Bill and Melinda Gates calling it quits

May 03, 2021, 10:24 PM

rburg

When lefties fail at anything, they get favorable headlines. If these were decent, God loving right wing voters, the headlines would be much different. Something along the lines of "America just announced another billionare".

Oh, wait. I agree with the above poster who said he doesn't give a shit.

May 03, 2021, 10:32 PM

Aglifter

Somewhere, there is a lawyer taking his firm out to a steak dinner...

May 03, 2021, 11:43 PM

darthfuster

Can't manage his own family. Wants to manage ours.

May 04, 2021, 12:25 AM

konata88

Bill is the devil as far as I'm concerned.

I have not followed this couple at all. Don't care at all about them. Know nothing about them as a couple or her. But, I seem to recall, perhaps misguided, a favorable impression of her back when they first married. Seemed like a decent person.

If she was decent and perhaps remained such, maybe she's just tired of Bill's world domination schtick. But then again, she should have tired of it long ago....

May 04, 2021, 02:27 AM

P210

I feel bad for the media. Try as they might and certainly will, Roxanne and Peter Pullitzer will always be the benchmark for sordid divorces.

May 04, 2021, 07:02 AM

KDR

To quote the philosopher Kayne West: "When she leave yo ass, she gonna leave with half"

May 04, 2021, 08:06 AM

chellim1

quote:
Originally posted by konata88:
Bill is the devil as far as I'm concerned.

I have not followed this couple at all. Don't care at all about them. Know nothing about them as a couple or her. But, I seem to recall, perhaps misguided, a favorable impression of her back when they first married. Seemed like a decent person.

If she was decent and perhaps remained such, maybe she's just tired of Bill's world domination schtick. But then again, she should have tired of it long ago....

Marriage can get complicated. Probably even moreso when you have F-U money. However, Melinda will never have to worry about her next meal.

Bill Gates may have once been a good businessman. He made it big, which wasn't all his own doing, but it wasn't all dumb luck either. It's what he's done with his money since then that bothers me. Maybe it bothers her too. I don't know.

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

May 04, 2021, 08:31 AM

NK402

Reminds me of the Lewis Grizzard story. Husband and wife haven't been getting along. Husband trying to smooth things over asks her what she wants for her birthday, to which the wife heatedly replies she wants a divorce. Husband says, "Frankly, I wasn't planning on spending that much money."

May 04, 2021, 08:37 AM

Wishbone

Ctrl, Alt, Del

May 04, 2021, 09:11 AM

bigwagon

Some people are too rich to get a divorce. Not Gates. He won't even miss her half.

May 04, 2021, 09:21 AM

Elk Hunter

My grandmother used to say, "If you can't find anything good to say, don't say anything".

Elk

There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour)

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. "
-Thomas Jefferson

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville

FBHO!!!

The Idaho Elk Hunter

May 04, 2021, 09:22 AM

jhe888

quote:
Originally posted by 6guns:
Maybe I'm out there, but I don't believe it. I think it's a distraction.

Yup. You're out there. A distraction from what? Quit seeing conspiracies and schemes everywhere.

May 04, 2021, 09:24 AM

jhe888

quote:
Originally posted by Kenpoist:
Bill, have you tried turning your marriage off then back on?

Excellent!

May 04, 2021, 09:39 AM

mcrimm

quote:
Originally posted by Wishbone:
Ctrl, Alt, Del

My thoughts exactly. Shoulda bought a Mac.

I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown
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When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham

May 04, 2021, 09:46 AM

P220 Smudge

quote:
Originally posted by OldChimney:
I guess she got tired of his software.

Savage.

May 04, 2021, 10:14 AM

gearhounds

quote:
Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
quote:
Originally posted by OldChimney:
I guess she got tired of his software.

Savage.

I can't believe it made it as far as page 2 before getting a comment

May 04, 2021, 10:32 AM

1s1k

quote:
Originally posted by mcrimm:
quote:
Originally posted by Wishbone:

My thoughts exactly. Shoulda bought a Mac.
she did
quote:
Originally posted by gearhounds:
quote:
Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by OldChimney:
I guess she got tired of his software.

Savage.

I can't believe it made it as far as page 2 before getting a comment

Once you go Mac you never go back.