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George Soros Must be Laughing Himself Silly
Aside from being completely disgusted on hearing that George Soros was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, I couldn’t help thinking that the very country he is trying to destroy, in so many ways, has given him an elite award. Ironic, don’t you think?
If you talk to his supporters, they’ll tell you what a great humanitarian he is. On his own website, he lists his accomplishments, as well as his reaction to receiving the Medal:
In the United States, Soros has advanced racial justice, invested in drug policy approaches informed by public health data, revolutionized end-of-life care, and helped achieve one of the most significant civil rights victories in modern American history—the 2015 landmark Supreme Court case securing marriage equality in all 50 states.
‘As an immigrant who found freedom and prosperity in America, I am deeply moved by this honor’ George Soros remarked. ‘I accept it on behalf of the many people around the world with whom the Open Society Foundations have made common cause over the past 40 years.’
And yet his gratitude reeks of mockery, when we learn about his efforts to upend our justice system.
There’s been much discussion in conservative circles about the insidious activities of George Soros. Last August the Media Research Center received documents that explain Soros’ actions to control the U.S. justice system:
The Media Research Center obtained nearly 8,000 pages of internal documents through public records laws that show how a Soros-funded group called Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) ‘directed Soros prosecutors to manipulate the rule of law concerning illegal immigration, drugs, abortion, election integrity, capital punishment and laws against childhood sex changes.’
The FJP maintains strict control of the prosecutors who were elected through Soros funding:
FJP had the Soros-backed attorneys sign 33 pledges to not enforce certain laws — including election integrity measures and immigration laws — and attend more than 50 meetings or ‘convenings,’ some of which were ‘mandatory.’ FJP pressed prosecutors to let criminals off the hook if they are black, having them pledge to ‘reduc[e] racial disparities in case outcomes by at least 20%.’
Prosecutors who didn’t enforce the Soros mandate were targeted and eventually defunded in their election efforts.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized for removing prosecutor Andrew Warren after he signed one of these pledges; DeSantis said that it proved “that Warren thinks he has the authority to defy the Florida Legislature and nullify in his jurisdiction criminal laws with which he disagrees.”
One of my biggest disappointments was learning that George Soros funds the Anti-Defamation League. Many of their positions have been questionable over the last few years, but I also discovered that they go out of their way to condemn criticisms of Soros as “disinformation.”
I suspect that Biden didn’t carefully review the list of medal recipients before he agreed to give them out, any more than he reviewed the list of 37 death row criminals before commuting their sentences.
Let me see if I have this right: a man who is out to destroy the rule of law, and people who viciously killed human beings, are forgiven and rewarded for their actions.
What a tragic world we live in.
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Remember, under Biden as in George Orwell’s 1984, “freedom is slavery”. So Biden awarded Soros the Medal of Slavery.
The Democrat Party hates America, hates Americans and is proud of it. That is a sickness of many Western political parties.
I was told that I was antisemitic calling out Soros for funding the campaigns of functionally worthless district attorneys.
Oh, of course! That’s a favorite attack which often stops people in their tracks when they criticize him. The man is evil.
I was just thinking (I do that now and then). Since blacks can’t be called racists since they are black, can I not be called anti-Semitic if I call other Jews anti-Semitic?
The Boolean algebra of prog politics. At least the woodchuck thing has a numerical answer.
Okayyyyyy…..
I’m typing on my phone so someone else will have to elucidate. @markcamp perhaps?
Uh…I just looked it up. I’ll stick with regular algebra…
Boolean algebra has numerical answers: two of them.
I’m not sure about that, whether boolean values are numbers. The class number is the class of those classes which are similar, which kind of means a number is the size of some set.
Guys, I’m not sure about the thread going in this direction…maybe offline? Or at least you might explain your reference, Barfly–The Boolean algebra of prog politics. At least the woodchuck thing has a numerical answer. Unless you’re still on your phone…
Never mind
Well, I wouldn’t agree that “the country” gave him anything. FJB did. Or whoever his puppeteers are, did.
Your question struck me as similar in form to “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” which I assume is a shared cultural reference. But it isn’t, really, because the woodchuck’s product would be a pile of wood, which we might imagine could vary in size. The woodchuck’s work will be something we can measure – you and I and Chuck Schumer could all report the same number, whether the woodchuck were listening or not.
But racism and anti-Semitism are not objective; these traits are assigned to the subject by each individual’s perception. It’s a conceit of the left to apply concrete reasoning about the world to subjective feelings held by a distinct person. It’s true in some way that blacks can’t be called racists since they are black, but that’s only equivalent to the second clause of your question in form, not in
meaningfeeling.I get it.
You will be called racist if you are winning the argument regardless of all other factors.
Arguably, blacks can’t be called anti-black racists, but that’s not the only kind of racism that there is. There are plenty of other groups they can be – and often are – racist against.
Soros might be laughing over his getting the award for his “Freedom” efforts.
But he also was fond of stating that Trump had to be defeated in Nov 2024, or the Globalists would not assume total Western society governance according to the time table that they’ve promoted. So he might be crying as well.
(Is it just me? As when I type out actual statements made by Schwab, Soros, Havari & some others, their words remind me of the kids’ cartoon of the Fifties: “Tom Terrific.” In that show, Tom and his faithful dog Manfred had to battle the evil man who had set out on a most dastardly path to control the universe. And that villain commonly said some of the same things these creeps say now.)
It has been many years since I thought about Tom Terrific. I wonder if he is on Utube.
Gervais is so spot on. But often the whole point of this “You are a racist, a White Supremacist, an anti-semite” style of retort is to have you shut up.
No one wants to be called any of these things. So initially it works. But after a while, the words mean very little, as it is clear it’s about shutting down debate.
At least the Babylon Bee struck out at Bill Nye with a delicious article about his Medal being revoked for a statement he made in the past affirming there are only two genders (sexes) . . .
That was delightful. Mechanical Engineering waxing authoritatively on biology. Follow the scientism! The fact that he was correct does not mean he is qualified to weigh in.
You’re in good company. As a Catholic I do not hesitate criticizing Biden, Pelosi, and any number of cafeteria Catholics in public life that create scandal as well as hurting the Church in their policy decisions.
Oh yeah, Bill Nye…
The history of the Anti-Defamation League is a case study in mission drift.
Bowtie Boy and Al-Gore tried to fake a lab experiment once. Nye isn’t even a competent fraud.
And Neil Tyson isn’t as smart as he thinks he is, either.
He doesn’t even have much published in astrophysics.