Posted on 11/26/2024 8:51:58 PM PST by tired&retired
In October of 2022, Smith filed a lawsuit against a publisher called All Seasons Press (ASP), to whom he had sold the rights to a book proposal based on a February 2021 essay he had written for Tablet.
“The Thirty Tyrants” argued that Americans at the top of the financial, entertainment, and political industries had sold their country out to communist China.
Unsurprisingly, according to an outline Smith submitted to an editor at ASP in July of 2022, one of the book’s targets would be George Soros, who in the 2010s lauded China’s “doctrine of harmonious development,” hailed the Chinese government as “better functioning” than its American counterpart, and advocated “partnership with China to avoid world war.”
“In his October 2022 complaint, filed in the federal court system’s Eastern District of Virginia, Smith claimed that contrary to its right-wing, pro-Trump presentation, ASP is secretly owned and controlled by a longtime Soros associate named Scott Bessent.
Bessent’s name did not appear in any of the media coverage of ASP’s launch or on ASP’s website and masthead, and Smith’s lawsuit alleged the company hid Bessent’s involvement from both Smith and from his literary agent, the Washington, D.C.-based Keith Urbahn. Bessent headed Soros’ London office for most of the 1990s and served as chief investment officer for Soros Fund Management from 2011 to 2015.
He invested $2 billion of Soros’s money in 2015 to launch his own shop, Key Square Capital Management. Soros is perhaps America’s largest political donor, orchestrating some $21 billion in contributions to a range of progressive causes since 2000.”
I have the same problem with JD Vance's billionaire friend and financiers (also gay), Peter Thiel.
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cabinet members can be fired
"Smith" - > "South Carolina-based writer and Tablet columnist Lee Smith"
The George Soros Partner Who Disrupted Right-Wing Publishing
I included the sub-title so everyone knew that this article was about Bessent
Thiel is like the Koch Bros. I believe. He is down with libertarians, but in an absolute sense such as open borders. It is good for pocket book.
Thiel is like the Koch Bros. I believe. He is down with libertarians, but in an absolute sense such as open borders. It is good for pocket book.
Yes, any conservative politician who is a friend of billionaires must be trusted, but verified.
You are OK. I often write something to clarify for some readers (including my aging grey matter).
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So... are we going down the rabbit hole of Bessent being a sort of Soros Trojan horse? I hate to suggest that, but, sadly, it’s not outside the realm of possibility. Sure, he’s been a Trump donor, but in the world these guys inhabit, million dollar political donations are pocket change.
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Thiel’s the owner/architect/CEO of the biggest surveillance and control software and system in the world.
There’s nothing legitimately libertarian about that.
I know. Most billionaires do not become billionaires without government funding. Most are really fascists in libertarian clothing.
The modern tech billionaire is indeed a military/intel frontman.
Our country is so far beyond bankrupt that I don’t know if anyone, including Trump can cut spending and raise taxes enough to save it.
They are really distorting our Revenue by including Social Security and Medicare taxes. They represent about 38% of the total and the payouts exceed the taxes. Thus, the general fund must make up the annual deficit as all Social Security and Medicare Reserve Funds are invested in our general fund debt and spent.
If you look at our M1 monetary supply, it has skyrocketed under Biden. Where did all the money go?
In order to keep interest rates from skyrocketing, the Federal Reserve is using the newly printed money to purchase our debt at auction. The Federal Reserve has created a lot of money out of nowhere and used it to purchase our debt.
It appears that in the near future there will be a total collapse of the dollar. When that happens and a new currency is issued, they will merely collapse the debt against the money they created as an offset. Presto, it’s gone. Not all of it, but enough to slide through the bankruptcy.
Please look at the facts and tell me I’m wrong. At the rate we are currently spending, it will soon take 100% of our General Fund Revenue just to pay the interest on the debt, with nothing left for the government to operate.
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If we audit the Fed, the house of cards will fall.
Is Trump an exception?
Trump is an exception on this. He uses the laws created for the billionaires, but he has never lobbied for those laws or other laws for his personal interest at the expense of the common person, to the best of my knowledge.
Basically, as I see it, if a billionaire is a socialist then what he has done is remove his wealth and put it out of reach of the tax man, so he doesn’t mind high taxes because he doesn’t pay them. If a billionaire is a libertarian, he’s really an anarco-communist who uses rights to abuse people to make the argument that rights shouldn’t be so unconditional. Conditional rights is how he games the system.
Only a small number of billionaires don’t do this. They play the system as is, but don’t try hurt people.
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