downside, that they couldn't both go to the same uber liberal gatherings? Divorced/not divorced it makes no difference, sounds like two attention whores doing what attention attention whores do.
The upside is she can find a man that doesn't look and act like a sleestak, while keeping a substantial portion of his cash - more than she needs to live out the remainder of her life in squalor.
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I'd send her my phone number, but heck....I'm pretty sure she has it already. She has a bit of "man-face" about her anyway.
I think that is why Bill was drawn to her. Maybe Bill will go the way of Bruce Jenner? #Lopadickoff
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I think that is why Bill was drawn to her. Maybe Bill will go the way of Bruce Jenner? #Lopadickoff
Or Melinda goes the way of Chaz Bono.
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Or Melinda goes the way of Chaz Bono.
It could happen.
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It could happen.
She could pass it off, too.
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She could pass it off, too.
Sure could.
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I think that is why Bill was drawn to her. Maybe Bill will go the way of Bruce Jenner? #Lopadickoff
That's assuming he still has something to lop off.
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Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
Reply of the Year.
Neon Knight SevN
@NeonKnightSevN · 5h
Bill Gates asking for privacy (https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f602.svg) (https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f602.svg) (https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f602.svg)
4:49 PM · May 3, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1389321346434404352
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His ex wife will be able to buy a lot of dick with Bill's money when this is over. He always had an Low T vibe about him. Did he ever produce a spawn?
Three.
But then again, Bruce Jenner had six before becoming Caitlyn. So you can't always use that as a metric.
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That's assuming he still has something to lop off.
Heck with his money he could easily pay for an addadicktome followed by a dickectomy or vice versa as many times as he wanted.
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Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
Reply of the Year.
Bill Gates asking for privacy
4:49 PM · May 3, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1389321346434404352
@Right_in_Virginia
THAT's funny,I don't care who you are.
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Three.
But then again, Bruce Jenner had six before becoming Caitlyn. So you can't always use that as a metric.
Boy ain't that the truth!
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My take is that there must be money in it for them to be getting divorced. I mean what is the downside to them remaining married? With all the homes and property they own they wouldn't ever have to see each other, they could even be double as environmentally aware flying in two private jets instead of one. What's the downside, that they couldn't both go to the same uber liberal gatherings? Divorced/not divorced it makes no difference, sounds like two attention whores doing what attention attention whores do.
My suspicious mind agrees. I keep thinking they aware of some upcoming tax alteration that will benefit them if not married
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Bill Gates took weekend trips to see ex-girlfriend while married to Melinda
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bill-gates-north-carolina-ex-girlfriend-married
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My suspicious mind agrees. I keep thinking they aware of some upcoming tax alteration that will benefit them if not married
When you have as much money as Gates has and you're giVing away huge sums of it, it seems unlikely the move was related to tax savings. More likely infidelity or Melinda got tired of being married to someone who travels so much she sees him 10 days a year.
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The girlfriend
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Bill Gates took weekend trips to see ex-girlfriend while married to Melinda
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bill-gates-north-carolina-ex-girlfriend-married
He did this once a year for the 27 years he was married ... and Melinda knew about it. In fact, the girlfriend gave Bill the "okay" to marry Melinda. Freaks. All of them.
I think the fact there was no prenup is more interesting ....
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The girlfriend
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The wife: (https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Bill-Melinda-Gates-Most-Memorable-Moments-001.jpg?w=900&quality=86&strip=all)
No one can accuse him of being a sucker for a beautiful face. 333cleo
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Bill is no prize either but his tastes in man'ish looking women is weird. :cool:
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The wife: (https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Bill-Melinda-Gates-Most-Memorable-Moments-001.jpg?w=900&quality=86&strip=all)
No one can accuse him of being a sucker for a beautiful face. 333cleo
@Right_in_Virginia
There is more to love than beauty. In fact,lasting love requires more.
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I guess my comment above was mean spirited....oh well.. :shrug:
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I guess my comment above was mean spirited....oh well.. :shrug:
No it wasn't @mystery-ak --- It's true.
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I actually give Melinda a lot of credit for not visiting a cosmetic surgeon or three ... especially considering how attracted some women are to a big wallet.
I'm still betting after 27 years .... there's a new woman in the footnotes.
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@Right_in_Virginia
There is more to love than beauty. In fact,lasting love requires more.
Thanks, I know. @sneakypete --- I was actually paying Billy a compliment.... in a round about sort of way. happy77
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I guess my comment above was mean spirited....oh well.. :shrug:
@mystery-ak
If you were referring to my comment,I didn't mean it that way. After all,it's just as easy to love a woman who doesn't have a nose like that as it is one that has that nose.
And it ain't like she couldn't afford a new nose.
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Cut the WiFi
New York Post
@nypost
Melinda Gates reportedly rented private island to avoid media after divorce https://trib.al/8KzRfpF
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7:27 AM · May 6, 2021·SocialFlow
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1390266924257452033
FTA:
Bill and Melinda Gates reportedly planned to make their stunning divorce announcement in March — and she hoped to avoid the media glare by renting a remote, private island in Grenada for the family.
Sources told TMZ that Melinda rented Calivigny Island for a whopping $132,000 a night for her and the couple’s children, as well as their significant others.
But the Microsoft co-founder, to whom she has been married for 27 years, had not been invited to the 80-acre Caribbean islet hideaway, according to the outlet, which reported that everyone in the family took Melinda’s side.
Melinda decided to go anyway despite efforts by the couple’s lawyers to hash out a settlement during what the outlet described as an unfriendly split,
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pointing-up I'm still betting Bill's found someone else to "grow together" with.
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REPORT: Bill Gates’ Meeting With Epstein Caused Major Issues With Ex-Wife Melinda
Gabrielle Temaat
Contributor
May 07, 2021 12:54 AM ET
Bill and Melinda Gates met with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013, which infuriated Melinda and caused major issues in the couple’s relationship, according to a report from The Daily Beast.
The meeting occurred in September of 2013 at Epstein’s Upper East Side Mansion in New York City. It was a turning point for Epstein and Gate’s relationship, after which Melinda told friends that she was uncomfortable meeting with the sex offender and had not wanted to be there, according to The Daily Beast.
Gates and Epstein had met several times beginning in 2011, three years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a young girl, The New York Times.
Gates claims that he never had a business relationship with Epstein and none of their meetings were private.
more
https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/07/bill-gates-meeting-epstein-issues-melinda/
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Cut the WiFi
New York Post
@nypost
Melinda Gates reportedly rented private island to avoid media after divorce https://trib.al/8KzRfpF
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7:27 AM · May 6, 2021·SocialFlow
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1390266924257452033
@Right_in_Virginia
She is surrounded by bodyguards,servants,drivers,and various other flunkies,and most like has people hired to hold the tissue when she blows her nose.
How close does anyone else get to her,to start with?
And more importantly,WHY does anyone else want to get close to her,except maybe to kidnap her for ransom,which would be a serious mistake on their part.
On top of all that,take her out of her normal enclave,and who the hell would even recognize her walking down the street if she didn't have her posse of bodyguards surrounding her?
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She is surrounded by bodyguards,servants,drivers,and various other flunkies,and most like has people hired to hold the tissue when she blows her nose.
It would take two flunkies to hold the tissues for that schnoz.
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Bill and Melinda Gates divorce is ‘not a friendly split,’ sources allege: 'A long time in the making'
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-and-melinda-gates-divorce-not-friendly-split-sources
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Perhaps Bill is about to take a big financial hit and this is their way of syphoning off a lot of it.
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Perhaps Bill is about to take a big financial hit and this is their way of syphoning off a lot of it.
He has so much money they created a foundation to give it away in an orderly fashion. I don't think making more money is his concern at this point in his life. More likely it's the usual things that cause couples to divorce. And frankly, it's really no one's business but theirs.
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He has so much money they created a foundation to give it away in an orderly fashion. I don't think making more money is his concern at this point in his life. More likely it's the usual things that cause couples to divorce. And frankly, it's really no one's business but theirs.
Maybe he woke up to that face once too often? ***evilkitty
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Maybe he woke up to that face once too often? ***evilkitty
She definitely hasn't aged well, but when you reach that age, those surface attributes aren't as important as what's inside.
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She definitely hasn't aged well, but when you reach that age, those surface attributes aren't as important as what's inside.
This is true, I was just being a catty PITA. 888mouth
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Maybe he woke up to that face once too often? ***evilkitty
@Cyber Liberty
Well,it ain't like anyone ever tried to hire HIM as a male model. Granted,being a multi-billionaire creates it's own attractiveness,but it ain't like she was on welfare.
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@Cyber Liberty
Well,it ain't like anyone ever tried to hire HIM as a male model. Granted,being a multi-billionaire creates it's own attractiveness,but it ain't like she was on welfare.
Yeah, he's always been one pocket protector away from Revenge of the Nerds.
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She definitely hasn't aged well, but when you reach that age, those surface attributes aren't as important as what's inside.
@BassWrangler
That's true at any age. Unfortunately,we rarely discover anyone's true character until it is too late to warn us.
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Melinda Gates had concerns over Bill's possible ties to Jeffrey Epstein: report
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/melinda-gates-concerns-bills-possible-ties-jeffrey-epstein
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Melinda Gates tapped divorce lawyers in 2019 after Epstein links to husband: report
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/552551-melinda-gates-spoke-to-divorce-lawyers-two-years-ago-due-to
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Cut the WiFi
New York Post
@nypost
Melinda Gates reportedly rented private island to avoid media after divorce https://trib.al/8KzRfpF
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7:27 AM · May 6, 2021·SocialFlow
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1390266924257452033
I would have chosen Musha Cay. https://mushacay.com/#1 (https://mushacay.com/#1)
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Frankly, I could care less that they are divorcing. :shrug:
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Frankly, I could care less that they are divorcing. :shrug:
You can? I can't possibly care less.
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You can? I can't possibly care less.
Ok, I don't care at all. :beer:
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Frankly, I could care less that they are divorcing. :shrug:
Same. I don't see the fascination with celebrities personal lives.
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David Reaboi
@davereaboi
This is a media op. Sure, it’s possible that she was sketched out by Epstein—but these articles and tweets are coming out this way because they’re part of her PR strategy.
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2:03 PM · May 9, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1391453779040538626
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She'd be nuts not to have a PR team managing this whole thing.
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This farrago belongs in the same category with all the Hollyweird celebs (many of whom I've never heard of) getting together, breaking up, getting together again, breaking up again.
I simply don't care.
When the dust settles, Gates will still be filthy rich and opining about things he knows nothing about. His opinions about topics outside of business are about as worthy as the opinions of the drunk at the end of the bar who believes in space aliens controlling everybody's minds.
Melinda Gates will come out of this with a bundle as well.
Why should anybody, except their divorce lawyers, care what they do or don't do?
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I saw a tweet that suggested perhaps the divorce is because Bill Gates is going to come up in Maxwell's trial, so this move is more about insulating their foundation and the family from the fallout from that.
I think that's a viable theory.
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"His Womanizing Was Well Known": Flood-'Gates' Open As Biographer Details Microsoft Founder's Salacious Past
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/his-womanizing-was-well-known-flood-gates-open-biographer-details-microsoft-founders
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"His Womanizing Was Well Known": Flood-'Gates' Open As Biographer Details Microsoft Founder's Salacious Past
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/his-womanizing-was-well-known-flood-gates-open-biographer-details-microsoft-founders
Who cares! "It's just sex." Nothing to see here, we must consider the totality of the man.
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Who cares! "It's just sex." Nothing to see here, we must consider the totality of the man.
I joined Microsoft around the time he left. I used to be a bit sad that I didn't have any awards or other company swag with Gates' signature on it (just Ballmer, and later Nadella), and never got to give a demo or presentation to him. But if it turns out he was one of the ones sexually abusing minors with Epstein, I will be happy I never met him.
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I joined Microsoft around the time he left. I used to be a bit sad that I didn't have any awards or other company swag with Gates' signature on it (just Ballmer, and later Nadella), and never got to give a demo or presentation to him. But if it turns out he was one of the ones sexually abusing minors with Epstein, I will be happy I never met him.
LOL. Ballmer. "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!!!!!!!"
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LOL. Ballmer. "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!!!!!!!"
That guy is such a clown. He did love the company, but was not an effective leader. The Nokia acquisition has to go down in history as one of the biggest wastes of money.
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In case people are interested :
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1394068342474936323
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LOL...I would have never guessed any of this from Bill Gates... :thud:
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Microsoft board members thought Bill Gates should resign over relationship with staffer: report
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/553802-microsoft-board-members-thought-bill-gates-should-resign-over-relationship
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Bill Gates should have pulled an 'Ellis Wyatt' back when Bill Clinton was in office by revoking all licenses, issuing prorated refunds, and riding off into the sunset of a world without Windows '95. But instead, he chose to be a willing participant with the looters and their turpitude.
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Hunka hunka burning love (dweeb edition).
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Greenfield: The Love Song of Bill and Melinda
Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield
May 17, 2021After Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Pepé Le Pew and Penelope, there were Bill and Melinda. The Microsoft technocrat and his spouse were a love story for the ages.
In 1993, Bill proposed to Melinda: an executive at his company. In 1994, they were married. In 1995, Melinda debuted Microsoft Bob. Microsoft Bob treated computer users like idiots who were too stupid to be allowed to use their computers without a lot of handholding.
Condescending handholding was also what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offered the world as one of the industry’s most notoriously miserable human beings decided to become a philanthropist and save the world from all the people who weren’t running it properly. ...
Forget CEO of Microsoft, Bill would use his vast wealth to become the CEO of the world. ...
In 2019, Melinda released the obligatory feminist tract that female dot com tycoons were putting out at the time, titled, “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.”
There was no sense of irony in a woman who was only rich, famous, and powerful because she had caught the eye of an obnoxious tech tycoon writing about empowering women.
The release of Melinda’s book came at an awkward time when female employees at Microsoft, who weren’t married to Bill, were complaining about sexual harassment. In one of those complaints, a woman who worked at Microsoft claimed that a contractor “threatened to kill her if she did not perform implied sexual acts” and her manager told her it was just flirting. ...
The shattering of the great corporation of Bill and Mel will mean potentially dividing up a quarter-million-acres of farmland, an estate known as Xanadu 2.0 near Seattle, a 229-acre horse farm near San Diego, another horse farm in Florida, a ranch in Wyoming, and a ski club in Montana. But it will also mean splitting up their vast philanthropic enterprise.
Bill will have to take India, while Melinda will have to take Africa.
The divorcing billionaires will have to decide which of them gets to run which parts of the world, country by country, and state by state. ...
Some nice sarcasm here. Read entire article at Politichicks (https://politichicks.com/2021/05/greenfield-the-love-song-of-bill-and-melinda/)
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Gates And Epstein Traded Advice On Bill's 'Toxic' Marriage, Jeff's Pedo Image Rehab During Secretive "Men's Club" Gatherings
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gates-and-epstein-traded-advice-bills-toxic-marriage-jeffs-pedo-image-rehab-during
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Gates And Epstein Traded Advice On Bill's 'Toxic' Marriage, Jeff's Pedo Image Rehab During Secretive "Men's Club" Gatherings
Interesting tidbit in that story:
Meanwhile, we'd still like to know how Gates adviser Boris Nikolic (pictured below), was named as a fallback executor in an will Epstein amended days before his August 10 death in a Manhattan jail cell.
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https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1394317220176662539
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He has so much money they created a foundation to give it away in an orderly fashion. I don't think making more money is his concern at this point in his life. More likely it's the usual things that cause couples to divorce. And frankly, it's really no one's business but theirs.
@BassWrangler
Thank you for posting that. It seems news posted here about any prominent person causes people here to call them names, say bad things about the person.
Bill Gates helped this country in great ways; without him, we would not be able to communicate like we do - one of his "inventions" is called a "computer".
Between the two of them, Bill and Melinda, they have billions of dollars - good for them; it is not a crime to have money. I do not get people being mad because they have billions.
Wrangler, you are so right - it is their marriage and no one's business.
"In his 84 years, Thomas Edison acquired a record number of 1,093 patents (singly or jointly) and was the driving force behind such innovations as the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture cameras. He also created the world’s first industrial research laboratory."
Now, let's go search for his marriage, find out if he drank whiskey, etc., so we can hit on him for his inventions and the money he likely made. 22222frying pan
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@BassWrangler
Thank you for posting that. It seems news posted here about any prominent person causes people here to call them names, say bad things about the person.
Bill Gates helped this country in great ways; without him, we would not be able to communicate like we do - one of his "inventions" is called a "computer".
Between the two of them, Bill and Melinda, they have billions of dollars - good for them; it is not a crime to have money. I do not get people being mad because they have billions.
Wrangler, you are so right - it is their marriage and no one's business.
"In his 84 years, Thomas Edison acquired a record number of 1,093 patents (singly or jointly) and was the driving force behind such innovations as the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture cameras. He also created the world’s first industrial research laboratory."
Now, let's go search for his marriage, find out if he drank whiskey, etc., so we can hit on him for his inventions and the money he likely made. 22222frying pan
@BassWrangler @Victoria33
:amen:
Nothing less than class envy,which is a standard feature of communism.
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@Victoria33 @BassWrangler
Am I the only one shocked at a financial "genius" that spent 77 MILLION bucks for a freaking town house?
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@BassWrangler
Bill Gates helped this country in great ways; without him, we would not be able to communicate like we do - one of his "inventions" is called a "computer".
Bill Gates did not invent the computer. His company produced software to allow personal computers to be more accessible to the masses.
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Bill Gates did not invent the computer. His company produced software to allow personal computers to be more accessible to the masses.
YES - HIS INVENTED SOFTWARE GAVE "US MASSES" A COMPUTER WE COULD WORK. IT DID NOT AND DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER HE WAS, OR IS, MARRIED.
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Bill Gates did not invent the computer. His company produced software to allow personal computers to be more accessible to the masses.
@thackney
And IIRC,he bought the original Windows software from someone else.
Not that there is anything wrong with that. He was bright enough to spot what would sell,and had the bucks to buy and develop it,so he did.
Profits are what makes the world go around. You can have the best idea in the world,but if you have no money to promote and sell it,you are screwed. So you sell it to someone who does have the money and the means to promote it,and try to get a cut of the profits if you can.
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He stole the idea of the Mouse from Xerox who hadn't figured out it's implications/importance. He settled a lawsuit about him stealing Windows in the 90's, I believe. He's a Fraud.
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@thackney
And IIRC,he bought the original Windows software from someone else.
Not that there is anything wrong with that. He was bright enough to spot what would sell,and had the bucks to buy and develop it,so he did.
Profits are what makes the world go around. You can have the best idea in the world,but if you have no money to promote and sell it,you are screwed. So you sell it to someone who does have the money and the means to promote it,and try to get a cut of the profits if you can.
Yes, I believe that is correct and why I said His company produced software rather than claim he invented it.
IIRC, he actually sold the production of the software before he owned it.
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@Victoria33 @BassWrangler Am I the only one shocked at a financial "genius" that spent 77 MILLION bucks for a freaking town house?
@sneakypete
The price is likely due to where the townhouse is located. I own a townhouse and it is not at a beach or downtown New York City, or Los Angeles, therefore I can afford it.
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@sneakypete
The price is likely due to where the townhouse is located. I own a townhouse and it is not at a beach or downtown New York City, or Los Angeles, therefore I can afford it.
@Victoria33
I don't give a rabid rats ass if it is in the backyard of the White House,it's STILL a freaking townhouse,you are basically renting your own apartment in a building owned by someone else,on land owned by someone else. ALL that YOU own is the right to live there.
Providing,of course,the other fools that bought into that apartment living idea are willing to ALLOW you to live there,that is.
I would rather own a freaking house trailer on a couple of acres that were MINE.
ANYBODY that spends 77 million on a townhouse is a freaking idiot.
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Melinda Gates could seek to increase the $10M inheritance Bill set for each of their three kids after taking 'highly unusual' step of adding top estate lawyers to her blockbuster divorce team
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9588521/Melinda-Gates-seek-increase-10M-inheritance-Bill-set-three-kids.html?ito=push-notification&ci=169745&si=30478683&ai=9588521
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@Victoria33
I don't give a rabid rats ass if it is in the backyard of the White House,it's STILL a freaking townhouse,you are basically renting your own apartment in a building owned by someone else,on land owned by someone else. ALL that YOU own is the right to live there.
Some may be that way. I have owned a townhouse where all the building walls of my living space were mine to take care of and repair at my cost. I owned the small piece of land for my building and fenced yard. I was part of a "co-op" that owned community parts like the pool and clubhouse.
Providing,of course,the other fools that bought into that apartment living idea are willing to ALLOW you to live there,that is.
In mine, they had no say in my purchase and joining the homeowner association.
I would rather own a freaking house trailer on a couple of acres that were MINE.
Well yeah, me too.
ANYBODY that spends 77 million on a townhouse is a freaking idiot.
Sure, but as a portion of his net worth; was that the equivalent of a ham sandwich to me?
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Bill Gates purchased what became MS-DOS (it was called Q-DOS at the time IIRC) from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for $50,000 after IBM had turned down the opportunity to purchase it and started giving it away with PCs.
I don't think Bill Gates has ever invented anything in his life, but he is a marketing genius.
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@Victoria33 I don't give a rabid rats ass if it is in the backyard of the White House,it's STILL a freaking townhouse,you are basically renting your own apartment in a building owned by someone else, on land owned by someone else. ALL that YOU own is the right to live there. Providing,of course,the other fools that bought into that apartment living idea are willing to ALLOW you to live there,that is. I would rather own a freaking house trailer on a couple of acres that were MINE. ANYBODY that spends 77 million on a townhouse is a freaking idiot.
@sneakypete
@Cyber Liberty
In my case, the townhouses are separate. Our roofs do not connect. I have a deed to the land and house. It is paid for as I bought it for cash. No one can make me leave that townhouse - I own it just like any other house. I have my own insurance on it and that includes a flood insurance policy, read below:
Going on right now: The whole of southeast Texas including numerous counties down to and including Houston/Galveston and into Louisiana right now, are experiencing huge amounts of rain/thunderstorms/some hail, and it is not stopping. Reports say it continues into Thursday. I am getting reports from that Texas area, and one said 2 1/2 inches came down in 30 minutes.
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@sneakypete
@Cyber Liberty
In my case, the townhouses are separate. Our roofs do not connect. I have a deed to the land and house. It is paid for as I bought it for cash. No one can make me leave that townhouse - I own it just like any other house. I have my own insurance on it and that includes a flood insurance policy, read below:
Going on right now: The whole of southeast Texas including numerous counties down to and including Houston/Galveston and into Louisiana right now, are experiencing huge amounts of rain/thunderstorms/some hail, and it is not stopping. Reports say it continues into Thursday. I am getting reports from that Texas area, and one said 2 1/2 inches came down in 30 minutes.
That's an incredible amount of rain, we could sure use a bit of your rain here @Victoria33 I haven't seen hail in FL since we've lived here.
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Bill Gates purchased what became MS-DOS (it was called Q-DOS at the time IIRC) from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for $50,000 after IBM had turned down the opportunity to purchase it and started giving it away with PCs.
I don't think Bill Gates has ever invented anything in his life, but he is a marketing genius.
Ok, that I did not know ... I thought he came up with MS-DOS. Indeed he is a marketing genius. I still think the man is pure evil.
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Sure, but as a portion of his net worth; was that the equivalent of a ham sandwich to me?
@thackney
Don't know,don't care.
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Ok, that I did not know ... I thought he came up with MS-DOS.
Not to be confused with DOS/360.
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I knew this SOB was a deviant. If he was involved in child sex slaves, you could not dispatch him enough times to satisfy me.
The abuse of children in the USA has to end. Human trafficking should warrant only one sentence, a death sentence. Anything less is just moronic. We have become weak as a society where those that adhere to a deviant mindset actually are revered. Disgusting.
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I knew this SOB was a deviant. If he was involved in child sex slaves, you could not dispatch him enough times to satisfy me.
The abuse of children in the USA has to end. Human trafficking should warrant only one sentence, a death sentence. Anything less is just moronic. We have become weak as a society where those that adhere to a deviant mindset actually are revered. Disgusting.
@jafo2010
That's got MY vote!
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The abuse of children in the USA has to end. Human trafficking should warrant only one sentence, a death sentence. Anything less is just moronic. We have become weak as a society where those that adhere to a deviant mindset actually are revered. Disgusting.
It's difficult for a society to demonstrate that it values and protects the lives of children when abortion remains legal and subsidized by government.
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Mike Cernovich
@Cernovich
18h
Last week you'd get banned from social media for criticizing Bill Gates. He's a great man, you damned conspiracy theorist!
Now corporate media is: "Gates is connected to Epstein, he's a pervert."
The narrative change was totally organic, sure.
2:18 PM · May 17, 2021
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@thackney
And IIRC,he bought the original Windows software from someone else.
Not that there is anything wrong with that. He was bright enough to spot what would sell,and had the bucks to buy and develop it,so he did.
Profits are what makes the world go around. You can have the best idea in the world,but if you have no money to promote and sell it,you are screwed. So you sell it to someone who does have the money and the means to promote it,and try to get a cut of the profits if you can.
While possibly true, how many people have used MS Windows 1.0 or 2.0? By the time the more popular Win 3.0 came out it was truly MS.
The Deciduous Fruit Computer Company bought the rights to use a GUI and mouse from Xerox PARC, but Xerox having the Inverse Midas Touch (they touched gold and it turned to @#$%), it took the Deciduous Fruit Computer Company to make all that profitable (after 1 or 2 tries - "Hello? Lisa?").
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Report: Bill Gates ‘Pursued’ Several Women in His Office While Married
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/05/18/report-bill-gates-pursued-several-women-in-his-office-while-married/
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I am sorry for the mean things I said about Melinda up-thread..this guy is scum and I hope she gets every penny she can...
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Bill was angling for the Nobel Prize in rape, or something.
Bill Gates reportedly hoped Jeffrey Epstein would help him win a Nobel
By Lee Brown
May 18, 2021 | 11:08am
Bill Gates courted Jeffrey Epstein in the twisted belief the well-connected pedophile could help him get a Nobel Peace Prize, a former staffer claimed, according to a report Tuesday.
The Microsoft billionaire horrified staff with the meetings, which started in 2011 — when Epstein was already a convicted pedophile — and which reportedly left Gate’s wife Melinda so disturbed it helped drive the couple to divorce.
When his foundation’s PR team was first alerted to the friendship they were told it “was a maneuver to try to get himself a Nobel Peace Prize,” an anonymous foundation employee told The Daily Beast.
As well as staying at the multi-millionaire pervert’s Upper East Side mansion, Gates joined Epstein in a trip to Europe in March 2013, according to Dagens Næringsliv, Norway’s largest business newspaper.
The pair visited the Strasbourg home of Thorbjorn Jagland, who at the time was chair of the committee which awards the Peace Prize, the paper noted, saying Gates was being touted as a recipient at the time. ...
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2021/05/18/bill-gates-hoped-epstein-would-help-him-win-a-nobel-report/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow)
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Bill/Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, the English Prince, and God only knows who else...
(https://2qibqm39xjt6q46gf1rwo2g1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/19376064_web1_M1-Epstein-EDH-191116-1200x900.jpg)
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That excuse for hanging around with Epstein doesn't make sense. Was Epstein known as an influential person when it comes to who gets awarded a Nobel prize?
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The Nobel Prize was just the excuse for the trip. It's like when you were a teenager and told your parents you were going to the library to study, but instead rode around with your friends drinking and smoking dope.
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And by "hanging out with Jeff in hopes of getting a Nobel prize," we mean "whoring around with 17 year old hookers."
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And by "hanging out with Jeff in hopes of getting a Nobel prize," we mean "whoring around with 17 year old hookers."
Well, if you want to make a Nobel Prize you have to break a few underage hookers.
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REPORT: Bill Gates Used To Throw Nude Swimming Parties With Strippers
David Hookstead, Sports And Entertainment Editor
May 11, 2021 8:11 AM
Daily Caller (https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/11/report-bill-gates-nude-swimming-parties-strippers/)
... Just how wild are we talking? According to Wallace, Gates would throw nude swimming parties at his Seattle home and get local strippers to attend.
The old story has been dug up amid a big divorce between Bill and Melinda, which could result in billions of dollars being divided up. ...
He is A Wild and Crazy Guy!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1DExd1XMAACRzd?format=jpg&name=small)
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Yuck. The last women on Earth I would have sex with are strippers and hookers.
Especially if I was a billionaire. I can't imagine how many STDs they must be carrying.
And several of them are for life, and cannot be cured.
Not only is Gates a perv, but he is a stupid perv.
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Maybe Bill saw these naked pool parties as somehow presidential ...
Biden Swims Naked, Upsetting Female Secret Service Agents, Book Claims
Author tells U.S. News the book is well-reported and balanced.
By Steven Nelson
Aug. 1, 2014, at 1:01 p.m. ... U.S. News and World Report (https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2014/08/01/biden-swims-naked-upsetting-female-secret-service-agents-book-claims)
(https://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/1fecb0e/2147483647/thumbnail/970x647/quality/85/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%2Fe3%2Ff5%2Fa66146244eefb6648f3a5c54c5af%2F140801-editorial.jpg)
"Bill Gates? Yeah, it was a fun pool party. What's that? Oh, about yay big."
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Isn't it interesting that the most important prisoner in the entire world was in custody, and the prison put two high school dropout minimum wage workers in charge of keeping him safe? But nevermind me. I'm just a conspiracy nut.
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Pretty sure this is fake, but still funny.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2Bbs4yVcAE2wOv?format=jpg&name=medium)
https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1396216713612464129/photo/1
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Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1397725567282290692):
Jeff B. tried to do his best, but he could not
@EsotericCD
Always think about the news behind the news: why is this rather marginal story (a sexist money manager, yawn), extremely sketchily anon-sourced, running in the NYT? Because Melinda or her attys are running a PR campaign against Gates and the NYT is buying.
NY Times, "A Culture of Fear at the Firm That Manages Bill Gates’s Fortune" (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/business/bill-gates-cascade-michael-larson.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes)
Even the most prestigious newspapers in the world can and often are used to launder petty personal beefs. Every news story you hear about Gates (and I have no doubt he's a shady guy) should be read through the filter of: Melinda Gates wants money and to come out the PR winner.
Or maybe she feels like a righteous crusader I dunno. I can't read minds, and that aspect of it is pure speculation. But the sudden rush of anti-Bill Gates stories in the MSM after years of the same MSM propping him up as a model citizen w/flattering coverage is...suspicious.
9:25 PM · May 26, 2021