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highplainsdem

(48,874 posts)
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 01:03 PM Nov 2020

Here's How Bill Gates And Other Billionaires Are Reacting To Biden's Election Victory

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/11/09/heres-how-bill-gates-and-other-billionaires-are-reacting-to-bidens-election-victory/



One billionaire—hedge fund cowboy Bill Ackman, whose net worth Forbes estimates at $2 billion—directly advised Trump to concede in a tweet. “There comes a time in the battle when one should fold the tent. Instead focus on your accomplishments over the last four years,” Ackman wrote Saturday. “Concede graciously and call for unity from all who have supported you.”

Other billionaires congratulated Biden on his win, including Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates. “I look forward to working with the new administration and leaders on both sides in Congress on getting the surging pandemic under control,” Gates tweeted shortly after Biden was projected as the winner by the Associated Press on Saturday.

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The world’s richest person, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, also chimed in on Instagram. “Unity, empathy, and decency are not characteristics of a bygone era,” the ecommerce executive, who we estimate is worth $190 billion, wrote as the caption to a photo of Biden and Harris high-fiving.

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Former venture capitalist-turned-media personality Chris Sacca, who with his wife Crystal Sacca donated $420,000 of their estimated $1.1 billion fortune to Biden, also applauded the election’s outcome. “Joe and Kamala bring science, innovation and an understanding of the climate opportunity back to the White House,” Sacca tweeted Saturday, saying he gave that statement to a news organization owned by conservative media tycoon (and longtime Trump friend) Rupert Murdoch, but the news organization told Sacca they weren’t going to publish it. “I couldn’t be more bullish” about what Biden’s administration means for investors, he added.

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Here's How Bill Gates And Other Billionaires Are Reacting To Biden's Election Victory (Original Post) highplainsdem Nov 2020 OP
Now Bill Gates can move ahead with his plan... Blue Owl Nov 2020 #1
What? Bill Gates makes coronavirus??? FoxNewsSucks Nov 2020 #2
If Microsoft Had Created Coronavirus Like They Created Windows... smb Nov 2020 #10
LOL Ain't that the truth!! FoxNewsSucks Nov 2020 #12
I'm still waiting onethatcares Nov 2020 #3
He's secretly collaborating with Tim Apple!!11!1! (nt) klook Nov 2020 #4
Don't forget the computer chip he's planning to insert into everyone when he takes over as ruler of BComplex Nov 2020 #5
The chip is in the vaccine! herding cats Nov 2020 #7
Oh!! My bad!! BComplex Nov 2020 #8
To be fair to them, it's a lot of crazy to keep up with. herding cats Nov 2020 #9
I heard he manufactured the virus so people have to get a vaccine that will let him control them. highplainsdem Nov 2020 #6
It is no surprise Chainfire Nov 2020 #11

Blue Owl

(50,220 posts)
1. Now Bill Gates can move ahead with his plan...
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 01:06 PM
Nov 2020

to kill everyone with his manufactured Corona virus so there's nobody left to buy his computers.

I heard it on the QAnon!!1!

smb

(3,469 posts)
10. If Microsoft Had Created Coronavirus Like They Created Windows...
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 01:28 PM
Nov 2020

...it really would be no more dangerous than the common cold.

BComplex

(8,015 posts)
5. Don't forget the computer chip he's planning to insert into everyone when he takes over as ruler of
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 01:15 PM
Nov 2020

the One World Order!!!! (I heard exactly this from a QAnon supporter).

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