{"id":175835,"date":"2020-11-15T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/15\/mr-koch-would-you-please-dine-on-excrement-and-expire\/"},"modified":"2020-11-15T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T01:24:00","slug":"mr-koch-would-you-please-dine-on-excrement-and-expire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/15\/mr-koch-would-you-please-dine-on-excrement-and-expire\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Koch, Would You Please Dine on Excrement and Expire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now, Charles Koch is apologizing for funding the Tea Baggers and creating a hyperpartisan political atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

F%$# you.  Just f%$# you, and your fortune, which was made building refineries Stalin.<\/p>\n

I get it:  Now you want to buy Democrats.<\/p>\n

F%$# you:<\/p>\n

The billionaire Charles Koch, who has funneled millions into the GOP and conservative movements<\/a>, reportedly expressed misgivings over how that money had fueled excessive partisanship.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Douglas Belkin<\/a> published Friday, Koch spoke about his new mission of unification across partisan lines.<\/p>\n

He also shared with The Journal parts of his new book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World,” in which he said he regretted his partisanship and the divisions it fostered.<\/p>\n

“Boy, did we screw up!” he wrote, according to The Journal. “What a mess!” <\/p>\n

Koch and his brother David, who died last year, were major players in the rise and shaping of the tea party<\/a>. The brothers founded the conservative organization Americans for Prosperity in 2004.<\/p>\n

In her 2015 book “Dark Money<\/a>,” the New Yorker writer Jane Mayer tracked how they used their fortunes to amass political influence and further a libertarian agenda.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If there is any justice in the world, Charles Koch will be mauled to death by bears in Grafton, New Hampshire<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So now, Charles Koch is apologizing for funding the Tea Baggers and creating a hyperpartisan political atmosphere. F%$# you.  Just f%$# you, and your fortune, which was made building refineries Stalin. I get it:  Now you want to buy Democrats. F%$# you: The billionaire Charles Koch, who has funneled millions into the GOP and conservative …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,368,364,504,374],"class_list":["post-175835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-philosophy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}