Fighting MAGA at a local furniture store.

[PittBlue]

My husband and I were shopping for a glider for our small patio. We found a furniture warehouse in Cleveland that had what we were looking for. We were standing at the desk chatting with the salesman and had paid for our purchase and were making delivery plans.
I looked behind the desk and saw a picture of Canada covered in a US flag and some nonsense about the Gulf of America. I pointed at the picture and said to my husband cancel the order, which he immediately did. The salesman said why are you canceling and I pointed to the sign. I said we don’t believe in mixing business and politics. He said, wow that never happened before. As we were leaving I said that I lost a brother to Vietnam and I am sick of all the bullshit and we walked out the door. It felt so good to fight back in a small way.

[SheltieLover]

1. Good for you!!!

Sorry to hear of your brother's death in Nam.

[CanonRay]

4. MAGAs need to learn their behavior is unacceptable

and one way to do that is through their wallets. I applaud this person's choice to cancel the order. I do not do business with MAGAs.

[Easterncedar]

3. Well done

You set a good example.

[LeftinOH]

5. I live in Cleveland - just curious, what store is this?

[PittBlue]

16. Northeast Factory Direct.

You should have seen the faces of the employees!

[lonely bird]

19. Thanks for the info

We purchased a picnic table and chairs from them last year. Didn’t see anything overtly political at that time.

We won’t go back.

[Kath2]

7. So proud of you!

The personal is political. Let these racist and sexist bigots know we oppose their horrible agenda.

[sop]

8. Well done.

It isn't enough to avoid doing business with people who espouse such views, you also have to let them know why...like you did.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. Well done!!!

[DENVERPOPS]

20. Hey MCE

Years ago, Cabela did a similar thing. On the cash register receipts they had a line item charge listed as an OBAMA tax.
It posted a dollar figure, but it wasn't added into the total.
I wrote a not so unkind letter to Cabela, telling them that I would no longer be buying a couple of thousands dollars of their products as I had in previous years because of their political opinions. Instead I would be buying from other sources that offered comparable products. (I mentioned that they could reference my past orders to verify it was THOUSANDS of dollars they would lose....)

Dick's Sporting Goods came out with a stand on discontinuing assault type weapons in their stores. They took them all, and had them shipped to a location that literally destroyed them all, not even trying to sell them to some other retail groups......The right wing Trumphumping second amendment people had a fit over this, saying that would destroy Dick's as none of them would buy anything from Dicks again.......I went into Dicks for my first time, buying some things I needed, and telling the manager of the store that I would be buying all my stuff that I could from them for their stand on assault weapons. He laughed, and told me that many people had come in saying the same thing. He told me that the management of the company feared a loss of sales revenue, but surprisingly ever since their announcement, their sales revenue was UP.......by TWENTY PERCENT......LOL

I did the same to U-Line, and told them that I deeply resented that they had put in their massive catalog, a full page color letter by the owners wife, doing a rah-rah for the fascist Republican Party. I now buy all my company's stuff from other outlets.....

The simplest definition of FASCISM, is the merger of Corporations and Government.........

I have to believe that just as they have Renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, that they will soon change the United States of America, to the United Corporations of America, or the Corporate Tyranny of America......

With the Trump CABAL most recently ignoring a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court's ruling, we inch closer each and every day to a Fascist Dictatorship......

[MarineCombatEngineer]

31. That's the way to do it,

take your business elsewhere letting them know that you disapprove of their support for a fascist dicktator.

[sl8]

41. Was the Cabela's tax a medical excise tax?

If so, they shouldn't have been charging it in the first place:
(there are excise taxes on certain sporting goods, but they came before Obama)

https://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/cabelas-medical-tax-mistake/
Cabela’s Medical Tax Mistake


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medical-device-excise-tax/
Medical Device Excise Tax

[DENVERPOPS]

45. Yea they put it on there

to express crap aimed at Obama for the ACA medical insurance.......
They printed a line on the receipt......Obama Tax and a ficticious amount but didn't add the amount in on the receipt......
And I am sure it appealed to all of their countless red neck second amendment crowd........
It was just prior to them merging with Bass Pro?????

[blue_jay]

49. Thank you for the starter list of companies to avoid

and for the ones to support.

[Lochloosa]

70. U-Line is one of the worst.

We get 6 or 7 catalogs at work every 3 months and they go straight to the recycle bin.

I have called them several times to try and get them to stop, but they keep coming. Screw them.

[AKwannabe]

10. Good on ya Pittblue

The person whose comment was removed just signed up this morning.

They don’t get to support republicans here!!!!
lol

[Paladin]

11. Nicely done.

I hope lots and lots of other people do likewise. The sooner we all realize that we're very much at war, the better.

[hamsterjill]

12. Sending my sincere respect to you and your husband.

We need more of this! Thanks for doing your part. Small acts add up.

We have a restaurant that recently opened in my area. I previewed the menu on the website and it has the fish entrees listed as coming from the "Gulf of America".

Nope...won't have my business. They could have simply said "the Gulf", and left it at that. But they HAD to make a statement.

[3auld6phart]

21. Dang

So we of these maggots are thick you are right simple Gulf would have sufficed.

[kimbutgar]

13. Yes we need to show our displeasure with our pocketbooks !

[AllaN01Bear]

14. eggscllent

[mountain grammy]

15. I really applaud this.. thank you!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Thank you, from one person in Canada (and maybe more). It's nice having friends, and my eyes are moist. . . . nt

[benfranklin1776]

18. Excellent ✊🏼👏🏼

EVERYONE needs to do this! Make them pay a financial penalty for their support of fascism! Obviously morality means nothing to them so deprive them of the only thing they care about-their filthy lucre

[usonian]

22. MAGA businesses deserve THE DEBT PENALTY

F them to hell.

[Polybius]

35. The problem is what defines a MAGA business

What if the manager and most of the workers are Democrats, but the owner is MAGA? What if one owner is a Democrat, while the other is MAGA? There are certain purity levels to go by that we may differ on.

I know one restaurant owner who hates politics; doesn't even vote. He puts on Fox news. When asked why, he said "my business is in a Bright Red area, it's what the customers want." Should he be punished too?

[BonnieJW]

38. Yes

He's capitulating by airing lies

[usonian]

44. Nay, play classical music, even sports. A string quartet would be nice.

One can be TOO KIND to customers.



He should vote. Is watching Fox News voter suppression?

I sure as hell wouldn't dine there.

Make their food high quality and also the entertainment.

Anecdote: We had a TV set in the kitchen during the Vietnam War. Dad insisted on watching the news (which was gut-wrenching) at dinner.

I disagreed, especially being of draft age, and not so interested in tales of death and destruction at dinner.

So, I asked Mom to make a small portion before dinner time so I could abstain from the gore and falsehoods, coming back with the coonskin on the wall, and napalm bombings.

[mucholderthandirt]

57. If they put this sort of stupid crap in their store/ads/catalog/whatever, you don't do business with them.

If they just run a store and keep politics out of it, then you can shop there if you like.

We had a local jewelry store that had loads of Bush signs up around the store. They almost closed down because people stopped shopping there, and told them why. The owners were upset, they evidently thought they'd do better.

A local plant nursery/garden/landscape place had done the same. Huge Bush crap all over the fences, the doors and so on. Business dropped off dramatically. The signs came down, and none went up at the next election, not local or national.

If we make it known that this is not acceptable in a business, it will stop. We can't change their minds personally, but we can make them think twice about how they run their businesses.

Oh, I don't patronize stores with the Jeebus fish, either. Nothing about Christianity, or any other religion, or I take my business elsewhere. I made a comment at a local thrift store run by a charity that was selling signs and bumper stickers about Jesus Saves or something, about what did it say in the book of Matthew? They no longer sell those things. Was it just me, or did enough people make it clear this was not acceptable? No idea, but it's nice to not have that mess in my face when I go in.

[blubunyip]

62. Yes

He is supporting MAGA propaganda. Therefore he is MAGA. At this point, there is no other way to see it. He could come up with a compromise, but it's easier not to. I bet he has some customers who are tired of Fux and would welcome a change.

[Polybius]

64. I think the best compromise is to put on CNN and MSNBC to go along with Fox

Put on the big three news channels. Probably someone would still be bothered, but can't please 'em all.

[whopis01]

65. Not voting and playing Fox News

is definitely vhoosing to be part of the problem.

The “punishment” people are talking about in this thread is choosing to not do business with a place that is MAGA or promoting MAGA propaganda.

In your example the business owner said that playing Fox News is “what the customers want”. By his reasoning, if I don’t want to have Fox News playing, I must not be a customer.

He is actively catering to a certain slice of potential customers based on their political views. I, likewise, will choose to spend my money at a certain slice of businesses based on their political views and related actions.

To me this sounds like a very mutual agreement where he isn’t interested in my concerns as a customer and I am not interested in doing business with him.

If you want to call that a “punishment” on my part you are, of course, free to do so.

[Initech]

23. Excellent! Everyone needs to do this.

I stopped going to a restaurant down the street from my house because they have Fox News playing on 3 huge TVs in the place at all times. I didn't let them know why but I think that should be warranted. There's also a brewery not too far from me that I would normally go to, but because they advertise themselves as having "patriot values" and have fundraisers for MAGA politicians there, I avoid that place like the plague. Fight the power!

[BidenRocks]

30. I walk in and

If any tv is on Fox, Newsmax or OAN I turn around and leave.
I know I will get upset and drinks are too pricey to spend money on a bad time.
My tabs were $30 to $60 plus tip. Daily.
Since November it's been less than $80. Total.
Behold the power of chump.
Able to kill small business with his face!
$7 for a Stella 0.0

[gab13by13]

24. Check out the Amish for gliders

I bought a beautiful one for my front porch.

Here in central Pa. though.

[AZLD4Candidate]

29. The Amish where I live are mostly trumpers. Even if they don't vote, they supprt.

A lot of my father's clients are Amish.

[BonnieJW]

39. They mistreat their animals

Unforgivable

[AZLD4Candidate]

42. They beat their horses and abuse the dogs in their puppy mills. my parents shiba inu is an amish puppy mill rescue

[Warpy]

25. I got a wooden glider years ago at Target

and I've seen metal ones at Wally's. You might also be able to find them at Lowe's or big box stores in your area we don't have in NM>

No big corporation is going to have clean hands, but most stores don't allow asshole employees to advertise their dumbfuckery out in the open.

Those signs really were offensive to anyone with a brain.

[Buddyzbuddy]

26. I applaud you

[redstatebluegirl]

27. We stopped using a tire store in town

because they kept fox news on 24-7. We also walked out of a car dealership when we saw a framed picture of the orange one behind the financial person's desk.

[MIButterfly]

34. I went to the doctor the other day and sitting in the waiting room, I realized

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that I haven't seen Fox News on any TV in public in years. Thank goodness! They all seem to have ESPN; GSN; HGTV, etc. on these days. It's a refreshing change for sure.

[Martin68]

28. Well done!

[Butterflylady]

32. I don't give a lot of recommendations out, but....

You deserve one, just wish I could give more.

[MIButterfly]

33. Good for you.

I applaud your actions, not only canceling your order but telling them why. It's bad enough we have to hear about Trump's stupid ideas every single day, but seeing people mimic them when we're out and about is just a step too far, in my opinion.

I'm so sorry about your brother.

[IndyPepper]

36. This is how we fight back

I lost three uncles who died fighting to preserve our freedoms. They all died before I was born and I am named after one of them, something I am extremely proud of. I never had to serve, so I try to carry on their legacy by fighting the good fight in the political realm. I am so upset and frustrated with the nonchalance so many Americans have toward preserving what so many have fought and died for. Good for you not only for cancelling your order, but for letting them know why. It may seem like a small contribution, but if we all do the same it can have an impact. So thank you.

[wolfie001]

37. Just scratching the surface of a comfortably racist jobsite

Spending all day blaming the Dems for all of America's problems. Might as well be a herd of pigs slopping around their pen.

[Magoo48]

40. Big respect, thank you.

[Karasu]

43. They chose to openly show their fascism. It's 100% on them if they lose business.

Fuck them.

Political beliefs are not an inherent part of who we are, they are something we choose and not a protected class, as much as modern Republicans all love to pretend that freedom of speech is freedom from consequence.

[Skittles]

46. THANK YOU

I WOULD DO THE SAME.

[bif]

47. Nicely done!

[spanone]

48. YES!!!!!

[nwliberalkiwi]

50. Small Town Resistance

Went to the local movie theater here in a small town. Guy taking tickets with a MAGA hat on. Talked to the owner about why my wife and I will not return to her business. She stated that it was her right, and I agreed that it was her right, but I said that it was my right not to support her position and that we were no longer supporting her business. Also said that we would inform other people not to patronize her business.

[PittBlue]

53. Good for you.

We have to fight back. Thank you.

[Abolishinist]

59. Good for you.

And it's not like movie theaters are a thriving business. I'm in a large city and many are closing, one we used to attend with around 14 screens closed last month. I would think it would have to be much worse in a small-town.

[Blue Owl]

51. You tell those fuckers where to SHOVE IT

[Meowmee]

52. Awful, good thing you cancelled it 🤗

At first I thought you meant maga were fighting each other there 😹

[PittBlue]

56. Nope, just a fed up old woman here.

[Dem4life1970]

54. Thank you for resisting...

MAGA are finding out that we are not without power. We will put our money where our mouth is...

[underpants]

55. ❤️🇺🇸

[kerry-is-my-prez]

58. Good job!

[catrose]

60. Right where they hurt!

[B.See]

61. Well done! Kicked 'em where it hurts the most...

... in their wallets.

[Jack Valentino]

63. Let the MAGGOTS BUY their own goddamned furniture!!!!

(Maybe should have asked them to prove that their products did not originate from Mexico or Canada, just for good measure....
(("not that there's anything wrong with that", but the maggot KING would think so!)) )


As patriots and Democrats, I think we should only be making any purchases which are "absolutely necessary"
at this time in our history---- I am doing my best to NOT support "the Trump economy" through the purchase of products...

Down to necessities here (except for the purchase of a new shortwave pirate radio transmitter,
but all that money went to ENGLAND! LOL)

[Emile]

66. Thank you! Fascists are finding out there are consequences for bad behavior.

Musk is finding that out with Tesla.

[Yellowdog88]

67. Thanks for listing the company

They just got a tweet to check on their company position on the topic:


Yellowdog🌵🇺🇸🏐🦮
@puddyellow88
Seems a shitty business decision to allow salespeople to plainly display “canada 51st state” material in full view of customers.

Does the company endorse annexing canada or taking it by force?

[Aussie105]

68. Any business that shows a political bend . . .

should report to the nearest hospital, to get that gunshot wound in their feet seen to.

You are going to piss off a lot of customers, no matter which way you lean!

[PennRalphie]

69. Sheely's

That’s where I hope you ended up to buy your furniture. I’ve found them wonderful to deal with.