Billionaire businessman Charles Koch said in an interview airing Sunday that “it’s possible” another Clinton in the White House could be better than having a Republican president.
Charles Koch: ‘It’s possible’ Clinton is preferable to a Republican for president
When asked about the possibility that the Koch brothers would support HRC over a Republican (read: “Donald Trump'”) he paused and then answered:
“We would have to believe her actions would have to be quite different than her rhetoric, let me put it that way,” he said.
WTFU, alla you HRC supporters. This is an absolutely perfect précis of the Clintons’ history. Both of them. Their actions have been quite different than their rhetoric.
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Koch and his brother, David, and their associated groups plan to spend nearly $900 million on the 2016 elections.
The comment came after Karl asked about former President Bill Clinton’s term, to which Koch said Clinton was “in some ways” better than George W. Bush.
“As far as the growth of government, the increase in spending, it was two-and-a-half times under Bush that it was under Clinton,” he said.
Karl followed up by asking about whether or not Koch could see himself supporting Hillary Clinton.
Koch hesitated before giving an answer that didn’t rule out the possibility.
“We would have to believe her actions would have to be quite different than her rhetoric, let me put it that way,” he said.
We may have reached a real turning point in American politics, and I do mean “turning”…something as drastic as the planet earth shifting poles. American politics are shifting polls. Up is down and down is up. The presumptive DemRat candidate is more conservative in many ways than is the RatPub candidate!!!
There are going to be a lot of confused birds this migration season, that’s all I have to say!!!
How fun!!!
AG
The “DUH!!!” season has finally really begun in earnest.
‘Bout time!
AG
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Well, it’s not as if HRC directly, publicly, or formally has made any entreaties to the Kochs. Not at all like the Clintons acting like supplicants to their former arch-enemy Richard Scaife. Perhaps David Brock paved the way for their rapprochement in 2007.
The Kochs didn’t get super wealthy because they’re dumb. They can see that the GOP candidates are so lousy that they couldn’t beat one of the weaker DEM candidates, and after the election, they don’t want to be completely shut out of “the conversation,”
Would they have acted the same if Bernie was the presumptive winner?
I think not.
It’s fix time, Marie….that’s all. She’s safe. She’s proven herself. She’s PermaGov.
This is just another futile attempt to put a stake in Count Trumpula’s heart.
Could happen…
But so far, none of that shit has worked.
He got some baaaad juju.
Mistah Trump…he bad!!!
AG
Would they have acted the same if Bernie was the presumptive winner?
Of course not. HRC is always open for bidness from anyone with beaucoup bucks and/or power.
An interesting article about David Brock. Also, it’s reported that Sidney Blumenthal was the go-between for Brock and the Clintons.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-clinton-david-brock-20150707-story.html
That’s an excellent article. If Lee Atwater had lived, good chance that he too would be working for the Clinton machine.
The choice being a Radical Right Wing Republican, an ungovernable and unpredictable unknown with his own wealth or a moderate Republican. Radicals and loose cannons are always bad for business so go with the moderate. She will be on board with taxes and probably start a war, which can be good with DoD orders and price bump ups for the energy sector.
Safe bets pay off.
R
Safe bets pay off?
Short-term only.
Time’s running out.,
AG
Safe bet for the Kochs. And it will pay off. They are old geezers anyway and will be dead before the shit hits the fan, socially speaking. So their business will thrive under HRC. She has all the policies to do so. And no off the wall ideas like break up the banks, get money out of elections, tax the wealthy, etc…
R
They “will be dead before the shit hits the fan, socially speaking.”
This presupposes that they are human, of course. Or that they plan to remain human. Or that they plan on immortality by being frozen until such time as they can be resuscitated and made immortal.
Really.
One quite logical…far-fetched but perfectly possible…idea is that the earth has essentially been conquered by a superior race (or two or three) and it/they are now in the process of totally subjugating its original inhabitants or maybe even getting rid of them completely. That would explain a great deal of what is happening here. Far-fetched? 150 years ago almost everything on this planet today would have been consudered far-fetched.
One well-publicized idea is that the super-wealthy plan on having their beings…the contents of their brains…downloaded onto computers from which they will rule eternally. Or…as in the case of Walt Disney…cryogenically preserved. See Kurzweil and Mind uploading for more on these ideas.
Everything and anything is possible. Witness Trump for all you need to know about that. Two, three, four years ago? Unthinkable.
The unthinkable becomes true with increasing speed and regularity here on earth.
Bet on it.
AG
Koch industries funded the DLC and sat on their Executive Council in the past. They should feel right at home with HRC.
http://www.democrats.com/node/7789
http://americablog.com/2010/08/koch-industries-gave-funding-to-the-dlc-and-served-on-its-executive-c
ouncil.html
The next time I get requests from various Democratic elite organizations to PLEASE DONATE because the big bad Koch brothers are coming to get me, I’m going to send Arthur’s link and a plug nickel as a response.
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