I haven’t remarked on the massive document dump of hacked documents from George Soros and his OSF organization. I suspect that if he weren’t a major political backer of progressive candidates it would be much bigger news than it is. Based on the revelations so far my only observations are:
- They support the Russians’ claims about the neo-Nazi coup that removed the Ukrainian government and which we’re supporting.
- If you’re casting around for people to prosecute under the Logan Act, George Soros would be a darned good candidate.
Speaking of money corrupting the political process, here’s an article on how the professional political class helped kill the Tea Party movement.
How We Killed the Tea Party
National Razor Party in 2016
Query- Soros, Clinton, DNC. Why aren’t the folks on the right getting hacked?
Steve
“Why aren’t the folks on the right getting hacked?”
Good question. And I’m also convinced Dick Cheney an GWB actually dynamited the World Trade Towers…….
W and Darth Cheney are so in the past. It’s the Koch Brothers now Drew. Keep up.
Steve
Query- Soros, Clinton, DNC. Why aren’t the folks on the right getting hacked?
Perhaps it’s because they don’t set up unsecured email servers in private bathrooms in Colorado with tech support that is always stoned. Just a thought.
It may be that’s the wrong question. The question may be how many exploits have there been against Republicans? Judging by my own experience exploits are ongoing and continuous and affect everybody.
Just as one little anecdote, about twenty years ago I was curious about how real the cyberthreat was so, when I got a broadband connection, I connected a single, unprotected computer to it but left it disconnected from the balance of my network. Within 24 hours it had been thoroughly infected from outside. I then disconnected and scrubbed the computer.
So my guess is that the difference is not so much between breaches and non-breaches but what happens when a breach is attempted. Just one more anecdote. Based on my experience canvassing, Republicans are a lot more wary and suspicious than Democrats. They’re less likely to answer the door if you knock or pick up the phone if you call. I think that’s why non-Democrats tend to be under-sampled in polls.
The left has billionaire supporters too, Steve. Try to keep up. Check that. Mission Impossible…..
“Neo-nazi coup”?
Putin couldn’t have said it better himself. Same with his media and the people he’s chumped, including an untold number of American conservatives.
What would you call it when their militias are marching around, wearing swastikas? Role-playing? Reenactors?
Role-playing? Reenactors?
Coincidence!
My guess is they were auditioning for The Producers.
Hipsters. They were wearing the stuff ironically. Whatever that means.
Putin propaganda, which is only worse today. No doubt there were fascists in the protests, but they were a minority and they are a minority in Ukrainian government. Ukraine’s revolution against Yanukovych was a popular revolution. Quote:
And there’s a reason why Ukrainians chose Hitler over Stalin, given how Stalin murdered millions of Ukrainians by starving them to death prior to WWII. As a Ukrainian in 1939, which side do you pick, the guy who murdered millions of your countrymen in 1930s or do you take a chance on the other guy.
As for Soros, I don’t like that he supports hyperpartisans like MediaMatters, but his work in Europe has been much more honorable, Ukraine not excepted. The irony is that the Russians in Ukraine, not Russia, are the ones living in freedom. I would be very careful with the paleo viewpoint on Putin, because most of them have been chumped by the Russian dictator’s propaganda machine. How soon we forget the Cold War, and that Putin was a loyal cog in the Soviet Kremlin.