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slightlv

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21. Surely he realizes, with a statement like this...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jul 15, 2025, 01:57 PM

Jul 2025

...our country’s proud history of helping others less fortunate than ourselves...

those are automatic budget cutting words to the maga in govt and in country... how so very "woke", and therefore, evil. /snark

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'I'm alarmed': Bill Gates op-ed warns GOP risking lives -- and national security [View all] BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 OP

Says the billionaire who has benefited for decades Phoenix61 Jul 2025 #1

And has given away billions to humanitarian needs instead of a new Yacht Bengus81 Jul 2025 #4

He's worth 117 BILLION dollars!!! Phoenix61 Jul 2025 #5

Here is a good place to start research on the good Bill and Malinda Gates do... pazzyanne Jul 2025 #7

And he just gave almost all of it to his charitable foundation back in May BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 #8

And...Bezo's ex wife plans to give away her billions for the same causes by the time she dies Bengus81 Jul 2025 #16

They just got married, when? BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 #17

No...his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott....not his new wife. So she's worth about $40+ billion Bengus81 Jul 2025 #23

Thanks for clarifying! BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 #24

Ex wife. Joinfortmill Jul 2025 #33

Stop with the making the perfect the enemy of the good. It's a RW kind of mental habit they apply to us when we're in ancianita Jul 2025 #9

As I travel in central Africa ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Jul 2025 #11

And lets not forget the Carter Foundation milestogo Jul 2025 #14

And of course his "Habitat for Humanity" BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 #18

☝☝☝☝☝☝ THIS!!!! ☝☝☝☝☝☝ nt wolfie001 Jul 2025 #13

And...plans to give ALL of it away to humanitarian aid by 2045. What other Billionaire Bengus81 Jul 2025 #15

He will die a billionaire. How exactly is he standing Phoenix61 Jul 2025 #19

How the hell would you know who he voted for? Every rich person votes for Trump? Hardly Bengus81 Jul 2025 #35

I don't hate him I'm just not going to heap praise a Phoenix61 Jul 2025 #36

I could probably give away ten more dollars myself. Torchlight Jul 2025 #20

He is planning on giving 99% of it away. applegrove Jul 2025 #26

Calling out rePUKES is what matters. Has Bob Dylan ever said a word? Silent as a church mouse wolfie001 Jul 2025 #12

"Ha ha. Suckers. It's what we do." - G.O.P. Darkside Kabal BoRaGard Jul 2025 #2

We need more influential people to speak out. gab13by13 Jul 2025 #3

I agree. riversedge Jul 2025 #10

good for him et tu Jul 2025 #6

Surely he realizes, with a statement like this... slightlv Jul 2025 #21

They've been doing their best trying to turn "empathy" into a dirty word Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #28

Not just empathy... but words like kindness and sharing. nt slightlv Jul 2025 #29

Now he's upset Miguelito Loveless Jul 2025 #22

He's been upset. Let's not eat our own. Joinfortmill Jul 2025 #34

He is hardly, Miguelito Loveless Jul 2025 #37

Well, ok, then. Joinfortmill Jul 2025 #38

the "pro-life Christian" party DOES NOT CARE Skittles Jul 2025 #25

Talk is cheap. Shut down ALL their fucking Windows computers as part of a national strike. PERIOD usonian Jul 2025 #27

He owns less than 1% of outstanding Microsoft shares fujiyamasan Jul 2025 #30

But he must have "friends on the inside" usonian Jul 2025 #31

I'm sure he's in touch with Nadella fujiyamasan Jul 2025 #39

The GOP are fascists. Joinfortmill Jul 2025 #32