I'd much rather Bozos spend his money on Venice (benefiting numerous hard-working people, as you mentioned) than on something like the next save-the-world vaccine idiocy. Everyone says why don't the billionaires do good with their money, until they realize what the billionaires' idea of good is (see Gates, Bill and Soros, George).
You are correct. So many of us in this country are wealthy, though we don't see it, and are equally foolish with our money proportionate to our income. I'm more in the category of a $41 wedding using the same proportionas Bezos. But just the other day my family was sitting around marveling at how rich we are compared to our parents and grandparents before us who bought used, lived without conveniences like an automatic wash machine and a freezer, made their children's clothes themselves, had only one car for a family of 6, didn't indulge in drinking wine (and coffee out was practically non-existent) because it was an unnecessary expense and so much more that today we would say us unthinkable.
When each of us can recognize how wealthy we are by our own standards and how frugal we are with our own money, then we can judge others.
My wedding reception in 1967 actually cost $45.00 which included the candles, mints, nuts, punch and beautiful 3 layer swan decorated cake. Plus lace tablecloth and cute organza aprons for my friend helpers. Baptist church basement. I sewed my own satin gown and Dad had given us $300 to do a wedding and we could keep the rest. Still together 57 years later.
I got married in 2002 and spent $1200 all in and it was far better than my first wedding on which we spent thousands. One of my kids got married in a public park in winter park, CO (it was 2020, she lost her venue and didn’t want to wait to get married). Turned out really fun... found a restaurant with a big patio and ate bar food, cake was from Safeway, one of the groom’s friends played guitar and we had a sing along. Actually picked wildflowers for my daughter’s hair.
Another kid got married in a $100k extravaganza (mother of the groom, no way would we have paid for that) and while both weddings were fun and beautiful, I certainly didn’t think the expensive one outshined the less expensive one. The less expensive one had God providing the backdrops and that’s hard for any venue to compete with, no matter how expensive. Also,they both picked them partners exceptionally well and I’m more thrilled about that than their weddings.
Wonderful! My son also married in Colorado in 2020, similar story, they lost their outdoor (!!) wedding garden venue in Crested Butte, but we found a FREE meadow with beautiful mountains all around, and still within reach of the town’s free WiFi so the pastor could officiate via Zoom on an iPad on a tripod. It was a gorgeous setting. The reception dinner and cake were on the balcony of our Airbnb looking out over the mountains at sunset. It was just the immediate family of bride and groom, and we got to spend the week before the wedding hanging out together there making memories that are priceless. (And speaking of price, it didn’t even cost much.)
We loved Crested Butte! We hiked, the kids mountain biked, we rented a Jeep and went up on the trails, great dining, shopping, etc. We spent this past Christmas at Winter Park. It was beautiful there as well. I’d love to see it in the summer.
Our favorite vacation as adults was Breckenridge. We went in June and rented a ski in/ski out condo, and every morning we would walk out the door for a hike, come back and have lunch out and wander town for a bit. The gondola from town up to the resort is free so sometimes we would take that and hike down to our condo if we were tired. We rented e-bikes and went to Frisco, and also drove to Lake Dillon and hiked around it. So nice.
Best family places in the summer in CO, IMHO, are Colorado Springs and Glenwood Springs. I grew up in CS, so most of my experience is I-70 and south. I hear Estes Park is amazing but I think I went there once as a kid for Girl Scout camp for something. My family went to Glenwood Springs for Labor Day weekend every year.
I never calculated the cost of my wedding but considering I held it in my own living room, it was appropriately budgeted. I believe in spending the money on the honeymoon not the wedding. {smile}
The Polish Catholics across town had much more fun weddings than the baptists did. We headed for our honeymoon trailer at the University of Illinois where hubby went to school. A winter blizzard and ice storm in Champaign stuck us in our trailer for several days with frozen pipes. The heater worked however.
Best wedding story I ever heard: a former coworker said she and her fiancé were married at the courthouse. The only guests were both sets of parents. The six of them went out for brunch afterwards, and the newly married couple then got in their car and drove from the Midwest to California to start their new life.
I tried to interest my now late husband in doing something more along those lines. But he insisted if I didn’t get a big, more traditional wedding, I’d regret it. So I let him talk me into a “real wedding”. If he were still around, I’d tell him, no, while I never regretted marrying him, I certainly could have found a better use for the money spent on our far from lavish, but still much more than I wanted, wedding.
Sounds like you focused on what was/is truly important - your love for each other. You didn't need a huge fancy wedding, just each other and your family and loved ones there. Husband and I spent about the same amount on our wedding in 2003. I was 49 y.o., he was 58 so we didn't need any wedding gifts. Instead we just asked our guests to bring a potluck dish, which they did. We were married in our backyard garden, had about 70 folks there and our dog. We spent about $45 on the wedding cake from Safeway and everyone said they had a great time. We are both huge fans of wolves, husband is a biologist so instead of the wedding march song, we had everyone howl like wolves - which they loved. It was a twilight wedding and the party afterwards went until 2:00 a.m. Husband and I are still very much in love even though we're old.
I am always in wonder to have won the geographical lottery that I was born on the side of the globe with free abundant water, whereas on the other side, there are many who have to walk miles just to obtain a bucket of dirty water. Just call us blessed.
Yes, I help support an orphanage and school in Kenya. The last time I visited we took a walk around of the neighborhood and saw a boy carrying a 5 gallon bucket of muddy water. So sad! Fortunately, both our orphanage and school have a well and huge rain barrels. During a period of severe drought followed by equally severe rains that made most water sources undrinkable, our orphanage supplied clean water to many in the village. We’re raising money now to build a grade 9-12 addition to our current preK-8th grade school. We’ve already raised half of the $300k needed. If anyone is interested, you can find out more at www.mescalskids.org. It’s all funded and built with donations from individuals and a couple of churches. No corporate or government funds!
Clay & Buck made a point yesterday that the poorest Americans in the US would be considered wealthy in any # of 3rd world countries, which is why people from all over the world try to get into the USA legally or illegally.
I don't care what he spent. I figure a bit of it was surely mine after looking at my monthly Amazon business account.
Our own eloped wedding invested a staggering $20 to the preacher over 55 years ago.
A friend spent 50K on his daughter's wedding because she wanted it instead of him paying 50K as a down payment on a new home and a wedding and trip to Vegas.
One step niece is on husband number 6 headis toward Liz Taylors record. She has more ink on her than the NYT.
I just visited my friends in Canada - I was surprised to find out that not only do middle class people not cook their own food, not clean their own houses, take care of their own kids, paint their own nails, people are no longer fucking their own husbands. Instead, there is an app called feeld where u can find a substitute for that and hope that the sub lives close to u so that you don’t have to drive too long and incur mileage costs that you would have to pay into the family bank! I’m not even kidding. Post capitalism - you motherfuckers are so rich you can pay someone to live your own life for you. Congratulations. You have reached the point that you are paying to be stupid and fat.
I'd have an issue with this extravaganza if Bezos had made his money illegally. But as I'm a capitalist at heart I don't believe it's my privilege to criticize the way he spends his money. I also don't care enough about how other people consume stuff to be either happy or unhappy about his wedding expenditures.
Yes, Bezos had a brilliant idea, built a small business into a powerhouse, phenomenal business. (now sliding into questionable territory) Bezos is in many ways the poster child of the "American Dream". He might be an asshole, but he started good and worked his way up. Amazon benefitted greatly from the tyranny, but that's not Bezos's fault. They were positioned in the right place at the right time (and already were phenomenally successful before that).
Amazon did some support of censorship during "Covid" via their AWS (web services) which is now a bigger part of their business than their retail sales.
In my opinion, when you start involving that much money, it's nearly impossible to not have some involvement in politics. If for no other reason than it's extremely valuable for business / profits to ensure that government regulations and taxes favor your business and not someone else's. It's not good, but you'd have to be an idiot to not have some involvement.
I thought of the censorship after I hit the reply button. I can’t remember whether Bezos was still at the helm by that point. I seem to recall though that Amazon often put censored books back on the “shelf” if there were a big enough public outcry. I don and live anywhere near an actual book store so Amazon books are my easiest source for buying them. I was able to buy Kennedy’s book on Fauci and Alex Berenson’s first covid book, along with all the other covers dissident authors’ books. Do you recall any titles that Amazed censored that stuck?
"The correspondence shows that the White House's displeasure with the 'anti-vax' books was the 'impetus' for the 'Do Not Promote' category, which effectively hid the books on the site."
"One of the 43 books added to this list was one by author Neil Miller titled 'Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies: 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers,' which was released in 2016."
"We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region." (most of that apparently was in other countries and included banning LGBTQ+ books - Equal opportunity censorship???)
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the censorship of books. I didn't notice it myself as right from the beginning I was buying books about the whole propaganda scam and I never ran into a problem of not being able to get a book that I'd heard about.
It's possible they censored and kept something from publishing / distributing but I'm not aware of a single case. I *think* some were temporarily censored. Most likely they didn't promote anything like that so you had to directly search for it.
What upset me most were (Internet websites) businesses that were shut down because AWS hosted their servers and Amazon censored those. Again, I don't recall the details of exactly which were impacted nor for how long.
Amazon was not even close to being the only company doing this though!
I have done more buying books direct, even at higher prices, just as a small amount of "protest". I like supporting the "little businesses" even if it means paying a bit more.
What's absolutely crazy to me is, people, lots of people putting their morning $5.....$10.... $15...coffee on the Visa card and making payments on it... Then bitchin about Bezos spending habits...
What I find annoying about spending big bucks on a wedding is parents who go into debt for their kid’s wedding and then endlessly complain about their dismal financial situation.
I attended a beautiful wedding at a ski resort. I could only imagine what it cost. Bride’s dress was one of the most stunning I’d ever seen. Her brother had the bartender create a drink called, “I Give it a Year”.
He was a bit off on the timing. It lasted under a year.
I would say it was “capitalism” but it’s not really when governments choose the winners (Bezos) and the losers (small American businesses) thru government lockdown mandates - just sayin’
Notice how all these Botox babes look the same? Skinny with tootsie pop heads and the very same smiles. Especially the brunettes. At least Kim has a butt. How can Lauren even breathe? But maybe the billionaires breathe something different than we mere mortals do. Gates breathes from hidden viper scales under his human skin suit. In any case, yawn. They die like the rest of us and take nothing with them.
Lauren is in her mid-50s. I am in the same age range and a size 4- HOWEVER, seemingly overnight my weight has shifted all over my body to the worst possible places (waist, hips, thighs). As I look around at my peers it seems this same hormonal phenomenon has happened to them. There is no way in hell, her waist is natural. She’s fake, fake, fake.
Yes. Has happened to me too. My husband can give up a little Debbie in the morning and in a few weeks 10 pounds are gone. I can’t eat nothing—that makes it worse by lowering metabolism. That waistline is crazy.
As usual Jenna, VERY wise! ALLLLLLLL of this stuff is just carrots! Every single billionaire became so through capitalisim, of which they hate because capitalisim can take them down! Go, have your "parties"! I will watch nature tv! I was sitting at my sisters house, her (cutest EVER cat...who is a perpetual kitten) was growling, and when I shined a light in the yard, there stood mama black bear and her 3 cubs! It's funny how this tiny cat growled warning of something outside! It was AWESOME! Nature TV!!! Have a great day! These people can go and do whatever they wish, just don't hurt us.
Also, I don't get how these people think that what they unleash (spraying poison, or blocking the sun) won't affect them too?!?!? They DO breath the same air and get the same sun!
Revelation 6:15-17 KJV
[15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: [17] For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Smoke em if you got em. Yeah, it was lavish. Yeah, it was ostentatious. Yeah, it was tick tack tacky. But…talk to the Venetians. One billion dollars in revenue in the course of a few days? I doubt many are complaining. Damn those Billionaires for bringing a billion to Venice! My town could use that…so, when the next billionaire wants a great big on with the show wedding spectacular, come to Northern Colorado! We have gondolas, mountains, white water, skiing, hiking, microbreweries, wineries (yes! Wineries!), and mead…and our bears are pretty friendly, too.
Your poll option should have been a simple “no, it’s their money”, because anyone with intelligence knows it is mostly jealousy and lack of awareness that causes most of this criticism. There is an important difference between someone with great wealth using it to harm or control others versus using it for their own pleasure. Also, and this is basic money 101, you want people with money to spread it around because it acts like fertilizer and makes wherever it gets spread grow.
Evidently Mamdani is okay with people who wear less than 15 pieces of flair. In fact, he'd take from those wearing 34 to give to those wearing 12. How egalitarian! /s
Indecisivea me falls between three and four. I am a capitalist through and through, but I have said to myself and maybe to my husband while he watches the NFL, do you know how all that money they make could be used on such and such?! But then again, if I am truly for the American dream, who cares and more power to them! I saw a glimpse of communism back in 1985 when I visited relatives in Romania as a child with my dad and grandparents. The long lines of vehicles waiting to get gas, people in line in the heat to get their rations of eggs. It was a trip I will never forget and not because of the beautiful scenery or the family I only got to see once. And as I finish this lil comment, it has occurred to me I’m definitely leaning toward “…smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.” Btw, Happy Independence Day!
I'd much rather Bozos spend his money on Venice (benefiting numerous hard-working people, as you mentioned) than on something like the next save-the-world vaccine idiocy. Everyone says why don't the billionaires do good with their money, until they realize what the billionaires' idea of good is (see Gates, Bill and Soros, George).
And, if ONLY George Soros and his kid spent their cash on almost anything else but “open” society projects this country might be more sane.
Fun fact: Soros in Hebrew means trouble
4,000 LIKES for your comment, especially your last sentence! I agree.
You are correct. So many of us in this country are wealthy, though we don't see it, and are equally foolish with our money proportionate to our income. I'm more in the category of a $41 wedding using the same proportionas Bezos. But just the other day my family was sitting around marveling at how rich we are compared to our parents and grandparents before us who bought used, lived without conveniences like an automatic wash machine and a freezer, made their children's clothes themselves, had only one car for a family of 6, didn't indulge in drinking wine (and coffee out was practically non-existent) because it was an unnecessary expense and so much more that today we would say us unthinkable.
When each of us can recognize how wealthy we are by our own standards and how frugal we are with our own money, then we can judge others.
My wedding reception in 1967 actually cost $45.00 which included the candles, mints, nuts, punch and beautiful 3 layer swan decorated cake. Plus lace tablecloth and cute organza aprons for my friend helpers. Baptist church basement. I sewed my own satin gown and Dad had given us $300 to do a wedding and we could keep the rest. Still together 57 years later.
I got married in 2002 and spent $1200 all in and it was far better than my first wedding on which we spent thousands. One of my kids got married in a public park in winter park, CO (it was 2020, she lost her venue and didn’t want to wait to get married). Turned out really fun... found a restaurant with a big patio and ate bar food, cake was from Safeway, one of the groom’s friends played guitar and we had a sing along. Actually picked wildflowers for my daughter’s hair.
Another kid got married in a $100k extravaganza (mother of the groom, no way would we have paid for that) and while both weddings were fun and beautiful, I certainly didn’t think the expensive one outshined the less expensive one. The less expensive one had God providing the backdrops and that’s hard for any venue to compete with, no matter how expensive. Also,they both picked them partners exceptionally well and I’m more thrilled about that than their weddings.
Wonderful! My son also married in Colorado in 2020, similar story, they lost their outdoor (!!) wedding garden venue in Crested Butte, but we found a FREE meadow with beautiful mountains all around, and still within reach of the town’s free WiFi so the pastor could officiate via Zoom on an iPad on a tripod. It was a gorgeous setting. The reception dinner and cake were on the balcony of our Airbnb looking out over the mountains at sunset. It was just the immediate family of bride and groom, and we got to spend the week before the wedding hanging out together there making memories that are priceless. (And speaking of price, it didn’t even cost much.)
I love it!
Crested butte has the most beautiful wildflowers I’ve seen in CO, and that’s saying something. Cool town and good hiking nearby, too.
We loved Crested Butte! We hiked, the kids mountain biked, we rented a Jeep and went up on the trails, great dining, shopping, etc. We spent this past Christmas at Winter Park. It was beautiful there as well. I’d love to see it in the summer.
Our favorite vacation as adults was Breckenridge. We went in June and rented a ski in/ski out condo, and every morning we would walk out the door for a hike, come back and have lunch out and wander town for a bit. The gondola from town up to the resort is free so sometimes we would take that and hike down to our condo if we were tired. We rented e-bikes and went to Frisco, and also drove to Lake Dillon and hiked around it. So nice.
Best family places in the summer in CO, IMHO, are Colorado Springs and Glenwood Springs. I grew up in CS, so most of my experience is I-70 and south. I hear Estes Park is amazing but I think I went there once as a kid for Girl Scout camp for something. My family went to Glenwood Springs for Labor Day weekend every year.
I never calculated the cost of my wedding but considering I held it in my own living room, it was appropriately budgeted. I believe in spending the money on the honeymoon not the wedding. {smile}
The Polish Catholics across town had much more fun weddings than the baptists did. We headed for our honeymoon trailer at the University of Illinois where hubby went to school. A winter blizzard and ice storm in Champaign stuck us in our trailer for several days with frozen pipes. The heater worked however.
Ours was also a living room affair with the reception in the dining room.
Best wedding story I ever heard: a former coworker said she and her fiancé were married at the courthouse. The only guests were both sets of parents. The six of them went out for brunch afterwards, and the newly married couple then got in their car and drove from the Midwest to California to start their new life.
I tried to interest my now late husband in doing something more along those lines. But he insisted if I didn’t get a big, more traditional wedding, I’d regret it. So I let him talk me into a “real wedding”. If he were still around, I’d tell him, no, while I never regretted marrying him, I certainly could have found a better use for the money spent on our far from lavish, but still much more than I wanted, wedding.
Sounds like you focused on what was/is truly important - your love for each other. You didn't need a huge fancy wedding, just each other and your family and loved ones there. Husband and I spent about the same amount on our wedding in 2003. I was 49 y.o., he was 58 so we didn't need any wedding gifts. Instead we just asked our guests to bring a potluck dish, which they did. We were married in our backyard garden, had about 70 folks there and our dog. We spent about $45 on the wedding cake from Safeway and everyone said they had a great time. We are both huge fans of wolves, husband is a biologist so instead of the wedding march song, we had everyone howl like wolves - which they loved. It was a twilight wedding and the party afterwards went until 2:00 a.m. Husband and I are still very much in love even though we're old.
Such a great story! I love it too.
I LOVE this.
Love it!!!!
I am always in wonder to have won the geographical lottery that I was born on the side of the globe with free abundant water, whereas on the other side, there are many who have to walk miles just to obtain a bucket of dirty water. Just call us blessed.
Yes, I help support an orphanage and school in Kenya. The last time I visited we took a walk around of the neighborhood and saw a boy carrying a 5 gallon bucket of muddy water. So sad! Fortunately, both our orphanage and school have a well and huge rain barrels. During a period of severe drought followed by equally severe rains that made most water sources undrinkable, our orphanage supplied clean water to many in the village. We’re raising money now to build a grade 9-12 addition to our current preK-8th grade school. We’ve already raised half of the $300k needed. If anyone is interested, you can find out more at www.mescalskids.org. It’s all funded and built with donations from individuals and a couple of churches. No corporate or government funds!
Clay & Buck made a point yesterday that the poorest Americans in the US would be considered wealthy in any # of 3rd world countries, which is why people from all over the world try to get into the USA legally or illegally.
I don't care what he spent. I figure a bit of it was surely mine after looking at my monthly Amazon business account.
Our own eloped wedding invested a staggering $20 to the preacher over 55 years ago.
A friend spent 50K on his daughter's wedding because she wanted it instead of him paying 50K as a down payment on a new home and a wedding and trip to Vegas.
One step niece is on husband number 6 headis toward Liz Taylors record. She has more ink on her than the NYT.
GLAD I AM OLD!
I just visited my friends in Canada - I was surprised to find out that not only do middle class people not cook their own food, not clean their own houses, take care of their own kids, paint their own nails, people are no longer fucking their own husbands. Instead, there is an app called feeld where u can find a substitute for that and hope that the sub lives close to u so that you don’t have to drive too long and incur mileage costs that you would have to pay into the family bank! I’m not even kidding. Post capitalism - you motherfuckers are so rich you can pay someone to live your own life for you. Congratulations. You have reached the point that you are paying to be stupid and fat.
I'd have an issue with this extravaganza if Bezos had made his money illegally. But as I'm a capitalist at heart I don't believe it's my privilege to criticize the way he spends his money. I also don't care enough about how other people consume stuff to be either happy or unhappy about his wedding expenditures.
Yes! How someone earns their money and how they spend it are two completely separate issues!
Unless they earn their money by selling human beings, selling illegal drugs, selling state secrets, etc.
He began as a book seller, right? I’m totally approving of book selling.
Yes, Bezos had a brilliant idea, built a small business into a powerhouse, phenomenal business. (now sliding into questionable territory) Bezos is in many ways the poster child of the "American Dream". He might be an asshole, but he started good and worked his way up. Amazon benefitted greatly from the tyranny, but that's not Bezos's fault. They were positioned in the right place at the right time (and already were phenomenally successful before that).
And, unlike Soros and the dangerous Bill Gates, Bezos, has mostly stayed outside politics snd medicine.
Amazon did some support of censorship during "Covid" via their AWS (web services) which is now a bigger part of their business than their retail sales.
In my opinion, when you start involving that much money, it's nearly impossible to not have some involvement in politics. If for no other reason than it's extremely valuable for business / profits to ensure that government regulations and taxes favor your business and not someone else's. It's not good, but you'd have to be an idiot to not have some involvement.
I thought of the censorship after I hit the reply button. I can’t remember whether Bezos was still at the helm by that point. I seem to recall though that Amazon often put censored books back on the “shelf” if there were a big enough public outcry. I don and live anywhere near an actual book store so Amazon books are my easiest source for buying them. I was able to buy Kennedy’s book on Fauci and Alex Berenson’s first covid book, along with all the other covers dissident authors’ books. Do you recall any titles that Amazed censored that stuck?
I got curious so I did a search and found:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13564581/authors-joe-biden-administration-book-censorship-amazon.html
"The correspondence shows that the White House's displeasure with the 'anti-vax' books was the 'impetus' for the 'Do Not Promote' category, which effectively hid the books on the site."
"One of the 43 books added to this list was one by author Neil Miller titled 'Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies: 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers,' which was released in 2016."
Also: https://citizenlab.ca/2024/11/analysis-of-censorship-on-amazon-com/
"We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region." (most of that apparently was in other countries and included banning LGBTQ+ books - Equal opportunity censorship???)
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the censorship of books. I didn't notice it myself as right from the beginning I was buying books about the whole propaganda scam and I never ran into a problem of not being able to get a book that I'd heard about.
It's possible they censored and kept something from publishing / distributing but I'm not aware of a single case. I *think* some were temporarily censored. Most likely they didn't promote anything like that so you had to directly search for it.
What upset me most were (Internet websites) businesses that were shut down because AWS hosted their servers and Amazon censored those. Again, I don't recall the details of exactly which were impacted nor for how long.
Amazon was not even close to being the only company doing this though!
I have done more buying books direct, even at higher prices, just as a small amount of "protest". I like supporting the "little businesses" even if it means paying a bit more.
What's absolutely crazy to me is, people, lots of people putting their morning $5.....$10.... $15...coffee on the Visa card and making payments on it... Then bitchin about Bezos spending habits...
What I find annoying about spending big bucks on a wedding is parents who go into debt for their kid’s wedding and then endlessly complain about their dismal financial situation.
Same! Also when people are so focused on the wedding they ignore the marriage.
Valerie - funny/not funny story.
I attended a beautiful wedding at a ski resort. I could only imagine what it cost. Bride’s dress was one of the most stunning I’d ever seen. Her brother had the bartender create a drink called, “I Give it a Year”.
He was a bit off on the timing. It lasted under a year.
JUST like a brother LOL! (Also equal parts funny and awful.)
I’m sorry for laughing but I find that freaking hilarious.
lol
Oh, how I'd love to know more!
I would say it was “capitalism” but it’s not really when governments choose the winners (Bezos) and the losers (small American businesses) thru government lockdown mandates - just sayin’
🎯
Money spent is money in someone else's pocket. Let it flow!
Notice how all these Botox babes look the same? Skinny with tootsie pop heads and the very same smiles. Especially the brunettes. At least Kim has a butt. How can Lauren even breathe? But maybe the billionaires breathe something different than we mere mortals do. Gates breathes from hidden viper scales under his human skin suit. In any case, yawn. They die like the rest of us and take nothing with them.
Haven't heard that one before - Tootsie pop heads!! LMAO. And, using the restroom looks to be a daunting task where you would need 3-4 assistants!
Lauren is in her mid-50s. I am in the same age range and a size 4- HOWEVER, seemingly overnight my weight has shifted all over my body to the worst possible places (waist, hips, thighs). As I look around at my peers it seems this same hormonal phenomenon has happened to them. There is no way in hell, her waist is natural. She’s fake, fake, fake.
Yes. Has happened to me too. My husband can give up a little Debbie in the morning and in a few weeks 10 pounds are gone. I can’t eat nothing—that makes it worse by lowering metabolism. That waistline is crazy.
Yeah…but that butt cost her a pretty penny…
Great comments. I see standup comedy in your future. This is especially priceless: tootsie pop heads.
As usual Jenna, VERY wise! ALLLLLLLL of this stuff is just carrots! Every single billionaire became so through capitalisim, of which they hate because capitalisim can take them down! Go, have your "parties"! I will watch nature tv! I was sitting at my sisters house, her (cutest EVER cat...who is a perpetual kitten) was growling, and when I shined a light in the yard, there stood mama black bear and her 3 cubs! It's funny how this tiny cat growled warning of something outside! It was AWESOME! Nature TV!!! Have a great day! These people can go and do whatever they wish, just don't hurt us.
Also, I don't get how these people think that what they unleash (spraying poison, or blocking the sun) won't affect them too?!?!? They DO breath the same air and get the same sun!
Revelation 6:15-17 KJV
[15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: [17] For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Smoke em if you got em. Yeah, it was lavish. Yeah, it was ostentatious. Yeah, it was tick tack tacky. But…talk to the Venetians. One billion dollars in revenue in the course of a few days? I doubt many are complaining. Damn those Billionaires for bringing a billion to Venice! My town could use that…so, when the next billionaire wants a great big on with the show wedding spectacular, come to Northern Colorado! We have gondolas, mountains, white water, skiing, hiking, microbreweries, wineries (yes! Wineries!), and mead…and our bears are pretty friendly, too.
Your poll option should have been a simple “no, it’s their money”, because anyone with intelligence knows it is mostly jealousy and lack of awareness that causes most of this criticism. There is an important difference between someone with great wealth using it to harm or control others versus using it for their own pleasure. Also, and this is basic money 101, you want people with money to spread it around because it acts like fertilizer and makes wherever it gets spread grow.
Exactly David 🎯… noneyaah of our business . It’s a clown 🤡 world, I will never understand though .
Gauche. That's the word. Unnecessarily gauche.
Perfect.
The Bezos wedding made more headlines than the start of World War III. A nice distraction from the potential annihilation of planet Earth.
What’s the over/under on the divorce? I’ll set it at 18 months and take the over. The prenup probably has escalator clauses.
I was going to make a comment about "and in five years he gets to do it again!"
Didn’t the last one get 50 billion?
Evidently Mamdani is okay with people who wear less than 15 pieces of flair. In fact, he'd take from those wearing 34 to give to those wearing 12. How egalitarian! /s
Indecisivea me falls between three and four. I am a capitalist through and through, but I have said to myself and maybe to my husband while he watches the NFL, do you know how all that money they make could be used on such and such?! But then again, if I am truly for the American dream, who cares and more power to them! I saw a glimpse of communism back in 1985 when I visited relatives in Romania as a child with my dad and grandparents. The long lines of vehicles waiting to get gas, people in line in the heat to get their rations of eggs. It was a trip I will never forget and not because of the beautiful scenery or the family I only got to see once. And as I finish this lil comment, it has occurred to me I’m definitely leaning toward “…smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.” Btw, Happy Independence Day!