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Bill Gates: Schadenfreude by Gossip

Submitted by wendy davis on Thu, 05/27/2021 - 1:00pm

I’ve been guilty of the sin of ♥ing Schadenfreude for a long time, but these smears by innuendo (in many cases) tickle my innards purple.  I’d been trying a 2 Photos Caption Contest for fun to deflect a bit from the current troubling zeitgeist.

‘Melinda Gates ‘warned’ husband Bill about meeting sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, divorce reportedly ‘not friendly’ – reports’, 7 May, 2021

“It’s not clear why Gates’ meeting with Epstein in 2013 was so objectionable when their earlier gatherings had apparently gone down without any drama, though it’s doubtful that Melinda would have wanted to make a scene in a room with her husband and several business prospects. Gates and Epstein have a history dating back into the 1990s, according to an Evening Standard article from January 2001 that – while focusing on Prince Andrew’s own relationship with Epstein – also mentioned the financier as someone to whom he had entrusted “many millions”.

Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, Manhattan

Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sun, 04/09/2017 - 9:20am

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. (The more things change, the more they stay the same.) For references in the speech to the Vietnam War, you may wish to substitute Syria, Iraq, Libya, World War I, or any war the U.S.A. has commenced or joined without having been attacked.

Trump Takes Big Step towards Impeachment

Submitted by hungeski on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 9:12pm

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By taking the office of U.S. president Friday, Donald Trump has also taken a big step towards impeachment. That fact has crossed the mind of at least one member of the House. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who is a constitutional law professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the university’s Program on Law and Government Leadership, said:

"Right now (January 18) it looks pretty obvious that [Trump]'s on a collision course with the Emoluments Clause" ... "He has refused to divest himself of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of business interests he has around the world doing business with foreign governments."

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"[The Emoluments Clause] says that no elected official, either member of Congress or the president of the United States, can accept a gift, an emolument or any payment at all from a foreign government." ... "He [Trump] just simply refuses to accept that reality. So if he goes into office and he refuses to divest himself, the moment that the first conflict comes up, that's going to look like an impeachable offense."