Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 21:26     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:I'm just happy we are all getting out of this unscathed. Not like the Bezos divorce and the dick pics. Ay, Dios mío.


Gates has a pr arm rivaling General Motors and Coca-Cola.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 21:25     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of y’all are reacting like this is the Kennedy assassination of DCUMers

Super rich super brainy global think tank philanthropist entrepreneurs with a “couple as brand” get divorced too


I think it’s weird when the elderly divorce. What’s the point?


They're not elderly.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 21:25     Subject: Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Gates foundation is hq'd in DC, so this thread and every thread on DCUM is full of six-figure local shills who do nothing all day but monitor the internet to control the messaging about this pair of creepy greedy sociopaths.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 21:24     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t he supposedly take an annual vacation alone with an ex-girlfriend? His wife was supposed to be cool with that as part of their marriage agreement.


Yes this was common knowledge back when they were first married. It was a condition of their marriage. Also involved the beach cottage and books and stuff. Somewhere in the Carolinas. Story at the time was that this woman was his intellectual equal and he needed this time.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 21:24     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:Why divorce at 65?

-To be left alone
-To be with someone else
-Gay

What other scenarios?


Your husband flies around the world with a known pedophile even after he’s been convicted and served time for said charges.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 21:05     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
I'm just happy we are all getting out of this unscathed. Not like the Bezos divorce and the dick pics. Ay, Dios mío.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:49     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:Yep, she waited until their youngest turned 18 and that was it.

https://people.com/human-interest/melinda-gates-calls-marriage-to-bill-irretrievably-broken-declines-spousal-support-no-prenup/



I bet he was never pleasant and became increasingly unpleasant as the years went on. Good for her for leaving.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:47     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m kind of surprised, mostly because his flaws were always apparent. He had handlers at Microsoft to make sure he showed to things on time, bathed regularly, etc. He lives entirely in his head and has no sense of other people -he’s the highest functioning kind of person on the spectrum. She chose to marry that - have no idea if it was love, reasoned decisions, for money, whatever. I would have figured she would have carved out her life by now.

I will give them credit for no press leaks, drama, etc.

Well, Steve Jobs was an a-hole of the highest caliber judging by his daughter's memoir. I don't see why Gates wouldn't be.

And I'm sure all kinds of scenarios were discussed and put in place legally so she'll do just fine.


Where did you read that Gates needed people to remind him to bathe??


From a friend who worked at MS HQ in a position where they would know/arrange these things.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:43     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Yep, she waited until their youngest turned 18 and that was it.

https://people.com/human-interest/melinda-gates-calls-marriage-to-bill-irretrievably-broken-declines-spousal-support-no-prenup/
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:40     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I recall a documentary about him where he would take a big bag of books and loads of diet coke to a cottage for some space and alone time. Still, like others, I was surprised at this news.


Bags of books?


DP. Yes. It's a Netflix 3-part documentary called Inside Bill's Brain or something like that. It's actually really fascinating.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:35     Subject: Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:Oh, God . .. Rita and Tom?


NOOOOOOOO!
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:35     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCUM: Stay together until the kids are out!!

Also DCUM: What's the point in divorce after that long??


That's because some posters don't want anyone to divorce. They say stay for the kids when young, and you are in the bottom of the U curve of happiness when older, so stick it out.

Good for Bill and Melinda for being honest with themselves. They don't want to spend the rest of their lives together.


Covid made them reaiize that life is too short to be unhappy.


Bingo


+1

Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:34     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of y’all are reacting like this is the Kennedy assassination of DCUMers

Super rich super brainy global think tank philanthropist entrepreneurs with a “couple as brand” get divorced too


I think it’s weird when the elderly divorce. What’s the point?


+1

Someone new to put up with their sh&t.
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:28     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCUM: Stay together until the kids are out!!

Also DCUM: What's the point in divorce after that long??


That's because some posters don't want anyone to divorce. They say stay for the kids when young, and you are in the bottom of the U curve of happiness when older, so stick it out.

Good for Bill and Melinda for being honest with themselves. They don't want to spend the rest of their lives together.


Covid made them reaiize that life is too short to be unhappy.


Bingo
Anonymous
Post 05/03/2021 20:05     Subject: Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
I bet he ignores her. Being ignored/invisible is more painful than being irritated.