As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

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    All the money in the world and he just had to go fucking around in politics and then our government.

    I swear people like this just do not have good real friends in their life to ground them.

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      That’s Trump’s problem. And Biden, Clinton, Bush (1&2), Obama, Reagan Nixon… All the way back. For the elderly, I would argue elder abuse, additionally.