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To: MarlonRando

And Charles Koch would be sitting in the front of that train. Of course the system is rigged, he and his late brother David did a lot of the rigging,


7 posted on 04/10/2026 7:38:05 AM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: atomic_dog
“And Charles Koch would be sitting in the front of that train. Of course the system is rigged, he and his late brother David did a lot of the rigging,”

Talked with a leader of the (Koch-owned) Georgia-Pacific public relations department years ago; she contended Charles Koch was a nice, grandfatherly type billionaire.

I don't get that impression from reading his book or watching the “creative destruction” his teams bring down on people and communities.

From close-hand observation I can report the GP leaders give the appearance they are too arrogant to know they are dumb. Undoubtedly, they must make billions of dollars but they destroy billions too on bad bets.

The Koch organization is private so it is impossible to know how much they make, or lose.

The Kochs used a part of their fortune in failed attempts to stop Trump; that is one reason I don't think too highly of them. They backed the wrong team, and their attempts to be politically relevant were pathetic. Of all things they were fans of Bernie Sanders.

51 posted on 04/11/2026 6:32:46 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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