Cash money.
Jeff bezos- owns amazon. Just announced the Wa. Post editorial page will only carry his opinions. Nobody else.

Today, I closed my amazon accounts. Put my amazon card on freeze. In the comment section asking how his AI assistant worked for me. Asking why i gave a zero score. I mentioned i would be closing all of my amazon accounts due to his wa. Post stance. I also stated "Luigi went after the wrong greedy guy. Is the correct target a Bezo?"

A few months back, in another amazon survey, i mentioned a Luigi Manzione copycat should visit Mr. Bezos. Since then- In the past week, suddenly i see Amazon PR ads popping up about what a great place to work it is. $22 per hour & health care available( group care that employees can purchase, but that part is not mentioned).

Will it make a difference ? My 14.99 membership and a 2.99 add on for ad free prime viewing.
Nope. Thats 2¢ shy of $18 per month and im certainly not going to be the next luigi. I dont even kill spiders & flies bc of the " thou shall not kill" commandment.
Ha! I know that part is a bit weird. Still, i believe in all religion. Buddhists try not to kill anything. The native cultures only killed what they needed for survival. Christianity, Judaism & the Muslim Quran all have the same commandment- thou shall not kill w/o specifying the meaning, mostly understood in modern times as pertaining only to human life. I digress- but wanted to clarify. Its not the peta stance- altho- if you worked in the industry. You know 1sthand the cruel conditions. Worse pehaps,p I am guilty of eating critters that are raised & processed inside these "factories". So im a hypocrite that chooses to push that aspect mostly out of mind.

Back to mynpoint- my 18 bucks and toothless threat at Bezos?
He could not care less.
Yet- if 100 did so. And told a friend. Which turned into a thousand. And it continued to gain traction?

Sigh. Its a small thing. And to hold Walmart up as the culturally responsible alternative? Wow- thats cringe worthy.

I think we lost these battles long ago. When the country turned against as union boys in favor if union free cheap labor to allow us to buy increasingly lower quality crap food products and pure junk we buy on a whim.

Still. Its time. To stand up. Today is supposed to be a day of consumer protest. Where we do not buy anything. Let Wall Street take notice that we the powerless. Stand with our powerless govt workforce getting gutted by an illegal south african immigrant guy afflicted with a mental illness that leaves him incapable of empathy or remorse F- Elon.
What an appropriate name. Im not on X or id be cancelling that too
Tossing a lit 5g gas can at a Tesla Dealership. That could be a future pathway. What they gonna do. Imprison me for the last 90 days im alive?

That would make for some good "gone viral on X" Schtick. Or maybe the next tik tok challenge.

I had a similar argument back in the day when my union was being busted. Protesting & picketing resolves nothing. Only Violence aimed at the powerful gets noticed in a real way.
The 60's revolution was ended via violence. Mlk, jfk, Bobby K. Malcom X. The BP party infiltrated and the leadership dies in atf raids that went wrong. Those raids didnt go wrong.
Fred Hampton, Mark Clark. KIA! for the cause. Angela Davis & Bobby Seale then went into hidding for a few years ...

What did "peaceful" protest get any of them-
Die young- leave a beautiful corpse. Thats the only thing accomplished.

What did Violent protest gain on Jan 6?
You see the answer all around us.

This the the moment. If we dont act in some way meaningful. Peacefull protest will die off as just noise. I see 2 options. Violence aimed at the oligarchs or financial boycott of their cash streams.

At the end of the day. Im all bluster. A coward at heart. I literally can not hurt a fly. I wish instead- LOVE could truly conquer all. Unfortunately, all that accomplishes is making the "lover" a "sucker". A mark.

Thats ok. Id rather be a sucker than a Bezos, a Trump or a fELON. God has done for me as promised. He has provided. A well lived life. Full of adventure and laughter. Idk that id suggest my path to anyone. Integrity is a difficult value to hold above all else. It certainly doesnt win many friends.

I made my silly stand today. In doing so. I really feel powerless & impotent. It also feels so very pointless to have as heroes a bunch of young death idealists. Our world truly is, has evolved to this spot. Where it is built upon and owned by the most ruthless and least empathic amongst us. That is a tremendous hurdle for the righteous to overcome.

The answer is clear to me. It should be onvious to all. In the 1700's- the devil at the door was named "TYRANNY". The Tyrant was King George. In 2025, Tyranny again knocks at the front door. It is again a king. His sycophants cower in fear of retribution. His powerless enemies attempt to peacefully stand against him. Who will light the match at the boston tea party/ Tesla dealership?
Who will re-establish "The Sons Of Liberty"? Don the Mohawk headress? Where is our Crispus Atticus in this moment? In 2025, is such a move even sustainable or does it die in vain. A victim of the never ending news cycle flood.

On the other hand. If everyone that doesnt like whats going on. Behaves how we did during the pandemic. Stops spending money on anything not a bare neccesity. And this time. What they do purchase us only from locally owned providers. If we cut the bezos stream. Stop air travel & vacationing to distant places. Instead show up en-masse at national parks & museums. Do everything in our consumer powers to crush wall street. I think- that is not only heard but sustainable.

Hit 'em where their hearts are. Directly at their wads of ill gotten cash.
Boycott corporate America. They are the ones that actually call the shits. Trump is doing their bidding. Not ours. Their is already concern- tune in to Bloomberg, that trump might be creating a recession. American citizens. We Dems & Indies. We can turn that "might be a recession" into a Holy Shit, revenue has crashed- wall street shreik. " THE RECESSION IS COMING, THE RECESSION IS COMING.
Thats 1776 enough for me. Doable & sustainable.

Trump thinks we dems & indies are weak.
Are we?