According to the chairman of Koch’s Stand Together organization, through its affiliates the group plans to spend “heavily” in Georgia in the run up to January 5 and “actually supported more candidates for public office in 2020 than ever before-wading into more than 200 races.”Īnd while Koch, who is 85, may want people to remember him as a guy who focused his attention on “building bridges across partisan divides to find answers to sprawling social problems,” hilariously suggesting in his book that he hopes to be seen as a unifier, what should really be remembered about “Chuckie,” as he literally asked reporter Douglas Belkin to call him, is that: Trump, having voted with the president a whopping 95% of the time and defending him during at least seven major controversies, per Axios. Perdue, like numerous Republicans, has not acknowledged that Biden won the presidential election and, along with Senator Kelly Loeffler-who’s bragged about an endorsement from a QAnon conspiracy theory-floating racist- demanded that Georgia’s Secretary of State resign over his supposed failure to deliver “honest and transparent elections.” And while Koch has distanced himself from the president-though not his tax cuts-Perdue loveshimself some Donald J. In fact, according the Daily Beast, on Wednesday, Americans for Prosperity Action, a super PAC affiliated with Koch, spent $440,000 on digital ads and canvassing in support of Senator David Perdue’s Georgia runoff bid against Democrat Jon Ossoff. Or if he wasn’t still actively writing giant checks to a party and candidates who won’t acknowledge that Joe Biden won the election, which some people might find kind of divisive-y! “What a mess!” Which might be acceptable if he was apologizing for, like, sending out invitations to a congressional mixer with the wrong date on them, and not for burying the planet in a shallow grave, among other things. “Boy, did we screw up!” he essentially writes in his new book Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire who, along with his late brother, David Koch, has arguably done more to harm society than nearly anyone in modern history, said he now regrets dividing the country by plowing billions of dollars to Republicans in order to further his anti-regulation, anti-health care, anti-social services, anti-taxes, anti-doing-anything-whatsoever-to-stop-climate-change agenda. Anyway, apropos of nothing, Charles Koch has something he’d like to say. But enough to write a book being like, “I have some regrets: One time I was rude to a waiter and then stiffed him on the tip-hoo-boy, that felt good to get off my chest,” and to sit down with a reporter to relay the same idea. Not enough that you want to, like, stop running old people over with your car, dragging their bodies by your bumper, or even to say you feel bad about breaking all the bones in their body, among other horrible things you’ve done in your life. But you’re getting up in your years and you’ve decided you’d like people to say nice things about you after you die. Picture this: You’ve spent most of your adult life running senior citizens over with your car.
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