Amazon.com Is For Republicans

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/22/4 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Attention, liberal shoppers! Next year, screw those GOP-supportin' companies, and try buying blue

Do you care much that greasy ol' Pizza Hut gave tens of thousands in PAC money to the GOP last year? How about the fact that Taco Bell stopped pumping out their happily toxic semirancid meatlike substances just long enough to write a fat check to the conservative Right? Isn't that weirdly fascinating, in a depressing and indigestible sort of way?

Does it matter a whit that, say, Fruit of the Loom underwear gave nearly 100 percent of its corporate donations to tighty-whitey-wearing Republicans, nearly every one of whom I'm guessing wouldn't know appetizing undergarments from a flap of burlap and some string?

Do you think maybe it should? Matter, that is?

This is what happened: there was this list, see, a long and rather surprising list of major consumer corporations in America, and it detailed just how much money each company forked over to the respective political parties last year in political-action-committee (PAC) donations.

Stop yawning. It gets better.

And the list was a bit revelatory and interesting, as such lists are often wont to be, and the companies' fiscal behavior might even surprise you a little, might even take you aback and make you reconsider your consumerist options, especially the part about how Amazon.com gave 60 percent of their donations to the GOP and except maybe for the part about how Coors Brewing gave almost every penny of their donations to Republicans in a concerted effort to, presumably, stop them icky Colorado gays from getting married and keep women in their place, all while furthering the cause of skanky undrinkable pisswater beer made for red-blooded Americans who lack taste buds and hope.

[Betis70]

Not sure, just started this little hobby (last night actually). Still a lot to learn. My first batch reminded me of Dunkin Donuts coffee though.

[4Liberty]

Since most industries & sectors get Govt subsidies of SOME sort out of the Feds, they're all "red" or, at least pink.
What a bunch of rent seekers.

Only a few cos. support exclusively free-market movements - the rest give lobbying money to those socialists & whores in Congress on both sides of aisle.

:(

[GOP_Raider]

Do you care much that greasy ol' Pizza Hut gave tens of thousands in PAC money to the GOP last year? How about the fact that Taco Bell stopped pumping out their happily toxic semirancid meatlike substances just long enough to write a fat check to the conservative Right?

Well I know what I'm having for dinner tonight.

[MeanWestTexan]

Spellcheckin? I don't need no stickn speelcheck'n.

To clarify, add a "u."

Or, to be more precise, "a classically trained" chef, but her real skill comes from working in her ma and pa's various restaurants since about age 6.

It's quite wonderful. But the money I shelled out for 2 30+ inch Viking convection ovens, 2 smaller Viking ovens, 2 warming drawers, not to mention multi-burner stoves, etc. . . could have been spent going out to dinner for the rest of my natural life . . . . with no dishes to clean.