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But both sides!
Glad the Koch family is picking a different republican presidential candidate this time. Lol. It’s like the voters don’t even matter. >

They’re likely just putting out feelers.
They have enough money to blow an election’s worth of cash on a primary and if Trump still wins then back him with record amounts of donations.
If Trump gets the nomination then they’ll make sure he has all the support he needs to win the presidency again. >

Probably, but trump is not winning a general election. They know that >

He doesn’t need too, he needs to get close enough that the Supreme Court gets to decide. And the Kochs can probably help make that happen. >

Didn’t play out that way in 2020, or 2022. >

Its some weird Democrat fetish fantasy/nightmare that a Republican uses the SC to successfully execute a coup in this country. >

Well to be fair, the last republican president lost reelection and tried to stay in office >

Right, but he was an idiot and the reality of it working is nil. >

The fact that anyone tried it and many supported him shows how bad our system is. Anyone suggesting his methods should be laughed out of every room, not entertained like Trump >

Is "Koch" pronounced the way I think it is? >

Precisely >

You just KNOW they were bullied in high school. >

They probably wore bowties to school so back then I’d imagine yes >

May all of their donations back the losing candidate. >

Orange claims Koch is not a billionaire and Koch cried and begged for a few million dollars loan from the orange …. In 1…2…3 >

Not that easy, assholes. >


On its own in 2012, the Kochs' network of a few hundred individuals spent at least $407 million, almost all of it anonymously. This was more than John McCain spent on his entire 2008 presidential bid. And it was more than the combined contributions to the two presidential campaigns made by 5,667,658 Americans, whose donations were legally capped at $5,000. Politico's Kenneth Vogel crunched the numbers and discovered that in the presidential race the top .04 percent of donors contributed about the same amount as the bottom 68%.

From Jane Mayer's Dark Money; it's only Charles now, as David passed away, but they do have a tremendous amount of sway (frankly, way too much, thanks Citizens United ruling).
Either way, I'll take a republican civil war. Let them fight. With any luck, someone other than Trump gets the nomination and he throws a temper tantrum and runs third party, splitting the vote and essentially ensuring a Democratic victory next year. >

With really good luck, many of Trump's third-party voters wouldn't even bother with down-ballot GOP choices. >

The Koch network knows that it is not enough to simply turn off the financial faucet regarding Trump. They need to crush Trump in order to coopt his followers and direct them to a new candidate. Stingy as he is, Trump still has a war chest and a big mouth. The last thing the Koch network wants to see is "internal bickering" that will only weaken their new pick. Another way of looking at it is that Koch dollars will go much farther with Trump out of the way.
This is where things may get interesting.
The easiest way for Koch to take down Trump is to throw support behind the multiple lawsuits he is currently facing, such as the SDNY case in New York, and the Mar A Lago documents affair. In addition, focusing on the Trump cases that involve "out of office" behavior also serves to keep remaining Koch assets safe. >

They should really throw a wrench in the system by supporting democratic candidates. >

They already do. Koch Industries was one of the original corporate donors backing the so-called "Democratic Leadership Council" (who in reality are neither true Democrats, nor leaders of any kind). And when the DLC brand was too toxic and they had to rebrand themselves as "Third Way" the Kochs also rebranded their funding under the name of "The Georgia Pacific Foundation".... though it's hardly a secret as to who owns Georgia Pacific. 
So they do support candidates who label themselves as "democrats"... just not the ones who actually vote like pre-1992, FDR style Democrats.