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The “we love this country so much we want to destroy it” crowd is back at it.
An effort to encourage U.S. consumers to participate in a day of protest by not spending money Friday has picked up momentum online, with thousands of people across social media saying they plan to take part in the “economic blackout.”
Started roughly a month ago by John Schwarz, a Chicago-area meditation and mindfulness educator, the idea has taken off on social media, where searches for the term surface hundreds of posts of people sharing screenshots of infographics and encouraging others to participate in the protest. Google’s search data shows queries for “economic blackout” have surged in recent days.
“Don’t buy stuff on February 28,” author Stephen King posted on Bluesky. “Money’s the only thing these d—- understand.”
Actors John Leguizamo and Bette Midler have shared similar sentiments in recent days to their social media accounts.
While I’m sure King has a team of money managers investing his cash, have he and other celebs actually considered the impact that economic problems would have on a field that depends on disposable income?
Unlike, say food, shelter and medicine, people don’t actually need to buy whatever drivel King puts out these days. Or watch whatever John Leguizamo is doing. (Subway commercials, guest appearances on random TikTok accounts.)
And, speaking of useless things that people don’t actually need, NBC News, which decided to promote this, is the loss leader for an entertainment company that Comcast is spinning off into, I believe, SpinCo. That’s because the cable and network model is collapsing and Comcast, which happens to be in the cable business, no longer sees a bright future for it.
Let’s say this ‘economic blackout’ happens, how many more people will decide to dump cable to cut costs?
The last time this crowd ginned up a disaster in 2020, the film industry collapsed and the media cut more jobs than DOGE. Are they really this committed to taking down Trump that they want a repeat?
GOOD….more eggs at the market for patriots!
Eggs-actly!!!
Liberal Celebs – AKA : The Walking Dead
Thousands of attention seeking dorkmos on social media, which suck, by the way, are going to participate in an economic “blackout?” Yeah right, the 330 million of us who are citizens and the 50 million plus illegal aliens are going to be left in the dark. Derp.
“Let’s try to punish ordinary Americans by boycotting the peace and prosperity provided by President Trump! They’ll thank us for it!” YUGE DERP.
And Steven King, John Leguizamo and Bette Midler aren’t exactly high profile celebrities, much less influential. Steven King has a good writing style but his stories suck and he’s a weirdo from Maine, the second worst D-Bag, atheist state in the country next to Vermont and its Bernout Sandernista fetish.
John Leguizamo is a third rate Disney cartoon character and most people don’t even know Bette Middler exists. Is she still alive?
I liked his first movie “Christine” I think it was called. I saw it on late night TV which I used to watch in those days. Still makes me laugh to think about it 🙂
I haven’t seen that but he was good in “Chef,” which is an excellent movie.
“Christine” was the one about the car that repairs itself if it gets damaged 🙂
That’s what I was thinking but John Leguizamo wasn’t in it. It was that guy who played Rodney Dangerfield’s son in “Back to School.” (A comedy classic along with “Easy Money.”.)
As the sloth JL is an incredible cartoon voice
Yeah, “Sid.” I was wrong, the “Ice Age” movies aren’t Disney, they’re made by Blue Sky Studios, which is why they’re good movies for kids, like Disney’s used to be long ago. I saw a couple of them. Parents could sit through one at a theater with their kids. There were no trannies, gay teens or Mary Sues. There was a dumb guy character though – the John Leguizamo one, actually. The aforementioned “Sid.”
CARRIE, and THE SHINING, both the books and the films, both came before CHRISTINE. I enjoyed the film of DOCTOR SLEEP, but couldn’t get into the book.
“second worst D-Bag, atheist state in the country next to Vermont” Maine and Vermont? Yeah, they’re blue state hell-holes to be sure, but I’m not sure if they’re the worst.
Living in Illinois, I can attest to our claims on the #1 or #2 spots. We have the most per capita residents leaving the state almost every year. Bet the Maine folks can’t brag on a statistic like that.
And then there’s California! Governor Newsome on his own propels that leftcoast state to one of the top two spots. They lead in an unusual statistic – highest number of people who move to a state, and then soon after, move OUT of the state. Need I say more? Consider the losers that CA send to Congress.
Hey, I consider atheist states among the worst but I’m willing to believe Vermont and Maine could be equaled by Illinois and California as the worst overall states. I live in California and have to deal every day with its illegitimate, incompetent and insane rule by the Dirtbagocrat party, so I sympathize with the normal people in Illinois.
Grease head Newscum can’t be reelected as Governor and has no chance to become President, so he’s staking his future political career on some stupid podcast that nobody watch. He had his entire political career handed to him by the Getty and Pelosi crime families, so his podcast campaign is hilarious, in a very bad way.
Of course, Governor Pickzer is even dumber, because he thinks he has a chance to become President.
Who’s next in the delusion Department? Karen Ass and Brandumb Johnson? One wants to burn America down and the other wants to burn crosses on white people’s lawns.
I can not believe I ever liked any of King’s books.
He’s a walking waste of space.
Like many writers, among them the British thriller writer Gerald Seymour, he slipped into formula and his once-gripping work got boring
Could somebody please explain how this is ultimately nothing more than moral preening? (Another word related to self-pleasure comes to mind–but this is a family-friendly website.) Okay–so don’t buy any stuff today. Then tomorrow–or Sunday or Monday or whenever–go out and buy all the stuff that you would have bought today. Ultimately–what’s the effect? And then there are those who will see this as a wonderful opportunity to engage in a “buycott” and who will go out and deliberately spend money in order to make this action look like an abject failure. Come to think of it, this could be some fiendish plot by Snidely Whiplash and all the rest of corporate America to get people to overspend today.
Stephen King is highly overrated. The mewling fool was doing drugs non-stop for inspiration, so whenever one reads his crap, thank the cocain – the real author.
(King himself admitted that his chronic drug use was necessary for writing material.)
Cocaine, eh? What a vile drug. Good enough for Colombian cartels but not for real Americans. No wonder King is such a weirdo.
Stevie Nicks destroyed her septum with Cocaine. I had a friend who did that also.
Yikes! I had mine destroyed in a fight with a couple scumbags and that was bad enough. I wonder if Nicks sings through her nose now? Too bad. I love the stuff she did with Fleetwod Mac and her solo career was O.K.
I chick I ran around with recently smoked something she said was cocaine and claimed it helped ease her arthritis. I told her she should stick to weed, which she also smokes, because it has proved health benefits. That weird stuff she smoked was one of the reasons I left because she got all obsessive and would spend a long time on mindless minutiae, like all amphetamine users do. It was too annoying to deal with although not as irritating as the chick who stole from me or the one who would try to smoke whatever it was during sex and then manically clean my already clean apartment.
I can’t think of a single benefit amphetamines provide. Just drink some coffee, bitches. I just thought that last word and didn’t say it, though. Like I told you, you can’t call a black chick a bitch, and a Mexican one might pull a knife on you. It works on white and Asian ones, though.
I don’t care if they spend money or not. What I really fear is if they would take a vow of silence until Trump is gone. MAGA would crumble without their vocal defense of the rape and murder of young women by illegal aliens, who also get free rent and spending money, funding of transgender operas in Namibia, men beating the shit out of women in sports, starting and funding wars, and calling moms “inseminated persons”. If they went silent that would be a very harsh punishment indeed, please don’t give them any ideas.
I’ll be spending money today….at my local shooting range. 10 bucks for all day and lunch at Chilis. That plus the gas it takes to drive the 25 miles. I figure around 40 bucks for a nice day. Not bad at all. And no libs to whine about it. GFY weenies.
Am I tired of winning? Hell no. Promises made, promises kept. And we are only a little over a month in.
Cool name, plus a cool post.
Awhile back, I got to make use of an open range on a ranch in east Texas.
After each day of working to install two electrical panels, I’d retire to sight in my pistol & bullpup 12 gauge.
So, in a way, I got paid to ready my weapons, and have company/dinner with the staunch conservative family that hired me. (A nice respite from crying liberal weenies.)
Good times.
Now, we’re in better times (unless you’re Joy Reid, Samantha Powers, or a sky-rocketing number of ex-gov’t employees.)
It was a good day. Brought my P365 9MM and my Win Mod 70 30-06. Then lunch at Chilis…..a big fat bacon cheese burger w/fries. Listened to Bongino for the ride home.
Not too shabby.
I’m gonna hold my breath and stomp my feet until turn blue, unless I get my way. It always worked for 2 year olds and it will sure work for the defeated and delusional dems who refuse to accept they lost the election and no longer control the country. Go ahead…see if anybody who actually matters….like the majority of US voters, gives a flying file finger of fate. .
Musk already not spending slush money
They are actually very much the minority, with the bullhorn of the media. I think we can all quite safely ignore them.
Yes, they were a sixty second segment on the evening fake news and they’ve already been forgotten.
The election proved that Americans don’t trust the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders anymore and reject the Liberal Left Government Controlled Media
Attention America: Save your money. That’ll fix’em!
I am still going to spend some Money Today and these pathetic little Bean Pickers can Go Pound Sand
What I don’t get is what makes those rich liberal celebs think that their opinions matter? To whom? Certainly not average Americans who don’t give a crap what those dimwitted fools think nor pay any attention to them.
Their arrogance is as astounding as it is disgusting. If they wanted to do something meaningful, they would all self delete.
I think Bette Midler already did self delete.
These wretched prima donnas are going to die tired from aimlessly running around for so darn long.
Anyone going to shed a tear for them? Anyone” Anyone at all?
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I didn’t think so.
Dems have shown us time and time again that they will gladly sabotage the economy for political advantage. Leftists prefer to work for government or nonprofits/NGOs anyway, because they hate capitalism and the private sector. They’re happy to live well off the bounty of capitalism, they just don’t want to contribute anything to it.
I had to run errands and shop after work today. I was hoping for sparse crowds but the stores were pretty busy, so the leftists seem to have failed.
As if the horrible, disgusting, satanic novels written by this weird-looking author were not enough, now we are supposed to listen to his political rantings? Please, get real Mr. King, no one cares!