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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rubicon has been been crossed
Trump's pulled out all the stops on his campaign for a Caucasian America. Are you listening corporate America? It's time to pick a side of the fence. As consumers we have the power of life and death over you. We are waiting for your response, but not for long.
Anyone that hasn't jumped ship by now is part of their team, and as such is irredeemable in my eyes.
rampartc
(5,264 posts)RVN VET71
(2,686 posts)and McDonald's, KFC and Taco Bell, and endless hours seated on his throne with his iPhone or on a comfortable chair viewing Fox and CNN. All that awful food and sedentary fuming at the TV may finally take the ultimate toll.
One can only hope!
rampartc
(5,264 posts)looololololololololololooololololololololol for someone who spends most of the day stareing into a mirror ..
RVN VET71
(2,686 posts)and a side dish of help from the devil.
rampartc
(5,264 posts)I don't think guliani is the lawyer to plead his case, i'd go with plan b and learn to play the violin.
I don't even remember how dr faust weaseled out of his contract. must look that up ahter coffee.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)...- place culture he's representing.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)of hate that they Wicker Man one of their own black supporters.
Seriously, I can't understand what any dark skinned person is thinking standing shoulder to shoulder with open white supremacists. Though I do have friends who are poc who do come out on Facebook repeating the conservative right mantra when it comes to racist issues.
Bizarre.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)It's like the Log Cabin Republicans.
McKim
(2,412 posts)We can boycott those companies that dont stand up to bigotry!
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)They are the cheapest I can get so I just cannot afford to cancel them now.
avebury
(10,946 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)to the GOPee. They are suppporting racism.
Of course, GOPee contributors have been supporting undemocratic activities for a long time. But now, it's time to call them out on it. There is no more hiding and acting like "good corporate citizens" (whatever the hell that means) while simultaneously enabling fascism.
Will be interesting to see whether any GOPee donors are called to account for this.
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)trump was a racist POS from day one of his campaign. As he rode down that escalator, climbed to the top of the podium, his first campaign stance was a racist one. Have we forgotten the violence he incited at his rallies in 2016? Have we forgotten the "good people" decree? Have we forgotten that kneeling Black athletes being classified as "sons of bitches". Have we forgotten the designation of Maxine Waters as "low-IQ"? Good goodness, the Rubicon has long been crossed. trump is now, especially at his Nazi rally yesterday (7.17.19), showing us exactly what is in store this election season. In 2016 the trump faithful generally restricted their violence to rallies. Don't expect to be so lucky this time around. His goal is to intimidate. The Rubicon has long been crossed and his faithful are ready to fight. No, not at the ballot box, but rather in the streets. America is run now like the worst of the third world countries, expect our elections to be run in the same manner. I stated this long time ago on this forum, and I'll state it here in this post: trump greatest danger to the average citizen is his ability to reach all the way down to the street level and enflame his supporters into violence. Forty to 45% of the population support that asshole, and at least 30% of the population is ready to do grievous deeds in his name. The Rubicon has long been crossed.
Lonestarblue
(9,880 posts)I no longer live in a state that sends more money to the federal government than it receives, but I have lived in two of top ten donor states that send federal tax dollars to the red states that are in effect welfare states that keep their taxes low so they get more benefits from the rest of us. The top ten donor states are Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, North Dakota, Illinois, New Hampshire, Washington state, Nebraska, and Colorado (though this list changes with state tax laws). The taxpayers in these blue states are subsidizing the states that produce the most hatred and bigotry because they are Republican states.
The top twelve welfare states are New Mexico, Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama, Arizona, Alaska, Montana, South Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana, and Tennesseemostly Republican states full of white evangelicals and white supremacists.
Trump is turning the country into a mockery of government. While Im angered at the mess he has made and at the sheer hatefulness of his supporters, my personal Rubicon will be crossed if he wins re-election because that will truly signal the end of the US of A. At that time, Ill fully support the separation of the United States into two countries, one progressive and one run by the Christian Taliban for white people only.
pecosbob
(7,511 posts)Watched the people of the state (no offense intended) get stupider and more racist year after year after year. Moved to Nevada...crazy people here are more worried UFOs than MS13.
Lonestarblue
(9,880 posts)I moved from the North and just could not take the long winters, snow shoveling, and cold temps. Plus, Austin is a great city to live in. I still have hopes that Texas will turn blue. Most of the major cities (all except El Paso) have turned blue. The 2020 election may not be the turning point unless we can get lots more Democrats registered and then get them to actually vote. Fingers crossed.
pecosbob
(7,511 posts)anarch
(6,535 posts)In any reasonable society, he would have been laughed at and ridiculed to the point where he would never show his face in public again (oh, what a wonderful world that would be....)
certainot
(9,090 posts)artificial intelligence means it is now much easier than it was then to mount boycott pressure.
it is much easier faster and cheaper nowwith artificial intelligence-enhanced transcription and a service like sonix.ai where it's $5/hr and they put it in a text program that makes it very easy to list advertisers and their contact info with very little listening. - described at republiconradio.org
RW talk radio is already way in debt and if dems start doing a little of that - which can be done with any radio station anywhere by streaming, the ad industry will get the message and do the rest - they willl have to stop bundling radio advertisers onto those stations. they will have to start asking them if they actually support trump, global warming denial, racism, putting kids in cages, threats to congresswomen, etc
the ad industry wants those ears that all those mega limbaugh stations reach and when it applies market demand the monopoly will fall apart and many stations will be changing programs.
pecosbob
(7,511 posts)You should not be able to air political hate talk programming and also air content from public universities. If that's not exactly legal under the Constitution then these universities should be publicly shamed for their decisions.
certainot
(9,090 posts)like florida, penn state, mich state all support 10 or more limbaugh stations. that would greatly change politics in those sttates to have those stations on the defensive.