Thanks, Danielle, for the heads up.
In last week's post, I learned of this little protest: #TheIdesOfTrump. The plan is to send postcards to the White House, mailing them on March 15th, expressing our displeasure with the current administration.
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Now, where does one acquire postcards...? (Not really a question.)
And make sure you're contacting your representatives. I keep hearing good things about 5 Calls. They help you find your reps and provide scripts.
Also, we're boycotting Target over their abandonment of DEI policies. For Lent.
What other protests are out there? Any other boycotts? Let me know.
Thanks for sharing, I'm out of the loop!
ReplyDeleteI am too, for the most part.
DeleteI one doesn't know where to get postcards, the post offices have postal cards. They are pre-stamped postcards. No pretty images of course, but easy to get. Contacting our representatives is such a good idea. Mine already keep in contact with me via email (not personally!), and are on "my side" already. Target? I can't remember last time I was there. But, just for Lent? To me, if you feel strongly enough about the issue, you wouldn't shop there at all. To limit it to just those 40 days sounds like virtue signaling to me. Day 41, back to Target.
ReplyDeleteIt's still a good idea to contact your reps. Even just "thank you for voting the way you did". Positive feedback counteracts those that might be contacting them to complain.
DeleteMy Senators are Chuck a Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. I think we all know where they stand,
ReplyDeleteBut they've been voting for things that they shouldn't be. Both my senators are dems as well, but I need to yell at Schiff for some of the things he's been doing. (Padilla isn't as bad, but he's voted yes on things he shouldn't have.)
DeleteMy Senators are the same as Songbird's. For a change, our congressman is not a member of Trump's party. I only know about the various blackouts (like the Amazon blackout this week) and from what I've read online, they are only having minimum impacts. I suspect our President will never see the March 15 postcards and if he does see them, he will just use them as a prop in one of his speeches. Sadly, he may be the best user of manipulation alive in our country today.
ReplyDeleteIt'll make me feel good, though. I'll enjoy sending it. And just because your senators are Dems doesn't mean they aren't capitulating to the regime. Schumer especially isn't blocking as much as he could be.
DeleteI hadn't heard about this, good idea though.
ReplyDeletethecontemplativecat here. I boycotted Target 2 yrs. ago when the pride/trans displays were bigger than ones for holidays. I felt disrespected by the company's choices and policies.
ReplyDeleteThen you should be happy. They've reversed course.
DeleteI been lot more careful who I purchase things. I need socks and I'm going to Walmart. Yes, and I know Walmart is conservable. I won't get any hanes or fruit of loom socks.
ReplyDeleteGreat that some of you are thinking of #TheIdesOfTrump.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if enough of us will. We'll see.
DeleteThis is Birgit. I love this idea. We are boycotting anything made in the States which is not easy. I post anything I find funny or accurate about Resident Rump. I am a proud Canadian
ReplyDeleteSadly, only half of us seem to realize the danger we're in. As we slide into fascism. (We're there. They made a permanent resident "disappear".)
DeleteI have about 100 postcards ready to go on Saturday, and am hoping to get a few more done over the next couple of days. There's the Amazon boycott this week, and a few more coming up over the next month or so.
ReplyDeleteI saw where someone above called the 40 day Target boycott virtue signaling, but I kind of like the idea of shorter boycotts at first. It's hard to suddenly change shopping and spending habits, and doing it for a specified time period makes it more manageable. No one is saying run out and spend 40 days' worth of money at Target on the 41st day.
We can only do what we can do. And if it's known that a boycott is happening, and the company sees the dip in profits in that time, they might be more prone to reversing course on whatever it is that's being protested. If they see consumer anger.
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