Heckin love Bill Gates!

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      I don’t get how people can watch this and not be embarrassed. It’s such transparent sycophantism. Nothing ever good has come out of the richest people in a country showering the political leader with excessive praise like this.

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    Does anyone have a full list of all in attendance? Need to make sure I drop each of these companies products.

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    This is just hitting all my disgust sensitivities. Billionaires kissing ass to a con artist pedo.

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    I was in conflict about not wanting to watch the video and wanting to know which companies I need to avoid but on second thought it’s highly unlikely that there are any I don’t despise anyway already. (Still weirds me out how I’m disappointed particularerly by Apple embracing fascists but that might be because I was an Apple fanboy in my youth.)

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    Unfortunately, as far as succeeding in almost anything goes, this seems to be the meta. Even if these guys hate Trump and (very likely) recognize that he’s wreaking havoc on the economy and really hurting their business with tariffs, for some reason, flattery gets you everywhere with Trump. Gifts and bribery get you very far with Trump. Trump makes decisions with his ego rather than for the good of the country. And it’s substantially better for business/diplomacy/whatever for such a fickle and vindictive US president to like you.

    Absolutely not how the world should be, but IMO it’s up to democracy to oust Trump and not to let this madness happen again. Any time I see CEOs or world leaders flattering Trump like this, I can no longer tell the difference between utter morons and people who have just learned to play the game to manipulate Trump and get what they want. This is just how Trump-era politics work, to everyone’s detriment.

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    Fuck every one of these rich, sychophantic pieces of human shit. What a fucking disgusting display. Fuck them all, they are no longer acceptable creatures to walk this planet.

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    None of that is happening. Theres no innovation. Theres no creativity. The only thing being unleashed is an American Gestapo.

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    What’s wild is Donald can’t tell they’re blowing smoke up his ass. None of them believe he has any redeeming qualities.

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      I think he gets off on getting people to say stuff like this, and doesn’t really care about whether they actually believe it or not. It’s just a narcissistic power trip. Or he could actually be that dumb I can’t completely rule it out of course