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In reply to the discussion: Howard Dean Tells Republicans: Leave America, Go Back To Russia (LOL! from the Daily Caller) [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)25. Especially since Stalin in effect gave the Koch brothers their financial power, and the GOP's power
... as a result of the Koch brothers controlling it.
http://exiledonline.com/a-peoples-history-of-koch-industries-how-stalin-funded-the-tea-party-movement/
I would rather live under a bridge than live under socialism
tea bagger slogan
Everyone knows that Tea Party revolutionaries fear and hate socialism about as much as the Antichrist. Which is funny, because the Tea Party movements dirty little secret is that it owes its existence to the grandaddy of all Antichrists: the godless empire of the USSR.
What few realize is that the secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure.
The comrades were good to the Kochs. Today Koch Industries has grown into the second-largest private company in America. With an annual revenue of $100 billion, the company was just $6.3 billion shy of first place in 2008. Ownership is kept strictly in the family, with the company being split roughly between right-wing brothers Charles and David Koch, who are worth about $20 billion apiece and are infamous as the largest sponsors of right-wing causes. They bankroll scores of free-market and libertarian think tanks, institutes and advocacy groups. Reason magazine, Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute are just a few of Koch-backed free-market operations. Greenpeace estimates that the Koch family shelled out $25 million from 2005 to 2008 funding the climate denial machine, which means they outspent Exxon Mobile three to one.
I first learned about the Kochs in February 2009, when Mark Ames and I were looking into the strange origins of the then-nascent Tea Party movement. Our investigation led us again and again to a handful of right-wing organizations and think tanks directly tied to the Kochs. We were the first to connect the dots and debunk the Tea Party movements grassroots front, exposing it as billionaire-backed astroturf campaign run by free-market advocacy groups FreedomWorks and Americans For Prosperity, both of which are closely linked to the Koch brothers.
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Howard Dean Tells Republicans: Leave America, Go Back To Russia (LOL! from the Daily Caller) [View all]
applegrove
May 2014
OP
The source isn't Yahoo, it's "The Daily Caller", which is Tucker Carlson's rightwing "news" site.
Spider Jerusalem
May 2014
#7
Some of those RW-nutjobs can't wait to get a little closeted action from Pooty-Poot
Crowman1979
May 2014
#15
Tell it like it is. The GOP doesn't like to hear it, but it must be said.
blkmusclmachine
May 2014
#16
Especially since Stalin in effect gave the Koch brothers their financial power, and the GOP's power
cascadiance
May 2014
#25