The Koch Brothers fund all these libertarian propaganda outlets to ensure they tear even more of the nation’s wealth away from its lands and people, and like all evil dynasties their domestic lives are full of treachery and awfulness. That’s why the Koch Brother known as Bill Koch is permanently at war with his siblings, David and Charles Koch. They’ve all been battling over the family fortune for longer than most people have been alive. They are monsters.
Anyway, the “poor one,” Bill Koch — best known for suing David and Charles Koch for stealing the oil from federal and American Indian lands — just dropped $2.3 million to buy the famous “tintype” photographic image of Billy the Kid, a notorious criminal. New Times Palm Beach reports:
Bill Koch, one of the poorer Koch brothers — by “poor” we mean he’s worth $3.5 billion, compared to Charles and David Koch’s $21.5 billion fortune, according to Forbes — dropped a cool couple million on a rare portrait of Billy the Kid over the weekend.
Koch, the head of the energy holding company Oxbow Group in West Palm Beach, adds the tintype photograph to a ridiculous collection of top-shelf collectibles
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Bill Koch also won the America's Cup in 1992.
Did he also win the America's Jock Strap?
Well, it is hardly worth being a Koch without some form of supporter. Or at least a fluffer like Scott Walker.
Oh, THAT Bill Koch.
Not just a rich asshole: He's a watery rich asshole.
Is there any sport more patrician than yachting? It makes polo look like a game of the common people.
Don't worry, one of the provisions of Paul Ryan's budget calls for replacing the rubber ball used in current Polo championships with the head of a Guatemalan peasant. That should bring the luster back to the game.
Rigoberta, noooooooo!
"Is there any sport more patrician than yachting?"
http://yachtpals.com/kerry-yacht-9119
http://deceiver.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/te…
And they call Democrats the Elitists.
Reminds me of an Onion headline.
http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/rich-g…
$2.3 million is 0.0657% of $3.5 billion.
Trickle-down economics in action: an antiques dealer got a nice commission.
This is how America became great.
That’s why the Koch Brother known as Bill Koch is permanently at war with his siblings, David and Charles Koch.
Put them in the Thunderdome!
Three Plutocrats Enter,
OneNo Plutocrat Leaves.~
Winner – us!
Patience, my friend. The time for that is fast approaching.
Why, oh why, couldn't the Koch parents have named one of their kids Richard? Huh? Huh? For the laughs, you know.
One of his grandchildren was named New. But after college, he got tired of the rejection and changed his name to Classic.
Or Peter! Really, how hard is this?
(TWSS.)
I guess Harry is totally out of the picture.
Ditto the nickname Red.
Willie Koch not good enough?
Flaccid?
The accepted parlance is 4 teh lulz.
Hero worship.
You know who else had a ridiculous collection of top-shelf collectibles?
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Jeffrey Dahmer?
Peggy Guggenheim?
Cleopatra? (museum-quality stuff, no less!)
HITLER! is always a good answer, no matter what the question was.
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Billy Carter?
Speaking of Hitler!, how about the Puppetmaster?
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Zeus?
Every under-taxed Robber Barron ever?
The Walton heiress?
So he likes pictures of thugs?
I bet Billy Koch is secretly married to Nikki Giovanni — & that's why his father left the bulk of the estate to Chuck & Davy.
A LOT
Weren't the "Young Guns" sort of like a working class union that was always shooting the managers?
Billy the Koch?
Koch fight!
This reminds me of that classic neo-Western, The Assassination of the American Middle Class By the Cowards David and Charles Koch.
2.3M for a picture of a dead redneck thug? Tsk tsk… I'm sure there are more governors, senators, judges that could have been paid off to kill the unions with that money.
At least when they are spending their money on shit their grandchildren will load in a dumpster they aren’t subverting Democracy.
This trinket is indistinguishable from a piece of trash I spied at the Billy the Kid Museum in Fort Sumner last Thursday. $9.95 with free nachos and soft drink included.
Well, I do like the fact that he sued his evil brothers. I wonder if he has a mint copy of Spiderman #1. Or one of them stamps with the upside-down airplane.
Or a Honus Wagner baseball card
Or Lt. Commander Data.
Or a rare draft copy of the Declaration of Independence containing the word "suckers."
60 Minutes did a repeat of the show where they highlight these kids that live in Orlando area of America's dingus. They live in motels and the school buses have re-arranged their routes to pick them up. Their parents are honorable working folk who have fallen down in this awful economy. But, good thing this asshole could afford a photograph of a criminal for a coupla million. Coulda made better use of that filthy lucre, maybe?
Hey, he created jobs in the important auction-house sector of the economy, and the brokers no doubt used their cut to go to dinner somewhere, which ensured a fractional portion of the salaries for at least one waiter, one cook, and one dishwasher, and all of those people get to pay bills and rent, so don't be so quick to gripe.
A dick in the hand is worth two in a bush.
I'm afraid you've gotten that one a bit backwards. Or kinky.
Another meat puppet playing with his meat.
$2,300,000 on a tin type? I'm feeling a little sick.
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Here, allow me to help:
"$2,300,000 on a tin type? What's the matter, couldn't afford the silver type?"
I've got an assload of photo-effects options in my photo software. Next time he needs an overpriced, crappy looking photo, I'll do it for half that price. C'mon Bill — call me! I'll even throw the baby-dolphin skin photo frame for free.
Meanwhile, in the Mumbly family, having a full-time job that gets me under 45k/year and savings of less than a thousand dollars makes me "one of the richer Mumbly brothers".
We should cut taxes on the rich, so you'll have something to aspire to.
The only good Koch brother is named Jim, for unto Jim was born a good beer from Boston.
"Please, address me as 'Cap'n'".
Today we are all former owners of Billy the Kid photographs. Well, no we aren't, but that would work great for us all if we could be; wouldn't it?
Feeling nostalgic for the days of honest criminality, eh Mr. Koch? Used to be, a guy would point a gun at your face and demand your money — now they set up astroturf organizations and convince their victims they want to give some greedy bastard their money.
I prefer to buy Congressmen. They're nowhere near pretty but you can get some use out of them at least.
Well, when class war turns to war in the streets, if you find yourself looting his burning manse, try to pull out this trinket and save it for The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in OKC. It looks a good place for such an artifact.
I want to see him take it on Antiques Roadshow, when they appraise it for $250, after they drag out of him how much he paid for it.
Is the purchaser of the Michael Jackson Jacket for $1.8 million Milton J. Verrett, late of a 1981 USPS Fraud Complaint for selling silver dollars through the mail with highly exagerated claims for their value and a 1998 S.E.C injunction for Chap 33 fraud?
All of them, Katie.
Well, all I can say is thank God no one wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. They are barely getting by as it is. No wonder Ryan and the rest walked out on Biden. Can you imagine the suffering if any of these Kochs had to pay one more cent in taxes?
After ten years of tax cuts, I can't hardly walk out of my front door what with all the corporate assholes begging me to come work for them because they've created more jobs then there are Americans to work them.
This is why they need more tax cuts.
Some guy paid $2.3 million for rare picture of a kid named Billy? Pervert.
billy the kidd looks kinda twee in that tintype, doesn't he?
The Dich Brothers are even bigger pricks.
this may be the 'good' brother. Stealing oil from Native Americans was a step too far even for him……
Hey, I have some tin types and de guirre (sp.) type photos….think he'll pay me a few million for my relatives photos?
Photographic proof of sea monsters? Hell yeah he will!
I agree–and in the meantime, fortunately, reloading the page usually cycles to a new, non-autoplay ad.
Gosh, maybe now, with possession of this piece of metal with no intrinsic utility, he will feel some sense of accomplishment, inner peace, satisfaction. NOT! HAW,HAW,HAW HAW!!!!!!!
fuck, for $2.3M you'd think you could get the real thing, not just a photo. if i ever end up that rich i promise to buy someone's 100+ year old remains just because i could.
If penis size is measured in dollars, those are some HUGE Kochs!!
Buy the remains of the elephant man, and Michael Jackson, grind them up into a pastiche and serve them up on some Scottish shortbread cookies to all my rich pals. Now thats how I would act classy if I had only 5 bil.
Sheeat!
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