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2019-11-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Bill Gates says meeting Jeffrey Epstein was a ‘mistake'
[NYP] Bill Gates said Wednesday that he "made a mistake" when he decided to meet with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while seeking money for his global health campaign.

Gates made the mea culpa while speaking to The New York Times Dealbook Conference ‐ saying that by sitting down with Epstein he helped legitimize the convicted sexual predator.

"I made a mistake in judgment that I thought that those discussions would lead, literally, to billions of dollars going to global health. It turned out that was a bad judgment," said 64-year-old Gates.

"And I gave him some benefit by the association. So I made a doubly wrong mistake there," he added.

Epstein died in federal lock up in lower Manhattan on August 10 after he was busted by the FBI for sex trafficking.

Theories that Epstein was murdered have swirled since his death, with his brother, Mark Epstein, saying Wednesday that "my brother might have been murdered."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-07 03:01|| || Front Page|| [17 views ]  Top

#1 Gates' personal worth is many times what Epstein's was. Like a lot of smart people, Gates' mistake is thinking the rest of us are dumb enough to believe him.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 03:31||   2019-11-07 03:31|| Front Page Top

#2 yep, so he expected to get billions from a guy that was much less rich than him
Posted by Spanky Whuter1088 2019-11-07 03:35||   2019-11-07 03:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Global Grifter Party rides again
Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 05:56||   2019-11-07 05:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Did anyone at the Shitshow Times conference ask this Grifter about the botchjob called Common Core Math that he imposed on the nation's schools-- such as why he ever thought he should even be involved in education, let alone why he feels himself entitled to steamroll the nation's parents, schools and teachers with this foolish, cockamamie approach?
Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 06:00||   2019-11-07 06:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Bill Gates said Wednesday that he "made a mistake" when he decided to meet with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while seeking money for his global health campaign.

"Everyone lies about sex"
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-07 06:15||   2019-11-07 06:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Must have been the only time in his life Epstein gave any thought to...."global health."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-07 06:23||   2019-11-07 06:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Was it a 'mistake' to destroy Gary Kildall and Digital Research, Inc. back in the late 1980's, Bill?
Posted by Raj 2019-11-07 08:24||   2019-11-07 08:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Was it a 'mistake' to destroy Gary Kildall and Digital Research, Inc. back in the late 1980's, Bill?

If you have any experience with the GUIs that were tried on CP/M, the answer is "no."
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 09:11||   2019-11-07 09:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Bill Gates said Wednesday that he "made a mistake"
Translation: Melinda found out.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-07 09:30||   2019-11-07 09:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Kildall shot himself in the foot (insert appropriate anatomical reference here).
When IBM set up a meeting with him to discuss licensing CP/M for their new computer called the PC, he blew them off and went hang gliding. And that, campers, is how we ended up with MS-DOS.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-07 09:33||   2019-11-07 09:33|| Front Page Top

#11 But the weather was just *perfect* for flying that day.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-11-07 15:29||   2019-11-07 15:29|| Front Page Top

#12 The Kildall incident (along with IBM's obtuseness re the value of software) just underscores how much of our oligarchs' wealth can be attributed to blind luck.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 15:32||   2019-11-07 15:32|| Front Page Top

#13 "Fortune is the arbiter of half of human outcomes" - Nicky the Mach.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 19:36||   2019-11-07 19:36|| Front Page Top

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