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They've made themselves easy to find ... now let's boycott the lot of them! [1]

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Date: 2025-04-26

I, like a whole lot of you, have been aching to find some way to respond to the horrors that MAGA cultists have been foisting on the rest of us. I am old, sole caregiver to my husband of 48 years, and don’t have a lot of money to send to even the best of progressive causes. We try to support our very liberal UCC/UMC church’s outreach to the LGBTQ+ community and we send a little bit to Ukraine as we can, but we are behind on our house taxes and inundated with medical bills after he had 2 falls, a TBI and a new hip. If we lose Hubs’ Social Security (mine is tied up in the paperwork trail as I try to prove I am the person who’s been paying taxes all these years under my name) and our SNAP benefits we will starve. I would hit the streets, bunions be damned, but he cannot safely be left alone for hours at a time. And while I support the protestors, I don’t think that is hitting them where it hurts — yet. A General Strike might, but it seems a ways off …

Then I came across this today— an online “Yellow Pages” for businesses that support Trump and the way he is running the country- publicsquare.com . Here’s the article I read, you can find it on HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/… or just search for “Website for MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires”. One of Trump’s sons is on the Board, of course — so they are using it as a way of yet again grifting off of the yahoos, but it’s pretty user-friendly for our purposes: you just put in your zip code and up they come.

I try to support local business owners and to avoid big companies that have forced them out of business (looking at you, WalMart). I have felt that the little bit more I paid was an investment in the community. As a retired private practice psychologist I have a good idea of how hard it is to make a go of it, even if you have a good product to sell. And I know that the small fry are going to suffer, many will lose their businesses, because of the stuff coming out of Washington. But if they outright declare themselves as Trumpers, I don’t want to give them a nickel.

You can help by sharing this info with like-minded friends. Use social media if you do that, and maybe, do a little asking or poking around on the internet before you do spend. Hitting them in their wallets should work as well on the little guys as it seems to be working on Musk.

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