Fuck the Koch brothers, right in their evil hearts. The family fortune was literally started with their dad digging oil wells for Stalin, then building an oil refinery for Hitler. It's gone steadily downhill since then.
David and Charles Koch epitomize the Scrooge McDuck scumbag who hoards pelf for its own sake, occasionally doling out a crumb here or there to the "right" type of philanthropic endeavor, but never anywhere near the ballpark of what it would be if they just paid their goddamned taxes.
It would be nice to think that that sort of person is actually somewhat miserable, that having to spend all one's time plotting and scheming in order to hoard and accumulate endlessly would eventually create a mental feedback loop where that's pretty much all you can do anymore, just in terms of having an existence, rather than a life that you take joy in. Maybe not. Maybe people like that are just hardwired to endlessly compete with one another, to play dress-up and go to the big parties and schmooze and pretend they don't all hate each other.
Check out the intricate mechanisms of the political system right here and now -- there are enormous, deliberately set fires engulfing hundreds of thousands of acres in the Amazon rain forest at the current moment. It is an ecosystem within itself, and a cornerstone of the world's ecosystem. Destroying enough of the rain forest would drastically accelerate an already looming climate change situation.
This has been going on for years, of course, mostly to clear land for cattle ranchers, but since the election of the current Trump clone there, the process has been intensified. Since Preznit Genius Q. Dealmaker has decreed that trade wars are good and easy to win, China in response has cut off all American agricultural products for import, especially soybeans, which as you might imagine, China consumes a great volume of.
Guess which country China just signed a huge soybean deal with?
All of these features are natural results of the system the Koch brothers have quite literally purchased with their ill-gotten pelf -- not just lower tax rates, but the steady elimination of even basic environmental protections, and installing climate-change-denying clowns in important government offices. This is what they wanted, and we've let them do it, at the very least by having enough chumps fall for their self-serving propaganda.
It's a small consolation that, for all his filthy money, David Koch is every bit as dead as the homeless heroin addict in the next drawer at the morgue, and from the look of things a hell of a lot more reviled. It's a reminder, though, that the homeless guy deserves better, but hopefully it's also a reminder to the surviving Koch brother that no matter how many crumbs he disperses to the art museum or the philharmonic or whatever rich-asshole hobby, what he'll be remembered for is ruining the planet.
Oh, the rented dogsbodies at Reason and AEI and all that will slap together some insincere encomia, but Charles will know. He'll know that the family name has passed on to utterly useless progeny -- fat, soft, spoiled jerkoffs who will be used as catamites and barbecue in the eventual climate change holocaust. He'll be every bit as dead as the poorest dirt farmer he poisoned or exploded, and most people will spit as they say his name.
There's your legacy, Chuck. That's your mark on the world, after all that. Nobody in your life ever really loved you, without due compensation. Know that above all else. Enjoy what's left of your time, with your empire of dirt.
David and Charles Koch epitomize the Scrooge McDuck scumbag who hoards pelf for its own sake, occasionally doling out a crumb here or there to the "right" type of philanthropic endeavor, but never anywhere near the ballpark of what it would be if they just paid their goddamned taxes.It would be nice to think that that sort of person is actually somewhat miserable, that having to spend all one's time plotting and scheming in order to hoard and accumulate endlessly would eventually create a mental feedback loop where that's pretty much all you can do anymore, just in terms of having an existence, rather than a life that you take joy in. Maybe not. Maybe people like that are just hardwired to endlessly compete with one another, to play dress-up and go to the big parties and schmooze and pretend they don't all hate each other.
Check out the intricate mechanisms of the political system right here and now -- there are enormous, deliberately set fires engulfing hundreds of thousands of acres in the Amazon rain forest at the current moment. It is an ecosystem within itself, and a cornerstone of the world's ecosystem. Destroying enough of the rain forest would drastically accelerate an already looming climate change situation.
This has been going on for years, of course, mostly to clear land for cattle ranchers, but since the election of the current Trump clone there, the process has been intensified. Since Preznit Genius Q. Dealmaker has decreed that trade wars are good and easy to win, China in response has cut off all American agricultural products for import, especially soybeans, which as you might imagine, China consumes a great volume of.
Guess which country China just signed a huge soybean deal with?
All of these features are natural results of the system the Koch brothers have quite literally purchased with their ill-gotten pelf -- not just lower tax rates, but the steady elimination of even basic environmental protections, and installing climate-change-denying clowns in important government offices. This is what they wanted, and we've let them do it, at the very least by having enough chumps fall for their self-serving propaganda.
It's a small consolation that, for all his filthy money, David Koch is every bit as dead as the homeless heroin addict in the next drawer at the morgue, and from the look of things a hell of a lot more reviled. It's a reminder, though, that the homeless guy deserves better, but hopefully it's also a reminder to the surviving Koch brother that no matter how many crumbs he disperses to the art museum or the philharmonic or whatever rich-asshole hobby, what he'll be remembered for is ruining the planet.
Oh, the rented dogsbodies at Reason and AEI and all that will slap together some insincere encomia, but Charles will know. He'll know that the family name has passed on to utterly useless progeny -- fat, soft, spoiled jerkoffs who will be used as catamites and barbecue in the eventual climate change holocaust. He'll be every bit as dead as the poorest dirt farmer he poisoned or exploded, and most people will spit as they say his name.
There's your legacy, Chuck. That's your mark on the world, after all that. Nobody in your life ever really loved you, without due compensation. Know that above all else. Enjoy what's left of your time, with your empire of dirt.
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