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Lanhdanan
85179
1493
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr1%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1
TheFastpaws
I vote we drag him into the street and hit him with bags of oranges for all he's helped murder.
CantStopTheRock
Maybe we shouldn't let they assholes who directly benefit tell us what to think.
PhooBar
If you really wanna ignore democracy Chuck, move to China.
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
A reminder that his ‘We’ has nothing to do with our ‘We’.
Biggless9
Shouldn't he be in a nursing home or dead by now instead of inflicting himself on Our Country?
theenemysgateisdown
The Dark Side of the Force is strong with this one.
Groetgaffel
Eat. The. Rich.
laurenlena1
MrBobSaget
FWIW, Koch was not actually on the call that this picture is referencing. People who work at Americans for Prosperity were, though.
NotABadLookingNarcissist
Crazy how many right wingers are a) okay with this cause their political views align with this ghoul b) can’t see that his policies goals 1/
NotABadLookingNarcissist
2/ only serve the billionaire/millionaire class and tend to hurt everyone else and society as a whole.
MattLefferts
Remember a few months ago when he tried to claim regret for the damage done to US politics and wanted to work with the other side too?
NotABadLookingNarcissist
“bUt gEoRGe sOrOs dOeS iT tOo!” Yeah, we don’t want his money buying politicians either.
APointlessBee
when did he say that?
APointlessBee
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-koch-backed-effort-to-block-the-largest-election-reform-bill-in-half-a-century
Redbulloth
In fairness, that says it was a Koch operative, not him. Still a piece of shit, but the quote isn't technically him
spontaneous9
"WE" would be better off? Exactly WHO is "WE" in this case? You and your CPA? Fuck you, Koch.
ccallahan6343
Conservatives are evil incarnate! There fixed it for you
lwoshea
I am really surprised, given the number of guns in America, that politically-motivated assassination rates are so low.
SnowpersonHitInTheFaceWithALackOfCreativity
Word
Shaodyn
Anyone who says "we would be better off ignoring the will of the voters" is someone who needs to shut up forever.
Huglife101
This Koch sucker here..
TheBlindWatchmaker
In my oppinion, kill the bill is the best movie from Quentin the Tarrantino
urugami
But, it IS the will of the voters to kill that bill.
oldmarley
I'll let Deadwood speak for me: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/bc2a1e56-d47c-4102-8632-48996d2978bf
allthenamesaregone
He doesn't even see himself as a voter anymore. Complete evil mastermind complex.
mycatToastwasafatasshole
Once you have enough money in the US you aren't a voter, you're a decision maker.
NotABadLookingNarcissist
He def puts on the “ol’ timey, fiscal conservative, gentle southern grandpa” act when cameras are on him.
NonstopRampage
There's only one way to deal with supervillains.
SpacemanOdi
Yo. I'd love to anger myself by reading about another evil corp overlord. Do you happen to have an easy to digest article that'll summerize?
NotABadLookingNarcissist
Oh. He’s the dark lord of funneling right wing money into politics and colleges.
WolfPackMedic
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erischilde
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/amp35970185/koch-operatives-hr-1-dark-money-elections/
SpacemanOdi
Thanks. Also, yeah they suck,
kastewbeef
wakar1ma5en
How bout we introduce this guy to a lead pipe.
afatrollofmyown
Drowning won't damage the meat as much. But there is a case for tenderizing before we feast.
funchermuncher
Drawing and quartering sounds better
NonstopRampage
dennydorko
Didn't come out last year feeling guilty about the shit he's pulled? (1/2)
dennydorko
https://www.wsj.com/articles/charles-koch-says-his-partisanship-was-a-mistake-11605286893 (2/2)
ElPhantasmo13
I used to work for one of his companies, every single time he’d publish a book, you’d get it in the mail, and a deduction from your next 1/
ElPhantasmo13
Paycheck for the cover price of the book. You were also strongly advised to join their political group, not doing so was frowned upon.
nimbleminx
What. They forced you to buy the book? Is that even legal?
ElPhantasmo13
Wish I knew. Many things his companies do are questionable on the legality scale.
TCGreen
How is that legal?
ElPhantasmo13
Wish I knew. Many things his companies do are questionable on the legality scale.
Mehtoes
The most american thing I've ever heard.
johnvictor
They wouldn't be considered the enemy of the people to those in the know if they just shut the fuck up and let some good happen once
sadurdaynight
(rich person) *holds up two candidates* which do you like, red or blue? (people) *vote* (rp) good choice.. Anyways.. Back to my money..
PhooBar
I think you have accurately summarized the situation. Yes.
NonstopRampage
The worst part is when they give us actual options, because they HAD to, then immediately throw out our votes and decide for themselves. /1
NonstopRampage
We're literally reaching a point where even other politicians get arrested for being on the wrong side of the anti-democratics. Where a /2
NonstopRampage
Lunatic governor had a detractors office raided by essentially the gestapo. They're literally the definition of a domestic threat to America
llamprey
he's an old super-rich man. Why is he screwing us? It must give him tingles in his naughty bits.
pollypocketfullofposies
I really hope the next generation of politicians are different. There's always an invisible line that gets crossed, you can see it on a 1/
pollypocketfullofposies
smaller level when someone at work goes from base worker to manager and they suddenly care about the "bottom line" and not wanting to 2/
pollypocketfullofposies
fill in the shifts they themselves used to scream "the manager should be here helping!". There are lines like that everywhere. 3/
joe6paques
It’s really sad. If I had that much money I’d use it for fun things, not hurting people.
bngd
Generational trauma
DontDoWhatDonaldDontDoes
You don't get that much money without hurting people
betmcc19721
And you'd use the money to help the hurt people Sometimes I dream about what I'd do w that kind of money. I'd start in the schools & medical
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
FallingStar7669
If I had Jeff Bezos money, every one of my friends and family, and their children for five generations, would be set for life.
ImgurMadeMeChangeMyNameCauseItsDumb
And most of them would grow up to be ungrateful cunts who would give interviews about how they are self made.
bripi
People with money like this have this because they manipulated the system to their advantage. This is what they do!
qPRdxH4UXm36HS9rJgLA
The Koch brothers initially got into politics to shut down an investigation of them stealing oil from Indian reservations.
qPRdxH4UXm36HS9rJgLA
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/22/kochland-excerpt-senate-investigation-oil-theft-native-american-tribes-227412/
dcjunkee
What about fun things that hurt people? I.e. Batman
Jackoftoys
If I had that much money, I'd probably try to take out all the other billionaires and redistribute their wealth.
joe6paques
That is how it begins.
Zickezacke
Don't be that naiv. He is not aiming at hurting people. He wants to get even more power and wealth for him. He simply don't care for others.
MaraSovsFeet
It is fundamentally impossible to be rich and a good person
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
When his brother was dying of cancer, they donated huge sums to cancer research in attempts to find a cure for him. Huge leaps were made 1/
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
during this period, and the Kochs were still ludicrously wealthy. All this goes to prove that the super rich know EXACTLY how much good 2/
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
they could do in the world, yet they actively choose not to. Eat the fucking rich. 3/3
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
When the revolution comes, imagine how much will be invested in anti-head-chopping off technology.
fluffmeister
Thats why you don't have that much money. It is impossible to attain without being comfortable destroying lives for your profits.
Seggs
"but, hurting people IS fun." - the rich, probably
Seggs
https://youtu.be/GhelnMkzyF0
DynamiteSmoker
Hurting people is fun to the rich
dcjunkee
I.e. Batman...
Retrikaethan
reminds me of that meme about elon musk and zuckerberg picking a fun thing to do...
DynamiteSmoker
Hurting people is fun to the rich
HarryDresdenIsMySpiritAnimal
This was such a good comment I gave you two upvotes... because you posted the same comment twice.
DynamiteSmoker
Thanks, I didn’t even know. Oh, well. Just makes it double true
MundySeme
You don't get rich by being a good person
Deoxyribonucleicacidwashedgenes
Bill Gates seems to have his head in the right place...
Arisal
He seems to be the exception to the rule lol. Then again some crazies think he's microchipping us with the covid vaccine. LOL
grklein
He may be a nice person now, but he didn't get rich by being nice, quite the contrary.
Deoxyribonucleicacidwashedgenes
Oh, yeah. Like the time he "bought out" Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net...
AmurTiger
He's an interesting case and I think the point there is that you can BE rich and be a good person but you can't GET rich that way.
JhericFury
He's in the right direction, but the gates Foundation does make him money, and gates era Microsoft weren't known for nice business
rando84
Sure, but Koch is pretty much as bad as they get. It’s a pretty low bar to be better than him. Normal selfish billionaire stuff like (1
rando84
buying yachts & using offshore accounts is still better than doing that stuff + pouring billions into hijacking democracy and forcing your(2
rando84
bizarre libertarian ideas on the public. (3
TeflonTrout
*oligopolic authoritarian
dogmadxbox360
“Libertarian” since he isn’t at all a libertarian.
junkgoof
You can get pretty rich and be nice, but to be megarich you have to be bad. Also to want to get megarich.
Misterdruglicious
You have to be able to not care about another's living situation
someguy7734206
Not necessarily. You could also be megarich by being born into a megarich family.
junkgoof
Look at those people, the heirs. Over entitled idiots who cut everything so they can send billions to the Caymans. List exceptions...
Lakalaba
One can become a millionaire with the right circumstances, opportunities, and hard work. One becomes a billionaire by exploiting people
Lakalaba
Very few become ultra rich and billionaires without exploiting people, laws, and illegal influences.