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malaise

(296,145 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 04:15 PM Sep 2015

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Cutting Losses, Kochs to Sell Scott Walker [View all]

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/cutting-losses-kochs-to-sell-scott-walker?intcid=mod-latest
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WICHITA (The Borowitz Report)—Saying that “things just didn’t work out,” the billionaire Koch brothers have decided to put Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker up for sale.

The Kochs, who earlier had purchased Gov. Walker with great fanfare, announced their plan to sell the politician in a terse statement from Koch Industries headquarters in Wichita.

“Scott Walker is a fine individual, and we wish him well,” the Kochs’ statement read. “We are confident that he will be a good fit for some other billionaire industrialists.”

Republican insiders, however, called the Kochs’ plan to sell Walker highly optimistic, and noted that the market for the Wisconsin Governor was, at this point, virtually nonexistent.

The Kochs, who reportedly had been frustrated by Walker’s poor performance in the polls, finally decided to sell the Wisconsinite after last weekend’s odd pronouncement, in which he seemed to support a border wall with Canada.



According to a Koch associate, “Ignorance has always been a part of Scott’s appeal, but that Canada thing was just too much.”
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I love good satire Gothmog Sep 2015 #1
Enjoy the satire while you can, I suspect it will soon no longer be satire. n/t A Simple Game Sep 2015 #17
You did miss one line from the quote, allow me: randys1 Sep 2015 #2
LOL - great lines malaise Sep 2015 #6
They better off him at a huge discount. Doubt there will be any takers. livetohike Sep 2015 #3
So, Walker must have got a bit too "Koched up"! :) cascadiance Sep 2015 #4
Kochcaine will blow your brain malaise Sep 2015 #7
Will Walker try that next to win votes?... cascadiance Sep 2015 #9
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Sep 2015 #15
The eyes now make so much more sense in that pic sorechasm Sep 2015 #44
"Cocaine's for race horses, and not for men..." Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #55
Not very speedy, but has a brain that's hardly been used! HappyPlace Sep 2015 #5
I'm sure they will keep an option on his governorship n2doc Sep 2015 #8
(whoops...I thought it kind of read like the Onion). C Moon Sep 2015 #10
LOL SunSeeker Sep 2015 #11
K & R.....lol Dont call me Shirley Sep 2015 #12
“Ignorance has always been a part of Scott’s appeal" could be reworded to include all of them. erronis Sep 2015 #13
Too bad... gregcrawford Sep 2015 #14
Scott Walker and David Koch snag a worker LuvLoogie Sep 2015 #16
It certainly took them long enough SmittynMo Sep 2015 #18
Psssssssssssst!! malaise Sep 2015 #20
Chit SmittynMo Sep 2015 #38
Look the best satirists have caught most of us at DU malaise Sep 2015 #40
Lone Nutter Supreme John McAdams is crying. Octafish Sep 2015 #19
Thanks for that link malaise Sep 2015 #21
TIME magazine gave McAdams all the oxygen during the 50th anniversary of JFK assassination. Octafish Sep 2015 #26
The guys on the grassy knoll were "buried in the damn desert out past Terlingua." tclambert Sep 2015 #46
Levon Helm was a singular genius. Octafish Sep 2015 #50
Bill Maher had the absolute best line on Walker navarth Sep 2015 #22
Excellent! Enthusiast Sep 2015 #23
Andy never disappoints. iandhr Sep 2015 #24
Hope they lowballed the asking price Blue Owl Sep 2015 #25
I'll start the bidding at $2.00. bvar22 Sep 2015 #27
I wouldn't trust him malaise Sep 2015 #29
I would pay him to feed alligators. awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #37
We've got a 10 footer in the retention pond next to the Irish Pub. Fuddnik Sep 2015 #48
Too high. hifiguy Sep 2015 #35
Walker gets punked Go Vols Sep 2015 #28
That was one of the funniest happenings of all time malaise Sep 2015 #30
Part 2: Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #33
This actually scares me more than anything.. ion_theory Sep 2015 #31
Buy him and dress him up as a lawn jockey at the end of your driveway. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #32
Ha hahahahha - he does fit the part malaise Sep 2015 #34
Thread winner. hifiguy Sep 2015 #36
Check out the great Charlie Pierce about Walker mcar Sep 2015 #39
That is freaking brilliant malaise Sep 2015 #41
He is a genius, malaise mcar Sep 2015 #42
He is a truly gifted writer malaise Sep 2015 #43
I'm not sure they CAN sell him at the moment. But maybe... TrollBuster9090 Sep 2015 #45
They could probably trade him to Jimmy Haslam for his Tenn. Gov. Brother. Fuddnik Sep 2015 #47
Haha! Yes, he MIGHT be up to the job of tackling dummy, if he takes some night courses. TrollBuster9090 Sep 2015 #49
Funny! saiyo Sep 2015 #51
this is one of Borotwitz's better pieces. nt geek tragedy Sep 2015 #52
...! KoKo Sep 2015 #53
Maybe the Canadians will buy him KamaAina Sep 2015 #54
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