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PittBlue

(4,582 posts)
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:28 AM May 14

Fighting MAGA at a local furniture store.

My husband and I were shopping for a glider for our small patio. We found a furniture warehouse in Cleveland that had what we were looking for. We were standing at the desk chatting with the salesman and had paid for our purchase and were making delivery plans.
I looked behind the desk and saw a picture of Canada covered in a US flag and some nonsense about the Gulf of America. I pointed at the picture and said to my husband cancel the order, which he immediately did. The salesman said why are you canceling and I pointed to the sign. I said we don’t believe in mixing business and politics. He said, wow that never happened before. As we were leaving I said that I lost a brother to Vietnam and I am sick of all the bullshit and we walked out the door. It felt so good to fight back in a small way.

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Fighting MAGA at a local furniture store. (Original Post) PittBlue May 14 OP
Good for you!!! SheltieLover May 14 #1
Post removed Post removed May 14 #2
MAGAs need to learn their behavior is unacceptable CanonRay May 14 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author MLAA May 14 #6
Well done Easterncedar May 14 #3
I live in Cleveland - just curious, what store is this? LeftinOH May 14 #5
Northeast Factory Direct. PittBlue May 14 #16
Thanks for the info lonely bird May 14 #19
They are local to us also, and we are redoing a patio mama May 15 #72
If they have a Facebook page, leave a review there and do one on Google as well. GoneOffShore May 15 #73
So proud of you! Kath2 May 14 #7
Well done. sop May 14 #8
Well done!!! MarineCombatEngineer May 14 #9
Hey MCE DENVERPOPS May 14 #20
That's the way to do it, MarineCombatEngineer May 14 #31
Was the Cabela's tax a medical excise tax? sl8 May 14 #41
Yea they put it on there DENVERPOPS May 14 #45
Thank you for the starter list of companies to avoid blue_jay May 14 #49
U-Line is one of the worst. Lochloosa May 15 #70
Good on ya Pittblue AKwannabe May 14 #10
Nicely done. Paladin May 14 #11
Sending my sincere respect to you and your husband. hamsterjill May 14 #12
Dang 3auld6phart May 14 #21
Yes we need to show our displeasure with our pocketbooks ! kimbutgar May 14 #13
eggscllent AllaN01Bear May 14 #14
I really applaud this.. thank you! mountain grammy May 14 #15
Thank you, from one person in Canada (and maybe more). It's nice having friends, and my eyes are moist. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 14 #17
Excellent ✊🏼👏🏼 benfranklin1776 May 14 #18
MAGA businesses deserve THE DEBT PENALTY usonian May 14 #22
The problem is what defines a MAGA business Polybius May 14 #35
Yes BonnieJW May 14 #38
Nay, play classical music, even sports. A string quartet would be nice. usonian May 14 #44
If they put this sort of stupid crap in their store/ads/catalog/whatever, you don't do business with them. mucholderthandirt May 14 #57
Yes blubunyip May 14 #62
I think the best compromise is to put on CNN and MSNBC to go along with Fox Polybius May 15 #64
Not voting and playing Fox News whopis01 May 15 #65
Excellent! Everyone needs to do this. Initech May 14 #23
I walk in and BidenRocks May 14 #30
Check out the Amish for gliders gab13by13 May 14 #24
The Amish where I live are mostly trumpers. Even if they don't vote, they supprt. AZLD4Candidate May 14 #29
They mistreat their animals BonnieJW May 14 #39
They beat their horses and abuse the dogs in their puppy mills. my parents shiba inu is an amish puppy mill rescue AZLD4Candidate May 14 #42
I got a wooden glider years ago at Target Warpy May 14 #25
I applaud you Buddyzbuddy May 14 #26
We stopped using a tire store in town redstatebluegirl May 14 #27
I went to the doctor the other day and sitting in the waiting room, I realized MIButterfly May 14 #34
Well done! Martin68 May 14 #28
I don't give a lot of recommendations out, but.... Butterflylady May 14 #32
Good for you. MIButterfly May 14 #33
This is how we fight back IndyPepper May 14 #36
Just scratching the surface of a comfortably racist jobsite wolfie001 May 14 #37
Big respect, thank you. Magoo48 May 14 #40
They chose to openly show their fascism. It's 100% on them if they lose business. Karasu May 14 #43
THANK YOU Skittles May 14 #46
Nicely done! bif May 14 #47
YES!!!!! spanone May 14 #48
Small Town Resistance nwliberalkiwi May 14 #50
Good for you. PittBlue May 14 #53
Good for you. Abolishinist May 14 #59
You tell those fuckers where to SHOVE IT Blue Owl May 14 #51
Awful, good thing you cancelled it 🤗 Meowmee May 14 #52
Nope, just a fed up old woman here. PittBlue May 14 #56
Thank you for resisting... Dem4life1970 May 14 #54
❤️🇺🇸 underpants May 14 #55
Good job! kerry-is-my-prez May 14 #58
Right where they hurt! catrose May 14 #60
Well done! Kicked 'em where it hurts the most... B.See May 14 #61
Let the MAGGOTS BUY their own goddamned furniture!!!! Jack Valentino May 14 #63
Thank you! Fascists are finding out there are consequences for bad behavior. Emile May 15 #66
Thanks for listing the company Yellowdog88 May 15 #67
Any business that shows a political bend . . . Aussie105 May 15 #68
This message was self-deleted by its author PennRalphie May 15 #69
FYI: Penzy's spice company has taken a bold anti-Republican Party stance. CrispyQ May 15 #71
Because I'm a cranky lad with lots of time on my hands, I went looking for these guys on Google Maps GoneOffShore May 15 #74

Response to PittBlue (Original post)

CanonRay

(15,420 posts)
4. MAGAs need to learn their behavior is unacceptable
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:38 AM
May 14

and one way to do that is through their wallets. I applaud this person's choice to cancel the order. I do not do business with MAGAs.

Response to Post removed (Reply #2)

lonely bird

(2,400 posts)
19. Thanks for the info
Wed May 14, 2025, 12:12 PM
May 14

We purchased a picnic table and chairs from them last year. Didn’t see anything overtly political at that time.

We won’t go back.

Kath2

(3,163 posts)
7. So proud of you!
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:44 AM
May 14

The personal is political. Let these racist and sexist bigots know we oppose their horrible agenda.

sop

(15,109 posts)
8. Well done.
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:44 AM
May 14

It isn't enough to avoid doing business with people who espouse such views, you also have to let them know why...like you did.

DENVERPOPS

(12,958 posts)
20. Hey MCE
Wed May 14, 2025, 12:27 PM
May 14

Years ago, Cabela did a similar thing. On the cash register receipts they had a line item charge listed as an OBAMA tax.
It posted a dollar figure, but it wasn't added into the total.
I wrote a not so unkind letter to Cabela, telling them that I would no longer be buying a couple of thousands dollars of their products as I had in previous years because of their political opinions. Instead I would be buying from other sources that offered comparable products. (I mentioned that they could reference my past orders to verify it was THOUSANDS of dollars they would lose....)

Dick's Sporting Goods came out with a stand on discontinuing assault type weapons in their stores. They took them all, and had them shipped to a location that literally destroyed them all, not even trying to sell them to some other retail groups......The right wing Trumphumping second amendment people had a fit over this, saying that would destroy Dick's as none of them would buy anything from Dicks again.......I went into Dicks for my first time, buying some things I needed, and telling the manager of the store that I would be buying all my stuff that I could from them for their stand on assault weapons. He laughed, and told me that many people had come in saying the same thing. He told me that the management of the company feared a loss of sales revenue, but surprisingly ever since their announcement, their sales revenue was UP.......by TWENTY PERCENT......LOL

I did the same to U-Line, and told them that I deeply resented that they had put in their massive catalog, a full page color letter by the owners wife, doing a rah-rah for the fascist Republican Party. I now buy all my company's stuff from other outlets.....

The simplest definition of FASCISM, is the merger of Corporations and Government.........

I have to believe that just as they have Renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, that they will soon change the United States of America, to the United Corporations of America, or the Corporate Tyranny of America......

With the Trump CABAL most recently ignoring a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court's ruling, we inch closer each and every day to a Fascist Dictatorship......

MarineCombatEngineer

(15,862 posts)
31. That's the way to do it,
Wed May 14, 2025, 01:52 PM
May 14

take your business elsewhere letting them know that you disapprove of their support for a fascist dicktator.

sl8

(16,652 posts)
41. Was the Cabela's tax a medical excise tax?
Wed May 14, 2025, 04:09 PM
May 14

If so, they shouldn't have been charging it in the first place:
(there are excise taxes on certain sporting goods, but they came before Obama)

https://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/cabelas-medical-tax-mistake/
Cabela’s Medical Tax Mistake


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medical-device-excise-tax/
Medical Device Excise Tax

DENVERPOPS

(12,958 posts)
45. Yea they put it on there
Wed May 14, 2025, 05:21 PM
May 14

to express crap aimed at Obama for the ACA medical insurance.......
They printed a line on the receipt......Obama Tax and a ficticious amount but didn't add the amount in on the receipt......
And I am sure it appealed to all of their countless red neck second amendment crowd........
It was just prior to them merging with Bass Pro?????

Lochloosa

(16,571 posts)
70. U-Line is one of the worst.
Thu May 15, 2025, 08:36 AM
May 15

We get 6 or 7 catalogs at work every 3 months and they go straight to the recycle bin.

I have called them several times to try and get them to stop, but they keep coming. Screw them.

AKwannabe

(6,807 posts)
10. Good on ya Pittblue
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:47 AM
May 14

The person whose comment was removed just signed up this morning.

They don’t get to support republicans here!!!!
lol

Paladin

(30,988 posts)
11. Nicely done.
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:51 AM
May 14

I hope lots and lots of other people do likewise. The sooner we all realize that we're very much at war, the better.

hamsterjill

(16,088 posts)
12. Sending my sincere respect to you and your husband.
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:54 AM
May 14

We need more of this! Thanks for doing your part. Small acts add up.

We have a restaurant that recently opened in my area. I previewed the menu on the website and it has the fish entrees listed as coming from the "Gulf of America".

Nope...won't have my business. They could have simply said "the Gulf", and left it at that. But they HAD to make a statement.



Bernardo de La Paz

(56,925 posts)
17. Thank you, from one person in Canada (and maybe more). It's nice having friends, and my eyes are moist. . . . nt
Wed May 14, 2025, 12:11 PM
May 14

benfranklin1776

(6,925 posts)
18. Excellent ✊🏼👏🏼
Wed May 14, 2025, 12:11 PM
May 14

EVERYONE needs to do this! Make them pay a financial penalty for their support of fascism! Obviously morality means nothing to them so deprive them of the only thing they care about-their filthy lucre

Polybius

(20,470 posts)
35. The problem is what defines a MAGA business
Wed May 14, 2025, 03:17 PM
May 14

What if the manager and most of the workers are Democrats, but the owner is MAGA? What if one owner is a Democrat, while the other is MAGA? There are certain purity levels to go by that we may differ on.

I know one restaurant owner who hates politics; doesn't even vote. He puts on Fox news. When asked why, he said "my business is in a Bright Red area, it's what the customers want." Should he be punished too?

usonian

(18,902 posts)
44. Nay, play classical music, even sports. A string quartet would be nice.
Wed May 14, 2025, 05:00 PM
May 14

One can be TOO KIND to customers.



He should vote. Is watching Fox News voter suppression?

I sure as hell wouldn't dine there.

Make their food high quality and also the entertainment.

Anecdote: We had a TV set in the kitchen during the Vietnam War. Dad insisted on watching the news (which was gut-wrenching) at dinner.

I disagreed, especially being of draft age, and not so interested in tales of death and destruction at dinner.

So, I asked Mom to make a small portion before dinner time so I could abstain from the gore and falsehoods, coming back with the coonskin on the wall, and napalm bombings.

mucholderthandirt

(1,595 posts)
57. If they put this sort of stupid crap in their store/ads/catalog/whatever, you don't do business with them.
Wed May 14, 2025, 09:43 PM
May 14

If they just run a store and keep politics out of it, then you can shop there if you like.

We had a local jewelry store that had loads of Bush signs up around the store. They almost closed down because people stopped shopping there, and told them why. The owners were upset, they evidently thought they'd do better.

A local plant nursery/garden/landscape place had done the same. Huge Bush crap all over the fences, the doors and so on. Business dropped off dramatically. The signs came down, and none went up at the next election, not local or national.

If we make it known that this is not acceptable in a business, it will stop. We can't change their minds personally, but we can make them think twice about how they run their businesses.

Oh, I don't patronize stores with the Jeebus fish, either. Nothing about Christianity, or any other religion, or I take my business elsewhere. I made a comment at a local thrift store run by a charity that was selling signs and bumper stickers about Jesus Saves or something, about what did it say in the book of Matthew? They no longer sell those things. Was it just me, or did enough people make it clear this was not acceptable? No idea, but it's nice to not have that mess in my face when I go in.

blubunyip

(219 posts)
62. Yes
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:47 PM
May 14

He is supporting MAGA propaganda. Therefore he is MAGA. At this point, there is no other way to see it. He could come up with a compromise, but it's easier not to. I bet he has some customers who are tired of Fux and would welcome a change.

Polybius

(20,470 posts)
64. I think the best compromise is to put on CNN and MSNBC to go along with Fox
Thu May 15, 2025, 01:06 AM
May 15

Put on the big three news channels. Probably someone would still be bothered, but can't please 'em all.

whopis01

(3,851 posts)
65. Not voting and playing Fox News
Thu May 15, 2025, 05:21 AM
May 15

is definitely vhoosing to be part of the problem.

The “punishment” people are talking about in this thread is choosing to not do business with a place that is MAGA or promoting MAGA propaganda.

In your example the business owner said that playing Fox News is “what the customers want”. By his reasoning, if I don’t want to have Fox News playing, I must not be a customer.

He is actively catering to a certain slice of potential customers based on their political views. I, likewise, will choose to spend my money at a certain slice of businesses based on their political views and related actions.

To me this sounds like a very mutual agreement where he isn’t interested in my concerns as a customer and I am not interested in doing business with him.

If you want to call that a “punishment” on my part you are, of course, free to do so.


Initech

(105,583 posts)
23. Excellent! Everyone needs to do this.
Wed May 14, 2025, 12:39 PM
May 14

I stopped going to a restaurant down the street from my house because they have Fox News playing on 3 huge TVs in the place at all times. I didn't let them know why but I think that should be warranted. There's also a brewery not too far from me that I would normally go to, but because they advertise themselves as having "patriot values" and have fundraisers for MAGA politicians there, I avoid that place like the plague. Fight the power!

BidenRocks

(1,816 posts)
30. I walk in and
Wed May 14, 2025, 01:44 PM
May 14

If any tv is on Fox, Newsmax or OAN I turn around and leave.
I know I will get upset and drinks are too pricey to spend money on a bad time.
My tabs were $30 to $60 plus tip. Daily.
Since November it's been less than $80. Total.
Behold the power of chump.
Able to kill small business with his face!
$7 for a Stella 0.0

gab13by13

(28,765 posts)
24. Check out the Amish for gliders
Wed May 14, 2025, 12:41 PM
May 14

I bought a beautiful one for my front porch.

Here in central Pa. though.

AZLD4Candidate

(6,673 posts)
29. The Amish where I live are mostly trumpers. Even if they don't vote, they supprt.
Wed May 14, 2025, 01:29 PM
May 14

A lot of my father's clients are Amish.

AZLD4Candidate

(6,673 posts)
42. They beat their horses and abuse the dogs in their puppy mills. my parents shiba inu is an amish puppy mill rescue
Wed May 14, 2025, 04:15 PM
May 14

Warpy

(113,657 posts)
25. I got a wooden glider years ago at Target
Wed May 14, 2025, 12:53 PM
May 14

and I've seen metal ones at Wally's. You might also be able to find them at Lowe's or big box stores in your area we don't have in NM>

No big corporation is going to have clean hands, but most stores don't allow asshole employees to advertise their dumbfuckery out in the open.

Those signs really were offensive to anyone with a brain.

redstatebluegirl

(12,720 posts)
27. We stopped using a tire store in town
Wed May 14, 2025, 01:24 PM
May 14

because they kept fox news on 24-7. We also walked out of a car dealership when we saw a framed picture of the orange one behind the financial person's desk.

MIButterfly

(772 posts)
34. I went to the doctor the other day and sitting in the waiting room, I realized
Wed May 14, 2025, 02:28 PM
May 14

Last edited Wed May 14, 2025, 09:09 PM - Edit history (1)

that I haven't seen Fox News on any TV in public in years. Thank goodness! They all seem to have ESPN; GSN; HGTV, etc. on these days. It's a refreshing change for sure.

Butterflylady

(4,489 posts)
32. I don't give a lot of recommendations out, but....
Wed May 14, 2025, 02:00 PM
May 14

You deserve one, just wish I could give more.

MIButterfly

(772 posts)
33. Good for you.
Wed May 14, 2025, 02:20 PM
May 14

I applaud your actions, not only canceling your order but telling them why. It's bad enough we have to hear about Trump's stupid ideas every single day, but seeing people mimic them when we're out and about is just a step too far, in my opinion.

I'm so sorry about your brother.

IndyPepper

(45 posts)
36. This is how we fight back
Wed May 14, 2025, 03:22 PM
May 14

I lost three uncles who died fighting to preserve our freedoms. They all died before I was born and I am named after one of them, something I am extremely proud of. I never had to serve, so I try to carry on their legacy by fighting the good fight in the political realm. I am so upset and frustrated with the nonchalance so many Americans have toward preserving what so many have fought and died for. Good for you not only for cancelling your order, but for letting them know why. It may seem like a small contribution, but if we all do the same it can have an impact. So thank you.

wolfie001

(5,635 posts)
37. Just scratching the surface of a comfortably racist jobsite
Wed May 14, 2025, 03:25 PM
May 14

Spending all day blaming the Dems for all of America's problems. Might as well be a herd of pigs slopping around their pen.

Karasu

(1,557 posts)
43. They chose to openly show their fascism. It's 100% on them if they lose business.
Wed May 14, 2025, 04:58 PM
May 14

Fuck them.

Political beliefs are not an inherent part of who we are, they are something we choose and not a protected class, as much as modern Republicans all love to pretend that freedom of speech is freedom from consequence.

nwliberalkiwi

(402 posts)
50. Small Town Resistance
Wed May 14, 2025, 07:44 PM
May 14

Went to the local movie theater here in a small town. Guy taking tickets with a MAGA hat on. Talked to the owner about why my wife and I will not return to her business. She stated that it was her right, and I agreed that it was her right, but I said that it was my right not to support her position and that we were no longer supporting her business. Also said that we would inform other people not to patronize her business.

Abolishinist

(2,636 posts)
59. Good for you.
Wed May 14, 2025, 09:50 PM
May 14

And it's not like movie theaters are a thriving business. I'm in a large city and many are closing, one we used to attend with around 14 screens closed last month. I would think it would have to be much worse in a small-town.

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
52. Awful, good thing you cancelled it 🤗
Wed May 14, 2025, 07:50 PM
May 14

At first I thought you meant maga were fighting each other there 😹

Dem4life1970

(931 posts)
54. Thank you for resisting...
Wed May 14, 2025, 07:58 PM
May 14
MAGA are finding out that we are not without power. We will put our money where our mouth is...

Jack Valentino

(2,773 posts)
63. Let the MAGGOTS BUY their own goddamned furniture!!!!
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:58 PM
May 14

(Maybe should have asked them to prove that their products did not originate from Mexico or Canada, just for good measure....
(("not that there's anything wrong with that", but the maggot KING would think so!)) )


As patriots and Democrats, I think we should only be making any purchases which are "absolutely necessary"
at this time in our history---- I am doing my best to NOT support "the Trump economy" through the purchase of products...

Down to necessities here (except for the purchase of a new shortwave pirate radio transmitter,
but all that money went to ENGLAND! LOL)




Emile

(35,786 posts)
66. Thank you! Fascists are finding out there are consequences for bad behavior.
Thu May 15, 2025, 05:49 AM
May 15

Musk is finding that out with Tesla.

Yellowdog88

(68 posts)
67. Thanks for listing the company
Thu May 15, 2025, 07:07 AM
May 15

They just got a tweet to check on their company position on the topic:


Yellowdog🌵🇺🇸🏐🦮
@puddyellow88
Seems a shitty business decision to allow salespeople to plainly display “canada 51st state” material in full view of customers.

Does the company endorse annexing canada or taking it by force?

Aussie105

(7,091 posts)
68. Any business that shows a political bend . . .
Thu May 15, 2025, 08:00 AM
May 15

should report to the nearest hospital, to get that gunshot wound in their feet seen to.

You are going to piss off a lot of customers, no matter which way you lean!

Response to PittBlue (Original post)

CrispyQ

(39,950 posts)
71. FYI: Penzy's spice company has taken a bold anti-Republican Party stance.
Thu May 15, 2025, 10:46 AM
May 15

Here's a recent commentary by the president of the company, where he's clear they are against the party, not individuals, & his objections are clearly spelled out, not just some line on a receipt. Of course, most repubs/cult won't bother to read it, so it's preaching to the choir, but he makes some good points.

https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/

snip...

What does any of this mean? Going forward we would still be glad to have you as customers, but we’re done pretending the Republican Party’s embrace of cruelty, racism, Covid lies, climate change denial, and threats to democracy are anything other than the risks they legitimately are. If you need us to pretend you are not creating the hurt you are creating in order for you to continue to be our customer, I’m sad to say you might be happier elsewhere.

If on the other hand you still want the best spices and don’t need us to respect what you now vote for to be our customer, Hooray! We are happy to have you here, but know that we will, on a regular basis, try to wake you up from this dream that has you believing there is anything conservative left at all to what the Republican Party has become. We can and will work without Republicans to solve the problems we face, but it sure would be nice to get back to a time where Republicans were equal defenders of equality, the environment, and democracy. We look forward to that day.


GoneOffShore

(17,836 posts)
74. Because I'm a cranky lad with lots of time on my hands, I went looking for these guys on Google Maps
Thu May 15, 2025, 11:42 AM
May 15

There are locations at:
1 in Cleveland
2 in Euclid at the same address
1 in Macedonia
2 in North Canton at the same address

Might I suggest that you look at the store you went to, post a review as to why you didn't buy, and see if the owner responds.

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