Part 2: Dark Money: Jane Mayer on How Koch Bros. & Billionaire Allies Funded Rise of the Far Right

[@mrdanielleebrown]

These sociopaths will betray their own brother. What do you think they're doing to the world?

[@CountBifford]

John Birchers who tried to blackmail their gay brother into giving up his company shares? They sound monstrous.

[@92890javier]

And Americans aren't still upset? We just lay down and let these things fly over our heads.

[@jamesmurphy9105]

Dancing with the Stars is on don't Wake Up Zombies especially if the Walking Dead in on

[@billypilgrim7838]

it's football season no time

[@SKAL0K]

We need to assemble on Washington.

[@murrayflewelling1258]

because too many look up and start chasing the bills blowing around like leaves in a hurricane lol

[@bikemaurice1953]

The Golden Rule , "Those who own the gold, make the rules" ,

[@gordonanderson3111]

Noone can float like an Angel while held down by lots of gold.

[@zehrajafri9252]

Great video. I'm surprised that we find out all the criminal stuff the people at the top have been committing horrible crimes against humanity and the planet, and nothing is being done against these corrupt people and the corrupt system they've set up. Despicable helplessness.

[@bg6160]

I don't believe in the devil but these two come pretty damn close.

[@BelisarioHRomo]

You obviously are referring to the two ugly women...of course!!

[@Dsullivann]

@@BelisarioHRomo nah we're talking about David and Charles Koch. Two despicable men funding a joke of a party aka Republicans. Cant wait for the next brother to die off....

[@gordonanderson3111]

Lose the use of the word "believe" and try taking a look at the hard facts. You will be shocked to see what this global criminal organization has got away with (such as a Tea Party operative, who happens to be my sister Linda Hanson, abducting my mother, drugging her to silence her for years, resulting in her death). So many covert operations, so many killed, in targeted assassinations with full police cooperation bought and paid for, all to stop all clean energy work in the USA, and hand the World over to China as they put more money into making solar, wind and hydrogen power than all other countries - NEARLY as much money as the Charles Koch spends to stop clean energy work in the USA!

[@gordonanderson3111]

@@Dsullivann They can not wait around for the 220 foot rise in Sea Level, but need to go meet their maker, and leave the mess to us.

[@ritamariekelley4077]

I'm re-watching this in 2023. Jane Mayer's work is as vital today, perhaps more so, to prevent trump 2.0. Thank You, Jane Mayer, for your brilliant work!

[@ritacampbell3833]

Excellent thank you Amy, great program.

[@Bochanable]

Even try to undermine their possible gay brother. If they can do this to their own blood, think of the lack of caring they have for the American populous.

[@prisillaspace]

Where & how can we find out names of the 156 members of Congress who signed the pledge for $$ to 'DO NOTHING'?? (;_;)

[@1020donny]

+Prisilla Cope read the book

[@donaldjones4130]

we need names in all affairs states and government and policemen who throw rocks and hide there hands

[@gordonanderson3111]

Finding the names, and even hard proof, can not and will not do anything to bring these criminals to Justice - since as I have found out the hard way all these billions have been used to turn law enforcement into one huge criminal operation, working to help criminals get away with high crimes, for money. Violations of their "Code of Silence" are punished by death. Death by targeted assassinations, aided by gov. agencies such as our NSA, CIA and FBI.

[@mccollumparkfarmersmarket7836]

Got a solution for the toxic waste. Have it shipped to the kochs homes and properties after all they made it it's thier property

[@solidaritytime3650]

Put the crate in the living room- great conversation piece.

[@mccollumparkfarmersmarket7836]

@@solidaritytime3650 they can open it and recreate the scene from raiders of the lost ark for thier guests

[@homerco213]

This is madness.

[@hectorochoa2626]

Oil belong to the people! Not to the Corporations !

[@marietjieluyt7619]

Please provide a list of the members of Congress who signed the pledge on climate change.

[@fifermcgee5971]

Yes, the public should have this information. Who will have the balls to make it public?

[@pearlbarkley1019]

Mayer's conclusions are also logic based. These types of tactics were used in the past to justify slavery because it was highly profitable. Example.. Liberia was founded by the American Colonialzation Society a group of plantation owners slave traders and others who did not want freed Blacks in the USA ..

[@dickhamilton3517]

dear Kochs, if you want to make money, go ahead, make money under the law, nobody will stop you. If you want to make politics, or define policy, get yourselves elected.

[@dickhamilton3517]

at least, that's how things used to be, and should be, except that the US government and legislature is wholly owned, these days.

[@shobvious]

They are intelligent to know that no one would. So creative destruction it is. Of democracy that is, society, stability ... along with their own basic human decency. I think that went first, likely around the time they tried to blackmail their own sibling for being gay.

[@zehrajafri9252]

So good looking but with such dark souls. Really sad, why are these people so greedy? Don't they want to be higher human beings?

[@dontaylor7315]

Good Lord a revisionist history idealizing the Gilded Age?! Pure evil. "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations." Thomas Jefferson

[@davejones5745]

Don Taylor beutiful... Thank you for adding this quote!

[@davidcanatella4279]

Evil is the root of all money

[@shadowdance4666]

Just one Koch …. TO GOOOOOOOOOOO

[@escapegoat1847]

I'm writing a screenplay titled "Dark Money Part 2 - Root of all evil" I'm going to pull a Lucas and make a sequel first. My story revolves around a billionaire who sold his soul to the darkest of dark lords years before, in order to give him evil's help in making his fortune. Now it's time for evil to collect! I've given away too much.

[@zehrajafri9252]

Hypocrites rule the world.

[@paulgibby6932]

Thanks for bringing this out again. David RIP, and how's the weather down there?

[@buckeyewill2166]

“Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob…” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[@shadowdance4666]

I’d very much like to see this list of 156 members of Congress that signed that pledge or the updated version. Anyone … They need to be eliminated one by one. The weakest one first

[@lindag5488]

Now I understand why Don the Con is, and has been, rolling back over 80 EPA regulations.

[@kimhope9638]

It seems daunting to overcome this level of control and insidious evil. Since its always about money, perhaps voting with your dollar is the only way to combat the problem. It's also about keeping Americans ignorant. Spread the word. It's free!

[@lemonhead4368]

I try not to buy any Koch products

[@jayiu9170]

This is so fucked up and scary. How can someone have so much power, let alone create a whole lobby of people like them.

[@dogcatparty7371]

September 2019 Jane Mayer should do a book about David Blume 'Alcohol is a Gas!'; Edwin Black on clean car history; the success of ethanol in Brazil (made out of sugar can waste) in the documentary 'Pump'; and how a Christian church couple (they own their church and nearby gas station that only sells ethanol; it looks like a brand new conventional gas station, but a tall sign shows a bible quote). Ethanol can be made out of almost any yard or farm waste; it can be owned by all political and religious backers; it could save millions of people from burning to death in car crashes and kitchen cooking fires with 'denatured alcohol.' All this deserves a daily conversation instead of just on Earth Day.

[@billsmith2212]

We need to recruit the terminally ill to do the dirty work that no one else has the guts for ! Put these ( one brother down ) scum at the top of the list .

[@pearlbarkley1019]

Charles Koch had the audacity to say those words!!!! Good grief!!!!

[@kathyjones274]

Don't give Trump your money.

[@Tsnore]

Evil often comes with a genial, happy, smiling face to reassure the "benighted." The Koch-aine Bros. gave such gentle interviews on Morning Joe a few months ago much like the brief interview segment seen here. DN's pieces here reveal what's behind that facade.

[@patriciagriffin1505]

Yes an Joe said it was a shame Charles Koch was known for his vitrolic contributions to society

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

Did Charles Koch say "driving creative destruction"? (09.00) Because that's what he does.

[@shericorcoran5538]

its an insult they call themselves american

[@dorothytemple4195]

They are the children of SATAN!!!!and they enjoy toying with us all,they are all doomed to HELL!!!!!!!!

[@dejayrezme8617]

ALEC is kind of crazy. They write legislation bills that representatives can simply copy and paste. It makes the legislative process SO much easier for these guys. Think of the savings you can have when you don't need to write all your legislation yourself!

[@MiguelHIGHrce1781Xy]

Corruption Is The Best positive way. The only way thanks to The RICH. " Wise words of The RICH and politics.

[@markrichardson3566]

Follow the $$$$

[@RJGilman1967]

You're, "glad he thinks that's important" (taking care of environment) You know he was lying why would you repeat that?

[@murrayflewelling1258]

Air earth and water...ohhh my , the triple death cross !

[@marcusfelton8729]

He is dead.but his brother is still operating.and just like all rich people.they are smart a nuff to groom their kids to take over.and keep up the agenda..that is what they do. Black people we need to start groom are kids. the black female tennis player.willams sister we're groom. Watching crimes show I see blacks people who have a 2 hundred.dollars problem.and end up commiting a murderer.trying to get money.

[@wito6998]

No, the people are not buying the global warming argument. I am more concerned with nuke warfare, chem/bio warfare, EMP, epidemics, as well as large-scale natural disasters like CME, asteroids, & super volcanos.

[@pearlbarkley1019]

Greed avariciousness misanthropic

[@FatNormanCoathanger]

156 signatories. Who are they.? Who are you voting for.? Other than the "Corporate States of America".

[@daviddreyer5817]

Corporate States or Confederate States; what is the difference? Witchataw Wacos.

[@dconfused9919]

Fear only your fellow human creature

[@briantyson6138]

They own Georgia-Pacific, so if one were so inclined, one might consider not buying any of their products.

[@mns8732]

Wasn't the Mayor of New York a distant relative?

[@lawrenceholst3808]

You all always ask “how did this happen “? How’s everything gotten so bad? Usurious money for profit is cancerous to societies It’s essential that all of society , protect from evil men who lend money for interest! That’s how we got here

[@billypilgrim7838]

systemic change Bernie

[@2Fiddle4U]

I don't think she knows what an anarchist is. The Kochs are the farthest from being ones. Though I get the feeling she knows what proprietarianism is, and they fit the bill in spades

[@mw3516405]

Why are they so anti socialist / communist then.? Doesn't make sense that me . Left Dems seems to me they are socialist/ communist ! Thank you !

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

mw3516405 Why are they anti Communist? Do you even know what Communism is? Do you know what Libertarianism is?

[@karenkelly8578]

Holy shit.

[@captiveexile2670]

Habakkuk 2 asks Isn't it from God--- that the people tire themselves out, just for "fuel for the fire". Surely God almighty prophesied the end from the beginning (so that people like the Koch brothers couldn't say "WE DID IT"). And when the real end arrives and the sky above darken on a clear day (Amos 8:9 + Isaiah 51:6), they will go into eternal disgrace forever (for supporting men like D.T. who like those who lie ll the time, commit murder and then try to "pin murder on God", Psalm 94:21 + Psalm 109:16). It wasn't enough they were wealthy-- but they had to get out there and "push and shove" at the sickly and the weakly-- and hound the broken in heart to his death--- as if to slay the broken-in-heart with a "secret scream of JOY" -- Ezekiel 13).

[@complyvoluntarily]

The federal government is oppressive, most rational people do want to shrink it. I think only public sector employees are happy with size of state.

[@chancelorgrey2702]

complyvoluntarily Do you agree that these large corporate leaders are also by definition oppressive? Do you view their influence in the market and government as toxic and also needs to go?

[@complyvoluntarily]

We now have fascism:too big to fail airlines,too big to fail banks, etc. I do not believe in crony capitalism. Taxing capital gains is constitutional and these guys hide their money.

[@complyvoluntarily]

..that said...if these guys have a large enough organization that it could be considered a political party I don't think it should be condemned. Corporations are not people, money should not buy votes but let's not bash the right just to bash the right.

[@peteradaniel]

You always have a negative comment to say on DN clips. I smell a dirty neo-liberal troll.

[@complyvoluntarily]

I do not troll anyone. I am a registered Democrat who has listened to NPR for years. The left is just as guilty of close-mindedness as the right. I thought journalism illuminated both sides of an argument without opinion. DN is usually a one-sided argument with plenty of bias.

[@Caperhere]

12:57

[@patbranigan6501]

But if renewables become the main energy source and they who did not prepare losing their place in the market place, isn't that just their Almighty Market being free?

[@dickhamilton3517]

Charles dunt sound too bright. Seems he's trying to remember how his little speech is supposed to go, while he says it.

[@prisillaspace]

+Gustavo Arreola I need to...thanks!

[@homerco213]

In Putin's Russia, this woman would be Hem-locked! Yakov Smirnoff joke? Vladimir Kara-Murza was just poisoned so these are dark times for critics. As wretched as Trump is he isn't that depraved.

[@patriciagriffin1505]

You evidently know know that much about Trump.

[@kathyjones274]

Trump is putins boy and son says Russia gives them all the money 💰 🤑 💸 they need. 💯 Trump is a LOO-OO-SER and different kind of evil 😈. So don't try to rewrite history.

[@MerryMinty]

Could this be any more dramatic?

[@svs8909]

left are cunts and traitors and globalist