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Are paid by Soros?
I am at Hardee's and that is what I just heard. People here in KC love their conspiracy theories.
safeinOhio
(32,690 posts)Trump......
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)This guy was absolutely certain that Soros was funding MOVEON.org and everybody else.
I don't talk politics with anybody around here. You just never know what will set people off. I was talking to a black guy at Laundromat and turns out he is a Trump supporter and thinks Obama is a Muslim. That was the end of that conversation.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . they don't seem to get that for every "Soros", we have several "Koch Brothers" to throw on their side.
Oh, and let's just see what a Commie bastard he is.
Oh wait . . .
Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa, and began funding dissident movements behind the iron curtain.
In September 2006 Soros pledged $50 million to the Millennium Promise, led by economist Jeffrey Sachs to provide educational, agricultural, and medical aid to help villages in Africa enduring poverty. The New York Times termed this endeavor a "departure" for Soros whose philanthropic focus had been on fostering democracy and good government, but Soros noted that most poverty resulted from bad governance.
Despite working as an investor and currency trader, Soros argues that the current system of financial speculation undermines healthy economic development in many underdeveloped countries. He blames many of the world's problems on the failures inherent in what he characterizes as market fundamentalism.
Victor Niederhoffer said of Soros: "Most of all, George believed even then in a mixed economy, one with a strong central international government to correct for the excesses of self-interest."
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)It would do no good to point out such things to a man like this. They believe what they believe and it is usually backed up by all their church going friends - most of these guys are Bible Believing Baptists and are really way, way over to the right.
I just try to stay as far out of this kind of discussion as I can.
I wonder what they are going to do when they realize Obama was not the antichrist and he didn't try to take over the government. They were just so sure about that and it really didn't pan out at all. Or the secret passages under the Walmart stores and the guillotines the army was making to behead all the true believers.
Sometimes I feel like I live in a place that just tumbled down the rabbit hole. It's so weird that it's hard to believe it really exists.