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Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 07:27 AM Apr 2017

Don't kid yourself: The Koch Brothers are running the US Government

Everything Benedict Donald, Moscow Mitch, and Eddie Munster Ryan have done or have attempted to do domestically is straight out of the Koch manifesto:

* Gut the EPA
* Trillions in tax cuts for corporations, thus the 1%
* Destroy Obamacare; and ultimately Medicare/Medicaid
* Defund Social Security
* Drill anywhere there maybe a drop if oil: Build more pipelines
* Try to make the press the enemy of the people

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Don't kid yourself: The Koch Brothers are running the US Government (Original Post) Chasstev365 Apr 2017 OP
Don't forgret the Mercer Mob BSdetect Apr 2017 #1
Koches own Heritage. Budget came straight from Heritage sharedvalues Apr 2017 #2
as did scotus list. mopinko Apr 2017 #3
Yes, and most of Trump's cabinet members are in on it. TryLogic Apr 2017 #4
The Koch Brothers are the real terrorists. Initech Apr 2017 #5
Except they dedicated millions of dollars to torpedoing Trumpcare Recursion Apr 2017 #6
They did Hitler one better not fooled Apr 2017 #7
kocks would be better off spending those billions to build 1,000 koch hospitals & rake in profits. Sunlei Apr 2017 #8
Remember spike91nz Apr 2017 #9
Add to the list: putting National Parks & Monuments on the block. Coventina Apr 2017 #10

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
7. They did Hitler one better
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 09:42 AM
Apr 2017

they took over the U.S. without firing a shot. Their organization is bigger and more effective than the Republican party.

And yet, the complicit corporate media barely mentions their name.

On the contrary, their crackpot radical extremist ideas get free rein and are presented as legitimate policy without sufficient discussion of their origin, selfish aims, or destructive effect on the nation.

They have used money to undo democracy.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
8. kocks would be better off spending those billions to build 1,000 koch hospitals & rake in profits.
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 09:45 AM
Apr 2017

guess those kind of wealthy get a mental rush from hurting people.

spike91nz

(180 posts)
9. Remember
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 09:52 AM
Apr 2017

the Koch family originally got its money from setting up oil refineries in Russia. Their ties to the Russian money go deep and in the US becomes entangled in the John Birch Society, whose design upon the US policies are not only elitist and religiously authoritarian, but racist and sexist, from its inception. This is a family that appears to feel entitled to rule and supplant democracy with neofascism.

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