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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 11:46 PM Aug 2014

"We are KOCH" OMFG!

Last edited Wed Aug 20, 2014, 01:20 AM - Edit history (1)

On Edit: Here's link to actual ad I saw.



Just saw mind-blowing freeking commercial by and for the Koch Brothers evil corporatocracy.

a freaking shwarmy commercial, warm & fuzzy music, saying how awesome Koch Industries is, making better food, better housing, for all of us ... blah blah blah.

They are not just "coming out" as capitalist fascists, they are stampeding out, to try to turn themselves -- and fascism -- into a fucking BRAND.

Really?

This is totally nuts man.
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"We are KOCH" OMFG! (Original Post) 99th_Monkey Aug 2014 OP
perhaps this means the effort to inform the public about them is paying off. KittyWampus Aug 2014 #1
+100 I like how you think. ~nt 99th_Monkey Aug 2014 #3
I would think so, Kitty! Cha Aug 2014 #4
reminds me of that Cobra commercial on GI Joe roguevalley Aug 2014 #21
Our mission is to keep informing the public what "Koch" is really all about! Cha Aug 2014 #2
As in divesting We the people of our democratic heritage and inalienable rights? 99th_Monkey Aug 2014 #6
They've already done that. We the People have already lost our democracy to the oligarchy. BlueCaliDem Aug 2014 #13
Princeton University study agrees with you. 99th_Monkey Aug 2014 #15
More like, "We are on Koch." Baitball Blogger Aug 2014 #5
Yup - just like the Monsanto and BP and Petro industry ads. families, cows, dogs, kids, NRaleighLiberal Aug 2014 #7
Dow Chemical Company did the same thing after the Viet Nam war Tanuki Aug 2014 #9
Awwww, how cute. They got themselves a PR firm trying to build them a positive image notadmblnd Aug 2014 #8
Our very own Hamas - Koch Industries. n/t Triana Aug 2014 #10
Their corporate reach is simply amazing Kilgore Aug 2014 #11
where did you see the ad? oldandhappy Aug 2014 #12
Here it is. I got it from youtube 99th_Monkey Aug 2014 #16
Feel your pain. Halliburton has been saturating this area. Laffy Kat Aug 2014 #14
When will we end their fascist wet dream? JEB Aug 2014 #17
^ eom littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #18
I think I saw it this weekend on The Last Ship or Falling Skies... cascadiance Aug 2014 #19
Please Koch Brothers. Piss your fucking money away. Lint Head Aug 2014 #20
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
6. As in divesting We the people of our democratic heritage and inalienable rights?
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 11:52 PM
Aug 2014

yes, those Kochs

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
13. They've already done that. We the People have already lost our democracy to the oligarchy.
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 12:30 AM
Aug 2014

Democracy in the U.S. is dead.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,004 posts)
7. Yup - just like the Monsanto and BP and Petro industry ads. families, cows, dogs, kids,
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 11:54 PM
Aug 2014

lovely music, everyone beaming at the beneficence of these big companies.

Such bullshit - and a big reason we stopped watching TV years ago.

Tanuki

(14,910 posts)
9. Dow Chemical Company did the same thing after the Viet Nam war
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 11:59 PM
Aug 2014

to try to brainwash people into forgetting that they were best known for producing napalm.

Kilgore

(1,733 posts)
11. Their corporate reach is simply amazing
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 12:05 AM
Aug 2014

They are very diversified across a broad number of industries from beef to electronics to toilet paper, and even emissions credits.

For example, if you own a computer, cell or smart phone, car or kitchen appliance it most likely contains components made by Molex, a Koch company.

Its hard to avoid them.

Laffy Kat

(16,366 posts)
14. Feel your pain. Halliburton has been saturating this area.
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 12:31 AM
Aug 2014

They are trying hard to increase fracking sites in Boulder and other counties.

 

JEB

(4,748 posts)
17. When will we end their fascist wet dream?
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 01:12 AM
Aug 2014

I guess the Kochs are content to pick the bones of the empire, our society and the earth itself. Fuck the Kochs, John Birch scum of the earth.

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
19. I think I saw it this weekend on The Last Ship or Falling Skies...
Wed Aug 20, 2014, 01:24 AM
Aug 2014

Kochsters, I'm not drinking your koolaid!

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