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An Open Letter to Businesses Interested in a Novel and Dynamic New Market
1/23/2021 | me

Posted on 01/23/2021 9:13:18 AM PST by dirtboy

75 million. Seventy-five million, if not more. That is the potential market for existing companies and start-ups that reject cancel culture and freely open their products and services to Trump supporters.

And it’s more than just a wide-open market that awaits. We are dedicated and loyal customers who will aggressively fight any efforts to shut you down and reward you for standing tall against the cancel mob.

Ask Chick-fil-A and Goya about their sales growth after liberal boycott attempts. Just being pro-Trump (or even neutral in the face of political correctness) will all-but-guarantee liberal boycott efforts and the resultant sales boost that comes with such.

Heck, there is a BBQ chain down here in Texas that had Rep. Castro calling for a boycott after revealing the owner donated to Trump. The drive-through lanes were subsequently jammed for months. I drove 30 miles to patronize their nearest location.

Conversely, look at Kohls and Bed, Bath and Beyond. They cancelled My Pillow products in their stores and on their websites. In response, I just bought two pillows from the My Pillow website even though I didn’t really need new pillows. And I am certain that there are many more like me.

And beyond that, I will never spend a dime at those two chains as well. And I am looking for other places, friendly or at least neutral to Trump supporters, where I can spend my money that used to go to those shortsighted businesses.

75 million wallets await.

Become. That. Business.


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1 posted on 01/23/2021 9:13:18 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

Those 75 million people will soon find themselves unemployable and on government watch lists unable to pass security clearances or travel by air.


2 posted on 01/23/2021 9:20:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

No, IMO they will hunker down and wait for business to respond to the new opportunities presented by efforts at cancel culture. Then we will be able to fight back effectively.


3 posted on 01/23/2021 9:22:05 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: a fool in paradise

Yep, and any company that even thinks about being reasonable will at attacked by the mob until they grovel. CFA already did back down.


4 posted on 01/23/2021 9:22:06 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (We Must All Hang Together, or Most Assuredly, We Will All Hang Separately ~ Benjamin Franklin)
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To: dirtboy

I’m in. It’ll be like our own Shark Tank
. What kind of product or service are you thinking of? I’m an investor.


5 posted on 01/23/2021 9:25:15 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: dirtboy

Glad to see more news and less pointless vanities.


6 posted on 01/23/2021 9:25:42 AM PST by Shadylake
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To: a fool in paradise

May even be denied a chance at getting the CV19 vaccine saving it for more worthy ‘subjects’. I’ve already volunteered to let someone else have mine anyway. No entry to air travel? Don’t care. Flying days are over. Will TSA set up on Interstates to ensure folks using the FEDERAL highways have been vaccinated? Ya never know what evil lurks in the heart of the new sectrans, the former ‘mare’ of south bend(over). New taxes? You betcha!


7 posted on 01/23/2021 9:26:24 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed. Enlisted USN 1967.)
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To: Shadylake

Meanwhile according to Yahoo News Joe Biden got a new dog and Doctor Jill Biden baked a dozen cookies for 20,000 National Guardsmen.


8 posted on 01/23/2021 9:27:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: dirtboy

An open letter to dirtboy: personal ramblings do not belong in news. Move to chat.


9 posted on 01/23/2021 9:28:44 AM PST by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: rktman

>>Will TSA set up on Interstates to ensure folks using the FEDERAL highways have been vaccinated? Ya never know what evil lurks in the heart of the new sectran

Yes. Last year we already saw states closing their borders to interstate travel by non-essential travelers. “Papers please”.

We also so mandatory 2 week quarantines for out of state travelers even if they are healthy.

But the ACLU fought in court and won the right of Ebola exposed workers to ignore any quarantine in the USA.


10 posted on 01/23/2021 9:29:36 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

Well that sounds fair. Right?


11 posted on 01/23/2021 9:32:47 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed. Enlisted USN 1967.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Doctor jill didn’t bake anything. She has peeps that do that.


12 posted on 01/23/2021 9:34:01 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed. Enlisted USN 1967.)
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To: a fool in paradise
The government can attempt to put half the population out of work.

They will have a revolution on their hands.

Maybe that is what their Chicom masters want...

13 posted on 01/23/2021 9:34:45 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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From Snapple to Boll & Branch, with plenty of companies in between, Rush Limbaugh’s radio show was almost always successful as a route for people with new products to get their foot in the marketplace. If any of his 20+ million listeners had any interest at all in their product, they’d generally try it, partially out of their own interest and partially out of loyalty to Rush and the conservative cause. What you’re presenting here is spot on as a essentially a variation of that strategy, and any entrepreneur with any brains and the guts to stand up to the liberal blowback should be able to recognize that.


14 posted on 01/23/2021 9:35:21 AM PST by Stosh
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To: rktman

All vehicles will have to stop at the Chicken Coop when crossing state lines?


15 posted on 01/23/2021 9:36:02 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: rktman

One should always refer to Doctor Jill as Doctor of Education Jill - apparently she takes her title very, very seriously, and as such we should give her the courtesy of using that title in its fullest, most accurate sense. Also everyone knows that when it comes to academic degrees, one is hard-pressed to find anything more useful and more valuable than a doctorate in education.


16 posted on 01/23/2021 9:39:19 AM PST by Stosh
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To: a fool in paradise

Oh well.


17 posted on 01/23/2021 9:46:57 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Stosh

>>From Snapple to Boll & Branch, with plenty of companies in between, Rush Limbaugh’s radio show was almost always successful as a route for people with new products to get their foot in the marketplace.

Snapple and others found themselves the target of twitter protests by a dozen people with thousands of bots and they surrendered.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/13/limbaugh-and-the-great-snapple-war/

...To my surprise and disappointment, the plan to do away with Snapple ran into a couple of problems. The first of which was the 9-person union Executive Board. When word got out to the Board that—without so much as an informal vote, or a consultation, or even a courtesy heads-up—I had taken it upon myself to instruct the master-at-arms (the E-Board officer in charge of refreshments) to immediately discontinue purchasing Snapple, three E-board members jumped me.

One of them (“Linda”) objected because she turned out to be a regular Limbaugh listener herself. This blew my mind. Linda was smart and funny and an extremely credible and effective union officer. Her being a Limbaugh fan made no sense to me. Linda told me that she listened to Rush because she “wanted to keep an open mind” (implying that I was “close-minded”?) and because he was “honest” and “not afraid to tell the truth.”

Even though Linda and I had always gotten along well as Board members, she was furious that I’d let my own personal politics dictate union policy, and outraged that I would dare pull a stunt like this unilaterally. She made it clear that she felt betrayed. The other two E-Board members objected for lesser reasons. Apparently, they simply liked Snapple (particularly the grape flavor) and didn’t want to see it go away—not for something as trivial as sponsoring some crackpot radio show.

Things got more complicated when word was leaked to the factory floor (by Linda, I suspect), and the membership began a lively and undisciplined discussion of the issue. Not to denigrate the virtues of old-fashioned grass-roots involvement, but from a union officer’s practical point of view, this kind of “spontaneous democracy” is always scary. As it happened, there were a number of union members who listened to Limbaugh’s show, largely for the same reasons Linda did. Those members instantly mobilized. The Great Snapple War began...


18 posted on 01/23/2021 10:14:25 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: dirtboy

Chick-fil-A caved, so bad example there, but I get your drift. 8>)


19 posted on 01/23/2021 10:35:56 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Texas Eagle

I think his idea is generic at this point, and not one that has been given much consideration to detail. I could be wrong, of course. 8>)


20 posted on 01/23/2021 10:38:50 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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