George Soros: “I’m having a very good crisis”
posted at 8:47 pm on March 25, 2009 by Allahpundit
It’s a comfort to know not everyone’s suffering in this horrible global recession. I guess sometimes the good guys do finish first.
Remember that Jake DeSantis letter to AIG this morning and how sympathetic it made you feel about the plight of our plucky financiers? Prepare to be cleansed.
George Soros, who predicted the global financial crisis twice before, was one of the few people to anticipate and prepare for the current economic collapse…
And while the financial crisis continued to deepen across the globe, the 78-year-old still managed to make $1.1 billion last year.
‘It is, in a way, the culminating point of my life’s work,’ he told national newspaper The Australian.
So saith the man who broke the Bank of England, twirling his new Snidely Whiplash mustache. Exit question one: What’s he going to do with that billion? The left could always use a few more media-watchdog smear sites, I guess. Exit question two: I do a lot of goofing on our more conspiratorial-minded readers — birth-certificate Truthers, NAU believers, Glenn Beck fans, etc — but since the news is slow, I’m going to throw it open in the comments. What dastardly secretive collusion does Soros’s windfall prove? Did he support The One because he knew that his economic plan would further ruin the global economy, enabling a Soros profit? Or did Obama do that for him unbidden, as a solid? I knew Geithner looked shifty!
Update: The obligatory bailout sketch re-post.
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drjohn on March 25, 2009 at 8:49 PM
It proves he’s a d!ck.
Patrick S on March 25, 2009 at 8:50 PM
So give the devil his dues. What a son of a bieatch.
Alex Martinez on March 25, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Again, why don’t we demand a law taxing his profits at ninety percent or so?
JohnJ on March 25, 2009 at 8:52 PM
What a walking rectal thermometer.
OhioCoastie on March 25, 2009 at 8:52 PM
truly one of the bad guys ……
robo on March 25, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Is Soros related to Barney frank?? I dunno I see a resemblence and I’ve never seen the two of them in the same room at the same time…
bullseye on March 25, 2009 at 8:52 PM
rplat on March 25, 2009 at 8:53 PM
So where are the calls to tax 90% of his bonuses?
Where are the calls to tax his windfall profits?
Skywise on March 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM
So help me, I have suspected all along that he was behind the *mysterious* $350bil mutual fund sell-off that set all this shit into motion in September. He should be rooming with Madoff.
sybilll on March 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Too big and out of control. Hey, maybe Geithner should assume control of Soros.
sheesh on March 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM
I do not engage in clas warfare. I do not hate rich people. I do not begrudge anyone what they have earner.
But I do hate that dude with the heat of a nova.
myrenovations on March 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Is it wrong to wish someone a quiet, peaceful, natural demise, on an expedited schedule?
snickelfritz on March 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Always suspected his politics were an evil plan… Including the run up of oil prices going into the 2006 mid terms…
Where’s the Acorn bus for Georgie…
phreshone on March 25, 2009 at 8:55 PM
All that investment in the Dem party finally paid off. I wonder if they just cut him a check directly from the Treasury…
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2009 at 8:55 PM
“crisis” implies he thinks there is anything wrong with tilting the second Anglic nation’s banks….
Soros is the keeper of ToTUS’ dialog….
sven10077 on March 25, 2009 at 8:55 PM
George gets richer
William Amos on March 25, 2009 at 8:55 PM
I would say engineer/profiteer…..
Really needs to die from pancreatic cancer……
BigWyo on March 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM
a more closely guarded state secret than Area 51….
sven10077 on March 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM
I don’t think of Soros as a financier. I think of him more in terms of one of those James Bond villains come to life.
INC on March 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Who’s up for a bus tour to Soros’ home? I can rent the bus!
msmveritas on March 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Heh. Just can’t hold back, can you.
Weight of Glory on March 25, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Wasn’t Soros in Dealy Plaza? Look carefully in the background around Z frame 223. Gotta be him.
swede7 on March 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM
A man who sold his very soul to the devil (specifically, his own ethnic peers to the Nazis) in order to survive and have power beyond imagination will do just about anything else.
Please join me on this one, everyone: May he rot in Hell!
newton on March 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Soros’ bodyguards don’t have a big sense of humor from what I hear….
sven10077 on March 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM
No, he deserves to live. In prison.
OhioCoastie on March 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Obama to pay back Sugar Daddy Soros ?
William Amos on March 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Look it’s not terribly far fetched to believe that George Soros, the man who bankrolls most everything, probably orchestrates some things behind the scenes.
Glenn Beck fans? Come on…
O/T you need to see tonight’s show in which a country music singer serenades him while giving a monologue, and he wrapped up a dead fish in a newspaper…
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Yes, it is wrong. Instead wish him eternal life, with Blow Torch-Level hemorrhoids.
Patrick S on March 25, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Many years ago, my college professor, who before being a professor, was directly involved in military intelligence and anti-espionage, swore up and down that Soros was a Soviet agent. This professor provided a lot of convincing evidence.
But since then, it’s my belief that Soros has gone free-agent. He’s a true believer in communism, and I believe he pulls so many left-wing strings, that he’s able to affect so many decision makers that he can create his own windfall for his own ends. Those ends are, of course, the end of capitalism as we know it.
Nessuno on March 25, 2009 at 8:59 PM
How can you put anything past a person who collaborated with the Nazis against his own people? He’s going to rot in Hell so I hope he really enjoys every penny he’s made while on this Earth because he can’t take it with him and the Devil won’t be bought off.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2009 at 9:00 PM
September 18, 2008 folks.
September 18, 2008.
Soros’ fingerprints are all over it.
BardMan on March 25, 2009 at 9:01 PM
I like Soros, solely because he makes the wingers heads explode. And that wingers, is PRICELESS.
athensboy on March 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Go Lumberjacks!!!
thomasaur on March 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM
You need more proof than just a massive run on the credit markets… Once one entity makes the run, everyone else follows. It could be Soros, but it could also be that countries finally realized that we were screwed.
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM
I do too! Problem is though I can’t picture an 007 disrupting him clearly.
ericdijon on March 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM
It’s nice that you like a Nazi collaborator and a man who brags about making a billion dollar off of other people’s misery. It speaks highly of you character and your true colors.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2009 at 9:04 PM
LEAD PILL
dmann on March 25, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Not so much. He does make me itch a bit.
swede7 on March 25, 2009 at 9:04 PM
What I don’t understand is how someone like Soros, who is clearly a god among men as far as making money goes, can be a devout liberal/communist.
I also don’t understand how Warren Buffett can think that Obama is a good idea when Buffett makes more money than God…
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 9:04 PM
One cannot sell what one does not have.
uncivilized on March 25, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Why are the headline comments not imported into the blog posts anymore?
Valiant on March 25, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Yes, it is wrong. Instead wish him eternal life, with Blow Torch-Level hemorrhoids.
Patrick S on March 25, 2009 at 8:59 PM
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Nah, that leaves him in a bad mood and still able to f*** things up.
I could live with him getting whatever it was Stephen Hawking had… plus the haemorroids.
Mew
acat on March 25, 2009 at 9:06 PM
That’s intriguing. Soros is a very evil man.
INC on March 25, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Well, I’m glad this crisis has been good for YOU, you overbloated sack of dog sh*t. I think we need an investigation.
HornetSting on March 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Don’t the lefties hate the rich?
getalife, barkolounger, where are you?
neuquenguy on March 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Check out the dark ages……
dmann on March 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Mark 8:36
Very powerful and rich man up here. Hell is full of men and women who were once powerful and rich up here. And now they are nothing. As he will one day be nothing too.
23 minutes in hell.
http://spiritlessons.com/DOCUMENTS/BillWiese_23MinutesInHell_Text.htm
JellyToast on March 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM
I finally realized Buffett is clever as a Fox. Embracing the Libs keeps him from being vilified as the World’s richest man. It cost him nothing to pay them lip service and give them a few bucks and it buys him protection from what’s now being done to others. In short, it’s a protection racket.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM
None. He knows that the road to socialism and one-world government goes through financial collapse and he has worked hard to bring this socialist hell to the West. That’s all. He just happens to be a self-hating Westerner who thinks, along with The Precedent, that the West deserves the pain (and even more) – you know, a typical self-hating, anti-Western supporter of the idiot messiah.
progressoverpeace on March 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM
As I noted in the headlines, he makes me want to add a layer of tin foil to my hat. Creepy just doesn’t seem like the right word for the man.
Cindy Munford on March 25, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Anybody who would deliver deportation (death) orders to his own people is an evil SOB.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Well I think that’s where we’re heading anyway. What separated the sprawling nation of Rome from the dark ages? A free market. Socialism is just an updated name for feudalism.
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 9:09 PM
George likes You because yer Greek…in the obvious sense of the word.
You like it too don’t you baby???
The old dusty trail…..
BigWyo on March 25, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Remind me to stay on your good side.
sheesh on March 25, 2009 at 9:10 PM
It doesn’t happen automatically. I think AP or Ed has to pull strings behind the scenes.
INC on March 25, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Because communists/liberals always believe that they’ll be the ones in charge of everyone else. Capitalism requires give and take. Communism allows the chosen people to take without giving.
JohnJ on March 25, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I’m going to be honest: 100% of this is true. Soros actually personally forged Obama’s birth certificate also.
Proud Rino on March 25, 2009 at 9:10 PM
So, George is going to GIVE all that money to charity, right?
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Hey, I’ve got to drop a line to Nancy, see if she can pass a law and tax Soros at 100%
GarandFan on March 25, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Jabba The Hat has nothing on this character.
neuquenguy on March 25, 2009 at 9:11 PM
I feel like this is highly unlikely. Mainly because when you have more money than God you should dedicate it to annihilating your enemies… So outfund every liberal in the damn country…
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM
I think the answer, at least in Buffett’s case, is that a lot people who make money easily think subconsciously that they don’t deserve it.
As for Soros, if what I’m told is true, the seeds of his wealth and its growth came from the soviets, so it might also lead him to believe he doesn’t deserve it and so the system is unfair. Also, if he is manipulating the system, and he clearly has in the past, that would prove how corrupt the system is. He’s just living out the old line, “the capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.”
Nessuno on March 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM
There’s a recession on. You think they are going to just give up the traffic by importing comments?
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM
LITTLE TIMMY is HOME ALONe and Soros is trying to get in.
LegendHasIt on March 25, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Wow. Well, I’m convinced.
Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay classy!
Proud Rino on March 25, 2009 at 9:13 PM
F*ck George Soros.
-Dave
Dave R. on March 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Trust me. I’ve met the man. It’s an act. The more money you have the bigger the target on your back. Look at all the fabulously wealthy men being flogged in Washington these days while guys like Buffett are revered. That’s because they pay protection.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM
That makes a little more sense to me… Still, it’s clearly an insane choice.
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Alright here’s my fun: Soros was responsible, indirectly, for the huge withdrawal of 500 bil. back in Sept. Paulson was his plant, and with Bernanke, convinced Congress that the only way out was to give the Treasury a butt load of money and new power. Once everything was done, Paulson, who was once the CEO of GS, puts up his boy Geithner for the nom. at the direction of Soros. Obama does what his financier wants, and Geithner gets the post, who is the only one currently there, and who is the only one who had tax problems yet still made it through. Geithner then starts kicking millions of bailout money to various Soros “community organizing” front groups, as payment, and Paulson gets some “gifts” from GS, for the money that is getting shuffled their way. In the meantime, since Geithner is there because of Soros, he does what he’s told to do and begins to create such an instable climate for investment (re. the little dollar drop today), that chaos ensues, allowing for the argument for more power for the Treas. Sec. to be pushed. Now here’s where it gets tricky. While debt is created, currency is devalued, business seized and centrally planned, Soros then tears off the face mask and we come to find out that Soros is really Brittany Spears. He does a little naughty school girl dance, while singing “I’m not that innocent” and kissing John Edwards, with tongue. Whew! Glad that’s off my chest. Thanks, AP.
Weight of Glory on March 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Chem trails! Soros flies his fleet of Gulfstreams in cris-cross paterns across the country spewing nitrous oxide mixed into the engine exhaust. D&*n evil genius.
swede7 on March 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM
I think DeSantis has a fan club.
Soros? Evil incarnate.
redfoxbluestate on March 25, 2009 at 9:15 PM
It boils down to this: Which came first, the Man Child or the Leathery Old Bastard?
I’ll get you into office, you immediately put policy into place to wreck the economy, I profit…and then you pay me off a little more.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat…..
BigWyo on March 25, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Wait, didn’t his student Barack say “This is not the time for profits”?
CP on March 25, 2009 at 9:15 PM
They’re very selective. They only hate rich people who are productive. In fact, I think it’s really only productivity which they hate. They do seem to love rich people who don’t do anything useful, but if a rich person offers something useful like food or health care, that’s when the hate comes out.
JohnJ on March 25, 2009 at 9:16 PM
I know. Since I mostly read the headlines and as a result comment there, I didn’t want the world to miss out on my brilliance.
/narcissism
Valiant on March 25, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Your joy in that may be a Pyrrhic victory.
The soviet bloc was a sh^thole under communism.
7 million of my Ukranian cousins were starved to death by Commie Joe Stalin. Another million or so of my Polish cousins were murdered by stalin.
Yep Athenslittleboy.. You may get what you wish for. World communism under georgie sorass. If that happens, some day you will wake up and find one of your loved ones (if you have any) is missing.. taken away in the middle of the night and murdered in true commie fashion. You’ll be lucky if you are charged for the bullet. At least you’ll know what happened to them
OR – You may be lucky enough to have kids only to see them starving to death with swollen abdomens while grain rots in the warehouse next door just because the politiboro got a bug up the butt. As I said, that happened under Uncle Joe.
Yep, be careful what you wish for. Pyrrhic victories can suck big time.
bullseye on March 25, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Wait till St Peter tells him he is limited to one carry on bag.
Limerick on March 25, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Some people make money by earning it – including some billionaires.
Soros makes money by bribery and hurting people – that’s totally consistent with how the left thinks about economies.
It’s no surprise to me.
And if we had functioning journalists and an FEC that wasn’t hamstrung by bribed politicians, or a Treasury headed by someone who wasn’t a tax-cheating ideologue, maybe someone would take the MOUNTAIN of evidence already extant about Soros’ manipulation of markets and put the SOB in San Quentin for a couple dozen years.
The man is the financial equivalent of a mad bomber. The fact that no one seriously tries to stop him just shows that, apart from the occasional shining moment, there isn’t a major nation in the world willing to step up to the plate and deal with thugs.
Merovign on March 25, 2009 at 9:17 PM
You want to talk about class? Soros just basically spit on everyone who lost money, our abomination of a President jokes about the retarded on national television, and the House Representative running the financial sector at this point ran a gay brothel out of his town home.
Now that’s class.
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 9:17 PM
They only hate rich people who don’t pay protection and tow the line in public.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2009 at 9:18 PM
I’ll probably get in trouble for this…but can’t someone rid us of this…man?
john1schn on March 25, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Just be glad you live here where you can like a mfer like that. If you lived in naziland, he would sell you , your parents, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts,uncles, wife, girlfriend, mistress, boyfiend, children, grandchildren, cat, dog and fish and not bat an eye while you all burned to death…You are an Ahole, and stupid to boot….
clinker46 on March 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Well, after reading your simpering blather for the last few weeks, I can safley say you can go ahead and bite me….
BigWyo on March 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Not a becker conspiracy.
Just a smart investor who saw it coming.
Good for him.
getalife on March 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Why doesn’t he give it all to the poor?
WisCon on March 25, 2009 at 9:20 PM
What the heck is wrong with you? Don’t you have any sense at all? Where is your brain?
How can you refer to that thing as a “man”?
JohnJ on March 25, 2009 at 9:21 PM
You have to live in the same shithole he’s creating, genius.
ddrintn on March 25, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Didn’t Sorors profit quite a bit from 9/11? Hey Dems, that is some fine company you grovel to…
ClassicCon on March 25, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Haven’t you heard? Liberals only give like 1% or less of their income to charity, like their Dear Leader, who only donated around $10,000 of the 1.2 million he made in a year.
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 9:22 PM
But we have to have idiots like athensboy among us, those who don’t know the proper direction to point their pitchforks. Up their own asses would be fine.
ddrintn on March 25, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Wait a sec. You mean being rich is good? Huh. Better write that down, ’cause I’m getting all kinds of mixed signals. Thanks, getalife. Who else is on the “good” rich guy/gal list? Any oil execs.?
Weight of Glory on March 25, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Admittedly I haven’t read all the posts…
This thread should be an update to the tiny tim thread…duh!
As in …who benefits? dbl duh!!!lol!
I know it’s no laughing matter…but…this is so scary on many levels…
jerrytbg on March 25, 2009 at 9:23 PM
If Rupert Murdoch saw it coming, would you say good for him?
John_Locke on March 25, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Don’t feel lonely, it has crossed my mind a few times also.
Cindy Munford on March 25, 2009 at 9:23 PM
That’s what government is for, silly.
Weight of Glory on March 25, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Did Soros cause 9/11? Some of the voices in my head say yes, but others say that he was busy personally manipulating the credit markets in order to develop an economic collapse so Osama Ogabe Hussein could win. Confusing. There’s a lot of infomation here.
Does anyone have some crackpot, anonymous sources that could help me out?
Proud Rino on March 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Sorry, didn’t quite put the quotation marks in…
/embarrassed
john1schn on March 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM
getalife
’bout time you showed up. This was getting to serious. BWAAAAHAHAHAHA
swede7 on March 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM
It’s not the money. It’s the power. That’s what the left’s all about, control.
ddrintn on March 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM
I’m sure getalife can provide you some.
Limerick on March 25, 2009 at 9:25 PM
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