I started out on "My Space," because a friend of my son was stationed near Iraq and wanted to use it to communicate with me. Before I ever thought of switching to Facebook, they started screwing around with privacy settings so you could never be sure that anything you had set to "private" would stay that way. I had a sensitive job which required discretion so I never went to Facebook, and have never regretted it. Family members who can't or won't contact me directly didn't really want to connect with me, anyway.
...and Costco, though it has it's flaws, has far better labor and DEI policies than Walmart or Sam's club ever dreamed of having with equally low prices.
Does anyone besides me remember the 1950's TV sitcom: "The Life of Riley?" William Bendix played the lead character whose standard remark was: "What a revoting development this is!"
It's time now, isn't it, for a 21st century revolt to the recent REVOLTING DEVELOPMENT in the White House?
Oh yeah, let's not forget "Amos and Andy" (which was also one of my favorite TV shows of the 50's). Two of the main characters would regularly exclaim, "Holy Mackrel, Kingfish!" to which Kingfish would retort, "Holy Toledo now, Andy..."
I just couldn't resist bringing that one up - which reminds me of "Geraldine" who (on Flip Wilson's show in the 70's) would always give the defense for her unruly behavior: "The devil made me do it!"
I expect that trump-the-terrible will soon say "A.I. and the musk-rat made me do it!" What do y'all think?
I remember all that and Groucho Marx, The 64 Thousand Dollar Question, Paladin, My Friend Flicka, Fury, Gorgeous George, Milton Beryl, Jack Benny, on and on. When TV was live and was way more fun in the early days, even the commercials. Thanks for the memories.
TJ Taub -- yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! A man in the state I live in was arrested yesterday because he was caught saying he wants to kill Donald Trump! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Perhaps I should go visit him! Our hideous red state is tossing around the idea of renaming our international airport after Trump! Ugh, gag, barf! They'll have more people trying to kill him! The Repuglycans are too stupid to know wherein what they do!
The deal the GOP is hatching in the Senate & House is a horrible deal that will lead to hardship and death for those vulnerable who can’t afford medical care without Medicaid! Let’s keep doing this until the monopolies learn to that they are nothing without us citizen consumers!!!!
Yeah, agree! I am getting really really really angry. I have worked two jobs and sometimes three over the past 25 years as companies have continued to take take take from us and not give medical benefits or benefits of any kind and now Trump wants to take away Medicaid and TANF as well! How are we supposed to pay for anything with these wages. The billionaires want us to just die off! I believe the billionaires will not stop there. They will go after Medicare and Social Security next. We have to put an end to this craziness now!
You make me thankful that I was union. I spoke to non-union people over the years when I was working and encouraged them to try to find a union to work with. I feel you and I hear the sound of BIG resistance! Together we will succeed!
Asked my postal clerk today if their jobs are in jeopardy. Quiet nod back: yes. (I live in small town America, red state, red county, red town, Proud Boys on my block.)
Boycott Tomorrow? That is like pissing in the wind, ineffective a feeble protest, Boycott all week long, hold out as long as we can. We have to make the pigs squeal, feel the pain, and a one day boycott is mayonnaise on tuna.
Really, just a test Vic? And wrong analogy not every wind starts as a breeze, a breeze is a breeze, and stays a breeze, a gale, a squall, a hurricane a cyclone, sweeps down on you full force.
The tree needs to be uprooted by a hurricane, not swayed by a breeze. A breeze simply caresses the brown, cools evaporates the sweat.
I like you Vic, and don't want to be antagonistic, but you are saying the same thing as Michelle Obama, when they go low we go high, a recipe for disaster and defeat.
But it seems to me that you ARE being antagonistic. At this point the plans are in place for tomorrow. Whether you are absolutely right or absolutely wrong, there is no time to change it now. It would be better to make tomorrow as successful as possible. Then starting on March 1, you can help organize longer boycotts, or other activities that you believe are necessary and will be more successful in defeating these psychopathic fascists.
PS I've taken a quick look at the link you provided...I look forward to reading it in full.
What am I supposed to do with your opinion about me. This conversation just took a turn south, when you made it personal. You could have done better by keeping it impersonal, but you making it personal tells me a lot about you.
You brought forward the issue of not wanting to be antagonistic, with the ever-telling qualifier "BUT". I thought that maybe you had some insight into how you were coming across. Obviously I was in error. You would have done better to respond the actual points I raised. However, you appear to be looking for a fight. You don't discuss, you argue. I won't participate but will ignore your comments going forward.
Yeh I caused you to be antagonistic because I said but. Yeh right.
I really don't care how I come across. I speak my mind, and eiher one takes it personally or one agrees, I get more agreement than disagreement.
Don't accuse me of looking for a fight. It wasn't I that came out with guns blazing and attacking you. I don't care that you don't appreciate my comments either. I am not trying to sell you anything.
You really do have an exalted opinion of yourself, thinking that others really care.
William, I feel your pain, BUT - the longest journey begins with a single step. And please read "Blueprint for Revolution" by Popovic and Miller. It tells how they actually used humor and non-violent techniques to defeat the brutal dictator Milosevic and later helped others from different nations defeat their oppressors using the same sane method. I'll take the high road with the Obamas and the Dalai Lama et al.
One day isn''t good enough. A one day boycott doesn't hurt the quarterly Profits and Earnings statement. It is recognized for what it is, a pressure relief valve. It is like slamming them one punch in the gut.
What is needed is a knock out punch, pummel the bastards again and again, till it hurts and the decide to turn on Musk and Trump, a one day boycott won't achieve that, regardless of how many people get involved.
For the record, I have already stopped shopping at Amazon, including Whole Foods, and canceled my Prime subscription. I never even go near Walmart, and have reduced purchases at Target. I prefer smaller chains and local businesses to major retailers, and never eat fast food. I do my part, small though it may be.
Tomorrow is the first step in a series of planned boycotts, some scheduled to last a week and targeted at specific companies such as Amazon. Also, ther
It’s only the start (and starting on the same day is powerful.) There is so much more being organized by the correct people with the correct motivation. Help build the energy. The People’s Union USA https://theonecalledjai.com/thepeoplesunionusa.com
Yeh, fine, have your one day boycott, then pat yourself on the back, like environmentalists do by recycling or banning plastic straws. God forbid we are inconvenienced.
People bitch and march over global warming then hop in their gas guzzler and drive 20 miles to work,idling most of the time.
We protested by buying Tesla EV's, and look what they got us, also the batteries require massive amounts of rare earth minerals, provided by virtual slave labor in under developed countries, and the production of which pollutants and toxins to the atmosphere, but we pat ourselves on the back bragging that we have done something.
But it really doesn't matter, because Musk and Trump have destroyed the underpinning the foundation of America. It's morale, its productivity, yes the wheels of the deep state that keep us rolling, prosperous and productive. They have killed the goose that lays the golden egg. Its slow motion, and the reality of what they have done has not yet caught up.
I received my social security check on Wednesday, I read today that Musks team of teenagers now have access to social security payments and can now edit the payments as they see fit. Will I get my check next month, will you, will anyone, it is up to the whim of a 19 or 23 year old Incel.
They have destroyed the system that made America great in the first place, MAGA was really Make America White male Christian supreme again, or at least Make American men powerful again., a lot of young black. Muslim and Hispanic males jumped on the Trump bandwagon. I wonder how they are feeling now. (Not really, I know)
The irony of it all, Eco minded liberals made Musk wealthy, so he could turn around and deconstruct our country, democracy and the environment.
A vendor on the internet is selling anti Tesla bumper stickers for their Tesla, about 20,000 so far. Stuff like "I'm sorry, I had no idea"
I didn't buy one because the batteries lasted about 5 years, and depending on the model costs $16,000 to $25,000 to replace. One can finance a car, but can one finance batteries?
People have short attention spans. Long boycotts lose steam after awhile. If we do this united and big - even for a short time - it will get noticed. Long boycotts have to have planning: set goals and widely advertised before they can be effective. We can roll those out later. For now, punch them in their pocketbook. Get off the computer and out into some nature if you can. It's a good start and will help all of us regroup for another day. Will you help us out???? Thanks in advance!
You have made a good point, several of them, but I am telling you a one day boycott won't do a thing, the Oligarchs, Musk, and Trump will look at it like a pressure relief valve.
I get an email every day from a "resister" who brags about "wins", and the wins are TRO's, or judgements that are eventually or will be reversed. But it is the reversal that is being ignored.
A lower court recently ruled that TRUMP could not cut off money appropriated for USAID, that was celebrated as a big victory.
Normall the decision would be appealed, and if sustained appealed again to SCOTUS, but SCOTUS reached down and took the case, by passing the Circuit court of Appeals, almost on the same day, while they hemmed and hawed and let the classified documents case gather mold. (Hint there was no outcry from the three liberals either)
The only reason SCOTUS has taken this case is to rule in favor of Musk, I mean Trump.
Chief justice halts lower court decision ordering Trump administration to pay State Department, USAID contractors
We have had too many useless and ineffectual protests and boycotts, the BDI movements have done nothing.
Some Democrats in Congress have said they want to let the gov't shut down rather than raise the debt ceiling in March. That is their idea of making them hurt. Of course it may cause some hurt to alot of people but maybe it makes sense considering our situation.
No William, please! Not true. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. No RESISTANCE emerges full blown. We are waking up, gathering momentum. We are going to become unstoppable!
I look at recent history. Tell me what the Million Man and Million Women march accomplished, tell me what Occupy movement accomplished, tell me what BLM and antifa movements accomplished..
All I know is that history has shown that "they" have to feel real pain before anything happens.
Canadian here. We've been boycotting for a while, your purchasing routine becomes a habit. Amazon is the most important to boycott over the long term. They are ruining small businesses, unfairly competing with their sellers and treat their employees like crap.
As you seem quite 'disturbed' with my use of the word "your" in my comment, I will correct it: '...one's purchasing routine ..." I obviously don't care about what you do personally.
All to say (as if you really need further explanation), changing "one's" buying habits can become a long term practice. The very effective boycott of American products and companies is now ROUTINE for many Canadians.
As to Amazon, there are still many folks out there who can't break that habit. Did you actually think I was speaking 'exclusively' to you? Comments are meant to be read by all. My remark was intended to reach anyone who still shops there.
The p problem Judith, is when anybody makes a comment that is accusatory, and includes yours or you. Personally it doesn't affect me and my opinion of self.
I've noticed a tendency among many commenters is to personalize the impersonal, and unbeknowst to them, such a tendency is self revealing.
You are correct, for more effective communication, the use of the impersonal is more appropriate.
As regards use of Amazon, I agree, however believe it or not, not everyone is in a position to use an alternative source.
For instance there are people who live rural, and do't have access to mom and pop brick and mortar stores.
I lived in Redmond , WA and if there wasn't a big box store, Amazon, Safeway, Trader's Joe, Krogers I would not even have eaten.
And then there are the disabled, especially rural disabled. What are they suppose to do.
Let me tell you about where I live, there is a Market, it is locally owned, but contracted with Safeway, which is owned by Albertson, it can't keep the shelves full, it is resupplied by trucks which come over on a ferry, there is no clothing store, except a thrift shop and 2nd hand store (which has quality cloths, but limited selection. The local drug store and two other stores carry tourist stuff, caps, visors, t Shirts, Sweat shirts. We do have an Ace Hardware, but if you want an oxygen concentrator, an air filter, anything but paint, tools, garden supplies, you are out of luck. There is a lumber yard, which also sells tools and paint, some electrical and plumbing stuff, not everything you need.
There are no big box stores or Franchises within three hours, of which one hour is waiting for a ferry, one hour waiting on the ferry and one hour driving, and then there is a reverse trip, and you have to have reservations and a limited service schedule. Lots of planning, even to see a specialist.
How easy it is to act morally superior and demand or shame everyone that
can't join a crusade.
It is the same with protests,
A little story about that. During COVID and the mandatory mask edict, a couple of local Trump humpers, came into the Market, and made an ass out of themselves demanding that we take off our masks, and calling us sheep, well the sheriff was called and they were 86'd, and too bad because the only other place to buy food was a pricey little store, that serviced tourists and the marina, and it had a limited inventory, and not organic or gluten free either.
And there were a group of six idjits that stood on the street corner near the high school, holding signs calling us sheep and demanding that we take off our masks. they lasted one day because they were shunned.
I live in a Democratic district,in a Democratic majority state, with two Democratic Senators and a Democratic Governor, Yet my two Democratic Senators voted to confirm Marco Rubia. I wasted no time letting them know that I was very disappointed, but that is the best I can do, given my circumstances.
I will not order anything on line, and hold down my purchases in the future, but almost all online vendors are part of the problem. Even Ebay, which was founded by Meg Whitman, Dubya's friend, and then there is the pay pal mafia, even Venmo and Zelle.
I have cats, PetCo, Chewy,PetSmart, are all under the oligarchy.
We are captives, unless we just stop purchasing, eating and defecating.
The very best we can do is defer purchases, of everything except absolute necessities, but a one day boycott isn't going to do the job, hey are going to have to feel the pain, and the way they feel the pain is in he quarterly profit and earnings report and their performance in the stock market.
You may have similar sentiments but you have the knack of voicing them in a disagreeable manner. Think before you write - is this an emotional response? Who are our real enemies? Shall I insult them instead? Yeah, save your clever diatribes for those who really deserve to feel awful today.
Here you go starting off on the wrong foot. I talk about it, things, the other, I don't make personal attacks until people make things personal. There are a lot of ways to respond without trying to tell me who I am and what I do, That tells me more about you than me.
This isn't about me, this is about what is happening, So don't make it about me.
Is there any company that sells gas at the pump that is strongly committed to transitioning to renewable energy? I need gas for my car and can't afford a hybrid or electric car right now. I am trying to convert my house to electric and that is expensive.
I’m in! Standing in solidarity with you all, from Scotland.🏴
Yea!! You go Lori!! Spread the word. Let's do it for the whole weekend. Down with the Miskrat👍🏻
I agree, we need more than one day.
One day shows the magnitude of the muscle, a longer boycott applies the power of that muscle
I like the way you think!
I'm thinking different day each week.
This is just the beginning!
We are watching from Canada. This is a small but good way to get started. Great movements start with small ideas.
Absolutely! Thank you Canadian friends!
Hey. Aren't you guys supposed to be boycotting US products?
Wow. That is fantastic!
Thank you Lori!
Canada is in!
Thank you, Lori! We appreciate all of our friends around the world supporting us and encouraging us.
New Zealand is in!
You GO Lori. Greetings from a Scots American.
Thank you, thank you I hope you’re encouraging others to do the same.
Thanks from a Scottish American!!
Thank you, Lori!
Will be visiting your beautiful country!
🙂✌️
Please add Zuckerberg/Meta/Facebook !!
I did!!!
Thanks for the reminder.
Facebook is like Twitter: just kinda' automatic. 😵💫
If you have trouble stopping FB and Twitter, try moving the apps to a back screen, and make a conscious effort to use them less.
I'm never Zuck, down anything Mukz, and cutting on Beezoz. Go Mom, Pop, Junior and Sis!
YES!
I started out on "My Space," because a friend of my son was stationed near Iraq and wanted to use it to communicate with me. Before I ever thought of switching to Facebook, they started screwing around with privacy settings so you could never be sure that anything you had set to "private" would stay that way. I had a sensitive job which required discretion so I never went to Facebook, and have never regretted it. Family members who can't or won't contact me directly didn't really want to connect with me, anyway.
…and no Sam’s Club
(Sam’s Club is owned by the same family as Walmart)
...and Costco, though it has it's flaws, has far better labor and DEI policies than Walmart or Sam's club ever dreamed of having with equally low prices.
Boycotting Amazon will hurt Jeff Bezos in the pocketbook far more than boycotting the Washington Post.
I stopped using amazon when beszos refused to endorse Harris/Walz.
Up his nose with a rubber hose!
I encourage you all to stop also.
We can buy online from other sources. No big deal
Oh, M J! I haven’t heard that epithet since Welcome Back, Kotter! Thanks for the laugh and the memories! 🤩👍🏼
Hi Punkette
I guess that dates me as an old coot!
You know there is enough vulgarity in the public discourse. Throwing back to the better times is a good approach I’m thinking.
We can do this!
Haha, M J! Old coots unite! 😜 Take care of yourself and keep the faith!
Does anyone besides me remember the 1950's TV sitcom: "The Life of Riley?" William Bendix played the lead character whose standard remark was: "What a revoting development this is!"
It's time now, isn't it, for a 21st century revolt to the recent REVOLTING DEVELOPMENT in the White House?
Oh yeah, let's not forget "Amos and Andy" (which was also one of my favorite TV shows of the 50's). Two of the main characters would regularly exclaim, "Holy Mackrel, Kingfish!" to which Kingfish would retort, "Holy Toledo now, Andy..."
I just couldn't resist bringing that one up - which reminds me of "Geraldine" who (on Flip Wilson's show in the 70's) would always give the defense for her unruly behavior: "The devil made me do it!"
I expect that trump-the-terrible will soon say "A.I. and the musk-rat made me do it!" What do y'all think?
I remember all that and Groucho Marx, The 64 Thousand Dollar Question, Paladin, My Friend Flicka, Fury, Gorgeous George, Milton Beryl, Jack Benny, on and on. When TV was live and was way more fun in the early days, even the commercials. Thanks for the memories.
Still waiting to hear if your idea of a nationwide protest on April 19 - 250th anniversary of the start of the revolutionary war - is being pursued.
TJ Taub -- yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! A man in the state I live in was arrested yesterday because he was caught saying he wants to kill Donald Trump! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Perhaps I should go visit him! Our hideous red state is tossing around the idea of renaming our international airport after Trump! Ugh, gag, barf! They'll have more people trying to kill him! The Repuglycans are too stupid to know wherein what they do!
I live in the same state and this would be the Gulf of America 2.0!!
We also have the dumbass congressman that wants to give 47 a 3rd term for the Presidency!!
Is that Andy Ogles? (Ogels?)
Don’t get drawn in by “great deals”!!
The deal the GOP is hatching in the Senate & House is a horrible deal that will lead to hardship and death for those vulnerable who can’t afford medical care without Medicaid! Let’s keep doing this until the monopolies learn to that they are nothing without us citizen consumers!!!!
Yeah, agree! I am getting really really really angry. I have worked two jobs and sometimes three over the past 25 years as companies have continued to take take take from us and not give medical benefits or benefits of any kind and now Trump wants to take away Medicaid and TANF as well! How are we supposed to pay for anything with these wages. The billionaires want us to just die off! I believe the billionaires will not stop there. They will go after Medicare and Social Security next. We have to put an end to this craziness now!
You make me thankful that I was union. I spoke to non-union people over the years when I was working and encouraged them to try to find a union to work with. I feel you and I hear the sound of BIG resistance! Together we will succeed!
Absolutely!!
What you would have spent during the boycott, go to Post Office and buy stamps. SUPPORT THE POSTAL SERVICE.
Asked my postal clerk today if their jobs are in jeopardy. Quiet nod back: yes. (I live in small town America, red state, red county, red town, Proud Boys on my block.)
Tomorrow is growing more and more personal.
GROW THE RESISTANCE EVERY WAY WE CAN.
Medicaid cuts will destroy rural hospitals. Privatized postal service will kill rural delivery.
It’s time to make oligarchs pay, and we can bleed them.
I am in!! Got off of Facebook and Instagram as well!
except COSTCO?
good point, Lee. Let's all go there instead!!!
Boycott Tomorrow? That is like pissing in the wind, ineffective a feeble protest, Boycott all week long, hold out as long as we can. We have to make the pigs squeal, feel the pain, and a one day boycott is mayonnaise on tuna.
It’s just the beginning. As organizers have said there will be other longer ones. It has to start somewh
I want to do something that isn't quite kosher and that is promote another site.
Especially today's Mind War: Pop goes the liberal bubble: https://www.mind-war.com/p/pop-goes-the-liberal-bubble
We need to fall back and take a look at ourselves, and abandon the old way of thinking if we want to claw back our liberties and democracy
William, this is just a test. We will be the wind in the oligarchs' faces, but every wind starts as a breeze..
Really, just a test Vic? And wrong analogy not every wind starts as a breeze, a breeze is a breeze, and stays a breeze, a gale, a squall, a hurricane a cyclone, sweeps down on you full force.
The tree needs to be uprooted by a hurricane, not swayed by a breeze. A breeze simply caresses the brown, cools evaporates the sweat.
I like you Vic, and don't want to be antagonistic, but you are saying the same thing as Michelle Obama, when they go low we go high, a recipe for disaster and defeat.
But it seems to me that you ARE being antagonistic. At this point the plans are in place for tomorrow. Whether you are absolutely right or absolutely wrong, there is no time to change it now. It would be better to make tomorrow as successful as possible. Then starting on March 1, you can help organize longer boycotts, or other activities that you believe are necessary and will be more successful in defeating these psychopathic fascists.
PS I've taken a quick look at the link you provided...I look forward to reading it in full.
What am I supposed to do with your opinion about me. This conversation just took a turn south, when you made it personal. You could have done better by keeping it impersonal, but you making it personal tells me a lot about you.
You brought forward the issue of not wanting to be antagonistic, with the ever-telling qualifier "BUT". I thought that maybe you had some insight into how you were coming across. Obviously I was in error. You would have done better to respond the actual points I raised. However, you appear to be looking for a fight. You don't discuss, you argue. I won't participate but will ignore your comments going forward.
Yeh I caused you to be antagonistic because I said but. Yeh right.
I really don't care how I come across. I speak my mind, and eiher one takes it personally or one agrees, I get more agreement than disagreement.
Don't accuse me of looking for a fight. It wasn't I that came out with guns blazing and attacking you. I don't care that you don't appreciate my comments either. I am not trying to sell you anything.
You really do have an exalted opinion of yourself, thinking that others really care.
I rest my case.
I missed your earlier comment and so backtracked to read it. Indeed, I agree.
What case is that Bev, that you personalize the impersonal. Why is that?
William, I feel your pain, BUT - the longest journey begins with a single step. And please read "Blueprint for Revolution" by Popovic and Miller. It tells how they actually used humor and non-violent techniques to defeat the brutal dictator Milosevic and later helped others from different nations defeat their oppressors using the same sane method. I'll take the high road with the Obamas and the Dalai Lama et al.
Maybe if only a few people stay away, but if large numbers do, it has an impact.
One day isn''t good enough. A one day boycott doesn't hurt the quarterly Profits and Earnings statement. It is recognized for what it is, a pressure relief valve. It is like slamming them one punch in the gut.
What is needed is a knock out punch, pummel the bastards again and again, till it hurts and the decide to turn on Musk and Trump, a one day boycott won't achieve that, regardless of how many people get involved.
For the record, I have already stopped shopping at Amazon, including Whole Foods, and canceled my Prime subscription. I never even go near Walmart, and have reduced purchases at Target. I prefer smaller chains and local businesses to major retailers, and never eat fast food. I do my part, small though it may be.
Tomorrow is the first step in a series of planned boycotts, some scheduled to last a week and targeted at specific companies such as Amazon. Also, ther
One day is a beginning. An important beginning. It will illustrate that folks are ticked off, and that we can organize.
It’s only the start (and starting on the same day is powerful.) There is so much more being organized by the correct people with the correct motivation. Help build the energy. The People’s Union USA https://theonecalledjai.com/thepeoplesunionusa.com
Yeh, fine, have your one day boycott, then pat yourself on the back, like environmentalists do by recycling or banning plastic straws. God forbid we are inconvenienced.
People bitch and march over global warming then hop in their gas guzzler and drive 20 miles to work,idling most of the time.
We protested by buying Tesla EV's, and look what they got us, also the batteries require massive amounts of rare earth minerals, provided by virtual slave labor in under developed countries, and the production of which pollutants and toxins to the atmosphere, but we pat ourselves on the back bragging that we have done something.
But it really doesn't matter, because Musk and Trump have destroyed the underpinning the foundation of America. It's morale, its productivity, yes the wheels of the deep state that keep us rolling, prosperous and productive. They have killed the goose that lays the golden egg. Its slow motion, and the reality of what they have done has not yet caught up.
I received my social security check on Wednesday, I read today that Musks team of teenagers now have access to social security payments and can now edit the payments as they see fit. Will I get my check next month, will you, will anyone, it is up to the whim of a 19 or 23 year old Incel.
They have destroyed the system that made America great in the first place, MAGA was really Make America White male Christian supreme again, or at least Make American men powerful again., a lot of young black. Muslim and Hispanic males jumped on the Trump bandwagon. I wonder how they are feeling now. (Not really, I know)
Hoping folks don't drive their Teslas tomorrow either. Why ride around advertising for Musk all day??
The irony of it all, Eco minded liberals made Musk wealthy, so he could turn around and deconstruct our country, democracy and the environment.
A vendor on the internet is selling anti Tesla bumper stickers for their Tesla, about 20,000 so far. Stuff like "I'm sorry, I had no idea"
I didn't buy one because the batteries lasted about 5 years, and depending on the model costs $16,000 to $25,000 to replace. One can finance a car, but can one finance batteries?
People have short attention spans. Long boycotts lose steam after awhile. If we do this united and big - even for a short time - it will get noticed. Long boycotts have to have planning: set goals and widely advertised before they can be effective. We can roll those out later. For now, punch them in their pocketbook. Get off the computer and out into some nature if you can. It's a good start and will help all of us regroup for another day. Will you help us out???? Thanks in advance!
You have made a good point, several of them, but I am telling you a one day boycott won't do a thing, the Oligarchs, Musk, and Trump will look at it like a pressure relief valve.
I get an email every day from a "resister" who brags about "wins", and the wins are TRO's, or judgements that are eventually or will be reversed. But it is the reversal that is being ignored.
A lower court recently ruled that TRUMP could not cut off money appropriated for USAID, that was celebrated as a big victory.
Normall the decision would be appealed, and if sustained appealed again to SCOTUS, but SCOTUS reached down and took the case, by passing the Circuit court of Appeals, almost on the same day, while they hemmed and hawed and let the classified documents case gather mold. (Hint there was no outcry from the three liberals either)
The only reason SCOTUS has taken this case is to rule in favor of Musk, I mean Trump.
Chief justice halts lower court decision ordering Trump administration to pay State Department, USAID contractors
We have had too many useless and ineffectual protests and boycotts, the BDI movements have done nothing.
We have to make them hurt.
How? How do we make them hurt?
Some Democrats in Congress have said they want to let the gov't shut down rather than raise the debt ceiling in March. That is their idea of making them hurt. Of course it may cause some hurt to alot of people but maybe it makes sense considering our situation.
No William, please! Not true. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. No RESISTANCE emerges full blown. We are waking up, gathering momentum. We are going to become unstoppable!
I look at recent history. Tell me what the Million Man and Million Women march accomplished, tell me what Occupy movement accomplished, tell me what BLM and antifa movements accomplished..
All I know is that history has shown that "they" have to feel real pain before anything happens.
I agree, boycott as long as we can. Buy local.
@william I wonder why you even get out of bed in the morning. You’re not part of the solution.
Are you part of the solution Susan? Really. What do you do to pour sand in the gears of the machine?
Canadian here. We've been boycotting for a while, your purchasing routine becomes a habit. Amazon is the most important to boycott over the long term. They are ruining small businesses, unfairly competing with their sellers and treat their employees like crap.
My purchasing routine Judith? I didn't know that I had a purchasing routine? What does MY purchasing routine got to do with a national boycott?
I know all about Amazon, have known for years.
As you seem quite 'disturbed' with my use of the word "your" in my comment, I will correct it: '...one's purchasing routine ..." I obviously don't care about what you do personally.
All to say (as if you really need further explanation), changing "one's" buying habits can become a long term practice. The very effective boycott of American products and companies is now ROUTINE for many Canadians.
As to Amazon, there are still many folks out there who can't break that habit. Did you actually think I was speaking 'exclusively' to you? Comments are meant to be read by all. My remark was intended to reach anyone who still shops there.
The p problem Judith, is when anybody makes a comment that is accusatory, and includes yours or you. Personally it doesn't affect me and my opinion of self.
I've noticed a tendency among many commenters is to personalize the impersonal, and unbeknowst to them, such a tendency is self revealing.
You are correct, for more effective communication, the use of the impersonal is more appropriate.
As regards use of Amazon, I agree, however believe it or not, not everyone is in a position to use an alternative source.
For instance there are people who live rural, and do't have access to mom and pop brick and mortar stores.
I lived in Redmond , WA and if there wasn't a big box store, Amazon, Safeway, Trader's Joe, Krogers I would not even have eaten.
And then there are the disabled, especially rural disabled. What are they suppose to do.
Let me tell you about where I live, there is a Market, it is locally owned, but contracted with Safeway, which is owned by Albertson, it can't keep the shelves full, it is resupplied by trucks which come over on a ferry, there is no clothing store, except a thrift shop and 2nd hand store (which has quality cloths, but limited selection. The local drug store and two other stores carry tourist stuff, caps, visors, t Shirts, Sweat shirts. We do have an Ace Hardware, but if you want an oxygen concentrator, an air filter, anything but paint, tools, garden supplies, you are out of luck. There is a lumber yard, which also sells tools and paint, some electrical and plumbing stuff, not everything you need.
There are no big box stores or Franchises within three hours, of which one hour is waiting for a ferry, one hour waiting on the ferry and one hour driving, and then there is a reverse trip, and you have to have reservations and a limited service schedule. Lots of planning, even to see a specialist.
How easy it is to act morally superior and demand or shame everyone that
can't join a crusade.
It is the same with protests,
A little story about that. During COVID and the mandatory mask edict, a couple of local Trump humpers, came into the Market, and made an ass out of themselves demanding that we take off our masks, and calling us sheep, well the sheriff was called and they were 86'd, and too bad because the only other place to buy food was a pricey little store, that serviced tourists and the marina, and it had a limited inventory, and not organic or gluten free either.
And there were a group of six idjits that stood on the street corner near the high school, holding signs calling us sheep and demanding that we take off our masks. they lasted one day because they were shunned.
I live in a Democratic district,in a Democratic majority state, with two Democratic Senators and a Democratic Governor, Yet my two Democratic Senators voted to confirm Marco Rubia. I wasted no time letting them know that I was very disappointed, but that is the best I can do, given my circumstances.
I will not order anything on line, and hold down my purchases in the future, but almost all online vendors are part of the problem. Even Ebay, which was founded by Meg Whitman, Dubya's friend, and then there is the pay pal mafia, even Venmo and Zelle.
I have cats, PetCo, Chewy,PetSmart, are all under the oligarchy.
We are captives, unless we just stop purchasing, eating and defecating.
The very best we can do is defer purchases, of everything except absolute necessities, but a one day boycott isn't going to do the job, hey are going to have to feel the pain, and the way they feel the pain is in he quarterly profit and earnings report and their performance in the stock market.
You may have similar sentiments but you have the knack of voicing them in a disagreeable manner. Think before you write - is this an emotional response? Who are our real enemies? Shall I insult them instead? Yeah, save your clever diatribes for those who really deserve to feel awful today.
Here you go starting off on the wrong foot. I talk about it, things, the other, I don't make personal attacks until people make things personal. There are a lot of ways to respond without trying to tell me who I am and what I do, That tells me more about you than me.
This isn't about me, this is about what is happening, So don't make it about me.
There are more boycotts scheduled up to July 4th and more to come afterwards. Go to thepeoplesunionusa.com for the list. Some are a week long.
Good, I hope they make it nationwide.
Three days boycott would make believers out of the oil companies. That is for sure.
Thank you, Professor Reich, for reminding us. Hoping for massive abstention! (We can always celebrate later with continuations...)
I second that. Robert Reich is THE MAN!!!
I work at REI & they are in huge supporter of DEI & our national parks & have it posted at the front of the store as you enter!
ALSO: No X1!!! DO NOT USE MUSK'S SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM. AND CONTINUE TO STAY OFF IT FOREVER.
Yup. Every Friday . What about Costco?
Aren't they taking heat from dump for their dei initiatives? Maybe they could be excluded from the boycott.
And by the way- everyday I boycott home Depot , hobby lobby, shell, BP, Exxon Mobile , chic filet and overstock.
Is there any company that sells gas at the pump that is strongly committed to transitioning to renewable energy? I need gas for my car and can't afford a hybrid or electric car right now. I am trying to convert my house to electric and that is expensive.
I also just canceled my subscription for the Washington Post.