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The Koch Brothers effectively own the Republican Party. 
As Mitch McConnell said:

I know it’s been a long, but very inspiring day. And I want to start by thanking you, Charles and David for the important work you’re doing. I don’t know where we’d be without you, and um, and I want (inaudible) for rallying, uh, to the cause.

And as a Koch Biographer said:

Charles’ aim, was to tear the government out “at the root.”

If it isn’t already painfully obvious, the GOP is actively trying to destroy the government as we know it and they are doing so at the behest of ultra conservative libertarian billionaires.
Never forget this spoiled shit is rich because of his Father's business with Joseph Stalin. >

Doubt their friends and co-conspirators are any better:

The Kochs were unusually single-minded, but they were not alone. They were among a small, rarefied group of hugely wealthy, archconservative families that for decades poured money, often with little public disclosure, into influencing how Americans thought and voted. Their efforts began in earnest in the second half of the twentieth century. In addition to the Kochs, this group included Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking and Gulf Oil fortunes; Harry and Lynde Bradley, midwesterners enriched by defense contracts; John M. Olin, a chemical and munitions company titan; the Coors brewing family of Colorado; and the DeVos family if Michigan, founders of the Amway marketing empire. Each was different, but together they formed a new generation of philanthropist, bent on using billions if dollars from their private foundations to alter the direction of American politics.

Also, the Koch’s had no love for communists. So let’s not pretend they were pro-Stalin. They were just pro-money.

Twenty years after collaborating with the Nazis, Fred Koch had lost none of his taste for extremism. In 1958, he was one of the 11 original members of the John Birch Society, an organization which accused scores of prominent Americans, including President Dwight Eisenhower, of communist sympathies.
In 1960, Koch wrote: “The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America.” He strongly supported the movement to impeach chief justice Earl Warren, after the supreme court voted to desegregate public schools in Brown v Board of Education. His sons became Birchers too, although Charles was more enamored of “antigovernment economic writers” than communist conspiracies. >


He strongly supported the movement to impeach chief justice Earl Warren

I think this would refer to the Birchers putting up billboards across the country. >

Indeed. Crazily enough the Kochs disliked Reagan because he thought the John Birch society was too radical and attempted to stymie their influence. And eventually they gained control of the GOP so that the likes of Reagan couldn’t hold them back again. >

Not sure about his disagreement with the JBS, beneath his aww shucks demeanor he was pretty hard right. >

The Koch brothers leave a bad taste in the mouth, much like the fake wine these idiots were duped into buying. >

That was Bill Koch.
Not a lot of people know this but there were four Koch Brothers: Frederick, Charles, and David and Bill who were twins.
The Kochs father Fred encouraged intense competition between the boys, Frederick once broke Charles nose boxing and Bill on seperate occassions stabbed one brother with an african hunting sword and hit another in the head with a crocquet mallet.
This would manifest into the bittery rivalry that wracked the brothers in their adult years. It has been alleged that in the 1960s Charles convened the brothers together to present what he claimed was evidence that Frederick was gay and demanded he sign over his shares of the family business or else he would share this with their father. In the 1980s Bill and Frederick would attempt a hostile takeover of Koch Industries with the intention of taking it public with the assistance of minority shareholder J. Howard Marshall III - unfortunately they announced their intentions before actually doing it and Charles was abole to convince Marshalls father to buy his shares and stop the takeover. Bill and Frederick then settled for selling their shares to Charles and David for 800 million dollars.
Bill and Frederick soon came to believe that Koch Industries had been undervalued and spent years litigating the sale, and then being left out of their mothers will, and Bill also bankrolled a series of private investigations and legal actions against Koch Industries too.
so TL;DR Bill while a Koch is not part of the business or Charles political activities. (Although the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, Bill Koch was the principle backer of the campaign to stop an offshore windfarm development in Martha's Vineyard) >

“Koch, the single most influential billionaire shaping American political life, never changed course. And the head fake he pulled off in 2020 succeeded in securing for his vast donor network—and the hundreds of organizations they underwrite—the freedom to operate, virtually without scrutiny, over the two years since.”
Charles Koch is the worst of the worst. A sociopathic liar who can’t and won’t look behind his own need for more wealth and less accountability. >

yea and it's so weird how the Q fools NEVER mention the Kochs, the Mercer's, or the Murdoch's when they spout their conspiracy nonsense about Billionaires running everything. >

They get angry if you bring it up. >

Every time I see his stupid face I like to remember the wine documentary where they proved that a full 2/3rds of his multi million dollar collection was fraudulent. Like 100k bottles with 2 buck chuck inside. 
He might be rich,  but he's still a rube. >

That was his brother William. >

By the billionaires, of the billionaires, for the billionaires.