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BlueWavePsych

(3,309 posts) Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:35 AM Thursday

Cancel Black Friday? 'Mass Blackout' doesn't want you to shop or work to protest Trump

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Source: USA Today

A coalition of grassroots organizations is calling for a nationwide economic shutdown during the busy holiday shopping season, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday, to protest the Trump administration and economic inequality.

The groups — Blackout the System, The People’s Sick Day, American Opposition, the Money Out of Politics Movement, and The Progressive Network — urged Americans to stop all spending and refuse to go to work during the "Mass Blackout," which runs from Nov. 25 to Dec. 2.

Avoid travel and restaurants and cancel streaming and digital subscriptions, organizers said. "If you must spend: support small, local businesses only. Pay in cash." Small Business Saturday on Nov. 30 is exempted from the blackout.
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"We are living under a political system captured by special interests, where billionaires and corporations write the rules," Isaiah Rucker Jr., founder of Blackout the System, said in a statement. "Congress serves donors, not the American people, and democratic norms are being dismantled in front of our eyes, with corporate backing. This campaign is about showing them where the power truly lies, with the people."

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/11/black-friday-cyber-monday-donald-trump-boycotts/87221297007/

ret5hd

(21,998 posts)

1. i'm ALL for it...but...

Reply to BlueWavePsych (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:52 AM

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EVERY dollar you spend
EVERY day
EVERY week…
black friday…
your kids birthday…
your groceries…

is a vote on the world you want/the world you will accept…even grudgingly/the world you resist

if you are going to go to the same walmart or amazon or mcdonald’s to buy your xmas junk or happy meal the day or week after this boycott…THEY DONT CARE! They’ll still get your money!

Resist every day. With every dollar.

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Hotler

(13,616 posts)

2. Do not underestimate the power and leverage of your consumer dollars. Vote only have power every 2-4 yrs.

Reply to BlueWavePsych (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:54 AM

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Consumer dollars have power 24/7-365. A spending shut down should have stared months ago. Screw the banks out of their processing fees. Stop using the credit card. 11-million at the No Kings march, if they cut another $25.00 a week out of their spending. 11-million x $25.00, do the math.

The fascist won't like it when we withhold from them. Get pissed, shut spending down. Let MAGA float the economy. Not spending is easier than ordering from Amazon.

All it takes is participation. Spending shut down can be done from the comfort of your couch.

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Stargazer99

(3,381 posts)

3. If the common people that the wealthy and corps keep bleeding-refuse to buy and support them that gets their

Reply to BlueWavePsych (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:57 AM

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attention (that is their vulnerability) If we the people would get together and bust a few of these entities financially they would start to pay attention to those that they bled to death. The wealthy and corps have no fealty to this country- only wealth and control-the Bible warns us about worshiping mammon because as you can see the results of a lack of morality. This nation is in a mess except the wealthy are doing just fine. Just keep closing your lying eyes like you have been trained to do and it will get worse

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Clouds Passing

(6,536 posts)

4. I'm on board!

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Thu Nov 13, 2025, 10:16 AM

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ancianita

(42,578 posts)

5. I've seen ads from Big Corps that try to weaken this boycott by offering huge discounts to consumers. Don't go for it.

Reply to BlueWavePsych (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 10:16 AM

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They know their days of supporting trump -- and their coattail profits -- are numbered.

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Ritabert

(1,813 posts)

6. I'm not buying anything so it's an easy boycott

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Thu Nov 13, 2025, 10:36 AM

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PatrickforB

(15,292 posts)

7. I'm in. Long past time to stop cooperating with these people. The only thing they understand is greed, so let's hit 'em

Reply to BlueWavePsych (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 11:00 AM

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where it hurts.

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Scrivener7

(57,822 posts)

8. Absolutely, Getting Christmas shopping done this week and next.

Reply to BlueWavePsych (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 11:06 AM

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Torchlight

(6,145 posts)

9. The rich will never be as important as they think they are

Reply to BlueWavePsych (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 11:10 AM

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The poor have more power that we think we do. All it takes is one providential catalyst...

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Omaha Steve

(107,792 posts)

10. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

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Thu Nov 13, 2025, 11:53 AM

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