Somehow The Country Kept Shopping While Anti-Trump/Musk Activists Called For ‘Economic Blackout Day’
“I will fill my truck up with gas today, go to Walmart, then to Best Buys and finally stop at McDonalds for lunch. Then go shopping on Amazon when I get home. The woke left is supposed to boycott those places today. “
Oftentimes, when the activist left stage their public temper tantrums protests, they do so in such a way as to promote maximum disruption in people’s everyday lives.
We’ve seen them do it at malls, shopping centers, and more recently, Tesla showrooms. They’ve done it with marches and “sit-ins” in the streets—where sometimes drivers have been confronted and harassed. They’ve also targeted highways and manufacturing facilities, with the especially whacked-out contingent actually sitting in front of running transfer trucks, practically daring drivers to run over them.
And let’s not forget their airport blockades as well as their little encampments, like the deadly CHAZ encampment in Seattle during the George Floyd riots and the antisemitic ones we’ve seen at liberal bastions like Columbia University after the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
But in response to President Donald Trump’s war on DEI and how some corporations like Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Best Buy have responded accordingly, pro-DEI woketivists organized a different kind of protest, one in which they called for shopping boycotts at certain stores and online:
A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money Friday as an act of “economic resistance” to protest what the group’s founder sees as the malign influence of billionaires, big corporations and both major political parties on the lives of working Americans.
The People’s Union USA calls the 24 hours of spending abstinence set to start at midnight an “economic blackout,” a term that has since been shared and debated on social media. The activist movement said it also plans to promote weeklong consumer boycotts of particular companies, including Walmart and Amazon.
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The planned blackout is scheduled to run from 12 a.m. EST through 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday. The activist group advised customers to abstain from making any purchases, whether in store or online, but particularly not from big retailers or chains. It wants participants to avoid fast food and filling their car gas tanks, and says shoppers with emergencies or in need of essentials should support a local small business and try not to use a credit or debit card.
Some Americans are planning a 24-hour spending blackout this Friday, February 28. The boycott targets major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy as they roll back their DEI practices. pic.twitter.com/uT4JCVp9yO
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 27, 2025
Tomorrow’s the day! The Economic Blackout is happening, and we’re making our impact felt.
Plan ahead and spread the word
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— Tiffany Aliche (@TheBudgetnista) February 28, 2025
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Comedienne Paula Poundstone was among those participating:
You’re literally flying on an airplane, and assuming you’ll be driving in a car and staying in a hotel.
But starve yourself to own Donald Trump
So brave. So stunning. https://t.co/IlnycZHFog
— Amy Curtis
(@RantyAmyCurtis) February 28, 2025
While I haven’t seen reports of any stores looking like ghost towns, there were many other reports of people choosing the day to shop more than they normally do since it would be peaceful for a change.
Such as this TikTokker:
“Let me get this straight. You’re telling me that for one whole day, we get no one screaming about being misgendered in public, no one throwing a tantrum over a MAGA hat, no one holding up the line to speak to the manager…and no one insulting our Jewish neighbors, conservative minorities, Christians?”
“So what I’m hearing is that February 28th is about to be the most peaceful shopping day in American history. While they’re sitting at home pouting, we’ll be supporting American businesses, tipping our servers, and having a liberal free day of shopping. This sounds like a WIN-WIN to me.””
Today is the Lib’s economic blackout day.
"Let me get this straight. You're telling me that for one whole day, we get no one screaming about being misgendered in public, no one throwing a tantrum over a MAGA hat, no one holding up the line to speak to the manager…and no one… pic.twitter.com/Nq7UIPQMPg
— SweetPeaBelle (@SweetPeaBell326) February 28, 2025
The libs are planning an economic boycott tomorrow. You know what that means? We can go shopping, out to dinner and maybe see a movie in peace.
— Beer Drinking Army Vet (@thomas_garrard) February 27, 2025
good morning x!!! Today I will fill my truck up with gas today, go to Walmart, then to best buys and finally stop at McDonalds for lunch. then go shopping on Amazon when I get home. The woke left is supposed to boycott those places today. Anyway, Have a great Friday. pic.twitter.com/N26GSwqygB
— Robbie Avants (@RobbieA45578) February 28, 2025
Good Friday, I hope your Friday vibes are to shop till you drop and enjoy a dinner out. The liberals are staying home today in the great boycott. pic.twitter.com/FzxfncSDx9
— USMC Lady Vet
(@Arkypatriot) February 28, 2025
Who is going shopping on Friday, February 28th?
The libs are trying to boycott and "hurt" the economy.
I'll be shopping for food.pic.twitter.com/drk9Oj6fUv
— LBMenefee (@LBMenefee) February 26, 2025
So these miserable democrats are planning this big "economic blackout" on Friday, February 28th. Apparently, they’re refusing to spend a single dime all day to protest the current administration. Yep, it’s another one of those lousy tantrums we’ve been watching unfold ever since… pic.twitter.com/680JATmawM
—
𝓐𝓷𝓷 𝓲𝓼 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽
What a joke. Wokeholes waiting til Saturday to buy things they might have bought on Friday!! #EconomicBoycott pic.twitter.com/Ij1Ifh0w5a
— The Beloved Debs (@McDebida) February 28, 2025
In case there was any question that economic illiteracy is a problem, the people advocating an economic boycott on Friday DID THEIR SHOPPING YESTERDAY.
https://t.co/fz0rlH4tIl pic.twitter.com/FIfQ7cqClc
— Roxanne Hoge (@RoxanneHoge) February 28, 2025
The funny part about the so called economic blackout is that the spike from people going to the store to prepare for the 24 hour boycott will be bigger than the dip from the boycott
— Anthony Brian Logan (ABL)
I had several items in my Amazon cart that I planned on ordering Thursday night. Purposely waited until Friday to hit the order button. Also got some fast food and gas. Will also mark the below “economic blackout” days on my calendar to make sure I do a little extra shopping at some point during them, too:
The Peoples Union USA. Economic Blackout. NATIONWIDE. Feb. 28th and after, additional buy-nothing days, some of which are targeted to specific sectors/companies.
For decades, they have told us that we are powerless! We are going to remind them who has the power! #peoplespower pic.twitter.com/g8ajPIJtmp— People4Peace (@MAEVEJOY63) February 22, 2025
So dumb. But thankfully, an endless source of material.
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Comments
Boycott buying because only rich white straight males own fast food franchises, gas stations or work for Amazon. The stupid hurts.
Well maybe these “activist” welfare dollars will last a little longer.
We just did our monthly shopping on Friday instead of Saturday.
We already use mostly locally owned businesses. The self important children can do what they please and we will do similarly. It’s not anyone else’s business where The Bride and I shop.
By the way, we hit Publix on the 28th. It was busy as usual so somebody else either doesn’t care or they didn’t get the memo.
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Did all my shopping yesterday. The stores seemed normally crowded to me
Huh, I went to the box store and bought a few hundred bucks worth of pressure treated lumber. Looked as busy as always. My wife told me about the boycott last night and it was the first I heard about it. Fr0m my drive around I didn’t notice any drop off in store traffic or protesters on the sidewalks.
I did my part by placing the amazon order yesterday I may have normally waited on. Not much, but I don’t shop a lot anyway.
I spent a bit over a grand yesterday, Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, Ace Hardware.
Now I was angry for years, but things are looking much better with Trump. Every day has been exciting, and fun reading about how excited people on the left have become.
F;g morons. They should boycott having children to cull the herd,
Why would they
… do that when they can murder them instead?
Activists did a protest of the local Tesla dealership last Sunday. We had a blast on their Facebook page because that Tesla dealership is closed on Sunday. Another protest is planned for today. If I could afford one I probably wouldn’t go buy one today anyways.
On a lark, I went to the local Tesla showroom to demo a new Launch Model Y Juniper to see if I would be satisfied with it (it would be my third) when it finally is delivery day.
I was impressed by the number of protesters masquerading as shoppers to get the old inventory Model Y’s off the lot so others couldn’t buy them………………………….
Hollywood not included, apparently.
A “blackout” so DEI really is all about color no matter what their apologists say.
Only progressives are so economically illiterate as to believe a one-day pause in their buying patterns will cause even a particle of distress to the “billionaires” and corporations they normally patronize.
It is precisely the same motive and has exactly the same effect as when your 4 year-old gets mad at you, crosses her arms and stomps off into the next room as she shouts “I’m not talking to you anymore!”.
To add to the savoriness of their stupidity – February, after Valentines Day is the slowest retail period of the year … well chosen idiots!
Note well that these are the same people that tried to grow food in Portland in that stupid protest that they had. They’re the very epitome of the organic gardener – agronomically inept and blind to basic economics – all the while sneering at the farmer in Iowa harvesting their food with a million dollar combine.
They’ve run their course, in my humble opinion, I think that the revelation that we were financially supporting these kooks with USAID money funneled through NGOs tells me that their funding has dried up and that they’re going to have to get real jobs now.
And thank God for that.
Thanks for reminding me that I need to go to the Montavilla farmers market and get a $5 apple, not.
Well, this was sure well promoted. I had to wait to find out about it from LI a day after it was over. DW spent all Friday scouring over throwaway items at a Freecycle event, and I spent a grand total of $1.39 on Amazon. I feel so dirty.
Paula Poundstone, such a pioneer. She was trans BEFORE it was cool.
All bark, no bite.
Ignoring them, treating them as invisible is what really gets their goat. All they are after is a reaction from onlookers.
It was like black friday here. Guess the tantrum didn’t work.
Did an Amazon order last night, earlier I secured more bourbon plus picked up prescriptions for myself and the smaller dog.
Sorry!!! Never heard a thing about it.
Heh heh! Ha ha! Bwa hahahahaha!!!
Sorry!!! In’t stop laughing
this is just too good to be true.
I remember when it was “wear blue jeans to support gays” day. Too bad no one thought of a “hold your breath to support Biden/Harris” day.
“Blue Dudes for Kamala”