Today is Halloween, which is great for neighborhood kids and bad for those of us on the internet. The Twitter account for the Koch Industries started things off with a bang, sending out a tweet that featured a photo of the first rider of the apocalypse, Charles Koch, in costume as Darth Vader.
When you’re the only one in the office in a costume this morning. #HappyHalloween pic.twitter.com/vJLQ28xizk
— Koch Industries (@KochIndustries) October 31, 2016
Boy oh boy, what a knee-slapper!
As we all tittered at Chuck’s just-a-little-too-on-the-nose costume, however, Bernie Sanders (or, more likely, his social media team) was furiously clacking away at the keyboard.
.@Koch_Industries Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers. pic.twitter.com/svvNE1gdJE
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) October 31, 2016
And a million Facebook meme posts were born.
Hilariously, the photo of the Darth Vader-adorned Koch appears to be old. In 2015, the Koch Industries Twitter account posted a similar photo, apparently in response to an NPR interviewer’s characterization of Charles as the Star Wars villain.
No idea why @kairyssdal referred to me as #DarthVader. But I did enjoy the interview w/ @NPR! – CGK pic.twitter.com/j5WCdqqytH
— Koch Industries (@KochIndustries) October 22, 2015
The books in the two photos appear to be the same, as is the placement of various piles of paper, suggesting that the account simply repurposed the photoshoot.
To be frank, however, I’d prefer to imagine that this isn’t a costume at all, and is instead Charles Koch’s version of the Jobs turtleneck or the Zuckerberg hoodie.
[Twitter]
