David Koch, the billionaire industrialist was one of history’s greatest monsters. No, he didn’t try to k**l 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 horses**t.

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 k**l 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 f****l f**l-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 t***sition away from f****l f**ls.

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 k*****g the earth toward undoing the damage they’d caused? No, they used it to k**l public t***sit 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.

The media encouraged China to resist and fight Trump's policies...okay, right. Is that supposed to pave the way for the pronouncement that had they not done this Trump would be winning, it's their fault hes not?

https://dennismichaellynch.com/video-fox-news-anchor-says-media-encouraged-china-to-fight-back-in-trade-war/

China is not Trump, they will do what they need to do, and their president has a far greater grasp of the issues surrounding trade than Trump will ever have.

Trump backed himself into a corner of ignorance and ego with this moron decree telling companies not to deal with China. This is so obviously an idea that is so far beyond sensible let alone doable. I'd like to egg him on to do it, but the way it would collapse our economy would be like the mother of all economical nuclear bombs.

I have business and casual friends around the world, my brother who is a trump supporting religious nut job lives in Germany. I have kept an interested eye on how being a trump supporter in Germany works...it doesn't. Ken has been gagged by his wife and family, they are embarrassed to the degree of mortification whenever he spewed i***tic rhetoric around intelligent people who get their facts the straight unadulterated way.

Those who felt a certain way about the US still feel that way, there is a certain awareness that for some reason the country has an out of control moron that has way too much control. The world recognizes we are in a crisis and they are hoping we get a handle on it before he does any worse damage to free world relations and economy.

Hey Super Girl, right on!