Dating safety: Hallmark Christmas movie edition

He "doesn't like talking about politics" (with women, because it always leads to him being ghosted).

He doesn't agree with either side, but admits he likes that Trump tells it like it is.
- When Trump was running for president the first time I always said that the "good" thing about him was that he said what he thought and so you always knew what he was thinking, but the bad thing was that everything he thought was insane and terrifying and full of hatred.
Barbie was a woke movie!!!
- I mean Barbie was a woke movie...
  
  In the best way a half movie half advertisement could be. It argues against citizen's United in the first 5 minutes of the movie ffs.

Bunker For Two: A Patriot's Christmas Story

It's all fun and games until he tries the cyanide pills on the dog.

Running the small business duh, those drugs aren't going to sell themselves oh wait I shouldn't have said that.

Gentlemen, we got him
- https://youtu.be/vqe4zyQMuYk?si=kHSyInkPIGKY9r9N

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Doug, @friendoflwaxana.bsky.social

Ladies: before you quit your high paying ad exec job in the city and move in with the handsome charming flannel-wearing Christmas-loving man who runs an adorable small business in your hometown, remember to ask where he was on Jannuary 6👀

For context:

Small Businesses Boycotted After Owners Attend Capitol Riot | Time

Across the country, small business owners who attended the pro-Trump event are facing backlash and in some cases boycotts as their images circulate online. Some of those who didn’t storm the Capitol but simply attended the event or were in Washington D.C. to support Trump are also facing fallout, a sign of a shift in consumer behavior. In an era of ideological polarization and economic hardship, people don’t just care about the products a business provides; they care about the politics behind the business, and thanks to social media, that’s easy to figure out.

“Firms are made up of people, and individuals want to buy from firms or use the product that can represent them,” Pinar Yildirim, an associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, tells TIME. “We want to buy from firms that share our values, that represent us, that seem to see a future for this country, for the world, or for ourselves, the way that we do.”

Even some of those who didn’t storm the Capitol but simply attended the event or were in Washington D.C. are also facing fallout. After Donald Rouse, Sr., a Louisiana businessman and retired CEO and co-owner of the grocery chain Rouse’s Markets, was spotted on social media at the rally, there were widespread calls online to boycott the stores bearing his name. Rouse later issued a statement saying he had left before the riots began and condemning the violence. In Chicago, Thien Ly, the general manager of the restaurant Tank Noodle, posted a photo of himself on a plane, as well as a plane ticket to Washington D.C., on social media, leading to a deluge of negative Yelp reviews, calls online to boycott the restaurant, and even a virtual protest. In an interview with NBC Chicago, Ly said that he and his family were in D.C. to show support for Trump but were not near the Capitol building; since the riots, they have received death threats, harassment and intimidation at the restaurant, he said.

Owner of Northside Chicago restaurant Tank Noodle, Thien Ly, took a trip to DC to take part in the riots.

Why Did So Many Small-Business Owners Storm the Capitol? Here's What One of the Most Outspoken Had to Say | Inc.com

University of Chicago professor of political science Robert Pape has spent the past year gathering information about the insurrectionists and their co-ideologues. According to Pape, 26 percent of the rioters charged were business owners; an additional 28 percent were white-collar workers.

"There are relatively more business owners in the insurrectionist pool than in America," Pape notes. The composition of those charged with a crime -- with 716 individuals studied by Pape thus far -- undermines what "we're used to thinking about far-right violence and extremism." This was a heavily white-collar riot -- a businessperson's riot -- which is in some ways unsurprising because the protest that set it off was fomented, as President Joe Biden just reminded us, by the businessman/president who lost his bid for reelection.
- Yeah I am not happy about that. I would never boycott a place just because the owner went to a political protest. It cuts both ways and I have no intention of stopping going to protests for stuff I believe in. You are allowed to be a dumbass and have dumbass opinions and go gather with other dumbasses to tell them. There is a world of difference between the dumbasses at the Mall of America and the ones who went into Capital.
  
  With that said I probably wouldn't date a girl that went to either