Billionaire George Soros long has used his wealth to push extremist agendas including the deaths of unborn babies in the world’s abortion industry, rampant migration, vast social programs costing taxpayers trillions and even agendas like those espoused by Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Just recently, organizations he’s known to sponsor suggested an economic attack on several companies perceived to have been working with President Donald Trump.
The scheme was orchestrated by a group called the Indivisible Project which has been funding “resistance” against Trump on the more than $7.6 million it got from Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
They called their anti-Trump plan “We Ain’t Buying It’ and targeted Target, Home Depot and Amazon, charging they are “capitulating to the Trump administration and going along with their harmful, authoritarian policies.”
It “bombed,” according to a report in the Washington Examiner.
“Indivisible claimed that Target ‘caved to Trump’ by rolling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, Home Depot has ‘done nothing’ to protect illegal immigrants from deportation raids on store property, and Amazon awarded the Trump administration a discounted service agreement, ‘all in exchange for massive corporate tax breaks,’” the report explained.
The activists proclaimed, “But we can make it clear that there is a price to pay for enabling authoritarianism,” with instructions to its followers not to purchase from the companies, from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, as they are “undermining our democracy.”
Another leftist campaign, called “No Kings,” joined the effort, along with the American Federation of Teachers, which has been an ardent Trump opponent.
But the idea that millions of Americans would shop only where activists allowed wasn’t a hit.
“The ‘coordinated weekend of economic noncooperation’ ended up gaining little traction, it seems,” the report explained.
It was Reuters that reported droves of shoppers were at the retailers.
“Statistics from the market intelligence firm Sensor Tower show that Amazon’s A.I. chatbot, Rufus, also drove sales. Rufus, an artificial intelligence shopping assistant, helps Amazon users find gifts, receive personalized recommendations, and compare products. In the United States, Rufus consultations that resulted in a purchase surged 100% on Black Friday, compared to the past 30 days, while Amazon shopping sessions that did not involve Rufus increased by only 20%,” the Examiner documented.
Overall, the National Retail Federation confirmed a record 202.9 million consumers shopped during that time period, up from 197 million a year ago.
Store and web retailers both were busy.
The NRF has forecast that shoppers, from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, will surpass $1 trillion in spending.
Mark Mathews, NRF researcher, said, “The economy has continued to show surprising resilience in a year marked by trade uncertainty and persistent inflation.”
