{"id":30013,"date":"2017-01-12T20:12:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T01:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30013"},"modified":"2017-01-12T20:12:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T01:12:56","slug":"sometimes-i-simply-lack-sympathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30013","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I Simply Lack Sympathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/george-soros-lost-1-billion-after-election\/article\/2611676\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Examiner<\/a> is reporting today that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"George Soros\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgesoros.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">George Soros<\/a> lost $1 billion after the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;Mr. Soros was cautious about the market going into November and became more bearish immediately after Mr. Trump&#8217;s election, according to people close to the matter,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/billionaire-george-soros-lost-nearly-1-billion-in-weeks-after-trump-election-1484227167\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Wall Street Journal report<\/a>. After the rally, Soros dropped many of his losing positions but not before incurring substantial losses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The billionaire likely will be able to absorb the hit. His namesake firm, Soros Management Fund LLC, has a reported $30 billion in assets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Soros, an 86-year-old native of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hungary\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=47.4333333333,19.25&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=47.4333333333,19.25 (Hungary)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Hungary<\/a>, is a prominent supporter of liberal causes and groups. He was instrumental in founding such groups as the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Center for American Progress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.900373,-77.031047&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=38.900373,-77.031047 (Center%20for%20American%20Progress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Center for American Progress<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Media Matters\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Media Matters for America<\/a>. He poured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/outsidespending\/summ.php?cycle=2016&amp;disp=D&amp;type=V\" target=\"_blank\">$19 million<\/a> into the 2016 election on behalf of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrats<\/a>, including presidential nominee <a class=\"event-tracking auto-keyword\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" data-action=\"auto_keyword\" data-label=\"hillary clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, according to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Center for Responsive Politics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_for_Responsive_Politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Center for Responsive Politics<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Soros has been meddling in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Politics of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Politics_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">American politics<\/a> for some time. It was revealed last summer that many of the people arrested in various protests supporting left-wing causes were being paid through Soros&#8217; organizations. Frankly I am glad that he will have a little less money to try to influence our elections. He is not a friend of our republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner is reporting today that George Soros lost $1 billion after the 2016 election. The article reports: &#8220;Mr. Soros was cautious about the market going into November and became more bearish immediately after Mr. Trump&#8217;s election, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[712,991,1457],"class_list":["post-30013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-george-soros","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30014,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30013\/revisions\/30014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}