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If you haven’t watched the video of Wyatt Koch that Anne Laurie linked to, you’re missing out, so here it is again.

I’ve never heard discoteque pronounced that way before.

We may not be billionaires here but we did raise 6K yesterday for a fund that is split equally among all eventual Democratic nominees in House districts held by Republicans. If everyone who voted for Hillary last time gave 100 dollars we could get outspend the entire right-wing complex in 2018.

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  1. 1.

    Mike in DC

    Impatiently waiting for news of the big meetup between Mueller and Trump’s lawyers. If there’s anything that can be construed as exoneration, they will rush it out there. If there isn’t and Mueller asks for an interview with their client, set your timers for the meltdown to end all meltdowns.

  2. 2.

    Raoul

    Um, raise the goal?

    Also this is missing:
    MT-AL — that shitheel who beat up the reporter. Let’s nail the bastard.

    These are ‘dem’ seats, but open. Maybe add them?
    AZ-09 — open seat
    NH-01 — open seat
    NV-03 — open seat
    MN-01 — open seat

    While you’re editing:
    IN-07 should be removed, I think. Incumbent Dem.
    MI-05 – incumbent Dem

    Thanks Doug!

  7. 7.

    germy

    I like the brief shot of his sketchbook. Very professional drawing. A very talented young man.

    I think a visionary like him would be a force to be reckoned with even if he’d come up from humble beginnings.

    And I like that his clothes are suitable for places everyone goes: the discotecka, the yacht…

  11. 11.

    patrick II

    I don’t know how old he is. I have known young people like that, optimistic and overconfident, and not yet tested against reality. As a matter of fact a young libertarian I met in econ class at the local jc. (I am old and retired and take a class or two for fun). My confident young friend, not dumb but not really that smart, says that when the robots come he will get a job fixing robots. There is a lot of reasons that’s not true, and he will start bumping up against reality soon. But his young Koch billionaire will just keep cruising, everyone lying to him and saying how great he is, how great his seventh grade drawing is (in that vein, did you see the Trump meeting yesterday?) building a world in his head different than ours, but with the money to build some of a world like that around him.

  12. 12.

    marcopolo

    Donated. Just unfathomable to me that this guy got a $75 billion dollar tax cut yesterday (according to the sources I read).

    When Wyatt Ingraham Koch was younger, his father, Bill Koch, gave him a piece of advice. “You can do whatever you want to in life, but just make sure you do it well and you do it with passion,” the billionaire said to his nascent billionaire son, and thus a dress-shirt empire was born. Now, mere hours after House Republicans passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—Paul Ryan’s tax “reform” bill, which overwhelmingly benefits corporations and the mega-wealthy—a video advertising Wyatt’s budding business has begun to make its way around the Internet.

    “Congratulations to this Koch heir, who is going to become like $75 billion richer in the next few days,” writer David Roth tweeted, along with a link to the video in question. “He’s going to use it to make very innovative ugly shirts.” What sort of ugly shirts, you ask? Much like the offspring of another mogul, the 31-year-old Koch heir runs an eponymous Palm Beach-based clothing brand called Wyatt Ingraham, which sells button-up shirts in patterns you may find on a Goldman Sachs middle manager at a Southampton Fourth of July party when he wants to “let loose.”

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    @Suzanne: So I was watching Major Crimes last night and (spoiler, not that anyone else probably watches) and they were trying to figure out who the murderer was. Because the son reminded me of Jared, my money was on him, and my hunch only got stronger when he gave a threatening speech about how they needed to drop this witch hunt. Right. Now. Let’s just say I have pretty good instincts. It was gratifying when they arrested him.

  15. 15.

    Aleta

    He spared no expense to get top quality video production, cool interesting actors, trendy music, and sets that are outside the box of your average early 70s drive-in movie porn, I see.

  18. 18.

    Chyron HR

    I’ve never heard discoteque pronounced that way before.

    I’m not going to watch that thing. How does he pronounce it, “Disco-Teek”?

  20. 20.

    Raoul

    @Droppy: Hey! My Mary Ann drag is first rate.

    OK, yeah, third rate gender-bender camp, really. I won’t shave my beard for anyone (Patsy Cline’s birthday party, 1991, was the last straw).

  21. 21.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    Here’s a great twitter thread from Zach Wahls, running for a seat in the Iowa legislature. Some of you may remember the splash he made when he stood up and testified about growing up with 2 mothers. This is exactly the kind of campaign to support to get a lot of bang for your buck.

  22. 22.

    Raoul

    Wow that video. My question: Is the fabio-haired dude in the turquoise trunks Wyatt’s date? Or just a gigolo for the ladies?

  24. 24.

    dr. luba

    I’ve never heard discoteque pronounced that way before.

    That’s because you don’t hang out with Ukrainian teenagers……..at summer camp, every evening they beg for a дискотека. I don’t know what his reason is, though.

  25. 25.

    Brachiator

    At first it flew by me that Koch the Younger was saying that he wanted his shirts to be worn anywhere, you know, in a boardroom or on a yacht.

    Just your average non elite kind of guy.

  27. 27.

    dr. luba

    Does using cyrillic text put you in moderation? I don’t think I used any of the forbidden words……..

  28. 28.

    Heywood J.

    He’s the ginger version of the kid from Bad Santa, and those clothes look exactly what that kid would come up with. I would pay serious money to watch him get dropped off anywhere in Real ‘murka without his driver or black card.

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    @Brachiator:
    You would not get away with dressing like that for a board of directors’ meeting. He reminds me a little of Ivanka — a supposed business person who seems to have no idea how to dress for a business occasion.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    @Doug!:

    I got a vibe like he was leaning toward “discoteca,” as in “That’s how we say it on the yacht at Ibiza.”

  32. 32.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Heywood J.:

    I’d like to see him walk into any bar in the working class, blue collar union shop neighborhood where I went to high school. His black card wouldn’t spend because they only take cash; they will deign to take a check to settle up a week old tab.

  33. 33.

    Suzanne

    Those shirts look like they’ve been sewn out of those Lularoe leggings. The really ugly ones.
    Well, the good news is that, after the release of that video, the company will be going under. They HAVE to be going under.

    If these shirts become another one of the semiotic mascots of the deplorables, I will just have to stay indoors forever. Between the giant pickups, the McMansions, the sandals with socks, the flag pins, etc, I am already having a really hard time coping aesthetically with these people.

  34. 34.

    Calouste

    @Mike in DC: Most likely scenario is that Eddie the Legal Eagles tell the shitgibbon that he is exonerated on something (while Team Mueller of course didn’t say anything like that), and he immediately brags about it on Twitter while confessing to another crime.

    Something like:
    “I made this great deal with Vlad to give him back Alaska, and people said it was illegal. Wrong!”

  37. 37.

    Corner Stone

    I don’t mean to sound fat shamist, *buuut*…when you’re that wealthy you have to really work at it to be his level of overweight. Or maybe it’s just baby fat and he’ll shed it through all the hard work he’s doing to make his way in this, cold, cruel world.

  38. 38.

    Corner Stone

    @Suzanne:

    the sandals with socks

    Speaking of, where are my neon blue hospital socks, I wonder. I need to run several errands about town.

  42. 42.

    Orpho

    I don’t have a hundred bucks right now, but I have 25.

    Also, I heard one of my friends say the best thing yesterday. She said that they were going to calculate their “tax savings” from this shit tastic bill and donate every cent of it to Democrats running against Republicans for 2018.

    I like it.

  43. 43.

    Raoul

    @Corner Stone: I am well above my ideal BMI, and I’m fine with people fat-shaming that guy.
    I guess there’s a perspective that you should be flamboyantly fat, if you want to. And who am I to say no to other’s fashion choices. But you know that it’s his money that buys off the folks from pointing and laughing (in front of him).

  44. 44.

    The Moar You Know

    First generation makes the money, second generation…goes insane and pisses it all away.

    THIS is the legacy of the Kochs. Gotta say, they’re not going to be able to point at this blubbering man-toad thing with pride. WHICH IS GREAT.

  46. 46.

    cmorenc

    Hard-living hard-partying pro golfer John Daley has already conquored the territory young Mr. Koch seeks to move into – with Daley’s

    “Loudmouth” line of golf and resort-wear

    – and John Daley is a quintessential example of the sort of entirely self-made man conservatives lionize (and in Daley’s case, nearly self-destructed, but he seems to have pulled it back together to find a nice life on the senior tour). Daley literally came from a trailer-trash like humble background in Arkansas, learning to play golf on a rag-tag local 9-hole course – and when he got into the 1991 PGA major championship field as a last-minute alternate, he made good on his long-shot chance by winning one of golf’s most prestigious events. Koch, on the other hand, strikes me as someone who would likely have found his niche as assistant manager of a Burger King, if he wasn’t the scion of the wealthy Kock family.

  47. 47.

    Corner Stone

    @The Moar You Know: It’s like Brewster’s Millions on hyper-steroids. How could you burn through $40B? The interest alone would keep you in a new supercar every day of the week.

  50. 50.

    Captain C

    @Heywood J.: Heh! I was just thinking that he looked like Thurman Merman (AKA ‘The Kid’) from Bad Santa.

    I would imagine that The Kid had/has a lot more redeeming qualities, though.

  53. 53.

    d58826

    Hollywood central casting could not have come up with a clown like this. On the other hand maybe the D’s can turn him into the Willy Horton of the 1%.

  55. 55.

    sdhays

    @Calouste:

    I made this great deal with Vlad to give him back Alaska, and people said it was illegal. Wrong!

    You get my vote for winning the internets today!

  57. 57.

    MP

    @Calouste: Now that you mention it, if this whole Russian thing goes down in the history books as “Trump’s Folly”, I won’t be disappointed.

  58. 58.

    patrick II

    Wyatt says his high school classmates voted him most fashionable. It’s been a long time for me — can high school kids be this ironic?

  59. 59.

    Leto

    @Corner Stone: As I’ve always told people, give me the money and I’ll show you how it can happen. I’m pretty sure I could blow through $40B in a week, but I’m fairly creative.

  61. 61.

    Brachiator

    @Amir Khalid:

    You would not get away with dressing like that for a board of directors’ meeting. He reminds me a little of Ivanka — a supposed business person who seems to have no idea how to dress for a business occasion.

    I think that if you own the business and control the board, you can dress however you like.

    And even though Koch the Younger’s shirts are tacky beyond belief, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech leaders set a standard for casual wear in business settings.

  62. 62.

    woodrowfan

    Crispin Horsefly here looks like the new assistantmanager of a Wendy’s somewhere off an interstate in the middle of nowhere. Married the first girl who would have sex with him without charging. His employees hate him and secretly spit in his food . His wife does too and has been binge eating potato chips to smother her anger. He’ll be fired next year for sending explicit photos of his junk to a 16 year old working the drive thru.

  64. 64.

    Brachiator

    More Koch the Younger news. Unlucky in love…

    Wyatt Koch, Florida fashion designer and son of Bill Koch, paid $180,000 for an 8.24 carat diamond ring for Ivie Slocumb in March, but Koch’s lawyer says it was recently appraised at a quarter of a million dollars. According to Page Six, the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday, claims Slocumb ended the engagement in May.

    Koch has asked for the ring back multiple times, but Slocumb hasn’t returned it, the lawsuit claims. “She received the ring as a conditional gift,” the lawsuit states. “She refuses to return it despite proper demand.” In addition to the ring, Koch is seeking $15,000 in damages. His father is reportedly worth approximately $1.7 billion.

  66. 66.

    Mnemosyne

    @Brachiator:

    And even though Koch the Younger’s shirts are tacky beyond belief, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech leaders set a standard for casual wear in business settings.

    Casual =/= tacky. Zuckerberg seems to be sticking with the Steve Jobs route of wearing the same casual thing all the time, except that Zuckerberg’s casual is a dark blue button-down and not a black mock turtleneck.

    @dr. luba:

    Americans don’t say “discotheque.” Pretty much ever. Most people would say “club.” So, yeah, he probably picked up the term from hanging around Eurotrash.

    (Not that the teenagers you know are Eurotrash. I’m doing him the favor of assuming he hangs around with nominal adults, not teenagers.)

  68. 68.

    Brachiator

    @The Moar You Know:

    First generation makes the money, second generation…goes insane and pisses it all away.

    I think Wyatt is third generation. The Koch brothers inherited their pile from their father and expanded their financial empire.

  69. 69.

    Doug R

    @Captain C:

    Heh! I was just thinking that he looked like Thurman Merman (AKA ‘The Kid’) from Bad Santa.

    I would imagine that The Kid had/has a lot more redeeming qualities, though.

    I actually met Brett Kelly once in Vancouver (his home town). He was with his dad or handler and so very even tempered. I told him he did a good job on Bad Santa and he just nodded with a hint of a smile. His dad then told me about the next thing Brett was in, of course.
    The commentary on Bad Santa, the director says Brett was in on the joke.

  70. 70.

    catclub

    @marcopolo:

    Just unfathomable to me that this guy got a $75 billion dollar tax cut yesterday (according to the sources I read).

    Your sources are just making up large numbers and tossing them around. 1) The Koch’s family combined Fortune is maybe $80B which is a huge amount.
    But I seriously doubt that Junior there is in line to get it all.
    2) They did not actually repeal the inheritance tax, and I am pretty sure that amounts over $22M are still taxed, so another reason that the large number thrown around is just made up. [Yes, I know that there will be trusts involved that cut the amount of federal Inheritance tax as much as possible, but they were ALREADY there, the new law made no difference to them.]

  71. 71.

    J R in WV

    So, like “Disquoteckia” ???

    Maybe that’s how they say it in Ibezia, Spain?

    I understand it’s where the rich folks go to party… little island in the Med, between Valencia and Mallorca. I wouldn’t know personally, I party, but not in discotecias.

  72. 72.

    catclub

    @The Moar You Know:

    First generation makes the money, second generation…goes insane and pisses it all away.

    In the Koch’s case he second generation, now in their late 70’s and 80’s have doubled (or more than doubled) the stake. (… I will admit that some of them have gone insane.) The sibling fights via lawsuits are also epic, natcherly.

  74. 74.

    AnotherBruce

    I really think that Democrats should make that bag of shit their poster boy. Let Americans see where their money is going.

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