EAllusion wrote:It should go without saying, but the idea that wealthy Jews are secret puppetmasters controlling the government and they are using that power to bring in dangerous immigrants to sap the nation's purity and therefore its strength is as quintessential anti-Semitism as it gets. It was a significant inspiration of and propaganda for Nazis.
Media outlets trading in this are pouring poison into people's ears and you cannot have a low enough opinion of them. It's already crazy how far this is spread.
I feel like I'm repeating myself, because I am, but what does this have to do with anything? What does this have to do with the attack? Trump thinks a cabal of Jewish masterminds is mind controlling the world? WTF are you talking about?
And what from this Fox segment is problematic? He didn't say anything about "the protocols of the elders of zion" or anything at all like this. That's you. That's lefty conspiracy theorists. All the "zionist" conspiracy theory primary comes from the left, is obsessed with the industrial military complex that revolves around defending Israel, etc., etc.
This guy refers to lefty organizations who are getting money through the state department. That's true, that happens. He uses the phrase "soros occupied state department." Maybe if we find the full clip he elaborates on what he means by that. My interpretation is that he's suggesting groups affiliated with Soros are benefiting from US aid. That doesn't at all sound crazy to me.
I have worked on several projects with DOD that involved DOS and USAID. I can tell you about absurd projects where hundreds of millions in US taxdollars have gone towards objectively idiotic relief or construction efforts which were naïve at best and thinly veiled money laundering operations at worst.
Examples.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/milita ... index.html
https://www.newsweek.com/us-paid-335-mi ... ing-362574
https://www.irinnews.org/news/2018/09/1 ... syria-scam
You guys don't have a clue how the government actually works. Have you seen the movie War Dogs? Please do, it's actually not that far off from reality. It's a fictionalized dramatization of course, but I have personally seen crap exactly like that so many times. So. Many. Times. These federal contracts are there for anyone to bid on and not hard to win. Often the RFP process is just a formality, those on the government side of the equation already have some "buddy" in mind.
Which, in the case of defense things, could be a defense contractor, a major firm, or something else, or in the case of DOS and USAID could be some activist org. Some friend that they went to school with at Georgetown and now they're in Latin America helping with the latest crisis or whatever. The fed isn't going to just hand money over to some random person. They have protocols. They're with some NGO, which isn't some independent unbiased entity.
What do you think Trump wast talking about when he talked about cutting aid money from these countries if they failed to stop the caravan? Why would he cut those dollars off? Because they are going towards activist groups meddling in American politics. Trump isn't going to fund lefty groups who are opposing his own immigration agenda.
How do you think that said money gets distributed? By our own people. The whole thing is politics and bureaucracy from beginning to end. People lobby. People bid. People win. NGOs get funding. Influence is curried and bought. What the hell do you think Benghazi was? That was a massive DOS “F” up. The DOS sticks its nose all up in other people's business under the guise of "aid." The DOS is tied to the hip with all these lefty groups worldwide. The people in DOS all went to the same ivy league schools as the people running these relief orgs. And let me also state, there is nothing "wrong" with that. This social network can be a very good thing. But it can also be a bad and corrupt thing. It's the same with DOD and the "military industrial complex." There is good, and yeah, there is bad.
I don't care that such and such person working overseas on these relief efforts is a lefty liberal that hates Trump or the second amendment or whatever. Couldn't care less. We need people willing to go overseas and do such work. I'm grateful for their efforts. They have big hearts, they really do. And often put themselves in incredibly dangerous situations to accomplish noble things. I'm happy to continue supporting them. So long as they maintain the professional discipline to keep their politics out of it. No different than what I expect from people in any other part of this rotten equation, in the military, in law enforcement, whatever. I don't want activist FBI agents, either. People are just people, and there are turds everywhere. NGOs tend to attract a lot of them.
