because he has the or the of impression of being kind of the grandfather from nebraska who's squeaky chien and who owns dairy queen and, you know, aw, shucks, he's got that good american spirit. both of these men are politically active in different ways, but both of these men use that political activism not just to expand their ideas, but to help their investment decisions. so let me begin, first of all, with soros. now, we know that george soros was a close friend and supporter of barack obama. what we also know is that he had an important role to play in the, um, what the stimulus would look like, which industries would benefit and how it would be structured. what a lot of people don't realize, however, is that at the same time in late 2008, early 2009 that george soros was advising the administration on how to structure and where the stimulus would go, he was buying large stakes in companies that would be the exact beneficiaries of that stimulus. he ended up doing or very, very well. i won't go through the list of companies here, but suffice it to say we're talking about millions upon m