If You’re So Rich Why Aren’t You Smart?

Remember when all the same people who excused Bill Clinton’s bad behavior towards women (Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey to name a few) in the 90s donned pussy hats from 2016-2020 to protest the alleged misogynist behavior of Donald J. Trump?

All those powerful writers, lawyers, activists, politicians, academics – and more importantly, celebrities -  who call themselves feminists firmly supported their matinee idol president. Gloria Steinem even went so far as to write an essay excusing Bill’s “bad behavior” that was published in America’s then newspaper of record.

The New York Times published Gloria Steinem’s essay defending Clinton in March 1998

And Gloria was still huddling with the feminists at the 2018 Women’s March, only this time to dethrone a President she didn’t approve of for the same alleged crime that she had vigorously defended President Clinton for 20 years earlier.

Drescher, Steinem, Madonna and Amy Schumer – exemplary feminists all

“Even if the allegations are true, the President is not guilty of sexual harassment. He is accused of having made a gross, dumb, and reckless pass at a supporter during a low point in her life. She pushed him away, she said, and it never happened again. In other words, President Clinton took ‘no’ for an answer.” – Gloria Steinem, NYT, 1998

They never managed to get Trump out of office with their cat-calling; that required a fraudulent election. But the framework they constructed in order to entrap Trump has managed to snare more than a few of their own icons: Al Franken, Mark Helperin, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Garrison Keillor to name just a few.

And all of a sudden it seemed the Left had learned how to rein in this monster they created.

They did manage to maneuver Old Joe through the Tara Reade allegations by ‘triangulating’ the insistence that we “believe all women” around to “believe the women we tell you to believe.” And then all of a sudden something else pops up: Bill Gates Proves Money Can’t Buy Morals. Not just an icon of leftist-tom-foolery, but one of it’s major benefactors gets snared.

Turns out that Bill Gates is a sleazeball, and the Microsoft board was investigating him before his departure in March 2020.

And according to the New York Times, Bill Gates had a habit of hiding behind his rich and nerdy image while trying to pick up women after his marriage. And not just any women – Microsoft employees.

And to top off this sleaze shower, now come the reports of things Bill Gates allegedly said to Jeffrey Epstein. Yes, THAT Jeffrey Epstein.

Gates used the gatherings at Epstein’s $77 million New York townhouse as an escape from what he told Epstein was a “toxic” marriage, a topic both men found humorous, a person who attended the meetings told The Daily Beast.”

The billionaire met Epstein dozens of times starting in 2011 and continuing through to 2014 mostly at the financier’s Manhattan home—a substantially higher number than has been previously reported. Their conversations took place years before Bill and Melinda Gates announced this month that they were splitting up.”

Gates, in turn, encouraged Epstein to rehabilitate his image in the media following his 2008 guilty plea for soliciting a minor for prostitution, and discussed Epstein becoming involved with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”

Should be fun to follow the divorce proceedings. While it’s sort of hard not to side with Melinda it’s still important to remember that she is half of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As Daniel Greenfield explained in The Love Song of Bill and Melinda they both think they’re smarter than God and that with all their money they alone can solve the world’s two biggest problems: global warming and gender equity. Mr. Green sees these dual causes as perfect for the two of them to virtue signal their hypocrisy.

A cockeyed optimist might hope for a wake-up call in which Bill and Melinda finally realize that they can’t run their own lives, or Microsoft, and so they probably shouldn’t be running the world.

When they said we’d be working for geeks someday I didn’t really figure it would be these two