The Economy

TigerVols my brother, go fuck yourself.

 

It ain’t fake.

 

Agreed. I don’t believe anyone on the left will actually risk their livelihood or safety in the face of Trump. In the end, they will comply. They will post online and hold up paddles with sayings on them.

Trump is right about one thing: his opposition is weak, self-interested and will give up when he won’t.

“I’m not going to shop at Target” is not a movement.

 

Hold on. I was speaking as a typical American, who are supporting MAGA’s destruction of all things DEI. Personally I find the rollbacks shameful.

 

The rollbacks can be shameful and the performative outrage that will lose steam in weeks can be ineffective and misguided.

We all laughed at the right when it boycotted Target because of its initiatives a couple years ago.

So people will buy the cheap plastic shit from Jeff Bezos or the Walton family instead. And use Elon Musk’s service to get its news. Well done.

You can’t beat them at the boycott game because THEY HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SELL YOU EVERYTHING.

Game over.

We’re a bunch of keyboard warriors.

 

You have to think about the demographics of Target shoppers though. Let’s just say it ain’t the crowd Johnny Russell sang about. I agree if this was Walmart there would be no noticeable affect but this has a chance to stick. And no retailer can afford to bleed out any extra increment of customers with a wheel already over the cliff.

 

I’m not going to shop at Target.

 

In the end the Trump Depression* is going to be the thing that really savages retail.

* Hopefully just a recession. But it’s time the left learned some branding and made it stick.

 

The demographics of Target generally reflect the demo of MAGA voters: white suburban moms.

 

I'm in the Texas suburbs, and there are as many Targets as Walmarts. I've spent plenty of time in Target, between being married to a 30-something woman and now having a 7-month-old. They're basically Walmart with better marketing. "What if we decided to make it pleasant to shop here, instead of a converted murder warehouse?"

 

This, too.

For all of Drumpf’s hatred and legal barriers for the news media, the thing that will hurt it most is when the economy tanks and what little advertising is left goes away. See: 2008 recession.

 

The MAGAs that were already Big Mad at Target over woke swimsuits and leaving people the hell alone in bathrooms? That group, which holds grudges even after a business bends the knee?

To the point @sgreenwell made, the biggest thing Walmart does to set me on edge is its equivalent of a schlocky Top 40 + adult contemporary radio station blaring on the PA from mid-morning through close. I can hear myself think inside a Target.