This is the second time I make this ask: Re: Soros equivalents on the Right.

[Baitball Blogger]

Why won't the Democrats come up with a list of names that the Republican donors that rival Soro's contributions? You know they must have at least 50 who continually support the GOP and its unified intention to take over this country. Do you know the advantage that Republicans have because their constituents are able to come up with Soros as the incredible deep pocket boogeyman for the Dems? And we're here doing our best to match it up with names like Mellon and the likes?

So, does anyone have a link to a page that will show us the highest donors to the GOP? That's something I would like to lock into my mobile phone the next time I hear Soro's name.

[The Wizard]

1. It doesn't matter to the cult

as long as minorities are portrayed as mortal enemies that must be eliminated.

[unblock]

2. We sometimes go on about the Koch brothers

But it doesn't work the same way.

The soros attack has a strong antisemitic element and we aren't big on those kinds of attacks. We're more into stats and and data than individual anecdotes anyway.

The real problem is that they have many billionaires on their side.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. But we should have a ready made list of those billionaires.

It will shut them up because they'll never admit in a debate that their is an anti-semitic link to their accusations.

[rampartd]

3. the surviving koch bro is deep into this business.

funds heritage and hundreds of regressive "non profits."

the kochs actually front for a network of billionaires , many of the old "birch society"

[Easterncedar]

5. Musk, Bezos, Theil, Koch, Zuckerberg?

Off the top of my head

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Yup.

Good names. They're going on my list. Thank you.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. I believe that everyone who wants to know...already knows who they are

I’m glad Peter Thiel is getting exposed now, having lurked in the shadows far too long.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I just want to make the list so I can pull it out and read it the next time a rightie

claims that Soros is controlling the Democrats. I mean, there is no bothsiderism on this issue when you compare the numbers.

[EYESORE 9001]

14. Also fair to consider

that the numbers are only what we’re aware of. Sub rosa payments are much easier now, thanks to Citizens United.

[Baitball Blogger]

18. What ever happened to the public has the right to know.

Shadow money means shadow government.

[Scrivener7]

13. But the point is to demonize them as Soros has been demonized.

Partly because they have done a hell of a lot more to deserve it - every one of them has their hand in the public till, whereas Soros never did - and partly to pound home the hypocrisy of how the right twists everything we do while they pillage our democracy.

[EYESORE 9001]

15. I'm all in for shining the bright light of truth on billionaires

I hope it becomes a growth industry - exposing billionaires.

[Scrivener7]

16. And taxing the bastards!

[EYESORE 9001]

17. Not arguing

[surfered]

8. Timothy Mellon

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-timothy-mellon-robert-kennedy-donald-trump-billionaire-2024-6

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Thank you.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Does Soros actually donate much to the Democrats?

I think his foundation still donates to various organizations, but it doesn't look like it gets that involved in the party.

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/kamala-harris/contributors?id=N00036915
https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2024-11-05/the-biggest-political-donors-of-the-2024-election

Top 10 to Democrats
Bloomberg, Michael R. $43,453,634
Moskovitz, Dustin & Cari $38,785,700
Eychaner, Fred $31,057,700
Simons, James H. & Marilyn $30,757,103
Hoffman, Reid Garrett $26,659,700
Mandel, Stephen F. Jr. & Susan Z. $22,934,500
Simon, Deborah J. $19,830,960
Jordan, Wayne D. $14,488,811
Larsen, Christian $13,442,479
Heising, Elizabeth D. $12,638,350

Top 10 to Republicans
Mellon, Timothy $172,042,500
Uihlein, Richard & Elizabeth A. $137,775,196
Adelson, Sheldon G. & Miriam O. $136,855,700
Musk, Elon $133,038,600
Griffin, Kenneth C. $101,405,484
Yass, Jeffrey S. & Janine $96,122,180
Singer, Paul E. $59,299,100
Schwarzman, Stephen A. $39,103,046
Dunn, Timothy M. $35,415,200
Bigelow, Rob $34,991,500

But note that while Musk as an individual is down for $133m for "Republicans", "SpaceX" (ie Musk's plaything) gave $276m to Trump: https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-trump/contributors?id=N00023864

So only the top 2 Democratic donors would make it into the Republican top 10.

The thing about Soros isn't that he donates a lot; it's that the rabid Republicans use him as an antichrist, and that can drive social media, while actual facts about how much he or Republicans actually donate will be ignored.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Winner, winner. Chicken dinner.

You win, muriel. This is a cut and paste for me.

Thank you!

[Stacey Grove]

19. Don't engage them in quibbles over things that simply DO NOT EXIST IN REALITY

Soros is a bogeyman to the radical right wing - it's pure propaganda, projection, and anti-Semitism.

Period.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. Except, these right-wing points are firmly planted in their minds as definitive winning points.

If we don't challenge them, they will never question their perceptions.

[Stacey Grove]

21. " . . . they will never question their perceptions."

Is actually a complete sentence.

It's pointless to reason with pigeons - they just make a mess and shit everywhere.

Energy better spent elsewhere (from my perspective).

But I'd never try to dissuade you from doing what you think or feel is the right thing.

[legallyblondeNYC]

22. It's anti-semitism. Period.

References to "George Soros" means "the Jew."
Why not call them out on this as an anti-semitic remark every time it is made.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Because it won't stop them.

Some of them are not going to accept that it's the anti-semitism, and not the money. Just like they won't recognize they're racist.

[legallyblondeNYC]

24. Fiddle-dee-dee, Ashley ...

Great balls of fire - stop telling me what they did - Scarlett

So they react like imbeciles. Doesn't mean we don't call them out.