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Its wild how Republicans turned George Soros into this sinister, shadowy billionaire supposedly plotting to control the world and buy Democrats, while Elon Musk is out here openly laying out his plans.
Irish_Dem
(80,962 posts)They especially like to do this with their own victims.
Accuse their victims of being ruthless criminals.
It is a way to humiliate the victim, make them angry.
And confuses the police, public, and potential judge and jury.
When it comes to the GOP crime syndicate, their accusations are always confessions.
Blue Full Moon
(3,402 posts)Someone else is doing is actually what they are doing or going to do.
Irish_Dem
(80,962 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,402 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,962 posts)It is astounding isn't it?
brush
(61,033 posts)Keep 'em dumb and ignorant, two adjectives not the same, but just the way rethugs like their supporters.
Irish_Dem
(80,962 posts)In a fascist takeover the educated class is the first to be killed or imprisoned.
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Blame others for what You Do. Lie loudly and often.
Trumps bellowing about suing an Iowa newspaper for election interference. As you Say Teammate accusations are confessions.
And to quote our next president, I Love Stupid People. They make it so easy for him to lie.
Irish_Dem
(80,962 posts)Those are the first ones he is attacking.
The ones with proof of his cheating.
FakeNoose
(41,290 posts)Chump attacks anyone who doesn't fight back, because he's a bully.
Irish_Dem
(80,962 posts)He is systematically going after the people who have the goods on him.
Or stand in his way of making money or gaining more power.
I do not think his attacks are random at all.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)wnylib
(25,762 posts)Germany invaded Poland is a good example.
The entire speech was a string of lies that justified the invasion as self defense against Polish aggression and supposed mistreatment of ethnic Germans in the Polish Corridor. The Polish Corridor was established at the end of the First World War to give Poland a connection to the Baltic Sea through the Germanic state of Prussia, which was geographically located in what is now northern Poland.
Poland had no tanks and almost no planes. They still had cavalry on horseback. No way were they acting aggressively toward Germany.
The speech:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_September_1939_Reichstag_speech
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)It is incredibly sad that people past and present wake up every morning planning on hating and destroying.
NotHardly
(2,705 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,962 posts)None of the guardrails, checks and balances, congress, judiciary, rule of law, customs, norms, US code of justice,
US constitution, Bill of Rights, etc etc. mean a damn thing.
We found out that the entire US government is only a nice little honor system, a gentleman's agreement.
With no honor, or no gentlemen, there is no system.
We The People are entirely on our own, and at the end of the day, they let this country and our democracy down.
mucifer
(25,650 posts)And anti - democracy since Soros motive is helping descracy survive. Abd I'm sure some of it comes from Putin because of Soros help in Poland with Solidarity
Then there's the jealousy of Soros actually having the money tsf says he has.
ancianita
(43,286 posts)Soros doesn't even make the list of top donors in 2024... take a look at the list of
Dem v Rethug donors
https://archive.ph/vMBMg
Trumps advantage comes down to two donors Elon Musk and Miriam Adelson who each gave more than $100 million. Harris richest billionaire donors include Meta Platforms Inc. co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and and Netflix Inc. Chairman Reed Hastings, who have each put millions of dollars behind her candidacy.
cadoman
(1,617 posts)Making long term plans to take out the reich wing talk radio problem.
It would have been nice to see him drop some cash in a PAC, but he's going to be expected to donate big in all elections and I think we can trust him to know where to put his dollars to work for Democracy.
tornado34jh
(1,527 posts)They seem so inclined to do it with Trump and Musk, yet as far as I know, I don't think I have ever heard anybody talk to him. But for me, I think the whole "shadowy billionaire" thing really more aptly applies to those people whose "dark money" are a big reason we are in this position to begin with. I'm talking about the oligarchy.
Baitball Blogger
(52,230 posts)Karasu
(2,003 posts)of doing for the last 3 decades alone. No joke.
The sheer number of conspiracy theories is fucking hilarious.
oldmanlynn
(816 posts)It seems like republicans are controlling the talking points or conversations.
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rampartd
(4,534 posts)project 2025 is pretty much david koch's platform from the 1980 election. this is a 2019 new republic article ......
Billionaire fossil fuel mogul David Koch died Friday. Though he will rightfully be remembered for his role in the destruction of the earth, David Kochs influence went far beyond climate denial. Ronald Reagan may have uttered the famous words Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem back in 1981but it was David Koch, along with his el.der brother Charles and a cabal of other ultrarich individuals, who truly reframed the popular view of government. Once a democratic tool used to shape the countrys future, government became seen as something intrusive and inefficientindeed, something to be feared.
https://newrepublic.com/article/154849/david-koch-1980-fantasy
soros does contribute, but does not in any way dominate the democrats or "the left."
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)malaise
(295,420 posts)Rec
citizen blues
(608 posts)In other words, he's waging a well-funded, premeditated, targetted, slow-motion, terrorist attack against the U.S.
Sounds like he just bought himself a one-way ticket to Gitmo.
brush
(61,033 posts)seems to me it should be against the law. The First Amendment is one thing but totally control our political process is another. We are loose with how we allow this to happeen. Social Media influencers also...Putin, the Chinese and "Tic Tok."
Their influence is out of control. They aided and abetted trump, to their benefit and we're all now dreading what's coming.
We may lose what was once America.
Dem4life1970
(1,055 posts)G.O.P. stands for Gaslighting. Or. Projection. I need to copyright that.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Soros can now start buying voters through "raffles" 😒