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the entire playlist when you’re done watching. I’m Mr. Beat, but who is George Soros? Steven: (angrily) George Soros! Mr. Beat: And why is he
such a controversial figure? Well if I search him on Google I quickly find
this website, for the Open Society Foundations, which is an organization that seems
to be doing good for the world? “Under George Soros’s leadership, the Open
Society Foundations support individuals and organizations across the globe fighting for
freedom of expression, accountable government, and societies that promote justice and equality.”
Ok, ok. And also, over the years, Soros has given away an estimated 64% of his entire
wealth. Well that all sounds good to me. He sounds like a good lad. he corrupted fbi officials he corrupted foreign service officers and the bottom line is this george soros wants to run ukraine and he's doing everything he can to use every lever of the united states government to make that happen for business interests not for good government I just want to tell soros this you need to die i'm not going to kill you i don't want any anybody because i don't turn you into a martyr i'm saying you're going to burn in hell okay it's a universe of your own creation jerk i just want the world to know that you are to blame how's that sound if you're wondering why so many people are being robbed raped and killed in american cities right now george soros is part of the reason for that as you may know the 85 year old billionaire is a far left fanatic whose open society organization advocates no borders anywhere in the world but now we have a far left individual soros bent on harming israel america's strongest ally in the middle east george soros i don't care if he's jewish catholic or atheist i don't care if he's young or old i don't care if he's male female or none of the above what i care about is the content of his character and he has none george soros Steven: George Soros! Ok dang maybe he’s actually evil. Well, I did quite a bit of research about George Soros (George Soros!). I even read a couple books about him. And here it is
what I found out. Let’s go back to the beginning. George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, on
August 12, 1930. Well actually, back then he was named György Schwartz, but his dad changed
his name to make it sound less Jewish. In fact, he had his whole family change their names.
Supposedly his dad chose Soros as their last name since he was really into the Esperanto
language, and “sori” means to soar in Esperanto. George learned Esperanto himself growing up.
Soros also means “next in line” in Hungarian. So anyway, the name change was due to a sharp rise
in antisemitism in Hungary during the 1930s. After the Nazis occupied Hungary in March 1944, they
prohibited Jewish children from going to school and forced them to work. George and his family
probably avoided being sent to concentration camps by buying documents that said they were
Christians. His family was fairly well off and had connections, so they were able
to do such a thing. When George was 14, he began pretending to be the Christian godson
of a Hungarian government official named Baumbach who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding.
One time, he brought George with him while he completed an inventory of a Jewish family’s
confiscated estate. More about this later. After the Allies defeated the Nazis, the Soviet
Union eventually took control of Hungary, and George Soros didn’t like their control of
his country much better. Sure, he and his family didn’t have to pretend to be Christian anymore,
but after getting in trouble for writing the word “amen” in a newspaper he helped make with
his father, he looked to get out of Hungary. By 1947, Soros had his heart set on England, and
he soon moved there. He worked menial jobs while trying to get into college. Apparently sometimes
he would stand at Speakers’ Corner in London lecturing about how awesome internationalism was
and how stupid nationalism was. Oh, and doing it in Esperanto, or course. While he was great
at speaking Esperanto, he sucked at English, and failed his English exam. However,
two years later he passed his exams and enrolled in the London
School of Economics. In school, Soros did pretty well and finished his
regular studies a year early. By that time, he had become heavily influenced by the
writings of the great philosopher Karl Popper. Fortunately for George, he got
Popper as his tutor his final year in school. Popper’s big theory was that essentially
nothing can be known with absolute certainty so the default should always be
a more open society with lots of different ideas for a better
understanding. Well George ate it all up. Popper would be a big influence on
George’s endeavors for decades afterward. Soros got a Master of Science in philosophy
in 1954 at the London School of Economics. Eventually he’d go back and get a Doctor of
Philosophy from the University of London. Still, right out of college he didn’t find success, nor
have connections. He had a hard time even getting a job at any bank apparently, but eventually
finally landed one at Singer & Friedlander after writing to “every manager director in
every merchant bank in London.” Oh, and he only got that job probably because one of the managing
directors there was Hungarian. Soros started out as a clerk but worked his way up to arbitrage,
which is basically buying and selling assets in different markets since the same assets can
have differing prices in different markets. Well Soros got pretty good at this, and in 1956
moved to New York City working as an arbitrage trader for the firm F.M. Mayer. Three years later,
he began working at another firm, Wertheim & Co. It was around this time he began a relationship
with a woman named Annaliese Witschak. The two married in 1960, and eventually would have three
children together: Robert, Andrea, and Jonathan. At Wertheim & Co., Soros worked as
an analyst of European securities. It was during this time that he developed
the Theory of Reflexivity in Markets, which basically says that markets can be
irrational. Investors don’t base their decisions on reality, but instead
on their PERCEPTIONS of reality. Soros began at another firm,
Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder, in 1963, now as a vice president. In his first few
years there, he was more about working on his philosophy dissertation than making money.
However, in 1966 the firm let him experiment with a fund of $100,000, and the account
performed well. Because of its success, the firm let him manage a small investment
fund called the First Eagle Fund. In 1969, he used $4 million to set up a
hedge fund named Double Eagle Fund. Wait, stop right there. What
the heck are hedge funds? Well hedge funds are...complicated,
and kind of boring, but boy can they make investors LOTS OF FREAKING MONEY.
Soros was relatively early to this game, although hedge funds had been around a couple
decades. Basically, hedge funds are investments with client money in alternative investments
to either beat a market or provide a hedge against unforeseen market changes. Because
all the money is pooled together in a big fund and there are less regulations with what
to do with the money, they can invest more aggressively so that everyone potentially makes
lots more money. Soros learned to do this well. In 1973, the Double Eagle Fund had $12
million. At that time, Soros decided to leave Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder and start
his own hedge fund called the Soros Fund, together with his friend Jim Rogers. By
the time they renamed it the Quantum Fund, IT had grown to be worth around
$12 million. That was in 1978. Meanwhile, by this time Soros had decided that
it wasn’t enough to make a bunch of money. He also wanted to give it all away. Now that
he had a small fortune, he established the Open Society Fund in 1979. He began to work toward
his mission of a more “open society.” One place he looked to help was South Africa, which still had
a system of racial segregation simply known as apartheid. He was sneaky with how he wanted to end
apartheid. He believed it started with education, and began giving out scholarships to
help black students attend college there. In 1981, the Quantum Fund was
now worth almost $400 million, and now Soros had a personal fortune
of $100 million. In June of that year, one journalist declared him “the
world’s greatest money manager.” Oh...uh...but by the end of 1981, after a 22%
market drop in value, combined with lots of folks cashing out, it was only worth $200 million.
It didn’t phase Soros a bit. For the rest of the decade, he would consistently gamble aggressively
with his assets. As his ambitions grew, his marriage with Annaliese suffered. The two
divorced in 1983, and he soon after married a historian named Susan Weber. George would have two
more children with Susan- Alexander and Gregory. In the late 1980s, Soros began
betting against currencies. He made HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
shorting the U.S. dollar. By 1987, Soros was well known to investors around
the world. That year, Fortune magazine ran a cover story about him that said he might
just be better than Warren Buffet at investing. Yep, things were going great in 1987, until they
weren’t. You see, Soros bet wrong when the stock market crashed, and ultimately his entire
fund had gone down 10 percent. But again, Soros stayed aggressive, making it
all back by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Soros had begun giving his Open
Society Fund money away to political stuff, funding dissident movements behind the
Iron Curtain, like back in his home country of Hungary and in Poland, and even
in Soviet Russia. He also secretly funded dissident movements in China. Not all of
these movements he funded were successful. In 1989, Soros got into some
trouble with insider trading, but wouldn’t be punished for
it until many years later. In the 1990s, the name George Soros became much
more familiar to many people around the world. In September 1992, he made about $1 billion betting
against, or “shorting,” the United Kingdom’s currency, the pound. On September 16, 1992, a
day called Black Wednesday, the United Kingdom’s treasury quickly lost billions in reserves, which
forced the pound out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. This greatly devalued the pound.
While many suffered, Soros came out big, and made headlines around the world. One journalist called
him “the man who broke the Bank of England.” In the following years, Soros continued
to make more billions betting against currencies in Finland, Thailand, Japan, and
Malaysia, among other countries. In 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, Malaysia’s
prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, accused Soros of using his wealth to punish the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations since they let Myanmar in as a member. Dr. Mahathir suggested yesterday to ban currency trading but this is such an inappropriate suggestion that it doesn't deserve serious consideration interfering with the comfortability of capital at a moment like this is a recipe for disaster dr mahathir is a menace to his own country Mahathir later implied that Soros was causing the financial crisis as part of a larger Jewish conspiracy.
Mahathir later apologized, but others would argue similar criticisms toward Soros in the
coming years as his wealth continued to grow. Meanwhile, he kept giving his wealth away. In the
1990s, he gave around $50 million of his own money to help victims of the Bosnian War. In April 1993,
he founded the Open Society Institute, which is now called Open Society Foundations and is still
in operation. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros funneled tens of millions through
the Open Society Institute to former Soviet satellite countries to promote organizations that
taught the virtues of democracy and capitalism. He soon got new enemies after doing
this, like the Hungarian nationalist politician István Csurka, who also promoted
antisemetic conspiracy theories about Soros. By the 2000s, Soros had set his eyes to
the criminal justice system in the United States. He had long been against the War on Drugs,
believing that drug addiction was a medical issue and shouldn’t be a criminal issue. He started
funneling money to reforming drug law enforcement in Baltimore, Maryland but success there was
slow. By 2004, Soros was thinking much bigger. 2004 was another important year
in the life of George Soros. Steven: (angrily) George Soros! Anyway, for most of his life, Soros didn’t really
pick a political party when he donated his money. He was a political moderate, after all. But
in 2004, Soros was afraid of the direction that George W. Bush was taking not only the United
States, but the entire world, due to his so-called War on Terror and the Iraq War. So for the first
time, Soros picked a side in American politics, donating millions to defeat Bush. Soros
also publicly trashed Bush’s foreign policy. This was when a lot of American conservatives
started to hate him. Soros also later spent millions trying to defeat Donald Trump in both
the 2016 and 2020 election. But it wasn’t just presidential elections. Ever since 2004, Soros
has poured tens of millions of dollars into local and state elections, almost always
supporting the Democratic Party candidates. Meanwhile, Soros continued to donate tens
of millions more to various causes such as racial justice, immigration
reform, expanding internet access, feeding and immunizing those in
poverty, and establishing universities. In 2005, he and his second wife, Susan
Weber, divorced. For the next several years he had a few girlfriends that were
uh...MUCH younger than him. In 2013, he married his third and current wife,
Tamiko Bolton. He was 83. She was 41. That same year, the Quantum Fund made $5.5
billion, making it the most successful hedge fund in history. To date, the fund has generated over
$40 billion. Today George Soros is 90 years old. Despite giving away most of his money, he still
has a net worth of more than $8.6 billion, making him still one of the richest people in the world.
George Soros is also one of the most HATED MEN in the world.
Steven: (angrily) George Soros! Will you stop doing that?
I mean, any video I’ve seen on YouTube that doesn’t make Soros look bad has significantly more
dislikes than likes. And some of the comments….um, yeah.
So why is he so hated? Well it wasn’t just one specific thing that has
led to all the hate, but several things. Of course there are the antisemitic conspiracy
theories that go back to the 1990s when Eastern European nationalist leaders attacked him because
he spent millions against them. You can’t deny the antisemitism related to the hate of him,
especially when you hear the fact that he is Jewish brought up ALL THE TIME. Interestingly,
Soros also gets crap from Jewish folks, too, since he has consistently criticized the Israeli
government. And then of course supporting politicians across the world is going to get
you haters from people who, ya know, don’t like those politicians. Sure, he may have used to be a
moderate dude politically, but today it’s pretty clear his causes are way on the left end of the
spectrum, which is why folks like Glenn Beck have consistently attacked him over the years.
Oh, and I can tell you there’s this one interview that has not aged well.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWizajL7tA) Steven Kroft interviewed him for 60 minutes,
back in 1998. At first glace, Soros kind of comes across as a sociopath, feeling no remorse for
apparently helping to take away Jewish property, even though by this time he clearly knew the Nazis
were responsible and he was going along with it. it my understanding is is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were uh his adopted gods went out in fact and helped in the confiscation of property from the jews that's right i mean that's that sounds uh like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many many years was it difficult not at all not at all maybe as a child you don't you don't see the connection uh but it was it created no no problem at all no feeling of guilt no for example that i'm jewish and here i am watching these people go i could just as easily be there i should be there none of that well of course i could be on the other side or i could be the one from whom it the thing is being taken away there was no sense that i shouldn't be there well actually funny way it's just like in markets that if i weren't there of course i wasn't doing it but somebody else would would be taking it away anyhow university whether i was there or not i was only a spectator the property was being taken away so i had no role in taking away that property Yeah at the very least, Soros comes
across as pretty insensitive in this interview. So many Soros haters point to this clip, but if
you go back and watch it again, Soros never said he confiscated any Jewish property (clip). In
fact, he was probably just brought along. Plus, he was just 14 at the time. Regardless, this
clip is so influential that the pundit Dinesh D'Souza has posted it on his YouTube channel.
Oh, and in that same clip Soros admitted he’s an atheist. That’s gonna trigger some folks.
Later, influential folks like comedian Rosanne Barr Tweeted this and others shared this,
claiming that it was Soros and that he was a Nazi soldier at one time. Yeah that’s actually
a picture of a dude named Oskar Gröning. Overall, there are plenty of billionaires who
influence elections and political movements around the world, but Soros doesn’t hide
it that much. In fact, he’s very outspoken. So yeah, basically George Soros is just another
billionaire trying to pull the puppet strings, but let’s be honest here. Most of the time he comes up
short. Most billionaires who try to solve all the world’s problems struggle because it’s not easy.
There are always unintended consequences. And Soros has struggled to make himself look good.
It’s ironic- he says he’s always just tried to make the world a better place, and even wrote
books to try to explain how his intentions are always pure. But despite all that, today millions
think he’s the devil himself. Just ask my aunt.
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So yeah i predict that this video will eventually have more dislikes than likes because i
didn't really trash Soros that much i just try to lay out some facts about him and no he didn't pay
me to make this video i'd have a much nicer shirt on if that was the case okay and maybe my student
loans would be paid off his foundation didn't contact me no i'm just some guy in a basement
some teacher in Kansas that made this video this isn't part of a large conspiracy here i
literally was curious about why so many people hated George Soros and so i just read books you
should try reading books too sometime but what do you think am i a shill for the new world order
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out the full playlist and thanks for watching.
The far right smearing him as a Nazi — a guy who was a kid at the time, and whose people were slaughtered by actual Nazis — is one of the most disgusting hatchet jobs I've ever seen.
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Nice video, thanks for posting. This was the perfect primer for something I was never going to look up. I guess now that I watched it, am I eligible for Soros bux?
I don’t like soros! He payed me to tear down some statues and he hadn’t paid me! I’ve called the new order hotline 666-6666 to ask but they haven’t picked up. What should I do guys