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highplainsdem

(49,138 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:42 PM Jun 2018

Shaub: Boycott Trump properties/products until ALL the children are returned





What would it take to get people/businesses/charities to refuse to patronize Trump owned/branded properties/products until all the children are returned? Could we shun or boycott anyone who fails to do this? Or would that make no difference because we’ve already been doing that?
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Shaub: Boycott Trump properties/products until ALL the children are returned (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2018 OP
Well, we need to know saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #1
That's a bad strategy because there exist enough deplorables to keep patronizing Trump properties RockRaven Jun 2018 #2
I say boycott trump junk anyway.. Cha Jun 2018 #3

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
1. Well, we need to know
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:54 PM
Jun 2018

where rump and the GOP are getting the biggest undisclosed contributions to their coffers. Evidence may show that Putie's Puppets know who bankrolls them and act accordingly.

RockRaven

(15,105 posts)
2. That's a bad strategy because there exist enough deplorables to keep patronizing Trump properties
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:00 AM
Jun 2018

as long as the only thing it costs said deplorables is money... BUT...

What needs to be boycotted are any *people* who still patronize Trump properties/products. THEY need to be social pariahs and outcasts. THEY need to be shunned and shamed.

Only when they get jeered in trendy restaurants or even turned away, denied (whatever) at (their religious site), shunned by their neighbors, get cold-shouldered out of the school carpool, etc. will any kind of Trump property boycott have legs.

Social embarrassment, shunning by the cool kids, that is what changes how people act. It's not the most mature, high-brow ideal, but it is pretty effective.

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