Current Events > lol CNN is going after George Soros and Al Franken

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A year and a half after Donald Trump cruised into the Oval Office, spotlighting the fact that thoroughly unqualified men can still best eminently qualified women on little more than racial and gender resentment, it hasn't gotten any easier to be a woman in politics. And the problems aren't just with conservative opponents to more liberal women -- they come from progressives, too.

Take George Soros, a man who generously funds progressive causes and by most measures is using his fortune to do good in the world. Still, Soros told The Washington Post he hopes Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York doesn't get the Democratic nomination for president because she pushed Sen. Al Franken to resign in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. Taking that stand, Soros said, was done "in order to improve her own chances" of getting ahead in securing the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

Gillibrand, who has been vocal in her efforts to press Congress to address sexual harassment, has said her decision to say publicly that Franken should resign was difficult, though other Democratic colleagues quickly echoed her call.

Soros' singling out of Gillibrand as the one Democrat he doesn't want to see succeed reiterates a common but tired narrative: Ambitious woman undermines good man (who was also ambitious, but that's a good thing in his case). It's a venomous stereotype that stymies women's chances for success, not just in politics, but nearly everywhere. It's the same stereotype that makes it hard to prove rape cases -- there's often a subtle or not-so-subtle suggestion that an accuser could ruin the life of the accused that obscures what he's actually accused of doing. It's the same stereotype that gets ambitious women tagged as unlikable bitches.

But there's a deeper assumption there, too, one that is even more pernicious and harder to change: the basic belief that men are entitled to positions of power while women are interlopers and usurpers. Gillibrand, as a woman in politics, is indeed breaking barriers, but along with that comes the assumption that she needs to prove herself worthy of the role in a way that men do not.

Franken, whose politics were in the right place for Soros and other progressives, enjoyed the simple assumption from many that he was entitled to his Senate seat. When that assumption was challenged -- not out of the blue by a scheming woman seeking to unseat him, but by his own past actions, captured on film -- it's telling that much of the anger was directed toward the woman speaking out, not the man who actually made the objectionable choices.

Gillibrand remains one of the most liberal members of the Senate. Her politics trend left on just about every issue (she was more moderate on guns earlier in her career). Between her and Franken, there's not much ideological daylight; she's also known as an effective dealmaker, a woman who is good at her job. And yet, unlike Franken, she has never had the benefit of being assumed to belong in her role....

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spotlighting the fact that thoroughly unqualified men can still best eminently qualified women on little more than racial and gender resentment

That doesnt make any sense...

Obama was a first-term Senator, with minimal real political experience prior.

Compared to Clinton, he might as well have had no experience at all. But somehow, thats totally different.
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Pillowpantz posted...

Take George Soros, a man who generously funds progressive causes and by most measures is using his fortune to do good in the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

using his fortune to do good in the world
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Does this mean you won't pull the "SOROS!!!!" card for Gillibrand, SMAL?
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What it means:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKdJ6DnPhzk" data-time="
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Jill Filipovich is often a moron, but this is the correct take. If you are going to be the "we listen to women" party, you can't be the party that defends a groper and chides women for speaking out against him.
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Pillowpantz posted...

What it means:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKdJ6DnPhzk" data-time="

You know this helps Gillibrand in 2020, right?
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

Pillowpantz posted...

What it means:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKdJ6DnPhzk" data-time="

You know this helps Gillibrand in 2020, right?

You know George Soros is going to throw about a billion dollars behind her opposition the way he spent almost a billion dollars to help Hillary, right?
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Pillowpantz posted...

You know George Soros is going to throw about a billion dollars behind her opposition the way he spent almost a billion dollars to help Hillary, right?

If that didn't help Hillary against Trump why should I think it matters in the primary.
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

Pillowpantz posted...

You know George Soros is going to throw about a billion dollars behind her opposition the way he spent almost a billion dollars to help Hillary, right?

If that didn't help Hillary against Trump why should I think it matters in the primary.

You know Trump wasn't running for the Democrat nomination, right?
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Antifar posted...

Jill Filipovich is often a moron, but this is the correct take. If you are going to be the "we listen to women" party, you can't be the party that defends a groper and chides women for speaking out against him.

And still defends Bill for abusing his position of authority to take advantage of multiple women
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Pillowpantz posted...

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Pillowpantz posted...

You know George Soros is going to throw about a billion dollars behind her opposition the way he spent almost a billion dollars to help Hillary, right?

If that didn't help Hillary against Trump why should I think it matters in the primary.

You know Trump wasn't running for the Democrat nomination, right?

So Soros is strong enough to control the primary elections but lacks the influence to control the actual Presidential election?
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Pillowpantz posted...

spotlighting the fact that thoroughly unqualified men can still best eminently qualified women on little more than racial and gender resentment

lol obama was a one term senator and got elected because of race liberal hypocrisy right here

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Pillowpantz posted...

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Pillowpantz posted...

You know George Soros is going to throw about a billion dollars behind her opposition the way he spent almost a billion dollars to help Hillary, right?

If that didn't help Hillary against Trump why should I think it matters in the primary.

You know Trump wasn't running for the Democrat nomination, right?

So Soros is strong enough to control the primary elections but lacks the influence to control the actual Presidential election?

The difference is the left eats itself. Soros has made it known that he hates Gillibrand for pushing Franken to resign. This is going to result in fireworks down the road. As for Trump, Americans in key electoral states decided Trump was more credible than the billion Soros put into the media, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, etc.
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Oh cool, a Pillowpantz post I don't have to watch a Youtube video to decipher.
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Pillowpantz posted...

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Pillowpantz posted...

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Pillowpantz posted...

You know George Soros is going to throw about a billion dollars behind her opposition the way he spent almost a billion dollars to help Hillary, right?

If that didn't help Hillary against Trump why should I think it matters in the primary.

You know Trump wasn't running for the Democrat nomination, right?

So Soros is strong enough to control the primary elections but lacks the influence to control the actual Presidential election?

The difference is the left eats itself. Soros has made it known that he hates Gillibrand for pushing Franken to resign. This is going to result in fireworks down the road. As for Trump, Americans in key electoral states decided Trump was more credible than the billion Soros put into the media, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, etc.

Okay then SMAL
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