Category Archives: Economics

A quarter of US shoppers have dumped favorite stores over political stances

We were having a family discussion about where our money goes – and doesn’t – these days.

We don’t hit up TrumpBurger (McDonalds) unless we are out and about and there just isn’t another choice (so far, so good). I buy a lot less Coca-Cola since they became ICE snitches. Target used to get about $150 a week from us. We can’t avoid them completely but they haven’t gotten even that weekly amount in total since they killed their DEI programs, and nothing over the past couple weeks.

Seems like we aren’t alone in this. Which is great since obviously no one is gonna move the needle based on my financial contribution alone.

But it goes other places too. I don’t give to NPR anymore. I probably should since, sure, they aren’t FOXNews but…. They have gone way out of their way to comply with the worst of us, in favor of mocking dead school kids, repeating outright administration lies without clarification, etc. They might not be my enemy, but they sure as hell aren’t my friend either.

John Leguizamo is trying to orchestrate boycotts aimed at certain companies to show them folks are paying attention to their actions. Not sure if this works or not. There is money to be made in hate these days but I just do not want to reward horrible behavior.

Boycotting Target because of its DEI policies is going to hurt. That’s the point.

Cutting off the Target shopping isn’t easy. And it may not be completely possible depending on where you live. But give it some consideration. Even a reduction in what you get there…and just cutting out the impulse purchases is the death by a thousand cuts approach.

Either way, what you do to spend your values is your call.

This man is forcing big companies to halt DEI

The pushback against equality has been going on forever of course, but it kicked into high gear in recent years.

Punchable-face-owner Robby Starbuck is the face of the current push to get companies to abandon their DEI initiatives. So far, the following have knuckled under. More to come of course.

Harley-Davidson
Jack Daniels
Tractor Supply
John Deere
Brown-Forman
Wal-Mart
Boeing

You know, just in case you want to focus on NOT giving money to bigots.

Trump’s ‘God Bless the U.S.A’ Bible Was Made in China

It is always a grift. Trump’s bible – and, boy, are historians gonna have fun with *that* – is made in China. You know, the country we are supposedly in a trade war with thanks to Trump. The existential threat to our economy. Yeah, those guys.

Never mind the whole notion of a sin-ridden politician selling bibles for personal gain….

Speaking of things that should not be, the Secretary of Ed in Oklahoma has mandated bible training in public schools. Guess which “good book” is the only one approved? Yeah, the Chinese-made “Trump bible“.

It. Is. Always. A. Grift.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.

I mean, I am not an education specialist or a journalist, but this headline – and assumption – are just ridiculous.

Pro-tip for modern American journalism. If a Republican says something is about saving money or freedom? It is about NEITHER.

At least for you. Vouchers are for sending public money to private institutions that can’t make it on their own. It is about tax breaks for folks who don’t need them. It is about denying children a proper education on the public end, and to shield children from properly learning about the real world on the private end.

It is about taking from the poor and kicking them while they are down some more for cheap jollies. That’s it.

If I were an employer, I’d hesitate to hire someone who hid from the world in homeschooling, or private/parochial schools without at least asking why it was done. You are getting an incomplete person, even with the finest instructors. Public schools *should* be better, I agree, but life lessons are learned from being challenged, not running away and saying, “screw you and your’s, I’ve got mine (on your dime)”.