Astroturf on university campuses

This is either grasping at straws to manufacture an issue to help Democrats, a Soros-funded effort to further destabilize America or in the best case scenario for the protesters, a loud minority coupled with a bunch of protesters who are there and don't understand what they are protesting. 

The students aren't the ones primarily instigating these protests.  Yes, in some cases they likely are. But it's not as a prevalent a situation as the mainstream media is portraying. There wasn't this level of protests in favor of abolishing student debt (partly because it was being proposed by their side thanks to Let's Go Brandon).  I believe that self interest will dominate actions more than something half a world away. So the intensity of these protests is simply Astroturf level, not a real grassroots movement.

If this is indeed a ploy to energize the left, it's not working, and it won't work.  It's just like the abortion issue; those the left has lost on issues are gone, those who remain, were going to remain anyway. The impact will be marginal at best, but more likely non-existent.

Musk vs. Soros?

 Is this the undercard, or the main event?

Go sign this petition

George Soros is anti-American and/or a lunatic.  There's a petition to have him declared a terrorist.  Now he's not a terrorist directly by any stretch, but he has funded so many anti-American activities that he deserves the classification.

It's not likely to go anywhere but to get Soros flagged in the media as being possibly tagged a terrorist and getting egg on the faces of all of his liberal allies, is worth the effort anyway.

And the petition is on fire to boot.  So go add your name.

Addendum: I've signed it so should Hillary Clinton somehow manage to become president I expect I'll be extradited to the United States for prosecution.

This protest brought to you by Comcast

We all knew it: The anti-Trump protests are astroturf, bought and paid for by George Soros, who owns, among many other companies, Comcast.   The challenging thing is that those who favor the protests, don't care.

Via the Washington Post.

Little evidence exists to back the claim that significant numbers of protesters are paid, or, for that matter, that any significant number of workers seeking a union are “salts.” However, the allegations that even one participant is paid immediately calls into question the legitimacy of a cause. Behind these accusation is the idea that social movements should be entirely spontaneous, volunteer-driven, and untarnished by the exchange of money. Anything else would betray a lack of moral purity and reveal ulterior motives. And although successful protest movements rarely if ever succeed without an investment of resources, we create simplified mythologies that perpetuate these ideas of monetarily immaculate conception.

Citing Politifact as a source for 'little evidence' (as the link in the above paragraph does)  is itself laughable. 'Goebbels says Hitler is a good guy'. Great, I guess I was wrong about Hitler then. That issue aside, the mere admission that it does exist, validates that those various publications claiming that it does, are not insane, but have valid concerns.  As the left always, always claims when a whiff of conservative misdeeds exists, the mere existence of the claim merits serious consideration (like with the unicorn-y Trump-Russia connection).  There will be no double standard here. So WaPo, you are now guilty by your defense of the astroturfers by your discounting of factual evidence because it is politically inconvenient.  At least you had the decency to like to Breitbart and National Review in your distasteful defense of duplicitous political behavior that liberals clearly condone and deny exists.

Obama risks American energy security (again)

With the world's third largest proven oil reserves, Canada is already the United States' largest supplier of oil.  Oil in Canada is safe, accessible by private enterprise, unlike most oil around the world, and Canada is more than friendly with the United States.  Ramping up oil production dramatically over the next 15 years, Canada is doing what the Obama administration is refusing to do, and is on it's way to becoming an energy superpower.  But along with that extra supply, new demand is needed, and Canada is increasingly looking east for another buyer, as the Obama administration drags its feet on purchasing more oil from its neighbor, instead looking to Brazil, and in the process risking increased reliance on an unstable Middle East.

Obama's new found debt resolve is pure politics

He can sense it. Despite his tone deafness to moderates and anyone concerned about fiscal sanity the last two plus years, the president realizes that the tides are pushing in the direction of tackling the debt. Why else would he be on board with what he surely considers a ridiculous notion of fiscal restraint other than one word: re-election.

Soros Really is trying to sink the U.S.

George Soros, billionaire, socialist, and anti-American agitprop conduit has always wanted to see the U.S. fail, and sink itself as the global superpower.  Either he's doing it deliberately or out of a complete misunderstanding of what made the country great.

Soros won't stop the GOP avalanche

George Soros won't stand in the way of the GOP avalanche.  Gee thanks George.  The quote in the NY Times is stark;

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.”

I have a question for Mr. Soros. If it's going to be an avalanche, but the policies are wrong in your mind, does that mean that you think the majority of voters are wrong-minded? Are they stupid Mr. Soros? Are they being fooled by slick advertising? Remember, many of these are the same people who voted for your guy last time around. So if they are easily swayed then your guy did the same thing last time to them and your liberal agenda might have had support a mile wide but it wasn't more than an inch deep.  I guess you know better than the rest of us Mr. Soros. I guess we haven't earned our liberty and we should leave the governing to the rich elite like yourself.

Obama and the Benjamins

Let me see if I've got this right...

1. Obama was against "Drill, baby Drill." No oil drilling off the coast of America under Obama.

2. In August 2008 George Soros invested heavily in Brazilian national oil company Petrobas.

3. Soros is behind Moveon.org, a big big big Obama backer.

4. The Obama administration this week underwrote $2 billion of offshore drilling. In Brazil.

5. George Soros converted his Petrobras common stock to Petrobras preferred which paid dividends 2 days prior to the Obama announcement.

6. In a big recession, jobs are needed and investment in America in any form is better than invstment offshore.

7. The reason given to not drill in America during the campaign was that it wasn't green enough.

Conclusion #1

So, it's okay to drill in Brazil because their oil is greener. It's okay to pass a $787 stimulus bill to supposedly stimulate the economy but then spend $2 billion on Brazilian oil.

The disconnect is crazy.

The reason this was done, clearly looks like a payoff to Soros for the election.

Additional considerations

-The cash for clunkers program ended up helping out Japanese automakers more than American automakers.

- A media consulting firm with ties to White House senior strategist David Axelrod has been hired to produce a multi-million dollar ad campaign touting the Obama administration's health care overhaul.

Conclusion #2

This is all about the Benjamins. Obama payoffs, insider trading Chicago style politics, and Blagojevich 2.0.

Wow.

If this were a third world banana republic, it'd be laughable. In America, it's inconceivable that this could go on. Be ashamed. Be very ashamed.

A Soros excuse for a Billionaire!

Remember the Public Enemy rap song Don't Believe The Hype from 1989? Don't worry if you don't the point is the title. Barrack Obama and his minions have been pushing this idea that the economy is half a breath away from complete, ruinous doom. Preposterous. What's getting closer to complete and ruinous doom is the capitalist free market system that created and built American prosperity.

With that backdrop in mind along comes the following hyperbole from the Moveon.org backing, Hungarian-born whack-job, George Soros. Keep in mind the man has written three books about the impending collapse of global capitalism.

-The Alchemy of Finance (1987)

-The Crisis of Global Capitalism (1998)

-The New Paradigm for Financial Markets (2008)

Do it long enough and maybe you'll get it right George. He's been predicting a collapse since Reagan. No matter that his socialist leaning philosophies have helped encourage that same disaster by trying to hamstring the free market via social engineering interferences. I sometimes get the feeling that Soros could be the ultimate Soviet sleeper cell. How any billionaire can fund, and back groups like Moveon.org is beyond any logic I can grasp.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Renowned investor George Soros said on Friday the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no prospect of near-term resolution to the crisis.

Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union.

He said the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September marked a turning point in the functioning of the market system.

"We witnessed the collapse of the financial system," Soros said at a Columbia University dinner. "It was placed on life support, and it's still on life support. There's
no sign that we are anywhere near a bottom."

His comments echoed those made earlier at the same conference by Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman who is now a top adviser to President Barack Obama.Volcker said industrial production around the world was declining even more rapidly than in the United States, which is itself under severe strain.

"I don't remember any time, maybe even in the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast, quite so uniformly around the world," Volcker said.

And here's the Soros-Volker tie-in: They are on the same page, they are working on the same agenda. These men are not strangers. Paul Volcker wrote the foreword of Soros' book The Alchemy of Finance (in the 2003 edition):

George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game. The bulk of his enormous winnings is now devoted to encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become 'open societies,' open not only in the sense of freedom of commerce but—more important—tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and behavior.

I don't care if this guy is a trillionaire - he simply can't be trusted to suggest what really is in the best interests of America. He built himself up in the capitalist system he seems intent on blowing up. Maybe I'm being too cynical and he really is a capitalist at heart - maybe he's just trying to sell more of those doomsday books he keeps writing. In any case, according to the Forbes list he's ranked 101st richest man in the world, and if being rich equals being smart (which it doesn't), there are at least 100 people out there smarter than Soros. And if they're all socialists too, then this is Bizarro World.

Funnels - getting cash into the Right hands

Remember when Barack Obama opted out of public financing for his election campaign? Do you recall the reasons? The video is pretty dry, but the ad piece from Obama near the beginning is very telling.



FYI - Democracy Now is a liberal organization, Massie Rich is with the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan organization.

So Obama opted out to combat the vast army of Republican 527s lined up to destroy him. He had to do it. In October there were some ads, but nothing huge. And McCain raised significant money (thanks in large part to the RNC, and not his boneheaded allegiance to the federal funding). It doesn't seem that conservatives brought out there wallets as hard as they could have, but it also seems like 527s are one more area we are behind the Democrats on. Where's our moveon.org? Who is our George Soros (with some common sense added in)? Where are conservative donations going and why is it that the efficacy of the use of that money seems so muted? The answers aren't readily clear.

What is clear, is that in order to fund smarter, more effective campaigns in the future, more money will be needed, and funneling it to the right teams is crucial. Fundraising needs to be underway now, but more importantly, who gets the money? The RNC, the 527s, individual campaigns? There seems to be a lack of strategic imperative associated with both the financial sides of campaigning - revenue and expenditures. The strategy needs to be devised quickly on

1) How to collect more money.
2) How to collect more efficiently.
3) How to be transparent in the collection process.
4) Who collects it.
5) Where it goes (i.e. who gets it and in what percentages).
6) How it is spent.
7) Do we have enough 527s on the Republican side and do they have enough backing?

With regard to the last three points it would seem that the 527s are set to be the attack dogs and should be aligned to get the right proportion of fundraising to support that objective, the RNC should get a very significant portion and should be in a position to best align the spending with the opportunities that are presented for seat gains. Very high level thoughts, hopefully the folks inside the RNC have thought well beyond this already and are making the appropriate reviews of 2008. Based on the performance of the GOP in 2008, I'm not convinced that is yet the case.

The Newest Top 12 liberal idiots.

In my previous Top 10 liberal idiots list, I made a note in the comments section about how I thought the list would change on a regular basis. Unfortunately I typed 12 instead of 10. So being true to my word, here are the top 12 liberal idiots of the week.

12. Jon Stewart. Smug, smarmy, smirky. Yet refreshingly facile and predictably tilted left. Sorry, no pass for posing with sock puppets (no, not the Senate Democrats, these guys). Bonus marks for having a sense of humor though - keeps you out of 11th place.

11. Al Franken. The only repeat, no sense of humor present, moves to # 11 - just for sticking around this long. Go away Al. Just go away.

10. David Axelrod. How's life under that bus, Meathead? Lonely? Don't worry, you'll have company as soon as names start getting dropped in Chicago. Doesn't the picture look like some 1973 Sasquatch hunter in his headquarters?

9. Donna Brazile. Angry, idiotic. There's a combination just waiting to be another news byte. Give it time friends, give it time.

8. Al Gore. (See this for proof). Angry, idiotic, guilty, Nobel-prize winning con artist.

7. John McCain. Yep. Liberal. A Democrat sleeper cell in the GOP. Or at least a sleeper period. Dude, endorse Palin already or else look like an opportunistic dork forever. Your 'corpse is still warm'? I'm not so sure it ever warmed up Senator. Does loyalty only go one way John? For that matter, does compromise? Apparently in your world, both true.

6. Warren Buffett. Complaining that you don't pay enough taxes makes me wonder how you ever got rich. Yes, I know the history, but it doesn't merit the level of adulation or success achieved. Not that I'm jealous, it just doesn't add up. Besides, being a market wizard doesn't make you a political one.

5. George Bush. I'm only now fully convinced he's a Democrat double agent. Yeah, maybe a man of honour and he stuck to his convictions. But kudos for the damage done to the GOP. Obama himself could not have done more damage to Republican reputation. Then again, maybe he'll return the favor.

4. George Soros / Moveon.org. A double feature. Soros is to politics as Ozzy Osborne is to coherence. Living proof that intelligence in area does not translate into intelligence in another. And Moveon.org is to patriotism as Chairman Mao was to genocide.

3. Markos Zuniga. Daily Kos is like a ray of sunshine in a skin cancer ward.

2. Bill Maher. Making fun of religion in your latest movie. Is it that hard to find work Bill? Stir up controversy to sell your film. Clever. I mean that, sarcastically.

1. Rod Blagojevich. This is a no-brainer. I mean him. But thanks for the PR boost for the GOP Ron. (Is it just me or does this look like Sam from LOTR cross-bred with someone from the Sopranos?)