Is George Soros Behind Everything You Don't Like? – SOME MORE NEWS
Summary
TLDRThis satirical script, presented by a character named Cody, delves into the controversial figure of George Soros, exploring and debunking numerous conspiracy theories and accusations against him. It discusses Soros's history, from surviving Nazi-occupied Hungary to becoming a billionaire investor, and his philanthropic efforts through his Open Society Foundations. The narrative critiques the manipulation of Soros's image in political rhetoric, highlighting the real-world consequences of such distortions, including anti-Semitic violence and misinformation campaigns.
Takeaways
- 📢 **Introduction to George Soros Conspiracies**: The video script opens with Cody introducing the topic, revealing how George Soros is often accused of various conspiracies.
- 🌍 **Soros's Background**: George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930 and survived World War II by hiding from the Nazis using forged documents.
- 💰 **Financial Success and Philanthropy**: After moving to the UK and studying at the London School of Economics, Soros became wealthy through currency speculation and hedge funds. He later founded the Open Society Foundation, donating over $32 billion to philanthropic causes.
- 📉 **Black Wednesday and Asian Financial Crisis**: Soros made significant profits by shorting currencies, notably during Black Wednesday and the Asian Financial Crisis, gaining a reputation as a ruthless financier.
- 🎯 **Criticism and Anti-Soros Sentiment**: Criticism of Soros started in the 1990s from both the left and right, escalating in the 2000s. Figures like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck accused him of funding left-wing agendas.
- 🌐 **Puppet Master Narrative**: Glenn Beck amplified the narrative that Soros was a global puppet master, responsible for manipulating world governments to achieve a one-world government.
- 🕵️♂️ **Orban's Campaign**: Viktor Orban’s government made Soros a scapegoat, blaming him for various societal issues. This narrative was created by Arthur Finkelstein and George Birnbaum.
- ⚠️ **Rising Anti-Semitism**: The conspiracy theories around Soros often contain antisemitic undertones, leading to violence like the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.
- 🔍 **Mainstreaming Conspiracies**: Prominent figures like Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump Jr., and Paul Gosar repeated conspiracy theories linking Soros to protests, migrant caravans, and various social issues.
- ❗ **Impact on Society**: The demonization of Soros reinforces dangerous narratives, causing real-world violence while diverting attention from genuine political issues.
Q & A
Who is Cody referring to as a 'news consigliere'?
-Cody is referring to himself as a 'news consigliere' in the script, using the term to position himself as an advisor to the audience on complex news stories, much like a counselor in Mafia terminology.
What is the significance of the metaphor involving 'sleeping with the news fishes'?
-The phrase 'sleeping with the news fishes' is a playful adaptation of the Mafia term 'sleeping with the fishes,' which means someone is dead or out of the game. Here, it's used to humorously suggest that certain news stories or issues may no longer be relevant or active.
Why does Cody bring up Daryl Hannah in his introduction?
-Cody brings up Daryl Hannah jokingly as a hypothetical shadowy figure behind societal ills, playing on her last name 'Hannah,' which is a palindrome, fitting his whimsical criteria for a mysterious presence.
How does the script characterize George Soros?
-The script portrays George Soros as a controversial figure often accused by conspiracy theorists of various global manipulations, like funding radical movements or aspiring for a one-world government, while also acknowledging his philanthropic contributions.
What role does antisemitism play in the criticisms against George Soros mentioned in the script?
-The script highlights that many of the criticisms and conspiracy theories surrounding George Soros are tinted with antisemitism, particularly those that unjustly accuse him of being a Nazi collaborator during World War II or manipulating global events for harmful purposes.
Why does Cody discuss Soros's contributions to progressive district attorney campaigns?
-Cody discusses Soros's contributions to progressive district attorney campaigns to illustrate a point about political financing and influence. He contrasts Soros's actions with other billionaires who also finance political causes, suggesting a double standard in how such contributions are perceived depending on political alignment.
What is the significance of the reference to the Open Society in the script?
-The Open Society, founded by George Soros, is mentioned to underscore his philanthropic philosophy which aims at fostering democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. This aligns with his broader vision of creating transparent, accountable societies that allow for broad participation in civic life.
How does Cody's portrayal of his childhood relate to his analysis of George Soros?
-Cody uses a humorous anecdote from his childhood, feeling unrecognized for his looks, as a segue into discussing how Soros, despite his significant influence and actions, often faces severe scrutiny and conspiracy theories, much like Cody felt overlooked.
What is the significance of the reference to Karl Popper by George Soros?
-Karl Popper influenced Soros's philosophical outlook, particularly the concept of the 'Open Society' which advocates for a liberal democratic order. Soros's admiration for Popper's ideals is foundational to his philanthropic endeavors and his support for open societies worldwide.
What does Cody's script suggest about the role of money in American politics?
-Cody's script criticizes the excessive influence of money in American politics, as exemplified by George Soros and other billionaires. It questions the ethics of billionaires using their wealth to shape political outcomes, suggesting this undermines the democratic process.
Outlines
📺 Introduction and Overview of George Soros Criticism
The script begins with a humorous introduction by the host, Cody, who sets a playful tone despite the complex topic of George Soros and his portrayal in the media. It quickly transitions into a discussion about the various conspiracies surrounding Soros, touching on accusations of him funding chaos and controlling political agendas. The introduction questions the validity of these criticisms and sets up a deeper exploration of Soros's actual influence and activities, suggesting that while some accusations seem far-fetched, there could be legitimate concerns about his impact on political and social arenas.
🌍 Background and Controversial Aspects of George Soros
This section dives into Soros's history, beginning with his birth in Budapest in 1930 and detailing his Jewish heritage, which he and his family downplayed to survive the Holocaust. It discusses the contentious claim that Soros collaborated with Nazis, a deeply flawed accusation based on his survival activities as a child. The narrative progresses through Soros’s immigration to England, his education at the London School of Economics, and his eventual move to the U.S. where he amassed significant wealth through finance, specifically highlighting his controversial role in the Black Wednesday financial crisis.
📈 Soros's Financial Strategies and Controversial Investments
This paragraph focuses on George Soros's financial maneuvers, particularly his involvement in major currency speculations like those during the Black Wednesday event and the Asian financial crisis. The narrative critiques his tactics, likening them to actions of a movie villain, and discusses the ethical implications of his strategies. It also touches on Soros’s philanthropic efforts, questioning the genuine benefits of these endeavors while detailing his significant financial contributions to various causes and his influence on global financial markets.
🏛 Political Influence and Media Narratives About Soros
The script explores Soros's involvement in American politics, particularly his financial contributions aimed at defeating George W. Bush in 2004. It discusses the backlash from conservative media, highlighting how figures like Bill O'Reilly and Fox News portrayed him as a radical influencer pushing a leftist agenda. This segment illustrates how Soros became a scapegoat for various political issues, with media often using his actions to fuel conspiracy theories about his influence over global politics.
🔍 Unpacking the Soros Conspiracy Theories
This section delves into the conspiracy theories surrounding Soros, especially the accusations amplified by right-wing media that paint him as a shadowy figure undermining societal norms. It references specific examples where Soros was blamed for orchestrating political events and discusses the impact of these theories on public perception and discourse. The segment aims to differentiate between legitimate scrutiny of Soros's actions and the unfounded conspiracies that often target him.
🌐 The Global Impact of Soros Conspiracy Theories
Focusing on the broader implications of Soros-related conspiracy theories, this paragraph examines how these narratives have been weaponized politically across different regions, particularly in Eastern Europe. It details the strategies used by political consultants to paint Soros as an enemy in campaigns, showing how such portrayals feed into and exacerbate anti-Semitic sentiments globally. The narrative connects these tactics to real-world political actions, such as those by Viktor Orban in Hungary.
🔚 Consequences and Future of Anti-Soros Sentiments
The conclusion of the script discusses the dangerous real-world consequences of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories surrounding Soros, linking them to specific acts of violence and terrorism, such as the Tree of Life synagogue shooting. It critiques the perpetuation of these theories by influential political figures and media outlets, stressing the harmful impact on societal cohesion and the distortion of democratic discourse. The script underscores the need for a critical examination of the narratives surrounding Soros and calls for a more fact-based discussion about his influence.
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Keywords
💡George Soros
💡Conspiracy Theories
💡Antisemitism
💡Political Funding
💡Open Society Foundations
💡Media Manipulation
💡Reflexivity
💡Populism
💡Philanthropy
💡Financial Speculation
Highlights
Introduction of Cody as a news consigliere discussing complex news disputes.
Use of metaphor comparing news conflicts to mafia disputes and deciding who needs to be 'news whacked'.
Dropping the mafia metaphor with a reference to Joe Pesci in 'Goodfellas'.
Introduction of George Soros and accusations of funding protests and aiming for chaos.
Allegations against Soros of wanting a one-world government and hating humanity.
Critique of Soros funding radical left-wing district attorneys and its impact on cities.
Exploration of Soros's history and childhood during Nazi occupation.
Soros's influence on financial markets and his approach to philanthropy.
Examination of Soros's involvement in political campaigns and its controversy.
Discussion of Soros's impact on global politics and economies.
Soros's depiction as a boogeyman by various political figures and media.
Examination of the consequences of demonizing Soros and its impact on society.
Link between anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Soros and real-world violence.
Exploration of how Soros has been made a scapegoat for various global issues.
Discussion of the potential future demonization of Alex Soros after George Soros.
Transcripts
(riveting music)
- Cracklin' Oat Bran! Blessings of Light!
Introduction!
Hi, it's Cody, your news consigliere,
here to advise you amongst the tricky,
multifaceted news mafia disputes.
Does someone need to get news whacked,
or can it be smoothed out by fuhgeddingaboudit?
Who has to sleep with the news fishes?
Man, those fishes are such harlots.
I can tell this is not a metaphor I'm
gonna be able to keep up,
so I'm going to just drop it like Joe Pesci
in "Goodfellas" should've dropped it
when Billy Batts kept bringing up his old shine box.
Remember movies? (sighs) Okay, enough foreplay.
Here's some news.
Let's say you can't just blame the mafia
for all of society's problems,
and you need another shadowy and mysterious presence,
someone you can point to as the culprit
behind any number of preconceived societal ills,
someone who hopefully has a palindromic last name.
So Daryl Hannah? Is it that fish harlot Daryl Hannah?
Harlibut?
- George Soros funds the Open Society.
The Open Society gives $15 million to these groups
that are protesting on behalf of Hamas.
- So what is Soros's goal here? I think just chaos.
- [Reporter] The reason is he's had a lifelong dream
of one world government, of elites redistributing wealth
and setting up rules for the rest of us.
- These hollowed out cities,
this is a symptom of America's decline,
and one of the biggest reasons
is 'cause you have George Soros
funding these radical left-wing district attorneys.
They get into office,
and they say they're not gonna prosecute crimes.
They disagree when the inmates start running the asylum.
- You said, "He wants to erode the very fabric
of civilization and Soros hates humanity."
Like when you do something like that, do you think about-
- I think that's true. That's my opinion.
- It's like he wants these cities to fall apart.
He wants crime to flourish.
It's almost like he's an evil person in a "Batman" movie.
- Wow, sure seems like this Juurge Surr-AHS,
I don't know, this guy is up to no good,
even being likened to an evil person
in a "Batman" movie by Joe Rogan.
Ooh, note to self,
come up with a simple term for evil person in a movie.
It's weird we don't have one of those yet.
Anywho, if you're just watching those clips,
it seems pretty hard to tell which criticisms
are legitimate and which are tinfoil hat stuff.
George Soros has been accused of everything
from helping the Nazis during World War II
to plotting the overthrow of the US government.
Without looking it up,
I'm guessing he's why the earth is secretly flat,
which it is!
So, hey, let's look into those accusations because,
even if a lot of them aren't true,
maybe he is actually secretly funding things
that most of us wouldn't care for, right?
After all, George Soros is a billionaire
whom I don't think are our friends,
and billionaires tend to put a lot of their money
toward philanthropic efforts, though, in many cases,
those philanthropic efforts don't actually do anything good,
not to mention that George Soros
has donated money to the campaigns
of progressive district attorney candidates,
which is what Ron DeSantis was getting at there
during his, cue the sad trombone, campaign for president.
You're not gonna do the sound?
Well, now it's too late, so what do, what?
(paper crumples)
Of course, those Soros donations don't seem any different
from how, for example, wealthy Silicon Valley goons
like David Sachs pumped money into recall campaigns
against progressive DAs.
For DeSantis, it seems like he's just targeting Soros
for giving money to political causes that he doesn't like
because he's expressed no concern whatsoever
over the dozens of billionaires who've donated
to his various campaigns over the years
because why would he?
So maybe the problem here
is that money has too much influence in politics,
and we shouldn't want any billionaire trying
to buy any political office,
but that's just one of the dozens
of allegations made about this old withered fart,
and it is kind of the most normal one,
which is why I started there, but, of course,
we have a lot more episode ahead of us.
Oh, look, it's the episode up ahead coming at ya!
Beep beep. Okay, so who is George Soros really?
How did he make his money? Where does he keep the money?
Is it secure or easy to access?
What kind of things does he support?
How did he become the rights boogeyman or,
if you prefer, bogeyman?
Could I get in the same room with his money,
and how much antisemitism are we going
to uncover in finding out?
Spoiler alert for this episode, lots!
(dark unsettling ethereal music)
Okay, that one was for me. Cue the real title.
(dark dramatic music)
"George Soros: What's Like His Whole Deal?" Nice.
I love a this frigging guy episode
where we talk about a frigging guy,
not like what pundits might be saying about him
but his actual background,
who he actually is and what he stands for.
He was born right here on Earth in Budapest
or Budapesht if you prefer, Hungary or Hungry if you prefer,
in 1930 or, that's it, 1930,
a time before the invention of the modern toothbrush.
Before that, people brushed their teeth
with bristles made from animal hair
or I assume just scraped their teeth up against a washboard
or whatever else was lying around at the time,
cigarette butts, probably.
His family was Jewish,
but as with many well off Hungarian Jews at the time,
they tended to shy away from their roots.
The young George Soros, quote,
"beamed when other children would tell him,
'You don't look Jewish.'
Nothing made him feel happier than to be told he
did not have the appearance of a Jew."
Later in life, he even jokingly told other people
that he grew up in a Jewish antisemitic home.
This kind of thing wasn't uncommon
among minority Jewish populations in Europe,
especially as antisemitism was on the rise at the time.
His family even changed their last name
from Schwartz to Soros in 1936.
This isn't very important,
but a childhood friend described young Soros
as "a very pretty little boy,"
a real weird ass compliment that none
of my childhood friends ever used to describe me!
I'm looking at you, Kyle Dietrich!
Was I not pretty enough, Kyle?
Was I not pretty enough for you, Kyle?
(beep) you, Kyle! I'm so, ugh, I did my best.
At any rate, Soros may not have been a practicing Jew,
but that kind of thing didn't really matter much
to the Nazis who invaded an occupied Hungary in March 1944.
For you younger viewers,
invading and occupying other nations
are things Nazis used to do before they
were able to get Disney World season passes
and run social media sites.
Instead of fleeing Hungary,
Soros and his family survived the war
by obtaining forged documents suggesting they were Christian
and he even briefly posed as the godson of a man
who worked for Hungary's Ministry of Agriculture,
no beard growing or Nazi coat wearing necessary.
Soros's documents bore the name Sandor Kiss,
and in 1944, he accompanied his phony godfather
to the estate of a wealthy Jew
who had used his influence to flee the country.
This is where we get the Nazi collaborator rumor
because that fake godfather was there
to inventory the valuables left behind for Nazis to steal
with a 13-year-old Soros along for the ride.
So yeah, not exactly a member of the Schutzstaffel.
He was a kid who was only there
because he was hiding from the Nazis,
but despite very obviously not being a Nazi collaborator,
this story has been used against him.
In 2018, Roseanne Barr would claim that he, quote,
"turned in his fellow Jews to be murdered
in German concentration camps and stole their wealth."
That didn't happen and is a very silly thing to say.
She did apologize for tweeting that
after she was fired from her show
for a bunch of other offensive tweets.
Can you believe "The Conners" has been on for six seasons?
Network TV, man. It's like another world out there.
Anyway, if you're wondering how such a falsehood
could spin out of control, I have to point out that,
in the interest of being fair like a maiden
and balanced like a balanced maiden,
that Soros himself appeared at best unprepared
for questions about that 1944 incident
during a "60 Minutes" interview in 1998.
- I mean, that sounds like an experience
that would send lots of people
to the psychiatric couch for many, many years.
Was it difficult?
- No, not at all, not at all.
- Yeah, so the reason confiscating a bunch
of Jewish property wouldn't have sent him
to the psychiatric couch is,
I'd reckon, because he didn't do that.
Again, he was 13. They didn't put him to work.
He was too busy listening to The Verve Pipe
and hiding erections.
I mean, sure, whether that clip has selective editing
or if Soros genuinely didn't recognize
how he was coming off, it doesn't make him look great,
but that one kind of weird interview
from more than 25 years ago is largely responsible
for the narrative that he helped the Nazis
or even is a Nazi, even though,
really can't stress this enough,
he was a Jew hiding from the Nazis during this time.
Remember that scene in the "Zone of Interest"
where the Nazis are discussing the logistics
of exterminating Hungary's 700,000 Jews?
That included 13-year-old George Soros,
not by name, but he was included, and don't worry.
That isn't one of those scenes
that is apparently impossible to interpret,
but let's keep going with Soros's youth
as we've got plenty of brain worms to dig from the muck!
Got one! Oh, get in there!
Oh, ha! All right, here we go.
Soros and his family had some close calls
during the Nazi occupation but survived until Soviet
and Romanian forces liberated Budapest in early 1945.
The same couldn't be said for hundreds of thousands
of other Hungarian Jews executed in labor camps
or killed during the siege.
Having wealth and connections undoubtedly
helped his family survive,
and Soros wouldn't have been able to go on
to make a squillion dollars had it not been
for forged and purchased identities.
In 1947, shortly after turning 17,
he left for England and ultimately studied
at the London School of Economics,
where he was mentored by Karl Popper,
an influential philosopher who coined the phrase,
"Suck it in, suck it in, suck it in.
If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn,
make a desperate move."
That's the guy from Blues Traveler, I think.
Wait, is he the same guy? There's no way to know.
Anyway, along with forming Blues Traveler,
Karl Popper promoted the idea of the Open Society,
which is kind of what it sounds like,
that individuals should be free to decide
how to live their lives without being repressed
by a fascist or totalitarian government,
in essence, a pluralist liberal democracy.
For someone like George Soros
who'd spent his teen years changing identities
and fearing for his life because he was Jewish,
this sounded pretty good.
It wasn't fascism, but it certainly wasn't socialism either.
So in 1956, Soros moved to a place that seemed
to hate both of those things, the United States or,
more specifically, New York City,
the apple of unusual size for an apple.
He planned to work on Wall Street for five years,
saved $500,000,
which is more than five million in today's Simoleons,
and then go back to the UK to be a philosopher.
Ha! The frivolities of youth.
(riveting music)
Yes, it seems as if Soros liked money too much
to spend his time philosophizing,
or he realized perhaps he could do both,
the money thing and the thinking about stuff thing,
and he credits his remarkable success
in finance to the idea of reflexivity,
that there are feedback loops based
on economic decisions people make due to a perception
of the market that end up impacting the market itself.
Does that make sense? It doesn't to me.
Probably why I'm not rich, and the gambling.
Here's how Soros describes it.
Quote, "In situations that have thinking participants,
the participants' view of the world
is always partial and distorted.
That is the principle of fallibility.
The other is that these distorted views
can influence the situation to which they relate
because false views lead to inappropriate actions.
That is the principle of reflexivity.
For instance, treating drug addicts
as criminals creates criminal behavior.
It misconstrues the problem and interferes
with the proper treatment of addicts."
Wow. Well, he's right about that.
It's weird when a billionaire
is right about a societal problem.
It's jarring even. I am jarred right now!
And when it comes to using this idea to make money,
he wasn't just whistling Dixie,
or, as they call it in Hungary,
whistling the Mecsek mountain range.
After bouncing around as an arbitrage trader
and then a VP at various firms,
he founded Soros Fund Management in 1970,
which was later renamed Quantum Fund,
and we're going to skip ahead a bit here to the 1990s,
not just because a hedge fund manager
slowly making millions isn't that interesting
but because we don't have Margot Robbie
in a bathtub to explain how it all works.
I mean, we have Margot Robbie standing just off camera.
I just don't have a bathtub. Go home, Margot!
Margot stinking Robbie, you stink!
Go home! Get out of here!
Pee-pew, Margot!
Just, she's always hanging around in the set.
Why, like pee-pew!
See, that's why they put her in the bath,
because she's stinky.
(items clatter off set)
You smell, Margot.
But what's really important here are two events
in the Pearl Jammin' 90s that took him
from millionaire to billionaire and made him one
of the most successful currency speculators of all time.
I'm going to talk through all of this
but will not get in a bathtub!
The water burns us.
First, in 1990,
Britain joined the European exchange rate mechanism,
AKA, the ERM, which fixed the exchange rates
of European currencies to the German mark,
a step toward transitioning toward the euro,
a single currency for the entire continent.
This ended up being a bad idea for a number
of reasons we will not get into here
lest we ask this guy to crawl out of his K hole,
which we're not gonna do.
But George Soros greatly profited
by taking a $1 billion short position on the British pound.
Other investors did this as well
but none as aggressively as Soros.
Basically, his fund borrowed a jolly good trove of pounds
and sold them for other more stable currencies.
This helped drive demand for those currencies up
as well as the supply of the pound, and, before you know it,
Bob's your uncle, bagsy-skint, chinwag,
you've chuffed the (beep).
Britain can't afford to prop up its currency.
It has to withdraw from the ERM,
and the value of the pound plummeted like a dodgy old,
I don't know in it,
and Soros is said to have broken the Bank of England
on what became known as Black Wednesday.
He made a billion dollars that day
by aggressively putting pressure on an unstable currency.
Does this mean he caused it himself?
Well, he wasn't the one who made some
of the bad economic decisions in the first place,
hat tip to Margaret Thatcher there and yeah,
tap it to the hat, cheery hat maiden,
but he did egg it all on.
He was like the Jack Nicholson nodding meme,
and he greatly profited from what would result
in high unemployment and cuts to the UK's welfare system.
Now, you could argue, as some have,
that Black Wednesday was ultimately good for the UK
in that it allowed for lower interest rates
and increased growth in the decades that followed.
On the other hand, perhaps betting on the financial ruin
of 60 million people is bad, like a bad evil thing to do,
but I guess that depends on who you ask,
for example, if you asked a billionaire or not.
(riveting music)
A similar thing happened in our second event,
the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
This was a series of currency devaluations
that started in Thailand and then spread to countries
like Malaysia, South Korea, and Indonesia,
though the causes of this crisis are less agreed upon.
Again, speculative investors thought Thailand
was over leveraged and doubted its currency strength
while fixed to the US dollar.
This time, however, the leaders of some
of those Asian countries directly blamed Soros
for what happened.
Malaysian authoritarian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad
called him a "moron"
who had intentionally destroyed his nation's economy
for financial gain.
He also incidentally called Soros a Jew a bunch of times.
Not sure how that's relevant,
but we'll put a little SS pin in that for now.
While Soros agreed that his funds focused
on these teetering currencies,
he claimed his actually gave Malaysia a softer landing
than it would've had otherwise.
Mahathir, who is also still alive at 98, by the way,
note to self to check on that before we release this video.
Put on screen if he's still alive.
He said that currency trading should be banned
to prevent these kinds of economic crises.
George Soros unsurprisingly came out against that idea.
So that's the first part of this whole story.
The guy became massively wealthy
by betting against weak currencies
and used large infusions of capital
to exacerbate those currency failures probably.
Money's fake.
I could be saying anything right now, actually.
I'll check with the bathtub.
But it's not exactly a good thing to do.
It's kind of something in like an evil person
in a movie would do.
We gotta think of a better word for that. Okay.
Of course, he has also spent $32 billion on philanthropy
through his foundation in the past few decades,
according to that foundation,
not that that's necessarily good either.
So after the break, we're gonna take a look
at what all of that money has gone toward
and how he became the right wing's monster of the week,
sorry, wait, century.
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The hook brings you back!
We were talking about George Soros,
a relatively low profile billionaire,
given that he doesn't own a platform famous
for being the place people go to write,
"She ebbin' on my neezer till I Scrooge."
At any rate, once he became very wealthy,
it was time to put some effort
into that whole Open Society dilly he had learned
from the guy from Rusted Root or whatever.
Specifically, he wanted to fund efforts
to promote open societies in Eastern Europe,
back when most Eastern European nations were either part of
or heavily influenced by the Soviet Union.
Remember, no matter what you've heard
from Timberland Crucklesby,
George Soros isn't a communist
and notably doesn't like communism.
He started his first Open Society Foundation
in his native Hungary in 1984.
1984! It's just like 1984.
Helping to improve communication in the communist country
by importing hundreds of photocopiers,
which allowed for the spreading
of previously banned literature.
The foundation funded local universities
and their student journals and even paid
for activist students to study abroad.
One of those students
was current Hungarian authoritarian strongman Viktor Orban,
a tidbit you may remember from our Hungary episode,
one of those reflexivity/unintended consequences
type things.
Foreshadowing!
Be careful who you educate
as they may just be the next Darth Sidious, et cetera.
Darth Baddo.
Soros established similar anti-communist foundations
throughout the 1980s in places like China, the Soviet Union,
and Poland, hoping to foster a new generation
of free thinkers and earning rave reviews
from many Republicans who liked that he was aligned
with final boss Ronald Reagan against communism.
(riveting music)
By the 1990s, Soros had announced his intentions
to make contributions toward domestic programs
in the United States, including drug reform
and decreasing political advertising on television.
Starting in 1994, oh my, oh!
He put tens of millions of dollars toward efforts
to legalize and decriminalize drugs,
probably because of that thing he said earlier
where criminalizing drugs doesn't do anything
except turn people into criminals.
Good idea.
We're not keeping score here, but if we were,
he'd get a Cody Buck, which is what I call points.
It's an imperfect system. I should change the name of stuff.
He was still not a mainstream name
to conservative media folk,
but this is where the rumblings began.
In the late 90s, eight-time presidential non-factor
and conspirator fascist Lyndon LaRouche put out a series
of articles referring to "Soros the Golem"
and calling him "the queen's drug pusher."
Now look, we will be here for a long time
if I start going through every example
of antisemitic imagery and speculative skull
and bone style connect the dots theorizing.
So let's just say that LaRouche repeated the Soros
was a Nazi lie and devoted several paragraphs
to the Rothschild connection,
and you could purchase a full report on him
for the low, low price of $100 for a report on Soros!
God, that's in 90s money!
You could've bought like nine Spin Doctors albums for that.
Around the same time,
Soros himself was getting more involved politically,
not just donating to causes and starting foundations
but meeting with and attempting
to influence politicians himself.
But far from being a puppet master pulling all the strings,
he was initially viewed with some skepticism,
especially when it came to his opinion on foreign relations.
According to one Clinton administration official in 1995,
quote, "Sometimes his speeches
and articles are overly idealistic.
In that sense, people take him with a grain of salt."
The image you that from reading about Soros in this time
is of a guy who desperately wants to have the amount
of influence that people in later decades
would attribute to him.
Kinda like Elon Musk today, he got super rich,
was credited as one of the world's great financial analysts,
and wanted others to know his ideas.
Remember, he wanted to be a philosopher
like Socrates or Descartes or Nietzsche.
He's written a bunch of books trying
to spread these ideas to the masses.
The fact that he's been at it for decades
and our country is still teetering on the brink of fascism
is kind of evidence that he hasn't been nearly
as influential as all those people
at the beginning would have you believe.
It's also kind of interesting how,
when a person gets really rich,
they think their opinions are suddenly important,
even if they're bad opinions,
like the opinions of an evil person in a movie,
and I guess it's a little reassuring that these people
don't have as much power as we seem to think.
It's also worth noting that the early criticism
of Soros's public activities weren't all from the right.
According to "Reason" magazine books editor Jesse Walker,
quote, "I first started encountering anti-Soros invective
in the 1990s.
Interestingly, it was coming from the left.
People were worried that he was buying up the movement or,
in a less conspiratorial vein, that the possibility
of chasing Soros dollars
would distort the independent left's activities."
In hindsight, it may have been a good idea to tell activists
and political groups on the left
to take as much money as you can!
In the future, we lose all of our journalists,
and right-wing media has a seemingly endless supply
of money.
Like we joke about cashing the Soros checks now,
but please, 90s leftists, take the Soros money!
Also watch out for 9/11.
I will let you guess what that means.
But as we inched into the current Willennium,
we got closer to the right-wing boogeymanification
of George Soros,
the transition from ordinary piece of (beep) billionaire
to the fantasy of a murderous demon (beep) billionaire
intent on world domination.
Think of George Soros as Walter White
in season one of "Breaking Bad"
and the American right-wing's conception of him
as Walter White in seasons three through five.
Season one Walter White was not exactly a good guy,
but season five Walter White is an all-time evil guy
in a movie, in a TV show, an evil guy,
an evil character like the opposite of the good guy.
(beep) We'll get there.
George's most direct entry into US politics came
in late 2003 when he committed more than $15 million
towards efforts to defeat the reelection of George W Bush.
After reexamination, maybe that money
would've been better spent building a giant cannon
and firing whatever was left over directly toward the sun.
Bush ended up winning reelection since his opponent
was tragically a half sentient jar of mustard.
He gurgled, but we simply couldn't hear his words.
Alas, if only he gurgled more articulately.
Nevertheless,
Republicans did not like some billionaire elite
waving his money around trying
to influence a presidential election.
That's their job, which they did very well
by financing a discredited group
to say the dry mustard jar was bad at war.
The Republican House speaker, Dennis Hastert,
a man whose name you really should Bing
if you don't know it, went on Fox News at the time
to (beep) talk Soros, saying,
"You know, I don't know where George Soros gets his money.
I don't know where, if it comes overseas
or from drug groups or where it comes from."
(laughs) Drug groups.
Very odd thing to say
since the source of Soros's money wasn't a secret.
We talked about it earlier in this video.
Also, again, drug groups? What are drug groups?
Just seems like Dennis Hastert is just admitting
that he doesn't know how to look stuff up.
Hey, what was the source of your money, Dennis?
Oh, right, hundreds of thousands of dollars
of pension checks you took until you were finally cut off
for being a convicted child sex offender.
Like I said, Bing the guy. Just don't let him Bing you.
You know what I'm saying? Because of the sex offenses.
Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert.
Despite the increasing attacks,
however, Soros was not dissuaded.
He and other progressive millionaires and billionaires,
still licking their gold-plated wounds
from Bush's reelection,
pooled their money into the Democracy Alliance,
which would fund liberal think tanks and other groups.
Media Matters for America, which was brand new at the time,
received a huge influx of funding.
He also paid Republicans, by the way,
when it suited his aims,
but it's the Media Matters stuff
that drew the ire of Bill O'Reilly,
an Erlenmeyer flask
of distilled Irish American anger and resentment.
He didn't like that Media Matters
would take the bold Commie action
of accurately reporting the things he said
on his TV and radio shows.
He lashed out at Media Matters frequently in this era,
and you can understand why.
A media organization taking money from rich people
to report things exclusively from their point of view?
That's their job! How dare you do the us thing to us?
This culminated in a 2007 segment on "The O'Reilly Factor"
that pointed the finger at Soros specifically,
and it may have been the first time
most everyday John Q Republicans heard his name.
- Factor
has been investigating far left billionaire George Soros,
a man who wants to impose a radical left agenda on America,
and under the radar, he is making great progress.
Soros has set up a complicated political operation designed
to do two things,
buy influence among some liberal politicians
and smear people with whom he disagrees.
Now, here's a chart of how Soros
and a few other wealthy radicals who help him
are funneling money into the political process.
Stay with me on this.
- Okay, Bill, I'll stay with you,
but those are a lot of arrows, I gotta tell ya.
I typically have a four arrow limit,
and if you're asking your audience to "stay with me on this"
in the first minute of a segment, usually not a good sign.
Bill, ugh, are you still alive,
or are you the dead Fox News guy?
Ah, probably still alive.
But the stuff he's saying with all those arrows,
of course, not very complicated.
Soros was a billionaire who gave his money
to a bunch of different advocacy groups,
some of which were giving money
to a website that he didn't like.
Again, I don't disagree that wealthy financiers
have too much influence in politics,
but guys like O'Reilly were trying to have it both ways,
criticizing Soros-linked groups for funding Media Matters
but giving the Koch brothers a pass on their financing
of things like The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute,
and Americans for Prosperity, a group
that literally funded the freaking Tea Party movement.
None of this is complicated.
It's just money going to things,
and people like to pick which money
is bad or shady based on where it's going.
O'Reilly even said there weren't shadowy figures
behind the Tea Party, unlike Soros and these MoveOn people.
He's just picking and choosing because suddenly,
somebody was reporting negatively on things he said.
I mean, Democracy Alliance was directly modeled
after the Koch network.
They're the same things, just with different political aims,
but I'm sorry, Bill, I got ahead of myself.
I was staying with you on this.
- [Bill] Finally, George Soros
has given the radical left organization MoveOn many,
many millions of dollars.
This group actively supports liberal politicians
like Howard Dean and John Edwards.
It also organizes demonstrations promoting left-wing causes.
- Ah, yes, radical left-wing organizations supporting,
wait, that, really?
We're, I'm, okay. Howard Dean and John Edwards?
I'm double checking. Hold on.
Yeah. Howard Dean and John Edwards?
Apparently, Soros supported Maoist mouth foamers Howard Dean
and John Edwards.
So yeah, he's not really pointing out anything worthy
of all those conspiracy arrows.
It's not a conspiracy if it's just
what we allow people to do with money,
though I guess you can say someone is supporting radicals
if you put the word radicals before the name.
Like did you hear that Kickstarter is helping
to support the radical "Mystery Science Theater 3000"?
Unbelievable!
So what we actually learned here
is that advocacy groups exist,
and those groups often get funding from rich people.
Incidentally, this was the earliest incident we could find
of the Soros pays for left-wing protest thing
that has followed pretty much every left
of center protest for the past 15 years,
all because one of his groups gave money
to MoveOn once in 2004.
Okay, Bill, let's continue. Any big reveals?
- In the weeks to come,
we'll have more on Soros and his operations,
including naming more of the mainstream media
that is actively helping him,
which includes Rosie O'Donnell.
♪ Dun dun dun ♪ (thunder cracks)
- So breaches the scaly head of the great serpent!
George Soros was funding Rosie O'Donnell!
Can you believe it, that he was really wasting his money?
He was pumping millions into boosting the profiles
of Howard Dean, John Edwards, and Rosie O'Donnell,
people all of our viewers under 25
are I'm sure intimately familiar with.
I want to emphasize here that I'm not supporting this
so much as pointing out that Soros
wasn't only doing this political wheeling
and dealing during this time.
He was still doing regular old (beep) billionaire stuff,
like being convicted in France of insider trading
and fined more than $2 million,
a decision he appealed and lost.
Wow, two whole million he had to pay! Oh my stars!
Even into his golden years in which he has objectively been
since a white guy could have this hairstyle
and be considered a sex icon, he just wanted to make money.
My point is that there has always been legitimate stuff
worth criticizing about Soros or any billionaire,
especially one that involves themselves in politics,
but O'Reilly really wanted people to see this
as some kind of "X-Files"-level conspiracy,
when in reality he's just explaining how rich people work.
So, okay, Bill, we gotta move on.
Anything else you've got for us?
- He set his sights on changing the basic fabric
of this country. - Well, that's right.
George Soros is really the Dr. Evil
of the whole world of left-wing foundations.
In fact, one of his most chilling quotes a few years ago
was that the main obstacle to a stable
and just world is the United States.
He really hates this country.
- Okay, let's settle down.
To be fair but not balanced,
that is a paraphrasing of a real Soros quote
from one of his books,
but it was specifically criticizing the Bush administration.
So the O'Reilly segment was stupid
and didn't really reveal anything about Soros,
but it's important to point out
that there was nothing antisemitic in it.
Nobody on the show mentioned that Soros was Jewish
or implied anything conspiratorial based on that fact.
That seems like a pretty low bar,
but you'll have to keep that in mind
as we transition into the 2010s
when Glenn Beck hosted a series of episodes on his show
under the banner "Exposing George Soros: The Puppet Master?"
Remember Glenn? Is he the dead one?
(tense brooding music)
(heartbeat thuds and echoes)
Oh man, please be the dead one.
No? Dammit! (beep)
Also, wow, like wow,
and that was just the preview of his episode.
I mean, okay, did that explicitly say that Soros
is an evil Jew manipulating the new world order?
No.
In fact, I'm not even really sure what it's implying,
that Soros is a bad Jew or antisemitic himself.
Regardless, the imagery in there is not good,
although that quote in the segment
about not wanting to be a part of a Jewish ethnostate
is also a real George Soros quote.
So I'm sure the rest of Glenn Beck's 2010 Soros video
will be totally fair and not unhinged at all.
We're going to talk next about Glenn's little video there
and what his and the right's big accusation is,
specifically the idea that George Soros
is trying to take over the entire world right
after we get through the global cabal
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(riveting music)
We're back, we as in me, Cody and the shadowy puppeteer
who shall remain nameless but also will be named
as George Soros, master of puppets,
the saint of anger, the ride of the lightning.
Before the break,
we showed you clips from some totally hinged episodes
of "The O'Reilly Factor"
and the imaginarium of Dr. Glenn Beck,
and while O'Reilly set the table,
it's Glenn Beck who took that first steamy dump
that elevated Soros from an evil leftist rich dude
to a Skeletor level super evil guy in a movie.
Gotta think of a new word.
So what is his big terrifying plan?
Let's watch a clip from Glenn Beck's big unmasking special.
- On this program for the last couple of years,
we've been telling you about the people and the places
and the things that you had never even considered before,
or at least I hadn't.
Most people hadn't, and I told you that there
was a structure being put into place in our country,
and it was designed
to bring about the fundamental transformation
that has been promised.
Through the course of this journey of discovery,
amazingly, all the paths, time after time,
really led to one man, George Soros, one guy.
There's a crisis collapsing our economy, George Soros.
When the administration, the progressives look
for a savior to step in and save the day, George Soros.
He makes predictions,
and his loyal followers make sure they come true.
He's pulled no punches about the end game.
It's one world government,
the end of America's status as the prevailing world power.
But why? - But why?
What a terrifying end game of unity?
Like a "Star Trek" united Earth?
I guess the idea is that it's totalitarian
or something like that.
It's just funny how the little squirrel man presents it.
Anyway, it's that for a half hour.
Beck goes back and forth to his chalkboard,
talking about groups that have received funding
from Soros affiliates and extrapolating based on,
I don't know, the wind that Soros was days away
from establishing a borderless, anarchist,
nationwide heroin riot because he
was apparently giving orders to Barack Obama.
Beck insinuates in this episode
that Soros is the one who convinced Obama
to push for an additional stimulus package
during the financial crisis
because of some interview he gave to Der Spiegel.
But, of course, most economists at the time widely
said such a measure was necessary
and argued that the $787 billion bill didn't go far enough.
You can debate whether or not that bill was effective,
but to suggest that Soros was pulling all the strings just
because he agreed with everyone
except congressional Republicans that stimulus
was necessary, it's quite a stretch.
It's like crediting myself
for a new "Mad Max" movie getting made
because I said out loud,
"Hey, they should make another one of those."
Everybody said that,
and this is officially where things begin
to go a little bit off the rails
and the Soros conspiracy goes global.
That's right. Glenn Beck is still technically on the rails.
The use of Soros as an overall Mr. Boogie deepened
in the 2010s due to people with pretty nefarious intent
to the point where even many of Soros's employees wondered
what the hell was going on,
and to understand what, in fact, is going on,
we need to look at two political operatives
named George Birnbaum and Arthur Finkelstein.
And before I go any further, I know what you're saying.
Is Cody Equanimous St. Johnston pointing the finger
at two shadowy Jewish figures and accusing them
of conspiring to influence political elections
around the world?
The answer is yes.
(riveting music)
No! What did, why would you, I'm not, that, why would?
I'm just, look, I am pointing to two political figures
who happen to be Jewish, but,
unlike the dabblers in Soros's conspiracy theories,
we aren't suggesting that their Jewishness has anything
to do with those actions and are, in fact,
coming out right now and saying
that the bad things these guys did
are because they're ass (beep) completely unrelated
to their religion and or ethnic background.
I just wanna make that clear
because the political campaigns run by Birnbaum
and Finkelstein absolutely were anti-Semitic
and utilized prejudice against Jews for their benefit.
These two dudes developed a certain way
of running political campaigns,
which proved to be very successful.
They recognized that most voters are decided from the get go
and the way to win elections
is to brutally attack an opponent
so that their voters are demoralized and stay home,
otherwise known as, I guess, bullying.
This "BuzzFeed" news article,
which combed through a ton of political history
and is really worth reading in full
for the gross nerds who do that kind of thing,
credits this strategy with a number
of political victories over the last several decades.
Notably, Donald Trump seemed
to inherently understand this strategy in effect
when he thanked black voters who stayed home
and didn't vote at all in 2016.
- And the African American community was great to us.
They came through bigly, bigly.
(audience cheers and applauds)
And frankly, if they had any doubt,
they didn't vote, and that was almost as good
because a lot of people didn't show up.
- Yeah, that's not how we should want democracy to work.
Seems bad and also the primary way elections go now.
Anyway, these two guys didn't invent mud slinging
or focusing on negativity in political campaigns,
but they did fine tune the process, put it into practice,
and then tell everyone about it.
Birnbaum and Finkelstein insist
that every successful campaign needs an enemy.
That enemy can be your opponent
or someone you're trying to connect to them,
and then you make the election about that
and claim something very scary will happen
if you allow them to succeed.
First, Finkelstein
helped Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rise
to power in the mid 1990s by framing the election
as a referendum on social Democrat Shimon Peres,
suggesting that Peres planned to split Jerusalem
during peace negotiations with Palestinians.
Though Peres denied this,
it forced him to run his campaign on Netanyahu's terms,
on the defensive, and he lost by less than 30,000 votes.
Womp, womp for the last three decades, I guess,
womp being the sound of a bomb hitting a refugee camp.
Finkelstein set up his protege Birnbaum
as Netanyahu's chief of staff, and a partnership was formed.
More than a decade later,
Netanyahu introduced the pair to Viktor Orban.
Hey, I remember Orban!
Who needed a decisive reelection strategy for 2014.
Unlike other elections, however,
there was no obvious enemy to focus on.
As we discussed in our Hungary episode,
Orban's bonds prior victory had been so decisive
that his political opposition was in shambles.
There simply wasn't an easy target like a Hillary
or 80s guy in tank to scare people,
so Finkelstein and Birnbaum pitched Orban
on a mysterious foreign enemy
around whom he could blame the campaign, George Soros.
Despite being very old, not having lived in Hungary
for decades, helping Victor Orban study at Oxford,
and, like most Hungarians,
being a well-known anti-communist,
using Soros as the target made a lot of sense.
He was at this point most well known
as a currency manipulator
and a funder of democratic groups in the United States.
He also couldn't fight back, according to Birnbaum,
or else that would legitimize the attacks in the first place
and set him up as a real physical opponent.
You might notice that you've never really seen Soros
on Fox News or "Bill Maher"
or anywhere else trying to defend himself.
Orban's campaigns in the 2010s painted any organization
that had ever received money from a Soros group
as Soros controlled.
Orban himself said that Hungary was under attack from,
quote, "an enemy that is different from us
who does not believe in working but speculates with money."
Now, he never specifically called him a Jew,
and Birnbaum told a Swiss magazine that Soros being Jewish
was irrelevant to their plans, but come on, guys.
You know how this goes.
That's what makes two Jewish Americans' involvement
in this entire story ironic.
They probably didn't know how far it would go,
but they had to have known what button they were pressing.
For example, here's an anti-Soros poster from Hungary
in 2017 over which someone has written budos zsido,
which means dirty Jew.
Orban didn't have to say it to make it clear
what he was implying,
and other people did the work for them,
people like Benjamin Netanyahu's son
who posted this totally easy to follow meme in 2017,
which shows Soros controlling Space Godzilla,
who himself controls Freemason Palpatine,
who in turn controls Randy Newman, Moby,
and blurry Dylan McDermott, who I call Dylan McBlurmott.
Really super compelling stuff.
(riveting music)
And that pretty much brings us to the present.
This campaign that made Soros the shadowy enemy
in Eastern Europe has taken on a life of its own,
and he's now accused of being
behind nearly every tragedy, real or fictional.
Literally search X the everything app for Soros
and anything that has happened in the last 20 years.
Soros employed Derek Chauvin,
who was actually a CIA hitman
who carried out Sandy Hook and the Boston bombing.
Soros made money off the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.
Anything bad with Boeing planes, that is Soros.
He's the puppet master of all the Democrats
but especially the Jewish ones.
He's manipulating all the voting machines,
but he also controls the detection system
to root out voter fraud.
He's behind the Trump trials.
He's playing one side against the other,
in bed with everybody.
He's a Nazi and a Jew. He's responsible for everything!
The alpha and Omega. He is legend.
Good lord, and we could write this off
as a bunch of fringe weirdos online
if these weren't the fringe weirdos in question.
- We can't fight the enemy if we won't call 'em by name,
and these are communists,
American communists in Chicago that are taking loads
of money from George Soros and others.
- People don't really understand the degree
to which George Soros is successfully remaking this country,
and they should understand.
- I'm glad that you're- - Thanks very much.
- You're welcome.
I'm glad that you're raising awareness about it.
- Kind of hard to call people fringe
when they have huge national ratings is my point.
And just to be clear,
I don't really care about George Soros.
I mean, he is really rich and involved in politics,
which is bad, but he's also really old,
so the issue will fix itself.
This episode is not really about poor old George Soros.
It's about the real life dangers that come from
making a global anti-Semitic conspiracy theory mainstream.
For example, in October 2018,
a Florida man mailed pipe bombs to prominent Democrats,
actor Robert De Niro, for some reason, and Soros.
He tweeted, "You'll vanish," to Soros,
who was a frequently memed topic
on his social media profiles.
That same month, a 46-year-old man from Baldwin,
Pennsylvania opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue
in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people and injuring six others.
The shooter regularly
reposted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on Gab,
suggesting that a sinister group of wealthy Jews
were responsible for the migrant caravan
at the southern border, which he referred to as an invasion.
Just before the attack, he wrote that "HIAS,"
referring to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, quote,
"likes to bring invaders in that kill our people.
I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered.
Screw your optics. I'm going in."
In the weeks before the attack,
the lie that George Soros was somehow
behind the migrant caravan was repeated
by representative Matt Gaetz in a post
that was retweeted by Donald Trump, Jr.
It was repeated by Anne Coulter, Jack Posobiec,
and strongly hinted at
by Texas representative Louis Gohmert.
- I can't help but think that the Democrats, perhaps Soros,
others may be funding this, thinking it's gonna help them,
but they're gonna be surprised.
- Ah, yes.
Whenever a lot of Central American migrants
are heading toward the US border,
that's always been a really great thing for Democrats,
Louis, you (beep) potato.
The Tree of Life shooting took place five days
after that interview,
but since the 2018 midterms were the following week,
Republicans didn't want to give up that messaging,
and this conspiracy that the migrant caravan
was funded by a Jewish cabal led by Soros kept going.
- A lot of these folks also have affiliates
who are getting money
from the Soros-occupied State Department.
(people shout indistinctly)
- I wouldn't be surprised, yeah. I wouldn't be surprised.
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised.
A lot of people say yes. - A lot of people say yes.
Nobody knows what they're talking about, of course,
but yes, Mr. President, a lot of people said that.
A lot of people, it turns out,
subscribe to the great replacement theory,
the racist and obviously incorrect idea we've talked
about plenty of times before that Jews are trying
to replace red-blooded, chicken-fried,
corn cream fed white Americans with Latino migrants,
you know, the thing that these guys were ranting about.
Anyway, you will not be surprised to learn that,
soon after the election,
people stopped talking about the migrants,
but you can see the danger here.
Soros is now just a set of jangling keys
that Republicans can throw out
whenever they want to scare people.
"The Washington Times" says he's on a quest
to destroy America.
He's building a TikTok army!
Arizona representative Paul Gosar suggested
that he funded both the neo-Nazis
and counter protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He's behind every protest.
- This demonstration on Columbia's grounds
and all over America is being financed by Soros
and other people
- And the CCP! - that hate America.
- It literally doesn't matter to them
that he's 93 years old!
He's so old that Reuters accidentally published an obit
saying he was dead more than a decade ago.
He's so old that the writer of this episode scrambled
to finish it for fear that Soros
might die before it is released.
The people spreading the conspiracies don't care though.
They'll just make his son Alex the new bad guy,
considering that old Georgie has turned control
of the empire over to him.
After that news came out,
Viktor Orban tweeted a "Godfather" GIF
and the word Soros 2.0,
and Alex Soros is now featured
in his party's political billboards.
Orban still talks about George Soros all the time.
- I know George Soros very well. He is my opponent.
He believes in none of the things that we do,
and he has an army at his service,
money, NGOs, universities, research institutions,
and half the bureaucracy in Brussels.
- If George Soros lives to 120
as a disembodied head floating in saline,
Orban will keep using him as an enemy,
although, in fairness to Orban,
a living disembodied floating head
in saline sounds pretty (beep) up.
Get the head! Get it!
Get him. Smash that (beep) up thing.
I think the fact that Soros doesn't really come out
and defend himself is why they love using him.
After all, look at how modern conservatives function.
There's always a boogeyman.
If it's not immigrants, then it's gay people
or PC culture or wokeness or DEI or CRT.
They don't govern on ideas, after all.
Their entire strategy has been
to run on being against something,
but as that thing always proves to be benign,
they always keep changing it.
With Soros, you don't have to change a thing.
You can just say he's behind whatever bad thing
is in the news or use him to discredit a movement.
It's like how every "Harry Potter" movie ends
with Voldemort behind it all,
and while this probably won't hurt Soros himself,
this has terrible consequences for not just Jews
but also migrants who continue to be demonized.
As I just mentioned, there's been so much violence
in the name of stopping George Soros, this intangible enemy,
and as long as they keep pointing to him as this boogeyman,
it's not going to stop.
So yeah, that's the deal with George Soros, and honestly,
I feel a little guilty for going so easy on this guy.
I mean, sure, he's surprisingly right
about a bunch of stuff, but he is a billionaire, after all,
and we could probably do a video
about many ways that he sucks.
He gambles with other countries' economies
and then tries to influence them with all the money.
He's been a major investor in ghoulish investment firms
like the Carlyle Group alongside other woke Commies
like the Bushes and the bin Ladens.
He's private equity.
We hate that, and we would so much rather go
after the billionaire class for using their money
to bend the rules in their favor and making everything worse
while continuing to demand that we all love them,
but instead, we have to defend this dumb old billionaire
who I'm sure has never listened
to any of the bands I referenced
and explain why demonizing him based
on some Elders of Zion nonsense is really bad for everyone
and only ends up helping the real bad guys
achieve their super racist goals.
Villains. The word is villains!
I'm just gonna, it's villains.
God, that was killing me like a bad movie guy
would wanna be doing, be wanting to killing me,
the bad movie, the villain.
I'll remember it. I'll remember in the future.
Anyway, great episode, everybody.
Big thanks to our new sponsor for this one,
the Soros Fund Management LLC.
That is, look, okay. It's a coincidence.
It's a coincidence.
(riveting music)
I improvise like a bit or something at the end.
George is beckoning me. Coming, George!
I'm so sorry.
(cup clatters)
And then I improvise this part expertly
as well as the previous part.
Thanks so much for watching.
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We got this.
You can't buy this, but you can buy merch with him on it.
Wait, what are you doing here? I thought you ran away.
Oh, no continuity issues! Oh, I'm so sorry!
I hurt him. Okay, look, this part's over, so bye.
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