Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) issued a thinly veiled threat to businesses she believes aren’t sufficiently anti-Trump, warning that they would pay a “costly price” during a May Day Strong organizing call. The discussion centered on the “We Ain’t Buying It” campaign, which urges activists to boycott major corporations accused of cooperating with the Trump administration.
Omar’s message was unmistakable: fall in line politically, or face consequences.
“As much as Trump and his cronies want to act like we have no power to respond, the truth is we are more powerful than we think we are,” Omar said. “And I want to underscore the importance of using every single leverage that we have at our arsenal, because we do have a lot of leverage. We need to make sure that those who are collaborating with the authoritarian regime pay a costly price.”
The lawmaker said, “If you want our business, if you want our money, then you have to cancel your contracts with ICE,” and that “you have to cancel your contracts with Trump’s authoritarian forces” and “stop union busting.”
“ We have to make it loud and clear that if you do not support the American people, the American people are not going to support you,” she added.
Leftist America haters like Omar have gotten upset with a number of companies after Trump began his second term:
Airbnb landed on the left’s naughty list after co-founder Joe Gebbia was tapped in August to become the nation’s first chief design officer, leading the newly unveiled Chief Design Office at the White House.
Amazon’s links to the Trump administration include donating $1 million to the Trump inaugural fund and contributing to the White House Ballroom project, while Starbucks ran afoul of the left years ago by resisting efforts to unionize its workforce.
As for Target, the Minneapolis-based retailer appears to be caught in an ideological death spiral between the left and the right.
Target rolled back some of its DEI policies in January after being hit with a consumer backlash over its 2023 Pride Month collection, which included the “tuck-friendly” women’s swimsuit for the male anatomy, prompting blowback from progressives.
The We Ain’t Buying It campaign was set to take place between November 27 and December 1. “This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts,” the group said on its website.
Left-wing Democrats like Omar appear to be taking over the party, which isn’t going to play well with more than half the country. Even a lifelong Democrat like former CNN and current NewsNation host Chris Cuomo knows it.
Cuomo, in a podcast conversation with left-wing host Brian Tyler Cohen, openly floated the idea that many Democrats today seem to harbor more resentment toward America than pride in it. He pushed the point even further, asking bluntly: “When’s the last time you heard Democrats say something good about this country?”
Meanwhile, the left trots out these boycotts every year, and they never move the needle. They just can’t convince enough Americans to buy into their performative outrage campaigns — no matter how loudly they shout them.
