donald trump, He's been constantly barking about the 2020 election being stolen from
him stolen.
But he's not the only person who's perpetuating this big lie.
It takes more than just rhetoric.
It takes some cash.
So coke industries has spent over a million dollars in campaign donations to
house and Senate candidates who support this big lie and
voted against certifying the election results in 2020.
Of course that's happened.
So let's get some details here.
So coke, which is controlled by multi billionaire Charles coke,
boasts a corporate pack that has donated $607,000 to the campaigns or
leadership packs of 52 election deniers since january of 2021.
That makes cox pack the top corporate funder of members who opposed the election
results.
That's according to open secrets.
In addition to in addition to that, the super pac americans for prosperity action
to which Koch industries has given over $6 million since january of that same year.
They backed some election buyers with advertising and
other communications of support as well as a few candidates.
Donald Trump has endorsed who tried to help him overturn the 2020 election or
raise doubts about the final results.
Now, this coke funded super pac a FP action.
They claimed that after january 6th riots and the attack and the insurrections to
run upon the capital that they were going to consider some actions of the members of
Congress leading up to january 6th before making any more future donations.
Hey bro, we're gonna stop this.
We understand what the problem is.
We saw what it was.
We're gonna chill with that.
Let's see lawmakers actions leading up to and
during last week's insurrection will weigh heavy in our evaluation of future support.
And we will continue to look for
ways to support those policymakers who reject the politics of division and
work together to move our country forward because they're true patriots.
Here's the non surprising part about this whole thing.
You guys, it doesn't appear that they're living up to that promise, hmm.
And it's gonna be due to their lobbying support of oil and gas industries.
Another HM they've spent $12.2 million 2021.
And those 52 election deniers that they've been funding include many who support
legislation.
Say it with me that supports benefits of the fossil fuel industry.
Here's some of those election buyers who have received funding from coke.
Let's look at first senator john Kennedy of Louisiana.
He's often a staunch ally of fossil fuel interests.
He received $20,000 from coke's pack some only matched by the corporate pack of
capital one Kennedy teamed up with other senators in january of 21 on a statement
that claimed the 2020 election was quote rife with allegations of fraud and
irregularities that exceed any of our lifetimes.
One more Wisconsin writer, Ron johnson, Wisconsin, Senator, excuse me,
Ron johnson.
He's also benefit from $4.2 million spent by a FP action to help
him in what seems to be a tight re election race.
And according to revelations at a House january 6th committee hearing in june,
an aide to johnson reportedly helped promote efforts to substitute fake
electors for trump for legitimate ones that biden had won in the run up to
january 6th when Congress certified those election election results.
Now, one more piece about Ron johnson because he's also a supporter of
the fossil fuel industry and he's on the record as being a climate change denier.
And according to open secrets again, He has taken $750,
from the oil and gas industry since 2009.
It's almost like if you get paid by certain groups and certain packs,
they represent certain industries that want to continue making exorbitant,
record amounts of profit off the backs of everyone else.
While they deny things like the election in order to keep certain people in office,
their profits can continue.
They are definitely willing to do that.
Democracy be damned.
How about those profits?
Yeah, of course.
So I have a bunch of mainstream Democratic friends and they saw a headline about
how the Koch brothers were turning on trump a couple of weeks ago and
I was like, guys don't believe the hype.
Okay. I mean,
the media loves to get you excited about that.
And by the way I read that article, it didn't say anything of the sort,
that's what the headline said.
But you read the articles, Bonnie and I told you, some of the campaigns
of the anti trump republicans are using a thing that Koch brothers produce,
that means they're paying the Koch brothers.
That doesn't mean the Koch brothers are supporting them.
So my thesis was that the Koch brothers and in this case,
Charles Koch don't give a damn about democracy and
they'll support any criminal who does as they're told you.
Look, maybe they don't like trump because trump's a little out of control and
he's not a good pet.
Like he's, you know, he overturns the garbage when they're not home,
makes a mess, probably sleeps on the couch, right?
So they don't like that.
They like good pet servants and that's the entire rest of the Republican party.
So are they gonna stop bribing them?
Of course not.
Then.
How would they get all the corrupt legislation that they
want out of Congress and and stop the legislation that they don't want?
So look, I'm gonna give you some numbers.
Ted Budd is a guy who was a House member now running for
the Senate coke organization gave him just in this cycle, $3.1 million.
I mean, look at how the money that they throw around like progressives.
It's, it's so hard to raise $3.1 million that is,
my God, it would kill you to raise that kind of money.
I mean it's, it's and the cokes are like, yeah,
you're gonna be a sellout bitch for us.
Here is $3.1 million.
You back to the revolution to destroy our democracy.
Now, remember though, when you go guys just officially declare yourselves
fascist, remember who you're still working for, Okay,
you're still working for Charles coke.
So like Rando steve chatbot in Ohio
got 287,000 $902.
Cat commit.
These are tiny little house seats, right?
And they're just doing that.
Cat got $369,000.
Okay, it would take a progressive an entire cycle to raise $369,000.
All these republicans have to do is go to Charles coke, kneel down and
kiss his ass and say, I swear to God, I'll sell out the american people in a second.
I don't work for americans, I work for you, dear sir.
And he goes, I pardon you, I don't care about democracy.
I was just joking.
Anyway, you all get the money as long as you continue to be corrupt for me.
Yeah, and this is really one of the inherent contradictions that is
a struggle within capitalism, which is ultimately at the end of the day, if you
have big business interests, you have millionaires and billionaires, they're
gonna want to increase their profits regardless as to the rules of society.
And this unfortunately, something that's been prevalent throughout the entire
history of the United States, I mean famously there are a bunch of
industrialists during the new deal era that were like, no, how dare you,
you can't, you know, put in place Social Security or Medicare, anything like that,
You know, this has gone too far, who literally tried to stage a coup.
They literally organized with general to try and stage a coup and like, you know,
thank God Smedley Butler came in and was like, whoa, no, you know, and
blew the whistle on that, but that's something that's sort of always been
present within the United States and this is really a continuation of that.
And really demonstrative of the fact that if you're going to allow people to
accumulate billions of dollars, you need to put very,
very strict controls on how they're allowed to use that money when it comes to
things like engaging in politics, right?
It feels like, you know, this just sort of like really, really basic stuff that that
should be obvious, but unfortunately in the system that we have,
we just allow infinite money into our political system.
Yeah, I love that Ben brought in the little bit of history there, right?
Because in the old days, during the robber Baron era, and
this is amazing when there was something that went wrong and like, for
example, it like one of their businesses wound up having an accident and
it killed people that was a giant story.
And the robber barons had to like really backpedal and try to figure out how do we
play the press to make sure that people don't get really angry at us or
the government takes action.
What I'm telling you is,
it was like we had way more of a democracy during the robber baron era.
Now, you know, the press doesn't care at all at all about rampant bribery,
massive bribery look, harry Reid a couple of times and also the coward democrats.
Also the corrupt democrats.
Because I read a couple of times mentioned the Koch brothers and I remember this
is like a decade ago when he was the leader for the democrats in the senate.
Everybody's like, whoa, that is so controversial.
No, it's the bare minimum.
It's why wouldn't you mention that the other side is taking giant amounts of
bribes and the reason they don't mention it is because they also take bribes.
So everybody was like harry, cool it cool.
It wow.
And when he died, people are still talking about it like, brave fighter.
Harry Reid twice mentions the coke brothers twice.
What a brave fighter he was right and
look think about the difference between Fox News and MSNBC.
Fox is 24 7 ripping democrats faces off on things that are half
the time made up okay.
But either way they're attacking democrats?
24 7 MSNBC.
I mean, they could pulverize republicans if they talked about the corruption?
Why don't they ever talk about the corruption?
Because first of all,
half of their hosts are former republicans who participate in that corruption.
The other half or
former corporate democrats who also participated in that corruption.
And then if they did that,
they know that all of their democratic allies would get called out.
So they're like show and then the new york times and said to go, hey, we're not, hey,
we don't have an agenda.
We don't have an agenda.
So we'll do a story once.
If you're lucky, if you're super lucky, we'll do a story once and
then we're done with it.
We're never, we're never gonna mention it again in the context of that same person.
They have instant amnesia.
They forget their own stories.
In reality, they should mention every time this guy took a bribe from Charles cook,
this guy, whoever they took a bribe from right instead Now his deceased brother,
David coke, just like mob bosses, You know, and, and
the Koch brothers originally got their fortune by robbing native americans and
then that's where they came up with the idea of bribing politicians.
They got out of those charges because they bought corrupt sons of bitches,
like bob dole?
Who mainstream media loved, They loved bob dole.
Did you know that he was in World War Two.
That's why we're not going to report on all of his bribes.
Okay.
And so, and at the end of the day, David cox lapses at like good mob busses,
they Sprinkle a little bit for the little people after they've stolen a whole bunch
of money and then, and then everybody's happy.
David coke slapped his name on the, on the met or whatever he did.
I don't know, just for the fancy people in new york.
And every time I'm like, my David was really good.
Really good.
I watch all these populist leftist,
just scandalous.
They're rascals.
The rascals.
The cokes have been very good to us, Populist Jake.
And also by the way, you talk about me to you talk about things that that
that they're not reporting on that's happening.
Did you guys hear about this?
My last thought on this is from the hill Senate Republicans voted Thursday that's
yesterday to block consideration of a bill to promptly require organizations that
spend money on elections to disclose the identities of donors who give $10,000 or
more during an election cycle.
We call that Dark money to these pacs and these organizations,
into these, into these, senators.
Congressmen.
Everyone like that.
Majority leader Schumer put this bill up in order to highlight the reliance of
Republican candidates on this huge inflow of cash from dark money groups?
That's what the Democrats will put forward.
But have we heard about it and
we saw that 100% of Senate Republicans voted against this measure?
I think it's a pretty good indication that they would like that to continue.
And you have to ask yourself why there are no populist republicans.
It's all a lie.
All they're doing is doing it, animate this point and she nailed it.
It's, you'll see it in every story going forward.
All the cultural wars are used by Fox News, the Koch brothers and
all the corrupt people in this country to distract and divide us.
And that's the only fights you ever see in the media is between MSNBC and Fox News.
Culture wars, Black White.
This that culture, culture, culture doesn't mean we shouldn't fight those wars
because we've got to stand up for our own people.
But at the same time as we're all distracted,
they're robbing the bank right behind there and the media is their getaway car.