Pence is a familiar face for these seminar participants. Many in the Koch orbit had hoped he would seek the presidency — or that he may yet. The current White House legislative director, Marc Short, ran the Koch network for years and is a former Pence chief of staff from his days in the House. The mind meld between the Koch world and Pence’s office is strong, and a Koch nudge in 2024 may clear the field for him.
That’s not to say the Koch groups have been particularly helpful for the White House’s agenda. Charles Koch in particular is no friend to President Trump and didn’t do much to help his presidential bid. The Koch network was unhappy with the failed outline to scrap Obamacare and is teed up to pick fights as the White House lays the groundwork for a rewrite of the tax code.
The Kochs, especially Charles Koch, are pure, unadulterated evil.
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A few presentists are pissed off we even honor somebody who wasn't nice, downright shitty, but still was a critical figure in history.
In the decades since, Columbus came to be seen less as an explorer representing Italians and more as a European colonizer whose journeys led to the decimation of American indigenous populations.
Those ideas picked up steam during the early 1990s, when criticism about the explorer’s legacy became increasingly visible in cities including Boston, Denver, Philadelphia and Berkeley, Calif., amplifying many Native Americans’ longstanding complaints about the holiday.
“We were here first,” Ray Geer, a Paucatuck Eastern Pequot and president of the Connecticut River Powwow Society, said to The Times in 1991. “We find the notion that Columbus discovered us extremely distasteful.”
It is rewriting history, though. Columbus was a shitty person, but to deny how important his explorations were to the course of human history is just idiocy.
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People are still mired in the 1950s when it comes to sex roles.
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Pence is the reason I don't want Trump out of office:
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