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Date: 2025-01-06

Almost immediately after the appalling attempt to overthrow the government four years ago several companies let it be known that they would “pause” their support for Republicans. But many of those same companies didn’t take too long to decide that it was all good, after all, throwing in for Republicans in the next elections just two years later.

Now, with the impending, horrific return of Mr Big Mouth to the White House, many of those same companies — and others besides — have been tripping over each other in their rush to fork over the tribute that this odious shitbag is demanding.

And the people who run these companies know that. But don’t look for any signs of integrity. One by one they’ve folded like cheap deck chairs. And you can bet that for some it really wasn’t at all a problem to bend the knee. Oh, but you see this shouldn’t be taken to mean that we actually support the criminal shitbag. It’s just that we’d really prefer to avoid him saying nasty things about us. We have shareholders to consider!

We contemplate the grim prospect of four more long, wretched years of despoliation and criminality, brought low by the dread sense that we have little to fight back with but our numbers. And so i put it to you: Are you willing to forego certain comforts to make a point, without the certainty that your contribution will be met by enough others to make a difference?

I won’t be spending another frigging dime on any Apple products. And i won’t be using Amazon, that’s for damned sure.

I wasn’t planning to buy a vehicle this yea but if i did it sure wouldn’t be a Ford, a GM, or a Toyota. It sure as hell wouldn’t be Tesla. If your inclination is t tell me why such and such model, though, is such a great bargain, such a great bit of technology, then you’re missing the point.

Facebook? I never had an account, tbh. Are you willing to tell the relatives to just email, like in the before times?

I know which power tools i will not be buying. And i’ll take a cab, thank you, rather than an Uber.

How about you? Are you willing to stand by your denouncement of these jackals? To tell them that you refuse to accept that the worst treachery ever inflicted on the United States of America by its own citizens — by its own president — will not be forgotten, nor accepted?

These companies are funding Trump’s insurrectionists

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