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Charles Koch says he’s sorry

     “After spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, … Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal … that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create. ‘Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,’ is how the Donald Trump supporter characterizes his partisan battles ….

     For decades, Charles (photo, right) and David Koch bankrolled “funded ultra-conservative think tanks, peppered universities with hundreds of rightwing academics and used their wealth to boost an army of conservative politicians into office.”
     They were major funders of the Tea Party movement, and also bankrolled the rightwing American Legislative Exchange Council, “which pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state legislatures across the nation.”
     They also were big-time climate change deniers (not surprising, as the Koch family made their money in the oil business). But that’s not all; this reactionary also “plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls.”
     And now that it’s all blowing up in his face, he wants to reach out to Democrats and do Kumbaya?
     The Twitterverse isn’t having it. Read story and cynical Twitter responses here.
     Barf bags are available in the seatback in front of you (click on .gif at right).

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