As you note, it’s still Saturday morning. Jeez, what’re the Sunday show runners gonna focus on? I mean, the lazy take is Ronna, but WTF these Republicans are announcing their plans to end democracy. So… I reckon it’ll be an interview in an Upper Peninsula diner about immigrants.
A friend who lives in Michigan once explained to me that if you hold up your left hand, you get a good map of Michigan. I asked about the UP, and he said that is the asshole of Michigan.
Actually its the right hand, but yeah. People in Michigan will often point to a spot on their hand to show where they live. Detroit is in the thick part at the base of your thumb.
Great question about the secret gorgeous part of Michigan.That is a real insiders’ question. Haha. Those who know feel like we have the password to a special club
It is a nice drive through the UP, towns like Ironwood. I did not talk with many locals there, so I can't say I know much about their politics. I remember crossing the bridge into Sault Ste Marie, CA and getting a motel room for a lay up. Walked down to the downstairs bar/diner and got a table by a wooden post. On it, some guy graffitied "Please do not smoke cigars here!" And below that, some wit added, "Don't tell the Americans that" :D
OMG. If we had a dime for every ridiculous 15 minutes of fame granted to the "We need to secure our [southern] borders!" morons wringing their hands in diners on the Upper Peninsula, we could underwrite the next Powerball lottery. Thanks for calling out one of my major pet peeves. Oy!
Maybe they should talk about the Polish Prime Minster's war warnings, the mess in Baltimore and how ONE SIDE doesn't want to pay for it, or the other stuff ONE SIDE doesn't want to pay for...you know, reminding everyone that ONE SIDE doesn't want to do anything...
Or just talk about Ronna and let Lara Trump comfort us all
Have you ever boycotted a person, product, location or service? Statistics show about one quarter to one third of us boycott. Younger more affluent Democrats tend to boycott the most, and politics leads the list of most likely reasons to boycott. Typically, this type of action is more self-satisfying than effective in hurting the bottom line of the entity you target. Nonetheless I have boycotted numerous people, places, and things through the years.
My first boycott was Exxon in 1989 after the Exxon Valdese fiasco. Walmart Chick Filet Papa Johns Cracker Barrel ATT Toyota Tesla Target TwitterX, and Facebook for ‘reasons’ followed suit over the years. Florida, Texas, and most of the south as well as all blood red states will never have to see my ugly mug again. I also boycott celebrities including Sylvester Stallone Tom Cruise Susan Sarandon Rosanne Barr James Woods Jon Voight Kelsey Grammer Arnold Schwarzenegger Tim Allen Dennis Quaid and Vince Vaughn as they all display fascist interest and an allegiance to Dumbo. I don’t hate this group, but I am adamantly against funding and supporting any of them in any way.
The other side is of course more vocally active in their boycotts, you probably know which entities they boycott because these would be the products, services and people you would normally support. I also keep tabs on what ‘they’ boycott to insure I use that service or product. Do you boycott? If so, who, what, where, and why?
I've been boycotting Koch Industries products for decades. Listed below are the most common household products they make to never buy. Curious how the biggest a-hole(s) are in the TP business. There is a longer list on them thar internets that includes construction materials:
As big as they are they probably already own rights to future production of hemp. Big tobacco many many years ago copyrighted marijuana cigarette names, guess they are still sitting on that list.
Thank You Dana Jae. I had heard that and just googled it as I have a septic tank and it is better than paper or recycled product for septic thanks. I'm sold.
Yep—I found out about Koch Industries right about the time I started driving again. It saddened me a bit because Gulf gas stations tended to have cheaper prices than the competition, and a lot of stores sold either Bounty OR Brawny paper towels, but I made the adjustments anyway.
Even if it costs a bit more, I feel better about myself.
I will not be spending any money in any state that has ridiculous abortion restrictions or bans. I also will not spend any money in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho because they support wolf trophy hunting alpha male assholes. I use amazon as a search engine and buy directly from the company of the product that I want. There’s more, I just don’t want to ruin my Saturday.
Constantly boycott. Family members glaze over and nod as tho my opinion matters not a tic. Any person, location or business that I discover to be against human rights lose my business. Idaho, Hobby Lobby, Kelloggs,Starbucks and most of your list as well.
I was forced to go to Staybucks recently. I haven't been there in years. Their coffee is just horrible. How did such a nasty product come to dominate the market? It's nasty.
Oh! Forgot to add Starbucks to my list. For the same reasons you post. Their coffee is awful! No wonder they load it up with cream, flavor, sugar then charge exorbitant prices for a cup of Ellie May Clampett coffee. (Beverly Hillbillies television show circa 1962)
My sister moved to Idabama with her husband many years ago for the same reason. Eventually she saw reason and sanity and left him there. She’s back on the west coast where we belong.
Good for her! It used to be bad in North Idaho but now it’s pretty much the whole state that’s become a cesspool of racism and maga culture. Pretty sad. Not the Idaho I grew up in.
Unfortunately I am still in heavy maga land…northern California. I just posted about neighbors flying a black flag. And my next door neighbors are Japanese American…this is seriously fkd up.
I boycott Starbucks everywhere. I have been pointing out to Germans that they are big union busters in the USA since many US businesses come to Germany and cannot union bust like they do in the states. They drove Walmart out because of their laws did not fit with the Walton family business model of total exploitation of their work staff. I am getting ready to dump Amazon. Might do so with google too, but not yet. That transition might take a year or two while I redo my files elsewhere. So, not just boycott in a temporary sense but more permanently. I try to avoid plastics in general. None in my clothing so they don't go in the wash. I got rid of my NYT subscription. Try not to frequent union busting businesses when I can. I am boycotting US Universities because their tuitions are all ridiculous. It should be free, at least the state universities, and not like in my home state where only with a B average can you get free tuition to one of 2 unis if your parents have an income of $69,000 or less (not counting house and retirement accounts). Like people with 2 or 3 kids and an income of $100,000 can afford their children's tuition without going into major debt. Everyone should have free tuition in state universities and be taxed accordingly!
Boycottees: Amazon, Walmart (poor treatment of workers); Chick-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby (anti-LGBTQ+); big banks (because fuck that too big to fail bs, I only use credit unions). I’m sure there’s more but I haven’t had coffee yet.
Yep. If I’m searching for something and I find what I want, but it shows up on Amazon, I go straight to the company’s website. If they only sell through Amazon, I move on.
I boycott states with Republican state legislators. Will no longer go to FL, TN, AR, or TX. I used to visit friends in those states. Won’t spend a dime there anymore
Agreed. I don't just boycott them not to put my money into them, but I also do not feel safe in them. They need to turn blue and get some better gun legislation.
I’m a progressive, old, white, Vietnam Veteran, educated and well-read man. And I boycott quite a bit. Not with fanfare or loudness, but out of respect for common sense and decency.
Thanks, Steve, I do too. My hubs is a Vietnam vet, also well-read & educated but apolitical. I have enough energy for the two of us in the field of politics! :)
I won’t buy gas at ARCO. I have been known to use their public restroom. I had a very unladylike slogan (“I only sh*t at ARCO.”) Why this rage? I had an ARCO credit card soon after buying my first car in 1968. I had excellent credit, even as a teenager and I promptly paid my bills! ARCO even sent me their Gold Card (which never expired and was for their very best customers or so they said). The Gold Card no longer exists, but that’s not why I boycott ARCO. Nope. When I married a few years later, I notified all my creditors — new name, new address. ARCO was the only company which required me to complete a new credit application and start a new account. My husband hadn’t moved or changed his name, but women do that when they marry. Instead of simply updating my name and address, ARCO wanted me to start over. I cut up my credit card and mailed a letter to the president of ARCO, explaining why they’d lost my business. Forever. I am 73 years old. I keep my promise.
I enjoyed shopping at Hobby Lobby until I learned the owners screen employees for their religious beliefs and want their employees to pray or some such nonsense AND of course the Hobby Lobby case is a turn off because it disrespects women (to put it mildly). The court made a ridiculous ruling about a secular company having a justified religious preference (we’re not talking about Little Sisters of the Poor persuing religious missions, Hobby Lobby is a crafts store) and the court allowed them to deny women health benefits the company was offended by. I’ll admit I don’t have exactly right all the details about the Hobby Lobby case or how they treat their employees. It doesn’t matter. They did what they did and didn’t do what they should and they punked us and the court by claiming a secular business has a religious belief which is garbage. No company reads a Bible, attends church, or any close to it. The owners of a company may do all those things, and I respect their right to their religious beliefs and practices, but they should inflict those beliefs and practices on the rest of us.
I have never gone to a Chick-fil-A. I can overlook that it has a stupid name, but I can’t overlook it’s aversion to gays and lesbians and others they don’t understand.
Great read Valeri, Thanks for your strong beliefs too! Your experience reminds me of when I got out of college I applied for various credit cards and the only turn down was JC Penny which my mother had clothed my siblings and me in their latest styles 😂all our lives. LOL JCP was dead to me and fifty years later not one foot in their stores.
I did too. My daughter was the only one in her class who did not go to Starbucks. I said she could only go to the two that were unionized in our city. One happens to be in our neighborhood, but then Starbucks shut it down. I wrote to Starbucks a few times that I was only going to go to unionized stores, and the first time their corporate idiot in charge of community relations or something like that wrote me back and tried to tell me that they thought they could handle things better than their unionized workers, and I told her not to insult my intelligence or her own by thinking anyone would believe that shit. Afterwards I did not hear that sort of stuff from them again. So, they apparently either got lazy, or can learn.
Buy organic grapes, if you can. The others are sprayed with pesticides, as are apples. I try real hard to buy veggies and fruit that are organic. I know they’re more expensive but to me, I’m worth it!
I refuse to cross the Mason-Dixon Line for any other reason than to visit my son and fam in NC. Hobby Lobby, Chic fil A, Walmart, Walgreens, Papa John’s (never cared for the pizza) Cracker Barrel, Home Depot, Target (but mostly because they have nothing I wish to buy). All the actors you mentioned for the same reasons. The only one on that list that’s a disappointed for me is Dennis Quaid. I thought he meant it when he saved the planet in Day After Tomorrow with Jake Gyllenhaal (juuust kidding, not surprised).
My boycotting means I’m not helping, knowingly. But other than becoming Amish, I can’t be positive.
Oh, one more thing, I don’t watch cable or network news.
I do however need a XTwitter fix every now and then. It’s disturbingly hilarious to read what some people believe to be reality and I can’t help it. I promise to try harder.
I have been boycotting Bill Maher, but hey, he gets it right more often than not lately (hubby watches and reports back).
I hope you receive a lot of replies, I’d also like to know what others boycott.
Bill Mahrer can be hit or miss these days. Last night he had on trumps secretary of defense Mark Esper: who said he would not vote for Trump, but would not commit to voting for Biden either. WTF?!
Oh God Amway, I actually fell for it twice, once in college then later a former fraternity brother I really admired. Finally realized the message was Jesus, but the product was soap. Amway sucks.
Interesting how oligarchs preach American freedom, then demand the government pass laws to limit the freedom of the "little people".Liz Uehlein knows more about how you should live your life than you do. And she gives millions to Donald.
Do I? Yes. Who? Hobby Lobby. Why? Because I despise hypocrisy. I started the boycott when I found out after their SCOTUS win, that their 401K plan was invested in the very companies that produce those birth control methods HL was so adamant about not providing via their insurance plan to their female employees. So, their "deeply held religious beliefs" allow them to not provide insurance coverage for contraception, but it sure doesn't prevent them from taking the money from companies that make them.
The minute they invaded our space with their full one page ads talking about Christians and then denying their female employees coverage for contraceptives, abortion, and such, I have never ever set foot in their store. Bastards!
Hey DonP, I did not forget Hobby Lobby as their crimes go back decades and should be at the top of the list as one of the original haters. I honestly thought maybe they had died.
Hobby Lobby, Chick Filet, Papa John's, "X", (I refuse to keep saying Twitter then X), Starbucks, Lee Greenwood, Rosanne Barr, John Voight & more. I've been at it since the 60's when I boycotted and protested .....
I'm loving that Rudy will be completely bankrupt, no one deserves that money from him more than that mother and daughter he defamed, lied about, and put their innocent lives at risk.
It’s seriously concerning that poll workers are leaving in droves, driven away by fear. Maybe these two women finally getting money as apology will help stop the threats - but somehow I doubt it will help enough. The damage has been done.
Sell that condo like yesterday! Rudy was always a creeper. Everything Jeff says is true and now it’s time for Rudy to take the walk of shame to the poor house. He’ll have plenty of company, plus he can saved a few bunks for the Trumps.
Lara trump spent already a few hundred thousands for some cosmetic add ons. Money from her new honey RNC pot? Quite awful. Never knew that so alien looking things would be coming down to earth. Lock her up too please.
"Trust me" says it all. Anyone who falls for that bullshit and sends money to the Trump enablers fund has as big of a short circuit upstairs as the dumb fuck shysters they're sending it to.
OMG, that poor woman. Between the coke and trying to "look good" she is just awful looking. Now she has huge boobs and dresses like a cheap hooker (with apologies to sex workers everywhere).
He was quiet at UCLA. People thought he was a jerk. But he was self-conscious about his stutter. Now he's eloquent. He was great off the bench for the Celtics.
The Jack Ramsey coached 1977 -1978 Trailblazer teams play, before BW got injured, was some of the greatest basketball ever played. It was a fast break clinic.
Lara is looking lippier for sure. All the Trumpettes move along the production line towards immobilized faces and puffy lips. You know who sets the standards for acceptable appearance for women. Snarky for Easter Sunday but Ronna never got the message and remains bloated and hideous
View from the outside: I have to keep reminding my self when watching the news clips from the USA that it is REAL LIFE and not some comedy show. WTF is going on over there?
You want to know what is going on over here? Fully 40% of our population is made up of violent, paranoid dipshits who are daily incited to new levels of agitation and dipshittery by the right-wing propaganda machine. They live in a bizarro world of their own creation and are actively trying to destroy the country.
You have my deepest sympathy! Our dipshit politicians are not a patch on yours. Also we get all our elections over in 6 weeks thank goodness. If by the remotest chance that DJ Shitweasel does get back in the WH he most certainly will not get an invitation for a state visit to the UK. Nobody wanted him here the last time, but the Queen was too polite to tell him to fuck right off.
Omg i wanted to write a comment about James Carville so kept scrolling then I wanted to write one about Lauren Boebert then Lara trump omg it’s too much they’re all horrific!
If you’re a pasty old white man who is: homophobic, racist, against women’s bodily autonomy (or just plain old misogynistic), or MAGA, you get a cruise (which you have to pay for) to Fuckrightoff. Disclaimer: no pasty white men were harmed at this Ye Olde Snark Emporium except maybe their fee-fees. If you claim you’re a pasty old white man but are here at Jeff’s fine establishment, we love you).
Preach! Teach! Yours is a household name, as I read yet another of your newsletters to my 19-year old daughter while we are on vacation in Portugal. They now go to her boyfriend too.
“keep the rubes riled up over imaginary bullshit and they won’t notice that you’re picking their pockets”. That is it exactly Jeff!
but not only are Republicans trying to take away your Medicare and your Social Security and your right to make your own decisions about your body, let’s not forget taking our voting rights, civil rights, the ACA and healthcare, imprisoning journalists, more tax breaks for the wealthy, deregulation, no vaccine requirements, banning books, a Christofascist religious state, rounding up all undocumented people and putting them in camps, and don’t forget Bannon just said he wants to imprison all democrats. These are just some of the myriad of horrors mentioned by dear leader and the MAGATS if dementia Don is reelected. Sounds like fun!
As you note, it’s still Saturday morning. Jeez, what’re the Sunday show runners gonna focus on? I mean, the lazy take is Ronna, but WTF these Republicans are announcing their plans to end democracy. So… I reckon it’ll be an interview in an Upper Peninsula diner about immigrants.
YES!! We *all* need to hear what the Yoopers think about those Canadian immigrants pouring over the northern border! LMAO!! :D
You know they'd love to send their Guard to Texas. Doofus morons abound.
😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣
How many know where the Upper Peninsula is?
It’s one of the most physically gorgeous places in the US. Just remember to never discuss politics with the local population. As in, never….
A friend who lives in Michigan once explained to me that if you hold up your left hand, you get a good map of Michigan. I asked about the UP, and he said that is the asshole of Michigan.
Seems legit
Actually its the right hand, but yeah. People in Michigan will often point to a spot on their hand to show where they live. Detroit is in the thick part at the base of your thumb.
Isn’t that the new restaurant in Astoria?
😂😂
I took a chance. What do you think? 70%?
If we didn’t know before the bridge we sure do now. We from the west is the we of which we speak 🏜️
I do
Florida? 🤣
I had a friend from there who claimed it was founded by the Roto-Rooter Man. I’d also heard that about, Minot, ND.
Great question about the secret gorgeous part of Michigan.That is a real insiders’ question. Haha. Those who know feel like we have the password to a special club
Isn't it out east??
It is a nice drive through the UP, towns like Ironwood. I did not talk with many locals there, so I can't say I know much about their politics. I remember crossing the bridge into Sault Ste Marie, CA and getting a motel room for a lay up. Walked down to the downstairs bar/diner and got a table by a wooden post. On it, some guy graffitied "Please do not smoke cigars here!" And below that, some wit added, "Don't tell the Americans that" :D
OMG. If we had a dime for every ridiculous 15 minutes of fame granted to the "We need to secure our [southern] borders!" morons wringing their hands in diners on the Upper Peninsula, we could underwrite the next Powerball lottery. Thanks for calling out one of my major pet peeves. Oy!
Maybe they should talk about the Polish Prime Minster's war warnings, the mess in Baltimore and how ONE SIDE doesn't want to pay for it, or the other stuff ONE SIDE doesn't want to pay for...you know, reminding everyone that ONE SIDE doesn't want to do anything...
Or just talk about Ronna and let Lara Trump comfort us all
Rudy in a cardboard box under a bridge? I wont be completely happy till I see that.
BUT! "a crusty cum-sock could have defeated Poppy Bush in ‘92". I'm dead. 😂😂
There isnt ONE decent, caring, honest Republican out there. Not one. Have a great weekend! ✌️💙
If Ruby & Shaye don’t get Rudy Colludy’s FL condo, there is no justice in this country! He ruined their lives!
They should burn it to the ground while he's forced to watch.
Oh, no, that's wasteful and had a negative environmental impact!
I have a better idea—they should rent it out to migrant workers, along with his podcasting setup....
Better yet! 👏👏👏👏
oooooohh....I like that!!
I love the smell of Rudy's condo burning down. Smells like..... Justice!
LOL! Great movie! HaHa!!!
Then finish the job ,and burn him down🔥⚡️
He'd spontaneously combust with all that vodka in his blood.
Yeah, that and DJT being an acronym for designated jizz towel totally slap
I'd ask Jeff if he saved any socks from then but he's been married like 300 years now.
I don’t know, Susan. That comment is verging on the borderline even for Tiedrich.
Ho Ho Ho.
True....I almost passed out from laughing, though. Jeff's column is rated X. 😂
Just under X is Ew.
😂😂😂
Yes it is!
Have you ever boycotted a person, product, location or service? Statistics show about one quarter to one third of us boycott. Younger more affluent Democrats tend to boycott the most, and politics leads the list of most likely reasons to boycott. Typically, this type of action is more self-satisfying than effective in hurting the bottom line of the entity you target. Nonetheless I have boycotted numerous people, places, and things through the years.
My first boycott was Exxon in 1989 after the Exxon Valdese fiasco. Walmart Chick Filet Papa Johns Cracker Barrel ATT Toyota Tesla Target TwitterX, and Facebook for ‘reasons’ followed suit over the years. Florida, Texas, and most of the south as well as all blood red states will never have to see my ugly mug again. I also boycott celebrities including Sylvester Stallone Tom Cruise Susan Sarandon Rosanne Barr James Woods Jon Voight Kelsey Grammer Arnold Schwarzenegger Tim Allen Dennis Quaid and Vince Vaughn as they all display fascist interest and an allegiance to Dumbo. I don’t hate this group, but I am adamantly against funding and supporting any of them in any way.
The other side is of course more vocally active in their boycotts, you probably know which entities they boycott because these would be the products, services and people you would normally support. I also keep tabs on what ‘they’ boycott to insure I use that service or product. Do you boycott? If so, who, what, where, and why?
I've been boycotting Koch Industries products for decades. Listed below are the most common household products they make to never buy. Curious how the biggest a-hole(s) are in the TP business. There is a longer list on them thar internets that includes construction materials:
KOCH BROTHERS PRODUCTS TO BOYCOTT:
American Greetings Cards
Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft ‘n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity fair napkins
Zee napkins
Georgia-Pacific paper products and envelopes
Lycra
Stainmaster Carpet
Koch is the worst ! This product list is mostly tree based products, necessary but......... at least we can try to use less paper.
Legalizing industrial hemp would do lots of damage to Koch portfolio.
As big as they are they probably already own rights to future production of hemp. Big tobacco many many years ago copyrighted marijuana cigarette names, guess they are still sitting on that list.
OMG of course. Right. Groan.... They also surely are working on a GMO variant that will be sold with companion chemicals
Yep 😒
Sure would here. CVS was selling hemp toilet paper about a year ago. Cost was competitive. I bought it until it was gone
And it never came back. GOOD stuff. Did its job well.
Bamboo toilet paper is the best and bamboo grows quickly.
I use it, delivered. The brand I buy is Who gives a crap. I never have to buy it at a grocery store. No plastic wrapping either.
Thank You Dana Jae. I had heard that and just googled it as I have a septic tank and it is better than paper or recycled product for septic thanks. I'm sold.
I started buying it a couple of years ago and have not used any other since.
Bamboo sheets are the best! I did not know about bamboo TP.
NESTLE , the CEO is the BOND VILLAIN type.
This I’ve known. For something so ubiquitous when I was small (and riding dinosaurs to school) it makes me sad
Nestle was my first, way back. That was over the baby formula. Man I missed the Krackle bars
Damn I forgot Dixie cups.
Great info. Thanks.
Thanks!
Yep—I found out about Koch Industries right about the time I started driving again. It saddened me a bit because Gulf gas stations tended to have cheaper prices than the competition, and a lot of stores sold either Bounty OR Brawny paper towels, but I made the adjustments anyway.
Even if it costs a bit more, I feel better about myself.
Hi Mary!
You made me feel better about boycotting! I boycott everything on your list I forgot to add to mine! Except for Vanity Fair napkins. I will now.
I used to print up little cards with that list and hand them out at street fairs.
Great idea!
Dang! I just had a big box of Vanity Fair napkins delivered. I suppose the will last for the rest of my life.
Uh-oh...Brawny?
Switch to Bounty, or buy the generic "Compare to Bounty" paper towels.
Gettting a bidet uses way less paper products
I will not be spending any money in any state that has ridiculous abortion restrictions or bans. I also will not spend any money in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho because they support wolf trophy hunting alpha male assholes. I use amazon as a search engine and buy directly from the company of the product that I want. There’s more, I just don’t want to ruin my Saturday.
Having lived in Idunno for several years, I've come to think of it as a state which exists near the west coast because Texas is too far away.
I really like your list so far! Please--continue adding!
Wolves trophy hunting alpha male assholes actually sounds like a good idea.
Yes Malcom, that sounds like a great idea.
Constantly boycott. Family members glaze over and nod as tho my opinion matters not a tic. Any person, location or business that I discover to be against human rights lose my business. Idaho, Hobby Lobby, Kelloggs,Starbucks and most of your list as well.
Carry on
Oh, I forgot Stabucks, an overpriced hang out with burned coffee and POSERS. I also boycott ALL red states.
I was forced to go to Staybucks recently. I haven't been there in years. Their coffee is just horrible. How did such a nasty product come to dominate the market? It's nasty.
Marketing. They're selling sizzle.
Howard Schultz is a NARCISSISTIC NABOB.
Oh! Forgot to add Starbucks to my list. For the same reasons you post. Their coffee is awful! No wonder they load it up with cream, flavor, sugar then charge exorbitant prices for a cup of Ellie May Clampett coffee. (Beverly Hillbillies television show circa 1962)
Karen, I will trade you one Ellie Mae for one Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor) Green Acres 😊 Neither was on their respective shows to make coffee. 😂
Only if you throw in Arnold Ziffle.
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Idaho…love it. I’m an Idaho native and I even boycott it now! Adding insult to injury, I moved to California! Iykyk 😉
Thank you. My brother moved to Idaho to be with his "people". You made it even.
My sister moved to Idabama with her husband many years ago for the same reason. Eventually she saw reason and sanity and left him there. She’s back on the west coast where we belong.
Good for her! It used to be bad in North Idaho but now it’s pretty much the whole state that’s become a cesspool of racism and maga culture. Pretty sad. Not the Idaho I grew up in.
Unfortunately I am still in heavy maga land…northern California. I just posted about neighbors flying a black flag. And my next door neighbors are Japanese American…this is seriously fkd up.
The flag is across the street from them and us, just to clarify
Good for you👍
I boycott Starbucks everywhere. I have been pointing out to Germans that they are big union busters in the USA since many US businesses come to Germany and cannot union bust like they do in the states. They drove Walmart out because of their laws did not fit with the Walton family business model of total exploitation of their work staff. I am getting ready to dump Amazon. Might do so with google too, but not yet. That transition might take a year or two while I redo my files elsewhere. So, not just boycott in a temporary sense but more permanently. I try to avoid plastics in general. None in my clothing so they don't go in the wash. I got rid of my NYT subscription. Try not to frequent union busting businesses when I can. I am boycotting US Universities because their tuitions are all ridiculous. It should be free, at least the state universities, and not like in my home state where only with a B average can you get free tuition to one of 2 unis if your parents have an income of $69,000 or less (not counting house and retirement accounts). Like people with 2 or 3 kids and an income of $100,000 can afford their children's tuition without going into major debt. Everyone should have free tuition in state universities and be taxed accordingly!
Hi Linda
Avoiding plastics, and I canceled my NYT and WAPO subscriptions about 18 months ago.
Boycottees: Amazon, Walmart (poor treatment of workers); Chick-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby (anti-LGBTQ+); big banks (because fuck that too big to fail bs, I only use credit unions). I’m sure there’s more but I haven’t had coffee yet.
Yes, I boycott Amazon, I despise Bezos.
Yep. If I’m searching for something and I find what I want, but it shows up on Amazon, I go straight to the company’s website. If they only sell through Amazon, I move on.
I boycott states with Republican state legislators. Will no longer go to FL, TN, AR, or TX. I used to visit friends in those states. Won’t spend a dime there anymore
Most of my family live in SC, and they are well aware after twenty years, i aint going to SC.
Agreed. I don't just boycott them not to put my money into them, but I also do not feel safe in them. They need to turn blue and get some better gun legislation.
I’m a progressive, old, white, Vietnam Veteran, educated and well-read man. And I boycott quite a bit. Not with fanfare or loudness, but out of respect for common sense and decency.
Good advice and thank you for your service Steve.
Thanks, Steve, I do too. My hubs is a Vietnam vet, also well-read & educated but apolitical. I have enough energy for the two of us in the field of politics! :)
I won’t buy gas at ARCO. I have been known to use their public restroom. I had a very unladylike slogan (“I only sh*t at ARCO.”) Why this rage? I had an ARCO credit card soon after buying my first car in 1968. I had excellent credit, even as a teenager and I promptly paid my bills! ARCO even sent me their Gold Card (which never expired and was for their very best customers or so they said). The Gold Card no longer exists, but that’s not why I boycott ARCO. Nope. When I married a few years later, I notified all my creditors — new name, new address. ARCO was the only company which required me to complete a new credit application and start a new account. My husband hadn’t moved or changed his name, but women do that when they marry. Instead of simply updating my name and address, ARCO wanted me to start over. I cut up my credit card and mailed a letter to the president of ARCO, explaining why they’d lost my business. Forever. I am 73 years old. I keep my promise.
I enjoyed shopping at Hobby Lobby until I learned the owners screen employees for their religious beliefs and want their employees to pray or some such nonsense AND of course the Hobby Lobby case is a turn off because it disrespects women (to put it mildly). The court made a ridiculous ruling about a secular company having a justified religious preference (we’re not talking about Little Sisters of the Poor persuing religious missions, Hobby Lobby is a crafts store) and the court allowed them to deny women health benefits the company was offended by. I’ll admit I don’t have exactly right all the details about the Hobby Lobby case or how they treat their employees. It doesn’t matter. They did what they did and didn’t do what they should and they punked us and the court by claiming a secular business has a religious belief which is garbage. No company reads a Bible, attends church, or any close to it. The owners of a company may do all those things, and I respect their right to their religious beliefs and practices, but they should inflict those beliefs and practices on the rest of us.
I have never gone to a Chick-fil-A. I can overlook that it has a stupid name, but I can’t overlook it’s aversion to gays and lesbians and others they don’t understand.
Great read Valeri, Thanks for your strong beliefs too! Your experience reminds me of when I got out of college I applied for various credit cards and the only turn down was JC Penny which my mother had clothed my siblings and me in their latest styles 😂all our lives. LOL JCP was dead to me and fifty years later not one foot in their stores.
I still pause before I buy grapes..
Omg! Same. When I was a kid my mom wouldn’t buy grapes for years because of the boycott. I also learned never to cross a picket line.
Picket lines were and always have been sacred in our house.
Absolutely. Taught my kids the same.
Ditto
I did too. My daughter was the only one in her class who did not go to Starbucks. I said she could only go to the two that were unionized in our city. One happens to be in our neighborhood, but then Starbucks shut it down. I wrote to Starbucks a few times that I was only going to go to unionized stores, and the first time their corporate idiot in charge of community relations or something like that wrote me back and tried to tell me that they thought they could handle things better than their unionized workers, and I told her not to insult my intelligence or her own by thinking anyone would believe that shit. Afterwards I did not hear that sort of stuff from them again. So, they apparently either got lazy, or can learn.
Same about the grapes and learning not to cross a picket line.
Buy organic grapes, if you can. The others are sprayed with pesticides, as are apples. I try real hard to buy veggies and fruit that are organic. I know they’re more expensive but to me, I’m worth it!
You are worth it!
Those for the grandchildren for sure. As for us I don’t worry as much as I once had.
No Chik FIL A, Hobby Lobby, My Pillow, Overstock, Wendy's, Papa John's, Nestlé for me
I go to buy sparkling water.. San Pellegrino... Nestle.
Look at the next brand... Perrier... Nestle again.
So sneaky it's been this way for years
Hi Hoyt!
I refuse to cross the Mason-Dixon Line for any other reason than to visit my son and fam in NC. Hobby Lobby, Chic fil A, Walmart, Walgreens, Papa John’s (never cared for the pizza) Cracker Barrel, Home Depot, Target (but mostly because they have nothing I wish to buy). All the actors you mentioned for the same reasons. The only one on that list that’s a disappointed for me is Dennis Quaid. I thought he meant it when he saved the planet in Day After Tomorrow with Jake Gyllenhaal (juuust kidding, not surprised).
My boycotting means I’m not helping, knowingly. But other than becoming Amish, I can’t be positive.
Oh, one more thing, I don’t watch cable or network news.
I do however need a XTwitter fix every now and then. It’s disturbingly hilarious to read what some people believe to be reality and I can’t help it. I promise to try harder.
I have been boycotting Bill Maher, but hey, he gets it right more often than not lately (hubby watches and reports back).
I hope you receive a lot of replies, I’d also like to know what others boycott.
I like to have a couple martinis and harangue the MAGAs who are trolling Jeff, Rick Wilson and Stephen King on "X-itter".
It's a pity what a toxic landfill the thing has become.
It's also kind of fun to block every ad that pops up. Accomplishes nothing but is amusing to play with your food sometimes.
Home Depot-the worst. Maher fer sure. Quaid disappointed me too. Thanks Karen, I like your thinking and thoughts..
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Bill Mahrer can be hit or miss these days. Last night he had on trumps secretary of defense Mark Esper: who said he would not vote for Trump, but would not commit to voting for Biden either. WTF?!
Well Mark, shall we go over your choices one more time, or do you need more time to think about it? WTF is an understatement.
Yeah, that’s total cowardice!
Uline. Home Depot. Amway.
Oh God Amway, I actually fell for it twice, once in college then later a former fraternity brother I really admired. Finally realized the message was Jesus, but the product was soap. Amway sucks.
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Amway…yes! The DeVos Family empire!
Too bad about Uline but they are douche canoes.
Interesting how oligarchs preach American freedom, then demand the government pass laws to limit the freedom of the "little people".Liz Uehlein knows more about how you should live your life than you do. And she gives millions to Donald.
Uline for sure!
Letters from the President of Uline. Take a look and see if you agree with Liz.
https://www.uline.com/Corporate/About_President
We're birds of a feather , I boycott all of the same entities & WALLMART.
Same here!
Do I? Yes. Who? Hobby Lobby. Why? Because I despise hypocrisy. I started the boycott when I found out after their SCOTUS win, that their 401K plan was invested in the very companies that produce those birth control methods HL was so adamant about not providing via their insurance plan to their female employees. So, their "deeply held religious beliefs" allow them to not provide insurance coverage for contraception, but it sure doesn't prevent them from taking the money from companies that make them.
The minute they invaded our space with their full one page ads talking about Christians and then denying their female employees coverage for contraceptives, abortion, and such, I have never ever set foot in their store. Bastards!
Hey DonP, I did not forget Hobby Lobby as their crimes go back decades and should be at the top of the list as one of the original haters. I honestly thought maybe they had died.
Hoyt: I join you with ChickFilet, Tesla, Exxon, ALL southern states, NYT, FauxNews, & maybe some I can’t recall..
Hobby Lobby, Chick Filet, Papa John's, "X", (I refuse to keep saying Twitter then X), Starbucks, Lee Greenwood, Rosanne Barr, John Voight & more. I've been at it since the 60's when I boycotted and protested .....
War, nuclear anything, environmental wrongness.
You get the picture!
I dig it! Me too.
I'm loving that Rudy will be completely bankrupt, no one deserves that money from him more than that mother and daughter he defamed, lied about, and put their innocent lives at risk.
It’s seriously concerning that poll workers are leaving in droves, driven away by fear. Maybe these two women finally getting money as apology will help stop the threats - but somehow I doubt it will help enough. The damage has been done.
Rudy deserves what he's getting. It just brings to my mind that trump is NOT being punished. "No one's above the law"? What a joke.
This is the one that raises my Blood Pressure EVERY TIME… and the Supreme Court. We must win and we MUST fix this stuff. Ugh
Sell that condo like yesterday! Rudy was always a creeper. Everything Jeff says is true and now it’s time for Rudy to take the walk of shame to the poor house. He’ll have plenty of company, plus he can saved a few bunks for the Trumps.
Fuck Rudy
Lara trump spent already a few hundred thousands for some cosmetic add ons. Money from her new honey RNC pot? Quite awful. Never knew that so alien looking things would be coming down to earth. Lock her up too please.
"Trust me" says it all. Anyone who falls for that bullshit and sends money to the Trump enablers fund has as big of a short circuit upstairs as the dumb fuck shysters they're sending it to.
"Trust me, I'm a Trump" is not the flex she thinks it is.
“Trust me “ is code for fu..k you. Bless her tiny little heart.
That huge mouth? Is it possible to cosmetically enlarge your mouth? I did not know that.
Have a look at Lara’s future Sister-in-Law, Kim “Catfish” what’s her name. I’ve pulled better looking catfish out of the Monongahela River.
OMG, that poor woman. Between the coke and trying to "look good" she is just awful looking. Now she has huge boobs and dresses like a cheap hooker (with apologies to sex workers everywhere).
You can fatten your lips. Bee stings would do it, but I think it’s done surgically.
It's called 'lip filler' but lip fattener is more descriptive. But in what possible universe is that considered attractive?
I have heard that the idea is to remind men of moist “lady parts.”
Well, Dayum! I did not know that. Wow. I doubt that men need to be reminded of lady parts, that's a separate lobe of the brain for the guys.
Oh….. my God. I totally agree. I have a friend (not a close friend) and she looks TERRIBLE. 👄
And, she DEFINITELY CANNOT SING !
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In the words of that great contemporary philosopher Bill Walton: "She's horrrrrriiible!" 😄😄
Fun Fact about Bill Walton; he had to overcome a stutter!
He was quiet at UCLA. People thought he was a jerk. But he was self-conscious about his stutter. Now he's eloquent. He was great off the bench for the Celtics.
Charlie;
Bill Walton ought to go out on the campaign trail for Biden.
He learned philosophy from John Wooden.
I'd like to see that.
Charlie, I was a big fan of Bill Walton before he became a philosopher. No one since has thrown an outlet pass like him!
Great big man. It's too bad he lost so much of his career to injury.
The Jack Ramsey coached 1977 -1978 Trailblazer teams play, before BW got injured, was some of the greatest basketball ever played. It was a fast break clinic.
They were fun to watch. You didn't want to get in a track meet with them. Dr Jack was a Hell of a coach.
Not a note!
Yep, a little pitchy, bitchy. 😉
Lara is looking lippier for sure. All the Trumpettes move along the production line towards immobilized faces and puffy lips. You know who sets the standards for acceptable appearance for women. Snarky for Easter Sunday but Ronna never got the message and remains bloated and hideous
View from the outside: I have to keep reminding my self when watching the news clips from the USA that it is REAL LIFE and not some comedy show. WTF is going on over there?
You want to know what is going on over here? Fully 40% of our population is made up of violent, paranoid dipshits who are daily incited to new levels of agitation and dipshittery by the right-wing propaganda machine. They live in a bizarro world of their own creation and are actively trying to destroy the country.
You have my deepest sympathy! Our dipshit politicians are not a patch on yours. Also we get all our elections over in 6 weeks thank goodness. If by the remotest chance that DJ Shitweasel does get back in the WH he most certainly will not get an invitation for a state visit to the UK. Nobody wanted him here the last time, but the Queen was too polite to tell him to fuck right off.
Orange jesus freaks
It's their entire personality
Every little thought they have ws put there by somebody else...
We're the entertainment channel of the world....
Does Satan do raptures? We could use one right about now.
If he did, they’d probably be called “Ruptures”. 🙄🤪😁
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Ancient and timeless: when there are problems to be addressed, the finger always points to the woman.
Cherchez la femme ? ( SP ? )
" Look to the woman ". A rather MISOGYNISTIC saying.
The expression is actually French Kristy.
I SAID IT IN FRENCH, SO , YES I know that. 🙄
And yes, you did spell it right, to answer your question.
John Lennon wrote a song titled "Woman is the N-word of the World."
I thought Yoko wrote that ?
I looked it up .Evidently it was a collaboration of Lennon, Ono & the Plastic Ofno Band.
Omg i wanted to write a comment about James Carville so kept scrolling then I wanted to write one about Lauren Boebert then Lara trump omg it’s too much they’re all horrific!
I'm beginning to think Carville is the one with TERTIARY SYPHILIS
I think he might have an odor problem too. Way beyond his sell-by date
“Trust me, I am the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump” - I’m gonna laugh about this one all day! What a week! Thanks, Jeff - great stuff!
If you’re a pasty old white man who is: homophobic, racist, against women’s bodily autonomy (or just plain old misogynistic), or MAGA, you get a cruise (which you have to pay for) to Fuckrightoff. Disclaimer: no pasty white men were harmed at this Ye Olde Snark Emporium except maybe their fee-fees. If you claim you’re a pasty old white man but are here at Jeff’s fine establishment, we love you).
Meanwhile, Shea Moss and Ruby Freeman still wait for payment while Rudy drinks away his fortune. In 21st century America, shit really floats.
Preach! Teach! Yours is a household name, as I read yet another of your newsletters to my 19-year old daughter while we are on vacation in Portugal. They now go to her boyfriend too.
Glorious - what a week! I don't think newt has stopped whining since 1993
He hasn’t that SOB adulterer!
Weekly YouTube Roundup
Trump owes putin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BllSn2MJ97k
“Obamacare is a disaster. I will kill it & you too.” trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5yoe4KYuhw&t=30s Biden/Harris Obamacare campaign ad – “Flatline”
Phantom of the MAGA: Courtesy of the Lincoln Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgoR9DsxR3Q
And finally, “BLOODBATH” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItnsIANj7k
To add to stuff to watch, this is a fucking amazing ad! https://youtu.be/sFIK2tvjwwI?si=CFtWk1PrfD8Fl-Gv
that's awesome...I hope the women of texASS are paying attention to this insane christofascist bullshit may end their lives!
EXCELLENT spot. Thanks for sharing!
Oooooooh…fabulous ad!! Wish that could go on msm.
Good thing about using Trump's own words against him is that he can TRY to say "I didn't say that!" but the video doesn't lie.
Of course he'll just claim that it was AI generated but we all know the truth.
I really don't think he cares what he says now. Is he even in control or understands his speech? I would say yes regretfully.
“keep the rubes riled up over imaginary bullshit and they won’t notice that you’re picking their pockets”. That is it exactly Jeff!
but not only are Republicans trying to take away your Medicare and your Social Security and your right to make your own decisions about your body, let’s not forget taking our voting rights, civil rights, the ACA and healthcare, imprisoning journalists, more tax breaks for the wealthy, deregulation, no vaccine requirements, banning books, a Christofascist religious state, rounding up all undocumented people and putting them in camps, and don’t forget Bannon just said he wants to imprison all democrats. These are just some of the myriad of horrors mentioned by dear leader and the MAGATS if dementia Don is reelected. Sounds like fun!