At my local extreme left wing Stalin loving Communists Party meeting it was mentioned how in view of America being run by Fascists and backing the Genocidal Israel and sucking up to Putin's Russia while introducing tariffs on everyone and generally being dicks, we should boycott all things American.
We was going to put it to the vote but being Communists, we just told everyone to do it anyway but we had a problem when we tried to devise a list of things to not buy which had Made in USA stamped on it.
In response to Trump's tariffs, the EU is lining up tariffs on imports of US cranberries, orange juice, sweetcorn, peanut butter, bourbon whiskey, cigarettes, cigars, cheroots, cosmetics, motorbikes, boats, jeans, leather footwear, swimwear, underwear and steel products but as none of the above in our homes are American, i guess we have unwittingly done our bit by not buying them anyway but we agreed that the next motorbike we buy is not a Harley Davidson or our next packet of cigarettes Lucky Strikes.
Leaving it to one side with a suggestion that we will just carry on not buying things made in America until we can find something made in America we can purposely not buy we moved on to avoiding American culture such as TV and movies.
Staying away from American comedy shows is quite easy, to be frank those guys are just not that funny and as most of their comedy shows are cheap rip off of our own, we can just watch the far superior original anyway but TV shows will be harder, I am only on Season 6 of the brilliant Supernatural so will avoid them once I have finished with Sam and Dean adventures and as there are 15 seasons, it could be a while yet.
Musically i will struggle as almost permanently going into my ears (or rather the one working one anyway) are bands such as Green Day, Guns N Roses and the Ramones and i recently found my way to the Megadeth discography but luckily Canada, Australia and Britain has some great musicians so out goes Billie Joe Armstrong and Billy Joel and in comes Billy Idol and Billy Bragg.
Facebook, Twitter and Whatapp accounts have been deleted en mass and our Apple and Google mobiles phones will have to go and be replaced with mobiles from Huawei, Nokia and Samsung and my HP Computer will now be a Lenovo, Acer, Fujitsu, Siemens or Sharp.
The final agreement was not to use the words Trump or Musk so we will no longer play Trumps or Top Trumps and Trumping will now be called a trouser trumpet or tooting and any perfume with a strong sweet musk will now be simply called a smell and orange's, tangerines, mandarins and other Orange coloured fruit will be banned from our fruit bowls.
Hopefully this boycott will only need to be until 2028 when an adult will regain the American Presidency but until then, as Billy Bragg sang: 'Bring up the banners from the days gone by'.
Wow, its going to be a long 4 years.
Sunday, 9 March 2025
Boycotting America
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