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Anti-Kavanaugh protesters accosting senators have ties to Soros

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-kavanaugh-protesters-accosting-senators-have-ties-to-soros


When Sen. Jeff Flake was accosted by two women in an elevator on Capitol Hill, it was seen as one of the most striking moments of last week’s Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination battle.

In the morning, Flake put out a statement indicating his support for Kavanaugh, but following the elevator incident, he made a dramatic call in the committee room for a one week delay so an FBI investigation could investigate sexual abuse allegations against the nominee.

Flake admitted afterwards that the elevator moment “certainly struck a chord” with him.

Just three days later, three women harassed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he walked through the terminal at Reagan National Airport.

“How many stories of sexual violence do you need to hear in order to believe woman,” one of the woman asked McConnell during Monday's incident. Video shows McConnell looking straight ahead.

Seemingly organic, powerful protests. But in both instances, the women involved came from a nonprofit called Center for Popular Democracy that has received funding from liberal billionaire George Soros, records show.

Ana Maria Archila, who confronted Flake is the group’s co-executive director.

Tracey Corder, who according to reports, confronted McConnell, is the group’s racial justice campaign director.

Corder also confronted another Republican senator, Bob Corker of Tennessee at the airport Monday.

“I know this is enjoyable to y’all,” Corker said, according to The Huffington Post. “Thank you so much. I appreciate it.”

The news outlet and other media reported that video showed Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., being confronted at Reagan by three women, including Center for Popular Democracy co-executive director Jennifer Epps-Addison.

Soros donated $1.5 million to Center for Popular Democracy in 2016 and 2017 through his philanthropy organization Open Society Foundations, the records show.

He also donated in the past two years another $1.2 million to the nonprofit’s sister organization Center for Popular Democracy Action, which helped organize protests at the Kavanaugh hearings in early September that resulted in more than 200 arrests.

Soros also has ties to a liberal group running anti-Kavanuagh TV ads focused on his accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations. Demand Justice is funded by a nonprofit Sixteen Thirst Fund that has received more than $730,000 from the Soros foundation in 2016 and 2017.

Video of McConnell being confronted was posted on Twitter after being shot by Ady Barkan, a Center for Popular Democracy staffer.

Both Soros' Open Society Foundations and the Center for Popular Democracy did not return a Fox News request for comment.

Republican National Committee spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday that the protests won’t intimidate McConnell.

"He is subject to these kind of protests -- these crazy protests -- all the time on immigration and other issues," McEnany said. "As he said with the immigration protests, this is not about persuasion, this is about intimidation.”

Last week another Senate Republican, Ted Cruz of Texas was forced to flee a Washington restaurant Monday night in a scene caught on video.

One of the groups claiming credit for chasing Cruz was the Antifa group Smash Rascism DC. to have Those protesters appeared to have no connection to Soros. Reports show members of a union and three other groups took part. None have been linked to Soros.

The activists say they will continue to confront Republican lawmakers as the FBI investigates accusations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh when he attended a prep school and Yale.

Kavanaugh denies the allegations and has accused Democrats of trying to destroy him.

Archila and the other woman who stopped Flake pleaded with him not to support Kavanaugh’s nomination, describing their own experiences as sexual assault victims.

On Monday, Flake told a conference in Boston that the incident was a factor in his request for an FBI probe before a full Senate vote on Kavanaugh.

“That experience, as well as a lot of others,” Flake said. “I got calls and emails and texts from women I never thought I’d hear from in this regard saying: ‘Here’s what happened to me when I was young, here’s what happened to me 30 years ago.’”

Why would you post a "this might be Soros-linked" article on this forum after so badly burning and embarrassing yourself with the Soros-Hogg-Arby's thing?

Jesus Christ, dude, have some self-respect.

Ahh, good ole infowar scare tactics.

Nobody is that bad...

Vambo absolutely is.

He posts Breitbart articles.

I've seen you post Vanity Fair articles.

Inside the Rise of the “Breitbart of the Left”
David Brock, the conservative apostate turned liberal agitator, lays out his plans for the future of the Internet for progressives. “We’re going to go after spineless Democrats who want to make nice with Trump.”


by Tina Nguyen
January 5, 2017 3:39 pm


By Stephen Voss/Redux.

Shortly after the election, as it dawned on the left that Breitbart was a true media force to be reckoned with, liberal operative and media watchdog David Brock announced to his donors that he wanted to turn his Web site, Shareblue, into a “Breitbart of the left,” a partisan news site that would seek to undermine Donald Trump’s incoming administration. The notion was instantly derided as facile, superficial, and unlikely to solve anything. “David Brock is the worst possible messenger for Democrats. He should not be given a single dollar more,” progressive strategist Jonathan Tasini told The Hill. Vox said the idea was just the latest in the “long, sad history of liberal efforts to copy right-wing media.” (Breitbart itself loved the irony of Brock, the man who ”once tried to destroy” them, now attempting to replicate their methods.)

Brock, who came to prominence as a right-leaning journalist before switching sides and founding left-wing media-watchdog organization Media Matters, is undeterred by the criticism. In a wide-ranging conversation, he laid out how Democrats lost their way, why the party struggles to connect with voters, and what the left can learn from the right. “Breitbart is just the analogy. We’re not going to do what they do. We’re going to be an antidote to what they do,” he argued. “We’re going to use facts.”

The Hive: What was the purpose of ShareBlue and what do you want to turn it into?
Watch Now: Donald Trump Wants To Send Hillary Clinton to Jail


David Brock: The purpose of ShareBlue was to make the case for Hillary [Clinton] in a way that would engage grassroots audiences. The highest-trafficked item we ran in the whole campaign was an article titled “Hillary Is One of the Most Ethical (and Lied About) Political Leaders in America.” That was shared more than 2 million times. We were making arguments for Hillary and they were factual arguments, but they had an emotional tenor to them. And I think the something that’s missing in a lot of liberal communications: they’re dry and fact-driven. But people want more than just facts. That was one difference.

More here:


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/david-brock-breitbart-interview-shareblue

Accosted? We the people sign these guys pay checks. The boss is calling them out for what they are. Can’t stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen.

Who the hell is David Brock and what is a ShareBlue? never even heard of it.

Breitbart is a white nationalist collection of nuts that had a "Black Crime" section and had to fire their openly neo-Nazi senior editor after he claimed that pedophilia is good for young kids because it teaches them about sex.

How on Earth is "I've seen you post Vanity Fair articles" a retort to you posting links to a freak site like Breitbart?

Out of all the posts you make I've only seen you use Yahoo and Vanity Fair as a source of information. Therefore I thought you view Vanity Fair as a credible source.

Unless I'm reading it wrong the author of the article I posted did say "as it dawned on the left that Breitbart was a true media force to be reckoned with" differs from your opinion of a "freak site like Breitbart"

You continually disparage the writers at Breitbart and the Daily Caller. Do you have any political writings on a major website that the members of this message board could read? From what I've seen you're a talented writer.

Breitbart had a "Black Crime" section and a senior editor who wore an Iron Cross necklace, openly praised Hitler, and claimed that pedophilia was OK because it taught young children about sex, and your response to that is to point out that Vanity Fair stated that they have a lot of readers?

Seriously?

Also, I love that you consider pointing out that someone being a member of a white supremacy organization like the KKK or Stormfront as "disparagement"

The Breitbart of the left would be ran like Bossip.

Imagine earnestly getting news from websites that sound like tmz, jezebel and Babe.

Of course they do,,,,this is a shameful time in our history.



Now all sorts of stories about President Trump and his wealth....who cares how he got his money. I am sure that both he and his fathers have been audited by the IRS almost yearly for a long time.


They haven't been charged with tax fraud. They took the breaks allowed and went on.


It's all a smear campaign. First attack the nominee, then try to smear the person who nominated him.

The Dems aren't interested in preserving any union of states. This is a take over attempt by the left.

You want to see protests, wait and see what happens if the left does gain advantage,,,,you ain't seen nothing yet, but we will be called skin head, KKK supporters in the state run media.


Seems to me a large portion of this country needs to start thinking.


JMO

Definitely not a website aimed at racist cranks.

Imagine posting links from this site earnestly, without shame or embarrassment.

Check out the Huffington post.

You don't care that Trump is a liar, tax cheat, fraud, and a con man? You don't care that he's a womanizer, cheats on his wife, makes disturbing comments about his own daughter and other kids... Once looked at a 10 year old on an escalator and said he'd be dating her in 10 years...
You don't care what Trump does or says AS LONG AS YOU CAN STILL CLAIM YOUR VOTE WAS JUSTIFIED.

I don't know who is more disgusting, you or Trump.

A normal reaction to a website having an overtly racist "Black Crime" section, or a senior editor that admires Hitler and encourages pedophilia, or runs an article claiming that when people threaten to gas Jews on Twitter, it's a merely a funny joke, would be "what a gross and horrible website".

Not "well, what about...?" Kind of telling on yourselves.

Where's this "Black Crime" section? I've never seen it on their homepage.


Newest link: https://www.breitbart.com/

Why do people keep bringing up George Soros....

I mean, yeah, he's without a doubt a left wing guy...No question and he donates in that direction.

But what about the Koch Brothers, how come that never comes up.,

They're not Jews, so cons have no problem with them.

Did George Soros Say His Life’s Mission Is to Destroy the United States?

There is no evidence that the billionaire supporter of progressive causes ever uttered such a remark, or anything resembling it.

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros is reviled in right wing circles — not, of course, because of his vast wealth, which he earned as a good, old-fashioned capitalist, but because of how it spends it, i.e. on progressive social and political causes.

He has therefore found himself the target of innumerable derogatory rumors and memes, most portraying Soros as a sort of mad “puppet-master” throwing his money behind “subversive” groups and candidates to achieve his master plan of reducing America to ruin.

How do they know that’s his master plan, you ask? Well, because he announced it, supposedly, and on more than one occasion. A quote attributed to Soros making the rounds since mid-2017 unambiguously conveys his supposed hatred of America and Americans:

Curiously, despite the claim that the remark was published in an unspecified issue of Newsweek 38 years ago, we’ve found no evidence that this quote existed at all prior to 2017, when it suddenly sprang up, fully formed, on social media. There are no cites, no mentions, no paraphrases, nor even any critical reactions to the obviously fabricated statement in any published source over those entire four decades.

We did find what you might call a variant of the quote that’s several years older: “Destroying America will be the culmination of my life’s work.” It's from a Twitter feed from a poster known only as "Mark".

The link in the above tweet goes to an August 2011 Breitbart.com article warning of “a looming breakdown in our society” that the author blames on Soros and “veterans and decedents of the Radial [sic] Left from the 1960s” (emphasis in the original):

These are terrible ingredients — a volatile mixture sitting dangerously close to open flames. There are those who wish to do nothing more than to fan these flames. “Destroying America will be the culmination of my life’s work.”~ George Soros. In their twisted view, in order to create a New America, the old one must be destroyed and erased. These are the veterans and decedents of the Radial Left from the 1960’s. Others are merely useful idiots in this plot who have fallen victim to the visions of utopia of a completed society of equals in every way imaginable: equal in squalor; equal in misery.

The quote appears to have first surfaced around 2010, when it enjoyed great popularity on far-right blogs and web sites, some of which cited a newspaper called The Australian as its source. This example is from The American Jingoist, 28 July 2010 (emphasis in the original):

My point here is that Soros is an EVIL planetary parasite. His grasp, greed, and gluttony have a global reach.

But what about America? Soros told Australia’s national newspaper “The Australian” “America, as the centre of the globalised financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world.

“Destroying America will be the culmination of my life’s work.”
Soros also told “The Australian” that the world financial crisis was “stimulating” and “in a way, the culmination of my life’s work.”

As you probably noticed, there are actually two versions of the quote cited in that passage, one in which Soros supposedly said destroying America would be the culmination of his life’s work, and the other in which he supposedly said the world financial crisis was the culmination of his life’s work. Notwithstanding the disparity, both versions were very popular in right-wing media around that time, we found.

What Soros actually said in his 2009 interview with The Australian was this:

Peter Wilson: I am interested in how you keep track of so many issues and areas. Is your information structure different from other major investors? Do you place more emphasis on geopolitics than most?
George Soros: No. If anything I probably get less information than most people because I tend to focus on what I consider to be the salient features and neglect the less important so it is more by process of triage that I work.

So people bring things to your attention if they think a situation is developing in a region or a market?
I read the newspaper, I have some financial services that I also look at. I’m not on top of the financial markets. I just don’t have adequate information on detail so I can only use blunt instruments that are sort of macroeconomic instruments. On the other hand, I am tremendously involved in policy issues and that is where I am focusing.

What sort of policy?
The financial crisis, and how to solve it. It was not something that I was particularly concerned with prior to the rise of the crisis and I am also involved in the activities of the (Soros) Foundation.

But for the past 18 months you have been keeping an eye on the markets?
Yeah but I have also been writing a lot more than I was writing before because the crisis really stimulated me. I wrote a series of articles in the course of the year, I wrote a book, I published a book and I’m just about to publish a sequel to last year’s book, bringing it up to date, I am just working on it now.

So do you have a sense that things are coming together for you now?
It is in a way a culminating point of my life’s work, so to speak.

Everything is coming together.
Yeah, the American election, the financial crisis, the theory of reflexivity. So it is actually a very stimulating period.

Just as well you didn’t retire ten years ago.
Right, right.

Our first takeaway from the above is that nowhere in the interview did George Soros say anything remotely resembling “Destroying America will be the culmination of my life’s work.” That statement is obviously a fabrication.

Our second takeaway is that neither did Soros say (or imply) that the world financial crisis was the culmination of his life’s work. As is clear from the context, what he was talking about was trying to solve the world financial crisis:

SOROS: On the other hand, I am tremendously involved in policy issues and that is where I am focusing.

WILSON: What sort of policy?

SOROS: The financial crisis, and how to solve it.

That, plus writing books, running his foundation, and involving himself in American electoral politics were the specific activities Soros mentioned before describing that moment in time as “a very stimulating period” and a “culminating point” in his life’s work.

We would observe, in closing, that if destroying the United States was his aim and 2009 marked the culminating point of his efforts to do so, they were a miserable failure by any measure.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-destroy-united-states/

For future reference, most FB memes are lies. Just like the one you posted above.

Facts have no power here.

Ask Judge Kavanaugh...

I rather ask Robert Mueller.

Just as we've learned with Kav, there is no need for proof.

Just the allegation. That's all it takes for libs to find someone guilty - as long as there is an R behind the accused's name.

I think you're generalizing. Not every Republican is a conspiracy theorist or racist. Not every liberal thinks Kavanaugh is guilty due to some allegations.

That's a lot of the problem right now. On both sides some think it's a "one size fits all" on the other side. Both sides would be wrong.

Oh, I KNOW. I get generalized on here constantly.

Tell me about it, people still try to give me grief about Democrats.

Kavanaugh’s accuser was believable and credible.

Kavanaugh rambled incoherently while alternating between anger and tears about how much he loved beer and sports.

Kind of hard to use him as an example of an unfairly accused man.

The whole “George Soros” thing is the new way weird racist Breirbart cranks express their anti-Semitism, as Vambo has clearly shown.

Remember when he embarrassed himself with that insane “Soros HAD to have given David Hogg the Arby’s e-mails” thing?

It’s serves 2 purposes -

1) setting up an anti-Semitic enemy

2) assuming or projecting that any enemy group is too dumb and/or lesser to organize themselves

I think they just need a boogeyman to motivate the conservative base with fear. Soros is just one devil they've created. The Clintons are another.

The lack of good reasoning skills in the lower IQ voting population on both sides is easily manipulated with creative devil stories. The use of these stories keeps us fighting with each other on the bottom while those on top enjoy the wealth they steal from us and keep a firm hold onto power.

Not really, her testimony fell apart early for me when she said she wanted an extra front door because someone who sexually assaulted her might be on the Supreme Court.

Really?

Actually revealed that it was for an office so she could see people at home.

Believable? No.

Credible? Hardly.

Did Soros say this or not? Does he not contribute to The Center for Popular Democracy? He does.

The first picture up on their site is the one of Flake getting confronted in the elevator.

How about you refute these things rather than trot out your 'remember when Vambo/40 did this' tripe.

Soros never said this.

and thats the problem. you guys on the right will believe whatever the hell you see on a meme, do little to no fact checking, and then get offended when somebody gets fed up with the ignorance and corrects you.

it is a recurring theme over and over again. think about all the BS conspiracies the right believes.

soros, obama is a foreign born muslim, jade helm, benghazi, pizzagate, the deep state, uranium one, christmas is under attack.

i can go on and on and on.