How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, tell politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
We are running out of peaceful options. The legislature and Supreme Court are controlled by HRH. He controls the executive branch, including the Military, Justice Department, FBI, ICE, the IRS. He controls all levers of power.
We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. When all else fails we can go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
Economic warfare is the only thing the oligarchs, the business community will understand and act on. Call it a Surreptitious General Strike (Quiet Quitting). Go to work, do as little as possible. Stop spending money except on essentials. Quit feeding the corporate beast that supports the HRH.
Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. All of us. Hobble the economy and the stock market. Mahatma Gandhi drove the British from India by peaceful civil disobedience and economic disruption. We can stop the fascist takeover in the same way.
We can keep rehashing past and present atrocities until our access to the internet is taken away by the regime, or we can DO something!
Please: Resist. Stop cooperating. Stop spending. Stop the fascist takeover.
Thank you for restacking, and sharing, to help Spread the Word!
We do indeed have the purse power, but as the economy tanks thanks to the grotesque mismanagement of the regime along with the insatiable greed of the 1%ers, more and more people will have a tough enough time to buy essentials, let alone shopping to support the blue businesses. As you point out, NOW is the time to act. Locally it appears We the People are speaking via electing progressives who actually care about the country. Let us hope we are in time to save the state.
Yes! Thanks for saying this. Hearing Bernie was helpful detox after Simon Rosenberg's Hopium Chronicles Zoom this afternoon. He again used divisive labels extensively.
Ben, can you bring Simon and Bernie on together?
Why: Simon is influential, and I've followed and supported him since 2022, but he is down a rabbit hole of labels and ideologies rather than realities and results -- such as what Mamdani has already done to improve people's lives, and how candidates who are "fighters not folders" get people fired up to vote!
This is all about strategies to defeat MAGA, with job one being to generate a Blue Tsunami and make November's election results TOO BIG TO RIG.
To help get there I made this toolkit with actions any of us can take to Get Out The Vote:
I love Bernie.
The Peaceful Solution-Part 1
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, tell politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
We are running out of peaceful options. The legislature and Supreme Court are controlled by HRH. He controls the executive branch, including the Military, Justice Department, FBI, ICE, the IRS. He controls all levers of power.
We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. When all else fails we can go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
Economic warfare is the only thing the oligarchs, the business community will understand and act on. Call it a Surreptitious General Strike (Quiet Quitting). Go to work, do as little as possible. Stop spending money except on essentials. Quit feeding the corporate beast that supports the HRH.
Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. All of us. Hobble the economy and the stock market. Mahatma Gandhi drove the British from India by peaceful civil disobedience and economic disruption. We can stop the fascist takeover in the same way.
We can keep rehashing past and present atrocities until our access to the internet is taken away by the regime, or we can DO something!
Please: Resist. Stop cooperating. Stop spending. Stop the fascist takeover.
Thank you for restacking, and sharing, to help Spread the Word!
We do indeed have the purse power, but as the economy tanks thanks to the grotesque mismanagement of the regime along with the insatiable greed of the 1%ers, more and more people will have a tough enough time to buy essentials, let alone shopping to support the blue businesses. As you point out, NOW is the time to act. Locally it appears We the People are speaking via electing progressives who actually care about the country. Let us hope we are in time to save the state.
STRONG U OF AZ SUPPORT FOR KATIE HOBBS, MARK KELLY, KRIS HAYES…STAND UP AMERICA!!
I truly love Bernie Sanders he is an amazing person I wish we had more like him he is truly irreplaceable
Abdul El Sayed listened. We desperately need that.
Michigan voter here. I voted for him!
Me too!
Me too!
Hi Bernie! Thank you for standing up for us!
Mini Mamdanis make MAGA mad! 😂😂
Do we need hats with MMMMM or M^5?
Bernie is right on 🎯. And let’s stop using the divisive labels.
Yes! Thanks for saying this. Hearing Bernie was helpful detox after Simon Rosenberg's Hopium Chronicles Zoom this afternoon. He again used divisive labels extensively.
Ben, can you bring Simon and Bernie on together?
Why: Simon is influential, and I've followed and supported him since 2022, but he is down a rabbit hole of labels and ideologies rather than realities and results -- such as what Mamdani has already done to improve people's lives, and how candidates who are "fighters not folders" get people fired up to vote!
This is all about strategies to defeat MAGA, with job one being to generate a Blue Tsunami and make November's election results TOO BIG TO RIG.
To help get there I made this toolkit with actions any of us can take to Get Out The Vote:
https://tinyurl.com/4e2zsxmj
Democrats!!!! VOTE!!!!
What he says is so simple!
Love Bernie!!
Love this, Ben. Thank you! "Junkyard" is a great descriptor of how the People's House now looks!
Bernie’s been spot on all along. Others are now catching up.
Thank you. I’m beginning to feel less overwhelmed.
Love you Bernie- Thank you Ben!
Love Bernie.
This was a great interview. If only all of our politicians could be like Bernie Sanders. Thank you!!
i love bernie too! he never gives up.