The Shoe Is On The Other Foot

Posted on 28/10/2025 by Grumpa Joe
Soros, Funders of Domestic Terrorism, Form ‘Coalition’ Against Fed Investigations
Mon, 27 Oct 2025 2:13 PM PST by Daniel Greenfield

The Soros clan, along with other family foundations of the liberal elite, Knight, MacArthur, Ford, Omidyar, and the Rockefellers, have announced that they’re teaming up to fight investigations by the Justice Department.

While Alex Soros, George’s son, bragged that he would not give in, “over my dead body”, the presidents of the MacArthur and McKnight Foundations have declared that everyone needs to dust off their “crisis plans” and put their “legal teams on speed dial” ahead of a crackdown.

What are they afraid of?

The Unite in Advance coalition was formed so quickly by the big liberal grantmaking groups funding radicalism to form a ‘united front’ that it didn’t even have the time to build a site.

While Unite in Advance’s joint letter mentions the Charlie Kirk assassination and subsequent investigations of Antifa and other radical groups, an initial version of this ‘unity’ push had come out back in April with over 700 leftist groups, led by the MacArthur Foundation and, despite the claims of ‘non-violence’ included signatories like the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, where a key figure supported Hezbollah, the Soros network, which has provided money to extremist and terrorist front groups, and BLM funders like the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

The latest incarnation of what the radical leftist funders are billing as the ‘Freedom to Give’ complains that they are being portrayed as “contributing to those acts of violence” and accuses unnamed figures, seemingly conservatives and the Trump administration, of plotting to “silence speech, criminalize opposing viewpoints, and misrepresent and limit charitable giving.”

After decades of trying to censor, ‘debank’ and ban conservative groups, the funders of these efforts are suddenly hailing a “freedom to give” when the investigation risks turning their way.

It’s nice that the Knight Foundation, a major SPLC donor, and which also provided millions to fund ‘disinformation’ research which was used to deplatform and silence opposing groups, has suddenly come around to believing in the value of free speech. But only when it’s their speech.

But speech, on either side, isn’t a crime. Funding domestic terrorism however is.

The frantic calls for unity, the 700+ signatories of the April letter and the 200 plus and counting foundations that have signed on to the ‘Unite in Advance’ letter are rightly worried about their legal exposure to funding foreign and domestic terrorist groups, rioters and others engaged in criminal activities that, as Freedom Center Investigates has shown over the years, violates their nonprofit status.

Take the Climate Emergency Fund, a 501(c)(3), funding some of the environmental vandalism in America and around the world, which received a founding grant from the Aileen Getty Foundation. The Getty Foundation bragged about “Greta Thunberg and disruptive groups like Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion” which vandalized art masterpieces around the world.

Then there was the financial backing for the BLM movement from big nonprofit players like the Ford Foundation and W.K. Kellogg. And there’s the Soros backing for groups involved in the campus pro-Hamas riots and the more recent anti-ICE riots. Even the legal ‘non-violent’ No Kings protests can fall afoul of the tax-exempt nonprofit status of an organization depending on how they are being conducted.

Free speech is sacrosanct, but that doesn’t cover burning down neighborhoods, assaulting police officers, attacking Jewish students on campus or vandalizing art museums. Nor, for that matter, does it cover blocking roadways, shutting down Congress and other illegal activities that have been billed as ‘civil disobedience’ but that serve as grounds for loss of tax-exempt status.

The big lefty foundations assumed that they could not and would not be held accountable. Now they’re panicking because the Trump administration is moving to finally impose accountability.

The billionaire funders of leftist hate and violence have taken to pretending that they’re “charitable giving organizations” that contribute to “communities”, helping “new parents and elders, veterans and school children, hospitals and libraries.”

The reality is that the vast majority of their ‘giving’ is political.

You don’t go to George Soros if you’re hungry. The Open Society Foundations describe giving grants to “movements, coalitions, networks, collectives and even informal groups”.

Not soup kitchens.

The MacArthur Foundation lists categories such as ‘climate solutions’ and ‘criminal justice’. The first signatory to the Unite in Advance letter is the Action for Transformation Fund which announced that it’s “moving resources to trans-led organizing”.

Other signatories include the Foundation for Systemic Change that works to “highlight ongoing economic, political, social, racial, ethnic, and environmental inequities”, the Fund for Nonviolence, which ironically helped unleash a crime wave, and iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility, which focuses on ‘systemic racism’.

None of this is charity, it’s leftist political organizing, and the refusal by the signatories to come out and say so, or to hide behind smaller local nonprofits, is dishonest and shameful.

If these big foundations had been funding soup kitchens, hospitals and libraries, rather than political organizing and radical violence, they wouldn’t need to preemptively form a ‘Unite in Advance’ front. And the heads of the MacArthur and McKnight foundations wouldn’t be urging foundations to “stand in solidarity”, organizing for mutual defense against “threats”.

They’re not afraid of being busted for feeding the poor, but for feeding violence and hate.

Now the groups that tried to shut down their political opponents are rallying to the Constitution and the First Amendment, things they never believed in and had worked to destroy, but suddenly rediscovered just in time to become born-again patriots and lovers of freedom.

But no one is buying it.

When these leftist groups had the chance, they tried to eliminate the political opposition. Now they’re terrified of having the actual laws, not imaginary laws about ‘disinformation’, but actual tax code regulations and domestic terrorism laws, being enforced against their activities.

And wouldn’t that be a shame.



Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

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Who Will Take His Place?

Posted on 12/09/2025 by Grumpa Joe

It has taken me a few hours to process the assassination of Charlie Kirk. He was one of my favorite people. I first met him at a Tea Party meeting in 2008. He was just fresh out of high school. Our Tea Party leader asked him to speak to us about his experiences with liberal teachers at his high school. I was flabbergasted to hear how assinine many of his teachers were. Charlie was an excellent speaker, and well rehearsed although I suspected that he was speaking extemporaneously. He was that good. I followed his career and sent him money on occasion to help him establish Turning Point USA.

It saddened me to hear of his execution. No one in the world can replace him. I thought the same of Rush Limbaugh when he died, but Dan Bongino filled his space in the world. When Bongino quit his radio show to take a spot in the FBI, I asked myself the same question: Who will fill his place? Within two weeks, he had found Vince Coglinaise. After listening to Vince I was satisfied that he was just as capable as Bongino or Limbaugh. Nevertheless, I would much rather listen to the commentary of Rush Limbaugh.

During the time I spend in my workshop, I listen to Podcasts, and Charlie Kirk was always my favorite. He had a knack for finding people who were like-minded as he and who could keep a dialogue going for the half hour time they spent together. Charlie was one hundred percent conservative. He had an innate ability to debate with liberals and loved the challenge of doing so. Because I am hooked on watching YouTube videos I particularly enjoyed watching Charlie destroy competitors from well known colleges like Harvard, or Oxford. He mastered the art of debate and relished taking on anyone who thought they could out argue him. I miss him.

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A Giant Can Of Worms

Posted on 14/06/2025 by Grumpa Joe

It feels strange not to be writing for my blog, and today, I feel guilty for attempting to spill my brain out in words. As always, I begin writing. Nonsense at first, like the sentence above. Eventually, after a few sentences, my brain finds its way to a subject out of the ether. There is so much going on in the world, and in my life, it is hard to choose a topical direction. There are times when I am in the middle of an art piece and I will show photos of the work in progress. Other times, the news gets to me and I pick a political topic to opine on. The big topic in the news is war. The battle between Ukraine and Russia and now the fight between Israel and Iran. The battle on the streets of America rapidly evolving into civil war. I predicted a civil war amongst Americans when Obama first began his transformation of a civilized country into one of division. Rapidly, our neighbors are turning on each other. Although I do not know a single neighbor whose politics different than mine who will ignite a civil war.

The differences between Conservatives and Liberals in our country is real, strong, and flammable. These differences are definitely not rooted in race, religion, language, or ethnicity. They are emanating from within people’s minds. The war in Ukraine seems to be based on a pissing contest between ego-maniacs. Russia wants more land; Specifically the land Ukranians live on. I guess that a country that spans five times zones is not large enough to be significant. There is always something a neighbor has that you don’t and wallah, let’s go to war for it.

The fight, I have the most trouble understanding involves Jews. Historically, the Jews have always been the underdog. Hatred for Jews goes back thousands of years and I don’t know if anybody has ever known why. The current dispute between Palestinians and Iranians and Jews is unfathomable. Only one reason comes to me that is a possibility for disharmony. Take for example the differences between Jews and Arabs. They all come from the same area of the world, they all look alike, they live in the same region, yet they are totally different. Some say, the Jews use their cunning for business to cheat others. I can’t believe that there is a gene that spells a difference between one tribe having a stronger business gene than the other. The only difference that is logically noticeable is religion. The Jews model their lives upon the ten commandments. A second difference is that Jews hold a belief that there is but one God, and have done so for thousands of years. Muslims have modeled their religion on the Life of Mohammad. Although, there are some similarities between the two religions I can only understand a few of the differences. All of Mohammad’s rules are written in the Koran, and the single biggest difference lies in the belief that Islam believes that one God rules all. Judaism also believes in one God, but also in a separation between the state and God. There can be ethical, and moral rules as defined by the ten commandments and those dictating earthly matters such as property ownership, speed limits, boundaries, taxes. etc.

What is more intriguing is the hatred of jews by non-muslims, like Hitler. What is it that incites people to hate each other?

Growing up, I never disliked anyone, but I did pick up racial hatred from my parents. When Mom and Dad arrived in America from Europe, they did not have an inborn dislike for black people. They didn’t have blacks in that part of the world. I believe that Dad learned to dislike blacks from his superiors and co-workers on the railroad he worked for. Mom learned from her girlfriends and Dad. They did bring an attitude about Jews from Europe. We never discussed the matter, but my opinion is that they disliked Jews because Jews were responsible for killing Jesus.

So, why are the Iranians and other Muslim countries so focused on killing jews? What did the Jews do to make their neighbors hate them so? You tell me.

One scenario for this hatred is this; athough Jews have been a community in the mid-east for several thousand years, they did not become a country until 1948. When Israel was founded the total area dedicated to them was rather small as compared to neighboring countries like Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan all of which eclipse Israel in size. Palestine was also a large community that occupied the same area as Israel and declared itself a state in 1988. Therein lies the problem. Both populations, Israel with over nine million and Palestine at five million citizens live side by side in towns scattered throughout the same territory. Picture a map of towns both Israeli and Palestinian occupying side by side within the same territory. Both populations wanting to be in control. Each claiming sovereignty over the other. Imagine a Palestinian going to work in the morning and having to cross a border into an Israeli town only to pass into another Palestinian town to another Israeli border to enter an Israeli town where your job is located. Imagine having to live by all the rules of both countries multiple times a day while commuting.

The whole situation is giving me a headache.

The answer is that I don’t know and don’t care. We are too far apart to get into it. If the Palestinian lived in Frankfort and I became friends with him, things would be different, and we’d argue things out. In the meantime, I suffer from hearing all the opinions and news reports about Israel and Palestine.

If the Jews don’t wipe out all of the Palestinians, and the Jews don’t annihilate all the Iranians, this skirmish will last another thousand years.

See, I told you at the start that I don’t have anything to write about, but I did it again. I found a topic after I began pushing keys and opened a giant can of worms.

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Pay Off the Debt

Posted on 21/02/2025 by Grumpa Joe

Have you ever poked a stick into a hornet’s nest? That happened when Trump hired Elon Musk as his advisor to head the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE. Democrats and liberals all have their tails on fire about Musk, an unelected official, looking into the financial goings-on of the government. He may soon be able to answer my question: how do elected officials who earn $175,000 per year leave office as millionaires?

How quickly the public, especially Democrats, has forgotten that President Obama hired as many as thirty-two non-elected Czars to assist him with transforming America. I blogged about it in a post titled “If You Want To Be A Radical, Hang With Radicals.”

Musk’s latest question: Is there any gold in Fort Knox? The place seems so secret that no one can access it to learn about gold. I was surprised to learn that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has submitted, but denied formal requests to visit Fort Knox, located in his home state. I have also wondered about the state of our gold reserves. It is hard to imagine what tons of gold looks like. A favorite TV program that I watch is Gold Rush. The effort required to remove ounces of gold from the ground is overwhelming. Since a small part of my engineering career was spent designing equipment that was used in the mining process I found it extremely interesting to watch how enterprising men use the machines to extract gold. All I can say is that there must be a huge vein of the shiny metal in the mountains of Alaska that erodes and washes down into the lower plains.

Somewhere in my family, there is a gold coin about the size of a shirt button. It belonged to my parents, who were allowed to hold up to five troy ounces when President Roosevelt declared the hoarding of gold forbidden in 1933. People who turned in their gold were compensated with paper money equal to the value of the gold. To my knowledge, the small coin was the only gold my parents owned. The only gold I own is in the wedding ring I wear.

I approve of the actions being taken by President Trump to “Drain the Swamp” by exposing and eliminating all government waste and fraud. Often, in the past, I have written about my frustration with the Federal Bureaucracy and wondered how we could rid ourselves of this anchor around our necks. The bureaus create too many regulations that cost us a fortune, and there is nothing we can do about it except vote for politicians who promise to cut costs. My experience is that voting on promises is a lost cause. Political promises are like smoke, they are active and visible during the campaign, but then dissipate and disappear.

My support for this new action to finally cut our debt is strong. The only objection I have to date is Trump’s suggestion that the money saved should be returned to the people. No money should be returned until our national debt is paid in full. We will all be prosperous beyond our wildest dreams when that is done.

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Big Government Inside a Bigger Government

Posted on 18/02/2025 by Grumpa Joe

There are times when I am very dissatisfied with my country. Today is one of those days. I had another lesson learning that big, big government is stupid and expensive. My wife Lovely has reached out to an employment agency to seek a job. Lovely is a caretaker who has practiced the art for over twenty years. She is also a degreed nurse, having trained in a USSR bloc country. All she wants is a chance to take care of someone and get paid for it. The deep blue State of Illinois has decreed that to take care of someone for pay that person must have their background checked. They are not interested in checsking her nursing credentials or her experience as a caretaker, only that she is not a felon. One step in the process is to be fingerprinted. The prints are then sent to the Illinois State Police for a clearance.

Fingerprinting today differs from when they pressed your fingers onto an ink pad and then pressed it into a square on a piece of paper. Today they press your fingers onto an electronic pad and hope the machine captures the swirls of your fingertips. It is a little like when I programmed my phone with fingerprint I.D. It took me several swipes before the program would recognize me reliably. Lovely went through this process and submitted her prints to the agency, who then forwarded them to the State Police. The State Police replied a week later that the prints were rejected. Nothing more. The job agency called her and told her that her fingerprints were rejected and would have to be retaken. Today we went back to the same approved service provider to retake them. We were bonged on the spot. “In order to retake your fingerprints I need a copy of the rejection letter and a new order.”

“Where do I get that?”

“You get it from the employment agency that originated it.”

A picture of a German Shepherd chasing its tail filled my mind. WTF? How are these fingerprints ensuring that the woman is capable of caring for someone? Evidently, the lawmakers of the Illinois Senate who wrote this law think fingerprints are important.

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