It's on, it's on, it's ON!

This is the day of a consumer spending boycott.

The man behind it: John Schwarz, who founded an organization known as The People's Union. The boycott's all about protesting corporate greed, corporate leaders doing away with their companies' diversity-equity-inclusion policies, and the current White House's efforts to cut out those same programs at the federal level.

In this boycott, consumers are encouraged not to spend a single red cent during this 24-hour-period...unless it can be done at a local business (and with cash instead of cards).

Major retailers are the targets (no pun intended) of today's boycott.

I know, I know...we're told consumer boycotts don't always work.

Still...what can rank-and-file Americans do to let corporate CEOs and the politicians these bigwigs bankroll know this country's everyday people, as a group, have real power, too?

If you'd like to learn more about Schwarz' group and the future events it's got planned to protest corporate greed and other maladies, log onto https://thepeoplesunionusa.com.

By the way...I'm also participating in the boycott.

What's left to say about 2024?

I can't help but say it...but here it is: 2024 was a year where, here in the United States, hate and bigotry won out at the polls.

And the price of eggs was used as a cover.

We, as a group, put a convicted felon back in the White House...a man who called for an insurrection when he didn't win the 2020 election...a man who, like his runningmate, ran with the nonetheless-debunked belief that immigrants in Springfield, OH, were eating their neighbors' dogs and cats...a man who won't take responsibility for his actions.

77 million voters showed they'd rather stick a twice-impeached man back in the Oval Office than put a woman of any color in there.

Yes...I admit that the Democrats would've been better off running a brokered convention at Chicago's United Center last August and finding Joe Biden's successor at the confab. (The leaders of America's legacy media probably would've trotted out the old "Dems in Disarray" headline.) And things would've been better if Merrick Garland and his people would've acted sooner (like on 1-20-2021) to make sure an insurrectionist never again held the nuclear codes...even if Garland would've been accused of doing this for political motivation.

I can't help but think the rest of the world looks at us Americans in light of last year's election and comes away feeling that our laws are toothless.

I remember what happened to Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and how that country's government dealt with him.

Power-abusing Bolsonaro lost his presidential reelection bid in 2022...and went on to cast unfounded doubts about Brazil's electronic voting system. So...in June 2023, that country's top electoral court ruled him ineligible to run for any political office until 2030.

What if America's government officials had mustered the courage to do the same to a former reality-TV host?

Instead, starting on 1-20-2025, we'll be taking a ride many of us just might regret...the kind of ride we've been on before.

We'll see what happens.