Resist and Unsubscribe
Resist and Unsubscribe
Audio Recording by George Hahn
Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was arrested today. Targeting journalists is not about enforcing the law, but shaping reality. History reflects a brutal truth: When you begin arresting journalists, your nation becomes angrier and poorer.
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After the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, many people feel powerless. Praised by tech CEOs, surrounded by sycophants, emboldened by multimillion-dollar settlements, and enriched by his return to the White House, Trump marches on unchecked. Americans, however, have overlooked a potent weapon of resistance. First, we should recognize that the president is unfazed by outrage and unmoved by protests. What does he care about? A: The markets. The best strategy is to opt out. We’re asking you to join a monthlong national economic strike, a coordinated campaign that targets tech and AI companies and inflicts maximum damage with minimum impact on consumers.
Ripple Effect
Protesters are playing a critical role in challenging Trump’s war on the “enemy within” and documenting the activities of his masked, heavily-armed, and poorly trained paramilitary force. But until the Republicans lose their grip on Washington and the president’s acolytes can be held accountable — and in some cases put on trial — the opposition needs bold new methods.
We’re not talking about a labor strike. It’s easy for me to tell other people to stop working and take the risk of getting fired; that kind of walkout would only hurt small businesses and probably lead to more job losses. We’re also not urging local businesses to sacrifice sales and close their doors for a day, a symbolic but ultimately ineffective tool. We’re proposing something quieter and less cinematic than a protest that will run all day on cable TV, but much more disturbing to the Trump administration. A one-day slowdown is irritating. A one-month slump is terrifying.
With support for abolishing ICE growing and a bipartisan backlash prompting Trump to at least feign a more conciliatory approach in Minnesota, this is the moment to exert pressure. If you need inspiration before joining the movement, look at photos from the September meeting at which tech industry CEOs, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Apple’s Tim Cook, took turns fawning over the president. These are the leaders who have his ear. A modest reduction in their companies’ growth could have a substantial impact on valuations priced to perfection. Small changes in consumer behavior — starting on the first day of February — could have an enormous ripple effect, one that extends all the way to the White House.
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We need to get tactical. If consumers cut back on cosmetics, reducing L’Oréal’s revenue by 2%, it’s not going to make a difference. If OpenAI’s revenue falls by 2%, it will. America’s economy is one giant bet on AI, with seven tech companies representing more than a third of the S&P 500. That means the best way to ignite positive change, without hurting consumers, is to carry out an economic strike the tech CEOs can’t ignore.
Unsubscribing to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude are among the first steps. Although only 5% of ChatGPT’s more than 800 million users last year paid for a subscription, a pullback would sting. If enough people cut spending on AI, it could spill over to other companies, including Nvidia and Microsoft. You could also unsubscribe from a range of other tech offerings — Amazon, Apple, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, and Uber — and hold off on buying your next iPhone or Mac. While tech and AI are the main focus, the strike could expand to target companies enabling ICE, including AT&T, Dell, and Fedex, which have contracts with the agency. (See all the options on the Resist and Unsubscribe website.)
Then document your decisions on Instagram — we’d target this platform, too, but we need some way to spread the message nationwide. Talk to your friends and outline what you’re not buying, adding cancelation screenshots and unsubscribe selfies. Articulate the objectives: forcing the president to end the occupation of cities by masked agents, respect the rule of law, and uphold American values. And yes, I’m participating.
If wealthy households reduce spending by 10% and middle- and lower-income households pull back by about 5% in a targeted economic strike, it will curb U.S. GDP virtually overnight, amplifying the impact while mitigating the harm to average American consumers and business owners. And just as Dry January offers an opportunity to scale back on alcohol, a February freeze on subscriptions and other purchases provides a chance for people to reset their consumption patterns. Use the month to review your subscriptions and drop the ones you don’t use.
You may decide this isn’t for you, or conclude it would hurt innocent people. I get it. Punishing America’s economy isn’t an act we propose lightly. But pain for some U.S. tech businesses in the short term could inspire real change — a small price for restoring our democracy.
Consumer Power
Consumers, whose spending accounts for more than two-thirds of the economy, wield enormous power. Few things worry leaders more than a decrease in their purchases. Consumer spending fell 3.4% during the Great Recession — at the time, the most severe year-over-year decline since World War II — and 9.8% during the second quarter of 2020, in the depths of the pandemic. Those events sparked two of the fastest political movements in history, with the U.S. spending huge sums to escape each crisis. In the case of Covid, economic data, not the death toll, was the main driver.
Americans in the top 10% income bracket, who account for about half of all consumer spending, play an especially important role. In outlining this idea in October, I estimated that those consumers could achieve a 1% decline in GDP with a 3% cut to their spending (setting aside multiplier effects, import leakages, and substitutions).
If we want to know how Trump might respond, consider recent history. After the president unveiled his “Liberation Day” tariffs last April, the ensuing turmoil in the bond market prompted the administration to pause most of its planned tariffs for 90 days. Bond investors were getting “yippy,” as the president explained. Wall Street soon had a term for this phenomenon — the TACO trade, for “Trump always chickens out.”
Earlier this month, Trump threatened to punish European nations if they didn’t cave to his demands to give him Greenland. Then the markets threw up, and the president reversed course, announcing he’d reached the “framework of a future deal” for Greenland and the Arctic. Stocks surged on the news.
Fortune 500 CEOs need to organize to resist the president as he bulldozes the values that make America great. Understandably, nobody wants to go first or be alone on this, but it’s the right thing to do. It also presents an opportunity to reap reputational and commercial gains. I feel for businesses in Minnesota — victims of the administration’s cruel and reckless immigration policies — and collective action is the way to go. But the letter signed by 60 CEOs of companies based in the state, including Best Buy, Target, and UnitedHealth, calling for state, local, and federal officials to “work together to find real solutions,” while positive, isn’t going to move the needle.
Cowardice
Republicans could stop Trump … if they had a spine. The CEOs of America’s largest corporations could also show up, but don’t hold your breath. If you’re waiting for these leaders to overcome their fear and share-price idolatry in the face of threats from the president, you’re going to suffocate. Trump put everyone on notice last week with his lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, over allegations that the company stopped providing banking services to Trump and his businesses for political reasons after he left office in 2021. Bosses of big corporations know that won’t be the last battle the president wages, so rather than antagonizing him, they flatter Trump and keep their heads down. Without real pushback, things are likely to get worse.
You’d think that the death of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse Trump officials accused of being a “domestic terrorist,” would have been a tipping point for business leaders. Yet on Saturday, hours after federal agents killed Pretti as he attempted to help a woman who’d been pushed to the ground and pepper-sprayed, CEOs including Cook and Amazon’s Andy Jassy attended a private White House screening to celebrate the Amazon MGM Studios-produced documentary Melania.
The courage is coming from the rank and file. Following Pretti’s death, more than 450 tech workers from Amazon, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Salesforce, and other companies signed a letter urging their CEOs to contact the White House, demand that ICE leave American cities, and cancel all company contracts with the enforcement agency. A senior executive at OpenAI, James Dyett, wrote on X that there was more outrage from tech executives over California’s proposed wealth tax “than masked ICE agents terrorizing communities and executing civilians in the streets.” Exactly.
Protest vs. Nonparticipation
As Heather Cox Richardson and other historians note, there are many ways to make a difference in dark times. She points out that Minnesotans are doing their part — patrolling the streets, donating food, helping with legal services, and looking out for one another — while organizations at the national level speak up. Voters in the midterm elections in November, meanwhile, will have a chance to dilute Trump’s power.
Until then, the best tool we have to push CEOs to take on the president and prevent further erosion of the American brand is in our pockets — an economic strike that builds on calls for Apple boycotts that are already starting to emerge. Real change always comes from the American people, not from our political parties. But power doesn’t fear protests nearly as much as economic withdrawals. Getting off your couch, taking to the streets, and building community is important, but the most radical act in a capitalist society isn’t marching, it’s not spending.
Life is so rich,
P.S. Resources to help you participate in our Resist and Unsubscribe campaign and maximize your impact can be found here.
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To all the trolls commenting here: no one here cares about your ignorant views. Anyone that has read a history or economics or psychology book understands Scott is right. If anyone has any understanding or respect for the Constitution, rule of law, or veterans who died fighting to uphold the Constitution knows Scott is right.
We need 3 concrete demands to lift the boycott. What are tgose 3 things? I think Congress must 1) create bipartisan committees to decide all future non-emergency military actions, 2) ICE must be prohibited from wearing masks and muat wear official decals and nametags with their real last names, and 3) all ICE activities are approves by an even bipartisan committee with all injuries and deaths causes by ICE inveatigates by a 3rd party nonpartisan already existing professional and reputable company selected randomly from a pool of companies.
I am cancelling or avoiding using all Tech platforms in February. I will use apps Goods Unite Us and Open Secrets to boycott all Trump supporter businesses for the next 3 years if not permanently.
Cancelled Apple Music.
Cancelled You Tube TV, Apple News this morning. Holding off on that new iPhone. Hi Tech Guys from rural Indiana.
Amazon
Chat GPT
Apple
Bye bye!
Google, you are next
Mike
Unsubscribed Amazon Prime Acct 6 mos ago more to quit!
I have unsubbed from Netflix and Apple Music – writing in “resist and unsubscribe – Prof G”
Hope it helps!
Freeze out ICE.
chatgpt and amazon gone. need to rationalise gmail account and migrate and they will be gone with youtube gone as well. Insta n twitter on its way no loss. looking to remove facebook
Cancelled chat gpt, amazon, Spotify.
Canceled ChatGPT sub; also, will make no prime purchases in all of February probably many other. Never gonna buy anything by Apple ever again.
Hello from Australia. Goodbye Amazon, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube ( unfortunately as a Gmail etc user, I can’t delete them all). I would encourage people to provide feedback when you leave. My feedback was, I don’t want to keep funding the organisations that support the Trump administration and thanks for the idea Scott Galloway 😉
Just canceled Amazon Prime along with Apple TV and ChatGPT—
Thanks for doing this, Scott.
Just cancelled Apple One, Audible and looking for others, that’s 1k per year saved already.
I am glad that someone who is considered a public intellectual has taken a bold stance and it is much appreciated. Please continue on this path and also be bold enough to critique Israel and its apartheid policies against Palestinians.
I’ve decided I can live without Amazon. This also effects/affects, still never know, Fed Ex whom I already hated, my poor union UPS laying off people. Also shop local as the saying goes.
Let’s not forget Spotify, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target – and all cable TV. What else?
Thank you.
Just cancelled our Amazon prime after 12 years. They didn’t make it easy. But you CAN get a prorated refund after threatening with state attorney general complaint and disputing the credit card charge. They ended up seeing it my way! Now on to more cancellations!
How do you get in touch with Amazon? I’m having a hard time. I want a prorated refund as well. I have 111 days left before my renewal. Cancelled today. Not ordering from Amazon, nor shopping at Whole Foods. Thanks
I’m unsubscribing from you.
Looking for objective insight, not partisan activism.
Goodbye…
Where in his entire column does Scott mention party? This is not a matter of party; it’s a matter of principle.
It is interesting to note that as of this morning the Jimmy Pattinson group, a multi media and grocery corporation based in British Columbia Canada has cancelled their plans to sell a 7 million dollar warehouse facility in Virginia to ICE. The purpose of the massive facility was to detain and process those captured. Once disclosed a boycott ensued by British Columbians to stop shopping at their Grocery Stores and within 2 days they withdrew from selling the property. Your idea has merit and will swiftly move the needle. Thank you so much for launching this campaign.
Great idea, Scott! I’m boycotting all of your sponsors and spreading the message. And definitely picking up some Apple stock on the dip. But agree with you on OpenAI and Sam Altman, shorting that fraud all the way down.
Love the idea Scott. I’ve never left a comment on any video or article you’ve written, but I’ve been listening to you for a while and this is great. I’m joining you.
I will say though that I don’t use social media at all, so I won’t really be posting my cancellations. Perhaps we can all include “resist and unsubscribe” as the reason for cancellation in the prompt that dumps into some AI summarizer these companies might occasionally glance at? I’m planning on listing a few other grievances when I cancel, but perhaps you could put some suggested cancellations messages on your site tailored to the companies you mention?
Anyway, looking forward to pouring a little gas onto this dumpster fire.
Don Lemon is not a journalist. (Who does Don Lemon take money and orders from?)
Alex Pretti and Renee Good were paid rioters. (How much were they being paid to stalk & assault ICE agents? Who was paying them?)
Tim Walz is a CCP asset.
40-60 million illegal aliens, 10M of whom are super violent criminals, vs 22,000 ICE agents spread across the country.
How can 22K ICE agents possibly round up 10M?
You know the military is going to get (overtly) involved at a certain point, right?
Remember that the military has sonic weapons.
Executive Order 13848—Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.
How much land and other assets does the CCP have invested in the USA?
What happens if the CCP has been caught interfering with our elections?
You know the military is going to get (overtly) involved at a certain point, right?
What is the legal definition of an Enemy Combatant?
What is the penalty for being an Enemy Combatant?
Treason doesn’t pay very well in the end.
God Bless the US Military
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Great job Scott.
The group I sing with were going to compete in an event in the US later this year and now we are not going. We can see what a dangerous fascist state Trump is turning the US into.
Never thought I would see what is happening to America in my lifetime. People in US ally countries are devastated by what is happening to one of our own. It’s like a well respected loveable relative has turned into a drug addicted mafia boss.
My feeling is that Trump will make sure that the polling stations where he lost in 2020 will all have new staff personally chosen by him for the midterms and 2028. New jobs for the proud boys no doubt.
I just hope America can claw its way back from this before the US is destroyed.
Brilliant. I have been to 8 demonstrations and am always looking for a way to make a difference. This is it. I will sell my offending stocks today. it has been surprizing to me that he market hasn’t rewlly been affected by all these lawless, spineless, pardoning, putrid changes to our wonderful Country. I live in a small town. There is a demonstration going right now. It is young people for a change. I have lived here for 35 years and never saw a demonstration until recently. Keep up the pressure from your bully pulpit Scott.
I’ve been waiting to hear this, ie stopping the money flow. What can us Canadians do up here?
Thanks for doing this. I just cancelled all my Amazon subscriptions and Apple TV.
Thank you for organizing this. Happily canceled my Amazon Prime and Apple News subscriptions. Never joined Meta/Facebook, never will and will never own or buy a Tesla. Enthusiastically forwarded your site to family and friends. Hopefully this will be one BIG BEAUTIFUL BLOW to the CEOs who support Trump or sit silently by.
Been wanting to 86 prime forever, but the wife says no. THIS TIME……..I 86ed the 💩 out of prime!!!!!!! Jeff, I F@@@@king HATE YOU!!
And Tim Apple?!?! I 86ed my cloud, apple music, and appleTV!!!! Thanks, Tim apple!
Up next:
•”F” -Off——David Zaslav!!!!
• Screw You hulu!!!!!!!
I feel fantastic!
I feel CLEAN!
I will need rehab for apple music 😓!!!
I am all in on the economic boycott. But
someone got resistandunsubscribe.com
labeled as malicious and rendered inoperable @ProfGalloway. But I’m using this post and going one by one and canceling so many of them that I have meant to for the last year.
No. Boycotts don’t work. So much unintended side effects. Mid terms are coming up. To effectuate change- vote.
Stop the culture wars (woke BS), reverse discrimination (DEI), and the identity politics. Lead with solutions and positivity.
Mobilize the grassroots.
Stop the divisiveness and class warfare.
Stop blaming the top 20% that pay most of the personal federal income taxes.
Reduce government corruption, bloat and wastefulness. Lower spending as governments are vastly more inefficient than the private sector.
Trump is winning because the Democratic Party is a mess and the extremists appear to represent the party. When provided the two ugly choices many just choose Trump. Elections are binary after all.
One lesson Trump is reteaching the world is that might makes right- as primitive/ ugly as that is. The richest countriest have the strongest economies and the best military and can coerce their allies and enemies. Not a good look and it’s worse to be on the receiving end. Hamstring our capitalist economy and we can join Europe in the age of embarrassment.
100% on point.
It is interesting to me that you mention boycotts don’t work – plenty of historical attestations that they do – and they describe at length a list of far more vague and unlikely scenarios. You don’t think a targeted and intensive temporary boycott will work…but you think we’ll be able to “stop divisiveness and class warfare”?
Sorry Scott but you’ve just jumped the shark. You’re sharp, we know it, but your posts like this do you and all your wise mentors who believed in your a disservice. I’m sorry but if anyone comes marching into my Church Service, the way those “demonstrators” did, breaking the law, as they did, they merit prosecution, whether they are ‘journalists’ or not. How you can’t see that is something you should ponder before trying to start an economic food fight that will hurt everyone.
the problem is not ICE, the underlying problem is the USA constitution, what the USA needs is an overhaul of the US constitution, the abolition of the separate Federal versus State verus Municipality versus local sheriff frontier mentality, we’re no longer in the mid 1700’s and middle 1800’s, were in 2026 going 2050, so you look forward. Better education and understanding of USA in the world order and ranking in historical context.And to know, evry dog has his day in the sunshine,quite simple really.
Scott you’ve become a radicalized leftist with TDS … Minnesota is a microcosm, not a petri dish … Sanctuary cities are anti american and are proliferating lawlessness, crime and communist agendas
100% on point
Canadian here but definitely want to learn about how to hurt the tech bros that helped elect Trump.
Thank you Scott, I’ve been seeing more Americans start to get behind this idea. A mass “unsubscribe movement” has the potential to become the most important and possibly most effective movement in American history. We need something like that to effectivley organize a massive, national general strike someday. Voices like yours encouraging this issue is so important. Thank you
Finally, some momentum behind an economic strike targeting corporations which enable Trump! Power of the purse!! Spread the word.
While I vehemently oppose Trump and am outraged (among other descriptors) by ICE, I also work at a tech company committed to AI advancements. As disgusted as I was by the kiss-the-ring behavior of said CEOs (although not mine), I find myself in a Sophie’s Choice-like dilemma regarding your proposed action. Bite the hand that feeds me (and my family) to get Trump to finally stop screwing everyone over? Dark days indeed.
Thank you Scott for providing us with a Guiding Light! I will be initiating my Unsubscribe updates this weekend.
Americans will put capitalism first not principles. The days of black Americans boycotting bus companies are long gone.
Thanks for doing this- hope to help from Europe, we despise what they are doing.
Journalists are supposed to be reporting on the news, not making it. Lemon crossed that line. His long history of partisanship predicts his actions as no surprise.
Lemon broke Federal Law by intentionally disrupting and interfering with congregants’ First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. The far left, and unfortunately more and more Scott, keep selectively ignoring Federal laws and basic morality and calling for physical and economical violence. How can any American not want illegal criminals arrested and deported and the Minnesota (and other states) fraud investigated?
Please create some traffic metrics on your site so we can watch. I’ve been working on this for the past few weeks. Downloading my Google One files now and looking to try Mint mobile for a while. Interested in any specific banks I use to shift away from Chase and Schwab. Any thoughts on fidelity? Ok or pull away from them as well.
Good asymmetric thinking. This is America after all. You have more power with your pocketbook than your ballot.
The American public won’t stop consuming to save the planet. What makes you think they’ll stop consuming to protest another episode of “too much government?”
While this is not the only solution- it’s a good one IF enough people will do this. Hope so.
This is the first thing I’ve been excited about and feels so good instead of feeling so sick. I’m in!
Thank you for a tactical strategy that can cause more change than hoping GOP will get a backbone. I will forward this to all my friends
When I was growing up, we were taught that in the Soviet Union people have no freedom of any kind.
The Committee for State Security, abbreviated in Russian as the KGB watches everyone.
If you show any resistance or disagreement with the Government, you could be beaten, put in jail, or even murdered.
KGB agents arrested protesters and they were never seen again.
What is happening on the streets of America today?
Kristi Noem is an inept liar.
In the Soviet system Kristi Noem would be “apparatchik “(political appointee of the Soviet government apparatus).
We should demand a top to bottom reorganization of ICE including the firing of the current malicious leadership.
What a silly post. Journalists aren’t above the law. If Lemon is guilty of a crime, he’ll be convicted. If not, he won’t. And ICE is not “executing civilians in the streets.” In both the Pretti and Goode cases, officers reacted to perceived threats – a woman spinning her wheels while pointed directly at the man (watch the video, carefully) and an armed man fighting 3 or 4 officers trying to subdue him. I think both shooters overreacted, but that’s very different from “executing civilians in the streets.”
In fact language like this, alongside the Lt Governor exhorting Minnesotans to “put their bodies on the line” and the Governor comparing these incidents to the Holocaust, is incendiary and irresponsible. How many of you (rightly) chastised Trump for his own rhetoric, exhorting him to turn the heat down? Add to that a very organized effort to disrupt ICE operations, dox officers, track license plates (frequently in error) and you’ve created a toxic environment where 2 people have now died.
There’s a reason we haven’t had these scenes in other cities, which have quietly cooperated handing over criminal aliens at the jailhouse door, instead of forcing ICE to apprehend them in the streets amid hostile crowds. Sounds like Tom Homan is having some success today encouraging local officials to do the same. That’s the actual answer, unless you care more about political points than real public safety.
Seriously?
Comment 100% on point
You co-signed you actual name to that?? Wow.
#AmazonGone
cheers Scott
A truly terrible idea.
Defund Spotify and other corporations backing Trump’s totalitarian agenda. I’ve cancelled my paid Spotify subscription + am boycotting the platform effective immediately. Corporate CEOs and the billionaire elite sitting on so‑called “fuck you money” while refusing to stand up to authoritarianism are actively enabling it. If you have that level of wealth and still won’t speak out against Trump’s agenda, you’re not neutral — you’re complicit. (Thanks @profgalloway)
Immigration laws are not immoral. Deliberately undermining your nation’s economy when many people are already struggling might be.
The banks should withdraw from being primary dealers, I spent a career trading RMBS and CMBS at Lehman, JPM, Bear, JPM and Wells. If Jamie Dimon, David Solomon, Ted Pick, or Brian Moynahan and any of the other withdrew as primary dealers, it would have a huge impact.
As James Carville said “I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everyone”. Life is so rich, but it’s feeling less so now.
Tom Doherty
#resistandunsubscribe #RAU #AmazonGONE #AppleGone
We need a meme ! and a cartoon video of resist and unsubscribe (Southpark please ! ) or Spitting Image – A Coldwarsteve meme would be good. I hope these people are on your contacts list
Cheers ProfG
<3
The other residue of this is that some of us have been sitting on dollars waiting for a bubble to break. Seeing over-inflated stock prices lose some valuation could be a nice entry point for investors.
Just cancelled my Netflix! Let’s keep the momentum
This is genius and such a gift, thank you Scott! Clicking into the February Freeze as I type.
Dudes! Great idea!!
But just a note … the first thing I saw was the box to… wait for it … “subscribe’ …. Wtf?!
I know the intent … but it looks terrible
Tired old thinking. In honor of the Catholic Lent season, instead of giving something up, do something positive. For 40days and nights, instead of confronting the heavy handed immigration enforcement, donate a ten dollar bill to an organization that is set up solely to retire the nation debt. Professor Galloway can provide the necessary infrastructure, at no charge, to make sure the money goes directly to that cause. Make sure all the social media is ramp up and ready to go! Make collecting money, ie; blowing a whistle and filling a green kettle is on every street corner and rallies that look like a sports event. Encourage immigration agents to donate as they roam the streets and document all with cell phones. Daily reports on slowing down the defect click…think more creatively to get more attention.
I’m in. Thanks Scott!
The government does not own these companies; we do through our hard earned dollars invested in stocks, 529 plans for our children’s education, and retirement plans.
Tim Cook has destroyed his soul. What shame. Wouldn’t be perfect if the board hastened his retirement. Following your plea for action and canceling subscriptions with services aligned the Trump cult.
I canceled three subscriptions today! I don’t plan on any purchases over $500 for the month of February. Scott, thank you for trying to unify us on a specific action. Keep up the good work.
This just hurts America. Just vote. Get out and vote.
“Then document your decisions on Instagram — we’d target this platform, too, but we need some way to spread the message nationwide.” Zuckerberg is one of the slimiest Trump sycophants. Giving Meta a pass is unconscionable. You need to amend your recommended boycott to include them and find another way to get the word out.
You’ve lost your mind. Everyone’s 401Ks and pension funds are invested “in the market” When the market goes down their wealth goes down. How can you possibly believe that “individuals” are not directly tied to the market.
This is the stupidest concept I’ve ever heard about.
I’ve heard stupider. But it’s up there.
So true. One of Prof. G’s nuttier ideas.
Oh i will unsubscibe, alright: from all contact with you and yours. Illegal immigrant need to be expelled
Yes. Same.
Thank you. Ignore the trolls. I urge you to promulgate this as widely as you can. Team with local groups to get this message out. Consumers are a very atomized group, but a unified action by the citizenry, with consequent loss to SHAREHOLDERS may turn this around.
Love this. if you want to focus the energy, check out cancelfriday.com — same mission, but one target per week, everyone cancels on friday together. concentrated pressure, people united.
Scott, AI is to Work as Adderol is to ADHD. It’s a drug. As much as I agree with you that the markets seem to be the only thing that Trump responds to, asking us to stop paying for subscription to a drug that helps us work better is a lot harder than asking us to stop buying anything from Amazon this month.
The other thing that Trump reacts to is vanity. When we’ve been able to turn the mirror onto the atrocities that his administration are committing – using social media and technology to tell the truth before they can change the story…that has also had an effect.
I was wondering when you’d invite a systemic instability on America amidst a geopoli turmoil. You are all over the f’in place; do you even know who you are anymore? ICE, excluding its actions in Minnesota, is a federal organization charged with enforcing rule of law by removing those individuals who were never supposed to be here in the first place. If you are so “enraged” by its actions why dont you come up with a solution for effectively enforcing country’s law and in the case of unlawful immigration it poses a national security risk of its own, without you adding fuel to the fire.
Prof G, have you ever sold stocks due to ethical or moral concerns like those you’ve outlined here?
Nah. This is performative morality from having too much money and becoming more and more out of touch.
It seems like a good . I have wondered why we haven’t had a united boycott against companies that advertise on Fox “news”
Thank you for providing tangible action items!
Right On!
Now, we’re supposed to get on board because White people were killed. Where was the outrage when Black people were murdered by police and ICE? Miss me on that.
Even the blacks are now vocalizing what a scam Black Lives Matter was – you’re so behind. Obama gave Tom Homan a medal for record ICE deportations (400k+ per year under Obama, and never exceeding 350k under Trump), and not a peep from any democrats. You lefties are such hypocrites.
We have subscribed bought your books watched all your lectures and posts followed your prediction lost hundreds of thousands on your stock record eg restore hardware -71 percent. Anyway I am taking your Advice UNSUBSCRIBING TO YOU AS YOU HAVE GONE COMMIE NUTS GOOD BYE Passing THIS ON TO ALL.
Thanks Scott… I asked my ChatGPT, I call her Sassy, to write me the reason I am unsubscribing and here’s is what she wrote: ” I’m canceling my paid subscription as part of a broader personal decision to align my spending with my values. At this time, I’m choosing to reduce support for companies and platforms that I feel are not sufficiently pushing back against policies and practices I see as harmful, particularly around immigration enforcement.
I appreciate the product and may return in the future, but for now I’m redirecting my spending in alignment with my civic and ethical concerns. Thank you for the service you’ve provided.”
Done! And look at me, reading a book!
Thanks for this suggestion Scott! I’ve forwarded it to all my contacts as well.
Scott,
You are a worthless POS leftist extremist living in London that just likes to stir the pot. Enjoy your tea and crumpets and stay out of U.S affairs.
Hey…go get some therapy. Hug a puppy. Eat some chocolate. Some of us find a lot of value in listening to Scott. You seem to live a miserable life and for that I have empathy. But cool it with the personal attacks.
I Paused my Amazon Prime subscription (because annual premium was already paid) and have been making a point to buy direct from manufacturers or locally wherever possible. Thanks for helping organize ways to make our voices heard.
Do we really need to engage in name calling? Can you make your point without being ugly? Worth a try.
Agree with all the comments related to Scott being completely mis-aligned in terms of politic. It’s a shame because the business insights are interesting, but being anti-America and trying to defend criminal having entered US illegally is just a hard NO.
Scott, there is indeed a way to do actions: un-subscribe from your extreme left point of view.
Behold Scott, the archetypal champagne socialist elite.
He luxuriates in the safest, whitest, wealthiest pockets of the UK – far from the “enriched” zones plagued by knife crime, sexual assaults, welfare strain, and Friday prayers that turn streets into traffic-clogged prayer mats as a quiet flex of dominance.
From his gated bubble, he preaches the gospel of diversity, open borders, and compassion – while ensuring his own postcode stays refreshingly free of the very multiculturalism he demands for the rest of us.
Inclusion for thee, exclusion for me. Peak progressive virtue.
Scott, did you complain when Clinton or Obama said “we’re a nation of immigrants but also a nation of laws” and proceeded to export sh*tloads of illegals? I would wager my bottom dollar NO.
You and your ilk are such lemmings. If the Supreme Court would rule that only citizens counted toward congressional apportionment your side would have locked the border ages ago.
Shame on you and your TDS.
He didnt execute people in the streets.
No just drone them on streets and caffès.
We must find ways to be the change, but I am fearful of the unintended consequences of doing economic harm to our country. The rich won’t feel it. Everyone else could suffer much pain. This battle should be won at the ballot box. We need real, rational leaders, not bait and switch candidates who are just as bad on the other side. But yes, cancel your unused subscriptions and perform financial hygiene, we should all do that anyway.
We The People Thank You, Scott. Of course the boot lickers are going to populate this section. Never seen so many lost souls. Thank you rump for exposing them.
Hi Scott, I am a big fan from the first hour. However on this one, I have a different opinion / approach. Your strategy impacts the entire planet and is only a short term fix. Address the real problem, at the next midterm, get rid of Orange Julius Cesarus by regaining both chambers. Get your own Musk and buy the fuckin elections, this is what works in your corrupt, uneducated Greatest Country.
Scott, I honestly like your business and motivational content. Love your affiliations with ucla and cal berkeley. However, the increase in content sympathetic with lack of law enforcement, immigration, especially the content on “prosecuting ICE and other admin peeps for merder when we get back in power ” (you and Kara Swisher clip), and the increase in political content simply turns me off. Will stay subscribed as I value differences of opinion but just sharing that your TDS is growing and is weird, imho.
The real TDS is republicans inability to grapple with the truth that the historical and factual record establishes that Trump tried to coup the 2020 election by creating fake slates of electoral votes and pressuring his VP to use his fraudulent docs over the genuine, state certified ones in line with the constitution.
You need help –
You’ve been brainwashed by the leftists
You wanna debate me on the facts? You won’t win.
I unsubscribed from Chat-GPT and AppleTV today. I think your ad for a drink before you drink alcohol is the wrong call to post on this Resist email. Maybe something less commercial and entitled.
I want to support this. I need an alternative to move my cloud storage to though and music option, before I stop giving Apple, Amazon, and AI’s my $$. And I don’t want to rely on DeepSeek for obvious.Suggestions?
This is why we need Lina Kahn back – stop the monopolies and give us options so we have more consumer power.
Don Lemon , a journalist. Give me a break. This is why we have a judiciary. Let the facts come out. From the video I saw, he joined in the intrusion into the church like a giggling teenager.
I was going to purchase some ZBiotics from your sponsor. But screw that – I’m boycotting. You’ve obviously been living in the UK too long. What a stupid idea.
Agree – Scott is not one of us
Least thoughtful post you have ever made with a totally specious premise suggesting a moronic plan that is unrealistic and doomed.
Regardless of one’s politics there is abundant support for getting criminal illegal aliens who are murderers, sodomists, rapists, molesters, thieves, assailants TF out of the country.
ICE is doing exactly what the Congress passed laws for them to do.
Minnesota — unlike 31 other jurisdictions where ICE has peacefully conducted such operations — has decided to oppose Federal officers in the discharge of their Congressionally mandated duties.
This starts with the Governor and the Mayor of Minneapolis. They should both be charged with obstruction.
This is as basic a law and order program as exits. Dems and weirdos are against law and order. Got that.
Nah dude, you’re a good little ideology warrior which is why you can’t see what the real truth is: Americans are OK with deportations and going after the criminals. You guys simultaneously say Obama was deporter-in-chief but then also say Dems want the criminals in the country. Dems didn’t complain about Obama’s deportations because it wasn’t done in such a way as to be a purposeful and malicious spectacle going after day workers at Home Depot and DoorDash drivers who are single mothers with no criminal record. Your inability to recognize this distinction only reinforces the judgement that you’re a totally captured ideological zealot. These are fascist tactics, and you’re a fascist apologist. Scum.
You’re right on everything except fascist tactics. These are American tactics. Germany copied American tactics, not the other way around. History lesson.
Thoghtful and well reasoned comment. Thanks.
Nah, pure TDS in action. Trump says “go,” and you’re instantly against it – no debate, just reflex.
Leftist media’s hyping routine ICE ops like they’re new atrocities, but agents shot people under Obama and Biden without this meltdown. Your selective outrage is showing.
Biden let in 10M+ illegals, now they need to leave and get in line. The smart ones already self-deported. The ones fighting armed feds and getting handled? Suddenly they’re victims.
The left’s stoking violent resistance, cheering on Karens to obstruct federal agents. Any blood spilled? That’s on their hands, not the officers enforcing the law.
Scott, I was a fan, you were kind of cool and smart 15 years ago, then you got infected by the WOKE virus and now you are in late stages of that awful disease. Your constant virtue signaling is abhorrent and disgusting. Ideologies are so dangerous and your hypocrisy (you are worth $200M) is sickening. So I will tell you, on behalf of the sane “silent majority” that we will take you up on your order and UNSUBSCRIBE from all your podcasts, newsletter and other non sensical books…you adore money so am sure you’ll loose sleep. And one more thing, don’t call on protesters to show up violently with guns loaded and assault Ice agents enforcing the law. That’s just stupid and irresponsible! over and out!
What a loser. Cut off your nose to spite your face. Where was all the energy for the last 4 years when federal laws were not followed. Also, why are you supporting these radical protestors who are not following federal laws. This is a new low for you also
lemon’s arrest had ZERO to do with the white house hoping/expecting anything to happen to lemon in court. it simply had to do with making lemon’s life a pain in the butt for a little while (court dates, fees for a lawyer, and the general hassles of the court system).
Have there ever been successful boycotts? I can’t think of a single one.
Well, let’s see: there’s the Boston Tea Party, Montgomery Bus Boycott, United Farm Workers, boycotts against Starbucks, Sea World, Twitter/X, Tesla, Bud Light and Target, to name just a few. All ended with legislation and/or companies backing down from their policies. I say, let’s give Scott’s idea a try.
Thank you!!!
You are a moron. One-sided with selective consideration of only the facts that support your biased view. Not exactly robust thought here.
Then post some facts to disprove his assertions, you low IQ clown.
Jenny….i have a wonderful life. Married 30 years, 2 degrees, a dog, stock market is up and ILLEGAL immigrants are being deported. My life is pretty damn good. Sounds like you might need to go get another nose piercing or hair color.
Scott: I spend $200k – $300k a month on whatever I want.
The rest of us: You first boss.
Thank you for this
Great idea. Especially for all those non Americans (yes there are people who do not live in USA) who cannot vote the B.. out of office. I am cancelling Netflex, plus no buying of any American based fast food providers
Wow, cancelling Netflix. I can feel the power flowing across the country. Never saw that coming. Cancelling Amazon Prime?
Hello from Australia. Goodbye Amazon, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube ( unfortunately as a Gmail etc user, I can’t delete them all). I would encourage people to provide feedback when you leave. My feedback was, I don’t want to keep funding the organisations that support the Trump administration and thanks for the idea Scott Galloway 😉