No, we don't have a term (yet) for distracting from one clusterfuck by referencing one of your other clusterfucks, but this is certainly Trumpesque.I'm always happy to meet with people, even if we have different views. @BillGates, if we get the chance, I'd love to explain exactly how much you'd pay under my wealth tax. (I promise it's not $100 billion.) https://t.co/m6G20hDNaV— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 7, 2019
Again, no, not what Sen. Warren said, but Bill Gstes' objection to her tax proposal that would make him pay $100 billion in taxes. Just for perspective, Gates is worth about $206.8 billion, and the tax he claims he would owe would leave him "counting" the remaining $6.8 billion. F. Scott was right, the rich ARE different. Most of us would have a hard time outliving $6.8 billion.
But the lie is so enormous, do exaggerated, so much if a piece with the bullshit that spews hourly from the POTUS, it marks that we haven't decided Trump's behavior is normal, but rather how much exaggeration we face from public figures, and his clearly so much of it is unacceptable bullshit, not mere hyperbole or even just "for effect." No, it's bullshit, and we're tired of wading in it.
Suck it up, Bill Gates. If being reduced to $7 billion leaves you counting your pocket change, your public image"Gates Foundation" suddenly is more clearly a PR clean-up operation than a motivated charitable effort. Weasel.
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