The split of the Gateses is now everywhere in the news. Too many have focused on how the couple would split their money, a boring topic to me. I found this piece interesting from the Inc. magazine. It says — and I fully agree — that “even the most peaceable divorce is a tragedy and a major life event for the people involved.”
For ordinary folks like us, it’s hard not to express our shock in the way well described by a quote from who-knows-someone that says “Everyone you met in life is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
More Detailed Love Story
The shock is natural. After all, “Bill always said he’d met his match when he first started dating,” while “Melinda has always spoken lovingly of her husband’s emotional intelligence and ‘kind heart’. On their 26th anniversary just last year, she marvelled at ‘just how full a heart can get‘” according to this report from Australia, which tells a more detailed touching love story not just about the two, but also about how the charity started: “The couple say the foundation was inspired after reading a newspaper article about millions of children in poor countries who die from diseases such as diarrhoea and pneumonia, that can be easily treated in wealthier countries. ‘That blew our minds. As new parents it hit us especially hard,’ they write on the foundation’s website.”
It is sad because “the pair have long been hailed as one of the world’s most inspiring couples, dedicating decades to worthwhile causes and championing the importance of men and women being equals at home and in the workplace.”
What Happened?
Up until 2020 their relationship seems still very much alive, as “recent interviews and social media posts suggested their marriage was still a happy one. ‘I couldn’t ask for a better partner on this journey,’ Bill posted on Instagram on Valentine’s Day in 2020, a month after his wife publicly wished him a happy 26th wedding anniversary.“
We naturally wonder what happened since then, but perhaps we can find something in the past. This report offered some clues based on Melinda’s 2019 memoir The Moment of Lift: “When Melinda French Gates asked her husband, Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, to let her co-author the 2013 annual letter about their foundation, the conversation blew up into a fight” because “‘Bill said the process we had for the Annual Letter had been working well for the foundation for years, and he didn’t see why it should change.'” We had to wait until 2015 to see the couple signing the letters jointly.
This to me is not a good sign. Bill Gates never thought about co-authoring and co-signing the letter after using his wife’s name in the foundation, this is not good. From the court paper we see that Melinda was the petitioner and Bill the respondent. Something must be wrong with Bill in Melinda’s mind.
Of course, it has been on the public record that “Gates flew with Epstein from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach on March 1, 2013.”
Perhaps the two have been managing PR for a while, we just did not know? Perhaps it is politically correct to say things to each other like “She or he’s my best choice in life!” or “She or he inspired me everyday!” when they did not mean it, or did not mean it wholeheartedly. After all, it is perfectly fine for someone to inspire someone else, but perhaps not everyday, especially when they live together day in and day out. It is only natural for them to inspire each other some days, but annoy each other other days. It is inevitable for almost all couples, the question is how to deal with those mixed, complicated feelings.
From what we have seen this time with the Gateses, it is apparent that they chose to only emphasize the positive feelings (or at least doing that in public) but sweep the negative ones under the rug. Guess what? After saying the loving things to each other or to the public for too long, it gets tiring and it is best to discuss both feelings, positive and negative, for a healthy relationship.
For the rest of us, it’s sad to see them split but perhaps we should not be selfish and encourage them to stay in the relationship — just because we think they look good together — if it is unbearable for at least one of them.
The QAnon Reaction
Anyway, back to this article and the author had something excellent to say: “It’s so easy to stop thinking of people like the Gateses as people. They don’t have normal people problems, for example. They don’t have money issues; they never had to be concerned about where their children would go to college.“
But read this report and you will see an ugly scene made up from the Gateses divorce. “QAnon members spread disinformation that Gates engineered the COVID-19 vaccine to implant chips into people through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s vaccine initiative, which provides crucial inoculations to millions in developing nations.”
They made the claim after all the efforts and contributions by the Gates Foundation to fund research projects to make vaccines available to the world!
Talking about people changing the world and yet were accused exactly because of that!
“So now that Bill (loser) Gates and his wife are being split apart, I just have that gut feeling that she is probably not going to be alive for much longer considering she knows TOO MUCH about his evil plans!” one user wrote on Gab. “If I have to guess, the globalists will probably try to pull off a Epstein ‘suicide’ or just make her ‘disappear’, but that’s just my suspicion!”
“Other theories about the divorce include Melinda Gates actually being a man, as well as her leaving Bill Gates for Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is another favorite target of QAnon.”
The QAnon group represents some of the ugliest people in this country. On the other hand, they are allowed to exist and to have some way or outlets to voice their opinions, this alone shows how great this country is! This would never happen in China, not only Beijing would not allow them, but also most Chinese would not tolerate different opinions. People in the west always criticize Beijing for oppressing its people, but the bigger problem is the low social tolerance. Oftentimes diversity and variety are killed by the suppressing culture even before Beijing intervene. To be fair to the government, it has shown a higher degree of tolerance — as long as diversity does not threat its power and governance.