Today's Cartoon And Read - The Fat Cats Candidate Cattle Show

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(Tom Toles, once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle)

The Republican fat cats (led by the ultra-right Koch brothers) had their candidate cattle show over the weekend, and they seem to think they're on the right side of history:

Five Republican presidential candidates [Fiorina, Walker, Rubio, Cruz and Bush] wooed donors at a weekend retreat where billionaire industrialist Charles Koch warned America is “done for” if conservatives don’t rally others to their cause by demanding a smaller, less-intrusive government.

“History demonstrates that when the American people get motivated by an issue of justice, that they believe is just, extraordinary things can be accomplished,” he said on Sunday, going on to reference the American Revolution, abolition of slavery and women’s and civil rights movements. “We, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.”
 
Listening intently inside a tightly guarded luxury resort in Southern California were 450 business leaders — many among them top political contributors — and the elected officials who receive that largesse. They’ve been strategizing with officials at the education, policy and activist groups that Koch and his brother David have spent years building up and funding.
 
That network has a budget of $889 million through the end of 2016 — and much of it will be directed at electing a Republican to the White House.  (our emphasis)

We wonder what "injustices" the Kochs and their 450 fellow oligarchs would like to right.  The tyranny of Medicare and Social Security?  The obscenity of clean air and clean water?  Voting rights for minorities?  A Democrat ever holding national office again?

Make no mistake;  beyond their election-season rhetoric (and the one issue they're apparently in synch with Democrats - criminal justice reform), these one per centers have zero interest in seriously addressing issues such as income inequality, living wages, climate change, regulating pollutants, safeguarding minority voting rights, etc.  These are people with the darkest of motivations and goals, and anyone foolish enough to take at face value their obscene attempt to liken what they're up to with the civil rights and anti-slavery movements is in desperate need of adult supervision.

BONUS:  Our noble media took the pledge not to reveal any of the oligarchs at the cattle show... because Morally and Professionally Obtuse!