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IDemo

(16,926 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 10:36 AM Oct 2014

Kochs Approve Plan to Fire Cash from Cannon at Voters

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—The billionaire Koch brothers have approved a controversial plan to shoot cash from cannons directly at voters heading into polling places on Election Day.

The plan, which Koch insiders have privately referred to as Operation Money Shot, would distribute as much as seventy million dollars in small bills in the hopes of seizing Republican control of the United States Senate next Tuesday.

While most state laws prohibit electioneering within a hundred feet of polling places, the Koch plan craftily skirts that restriction by using high-powered cash cannons, similar to the T-shirt cannons used in sports arenas, which have a range of up to a hundred and fifty feet.

According to a spokesman for the Kochs, “Under the law, corporations are considered people, and people have always had the right to fire money from cannons at other people.”

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Kochs Approve Plan to Fire Cash from Cannon at Voters (Original Post) IDemo Oct 2014 OP
I'm guessing they'd fire bills at Repub voters Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2014 #1
Do as the Koch brothers would do. Half-Century Man Oct 2014 #2
We have a winner Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2014 #4
You know how I knew it was satire? Because they'd never give a buck to the peons. From what I heard Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2014 #3

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,500 posts)
3. You know how I knew it was satire? Because they'd never give a buck to the peons. From what I heard
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 10:46 AM
Oct 2014

these dickheads wouldn't even tip their doorman.

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