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flamingdem

(39,324 posts) Thu Jul 11, 2013, 09:08 PM Jul 2013

Discarded Romney Campaign Swag Now a Huge Hit in African Villages

An American volunteer for The Orbit Village Project in Kenya, a charitable foundation for orphans and children whose parents cannot care for them, collects clothing, school supplies, and gifts for schoolchildren. Her nephew worked for the Romney campaign and had tons of worthless Romney T-shirts after election day 2012.

The result was the discarded shirts were sent to Kenya, where they’re now a huge hit with kids and some adults, too.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42255_Discarded_Romney_Campaign_Swag_Now_a_Huge_Hit_in_African_Villages

Buzzfeed article: more pictures and background story
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/the-romney-campaign-is-still-going-strong-in-africa

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Discarded Romney Campaign Swag Now a Huge Hit in African Villages (Original Post) flamingdem Jul 2013 OP

Heh Heh . . . Kenya fleur-de-lisa Jul 2013 #1

Too rich, isn't it! n/t customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #9

American discards and excess inventory has killed African clothing makers.... msongs Jul 2013 #2

aren't these being given away, not sold ? JI7 Jul 2013 #5

If someone came into your town customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #16

depends on quality of bread, taste, how much money people have etc JI7 Jul 2013 #19

dumping, & it's done with food, clothing, all basic industries, to kill the development of local HiPointDem Jul 2013 #18

Oh my! JustAnotherGen Jul 2013 #3

And cut up they make great rags .... Historic NY Jul 2013 #4

Romney loses and everyone benefits. That's the Universe at work. NightWatcher Jul 2013 #6

Baloney. Bet he took a 20MM dollar tax deduction on that crap elehhhhna Jul 2013 #20

Hahahahahaha Cali_Democrat Jul 2013 #7

This is cute. And funny. CakeGrrl Jul 2013 #8

The puffy shirts! Blue Owl Jul 2013 #10

But I don't want to be a pirate! Initech Jul 2013 #12

Next they'll be trying to pawn off Romney/Ryan muffin stumps Blue Owl Jul 2013 #14

This is a fairly common practice TlalocW Jul 2013 #11

collapsing the clothing manufacturing industries in those countries Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #13

lol ellisonz Jul 2013 #15

indeed! flamingdem Jul 2013 #21

I'm glad somebody wants them. Scurrilous Jul 2013 #17

"worthless Romney T-shirts after election day 2012" -- they were worthless before then n/t KurtNYC Jul 2013 #22

fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)

1. Heh Heh . . . Kenya

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 09:12 PM

Jul 2013

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)

9. Too rich, isn't it! n/t

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:00 PM

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msongs

(67,442 posts)

2. American discards and excess inventory has killed African clothing makers....

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 09:12 PM

Jul 2013

watched a PBS special years ago on this, US trash and used clothes were imported en masse and sold so cheap that local African businesses could not compete, shut down, and thousands lost their jobs. Sound familiar to today? Only it's us, not them

JI7

(89,271 posts)

5. aren't these being given away, not sold ?

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 10:28 PM

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customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)

16. If someone came into your town

Reply to JI7 (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 07:14 AM

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and started giving away loaves of bread, how much bread would your local bakery then sell?

JI7

(89,271 posts)

19. depends on quality of bread, taste, how much money people have etc

Reply to customerserviceguy (Reply #16)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 05:26 PM

Jul 2013

if people are going to spend money i don't think they would ever buy romney shirts.

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)

18. dumping, & it's done with food, clothing, all basic industries, to kill the development of local

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 02:23 PM

Jul 2013

capitalism & colonize markets for the globalcorps.

JustAnotherGen

(31,902 posts)

3. Oh my!

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 09:13 PM

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Historic NY

(37,453 posts)

4. And cut up they make great rags ....

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 10:26 PM

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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

6. Romney loses and everyone benefits. That's the Universe at work.

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 10:29 PM

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elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)

20. Baloney. Bet he took a 20MM dollar tax deduction on that crap

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 05:39 PM

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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

7. Hahahahahaha

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 10:30 PM

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CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)

8. This is cute. And funny.

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 10:31 PM

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Blue Owl

(50,505 posts)

10. The puffy shirts!

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:01 PM

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n/t

Initech

(100,103 posts)

12. But I don't want to be a pirate!

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:22 PM

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Blue Owl

(50,505 posts)

14. Next they'll be trying to pawn off Romney/Ryan muffin stumps

Reply to Initech (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:35 PM

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TlalocW

(15,391 posts)

11. This is a fairly common practice

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 11:18 PM

Jul 2013

From politics to sports championships, there has to be a winner and a loser, and no matter what the polls say or the spreads are, t-shirt makers cover both bases and print up both X - Some Sport's Champion 2013 and Y - Some Sport's Champion 2013, not to mention all the t-shirts made up going into an event to cheer on your political favorite or sports team. The excess and the losers are normally donated to third world countries.

TlalocW