After hearing about the Koch brothers’ plan to spend nearly $1 billion on the 2016 election cycle, “The Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore decided to make a statement against the billionaire duo.
“I’m sorry, I can’t get behind these guys, this just doesn’t smell right to me,” he said, declaring a personal boycott of all Koch brothers products. “So what do they make again?”
First up was Dixie cups, which was no problem for Wilmore, who crumpled one up and threw it behind his desk. Next was greeting cards, no problem since Wilmore said, “I forget everyone’s birthday anyway!”
Wilmore paused when he got to Angel Soft toilet paper, until he remembered that his brands were Soft ‘N Gentle and Quilted Northern. Then to his dismay, those brands also flashed on screen.
The host finally gave up when he discovered Koch’s connection to Lycra, “the world’s most comfortable fabric.”
Watch the clip:
Besides fracking all over the place, it would appear that the Koch Brothers are major tree killers. The only thing the hug is their tax-free foreign bank accounts?
I have the “Buycott” on my phone so that I can quickly identify Koch Industry products when shopping, and avoid them. If everyone stopped buying their products, they wouldn’t be able to pollute our environment and politics. They are worse than Chavez, yet there was no problem with boycotting Citgo gas.
You don’t need a list of their hundreds of products, let’s just start with all those paper products that say on every package Georgia Pacific"–the Brawny and Angel Soft individual brands are too many to remember. The GP name probably is on the back, or not large, to avoid diluting the brand name, but it is there.
they are all from Georgia Pacific–which, by the way is–no surprise here–a particularly nasty paper company. They have received enormous fines for pollution, use almost no recycled fiber in any of their products, etc.And, of course, they are Koch all the way–probably their biggest biz outside of fossil fuels.
it is a rogue company–just remember to NOT buy anything with GP’s name on it–ever.
“Consolidated Monopoly Incorporated, this is David Koch, how can I help you – er, how can you serve me?”
I can’t imagine being that rich and being worried about staying that rich so bad that I’d spend much of my riches to elect people that make laws that keep my businesses going (and that make me even richer) while the business hurts the earth and other people in the process.
I mean, goddamn, they could promote companies that treat the earth well, share more of the wealth the company makes with the people that work for those companies and still have more money than they could probably ever spend in their life time.
What the fuck is wrong with these guys’ brain chemistry?