Right-Wing Activists Respond To March For Our Lives By Attacking Students And Blaming Soros

[Initech]

Right-wing activists and media figures went all-out in their attacks on the March for Our Lives gun reform rallies on Saturday, including attacking the rallies’ funding and organization, blaming “political correctness” and comparing Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting survivor David Hogg to Adolf Hitler.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., and in cities across the country to call for stricter gun laws and call out politicians who have received funding and support from the National Rifle Association. Polling shows that most Americans support the march’s calls for gun reform.

Predictably, right-wing pundits went after billionaire George Soros—conservative activists’ favorite bogeyman—in an effort to minimize the legitimacy of the protests. Breitbart radio host Joel Pollak said it was “no surprise” that the march was a “Soros production.” The site’s sports editor Dylan Gwinn said that “we all know that these kids are being coached.”

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said that teenager-led March for Our Lives marches were “scripted and funded by the Democrats” and said that the “welfare queens” attending the rallies “all look mentally ill.” Infowars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson wrote that the “real agenda” behind the March for Our Lives rallies was “the end of the Second Amendment, by force if necessary.”

Feeding into the claims that the march had been orchestrated by liberal mega-donors, Pro-Trump media troll Jack Posobiec live-streamed video of the buses that some activists had used to travel to D.C., reporting on the shocking detail that organizers had coordinated with security staff to park the buses in a secure area. He encouraged viewers to call the companies that owned the buses to find out who had hired them.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-activists-respond-to-march-for-our-lives-by-attacking-students-and-blaming-soros/

Sigh... these morons are on the losing end of the battle.

[Wounded Bear]

1. I wish Soros was half as politically active as the RW echo chamber accuses him of being...

He does a lot, I guess, but he is badly outnumbered by the typical CEO-class asshole.

[Initech]

3. He must like going for broke.

[crazycatlady]

6. exactly-- the Koch Brothers are a lot more politically active

[njhoneybadger]

2. Can Soros sue the bastards

[poboy2]

4. Damn you Soros! That guy is superhuman, has unlimited funds and reach.

Where does he find the time to do his evil?

[Initech]

7. I really wonder how much money the MAGATs really think he has?

I'll wait.

[MrScorpio]

5. These morons will believe whatever they want to believe

They're just making shit up as they go along.

[Initech]

9. I think we should just own their conspiracy bullshit!

Just at the next rally hang a giant "Executive produced and funded by George Soros" sign, and have actual buses full of people arrive at the rallies with red carpets, it would blow their minds!

[MrScorpio]

12. I'm game.

AS a matter of fact, the next time I happen across some RWNJ troll, I'll just ask him if he has any time to hear about "Our Lord and Savior, George Soros."

I'm sure that they won't be bothering me for long after that.

[Initech]

14. Easy - just tell them to go see your Lambo you have parked out front.

Tell them you bought it with Soros money. He's spending like a baller, yo!

[Qutzupalotl]

8. If any of you see Soros, ask him about my checks.

That deadbeat is about ten rallies behind.

The whole Soros conspiracy theory was invented because the snowflake right can’t deal with the fact that millions of people willingly give their time and energy to this cause not for money but because they believe in it. That should scare them, and it does. The conspiracy theory is easier for them to swallow.

And being told by Alex Jones that you look mentally ill is ... something.

[JHB]

17. It's an update of the old "marching orders from Moscow" mouth-foam...

...because they need an Eastasia to have always been at war with.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. It bothers me that these students are being attacked by the right wingers.

They are not asking for any more than most Americans want, according to the most recent polling.

The real irony is that they will want their votes as soon as they turn 18.

[maryellen99]

11. Also the leader of the rock band that was playing during the Bataclan attack

He called them traitors and that they didn’t survive anything.

[LanternWaste]

13. Giggle at them with bemusement... for they are fighting mere children, and losing.

Public sentiment is turning in favor of the youth movement, and there's a lot of people invested in seeing it go no further, pontificating on polls non-reflective of the here and now.

This week has seen the pro-weapon industry talking points go out, getting them on the same page and the same mind, and of one voice. We can clearly see those points infiltrating even progressive enclaves.

Giggle at them with bemusement... for they are fighting mere children, and losing.

[JHB]

15. Back in Ye Olden Days they'd say "they got their marching orders straight from the Kremlin"...

...but that's a Republican gig these days, and they gotta blame some bogeyman.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. JFC! How stupid are these people? You're not supposed to mention Soros without Saul Alinsky!

[Initech]

18. I know, right?

[Jake Stern]

19. IF Soros is paying protesters then he's creating more jobs than Trump

Thought Republicans loved job creators?

[Behind the Aegis]

20. More thinly-veiled anti-Semitism.

I posted something awhile back about the right-wing gun-humping morons utilizing anti-Semitism, all the while, misusing the Holocaust and victimization of Jews.