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    Default David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, dies at 79

    Last edited by Guno צְבִי; 08-23-2019 at 08:10 AM.
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    Glad that piece of shit is dead.
    When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist


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    With the wealth from their business, the Koch brothers helped to build a massive conservative network of donors for organizations that work to mobilize voters and sway elected officials in support of libertarian-leaning economic policies.

    The network, led by the nonprofit Americans for Prosperity, has spent more than $1 billion over the past several elections to support candidates that adhere to their free-market, small-government, libertarian ideals.

    he was a funder of the teabaggers
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    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.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Wow, you guys are sick. Mentally ill.

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    The Kochs have invested multi-millions in more than 85 right-wing organizations over the years to push an anti-government, libertarian agenda. Many local Tea Party chapters were fronts for Americans for Prosperity, one of their groups. Another big recipient, ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, drafts bills and talking points that Republican officials cite again and again. In the 2012 presidential election cycle, the Koch’s right-wing donor network spent $400 million on electioneering.

    The Koch brothers want to destroy the most popular government program of all, Social Security, by funding right-wing think tanks that spread misinformation about Social Security’s long-term financial health, claiming it will not survive. They want people to invest their retirement savings on Wall Street, which is riskier and would earn billions in fees for investment firms. They want to raise the retirement age for Social Security to 70, which would especially penalize blue-collar workers who do manual labor, as their bodies wear out more quickly than white-collar workers.

    Americans for Prosperity led a successful takeover of the school board in Wake County, North Carolina in 2009, which then ended student busing to resegregate high schools. They resurrected the coded rhetoric of the old South, using terms like “forced busing” and “neighborhood schools.” After hundreds of students were sent to other schools, the uproar was so great the AFP slate was voted out two years later, but not before the kids experienced racism and prejudice.
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    David Koch was a national treasure, a patriot and great American.

    His Conservative groups will carry on his work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Yurt View Post
    Wow, you guys are sick. Mentally ill.
    Was there ever any doubt. But I imagine my side will be cheering louder when Ginsberg croaks; while Trump is in office.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    I hope the cause is contagious and he gave it to Trump.

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    Beelzebub has called him home. There is smoke on the wind.
    " First they came for the journalists...
    We don't know what happened after that . "

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    Koch brothers want open borders and cheap labor to flood the US and pro outsourcing. They are libertarians and far from conservative.

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    The kochsuckers created the teabaggers , now it has come home to bite them as they morphed into trumpanzees
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    One billionaire never-Trump open borders douche bag down, one more to go.

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    From the politics make strange bedfellows, guno and ILA both celebrating Kochs' demise. Koch didn't support Trump and was a "globalist".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl the groaning goyim View Post
    David Koch was a national treasure, a patriot and great American.

    His Conservative groups will carry on his work.

    well that "treasurer" is going 6 foot under
    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.







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