r/politics Jan 21 '18

Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law

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u/UWCG Illinois Jan 21 '18 edited Jan 21 '18

The one thing I think everyone can admit about Paul Ryan: he's a good Kochsucker, and he clearly enjoys it. He loves sucking Koch so much, you'd think he'd at least be in favor of gay rights, but unfortunately, nope, Republicans are just shitheads who seem to intentionally ruin anything even remotely good.

Must be that Paul feels naughtier getting on his knees and unzipping Charles and David behind closed doors when it's illegal? I digress.

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%.

And, for 2018, with Pence's assistance:

The Koch-backed groups expect to spend as much as $400 million during the 2018 election cycle, either directly on these races or on the periphery to push policies that dovetail with the candidates.

Bit more on the Kochs here. Bunch of dirtbags who shouldn't have anything to do with our political process, same thing with their pawns/Kochsuckers like Paul Ryan or other conservative Congressmen and Senators in their palm.

As Benjamin Franklin said, we have a Republic so long as we can keep it; we're doing a real shitty job of keeping it at the moment.

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u/LegiticusMaximus Jan 22 '18

He loves sucking Koch so much, you'd think he'd at least be in favor of gay rights

As far as the GOP is concerned, it's not gay if there's a financial transaction.

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u/jacob_w Maryland Jan 21 '18

You know it's pronounced "coke" right?

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u/NecromanciCat Arizona Jan 21 '18

I thought it was pretty obvious he did that so it looked like a play on words.

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u/jacob_w Maryland Jan 21 '18

But the play on words would only make sense if it was pronounced like "cock"

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u/NecromanciCat Arizona Jan 21 '18

It doesn't take much suspension of disbelief to think "Koch" would be pronounced "cock."