Posted on 08/26/2014 3:56:03 PM PDT by markomalley
Herbal tea, Clorox wipes and Skippy peanut butter have a little blue in them, while Folgers coffee and Campbell's soup are as red as their labels.
Finding out where your favorite brands lie on the political spectrum is now as easy as scanning bar codes with your iPhone.
BuyPartisan, a free smartphone application developed by former Capitol Hill staffer Matthew Colbert, gives users the chance to learn more about the political leanings of the makers of supermarket items.
By compiling campaign finance data from the top Fortune 500 companies and matching it with their products, the app lets consumers scan their groceries and immediately find out which political party stands to profit most from the sale.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Tomatoes, cucumbers and onions have politics? Is my lettuce Democratic or Republican?
Looks like it is only on itunes, so they are trying to skew use to liberals. ;)
If you are not a liberal but you have I-Tunes are you supposed to erase it?
It’s a vegetable, so probably Dem.
And green!
But because the Republicans are the Daddy Party and the Democrats are the Mommy Party, wouldn’t a phallic shaped veggie, like a cucumber, be Republican? After all, aren’t zucchini Republican?
Only crazy lefties and libs where politics is their religion will pay attention to this sort of thing.
Thus, companies would give money to so that the app would skew them liberal in the app, no matter what the company’s actual politics - which is what I think is a goal or the former congressional aide who came up with it. It’s a kind of extortion.
Or, the better solution is companies stop giving money to politicians or political groups.
Reading amazon reviews is not confusing enough, we have to add politics to the matrix?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/10/campbells-soup-goes-halal-with-approval-from-hamas-linked-isna
LOL, no doubt.
Too anal.
Red is for Commies.
When the Stasi come that is going to be hard to hide
Where does it list the employees union?
How do they figure for the union 'volunteers'?
Lets not forget the bribe for the union officials.
Ridiculous. My shopping basket is 100% liberal, according to these “standards,” but it will be a cold day in hell when I vote for those jerks.
I guess the “cold day in hell” is a tipoff to my inner liberal climate changer. LOL
Head lettuce is Republican, loose leaf is Dem.
What about bagged lettuce?
I think you are better off with an intact head:) And fresh ideas.
The truth about bagged lettuce:
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/07/is-bagged-lettuce-good-for-you-green
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