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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I vehemently disagree with their politics and how they used their vast wealth to make life worse for the rest of us. However, they did support PBS programming; I recall seeing the Koch name on sponsors of one of our favorite programs, Nova.

    RIP, David Koch.
    I do not wish death on anyone, it is bad mojo.....

    .....but speaking of old white guys kicking the bucket this does bring up a demographic issue.

    I was reading an Op-Ed yesterday in which the assertion was made that Trump simply cannot win by relying on the popular vote-losing base that gave him an electoral college win in 2016. Ain't gonna work for him.

    The main reason being that his 2016 base, demographically, was so old and elderly that a lot of them are already dead, or will be dead before the November 2020 election - and secondly, that millenials and those coming of voting age are increasingly and consistently voting more liberal and Democratic.

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    Michael Moore:

    Trump will win in 2016

    Trump will win in 2020.

    The elderly who pass are replaced by more seniors who will, once again, vote for our great president.

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    fuck both of them, PBS support or not
    their astroturf movement created the scourge of America...…...the Tea Party (aka Teabillie Nation)


    How Big Oil and Big Tobacco partnered with the Koch brothers to take over the GOP

    Charles and David Koch—who, if their individual fortunes were combined in one place, would quite possibly represent the wealthiest person on earth—have almost certainly spent or raised more than a billion dollars to successfully bend one of the two national parties in America to their will. The long rise of the Tea Party movement was orchestrated, well funded, and deliberate. Its aim was to break Washington. And it has nearly succeeded, as America saw in the debt-ceiling debacle of 2011, prompted by the Republican Party’s demand that the president negotiate over deficit reduction in exchange for an increase in the maximum amount of money the US Treasury is allowed to borrow. There are no mistakes or accidents in the Tea Party movement. Its leadership has made certain of that.

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    It made good business sense—and good political sense as well. You could relabel just about anything as a tax, and heaven knows the American public hates taxes. This, at its core, was the beginning of the American Tea Party revolt against the power of the government to pay for its programs. They could recruit average citizens from a variety of ideological groups to their cause. They would work side by side with corporate-directed workers and employees, providing real boots on the ground when enough activists weren’t readily available. And no one would be the wiser—or even care— that these “grassroots” anti-tax groups would be jointly created and funded by the largest private oil company and the largest cigarette company in the world.

    https://time.com/secret-origins-of-the-tea-party/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I do not wish death on anyone, it is bad mojo.....

    .....but speaking of old white guys kicking the bucket this does bring up a demographic issue.

    I was reading an Op-Ed yesterday in which the assertion was made that Trump simply cannot win by relying on the popular vote-losing base that gave him an electoral college win in 2016. Ain't gonna work for him.

    The main reason being that his 2016 base, demographically, was so old and elderly that a lot of them are already dead, or will be dead before the November 2020 election - and secondly, that millenials and those coming of voting age are increasingly and consistently voting more liberal and Democratic.
    Exactly

    That's why they are ginning up their base , fear and aggrievement and the result is what we re seeing with shootings
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    Grim Reaper 1 Koch 0
    AM I, I AM's,AM I.
    What day is Michaelmas on?

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    Americans for Prosperity is a little-known, billionaire-funded organization that has pushed US politics to the right. How did it happen?

    How the Koch brothers built the most powerful rightwing group you've never heard of


    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...olitical-group

    ah the birth of Teabagger puppets, following any right wing Great Leader shoved down their throats, mindless traitors

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    Evil Globalist Open borders monster is gone. He was plotting thru his Pac to destroy Trump and his allies. God knows the damage this creep has done over the years .
    Hell is filling up.

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    Also one less POS to coordinate with George Soros. Just yesterday I read the Kochs have joined up with Soros on internet censorship.



    It’s the Trump Curse. Some open-borders POS announces that he won’t contribute to R’s anymore because he hates President Trump, and the next thing you know... more winning!

    Democrats hate Koch because they were envious of his wealth, because otherwise they seemed to agree on all the issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Michael Moore:

    Trump will win in 2016

    Trump will win in 2020.

    The elderly who pass are replaced by more seniors who will, once again, vote for our great president.
    yes of course goyim hint: the cracka population has shrunk

    the cracka goyim are now 40% of the population, trumps base

    an this was from over 2 years ago


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    Hoping Soros next ASAP.

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    Four more years...then Ivanka.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    yes of course goyim

    the cracka goyim are now 40% of the population, trumps base

    an this was from over 2 years ago


    LOL...this coming from a black? If u are

    Someone that is 13% of the population with most of those in prison or killing each other off!

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    the very fact those two assholes created the Tea Party is cause enough to piss on their graves

    look at the damage that astroturf org has done to the nation

    others can ignore these atrocities and say R.I.P. - not me

    fuck that piece of shit, rot in hell!

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    LOL...this coming from a black? If u are

    Someone that is 13% of the population with most of those in prison or killing each other off!
    And your kind will not be the majority anymore


    The US White Majority Will Soon Disappear Forever
    White nationalists want America to be white again. But this will never happen. America is on its way to becoming predominantly nonwhite.

    https://today.tamu.edu/2019/05/06/th...ppear-forever/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    I hope the cause is contagious and he gave it to Trump.
    Will you cry if it isn't?
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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