“Somebody’s got to live this life,” he says, gesturing to the pristine view from his penthouse villa. “God decided it should be me.”
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.
The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.
Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?
People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.
We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.
Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?
Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.
Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
“They all knew.”
Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”
“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”
Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.
This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.
If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.
The willow is too close to the house.
Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.
Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.
Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.
robertdsc-PowerBook
See that little cross in the sky? That’s a Predator drone. From it will come a Hellfire missile to take it all away from you. Fucker.
Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
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–Dorothy Parker
MikeJ
He’s not actually living like a billionaire if he’s concerned about other people’s schedules.
PsiFighter37
This is such a stupid, vapid article…good to see that the Times is putting their online subscription revenue towards tripe like this.
Also, too, I have acquaintances who know the author of that article in real life. He gives off the impression that he desperately wants to be in / is fascinated by the financial industry, so it’s no wonder that he wrote something like this. It’s a perfect recounting of a life he wish he had.
jl
I think AA+ Bonds was pre commenting on this post in the previous thread.
Citizen_X
Shit. Are we back to Divine Right?
jl
@PsiFighter37: I just assumed it was the NY Times, and did not even bother to notice what it was as I read through the article. Thanks for the confirmation.
burnspbesq
The time it took me to read that silly article is time I will never get back. You’ll pay for this.
Killjoy
Mo money, mo problems
Spaghetti Lee
I’ll take ‘Rejected quotes from American Psycho” for $600, Alex.
MikeJ
@Citizen_X:
Just wait until they start demanding droit du seigneur.
MikeJ
@Spaghetti Lee: Didja see BEE’s writing a sequel?
Mark S.
This idiot has been pretending to be a billionaire for half a day, and he’s already become this attached to having a bodyguard and a chauffeur? I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is bullshit.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Citizen_X:
You act like Divine Right ever went out of style. It’s just called either Predestination or Libertarianism these days.
Amir Khalid
@MikeJ:
The sad thing about those more-expensive-than-a-car watches is that they’re mechanical. Any cheap, low-end digital Casio will easily outdo them in accuracy.
300baud
I guess if I have to ask whether or not it’s a subtle satire of journalism and/or clueless entitlement, I already know the answer.
God, how revolting. The author, his editors, the billionaire, the toadies. Revolting.
BruceFromOhio
And when She decides you’ve fucking pissed on it all instead of living the life She gave you, She’s going to take it back, along with your soul, and everything that ever meant anything to you.
Be smug while you still can.
MikeJ
@Amir Khalid: The low reliability of expensive watches directly relates to my point. If you’re rich enough it doesn’t matter what time it is.
Chris
It’s good to be the king!
Spaghetti Lee
@MikeJ:
It oughta be a documentary.
Jim Newell
I love the nonchalant attitude of this. Yeah, being a billionaire “makes things easier,” but you’re still the same guy, still unhappy, still have family problems, etc. It’s just a little money, they could take it or leave it. Is this a confirmation from a billionaire that there’s a ceiling beyond which more money brings essentially zero utility? Is he dismissing the supply-side economic system that made him so obscenely wealthy? It would’ve been fun to call bullshit on him with that, since I’ve always noticed that billionaires work extremely hard to ensure, to everyone else’s detriment, that they keep taking it and never leave one cent of it. Instead the Timesman goes on about his clothes, his watch, the gym, and how wacky it is being princess for the day.
freelancer
DIAF.
Privilege. It opens doors. That’s all.
freelancer
Also, you poors should relish the fact that you live such stress-free lives, without the constant invasions of privacy by bodyguards that you have to pay $250, two personal trainers hounding you when you get on a treadmill, and your personal assistant oppressing you with VIP seats for the Opera that you have to attend. What a creature like Buffet would kill for a day living life in a non-tailored sport jacket, drinking scorched coffee like the rest of the plebes!
FUCK YOU.
People are dying and going homeless down here. In the greatest country in the history of the planet.
FUCK YOU
Wilson Heath
Although I grew up Catholic, it’s not that but American politics that fills me with a seething hatred of Calvinism.
And no one’s got to live that life. Fucker should be kissing the feet of every peasant who doesn’t try to take him to the guillotine.
Phoenician in a time of Romans
@Citizen_X:
Shit. Are we back to Divine Right?
If he really feels favoured by God, he should jump off the balcony of his fucking penthouse. If God loves him, God will save him…
David Koch
Invisible hand, bitches!
cmorenc
@MikeJ:
The ski lifts still close at 4pm (or whatever the particular resort closing time is), even for Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, no matter who you are. And you don’t ski or golf one whit better with whatever expensive equipment you may choose to buy. What $$$$$$ will get you is renting a ski instructor for the day all to yourself, so you can cut lift lines.
JoeShabadoo
@cmorenc:
I don’t think you realize how rich Gates and Buffet really are.
If they want something open later it stays open later. If they want to the mountain all to themselves they get it all to themselves. They could cover a mountain in Hawaii with snow just so they could ski for the afternoon. These guys could literally buy a country.
Just by moving their money they can destroy economies. The kind of power people with that much money have is incredible and frankly dangerous.
El Cid
In fairness, that ‘God said it should be me’ comment depends entirely upon its sound and context for its meaning.
If you’re a billionaire and can in the least grasp that you’re in that position in most part due to a grand and hellish lottery, this isn’t a bad statement per se.
If it’s the sweeping arms, “God loved ME more than the other fucks” sort of way, it’s one thing. If it’s more the, “Fuck, I dunno, I worked what I thought was hard / my Dad had a pretty big business, and here I am” kind of way, it’s different.
Starfish
Actually, I really enjoyed his novel “The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University. “
Starfish
Actually, I really enjoyed his novel “The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University. “
DougJ, Head of Infidelity
@burnspbesq:
I didn’t say to read the whole thing. It was worth a skim.
BillCinSD
@MikeJ: large dogs do need a lot of exercise
Some Loser
@JoeShabadoo:
How come the second and third richest persons on Earth support higher taxes for the rich, but Republicans cannot conceive of the idea? With all that money, you’d think the two could purchase better politicians! I guess money can’t solve everything.
jtothefckinmacsta
I used to eat sardines for dinner
used to be the opposite of a winner
We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us
No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us
Birthdays was the worst days
Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay
Uh, damn right I like the life I live
‘Cause I went from negative to positive