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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

 





Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, May 14, 1984 (White Plains, N.Y.) -

VP candidate for American Peoples Party (aka American Party) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Roger Alan Hoover (b. 1951)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Roger Alan Hoover of New Port Richey, Fla. filed with the FEC for US President under the banner of the American Peoples Party on Oct. 31, 2016. Since he did not indicate on his form if he was running for the 2016 or 2020 election, the FEC defaulted to 2016.

Hoover introduced himself to potential voters on Facebook, apparently in the fall of 2016--

About Roger
I am a newly married candidate for President of the American States. If you write me in, HOOVER, I will work every day for you. Not collecting money, not selling Pooh hats, shirts, ties and whatever I think you will buy. I have invited the former NBA Basketball star, Bill Bradley to be my Integrity Ombudsman, if you know him or know somebody who knows him, please encourage him. This Hoover administration promises total visibility and I mean total, if I screw up, Rochelle will tell you how I screwed up, and then I will take the podium and answer questions every day and ask for your forgiveness. My mistakes will be mistakes of the head not the heart. Dick Cheney's were of the heart and he had to get a brand new one. That electric one was going to shock him into the next life. On Wednesday I have a meeting with a representative of the Communist Government of Vietnam. I am organizing a Forgive Me tour of Vietnam next August and September.  Command Sergeant Major Ted Daw will lead this delegation. This isn't like O'Bama. I killed more than 1,000 North Vietnamese civilians because my government told me to, not because I wanted to. If you knew me, you would know unequivocally this is true. I dropped Napalm on them in tunnels designed to protect them. Napalm is liquid plastic like Urethane mixed with gasoline. You may recall the young girl on the cover of Time magazine. I killed over a 1,000 of such girls, boys and men and women, all civilians. All burned to death with the burning gasoline clinging to their skin. So please America, let me apologize and let me begin to heal. All of Vietnam's, 80,000 soldier deaths and 200,000 suicide deaths were so Vietnamese children could make your Oneida silverware for a nickel less than when the factory was in New York on the Erie Canal. Maybe all of us should apologize, except Lady Bird Johnson RMK-BMJ sold to Haliburton in time for the Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan killing. General Eisenhower, we need your spirit now. I know John McCain is a lowly Ensign like 41 but I am promoting him to a 7 star General like myself and I guarantee upon my life, the mistakes of the past will not be repeated.


Hoover also claimed the late President Herbert Hoover was his uncle or great-uncle. One problem here is that the former President had one brother who was the father of daughters, not sons, meaning no one with the Hoover surname could be a nephew or great nephew of Herbert Hoover.

It would seem Hoover began his quest for the Presidency around June, 2016, if his Facebook entries are an indicator. It is difficult to ascertain how many of his statements were made as a form of jest. Hoover expressed a desire to have the following people as his running-mate: Bernie Sanders, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Mark Cuban, and Mark Zuckerberg. He also offered to be the running-mate for Sanders, Cuban and Hillary Clinton.

Some of the less obscene Facebook samples during his campaign--

June 2, 2016
Donald, you are too stupid to get any of this but I'll try, others will get it. When I read about your father, I fell in love with him. He is not happy with you, in fact every time you come on TV, he turns his head in shame. That's between you and him. When he made that $1,000,000 loan to you so you could start your business, I so wished my dad could have too. That's ok, my dad gave me the gifts of civility, compassion, empathy, etc. Donald, with all of your deft, all you have is debt, debt outpaces your equity, with all your debt you couldn't buy any of those even though your father was rich in all of them. Now our dads lunch daily in my room in heaven. Your dad has asked me to verbally body punch you until you can't take any more and I have agreed. GET OUT OF THE RACE YOU DUMB ASS! Even I don't want to see what I am going to do to you. Weak independent candidate my ass, my nickname is THE TASMANIAN DEVIL. You should jet down to Tasmania before you continue this folly. If you do drop out I will totally show you how to save your ass and return to relevance! You've been warned BLOW HARD!


June 4, 2016
Hi everyone, I forgot, the Secret Service monitors my posts, appears Donald is afraid I will get to him and hurt him. Disney shared my practice incident report with Donald which was accurate in all details, Donald my details are always spot on. I'll start off with a general statement and then move to specifics. I want no harm to come to Donald. If it does, it won't be at my hands. I like Donald and want to show him the way back to his Zen. Donald, I'll give you a hint, it involves making billions for you but DOES NOT INVOLVE HOTELS. You've been there done that. When I say, I'm coming for you, that's what all candidates say to each other, I did not say, I'm gunning for you. When I say I'm going to unleash a flurry of verbal body blows on you, I mean, sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you. I only have words for you Donald, but I have eyes for Milani. I only have eyes for her!

June 6, 2016
TRUMP'S BULL ALBUQUERQUE!!
I will predict that Donald will not show his birth certificate. Who will give 5 million dollars to Creation Kids if Donald does not show his birth certificate . I wondered why Donald went so far off the tracks about President Barry Soetoro's Birth Certificate . It's because Donald knows the best defense is a strong offense. Donald knew that his Birth Certificate would come under scrutiny . He knew he could not withstand that. So thus the attack on President Soetoro. Donald pull up your Trump big boy panties and show us your original birth certificate. What was your given name Donald?


June 17, 2016
People who apparently live in LAX are asking me am I running as a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent. Due to the lack of communicative skills in Washington this is all I know. As of TODAY, I am running, Bernie is running, Mark Cuban is running, Hilclimber 3 Hotel is running and Donald is running. Who's on top, who's on bottom, who's power and whose passive, I have no idea. I can go with most match ups but there are some I can't, I won't. Oh, I left out The President. Can't serve any more terms, true but he can sacrifice 2 more. You see, Donald, the dumb ass he is was more concerned with where Barry was born rather than who was born. Barry Soetoto was on the b/s. But Barack Obama (a non person) has been allowed to serv. President Barry Soetoto hasn't served a day and is elegible for 8 years Presidential Candidate
Roger Alan Hoover also 8.
Now Dumb ass Donald has his own problems, born a twin Donald's heart failed, dad made the painful decision to save the boy with the girl's heart. Problem, the girl's birth certificate is the surviving one. The small hands, no blood while heart transplanted. He dumb ass, I gave you many chances to get out with dignity and a super income , now I never want to see your lying dumb ass. Why don't you make money for your supporters like  Warren Buffet.


June 19, 2016
Fathers Day Tribute to Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States. Though I never met you, thanks for passing the presidential genes to me.   
HOOVER 2016

To all of those doubters and haters who think I can't get elected and those that want to continue bullying me, Albuquerque YOU!
I love Muhammed Ali  and have since the Cashious days. I am dedicating the first year of my presidency to curing Parkinson's. It will be called whatever my hero wants it called to honor him and to make it easier for me to text.
HOOVER 2016.

Bernie, I'll run with you, top or bottom.  YES

Hilclimbrr 3 Hotel. Hillary, I don't know what I ever did to deserve this but if God says I must pay my debt, then I must pay it. Many love you, many love me, many loved Herbert Hoover 31, I'd rather win with a woman than lose with a man. Don't drag this out, give a quick answer, may I be your running mate, the man 2nd string banana Vice President?


June 29, 2016
I would be willing to leave Roe v. Wade in exchange for a national sterilization bill. All 12 year old girls would be sterilized unless they could prove they possess the Intelligence and compassion to become a mother. For the few that slip through the system, there's still the abortion option. That way a woman from age 12 and up can have unprotected sex to her heart's desire  knowing she's already "gotten rid of it".

July 9, 2016
All of you Facebook idiots. Pay attention, I'm only going to say this once. I am not sick, I do not have a mental illness. I have a brain injury that occurs when you napalm men, women and children. A BRAIN INJURY. Look it up in your "My little Pony" dictionary. Leave me alone if you don't know what an Albuquerque brain injury is!

July 13, 2016
I am a member of NRA. I support the 2nd. I am also an ordained minister running for nomination with Mark Cuban, I believe if we are elected, have all the guns you like. Modern bullets were not covered by the 2nd. The Product Safety Commission will rule them unsafe to humans and they will be banned and illegal. Mark and I are committed to stop murder, it's affecting recruiting at the Mavericks.


July 20, 2016
Mark Cuban and i are on the ballot in TN, i wonder about the other 49??

An open letter to ISIS. You have decided to fight the United States of America on a house to house guerrilla warfare basis plus cut the heads of little children off. Ok, game on, we accept your challenge. If Mark Cuban or Mark Zuckerberg and myself get on all 50 ballets as the American Party or if the fine citizens of this land write us in, this is what will happen my first day in office. We will begin to pay $100,000.00 in local currency to anyone who gives us the GPS coordinates of an ISIS members house. Once we have those coordinates we will send a $250,000 HELL FIRE MISSILE in your house. No one will survive, trust me, not your nana and not your precious bubala. We will gladly pay $350,000 to end your reign of terror and return our world to a peaceful coexistence. If we send a missile to the wrong house, ooops, our bad! You can not share this and live in fear the rest of your life or share it and help me get elected. Other postings at Roger Hoover, Paris, TN. Roger Alan Hoover and Mark Cuban.

So, America, you get to pick my Vice President. I love and respect each of these gentlemen equally. This may be the only race you truly get to decide. For President, write me in Roger Alan Hoover, great nephew of the 31st President, Herbert Clark Hoover, be sure and write in Roger Alan Hoover for President. Then for Vice President either Mark Cuban or Mark Zuckerberg, your choice.


July 26, 2016
NATO, yeah right!
How about USATO
HOOVER - Head of the American Party, write him in on November 8th.
Ivanka - Yes or No
As president in 8 years, you need to be decisive, right Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, I'm coming to you after Bernie, heads up, patients are coding!

Aug. 5, 2016
I have confirmed with the Federal Communications Commission that I am a qualified, bona fide, certified candidate for the office of the Presidency of the American States in accordance with:
Section 73.1940 of the United States Code [47 CFR Pp 73.1940]. I understand the atheists in the US Government do not believe in miracles but as my previous Post and Tweet state, God is still in the miracle business. Soon you will hear from a mostly deaf young man who will rock your world and light up Twitter.
On November 8th, as I celebrate my birthday in Italy with my Opus you will witness another miracle performed by the Supreme Court as they award me the Presidency as they did my predecessor President George W. Bush, {hi Laura} [hi President George Herbert Walker Bush] (I know Herbert was for my great uncle the 31st President but who is 'Walker for?, a Texas Ranger?) {hi Barbara - Bush Bush Clinton, yep time for another HOOVER} Barbara, is there any way you could talk JEB into being my VP, I really love him, he knows from the letters I sent him in Tallahassee, tell him the law suit over Jackson County wasn't personal, it was for the children, and I dropped it and you know why!
Ok, focus!! News networks, and I use the term loosely, I really mean lackies to the 6 companies that control US News and World
Reports, and I use the term loosely. If you continue to ignore my candidacy referenced above, you will be very foolish, because you will not have one employee approved for the White House Press Corps and I will hold a briefing every day at 5:30 Eastern that will run to 6:30 Eastern. YOU WILL NOT HAVE ONE PERSON ON THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS DETAIL.
Further, after consulting with my Summa Cum Laude from UT Law and that's not TEXAS, he states that I do not have to make myself available to any NEWS Network that does not offer me equal access, so guess what Albuquerque Hole, I will not talk to you after November 8th if you do not talk to me before November 8th. So go ahead PUNK, how many votes do you think you have out of the 8? I know I have 8 so go ahead PUNKS, MAKE MY DAY! Clint, Please no empty chair speeches, the girls thought it was creepy, put some of these NETWORK IDIOTS in that chair and go to town, I love your body of work!


Aug. 17, 2016
Is there any chance at all that one of the fine Generic Companies making meds for the VA. Let me just stop here and tell hill if she takes the job NO MORE GODDAMN GENERICS HILLARY, THAT IS YOUR LESSON ONE, LEARN IT WELL OR I WILL HIRE MONICA LEWINSKI AS YOU ATTACHE'. I think one of my medicines has been filled as Ambien instead of what it should be, how can we check that out and what does Hemoglobin have to do with any of this. IS SOMEONE ELSE TRYING TO KILL ME. Hey Secret Service I am a bona fide, qualified, certified candidate for President of the United States of America who polled much higher than trump or Xclinton last week on Twitter. What else do you want and engrave invitation.
Secret Service, if you are not too busy with the WHORES in Cartagena would you please come protect me?

I'm going to be making the oval office square, I'm not changing it just with me an old school guy who believes in honesty, integrity, honor other peoples property like Palestine and don't take a life, let God do it, eventually He will get around to every single one of us. Let Him decide the time. Allah really does know best. Love to all.


Sept. 5, 2016
Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, let's save the country any further division. Both of you DROP OUT OF THE RACE TODAY, LABOR DAY. Mr. Trump, you will be my Business Plenipotentiary with no salary but 10% of contracts and treaties, 20% of Whistle Blower (I have a big Blue Tarp one for you), you should make $100 Billion per year if not more. You will be my Business Plenipotentiary, please have Eric Trump look it up and read it to you.
Mrs. Clinton, I will pardon you of all crimes and misdemeanors 1 minute into my inaugural speech, you will be my Veteran's Plenipotentiary. Seven Star General John McCain and myself will accompany you on 416 Monday field inspections. Generals will fear your footsteps. After 8 years under my wing man, you will be the first woman president of the United States of America, I will work night and day to insure it. Come on team, play nice, it is my destiny to be  the 45th or 46th President, let's make it happen. It's good for me and it's good for America. It's very good for those that make it happen. I've shown you how. So, cast your vote for America.

Sept. 16, 2016
Birther Issue: Mr. Donald Trump, Eric Trump are your dad's hands so small he can't get his birth certificate out of the safe deposit box and publish it here on FaceBook? Come on Donald, were you born in the United States?

Oct. 7, 2016
If you don't think the billionairs like Warren Buffet and the Koch Brothers control US elections, consider this. I have made 2,000 FaceBook Posts and 1,800 Tweets and 27 videos since the election began. And I didn't say one newsworthy thing that a reporter somewhere would like to ask me about. Come on America, you are not as stupid as these Billionairs think you are, are you? On November 8th, 2016 when you go into the privacy of your voting device, write in the name HOOVER and show the people who stole this country from us, that we want it back and President Roger Alan Hoover, who cannot be bought for any amount of money is going to help us wrestle it out of your filthy, money grubbing, thieving hands once and for all. Reform will be the order of the day in addition to returning the USA to the most financially viable country in the world. Can I count on your vote America, it is my birthday after all. Give me the best present I could hope for and I will work every day of the next 8 years making your future brighter, your  children's future brighter, your grandchildren's future brighter and your great grandchildren's future brighter. Can you ask any more than that from me?

Facebook gazillionarie Mark Zuckerberg, one of Hoover's choices in his multiple running-mates, was ranked the 10th most powerful person in the world by Forbes magazine in 2016. One would wonder why he would accept the demotion of being Vice-president, or even President for that matter. In any case Zuckerberg was below the Constitutionally mandated age of 35 in 2016 and would have encountered a problem there in the event of an electoral victory.

Hoover did not appear on any ballots nor was he registered as a write-in in any state. In a Nov. 6, 2016 Youtube presentation he expressed a hope that Clinton and Trump would deadlock and as a result Congress would turn to Roger Hoover as the compromise choice.

Election history: none

Other occupations: Facebook co-founder, philanthropist

Notes:
Some might say that frequently mentioning former President Hoover as a campaign tactic is not exactly positive salesmanship.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

James Arthur Lewis





James Arthur Lewis, April 20, 1933 (Old Saybrook, Conn.) - February 22, 1997 (Norwich, Conn.)

VP candidate for Libertarian Party (aka Free Libertarian Party) (1984)

Running mate with nominee: David Peter Bergland (1935–2019)
Popular vote: 228,111 (0.25%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Until shortly before the Libertarian Party convention in 1983, talk show host Gene Burns was assumed to be the Party nominee for President. But he decided not to run (politically speaking at the last minute) and a power struggle ensued to fill the void. In the process the so-called "Crane Machine," which had run the 1980 campaign, was displaced by the more "ultraist" forces of 1980 VP David Bergland.

Bergland was selected as the standard bearer for the Libertarian Party on the fourth round of voting. The convention voted for Jim Lewis as running-mate on the second ballot. In both cases neither Bergland or Lewis were the first choice on the first round. Once the insurgents had gained the nominations many of the moderates walked out. This included people like 1980 VP nominee David Koch who took his bankroll with him.

Being something of surprise nominees, the Bergland/Lewis ticket had to devise a campaign strategy on the fly. And coordinating a party of diehard individualists to act in a unified manner could not have been easy. It is something of a tribute that they performed as well they did. Better, in fact, than any other third party in 1984.

During the electioneering it was apparent Lewis had a special interest in opposing the concept of income tax. In Massachusetts at an anti-tax protest in April 1984 he told a reporter, "I haven't filed an income tax return in four years and I'm still on the street ... There is nothing in the tax code that makes you subject to criminal prosecution for failing to file an income tax form. The system is in fact voluntary ... I don't expect to file again until they put a gun to my head."

The bad news on Election Day was that the Party suffered a significant drop compared to the 1980 Presidential results. The 1984 0.25% national percentage still stands as their lowest since 1980. But on the bright side, the Libertarians landed in third place for the first time in Presidential elections, a feat they would repeat off and on for the next few decades. At the grassroots level about a dozen Party members were elected to various offices around the country.

On the ballot in 39 states and DC they continued to enjoy their strongest support in the Far West: Alaska 3.07%, Montana 1.35%, Wyoming 1.25%, Arizona 1.03%, New Mexico and Colorado 0.87% each, Nevada 0.80%, Oklahoma 0.72%, Idaho 0.69%.

Lewis, acting as his own attorney, went on to be convicted in a U.S. District Court in 1988 for willful failure to file income tax returns in the 1980s. Rather than considering himself a "tax cheat," Lewis saw his actions as an act of tax protest and attempted to use the trial as a venue for arguing the constitutionality of income tax. Needless to say, he was convicted. He began his sentence at Allenwood, Penn. in April 1988 (about the same time income tax is due) and was released 10 months later.

Election history:
1982 - US Senate (Conn.) (Libertarian Party) - defeated
1987 - Libertarian Party nomination for US President - defeated

Other occupations: salesman for the General Book Binding Company, author

Buried: ?

Notes:
Winner of the 1982 race was Lowell Weicker.
Previously a Republican.

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

David Hamilton Koch







David Hamilton Koch, May 3, 1940 (Wichita, Kan.) – August 23, 2019 (Southampton, NY)

VP candidate for Libertarian Party (aka Independent aka Free Libertarian Party) (1980)

Running mate with nominee: Edward E. Clark (b. 1930)
Popular vote: 921,128 (1.06%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In 1980 the polarizing term "Koch Brothers" and what that represented had yet to really become part of the American lexicon. David Koch himself, the Libertarian Party running-mate with Ed Clark in that year, was learning a lesson in electoral politics the hard way.

Born into oil refinery wealth, Koch lived up to his middle name of Hamilton when in a 1974 speech he declared, "The development of a well-financed cadre of sound proponents of the free enterprise philosophy is the most critical need facing us today."

As we have seen in several cases, the size of the candidate's bank account is frequently more important than their experience or credentials when it comes to gaining the second spot on the ticket. In Aug. 1979 Koch announced his availability for the VP nomination in a very unsubtle way: "As the Vice-presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party I will contribute several hundred thousand dollars to the Presidential campaign committee in order to ensure that our ideas and our Presidential nominee receive as much media exposure as possible." It seems he actually kicked in more than two million dollars.

I remember being impressed that as a third party the Libertarians actually had television advertisements in 1980. I also remember those ads looked low-budget, were badly produced, and very hokey. Koch's investment was poorly spent in this regard.

The long 1980 platform included: repeal of and pardons for what they considered victimless crimes such as drug use, prostitution, suicide -- pro-Gay rights -- repeal of all laws permitting involuntary psychiatric treatment -- An end to criminal defenses based on "insanity" or "diminished capacity" which absolve the guilty of their responsibility --  opposition to all forms of government censorship and media regulation including anti-pornography laws -- no government sponsored media such as NPR -- an end to the taxation of private owned real property -- oppose the issuance by the government of an identity card, to be required for any purpose, such as for employment, voting, or border crossings -- abolition of the CIA and FBI -- pro-guns -- anti-draft -- anti-national service programs -- Members of the military should have the same right to quit their jobs as other persons -- abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for those people who have entered the country illegally. We oppose government welfare payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons. We welcome Indochinese and other refugees to our shores, and condemn the efforts of U.S. government officials to induce Indochinese governments to create a new "Berlin wall" that would keep them captive -- oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes -- abolition of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, The National Banking System, and all similar state and federal agencies -- termination of government-created franchise privileges and governmental monopolies for such services as garbage collection, fire protection, electricity, natural gas, telephone, or water supplies. Furthermore, all rate regulation in these industries should be abolished -- repeal of all federal and state controls over price and output in the petroleum industry. All government owned energy resources should be turned over to private ownership -- abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission -- abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration -- abolition of the Food and Drug Administration -- government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended --  dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Federal Maritime Commission, Conrail and Amtrak -- repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act -- Social Security should be made voluntary -- abolition of the governmental Postal Service -- abolition of the Civil Service system -- abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs -- abolition of the "despotic" Federal Election Commission -- In order to expand the range of choice in federal, state and local elections of government officials, we propose the addition of the alternative "None of the above is acceptable" to all ballots. In the event that "none of the above" wins a plurality of votes, the elective office for that term will remain unfilled and unfunded -- withdrawal from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- withdrawal of all American troops from bases abroad, and NATO, and the UN, and cease the Monroe Doctrine -- reform of the Presidential War Powers Act to end the President's power to initiate military action, and for the abrogation of all Presidential declarations of "states of emergency" -- immediate independence for all colonial dependencies, such as Samoa, Guam, Micronesia, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Needless to say, eliminating that pesky Dept. of Energy was one of Koch's favorite topics.

After reading that partial list of issues we have to remind ourselves that Clark and Koch were considered moderates within the Party. For those in the traditional dualism mindset of American politics, there was something in there to offend everyone. The civil liberties portion of this platform horrified the evangelicals. And the economic and deregulating half alienated the Left.

During the campaign Koch Industries had been subpoenaed in an investigation regarding fraudulent gas and oil leases in Wyoming, which would have made one wonder about Koch's Libertarian motives if anyone had been paying attention. Using Koch as an example, it would be easy to assume the Libertarian Party was more about the wealthy perpetuating the economic class and social sense of entitlement in order to keep their huge fortunes and maintain the Darwinian Ayn Rand romantic notions of elitism than it was to think of the LP being a champion of individualism and personal liberty. A populist party this was not.

A portion of the Party resented Koch's presence and felt he was buying his way into the power structure of their group, which he in fact was doing. Koch himself enjoyed campaigning but was about to realize a hard fall. Lulled into a confident state by meeting only supporters during the campaign, he was surprised when the Party did not enjoy a higher national vote. Then as the LP drifted increasingly into the hardcore camp, Koch crossed over to the Republican Party by 1984, taking his billions with him.

The Koch Brothers bring to mind the lines uttered by Ned Beatty in his role as the television executive Arthur Jensen in the 1976 film Network. Jensen is lecturing one of his newscasters (Howard Beale played by Peter Finch) who had foiled an international commercial transaction through the power of his presence on TV:

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone!

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.


One senses that Koch's brand of libertarianism could care less about the civil liberties aspects of the party and instead was utterly embroiled with the all-about-the-monetary-profit aspects. I detected no great passion there on the civil side. His heart was with laissez-faire economics.

It is intriguing that the Koch Brothers supported an increasingly social unlibertarian Republican Party until Trump came along, partly due to the protectionist trade and tariff policies which hurt Koch profit margins.

In 1980 David Koch learned the limits of third party idealistic elective politics and after that went full speed into the much more effective role of being a guy behind the curtain pulling the strings for many years of the major parties in the world of dirty practical politics. The Libertarian Party itself took a more hardcore stance after Clark/Koch, demanding more philosophical purity from their candidates in the next election. By that time Koch would no longer be in the Party.

The Libertarians had a strong popular vote for a still fairly new third party. They had a national result of 4th place at 1.06%-- a percentage for the Party that would not be surpassed until 2016. On the ballot in all 50 states and DC, their most impressive finish was in Alaska with 11.66%, the only state where they placed 3rd. The remainder of their most enthusiastic percentages came from the Far West: Montana 2.70%, Wyoming 2.55%, Oregon 2.19%, Colorado 2.17%, Arizona 2.15%, Idaho 1.93%, Nevada 1.76%, California 1.73%, and Washington 1.68%.

Election history: none.

Other occupations: obscenely rich guy

Buried: ?

Notes:
Full disclosure/confession: I voted for this ticket in 1980 as a protest.

Friday, August 23, 2019

David Hamilton Koch


David Hamilton Koch, May 3, 1940 – August 23, 2019

Yes, one of the infamous Koch brothers was a third party vice-presidential nominee. The Libertarian Party nominated Ed Clark and David Koch in 1980. They gained 921,128 popular votes (1.06%).

Koch died today aged 79.