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Billionaire's aide says no plans to help Trump (Charles Koch)
Associated Press ^ | Jul. 30, 2016 8:58 PM EDT | Steve Peoples

Posted on 07/30/2016 7:22:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Billionaire industrialist and conservative benefactor Charles Koch’s expansive political network will not help Donald Trump win the presidency.

That’s the message from one of the Koch network’s chief lieutenants as hundreds of the nation’s most powerful Republican donors gathered for a weekend retreat on Saturday. With Election Day just three months away, Koch lamented the state of the 2016 contest during a welcome reception inside a luxury hotel at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.

“We don’t really, in some cases, don’t really have good options,” Koch said of the “current political situation.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: billionaires; charleskoch; koch; kochbrothers; kochsuckers; snub; trump; trump2016
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To: AllAmericanGirl44
Delicious irony 😋
41 posted on 07/30/2016 8:44:42 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Olog-hai

There’s “nothing in it for them” this time around except to support Hillary.


42 posted on 07/30/2016 9:20:05 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t get it.


43 posted on 07/30/2016 10:36:06 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: EliRoom8
You haven't seen The Big Lebowski?
44 posted on 07/30/2016 10:39:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: kiryandil

Koch brothers support the Uniparty,


45 posted on 07/30/2016 11:05:31 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: Olog-hai

Forgive this digression who wish not to look beyond the immediate. However,those who study the eschatology know that globalism is a huge part of the agenda of the future world leader. His agenda cannot be accomplished without globalism in finances, politics, and religion. and Globalism was also part of his OT type, Nimrod, who was the first apostate in the Bible to push for that.


46 posted on 07/31/2016 2:59:30 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: Olog-hai

Trump claims they wanted to meet with him and he turned them down.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/759479059046883328


47 posted on 07/31/2016 5:18:23 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (By His wounds we are healed.)
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To: D-fendr

“They’re consistent libertarians, have been for a very long time.. It’s a political philosophy. You can look it up.”

...and that political philosophy is not compatible with national sovereignty (as that would restrict the free flow of inputs, e.g. labor). That political philosophy is also not compatible with cultural mores/laws that interfere with “individual freedom”. Yup...I’d say Libertarianism could support globalism with a clear conscience as long as “Libertarian culture” was being spread. I flirted with Libertarianism for a while until it became clear that they were typically nothing more than effete materialists.


48 posted on 07/31/2016 8:34:34 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

I disagree with many libertarian positions as well. Support them on some - primarily those resulting in more freedom and less government.


49 posted on 07/31/2016 9:05:19 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Olog-hai

the Kochs, and their Israel-hating love of Muslimism (comparing Trump’s smart Muslim ban to Nazism) belongs in the Democrat Party.


50 posted on 07/31/2016 4:35:44 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
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To: D-fendr
“Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

— John Adams
The libertarian claim to want “less government” is at odds with their advocacy of social liberalism, which requires more government to rule over it; the cause, of course, is the abandonment of private morality.
51 posted on 07/31/2016 7:22:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Don’t buy Koch products: Dixie plates, Angel Soft toilet paper, Brawny paper towels and all of their other stuff.


52 posted on 07/31/2016 7:44:55 PM PDT by ZagFan
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To: Olog-hai

Some confuse libertarian with libertine for sure, and there are many flavors.


53 posted on 07/31/2016 7:54:58 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Olog-hai
Hey Koch, you Effing idiot. Hillary is anti-energy and Trump is pro energy. Koch is into energy.....Oh, I get it. You want high energy prices to screw the middle class.
54 posted on 07/31/2016 7:57:14 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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