Tag: Koch Industries
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Never Mind A Poll’s Results, What Did The Poll Actually Poll?
Poll takers will tell you that their polls are mere snapshots of a moment in time. A photo is the perfect metaphor for an opinion poll. What is any picture really a picture of? We assume, when the news punditry drops poll numbers about us, that they’re presenting an accurate snapshot. But, that assumes a…
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Dear Democracy: The GOP Just Ain’t That “In To” You
It sucks having to be the one to break the bad news. Democracy is so good-hearted. It wants the best for the most people. To make that happen, democracy wants everyone to have a voice (one person, one vote!) and if the majority of us want to be governed a certain way, then by voting…
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The GOP Hitched Its Wagon To Trump KNOWING His Wagon Was Hitched To Putin
The Republican Party saw Donald Trump coming. While Trump was a registered Democrat longer than he’s been registered as a Republican, that wasn’t because he used to embrace Democratic policies; it was because it made zero sense to be a Republican in NYC where Democrats held the political power and therefore access to the public’s…
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Fact: The Republican Party Are All Koch Whores
According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Charles Koch (pronounced “coke”) is the 15th richest person in the world with a fortune estimated at 63.1 billion dollars. Koch Industries, the privately held company he and his brother David ran (David died in 2019 — which, I bet, shocked him; David thought he was rich enough to outrun…