If you can get kicked out of Kmart and TJ Maxx, you must be doing something wrong!!
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I think even Trump realizes that executive orders only apply to governmental employees and entities.
He could, for example, make an order that says that all employees of the USDA have to wear clown noses when they come to work, or that certain sections of the EPA’s offices can only be occupied on the third Wednesday of every third month. Or that Social Security checks will henceforth be printed on toilet paper.
What he can’t do is order Macy’s, a private company, to sell certain items, and require all citizens to buy them. Something like that would have to be passed into law by Congress.
In all cases, the Judiciary has the final say as to whether the rules are constitutional, and they can strike them down if they’re not.
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Yep. When the Galt’s Gulch of retail dumps a brand, it’s done.
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Let me have my fantasies.
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Don’t turn this into superstition and taboo. Trump properties aren’t ritually unclean. If you oppose the man, which is a rather reasonable thing to do, oppose his policies. Vote. Campaign. Debate. No more can reasonably be asked of you, and no more will do any good, either.
Employ ethical, fairtrade hookers to do that, please.
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Yes! That will teach the poor underpaid working class stiffs cleaning up after you. It will especially endear them to your favored brand of politics. This is the best idea.
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@anon36155390 was talking about boycotting Trump properties, and doing it in a publicly visible way. (i.e.: by not attending events held at those properties, even when paid for by someone else)
That’s neither “superstition” nor “taboo”. One could even quite reasonably argue that it’s a form of campaigning.
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Oh dear, I´m waiting for the orange bastard to go nuclear on Twitter (please JUST on Twitter) about this. We all know where his priorities are, so it should be any minute.
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Not sure; haven’t been there.
From what I grew up on: I would certainly call it “luxury Dutch” if a bunch of Canadians decided to serve apple pancakes for top dollar and just plated it to look avant-garde. That’s the sort of thing I had in my head when I read the article.
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I’m not sure… this is a guy who is still coming to grips with the realization that “President Of The United States” is not synonymous with “CEO and Majority Shareholder”.
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It’s Nordstrom, in the singular, not possessive, and not plural, FYI. 
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From what I grew up on: I would certainly call it “luxury Dutch”
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Have you been anywhere in China? Neither have I.
But they’ve been at this culture thing for a long time.
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Yes. I know. I live in a city that’s 40% Asian – the single largest minority (there are no majorities).
You asked me what an article I recommended meant, for reasons other than why I shared the article. I gave you one answer. If you want more, perhaps you should write a letter to the Georgia Straight.
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The reason someone would choose not to attend an event at a Trump-owned venue isn’t to “send a message” or change a policy or apply economic pressure.
It’s to avoid doing something that makes you feel sick to your stomach.
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Can you get prawns? Can you get kid seethed in its mother’s milk (kinky)? Can you get ham?
I suspect Trump properties are ritually unclean, but that’s not why I would avoid them.
Would I avoid one if it meant upsetting a member of the family? Probably not but it’s hypothetical, as my entire family that I’m aware of on both sides of the Atlantic would only enter one if it was the only place around with a functioning toilet and they were desperate.
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I would go. You didn’t pay for it and who wants to look like they are afraid of someone they dislike? The focus is on the couple, anyway
Who knows? By then, its ownership could change hands…
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I never got the kid seethed in its mother’s milk bit. Is it, like, ‘insult to injury’ or…?
Anyway, I’ve noticed a lot of this tabooing behavior regarding Trump’s presidency. Oh, let’s call him 45 and not use his name, let’s shun his properties as if they were plague-houses. Obviously, you don’t pay him if you can avoid it, but in this instance the bill has been paid already and the only reasons not to go are (1) for reasons of taboo, which is silly, or (2) to campaign for the idea that Trump is terrible.
If it is the latter, one might say that refusing to properly attended the wedding of a close relative in a fit of political pique is, with the best will in the world, the behavior of a jerk[1] or a jerk-adjacent person and so the advertisement power of such a move is limited or perhaps self-defeating. Unless of course the entire family is on board with this, in which case they don’t need preaching at, as they have clearly joined the choir.
[1] I’m not American, or indeed, Anglophone at all, so I can’t be certain. In my culture it would be cause for some sort of passive-aggressive blood feud. Gods. I am, even as I type this, shuddering with the vision of a thousand upon thousand angry aunts swarming the skies dispensing icily polite jabs over rapidly cooling coffee/tea/other. Brr.
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Hmm - maybe if he had officially separated all business ties before office he could have had a fair point to cry foul.
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Note: The following fascinating hypothetical is not meant to equate Trump with a Klansman.
Your friend books an event and invites you to attend. You find out the venue is owned by the Grand Wizard of Knothead, Alabama. Do you attend?
It’s already been paid for. If you stay home, the Grand Wizard won’t know or care. But you will.
Is it “silly” or superstitious to say you wouldn’t feel right about attending?
I understand things get complicated by the fact that this an event that’s important to someone you care about. But I don’t understand saying that skipping it is childish.
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