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Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com)
MSNBC recently published a video of Bill Gates telling his staff at the Gates Foundation that he had two meetings with Donald Trump since the president was elected. In the video, Gates says Trump doesn't know the difference between two sexually transmitted diseases -- human papillomavirus (HPV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- and that it was "scary" how much Trump knew about Gates' daughter's appearance. Gates also said he urged Trump to support innovation and technology during those meetings. CNN reports: Taking audience questions about his interactions with Trump at a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation meeting, the former Microsoft honcho said he first met Trump in December 2016. He told the audience that Trump had previously come across his daughter, Jennifer, at a horse show in Florida. "And then about 20 minutes later he flew in on a helicopter to the same place," Gates said, according to video of the event broadcast by MSNBC late Thursday. "So clearly he had been driven away but he wanted to make a grand entrance in a helicopter. "Anyway, so when I first talked to him, it was actually kind of scary how much he knew about my daughter's appearance. Melinda (Gates' wife) didn't like that too well."
Gates also said he discussed science with Trump on two separate occasions, where he says the President questioned him on the difference between HIV and HPV. "In both of those two meetings, he asked me if vaccines weren't a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines and somebody -- I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr. -- was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that's a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don't do that. "Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other," Gates said.
Gates also said he discussed science with Trump on two separate occasions, where he says the President questioned him on the difference between HIV and HPV. "In both of those two meetings, he asked me if vaccines weren't a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines and somebody -- I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr. -- was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that's a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don't do that. "Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other," Gates said.
Bill Gates should run for president. He's highly intelligent, genuinely cares about people and has so much money that he can't be corrupted. I would absolutely vote for him.
We are currently ruled by some of the worst people of our nation.
Why? Because of joy.
"What? Joy?" You may ask. Yes - joy, the emotion of joy - that little element of discovering something that pleases you.
Americans discovered that amongst the boring moments of their lives, and amidst the confusing cycles of our politics, the thing that brought them the most joy, was the crude, often cruel mockery of difference.
It's not quite comedy, in the professional sense - even the most crude professional comedians would find this kind of humor career destroying. See Kathy Griffin to see what happens when one wonders into that territory.
But the conservative movement doesn't really have comedians - instead, they have a unique brand of cruelty that takes the place of open comedy.
It's not always about laughing - it's about joy, the joy of knowing how you are treating your enemy, the joy of cruelty, of punishing difference. At all levels, from online sharing, to the highest offices.
This isn't new - there were large amounts of this spread across newspapers in the era of 'yellow journalism' - it's actually kind of shocking to read some of the stuff around the civil war. And we're kind of returning to that state of political cruelty - cruelty ahead of everything else.
And that's what Trump represents more than anything else - cruelty in place of political strategy, cruelty in the guise of comedy, cruelty as the dominant force in a major political party. And cruelty called common sense and wisdom in our popular culture.
Ryan Fenton
I can see you want to ralk about Obama to change the subject, but doesn't that just show the problem? Fair enough. Obama left the USA as the worlds biggest trading block with a stable economy and lower deficit than now and better healthcare and a dead Bin Laden. Trumps has helped Chniese companies evade a trade war he has created (ZTE) and received over millions in kickbacks so far some of which have gone to pay off hookers and hackers via Cohen.
Write-in option C: Like Reagan demonstrated previously, an actor just has to be good at distracting attention from Congress. He doesn't need to be either particularly stupid nor brilliant. He just has to be entertaining.
panem et circenses - Bread and Circuitry ( the "circus" has been phased out for the TV, gaming consoles, smart phones, etc. )
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
Visual Studio is free now.
Xcode is the one that is $100 a year and also requires an expensive hardware dongle to run.
> ISIS - No longer a major threat.
This is the closest thing you're correct on. And it was done by mostly a continuation of the military strategies implemented under the Obama administration. Thanks Obama!
> US economy - Heading back in the right direction.
Thanks Obama!
> N. Korea - Coming to the negotiating table.
Thanks China and South Korea. You know, if it actually happens and they aren't playing games just like *every other time this has happened in the last 50 years*.
4) Didn't hate them.
4) Pretended not to hate them
5) When choosing sides, picked the American side.
5) When choosing sides, pretended to pick the American side.
6) Didn't bend a knee to the press or the politically correct censors.
6) Didn't bend a knee to the press or the politically correct censors, but made sure he got a cut from every "deal".
7) Wasn't trying to tell them there are 14 genders and only 12 of them get to decide how everyone must do everything.
7) Which is something no-one has ever done in the history of politics anywhere.
8) Didn’t tell them America was doomed to mediocrity and hopelessness.
Which sounds likely to be a losing strategy, so I'm going to go ahead and assume it's a complete load.
4) Didn't hate them.
No, and in fact, he "loves" them ("I love the poorly-educated!") Just listen to that -- they even cheer when he mocks and insults them to their faces. How awesome is that?
5) When choosing sides, picked the American side.
That's just too hilarious to merit a response, given how much time he spent hanging around with Russians. Clue time: when choosing sides, Trump picks Trump's side. To the extent that benefits America (or Russia for that matter), it's purely by coincidence.
6) Didn't bend a knee to the press or the politically correct censors.
Whatever that means...
7) Wasn't trying to tell them there are 14 genders and only 12 of them get to decide how everyone must do everything.
Whatever that means...
8) Didn't tell them America was doomed to mediocrity and hopelessness.
Yeah, I know when I need to be rescued from mediocrity and hopelessness, I always look to the guy with his own reserved parking spot at bankruptcy court.
Only the syncophants he surrounds himself with claim he's smart, because it strokes his ego, and that's the first and foremost job of anyone he hires. A few foreign government people have done the same, obviously for the same ego stroking. When his own appointees describe him as a 'fucking moron' among countless other behind-his-back reports, you know his IQ is room temperature (or just listen to him speak unscripted for a few minutes, and that's self-evident). But it fools people. Remember that disgusting cabinet meeting where they all took turns lavishing praise on him, calling him the best president ever, nobody has ever done more, and other nonsense? You've gotta be a fool to think they were sincere, but fortunately that's just the kind of person he attracts. Quick-witted? You've got to be kidding, or never even heard him speak. He rambles on with stream of consciousness, half the time changing topics mid-sentence. He's so slow witted he makes Bush Jr look like a master orator.
What's wrong with BLM?
What's wrong with a one race matters movement?
The exclusion of other races.
Glad I could answer that for you.
Saying "Black LIves Matter" isn't exclusionary of other races, it's just pointing out a fact, or at least a near universally held opinion. It's hard to believe you feel excluded by the concept that black lives might matter. Did some BLM protestor tell you that or something?
If you think all lives matter then there's no way BLM should be offensive or controversial to you.
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Saying "Black LIves Matter" isn't exclusionary of other races, it's just pointing out a fact...
In an exclusionary way.
It's hard to believe you feel excluded
It’s not a feeling. I am excluded.
there's no way BLM should be offensive or controversial to you.
It’s not "offensive or controversial", it’s just one race caring about themselves to the exclusion of everyone else.
Would a white lives matter club be a problem? Clearly it would. Race exclusionary movements are a problem.
From my perspective, Scott Adams is the epitome of the smart but selfish and self-righteous attitude that libertarian technocrats tend to favor. He (and the general class of technocrat) likes to pretend that all of his arguments are based in logic and natural law. While some of the arguments make sense from an objective point of view, many of them don't make any logical sense and are probably coming from an emotional attitude. I haven't read this book, but I've read enough of Adams' recent public writing to decide that it's impossible to get any useful analysis or ideas out of it, because it has been so corrupted by emotional arguments and feelings.
since when does the left, who is currently trying to spin a trump comment about MS-13 into a comment about illegal aliens (nancy pelosi herself is involved in the spin no less) care about spin?
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same