Who are the Koch Brothers?

[reason10]

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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Edited August 11, 2023 by reason10

[Rebound]

Yeah, it’s true, but you are a bleeping ldiot, so I may as well say it.  

[Caswell Thomas]

It might interest you to know, if you bothered to do any real.in depth research, that the Koch brothers are nephews of both Otto and Isla Koch, Otto was the commandant at Sauchsenhausen and Buchenwald Nazi death camps in WWII Isla was called The Beast and Murdress of Buchenwald because she tore off the living skins of prisoners to make lampshades, purses and "leather" coats she sold to other high ranking Nazis. She was imprisoned until her death by suicide in prison, he was executed as a war criminal. In addition, the brothers own father was caught selling U. S. oil to the Nazi's during the early part of the war until the FBI stopped him. He then tried to do it again, was stopped and the tankers were seized for the war effort. The Koch brothers were ruthless corporate hostile  takeover specialists, depriving many of jobs to transfer the funds of honest work into their own coffers without the sane ethics getting n the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[reason10]

15 hours ago, Caswell Thomas said:

It might interest you to know, if you bothered to do any real.in depth research, that the Koch brothers are nephews of both Otto and Isla Koch, Otto was the commandant at Sauchsenhausen and Buchenwald Nazi death camps in WWII Isla was called The Beast and Murdress of Buchenwald because she tore off the living skins of prisoners to make lampshades, purses and "leather" coats she sold to other high ranking Nazis. She was imprisoned until her death by suicide in prison, he was executed as a war criminal. In addition, the brothers own father was caught selling U. S. oil to the Nazi's during the early part of the war until the FBI stopped him. He then tried to do it again, was stopped and the tankers were seized for the war effort. The Koch brothers were ruthless corporate hostile  takeover specialists, depriving many of jobs to transfer the funds of honest work into their own coffers without the sane ethics getting n the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I already did the search. It seems only extremist left wing opinion rags are making this claim. The name KOCH is pretty ordinary. I believe there was a New York City mayor named Ed Koch. Are you also suggesting he was a Nazi?

I don't believe in holding the sins of the parents over the heads of the sons, especially since the Koch Brothers have done so much good for humanity, saved so many lives and employed so many people. (Certainly more than any Democrat.)

I guess someone with a last name Smith committed a rape somewhere. Are you going to accuse ALL with last names Smith of rape?

[Caswell Thomas]

Both of the brothers were known to have placed and financially supported white nationalist leaning professors in multiple universities throughout the southern states from the late 1990's on  to replace actual history with their own despot ideas of the old Confederate state that led to the Civil War and which is the root cause of much of the strife we have politically today with Donald Trump revving it all up continuously in his rallies. Hitler did the same and both Trump and the Kochs declared their admiration of Hitler as a world leader, the Kochs are the top donors of Dark Money in elections and fund multiple alleged charitable organizations whose activities instead say " far right political activists" but since the Kochs create them as charities, their list of members are kept secret such that few pay any taxes and multiple billionaires made by the Kochs are members of these organizations, many of whom seek to overthrow the U. S. Constitution and replace it with very pro Libertarian rules heavily favoring a return to 18th and 19th century wealth distribution with virtually no taxation of wealthy citizens at the expense of continually repressed lower classes forced to support them, in effect the slave classes mentality that  the Kochs are using to  indoctrinate the universities with their hand picked white nationalist professors who further the ideas on the innocent minds of students fostering hatred of other races except the One White Race concept aka Aryan Race that Hitler espoused.  I'd say that connects the Kochs pretty well to Hitler. 

Edited August 13, 2023 by Caswell Thomas
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[reason10]

11 hours ago, Caswell Thomas said:

Both of the brothers were known to have placed and financially supported white nationalist leaning professors in multiple universities throughout the southern states from the late 1990's on  to replace actual history with their own despot ideas of the old Confederate state that led to the Civil War and which is the root cause of much of the strife we have politically today with Donald Trump revving it all up continuously in his rallies. Hitler did the same and both Trump and the Kochs declared their admiration of Hitler as a world leader, the Kochs are the top donors of Dark Money in elections and fund multiple alleged charitable organizations whose activities instead say " far right political activists" but since the Kochs create them as charities, their list of members are kept secret such that few pay any taxes and multiple billionaires made by the Kochs are members of these organizations, many of whom seek to overthrow the U. S. Constitution and replace it with very pro Libertarian rules heavily favoring a return to 18th and 19th century wealth distribution with virtually no taxation of wealthy citizens at the expense of continually repressed lower classes forced to support them, in effect the slave classes mentality that  the Kochs are using to  indoctrinate the universities with their hand picked white nationalist professors who further the ideas on the innocent minds of students fostering hatred of other races except the One White Race concept aka Aryan Race that Hitler espoused.  I'd say that connects the Kochs pretty well to Hitler. 

Prove it.

Or admit you are a LIAR who just made this up.

[Caswell Thomas]

Its history, look it up. And I Never lie.