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The local Nazi Adolf Rebound Hitler seems to throw darts at the Koch Brothers lately, when he/she/it loses an argument. And he/she/it has NO fugging idea who they are. Here's a little enhancement to his education (what little there is.) https://www.investopedia.com/insights/companies-owned-koch-brothers/ The Koch brothers, Charles and David, became well-known for their libertarian and conservative politics, often portrayed as significant personalities that impact elections and government decisions. However, despite fame as political influencers, their primary activities centered around running Koch Industries Inc., of which they owned over 80%.1 Koch Industries is a private company that has annual revenues topping $110 billion.2 The company is not really a single business, but rather a conglomerate of different companies under one umbrella. On June 5, 2018, David Koch retired from all roles related to Koch Industries due to health reasons and he later passed away on Aug. 23, 2019. Key Takeaways Koch companies collectively employ over 130,000 people in 70 countries, and more than half are in the United States.3 The company owns subsidiaries that produce various goods such as resins, polymers, glass, oil pipelines, tissue paper, robotics, and more. Koch Industries controls some lesser-known companies as well, such as Matador Cattle Company, the Koch Chemical Technology Group, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and Koch Minerals. Koch Ag and Energy Solutions operate three separate companies: Koch Energy, Koch Methanol, and Koch Fertilizer. Koch subsidiaries are also involved in investing, commodities trading, and ranching. 1. Flint Hills Resources Flint Hills offers petroleum products, gasoline, diesel fuels, jet fuels, and other oil products, as well as those related to polymers and other chemicals. The company's ethanol plants have a combined production capacity of roughly 725 million gallons per year.5 The company also explores biofuels. Flint Hills markets a variety of chemical applications, coatings, automotive parts, and asphalt and sells products on a worldwide basis, including the United States, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, Central America, and Nw Zealand Koch Industries acquired Georgia Pacific on Dec. 23, 2005, for $21 billion.6 The company employs more than 30,000 people in over 180 locations. It is based inAtlanta, Georgia, but markets worldwide.7 Originally known as Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co., Georgia-Pacific is a pulp and paper company that produces paper, tissue, toilet paper, and building products. The list of products also includes the well-known brands Quilted Northern tissue, Brawny paper towels, and Dixie cups. Wallboard, napkins, boxes, paper dispensers, and pulp round out the company’s offerings. 3. Guardian Industries Koch Industries completed its full acquisition of Guardian Industries on Feb. 1, 2017, after earlier buying a 44.5% stake in the company.8 Based in Michigan, Guardian Industries employees 18,000 people in the United States, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.9Think of Guardian Industries as a glass company. It manufactures glass for automobiles, building applications, fiberglass insulation, and coated glass for architectural 4. Invista Koch Industries acquired Invista for $4.2 billion, including assumption of debt and certain interests, in April 2004.10 In total, Invista owns nearly two dozen brands and is involved in fabrics, fibers, plastics, polymers, chemicals, and the licensing of technology. 11 Invista makes spandex, resins, chemicals, and polymers and is a spinoff of DuPont. The company concentrates on textiles and owns numerous brands such as Lycra, Tactel, and Thermolite, as well as brands for outdoor gear, carpet (Stainmaster), and luggage. When Koch Industries purchased Invista in 2004, the conglomerate merged the polymers subsidiary with its existing KoSa subsidiary in order to create a new company under the Invista name.12 5. Molex Koch Industries paid $7.2 billion to acquire Molex in Sept. 2013. The company counted nearly 100,000 products in its catalog in 2013 and had more than 35,000 employees in 15 countries. For the year ending June 30, 2013, Molex had about $3.6 billion in revenues.13 Molex creates electronics to solve technical problems in electric cars, robotic surgery, and even the Mars Exploration Rover. The company is also involved in fiber optics, smartphones, and defense applications. With about 80 years of history, Molex has been a critical part of the development of some of the most prominent technologies of today, including the first cell phones, HDTVs, and car radios.14 Let's see. Petroleum, gasoline, biofuels, lumber (replanted trees),paper, glass, polymers, fabrics, technical electronics for electric cars and the MARS ROVER. And Adolf Rebound has a problem with this company, but he has NO problem with this Nazi War criminal. or these wonderful folk from COMMUNIST CHINA (who by the way have bought and paid for the unelected Pedophile in the Oval Office today.) Sometimes, just saying YOU'RE A FUGGING IDI0T doesn't quite cover it. ,
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Here is CFACT. https://www.cfact.org/about/ Funny. The Koch Brothers aren't mentioned at all. That means ONCE AGAIN YOU FUGGING LIAR, you are making shit up. And you cannot produce a SINGLE reliable source linking the Koch Brothers to CFACT. While we're at it, what has given you such a hardon for the Koch Brothers?
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What is acoustic carpet bombing? (I admit, this was the first time I've seen that term. But it wasn't invented by anyone in the petroleum industry.) https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/fishermen-activists-protesting-offshore-wind-projects-east-coast-manmade-environmental-disaster "What we're seeing is a failure to properly manage the situation," Rhode Island fisherman Chris Brown said on "The Bottom Line" Wednesday. "The whales have been migrating from their southern stations during the spring up through the mid-Atlantic region, and they didn't even slow down the acoustic carpet bombing. And as a result, the Atlantic was littered with the dead whales and dolphins and sharks. There doesn't seem to be any environmental concern. This is a manmade environmental disaster that's unfolding. I expect that it will half a whale population in 10 years and probably the same for our fish." Brown is a fisherman, not an oil man. ANOTHER LIE you're caught in. To explain the concept of "acoustic carpet bombing" "The Biden administration wants to put up 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind between now and 2030. I guess they believe the world's going to end in six and a half years like AOC from climate change," he added. "This means putting up 1,500 wind turbines stretching from the Carolinas right up to New England, and they're putting these offshore wind turbines about 15 to 30 miles off the coast, right in the prime habitat, in the lanes that a number of species of whales used to go north and south up and down along our coast." The turbines are creating disruptions to the ocean ecosystem both with the sounds that are emitted by the machines during the operation phase and even during construction. "A lot of noise is being created, and we've seen unprecedented numbers of whales beach themselves along the shores. In fact, some estimate there's been about a 400% increase in whale beaching and whale strikes since they began the offshore wind construction," Rucker explained. Rucker pointed out a whale species that is of a particular concern is the Right Whale, one of the most endangered whale species in the world. Gee! An ENDANGERED SPECIES being threatened, based on a LIE about climate change? I guess you enviro Nazis don't care about endangered species so long as people take your idi0tic climate change lie seriously. And you wonder why so many people think you are a mor0n.
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Why are you so concerned with what Harris's great great great grandfather did? How do we know your great, great, great grandfather wasn't a slave owner? Because at the time he was living in FRANCE. There was no slavery there, just a lot of bad body odor. ' The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1807 and slavery itself in 1833, when was it abolished in the US? Get a copy of the CONSTITUTION, you idi0t. Why would a VP want to debate a governor? When has a VP ever debated a governor who wasn't a VP candidate? Especially when that VP is a lying MOR0N who has been ordered not to embarrass the DemoNazi party. Snopes is not fact, you idi0t.
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Too bad you ignore the effects from warming the oceans on whales. Too bad you're too fugging STUPID to understand that humans are not warming the oceans, shit for brains. Meanwhile the OP article presents NO EVIDENCE that wind turbines are harmful to whales. Dead whales? I think DEATH is a form of harm. Ask the third grade teacher who flunked you before you dropped out of BLUE STATE SCHOOL. Just the OPINIONS of a fisherman who is deflecting his industry's responsibility. Oh, there are SCIENTIFIC sources in the link. You being too STUPID to read them does not negate their existence.
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You don't really have the authority to order someone to answer questions and then shut the fug up. Maybe the first few times you were arrested for meth possession, an officer might have told you to shut the fug up and answer the questions, but this is not an arrest situation. Nobody here has been read his/her/its rights. This is just a discussion. And if you don't like the fact that you aren't always going to get the answer you want, the safest route for you to talk would be
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Why was M Brown killed by the cop when Brown was UNARMED? He wasn't unarmed. His gorilla size made him a threat. Brown pushing his way out of a store with a bag of chips (or whatever) does not qualify him for the death penalty. A bag of chips? https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrFaIJLJ9VkCKAR6EJXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANDQVRDT05UUk9MXzEEc2VjA3BpdnM-?p=michael+brown+robbery&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=1&vid=0adfa0859ea654762b1db3ea5c6090e0&action=vie That animal didn't get the death penalty for the store robbery. He got shot IN FUGGING SELF DEFENSE. IF so, Maybe the cop should have backed off, and waited for reinforcements. That animal was charging the officer. And that animal got what it deserved. And Obama is a RACIST FUG. This is what happens when people vote race over qualifications. If that ashhole had been Caucasian, he wouldn't have been elected dog catcher.
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Insurers pulling out of Florida
reason10 replied to NYLefty's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
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And you wonder why you wore the dunce cap so much in third grade before you finally dropped out. https://www.heritage.org/markets-and-finance/commentary/heres-the-truth-about-what-inflation-reduction-act-would-do Here’s the Truth About What “Inflation Reduction Act” Would Do As Senate Democrats achieve their goal of jamming through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, reality is becoming clear: The bill will likely increase near-term inflation, depress household incomes, and produce the long-term deficits that fuel long-term inflation. Using the Congressional Budget Office’s latest scoring, estimates of the most recent changes, and accounting for very expensive gimmicks, it’s likely that the bill will produce deficits. The cumulative deficit would be around $52.5 billion over the next four years, at least $110 billion through fiscal year 2031, and more beyond. That would mean adding to near-term and long-term inflationary pressures, in contrast to what proponents such as Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., claim. In short, the bill is about as far away from a genuine Inflation Reduction Act as possible. Though it would be harmful under any circumstances, signing it into law during a period of stagflation would be the worst possible timing. The Inflation Reduction Act utilizes three major sets of common congressional gimmicks to mask its true costs: cherry-picked expiration dates, ignoring net interest costs, and indirect tax burdens. As one very costly example, the bill would extend for three more years “temporary” Obamacare subsidies that were supposed to expire this year. That brings to mind the wisdom of the late economist Milton Friedman, who once observed, “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” Despite the Obamacare subsidies being peddled as temporary, extending them was among the first provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that Senate Democrats committed to voting for. It just goes to prove something the everyone knows: There are certain taxpayer-funded handouts and giveaways that seem to always get extended in perpetuity. To keep the reported cost of the provision down, a three-year expansion was chosen because it is what they could afford on paper. However, accounting for political reality, these subsidies will likely cost at least $146.5 billion more than what is being reported through fiscal year 2031. That would be further compounded by Congress yet again delaying implementation of the Trump-era Medicare rebate rule, a move that shifts federal costs further into the future and arbitrarily reduces the portion of the costs included in the budgetary window. While the future costs would remain real, they would conveniently slip under the radar of the formal score. Yet another overestimation of savings presented by the bill’s authors is a claim to $204 billion in increased revenues from cracking down on tax fraud. While increased enforcement activity might result in higher revenue collections, estimates are highly speculative. Because the actual results are so uncertain, such revenues are not included in official cost estimates under the bipartisan scorekeeping guidelines. The deficits created by the bill, and the fact that they are front-loaded, would increase federal net interest costs by more than $14 billion—a fact that is not reflected in the formal CBO estimates. In total, the bill would add at least $110 billion to the federal deficit through fiscal 2031. To put that level of spending in perspective, $110 billion is roughly four-and-a-half times NASA’s annual budget, or nearly the cost of the ships in six U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. In this case, however, the $110 billion will be used to buy more inflation. When the federal government runs a deficit, it eventually must be paid back. That’s either done through job- and wage-killing taxes or by way of the Federal Reserve printing new money to finance the deficits. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fed financed 56% of new federal debt with trillions upon trillions of newly created dollars. Those dollars devalued paychecks and Americans’ lifetime savings. When the federal government attempts to print its way out of fiscal irresponsibility, it does so by imposing an inflation tax on every American household. With that precedent, no one can be certain of how much the federal government will use new taxes or new money creation to cover deficits. The expectation of future money printing causes immediate inflationary pressures as people act now to mitigate such future possibilities. As such, the deficits created by the Inflation Reduction Act would simply be the newest addition to the current inflation tax. To add insult to injury, almost every provision of the bill will bleed the bank accounts of American families. Tragically, the deficit- and inflation-increasing aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act are only the beginning of its burdens. In these provisions we find the third set of gimmicks; namely, indirect tax burdens. Despite President Joe Biden’s assurances, the tax and price-control burdens of the Inflation Reduction Act will fall squarely on families trying to make ends meet. Companies are combinations of workers, tools, and institutional knowledge that when brought together can produce the goods and services we need and enjoy. As such, companies can’t absorb a tax. They only direct how American households will feel it. The bill’s business-tax hike will leave companies with no choice but to cut wages, increase consumer prices, or cut future investments in a growing and prosperous economy. The bill’s requirement that the government get a deal on drug prices will simply mean that drug prices will go up for families and that research budgets for new lifesaving drugs will be slashed. The stock-buyback tax will trap capital with stagnant companies and will prevent investors from reallocating those funds to new, growing, and innovative ventures. The $80 billion IRS slush fund in the bill will go to “enforcement” activities that will likely target low-income families and minority populations. In reality, this bill is a litany of policies aimed at scoring political points that has been recklessly and hurriedly slapped together. If it’s signed into law as expected, long after the press conferences and congressional pats on the back have faded into distant memory, it’s inflationary, tax, and other burdens will continue to haunt every American household. Find someone with a education to read this and IDI0T SPLAIN it to you.
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Fauci Referred for Criminal Investigation
reason10 replied to Nationalist's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
He IS guilty of crimes against humanity, for his part in helping bring the OBAMA virus to America. Yeah, yawn. It only counts when Republicans are charged. And again, you wonder why everybody says you're such a fugging mor0n. -
Governor DeSantis doesn't play games and he isn't connected with CNN so there's no fake news involved. He just put out a challenge to a great grand daughter of a SLAVE TRADER and we got to hear was crickets. She is too stupid to debate DeSantis. She is too RACIST to debate DeSantis. She knows she would lose.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-suspends-orlando-state-attorney-over-dereliction-duty-crime DeSantis suspends Orlando state attorney over 'dereliction of duty' on crime Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Monique Worrell for "dereliction of duty" on crime via an executive order on Wednesday. DeSantis' office says that Worrell, whose jurisdiction includes Orlando, has routinely allowed murderers and other violent offenders to "escape the full consequences of their criminal conduct." The governor is tapping Florida judge Andrew Bain to replace Worrell as the state attorney for the 9th Judicial Circuit. "The practices and policies of her office have allowed murderers, other violent offenders, and dangerous drug traffickers to receive extremely reduced sentences and escape the full consequences of their criminal conduct. In some cases, these offenders have evaded incarceration altogether," DeSantis' office wrote in a statement. DeSantis highlighted the move in a news conference Wednesday morning alongside several other Florida officials. The officials, who included Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, stated that Worrell routinely avoided mandatory minimum sentencing for gun crimes and drug trafficking offenses, as well as allowing juvenile offenders to avoid serious charges and incarceration. Gee, libs! She actually avoided mandatory minimum sentencing for GUN CRIMES. Aren't you mad enough to spit your latte all over the floor at Starbucks? Or do you just get pissed when a NON criminal is harassed for LEGAL gun ownership? She also allegedly limited charges against child pornography offenders and avoided sentencing enhancements such as those based on prior offenses. Limiting charges against child porn? And the hard left in Orlando is whining like a stuck pig. Once again, the BRILLIANT Governor DeSantis has taken out the trash. (Prediction: SOME ignorant fug here will try to play the race card. Guess why.)
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Tips should NOT be taxed
reason10 replied to reason10's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Hey FUGGING IDI0T!!! Ever heard of the CAPITAL GAINS TAX? All those items ARE TAXED, you dribbling more on. Now I'm starting to think the third grade teachers who gave you all Fs were as stupid as you are. -
Florida Neanderthals Strike Again
reason10 replied to Aristides's topic in State Politics in the United States
Maybe HAVING SLAVES was how left wingers used to think WOKE was back in the 16th Century. After all, Republicans ENDED slavery in the Civil War. Your goose stepping side of the aisle believes that ridiculous 1619 Project LIE about America being founded in order to preserve slavery. (Yes, Virginia, there ARE people THAT FUGGING STUPID.) Republicans in Florida basically decided to give PARENTS control over whether or not a teacher could commit pedophelia or grooming, whether or not the system has a right to turn a child into a queer. Oh, and there is no such law as DON'T SAY GAY. In the legislature Governor DeSantis signed, THE WORD GAY DOESN'T APPEAR. Maybe, GAY was tagged to be the queer word because it stands for Got Aids Yet? A far left Nazi OPINION RAG? Seriously?> ARE YOU REALLY THAT FUGGING STUPID? -
Florida Neanderthals Strike Again
reason10 replied to Aristides's topic in State Politics in the United States
It's an issue for people stupid enough to believe a far left OPINION RAG like the Guardian. I read the link and it is FULL of lies. -
Try THIS in a small town.
reason10 replied to reason10's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Actually, it's worse than that. The concept of rioting, allowing it, allowing crime, is a DEMOCRAT PARTY INVENTION. People in small towns aren't hunkered down with guns and ammo just waiting for blue city animals to show up. (Well, maybe in Winter Haven, Florida where everyone is armed.) In small towns, white kids are white kids; black kids are black kids, and they grow up imperfect and they get into trouble, either at home or in school. Every small town has a juvenile justice program, most of which are way underfunded. Thing is in Blue cities, the Democrat leadership EMPOWERS the animals to riot without worrying about (a) getting arrested, or (b) getting shot while committing the crime, since the victims have been disarmed. I will also suggest that you see little to ZERO gang activity in small towns, usually because they are built on intact families, who raise responsible kids. (And I learned this little conservative factoid in a very liberal college Sociology class.) In large BLUE cities, you see the highest rate of welfare mothers, which means absentee fathers and kids growing up with no fathers. Those kids gravitate to GANGS, and gangs have no problem perpetrating those horrific crimes that Jason Aldean suggested would not be tolerated in a small town. Of course the LAST place an MS 13 type gang member in Miami would try any crap would be Winter Haven, or any other small town in Polk County, FL. The residents there aren't a bunch of Paul Kerseys, but as Sheriff Grady Judd points out, THEY FIGHT BACK. -
Try THIS in a small town.
reason10 replied to reason10's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
He's a blue stater. That means he couldn't qualify to get INTO a Florida kindergarten class. -
Tips should NOT be taxed
reason10 replied to reason10's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
https://admin.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2004/08/13/top_20_pay_80_of_taxes/#:~:text=The overwhelming majority of federal income taxes are,of all federal income taxes. The top 20%. Here are the numbers. You’ll be stunned. The overwhelming majority of federal income taxes are paid by the very highest income earners. The top 1% of income earners pay about 32% of all income taxes. The top 5% pays 51.4%. The top 10% of high income earners, pay 63.5%. The top 20% of income earners pays 78% of all federal income taxes. The top 20%. https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/1-chart-how-much-the-rich-pay-taxes You have lost ANOTHER argument. (Note to the educated posters here. The Blue State second grade dropout made a reference to rich people borrowing money and somehow avoiding paying taxes, but the idi0t doesn't splain how that is possible. It now makes me think he/she/it is a teenager who has a parent who sells life insurance and just listens in and tries to come up with anything to keep from losing arguments to me and other red staters. There is a provision that life insurance salespersons use to help retirees. It's about putting a large investment account into a single premium life insurance policy. Any capital gains tax on interest accrued in such an account is deferred, meaning it is taxed only when taken out. Policy holders are able to bypass that provision by borrowing from the lump sum face amount, since policy loans are tax free. Enough of the single premium is used to pay the life premiums so when the person dies he/she/it gets ALL the face amount death benefit. But at the same time, the client can receive a tax free income, kinda like illegal aliens who work for Democrats.) -
Tips should NOT be taxed
reason10 replied to reason10's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
So since you (and a small group of uneducated Americans) HATE REAGAN, here's our one opportunity to reach across the aisle. Let's GET RID OF TIP TAXING. You can do it by saying you HATE REAGAN. Now, just imagine your goose stepping DemoNazi politicians wanting to reach across the aisle and cut the working man a break. -
Try THIS in a small town.
reason10 replied to reason10's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
I don't have to lie. I'm right and you're wrong, bich. Nope. Big Cities create animals who are entitled left wing NAZIS who believe they are above the law. Big cities are the home of broken families, where poorly educated kids wind up in gangs who do all the damage. Big cites are BLUE cities, run by Nazi Democrats. -
Try THIS in a small town.
reason10 replied to reason10's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Carlson is more honest than ANY Democrat. You NAZIS are the worst liars in the world.
