Bill Gates isn’t sure if he wants to meet with Elizabeth Warren. He also said he would vote for Trump if the Democrats nominate someone who would make him pay his taxes. [Jezebel]
Cher breaks down her iconic looks with Vogue. [OMG Blog]
Old dude creepily films a cheerleader. [The Blemish]
The 2020 Met Gala theme & co-chairs have been announced: “About Time” and something to do with Virginia Woolf. Sure. [JustJared]
I strongly suspect that most conferences are actually like #BeckyCon. [Pajiba]
Will Charlize Theron get an Oscar nomination for Bombshell? [LaineyGossip]
Would you pick up the red basket or the black basket? Hm. [Dlisted]
The Midway premiere was a whole lot of bland. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Helen Mirren is a sunflower! [RCFA]
I’m so excited that one of the Met gala Co chairs is Lin-Manuel Miranda!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile he’s Mr. Eugenics, makes it’s all the more clear. He fears what he knows, and is. We are not you Bill.
The quote above is an unfair representation of what he said. I just read direct quotes where he said he wants to be taxed more, has paid $10 billion in taxes already and is willing to increase that amount. I’m not sure why he thinks he’d be paying $100 billion if that’s what he’s worth. Hopefully he and Warren meet and will sort this out because I suspect they share some of the same values.
I’m not a Bill Gates expert, but I’m part way through his documentary on Netflix. The work he and Melinda Gates do around the world is remarkable.
Because Warren’s plan is a pipe dream. If the Dems run w her, they’ll hand it all back to Trump.
If it’s a pipe dream, why are they afraid?
Because all pipe dreams have well though out, logical plans…right?
Warren’s problem won’t ever be her lack of planning.
It’s a pipe dream if the GOP retains the Senate. You need Congress to get a lot of these initiatives passed. It will be a stalemate for 4 years, which … I would prefer to what we have now.
I agree that running Warren would be a mistake. I think Dems will vote for whoever the nominee is, but I don’t think she’ll attract the independents. They will stay home. And we need them desperately.
Warren is a weak candidate who will never follow through on her campaign promises, I agree, but her plans are popular, especially Medicare. Not a pipe dream.
Gates donated to several of her campaigns though, so he’s not scared lol. This dance of corporate heads pretending they think she’d do anything more than pass a couple weak regulations is silly. She’s Trudeau. No follow through or true change.
She would follow through. I trust her. Warren for president.
She won’t. I guarantee it. I’ve experienced it in real time.
It’s a null convo anyway, as her chances of actually being elected are low. The fake heritage scandal will ruin her campaign. Eh.
@BorderMollie Care to provide some specific examples, since you’ve experienced it “in real time”?
@BorderMollie: I, like Anna, would like to know how you can “guarantee” it.
And the heritage nonsense has mostly been forgotten. Trump would for sure bring it up in the general election, but it’s not enough to tank her entire campaign, IMO.
Anna, lots of disappointments, but the one that sticks out the most is the PMO buying a pipeline after promising a green future and First Nations reconciliation. Joke’s on me for not reading the fine print, I admit.
Because there’s no such thing as “enough” money. True for all of us trying to make ends meet. Apparently also true for people with their own planes, islands, mansions all over the world.
Well, screw them.
Democratic Senator Jo Manchin from West Virginia also said he’d support Trump over Sanders. This is the thing with establishment Democrats and their billionaire backers. When it comes to the crunch they’ll choose their fiscal conservatism over their social progressivism
Manchin said that? Ugh, that guy is the worst. I’ve never been able to stand him. Zero backbone.
Re: Bill Gates.
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.
~Theodore Roosevelt
Why are rich people happier giving to charities than paying taxes? I guess because they get to decide who is “worthy” of their money?
They get massive tax breaks from charity, that’s why. It keeps them more money in the long run.
Corporations get a tax break so paying a charity means they don’t pay those taxes.
The charity in turn is headed by a six- figure earning friend who may sit on their company board. Any good work by the charity is usually done by volunteers. Charities are a way to appease people who would otherwise be outraged by the notion of corporations not paying taxes so they can pad the pockets of their wealthy associates.
They often also give a lot less to charities than what they should actually pay in taxes. They can give an enormous sum to a charity and feel good about themselves and look good, and it’s still just a fraction of what the actual taxes would be.
I’m not talking about Gates specifically though.
That #BeckyCon thread is brilliant.
And Midway looks like a snooze. Poor Mandy Moore.
Becky Con had me CACKLING
If I were rich I would be scared of Warren too! Many of these guys work hard for their money and give so much of it away to charities. Charities they get to choose. Like Gates. Why would he want Warren to decide what to do with his money?
Out with that thinking. I work damn hard for my money too but don’t get to decide where my money goes. Privilege should not be defended or treated any differently. And mega rich people get to where they are through the hard work of others. They didn’t do it alone.
Team Warren. The fact that these rich guys fear her is a good sign. And she does well with people and I think she’d do well w voters here in Wisconsin (we’re supposedly ground zero next year).
I thought the same thing! Billionaire fear is a good sign!