For All Those That Degraded David Koch.... David Koch and his brother were exceptional chemical engineers. They employed thousands of people in good paying jobs. They donated over $1.3...

trucksterbud

David Koch and his brother were exceptional chemical engineers. They employed thousands of people in good paying jobs. They donated over $1.3 Billion that is known about to various projects. David and his brother refined asphalt mixtures that you and I drive on everyday and improved its processing to be more environmentally friendly.

Yet, there are those that will and do continue to degrade an exceptional person. Most likely because those that do such things will find fault with anyone who has FAR exceeded the abilities of those doing the degrading.

Left soils itself in toxic vulgarity at the death of David Koch
By Monica Showalter

I have exactly one memory of David Koch and from it, I learned just one thing: He was a nice man.
A few years ago I was at a rich-patron's type conference at an institution I won't name and two famous people got into a fight, one of them inexplicably aggressive, the other baffled and furious. Koch, who I could see was there but never actually met, stepped in to smooth the ruffled feathers and act as the peacemaker between the two. No one else knew what to do because the situation was so strange and unexpected. Koch, who wasn't the guy running the thing, just a participant, is the one who showed the most class.

So with the news of Koch's death, it was right to feel sadness. He was a person who mattered. He was a bright chemical engineer who had enough talent and enterprise beyond that to create value with his brother with their major company, Koch Industries, employing tens of thousands in well-paid jobs. He also did whale-sized philanthropy, on wonderful things, such as medical centers, fine arts, performing arts, education, donating $1.3 billion that we know about, probably much we don't. He survived a plane crash in 1991. He endured cancer. He was a victim of the Obama administration's illegal leaking of his tax information, something no one was ever punished for.

And yes, he was a principled libertarian, always exploring new avenues for the development of ideas favoring freedom, even pairing with a far-leftist like Van Jones on prison reform - because it is after all, a libertarian principle to oppose the unchecked power of the state. He in fact unabashedly promoted conservative and libertarian ideas, something those of us who hold those views are forever grateful for. Yes, he was a bit of an anti-Trumpster, but that was probably a function of his disciplined temperament. For someone who did so much good on so many levels -- and who showed such strength of character - his death indeed was sad.

But on the left, some of the most barbaric behavior ever seen at the death of the man is now out there. Just look at this revolting collection of spewings:

Bill Maher Dances on David Koch’s Grave: ‘I’m Glad He’s Dead and I Hope the End Was Painful’ -Daily Beast

Is this a person, or a pig?
Bette Midler lobs profane attack at leading conservative who honored David Koch -Fox News
Does this person have a problem?

After Life of Incalculable Harm, Billionaire Climate Denialist and Right-Wing Villain David Koch Dead at 79
"Death is an escape hatch for David Koch while the rest of us are left scrambling for the emergency brake before we go over the cliff." -Common Dreams

Not satire. Can you say "hysteria"?
The Koch Money Was a Primary Vector for the Prion Disease That's Infected the Republican Party -Esquire
File under 'crackpot,' 'crank' and 'conspiracy theorist.'

PJMedia's Nicholas Ballasy has curated a choice collection of tweets from no-name leftists on Twitter, with the same kind of grotesque reactions. One of them claims that karma from the Amazon rainforest fire did him in, another is crowing that he's won the lottery. Others are sinking into a goo of obscenities and scatology, which the left often likes to do, inarticulate in their ravings.

Then there are those who say the man is in hell, something that up until now, the left has argued for decades doesn't exist. How convenient to have a suddenly invented hell.

Fox News reports that other leftists are calling for the death of the other Koch brothers, or yelling about how 'hated' he was (by them, obviously, not normal people). Fox characterized the response as "vulgar" and "vicious" and a "toxic cesspool of negativity."

Folks, this is the left on display. This is what unhinged, boiling-with-hate creeps look like.
Koch was a good man who would have extended his hand to any of them, and apparently, it makes them crazy. Now they're soiling themselves, throwing out the most revolting statements -- not about Koch, really -- but about themselves.

David Koch, RIP.

So, once again, the left shows who they really are. Sitting here in America enjoying their freedom of speech, and spewing vulgarities. Degrading a person who has been shown to have developed chemical processes, material processes, and the distribution of a product that without which we might not have nice asphalt roads to drive on. Might want to remember that before you degrade Koch Industries any further. You drive on a product Koch Industries and David Koch brought to you.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/left_soils_itself_in_toxic_vulgarity_at_the_death_of_david_koch.html

Kevyn

trucksterbud wrote:

David Koch and his brother were exceptional chemic... (show quote)

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to kill off an entire race of people, eat his enemies, or launch a merciless campaign of rape and pillage that spanned continents. And yet even such horrors as these will pale in comparison to Koch’s handiwork — unless we succeed in stopping it.

Commenting on his brother’s death, Charles Koch — incidentally, one of the few people on Earth who can claim to be more loathsome than David was — remarked that he had a “passion for life.” This is, of course, utter horseshit.

Koch and his legacy are as anti-life as you can possibly get, something no amount of selfishly motivated cancer research funding can cover up. I say “are” rather than “were” because even though Koch himself is gone, the corporatist bulldozer he set into motion will keep going long after he’s dead.

Besides spending fortunes to deprive people of health care, Koch and his repugnant sibling made their living by spewing pollution, cancer, and a host of other ailments into often poor communities. Their hostility to government regulation and insistence on unsafe working conditions led them to kill and maim workers and bystanders alike, such as the two Texas teenagers blown up by a defective Koch pipeline that led the Kochs to pay one of the largest wrongful death judgments in US history. It may be impossible to quantify exactly the damage done by the Kochs’ right-wing network, but the “welfare reform” of the ’90s alone shortened lifespans.

But even this repellent legacy is dwarfed by Koch and his brother’s singular contribution to the climate crisis. It is the darkest of ironies that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s wing dedicated to the story of human evolution is named after Koch, given that, other than his brother, arguably no single individual has done more to try to shut the book on that story than Koch.

We’ve known for a good while that the Koch network has been funding and fuelling climate denial and inaction by the government for decades, in concert with the growth of the Kochs’ own fossil fuel-based profits. Thanks to the release of Christopher Leonard’s Kochland last week, we now also know they were on the ground floor of the fight to ensure human extinction, spreading climate denial and working against political action on the subject as early as 1991, when the world still could have embarked on a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

And as the climate crisis became ever more visible and tangible in recent years, did Koch and his brother put the unimaginably colossal wealth they’d amassed from poisoning people and killing the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to kill public transit projects at the local level because these threatened Koch Industries’ bottom line, further hamstringing future efforts to prevent planetary catastrophe. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, evil doesn’t even begin to describe this.

And yet, due to the limitations of language, this is the only word that comes close to describing the ghastly Koch and his vile brother: evil. David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil.

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

woodguru

I've never held with talking bad about the dead in a mean spirited way, there is being honest about who and what someone was and did, and honesty doesn't have to be done in a mean way...but more importantly for those who object to saying anything negative, people need to hear the negative.

The Kock brothers engineered a degree of monetary influence into politics that should never be there, they have influenced the landscape to where huge money can influence politics and instilled a belief that such contributions should be able to be hiffen from people to where they can't see who or what entity is funding races.

trucksterbud

Kevyn wrote:

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to kill off an entire race of people, eat his enemies, or launch a merciless campaign of rape and pillage that spanned continents. And yet even such horrors as these will pale in comparison to Koch’s handiwork — unless we succeed in stopping it.

Commenting on his brother’s death, Charles Koch — incidentally, one of the few people on Earth who can claim to be more loathsome than David was — remarked that he had a “passion for life.” This is, of course, utter horseshit.

Koch and his legacy are as anti-life as you can possibly get, something no amount of selfishly motivated cancer research funding can cover up. I say “are” rather than “were” because even though Koch himself is gone, the corporatist bulldozer he set into motion will keep going long after he’s dead.

Besides spending fortunes to deprive people of health care, Koch and his repugnant sibling made their living by spewing pollution, cancer, and a host of other ailments into often poor communities. Their hostility to government regulation and insistence on unsafe working conditions led them to kill and maim workers and bystanders alike, such as the two Texas teenagers blown up by a defective Koch pipeline that led the Kochs to pay one of the largest wrongful death judgments in US history. It may be impossible to quantify exactly the damage done by the Kochs’ right-wing network, but the “welfare reform” of the ’90s alone shortened lifespans.

But even this repellent legacy is dwarfed by Koch and his brother’s singular contribution to the climate crisis. It is the darkest of ironies that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s wing dedicated to the story of human evolution is named after Koch, given that, other than his brother, arguably no single individual has done more to try to shut the book on that story than Koch.

We’ve known for a good while that the Koch network has been funding and fuelling climate denial and inaction by the government for decades, in concert with the growth of the Kochs’ own fossil fuel-based profits. Thanks to the release of Christopher Leonard’s Kochland last week, we now also know they were on the ground floor of the fight to ensure human extinction, spreading climate denial and working against political action on the subject as early as 1991, when the world still could have embarked on a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

And as the climate crisis became ever more visible and tangible in recent years, did Koch and his brother put the unimaginably colossal wealth they’d amassed from poisoning people and killing the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to kill public transit projects at the local level because these threatened Koch Industries’ bottom line, further hamstringing future efforts to prevent planetary catastrophe. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, evil doesn’t even begin to describe this.

And yet, due to the limitations of language, this is the only word that comes close to describing the ghastly Koch and his vile brother: evil. David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil.

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one ... (show quote)

Like the story said, Kevvy, expose yourself for what you truly are. Hateful, liberal, lunatic, …….

David Koch's life probably infuriates you as you will NEVER be the same class or category person he was. No matter how hard you try, to get out of mommy and daddy's basement.

woodguru

trucksterbud wrote:

Like the story said, Kevvy, expose yourself for what you truly are. Hateful, liberal, lunatic, …….

David Koch's life probably infuriates you as you will NEVER be the same class or category person he was. No matter how hard you try, to get out of mommy and daddy's basement.

Actually that was a fairly honest recitation of what the Kock brothers have accomplished and how they profiled their obsession for profits at any expense. It is possible for billionaires to make their fortunes without doing it at the expense of people or the environment.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Kevyn wrote:

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to kill off an entire race of people, eat his enemies, or launch a merciless campaign of rape and pillage that spanned continents. And yet even such horrors as these will pale in comparison to Koch’s handiwork — unless we succeed in stopping it.

Commenting on his brother’s death, Charles Koch — incidentally, one of the few people on Earth who can claim to be more loathsome than David was — remarked that he had a “passion for life.” This is, of course, utter horseshit.

Koch and his legacy are as anti-life as you can possibly get, something no amount of selfishly motivated cancer research funding can cover up. I say “are” rather than “were” because even though Koch himself is gone, the corporatist bulldozer he set into motion will keep going long after he’s dead.

Besides spending fortunes to deprive people of health care, Koch and his repugnant sibling made their living by spewing pollution, cancer, and a host of other ailments into often poor communities. Their hostility to government regulation and insistence on unsafe working conditions led them to kill and maim workers and bystanders alike, such as the two Texas teenagers blown up by a defective Koch pipeline that led the Kochs to pay one of the largest wrongful death judgments in US history. It may be impossible to quantify exactly the damage done by the Kochs’ right-wing network, but the “welfare reform” of the ’90s alone shortened lifespans.

But even this repellent legacy is dwarfed by Koch and his brother’s singular contribution to the climate crisis. It is the darkest of ironies that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s wing dedicated to the story of human evolution is named after Koch, given that, other than his brother, arguably no single individual has done more to try to shut the book on that story than Koch.

We’ve known for a good while that the Koch network has been funding and fuelling climate denial and inaction by the government for decades, in concert with the growth of the Kochs’ own fossil fuel-based profits. Thanks to the release of Christopher Leonard’s Kochland last week, we now also know they were on the ground floor of the fight to ensure human extinction, spreading climate denial and working against political action on the subject as early as 1991, when the world still could have embarked on a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

And as the climate crisis became ever more visible and tangible in recent years, did Koch and his brother put the unimaginably colossal wealth they’d amassed from poisoning people and killing the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to kill public transit projects at the local level because these threatened Koch Industries’ bottom line, further hamstringing future efforts to prevent planetary catastrophe. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, evil doesn’t even begin to describe this.

And yet, due to the limitations of language, this is the only word that comes close to describing the ghastly Koch and his vile brother: evil. David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil.

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one ... (show quote)

"liberals have become unbearable, and I speak as a liberal . . . "

Radiance3

trucksterbud wrote:

David Koch and his brother were exceptional chemic... (show quote)

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The LEFTs are evil and are jealous of all those who are smart, worked hard, and made money. But most of the money the Koch earned went to charities and science development where all peoples' lives are benefitted. Most specially the democrat-socialist handouts.

May David Koch rest in peace! God has gifted him with the wisdom that all benefitted. Only God decides and I am sure he will rest with God in peace.

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Kevyn wrote:

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

Well if Koch is in hell I'd say judging from all the crapola you have posted no doubt you'll be right along side him Kevy when your time comes !

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Blade_Runner wrote:

"liberals have become unbearable, and I speak as a liberal . . . "

I saw that a few days ago I never really cared for ole Piers but on occasion he hit's one out of the park as he did here !

Lonewolf

Kevyn wrote:

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to kill off an entire race of people, eat his enemies, or launch a merciless campaign of rape and pillage that spanned continents. And yet even such horrors as these will pale in comparison to Koch’s handiwork — unless we succeed in stopping it.

Commenting on his brother’s death, Charles Koch — incidentally, one of the few people on Earth who can claim to be more loathsome than David was — remarked that he had a “passion for life.” This is, of course, utter horseshit.

Koch and his legacy are as anti-life as you can possibly get, something no amount of selfishly motivated cancer research funding can cover up. I say “are” rather than “were” because even though Koch himself is gone, the corporatist bulldozer he set into motion will keep going long after he’s dead.

Besides spending fortunes to deprive people of health care, Koch and his repugnant sibling made their living by spewing pollution, cancer, and a host of other ailments into often poor communities. Their hostility to government regulation and insistence on unsafe working conditions led them to kill and maim workers and bystanders alike, such as the two Texas teenagers blown up by a defective Koch pipeline that led the Kochs to pay one of the largest wrongful death judgments in US history. It may be impossible to quantify exactly the damage done by the Kochs’ right-wing network, but the “welfare reform” of the ’90s alone shortened lifespans.

But even this repellent legacy is dwarfed by Koch and his brother’s singular contribution to the climate crisis. It is the darkest of ironies that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s wing dedicated to the story of human evolution is named after Koch, given that, other than his brother, arguably no single individual has done more to try to shut the book on that story than Koch.

We’ve known for a good while that the Koch network has been funding and fuelling climate denial and inaction by the government for decades, in concert with the growth of the Kochs’ own fossil fuel-based profits. Thanks to the release of Christopher Leonard’s Kochland last week, we now also know they were on the ground floor of the fight to ensure human extinction, spreading climate denial and working against political action on the subject as early as 1991, when the world still could have embarked on a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

And as the climate crisis became ever more visible and tangible in recent years, did Koch and his brother put the unimaginably colossal wealth they’d amassed from poisoning people and killing the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to kill public transit projects at the local level because these threatened Koch Industries’ bottom line, further hamstringing future efforts to prevent planetary catastrophe. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, evil doesn’t even begin to describe this.

And yet, due to the limitations of language, this is the only word that comes close to describing the ghastly Koch and his vile brother: evil. David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil.

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one ... (show quote)

ImLogicallyRight

Kevyn wrote:

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to kill off an entire race of people, eat his enemies, or launch a merciless campaign of rape and pillage that spanned continents. And yet even such horrors as these will pale in comparison to Koch’s handiwork — unless we succeed in stopping it.

Commenting on his brother’s death, Charles Koch — incidentally, one of the few people on Earth who can claim to be more loathsome than David was — remarked that he had a “passion for life.” This is, of course, utter horseshit.

Koch and his legacy are as anti-life as you can possibly get, something no amount of selfishly motivated cancer research funding can cover up. I say “are” rather than “were” because even though Koch himself is gone, the corporatist bulldozer he set into motion will keep going long after he’s dead.

Besides spending fortunes to deprive people of health care, Koch and his repugnant sibling made their living by spewing pollution, cancer, and a host of other ailments into often poor communities. Their hostility to government regulation and insistence on unsafe working conditions led them to kill and maim workers and bystanders alike, such as the two Texas teenagers blown up by a defective Koch pipeline that led the Kochs to pay one of the largest wrongful death judgments in US history. It may be impossible to quantify exactly the damage done by the Kochs’ right-wing network, but the “welfare reform” of the ’90s alone shortened lifespans.

But even this repellent legacy is dwarfed by Koch and his brother’s singular contribution to the climate crisis. It is the darkest of ironies that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s wing dedicated to the story of human evolution is named after Koch, given that, other than his brother, arguably no single individual has done more to try to shut the book on that story than Koch.

We’ve known for a good while that the Koch network has been funding and fuelling climate denial and inaction by the government for decades, in concert with the growth of the Kochs’ own fossil fuel-based profits. Thanks to the release of Christopher Leonard’s Kochland last week, we now also know they were on the ground floor of the fight to ensure human extinction, spreading climate denial and working against political action on the subject as early as 1991, when the world still could have embarked on a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

And as the climate crisis became ever more visible and tangible in recent years, did Koch and his brother put the unimaginably colossal wealth they’d amassed from poisoning people and killing the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to kill public transit projects at the local level because these threatened Koch Industries’ bottom line, further hamstringing future efforts to prevent planetary catastrophe. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, evil doesn’t even begin to describe this.

And yet, due to the limitations of language, this is the only word that comes close to describing the ghastly Koch and his vile brother: evil. David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil.

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one ... (show quote)

I would gladly take the actions and life of one David Koch over a thousand kevys any day and the evil thoughts and words of one kevy far exceed the evil thoughts and actions of a thousand David Kochs. It is hard to speak of evil towards any person who just died, but kevy and the evil left once again showed the depravity in their character and mind and ideology. But maybe justice will eventually come out as they burn in those eternal fires, looking up at a man who was better then them in every way and is in heaven for his many good deeds. RIP David Koch

woodguru

Radiance3 wrote:

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The LEFTs are evil and are jealous of all those who are smart, worked hard, and made money. But most of the money the Koch earned went to charities and science development where all peoples' lives are benefitted. Most specially the democrat-socialist handouts.

May David Koch rest in peace! God has gifted him with the wisdom that all benefitted. Only God decides and I am sure he will rest with God in peace.

I can name many billionaires that made their money in ways that did not abuse their employees or the environment. Many wealthy people who care about people and the government feel that wealthy people are not paying as much taxes as the wealthy should be

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Kevyn wrote:

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to kill off an entire race of people, eat his enemies, or launch a merciless campaign of rape and pillage that spanned continents. And yet even such horrors as these will pale in comparison to Koch’s handiwork — unless we succeed in stopping it.

Commenting on his brother’s death, Charles Koch — incidentally, one of the few people on Earth who can claim to be more loathsome than David was — remarked that he had a “passion for life.” This is, of course, utter horseshit.

Koch and his legacy are as anti-life as you can possibly get, something no amount of selfishly motivated cancer research funding can cover up. I say “are” rather than “were” because even though Koch himself is gone, the corporatist bulldozer he set into motion will keep going long after he’s dead.

Besides spending fortunes to deprive people of health care, Koch and his repugnant sibling made their living by spewing pollution, cancer, and a host of other ailments into often poor communities. Their hostility to government regulation and insistence on unsafe working conditions led them to kill and maim workers and bystanders alike, such as the two Texas teenagers blown up by a defective Koch pipeline that led the Kochs to pay one of the largest wrongful death judgments in US history. It may be impossible to quantify exactly the damage done by the Kochs’ right-wing network, but the “welfare reform” of the ’90s alone shortened lifespans.

But even this repellent legacy is dwarfed by Koch and his brother’s singular contribution to the climate crisis. It is the darkest of ironies that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s wing dedicated to the story of human evolution is named after Koch, given that, other than his brother, arguably no single individual has done more to try to shut the book on that story than Koch.

We’ve known for a good while that the Koch network has been funding and fuelling climate denial and inaction by the government for decades, in concert with the growth of the Kochs’ own fossil fuel-based profits. Thanks to the release of Christopher Leonard’s Kochland last week, we now also know they were on the ground floor of the fight to ensure human extinction, spreading climate denial and working against political action on the subject as early as 1991, when the world still could have embarked on a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

And as the climate crisis became ever more visible and tangible in recent years, did Koch and his brother put the unimaginably colossal wealth they’d amassed from poisoning people and killing the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to kill public transit projects at the local level because these threatened Koch Industries’ bottom line, further hamstringing future efforts to prevent planetary catastrophe. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, evil doesn’t even begin to describe this.

And yet, due to the limitations of language, this is the only word that comes close to describing the ghastly Koch and his vile brother: evil. David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil.

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one ... (show quote)

Nuts, this is for trucker, not aimed at Kevyn... sorry..

You and your fellow right wingers should reread and pay extra attention to the comments that Kevyn made and the followup by woody..

while you try and paint him with greatness for cancer research which he embarked on only after fighting the illness himself, the PR effort by tossing money at the Smithsonian and the private schools teaching only the Kock doctrine, The misdeeds and vile workings to destroy the nation which made their father and than themselves rich can never be reconciled..

His relentless acts to hide the politics of the far right via dark money and the passing and creation of Citizens United will never by replaced in our lifetimes..

these things are past the definition of evil in any righteous mind in our nation..

Mad Dog

Kevyn wrote:

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to kill off an entire race of people, eat his enemies, or launch a merciless campaign of rape and pillage that spanned continents. And yet even such horrors as these will pale in comparison to Koch’s handiwork — unless we succeed in stopping it.

Commenting on his brother’s death, Charles Koch — incidentally, one of the few people on Earth who can claim to be more loathsome than David was — remarked that he had a “passion for life.” This is, of course, utter horseshit.

Koch and his legacy are as anti-life as you can possibly get, something no amount of selfishly motivated cancer research funding can cover up. I say “are” rather than “were” because even though Koch himself is gone, the corporatist bulldozer he set into motion will keep going long after he’s dead.

Besides spending fortunes to deprive people of health care, Koch and his repugnant sibling made their living by spewing pollution, cancer, and a host of other ailments into often poor communities. Their hostility to government regulation and insistence on unsafe working conditions led them to kill and maim workers and bystanders alike, such as the two Texas teenagers blown up by a defective Koch pipeline that led the Kochs to pay one of the largest wrongful death judgments in US history. It may be impossible to quantify exactly the damage done by the Kochs’ right-wing network, but the “welfare reform” of the ’90s alone shortened lifespans.

But even this repellent legacy is dwarfed by Koch and his brother’s singular contribution to the climate crisis. It is the darkest of ironies that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s wing dedicated to the story of human evolution is named after Koch, given that, other than his brother, arguably no single individual has done more to try to shut the book on that story than Koch.

We’ve known for a good while that the Koch network has been funding and fuelling climate denial and inaction by the government for decades, in concert with the growth of the Kochs’ own fossil fuel-based profits. Thanks to the release of Christopher Leonard’s Kochland last week, we now also know they were on the ground floor of the fight to ensure human extinction, spreading climate denial and working against political action on the subject as early as 1991, when the world still could have embarked on a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

And as the climate crisis became ever more visible and tangible in recent years, did Koch and his brother put the unimaginably colossal wealth they’d amassed from poisoning people and killing the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to kill public transit projects at the local level because these threatened Koch Industries’ bottom line, further hamstringing future efforts to prevent planetary catastrophe. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, evil doesn’t even begin to describe this.

And yet, due to the limitations of language, this is the only word that comes close to describing the ghastly Koch and his vile brother: evil. David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil.

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one ... (show quote)

Kevin I must say that you are the most hate filled one person i've ever come across. And I've been around some really mean people before, but you take the cake. You need HELP

fullspinzoo

Kevyn wrote:

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to kill off an entire race of people, eat his enemies, or launch a merciless campaign of rape and pillage that spanned continents. And yet even such horrors as these will pale in comparison to Koch’s handiwork — unless we succeed in stopping it.

Commenting on his brother’s death, Charles Koch — incidentally, one of the few people on Earth who can claim to be more loathsome than David was — remarked that he had a “passion for life.” This is, of course, utter horseshit.

Koch and his legacy are as anti-life as you can possibly get, something no amount of selfishly motivated cancer research funding can cover up. I say “are” rather than “were” because even though Koch himself is gone, the corporatist bulldozer he set into motion will keep going long after he’s dead.

Besides spending fortunes to deprive people of health care, Koch and his repugnant sibling made their living by spewing pollution, cancer, and a host of other ailments into often poor communities. Their hostility to government regulation and insistence on unsafe working conditions led them to kill and maim workers and bystanders alike, such as the two Texas teenagers blown up by a defective Koch pipeline that led the Kochs to pay one of the largest wrongful death judgments in US history. It may be impossible to quantify exactly the damage done by the Kochs’ right-wing network, but the “welfare reform” of the ’90s alone shortened lifespans.

But even this repellent legacy is dwarfed by Koch and his brother’s singular contribution to the climate crisis. It is the darkest of ironies that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s wing dedicated to the story of human evolution is named after Koch, given that, other than his brother, arguably no single individual has done more to try to shut the book on that story than Koch.

We’ve known for a good while that the Koch network has been funding and fuelling climate denial and inaction by the government for decades, in concert with the growth of the Kochs’ own fossil fuel-based profits. Thanks to the release of Christopher Leonard’s Kochland last week, we now also know they were on the ground floor of the fight to ensure human extinction, spreading climate denial and working against political action on the subject as early as 1991, when the world still could have embarked on a gradual transition away from fossil fuels.

And as the climate crisis became ever more visible and tangible in recent years, did Koch and his brother put the unimaginably colossal wealth they’d amassed from poisoning people and killing the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to kill public transit projects at the local level because these threatened Koch Industries’ bottom line, further hamstringing future efforts to prevent planetary catastrophe. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, evil doesn’t even begin to describe this.

And yet, due to the limitations of language, this is the only word that comes close to describing the ghastly Koch and his vile brother: evil. David Koch was an evil man who dedicated his life to evil.

May his grave not spend one day free of urine as he burns in hell.

David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one ... (show quote)

The scum of the earth....and I'm not talking about David.