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    What's up, doc? Animeniax's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    I just suck my tummy in and puff my chest out.
    Yeah but that requires constant attention and effort. The shirt makes it passive and therefore more likely to succeed.

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    It's a pretty clever political ad. I honestly don't care who created it (though it's apparently an arm of the Koch political machine), because it is well done and damn entertaining.
    Unless you're talking about another Koch, the Koch bros are conservative big business types who fund Republican political campaigns. That'd be strange that one of their subsidiaries made this, unless in jest. Though Colbert regularly lambastes big business and his channel is owned by Viacom.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
    Unless you're talking about another Koch, the Koch bros are conservative big business types who fund Republican political campaigns. That'd be strange that one of their subsidiaries made this, unless in jest. Though Colbert regularly lambastes big business and his channel is owned by Viacom.
    I'm actually not talking about different Kochs. Politics isn't as black and white as mainstream media and the DNC/RNC would like people to believe. The carefully crafted message is that each of the action figures represent big government, subsidies, unions, and pork.

    Not to mention the Republican Party stratagem de jour is to pretend to be libertarians. Smaller gov't is great, less regulation, etc.

    You'll also notice that Big G is both blue and red.

    The Koch Brothers are very diversified.

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    Full story about it here.
    Last edited by Ryllharu; Wed, 02-05-2014 at 02:40 PM. Reason: Source link added; corrections

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