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Offline Ballygrl

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SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« on: October 11, 2010, 08:27:15 PM »
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Segami  (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:28 PM
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SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
   
George Soros, the billionaire financier who was an energetic Democratic donor in the last several election cycles but is sitting this one out, is not feeling optimistic about Democratic prospects.

“I made an exception getting involved in 2004,” Mr. Soros, 80, said in a brief interview Friday at a forum sponsored by the Bretton Woods Committee, which promotes understanding of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

“And since I didn’t succeed in 2004, I remained engaged in 2006 and 2008. But I’m basically not a party man. I’d just been forced into that situation by what I considered the excesses of the Bush administration.”

Mr. Soros, a champion of liberal causes, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics. Asked if the prospect of Republican control of one or both houses of Congress concerned him, he said: “It does, because I think they are pushing the wrong policies, but I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”

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stray cat  (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:31 PM
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1. Sounds like a DUer

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CBR Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:31 PM
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2. And? nt

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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:40 PM
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3. "I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”
   
"You poor bastards are on your own."

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Segami (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:41 PM
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4. Sounds that way, doesn't it?

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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:42 PM
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5. This party is in trouble.
   
First the party apparatchik alienate the progressives and "professional left". Now they're alienating the big money backers.

Not good.

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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:44 PM
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6. They made their deal with the devil.
   
The pay is coming due.

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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:52 PM
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8. They...
   
I encourage you to explain who 'they' are and why you'd cast your narrow net within a website you so obviously dislike.

Also - what's YOUR agenda for dealing with the problems we seem to face, equally, but apparently separately???
   
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 08:10 PM
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11. Let me know when you ever feel equal to me.
   
OK?

Then we can talk.

Until then, my limit for smug has been reached today.
   
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 08:29 PM
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14. I feel less than equal to your self pity.
   
I've lived in abject poverty for years before.

Don't pull the poor me card, I ain't buying.....

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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 08:33 PM
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16. And I thank you for showing your "card". This comment is straight from the RW playbook, and you've
   
copied it quite well.

I thank you for such an honest outting of yourself. It beats hypocrisy any day.

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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) 
Mon Oct-11-10 08:56 PM
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20. blah de blah de blah.
   
When in doubt, call names, the worst, the better.

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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 09:09 PM
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23. LOVE the blubbering!
   
I really do like your true self!


 
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cliffordu  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:50 PM
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7. ??
   
the party apparatchik

I thought we were tools of capitalists.

Will you make up your ****ing mind, please??

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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 08:05 PM
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10. Apparatchik doesn't mean communist.
   
The word originated in the USSR, but nowadays it's more often used a generic term for those who are "agents of the apparatus", or, more plainly, those who actively promote and defend the status quo. Those who place political loyalty above all else. The "My Party, Right or Wrong" types.

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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 07:58 PM
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9. It's okay; it's all working out according to their pan-dimensional chess game, sure to...
   
...play out in our favor in the year sqr(-1).

Tesha

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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts)     
Mon Oct-11-10 08:13 PM
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12. he thinks he's gonna be on the winning side...good luck with that george

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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) 
Mon Oct-11-10 08:30 PM
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15. He's not going to start giving to RW causes

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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 08:14 PM
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13. Fine by me. Soros is a neoliberal, conniving asshole anyway.
   
The Dems are losing popular support because they've proved themselves incompetent and weak when it comes to taking care of the working class.

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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) 
Mon Oct-11-10 08:56 PM
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19. Just shows you how bad things have gotten when neoliberals are being crowded out
   
Edited on Mon Oct-11-10 08:57 PM by Catherina
by people even more to their right who have even less of a conscience.

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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon Oct-11-10 08:37 PM
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17. What a hoot!   Updated at 2:52 PM
   
The replies to this news are pretty much all negative. The thread title is unkind to Soros. None of the comments are in his support. That may or may not be right, but that's the fact.

So instead of kicking this to the greatest page, where it will be seen by all and in that process hold Soros up for more derision, it gets unreced, keeping it hidden.

Seems to me that if one is unhappy with Soros, one would be inclined to rec this, not unrec it.

Oh well, that's why they make chocolate and vanilla. Different strokes for different folks.

 
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) 
Mon Oct-11-10 08:59 PM
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21. This is not the age of transparency or openness. I recced of course. n/t

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22. If he was involved only because he was anti-Bush as he says then he wasn't donating anyway.
   
Oh well.

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Mon Oct-11-10 09:13 PM
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24. UN-rec. Trolls out in force.
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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2010, 10:16:37 PM »
Good find Ballygrl.  H5!
Bobo better watch her back.  I think Clifford is one of the protected ones.  If she goes, I'll miss so much entertainment.

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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2010, 11:35:01 PM »
Good find Ballygrl.  H5!
Bobo better watch her back.  I think Clifford is one of the protected ones.  If she goes, I'll miss so much entertainment.

Hmm, that's interesting.
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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2010, 12:44:38 AM »
I may be wrong, but I think he's part of the Obama cheerleader group.  Der Skinner has to protect the chosen one you know  :lmao:

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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2010, 01:21:55 AM »
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14. I feel less than equal to your self pity.
   
I've lived in abject poverty for years before.

Don't pull the poor me card, I ain't buying.....

That's funny right there, I don't care who you are.   :rotf:

I hear that Bobo the Hobo's fanclub broke up.
The guy died.

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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2010, 05:38:56 AM »
If this is indeed true, the 2012 elections for the DNC will start heavily in the red.     


Delicious.

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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2010, 06:42:11 AM »
Soros is going for plausable deniability IMHO.  He has more front operations spreading disinformation out there coming to light every day, J-Street being the most recent.  Hard to imagine the former Kapo getting out of politics when it has rewarded him so well.
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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2010, 08:34:51 AM »
Soros is going for plausable deniability IMHO.  He has more front operations spreading disinformation out there coming to light every day, J-Street being the most recent.  Hard to imagine the former Kapo getting out of politics when it has rewarded him so well.

And why shouldn't he?  He's a capitalist, first and foremost.  Whenever you see soros funding anything, it is done to make him more money.

He sold his Jewish heritage to collaborate with Nazis as a teenager, he crashes monetary values to create situations where he can pick up expensive things for next to nothing (ie the British Pound), he supports enviro and libtard causes to create environments where he can come in and snap up as much as possible, and supports candidates who believe in frigging up the US so they can **** up our economy and he can buy on the cheap.

Seems to be a bit of a pattern to that....

I would worry less about what he supports than what he has to gain; that's the real money trail to follow.  This cat sold his soul very young and has no issues with continuing to do so because it's all about the almighty dollar.  He doesn't give a shit about any cause other than amassing more wealth and power and the retarded left are his useful idiots.  There is no wonder he's not going to contribute anymore, he no longer has a need for them.  They've served their purpose.

He's not Jewish, not Christian, not Nazi.  He's a morally and spiritually dead monster who is everything the DUmbasses claim to hate about capitalists but, since he shovels money at their "causes", he's acceptable.  They think they may use him for his money to fund them but the truth is he uses them to do all the labor and dirty work.  Talk about getting slapped instead of kissed...

They can spit on him and curse him for no longer supporting losers but he is theirs as much as they are his.  Soros is the true face of the mindless evil that is modern liberalism.
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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2010, 10:19:52 AM »
WOW! The DUmmies sure do have their panties in a twist over this, huh?!!? HA HA!! :cheersmate:
I don't believe the post at all. Soros will continue to fund till he sees that America has fallen. I hate to say it, but true. I hope I am wrong.

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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2010, 10:21:57 AM »
And why shouldn't he?  He's a capitalist, first and foremost.  Whenever you see soros funding anything, it is done to make him more money.

He sold his Jewish heritage to collaborate with Nazis as a teenager, he crashes monetary values to create situations where he can pick up expensive things for next to nothing (ie the British Pound), he supports enviro and libtard causes to create environments where he can come in and snap up as much as possible, and supports candidates who believe in frigging up the US so they can **** up our economy and he can buy on the cheap.

Seems to be a bit of a pattern to that....

I would worry less about what he supports than what he has to gain; that's the real money trail to follow.  This cat sold his soul very young and has no issues with continuing to do so because it's all about the almighty dollar.  He doesn't give a shit about any cause other than amassing more wealth and power and the retarded left are his useful idiots.  There is no wonder he's not going to contribute anymore, he no longer has a need for them.  They've served their purpose.

He's not Jewish, not Christian, not Nazi.  He's a morally and spiritually dead monster who is everything the DUmbasses claim to hate about capitalists but, since he shovels money at their "causes", he's acceptable.  They think they may use him for his money to fund them but the truth is he uses them to do all the labor and dirty work.  Talk about getting slapped instead of kissed...

They can spit on him and curse him for no longer supporting losers but he is theirs as much as they are his.  Soros is the true face of the mindless evil that is modern liberalism.
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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2010, 12:05:28 PM »
Good find Ballygrl.  H5!
Bobo better watch her back.  I think Clifford is one of the protected ones.  If she goes, I'll miss so much entertainment.
This one sure got bohobo up on her hind legs! :rotf:
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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2010, 12:23:06 PM »
Bobo is definitely going on my top 10 picks this year...angry and crazy every time she posts. But this is one never fails to intrigue me simply because they never bother to define who they're talking about:

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13. Fine by me. Soros is a neoliberal, conniving asshole anyway.
   
The Dems are losing popular support because they've proved themselves incompetent and weak when it comes to taking care of the working class.

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Wouldn't working class include anyone who is working from CEO to the high school student flipping burgers part time? They all have these cute little phrases borrowed from Marx, made far-left "mainstream" of the 60's and they just can't let go.

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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2010, 12:55:51 PM »
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13. Fine by me. Soros is a neoliberal, conniving asshole anyway.
  
The Dems are losing popular support because they've proved themselves incompetent and weak when it comes to taking care of the working class.

sw

The Dems take care of the workin' class? WOW! Sure could have fooled me! I thought they took care of the welfare class!

And here all this time I thought the phrase: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn", came from "Gone With The Wind"!

What a loony tune!
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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2010, 02:34:51 PM »
Bobo is going to be so much fun to watch when her team gets taken out in November. The freaking out by her will be epic. As for George Soros. Ir;s a wonder tha tsome unknown government enity hasn't done something to remove him from the worlds stage. I mean he has caused eough havok to more then one country to justify using the rule of law or other means to put him in jail.
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Re: SOROS: I'M DONE Donating to Democrats
« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2010, 12:36:17 PM »
Bobo is going to be so much fun to watch when her team gets taken out in November. The freaking out by her will be epic. As for George Soros. Ir;s a wonder tha tsome unknown government enity hasn't done something to remove him from the worlds stage. I mean he has caused eough havok to more then one country to justify using the rule of law or other means to put him in jail.

Jail? Hell, if this was the 60's, he would have taken up residency in the cemetery already! Not sure, but I'll lay odds Britain entertained they idea already! Only thing I can think of that stops them is, nobody can keep a frikkin' secret when it comes to gubmint anymore!
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