DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Palus Politicus David Koch, conservative donor and philanthropist, has died at age 79

hope his family will be ok.

He’ll now find money can’t buy him a soul.

As a child i was taught that if i had nothing nice to say, not to say anything at all.

I will apply this here. I will say nothing, because i have absolutely nothing nice to say about this man.

Why all the hate for this guy?

Because he's one of those guys who's thrown his money around to shape American Politics to what he prefers. Often times for things that are clearly good for him.

He (along with his brother) essentially bribes politicians. He's one of the faces of all that is wrong with the state of our country's political system


EDIT: That and his shady business practices of course

And, you feel the same way about soros as well?

So much for not saying anything if you don't have anything nice to say. LOL

Oh, i'm no fan of that guy neither. I'm no fan of people throwing their money around in politics.

Admitadly i don't know too much about Soros. Just that he throws his money behind Democratic Candidates.

He's one of the boogeymen for the Republican Party.


But yes, guys like Soros and the Koch Brothers are what's wrong with Politics. People throwing around their wealth to influence power. It's bs. It turns this country into an elite oligarchy.

That's not how it should be. Everyone's vote counts the same. Everyone's influence should be the same too.


I just want the people to be represented, and the people to get what they want. It's why i was furious at the Republican Commitee Folks for trying to figure out a way to give the nomination to Lying Ted. It's why i was furious at the DNC for screwing Bernie.

Goodness. You're absolutely right. Whoops. lol

Well i made it a few hours

Just messin' w/ya, bro. LOL

Because some people lack class.

You know what I'll never understand. Why so many average Americans think a guy like Koch are the right people to follow.

All the Koch brothers ever did was fund anything that would help them with their businesses.. They could care less about America. But if rule, law or movement would impact their business, then it was bad and drop millions trying to defeat it.

Talk about self serving.....

They gave give a lot of money to Republicans.

That and donated over 1 billion dollars to charity.

Bill Maher said he hoped his death was painfull. Just another classy Liberal. Maher is a POS as sprial says about Trump.

i see somebody forgot Trump's *classy* responses when McCain died.

he still won't shut up about it.

I read what Maher said. Pretty lowlife, classless crap.

I don't think what Maher said really needed to be said, not that many of us don't agree with the sentiment. But I try not to speak ill of the dead at least until there is a cooling off period.

Yet some people support the classlessness of a pos potus

So? Maher is not always a classy comic, doesn’t change the fact that trump is always going to be a deplorable person and the pos potus you all openly support here.

What happened to the whining little boo hoo and all that too much political correctness bs?

The Koch brothers did indeed give money, lots of it, to charity. And that's wonderful. But it doesn't change the fact that they are self serving with things they back.

I doubt they gave Billions to charity by the way,., Millions, sure, but Billions, I doubt it.

Read the quote you replied to. Pdawg said "they donated over A billion...." NOT, billionS, as you state.



I don't know what you think of USNews, but here: https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/06/26/the-koch-brothers-gifts-to-society That was written June 26, 2015.

It would appear that what Pdawg posted is correct.

Luckily he isn't president. Oh, wait......

I see this quickly devolved into which side has less class.. which is pretty typical anytime somebody who is politically polarizing dies...

Can't say I know a lot about David Koch other than his name comes up a lot by the left as the devil incarnate and usually either immediately follows, or is followed by, the name Soros.... seems he advocated for some stuff I agree with, some I don't.... gave a crap ton of money to charity.... and is accused by the left of a lot of things he denies..

Hope he is at peace with the life he lived...

I didn't comment on his passing. I wasn't a fan of his in any way, shape or form.

But I take no joy when anyone passes. Even if you don't care for them as a person, so many are impacted when someone dies.

I did however find it ironic how someone pointed out classless comments by a comedian when the leader of your nation says nasty, classless things and that same individual sits silently by when they do the exact same thing.