Why would you ask these things?
Jezcoe sincerely wants to know why the right thinks of Soros as a boogeyman, and you lead with “Would it bother you if he did these things?”
Why would you do that?
No. He needs to document funding if he is gong to complain about or shut up. Antisemitic? No, he has said nothing antisemitic in relation to that.
You should research the facts behind the British Pound incident.
When you do you’ll find that it was the British government being stupid and not George Soros being evil that caused their issues.
Yeah…he made a billion dollars off their stupidity.
Bill Gates built an empire off IBM’s and others’ stupidity.
Michael Burry made him and his clients billions seeing what would come of the credit default swap market.
And?
I just want to put this out there about my opinions about George Soros.
I think that he is a rich weirdo who uses his money to fund the things that he cares about.
My opinion is that his involvement is hands off, that he dispersed most of his money through the Open Society who then goes on to fund other organizations.
I don’t think that he is some puppet master… he is just a rich guy who is doing what he feels is best for the world.
I don’t have any loyalty to him. Don’t know the guy.
If there was irrefutable evidence that shows that he is the antichrist that the CEC portrays him to be, then I will accept that evidence. But it has to be more than innuendo and FUD. It has to be something real.
Until then… to me he is some rich guy who has to some become the 21st century Rothschild punching bag.
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I am saying that it is a conspiracy theory that comes from the more anti Semitic regions of the internet.
It is part of the “Great Replacement”
Whether Trump believes it is anti Semitic is of no consequence… the anti semites believe it is anti Semitic and the President must know this.
Can’t you see why it is a problem that he would give credence to it?
Media Matters makes him the anti christ for the CEC
Yep. It is obvious left wing proof to counter obvious right wing propaganda.
I have no problem calling it out for what it is.
If you don’t want to be talked about negatively by conservatives, don’t spend your billions to try to defeat their causes.
Same thing goes for people like the Koch brothers from the other end.
You can’t immerse yourself in politics and yell “off limits”.
And, as I said earlier, most of the talk about Soros recently have been from the left, not the right. This is not a thread by a conservative condemning Soros for anything, as example…and yet is the only time I have ever seen a Soros thread.
As I understand it, Soros made his fortune on the markets. He operated hedge funds, in stocks, currency. I would think that he would be a fan of Trump and the volatility he could bring to the marketplace.
On the other hand, the Kochs make their money in the energy sector and would benefit from deregulation which is often promoted by the Republican party.
No links, just my memory here. I may be wrong but it’s what I remember.
I couldn’t care less that Soros gets criticized.
What happens to him goes beyond that in my opinion.
Then the President’s lawyer retweets that Soros is the antichrist and his assets should be frozen… that goes beyond mere political criticism in my opinion.
When the President makes baseless claims that “many people have said” that Soros is behind a caravan of migrants trying to make it to the IS border… that goes beyond political criticism.
That is something different in my opinion.
It isn’t countering his ideology with a countering vision. It is simply using fear. And that is a big problem in my opinion.
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The Koch’s made their money from their father. They did a lot to keep it… but it was their father who built the empire.
Their father was also a Bircher and they inherited that too.
I do have to commend them for building an enourmous and effective political network that has been able to convince middle and lower class people to vote against their own best interests.
That last part is my opinion by the way.
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Who said Soros should be exempt from criticism?
What’s being asked is why he’s made the right wing’s boogeyman for practically everything in a way the Koch Brothers almost never are.
Matt Gaetz (R) Fla. is the one that tweeted that Soros was behind funding the caravan. He posted the video of migrants supposedly collecting money for their journey and posited that Soros was behind it.
Soros is just happen to be a high profile political backer that is enough for normal Republican similar to Koch brother or other high profile political backers.
the issue with Soros is when you go deeper into White Nationalism he becomes more of a face general antisemitic Zionist world government agenda seeking to destroy western civilization and replace it with fascist Jewish dictatorship.
That guy is such a flaming liberal it isn’t even funny.
Soros was blamed by most Republicans for the Kavanaugh protests. He seems to be the boogeyman recently.
Are you being funny?
The issue with talking about Soros compared to someone like the Koch is you and me can have a civilized talk about it, but there is a key difference between Soros and Koch.
Soros is the face of a alt-right white nationalist conspiracy in which they think the Jewish people are bank rolling a socialist take over of western civilization to impose fascist dictatorships. So when someone like Trump bring up the concept of “Soros funding Caravan” in his mind he is simply addressing the idea that Soros who is a powerful political backer. but in the mind of white nationalist he is confirming their belief in a Zionist world government conspiracy.
and that is where the issue comes how do we address the issue and have a debate without pushing white nationalist ideology.
Yep. He shorted the mortgage market. Is he Jewish? If so, we should hate him for it.
The antichrist? Haven’t heard that one. Which lawyer was that, Cohen? Not on Trump, of course…unless Trump authoried it. Fear? Do you think someone is really afraid that Soros is the antichrist?
Yeah, I don’t like baseless claims followed by “many people are saying”. Do you think people are afraid that many people are saying it? I don’t.
You did note that it was the journalist inserting Soros in the coversation, right?
