George Soros, Professional Boogeyman

adrina · Oct 25, 2018

These are all just the latest reminders that, for some on the right, Soros remains the world's biggest boogeyman. For more than a decade, he has been somehow blamed for just about every scandal, controversy and protest associated with the left. NFL protests? The Parkland students? The Women's March? If it's in the news and ruffling the right, someone on the internet is blaming Soros for it — whether or not any facts support that.

An analysis by Vocativ last year found that between June 2016 and March 2017, conservative news organizations — including Breitbart and InfoWars — had mentioned Soros 7,983 times, compared to 2,473 mentions in other outlets. Many of the stories about Soros' political influence are based in fact but overstate his influence on events happening now. For example, Fox News reported in March 2017 that Soros had donated $246 million to backers of the "Day Without A Woman" protest. But the study on which the story is based explained those donations went to 100 of the protest's 544 partner organizations, and that was over a 15-year period ending in 2015.

The vitriol directed at Soros has continued in 2018, especially as the midterms approach. A spokesman for Soros, Michael Vachon, did not comment when reached by CBS News. But he did send a "media-monitoring" list he composed, keeping track of news stories about false conspiracy theories of Soros influencing Kavanaugh's confirmation process. It contained 20 stories, all published in just 10 days.

It's all his fault. Everything. Everywhere. He did it. That's right. Guilty guilty guilty.

*nods*

rae121452 · Oct 25, 2018

and meanwhile, the koch bros. are the new messiah.

Kirkrapine · Oct 25, 2018

When the Pubs for a boogeyman bawl
They will point, fingers trembling, at Saul!*
Whose endowments . . . judgemental,
Both moral and . . . mental,
Make theirs look exceedingly small!

*Alinsky, of Rules for Radicals fame -- they're always talking about him, too.

DMBFFF · Oct 27, 2018

WP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

CP
https://www.conservapedia.com/George_Soros

RW
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/George_Soros

GODDO - Tough Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKBWidmO4Xs
2:18
48,325 views
(Think Nirvana unplugged, (only better, in my view, and over 10 years earlier).)

https://genius.com/Goddo-tough-times-lyrics

Fool...
I used to be a bad boy
Never did what I was told
A snotty nosey mad boy
I could be bought and sold
But I grew into a bad man
With no feeling of regret;
No regrets!
A man whos been a high man
And one who won't forget
Tough times! Hard knocks
When you get too low
It's best to let it rock
Tough times! Hard knocks
When I'm feeling low
It's best to let it rock
Tough times! Hard knocks
When you get too low
It's best to let it rock
Tough times! Hard knocks
When I'm feeling so low
It's best to let it rock
Tough times! Hard knocks
When I feel too low
It's best to let it rock
Tough times! Hard knocks
When you get too low
It's best to let it rock

GODDO Tough Times / Cock On!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eJdfQo14ug
7:31
104,542 views
(Imagine someone who looks a bit like Paul Simon doing punk.)

adrina,

you do realise that 10s of millions of dumb-fuck Trumpsters and alt-rightsts—and Nazis—need someone to blame their lives on.

Soros will cope—I'm sure of it.

trysail · Oct 27, 2018

The Morality Of Our Progressive Elite

by Francis Menton
(the "Manhattan Contrarian")

...Yes, it is the classic statement of the morality of our progressive elite: There is an important human need that must be addressed, and therefore “we” must “hold ourselves accountable” and “step up” and “give back” in the form of a tax.

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? Here’s my problem, Marc [Benioff]. You are the billionaire here. Provision for the homeless appears to be your idea of the most important charitable cause out there at the moment, one that must be funded at a high level. So go ahead and fund it yourself! $300 million per year would be about 5% of your net worth. You will never miss it. How about at least “stepping up” for the first year? Why not? Because you don’t want to! You want to keep your billions for yourself. So instead of doing the right thing and stepping up yourself, you have come up with a plan to force others — almost all of whom are not billionaires like you — to pay for your favorite cause...

(much) more...

phrodeau · Oct 27, 2018

And Congress fails once again to reform the campaign finance system, leaving themselves to whine about the megadonors who put their colleagues in office.

DMBFFF · Oct 27, 2018

trysail said:
The Morality Of Our Progressive Elite

nothing about Soros in your link.

George Soros, Professional Boogeyman

adrina

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