Showing posts with label boycott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boycott. Show all posts

Fwd: Fw: The Suicide of the NFL




The Suicide of the NFL


Posted: Sep 27, 2017 
This is the story of the suicide of the NFL.

Every liberal CEO in America should be watching and listening. This is a case study for how to destroy a billion-dollar business by injecting your offensive leftist politics and alienating your own customer base.

President Trump has done it again. No, I don’t mean he’s offended millions of Americans. I mean he said exactly what was on the mind of tens of millions of middle class Americans. Call us the Silent Majority. Because of Trump, our views now count.

Don’t look now but Trump just kicked the NFL’s rear end. Ratings are plummeting. Revenues are plunging. The player’s spokesman deals are being cancelled. Fans are booing. Fans are burning tickets and uniforms. Lifelong NFL zealots are vowing to never watch another game. And the #1 selling jersey in the USA is a Pittsburgh Steeler backup- a former Army Ranger who stood for the national anthem.

The Silent Majority is speaking loudly and clearly.

When you offend 63 million Trump voters, your business suffers, your bottom line plunges... 
The NFL is going the way of dying dinosaur ESPN- they lost 3 million subscribers just last year alone. 

And the Emmys- with the lowest ratings EVER. 

And Hollywood box office revenues- the worst in 25 years. 

And NBC’s Megyn Kelly- whose career is on life support. She's so scared of Trump's voters she just announced her new NBC morning show will be a "politics free zone." 

And Arnold Schwarzenegger- who flopped as host of “Celebrity Apprentice.” 
And Actress Jennifer Lawrence- who latest movie bombed after disrespecting Trump. 
And Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who recently suffered his first-ever action movie flop, after disrespecting Trump. 

Don’t forget Madonna, who threatened to bomb the White House. Her latest album sold 3,000 copies last week. Guess who got bombed?

My grandfather put it best. He taught me there are only two rules to business:
#1) The customer is always right.
#2) If the customer is wrong, refer back to Rule #1. 

All of these athletes, entertainers, CEOs, businesses and leagues like the NFL have free speech. They can say whatever they want. But so can we- the customers. But we always get the last laugh.

Always assume your customers are 50/50 liberal vs conservative. Therefore, any political statement you make risks offending and alienating half your customers.. So, shut up. Don't do it. Keep your views to yourself. Unless you want to lose 50 percent of your customers.

But what if your specific customer base is 70 percent conservative or center-right? Well then you could ruin your entire brand forever. Enter the NFL.

Of course, the NFL’s audience includes lots of diverse groups. But let’s be honest. The typical NFL fan is a white, middle class, middle aged, meat-eating, testosterone-driven Republican (or certainly center-right). 

The typical NFL fan is a flag waver. They always stand for the national anthem. They wear flag pins and chant “USA, USA, USA!” They love cops and military. They're far more likely to eat hot dogs and drive a SUV, than eat tofu and drive a Prius. In short, they are middle class Trump voters. Not all of them. But a significant majority.

Doesn’t the NFL Commissioner know this? Don’t the executives at the NFL’s Park Ave. offices know this? What world do they live in? The NFL doesn't understand, or give a damn about their own customers? The NFL wants to go to war with their own best customers? Really? Wow.

So, this isn’t about free speech. This is about the survival of your business and destruction of your brand. Someday this will be a case study in how to destroy a brand in business schools. Just like ESPN. Because ESPN's customers are the same middle class (and above) Trump voters as NFL fans.

Now it’s time to REALLY bring the NFL to its knees. 

It’s time for a nationwide boycott. It’s time for 63 million Trump fans to stop watching. Turn off NFL games on your TV for the next month. Watch the owners cry. Watch them panic. Watch them beg. Watch them order an end to all kneeling or disrespect for the national anthem. Watch them sing a whole new tune.

If you’re betting on the games here in Vegas, or you're just a superfine going into withdrawal, just watch them online, or on your iPhones. But make TV ratings collapse. That's what matters to NFL owners. Hit them in the pocketbook. They make no money when you watch online.

It’s also time for 63 million Trump voters to stop buying NFL merchandise. Go cold turkey. Buy something different for your kids or dad for Christmas. Try a book.  

Write every NFL sponsor and demand they cancel their NFL advertising campaigns, or we’ll stop buying from them. 
Call your Governor and demand your state immediately withdraw all state subsidies from your local team. 
Call your Congressmen and demand the NFL’s anti-trust and tax exempt status be withdrawn immediately. Ouch. This one’s gonna hurt!

It’s time to teach the NFL a lesson. The Silent Majority counts. What we believe in- God, country, Constitution, flag, national anthem, American exceptionalism- matters. Start worrying about offending us.
The NFL is about to learn a bitter lesson. Trump 35-NFL 0.

Fw: Fwd: Starbucks - worth noting

by Victor Medina
24 Mar 2013

At the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, CEO Howard Schultz sent a clear message to anyone who supports traditional marriage over gay marriage: we don’t want your business. After saying Starbucks wants to “embrace diversity of all kinds,” he told a shareholder who supports traditional marriage that he should sell his shares and invest in some other company.


Fw: think before you buy!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Subject: Fw: think before you buy!
To: 



----- Original Message -----
: Thursday, August 23, 2012 7:13 PM
Subject: Fw: think before you buy!

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 11:16 AM


SHOP POLITICALLY

AMERICANS CAN NOW DETERMINE WHERE TO SHOP AND SPEND THEIR MONEY

Election Cycle political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Shopping
Price Club/Costco donated $225K, 99% went to Democrats

Rite Aid donated $517K, 60% went to Democrats

Magla Products ( Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K, 100% went to Democrats

Warnaco (undergarments) donated $55K, 73% went to Democrats

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia donated $153K, 99% went to Democrats

Estee Lauder donated $448K, 95% went to Democrats

Guess, Inc. donated $145K, 98% went to Democrats

Calvin Klein donated $78K, 100% went to Democrats

Liz Claiborne, Inc. donated $34K, 97% went to Democrats

Levi Straus donated $26K, 97% went to Democrats

Olan Mills donated $175K, 99% went to Democrats

WalMart donated $467K, 97% went to Republicans

K-Mart donated $524K, 86% went to Republicans

Home Depot donated $298K, 89% went to Republicans

Target donated $226K, 70% went to Republicans

Circuit City Stores donated $261K, 95% went to Republicans

3M Co. donated $281K, 87% went to Republicans

Hallmark Cards donated $319K, 92% went to Republicans

Amway donated $391K, 100% Republicans

Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures) donated $283K, 100% Republicans

B.F. Goodrich (tires) donated $215K, 97% went to Republicans

Proctor & Gamble donated $243K, 79% went to Republicans

Spirits
Southern Wine & Spirits donated $213K, 73% went to Democrats

Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons (incl. beverage Business and considerable media interests) donated $2M+, 67% went to Democrats

Gallo Winery donated $337K, 95% went to Democrats

Coors & Budweiser donated $174K, 92% went to Republicans

Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel Wines, Lenox China , Dansk and Gorham Silver)donated $644 K -- 80% went to Republicans

Hungry?
Sonic Corporation donated $83K, 98% went to Democrats

Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections) donated $112K, 96% went to Democrats

Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken) donated $366K, 100% went to Republicans

Outback Steakhouse donated $641K, 95% went to Republicans

Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) donated $133K, 87% went to Republicans

Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner Baker, EatZis) donated $242K, 83% went to Republicans

Waffle House donated $279K, 100% went to Republicans

McDonald's Corp. donated $197K, 86% went to Republicans

Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze) donated $121K, 89% went to Republicans

Heinz Republicans $64,000 Democrats $21,300!!!!! John Kerry's wife's company!!!

Traveling and/or dining

Hyatt Corporation donated $187K of which 80% went to Democrats
Marriott International $323K, 81% went to Republicans

Holiday Inns donated $38K, 71% went to Republicans


Please be kind to your EMAIL friends. Use the blind copy (BCC) when forwarding to multiple recipients. Erase all prior addresses. Spammers will hate you but your friends will love you.

FW: Chick-fil-A


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Subject: Chick-fil-A


Who cares what Michael Moore thinks about Georgia?


In case you were rearranging your sock drawer and missed the big announcement, filmmaker Michael Moore, who is about as relevant as a female appendage on a boar hog, is asking “all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.” I can hear the shudders from Aragon to Zebulon.
Moore didn’t approve of the execution of Troy Davis, convicted a couple of eons ago for the murder of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail, the father of two young children and a former Army Ranger, and has decided to take it out on us.

Who cares what this liberal weenie thinks? His opinions belong in the Pantheon of Pompous Pontificators along with Our Ambassador to Outer Space Cynthia McKinney, Ted “Looney Tunes” Turner and President Peanut. Taken all together, their collective views on anything and everything don’t amount to a jar of warm spit.

However, as one who sees the good in everything and everybody — one of my many redeeming qualities — I hope there are those who will take Moore’s advice and stay away from Georgia. High on my wish list is Al Sharpton.

Moore is so angry he has demanded his publisher pull his book, “Here Comes Trouble,” from every bookstore in the state and if they can’t, he says he will “donate every dime of every royalty my book makes in Georgia to help defeat the racists and killers who run that state.” Dang, the man means business. That could run into the tens of cents.

Gov. Nathan Deal’s office is taking Moore’s threats with the seriousness they deserve. Says Brian Robinson, the governor’s spokesperson, “We think it is cute he thinks anyone in Georgia would buy his book, but if any Georgian does, I’m happy to double the royalties and buy a pack of gum for a charity of Michael Moore’s choice.” I think I like this guy.

I asked Junior E. Lee, general manager of the Yarbrough Worldwide Media and Pest Control Company, located in Greater Garfield, Georgia, what his opinion polls were showing on the damage that Moore’s comments could have on future economic development in Georgia. Junior doesn’t believe anybody in Georgia gives two hoops and a holler what Moore thinks. He says Moore should have stay married to Bruce Willis instead of taking up with that silly kid with the beard on “Two and a Half Men.” I didn’t have the heart to tell him that he was thinking about Demi Moore, not Michael Moore. I fear Junior has been inhaling too much cypermethrin, trying to get the cockroaches out of Arveen Ridley’s basement.
Nobody likes being fussed at, but as my daddy used to say, “Consider the source.” In this case, being criticized by Michael Moore is like being called ugly by a frog and the only people that would take him seriously we wouldn’t want in the state anyway.

His crowd probably thinks Social Circle is where you sit around and puff a toke and Thunderbolt is where Captain Marvel lives and that if you go to Alamo you may see Davey Crockett. I wouldn’t begin to try and explain Montezuma and Arabi to them. It would just hurt their brains.

If they have even set foot in our great state it was probably to change planes in Atlanta and as we all know Atlanta — aka Malfunction Junction, where the sewers don’t work and neither do a lot of its citizens — is really not a part of Georgia. It’s just a place to send our legislators every year to get them out of our hair so we can get some work done.
There is always a chance that Michael Moore was misquoted. (I told you I try to find the good in everything and everybody.) When he was talking about racists and killers, there is the possibility he might have been referring to his hometown of Flint, Mich. Flint has had a long and sordid history of racism and last I looked, the FBI says the city has the seventh-highest homicide rate in the nation. The city’s most redeeming quality is that it makes Detroit look like Xanadu. But being the nice guy I am, I’m not going to ask all Georgians with a conscience — and that is most of us — to shun the state of Michigan like Mr. Puffenstuff wants to see happen here. Michigan has more than enough problems already. It has Michael Moore.

FW: Fwd: France and what is happening


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> Bad news from France ...REAL BAD!
>
> Once again, the real news in France is conveniently not being reported
> as it should. To give you an idea of what's going on in that country
> where there are now between 5 and 6 million Muslims and about 600,000
> Jews, here is an E-mail that came from a Jew living in France .
>
> Please read! "Will the world say nothing - again - as it did in
> Hitler's time?"  He writes: "I AM A JEW -- therefore I am forwarding
> this to everyone on all my e-mail lists.  I will not sit back and do
> nothing.  Nowhere have the flames of anti-Semitism burned more
> furiously than in France . In Lyon , a car was rammed into a synagogue
> and set on fire. In Montpellier ,  the Jewish religious center was
> firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourgand Marseilles; so was a
> Jewish school in Creteil - all recently.  A Jewish sports club in
> Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails; and on the statue of
> Alfred Dreyfus, in Paris , the words 'Dirty Jew' were painted.  In
> Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with sticks
> and metal bars.  The bus that takes Jewish children to school in
> Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months.
>
> According to the Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12
> anti-Jewish incidents PER DAY in the past 30 days.  Walls in Jewish
> neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming 'Jews to the
> gas chambers' and 'Death to the Jews.'  A gunman opened fire on a
> kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse ,
> France .  A Jewish couple in their 20's were beaten up by five men in
> Villeurbanne , France (the woman was pregnant).  A Jewish school was
> broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles , France . This was just in the
> past week."
>
> "So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a
> person with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from
> depravity, to do - at least - these three simple things:
>
> First, care enough to stay informed.  Don't ever let yourself become
> deluded into thinking that this is not your fight.  I remind you of
> what Pastor Neimoller said in World War II : ' First they came for the
> Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.  Then
> they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.
> Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was
> a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one
> left to speak up for me.'
>
> Second, boycott France and French products.  Only the Arab countries
> are more toxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more
> than just oil and hatred.  So boycott their wines and their perfumes.
> Boycott their clothes and their foodstuffs.  Boycott their movies.
> Definitely boycott their shores.  If we are resolved we can exert
> amazing pressure and, whatever else we may know about the French, we
> most certainly know that they are like a cobweb in a hurricane in the
> face of well-directed pressure.
>
> Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your
> co-workers.  Think of all of the people of good conscience that you
> know and let them know that you - and the people that you care - about
> need their help.
>
> The number one bestselling book in France is....' September 11 : The
> Frightening Fraud' which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon !
>
> Please Pass This On, Let's not let history repeat itself, thank-you
> for your time and consideration.


> --

FWD: Target Store-Must read!!

Subject: Target Store-Must read!!




Wasn't it last Christmas that Target refused to let the Salvation Army ring their bells in front of their stores?




Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote.

'Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud
sponsor of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our
spring recognition event.


We received the following reply
from the local TARGET management:
' Veterans do not meet our
area of giving. We only donate to the arts, social action
groups, gay & lesbian causes, and education.'

So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and
veterans in general, do not meet their donation criteria,
then something is really wrong at this TARGET store. We were
not asking for thousands of dollars, not even hundreds, just
a small sponsorship for a memorial remembrance.

As a follow-up, I E-mailed the TARGET U.S. Corporate
Headquarters and their response was the same.
That's their
national policy.

Then I looked into the company further.
They will not allow
the Marines to collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their
stores.. And during the recent Iraq deployment, they would
not allow families of employees who were called up for
active duty to continue their insurance coverage while
they were on military service.. Then as I dig further,

TARGET
is a French-owned corporation.

Now, I'm thinking again. If TARGET cannot support American
Veterans, then why should my family and I support their
stores by spending our hard earned American dollars!

And,
have their profits sent to France ....

Without the American Vets, where would



France be today?


'They, most likely would be speaking German and trading in Deutsch Marks'

Sincerely,
Dick Forrey
Veterans Helping Veterans


Please send this on to everyone you know
to let Target know we don't need them either !

Fw: Best Buy.no Merry Christmas.just Muslim greetings.

Curator's note: This RW FWD: provided fodder for my column this past Sunday. I write about the "War on Christmas" most every year, as I am continually amazed by it ...


Sent:
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:20 AM
Subject: Fw: Best Buy.no Merry Christmas.just Muslim greetings.



--- On Wed, 12/9/09, :

From:
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Subject: Best Buy.no Merry Christmas.just Muslim greetings.

.

So, where is MERRY CHRISTMAS????

TAKE A GOOD LOOK...THE MUSLIM GREETING IS CIRCLED IN RED. WHERE IS "MERRY CHRISTMAS?"



BEST BUY insists on having "Seasonal Sales' and "Holiday Sales" and does not have any difficulty wishing "Happy Eid al-Adha." to the Muslims but ignore Christmas.. To appeal to Muslim shoppers this holiday season, Best Buy has been printing circulars in parts of the country with the greeting : "Happy Eid al-Adha." The Muslim holiday is Friday, and it marks the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca . It is about time we complain that Best Buy is dumping on Christians to please the Muslims. This has delighted the Muslims. But what about the Christian Majority?? We are not going to stand still for this kind of treatment. BOYCOTT THEIR STORE and pass this on to everyone you know!



Laura Gill
***********
Preserve The American Dream

*
**********




Fwd: Guess I Won't Be Drinking Starbucks EVER!

Curator's note: This RW FWD: is a repeat of this January, 2008 classic. The new version below has some added "facts" and hilarity that make it worth posting again. For debunkification, click here.


check this out - it was written by a real life solider - read the whole thing as it only gets more shocking

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:27 PM


-------Original Message------- From: RONDate: 11/4/2009 7:41:00 AMTo: LBSubject: Guess I Won't Be Drinking Starbucks EVER!

Subject: Guess I Won't Be Drinking Starbucks EVER!











Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines thank you for their support of their business, but that Starbucks does not support the war, or anyone in it, and that they would not send the troops
their brand of coffee.

So, as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by buying any of their products! I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this war might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn't mean we don't support the boys on the ground fighting! street-to-street and house-to-house.

If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it and no one will never know.

Thanks very much for your support. I know you'll all be there again when I deploy once more.

Semper Fidelis
Sgt. Howard C. Wright
1st Force Recon Co
1st Plt PLT

PLEASE DON'T DELETE THIS. ALLOW IT TO BE PASSED TO ALL IN MEMORY OF ALL THE TROOPS WHO HAVE DIED SO THAT WE MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO SUPPORT THEM OR NOT! ! !

Also, don't forget that when the Twin Trade Towers were hit the fire fighters and rescue workers went to Starbucks because it was close by for water for the survivors and workers and Starbucks charged them!

JUST A NOTE TO THIS; STARBUCKS HAD STORES ON SEVERAL MILITARY BASES IN THE UNITED STATES. THEY ARE NOW BEING REMOVED BECAUSE OF THIS. GO GET 'EM AMERICA . STAND-UP FOR OURSELVES! Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. Wow!


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