Looks like CNN Democrat political commentator Bakari Sellers’ push of a leftist campaign to boycott businesses that supported President Trump in any way fell harder than Kamala’s poll numbers on Election Day.
CNN NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip concluded her November 28 roundtable by questioning panelists on what they would “be willing to wait in line and risk the absolute chaos and madness” for?
Sellers, acting like he was the wokest of the group, pivoted to promote a daffy campaign supposedly spearheaded by George Soros-backed activist and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown dubbed “We Ain’t Buying It” to punish any stores that were “contributing to things like Donald Trump's inauguration and all of these things which we feel like —or the [Trump] library, which we feel like are not necessarily conducive to the policies that would move people forward. And so this weekend, black folk are flexing their buying power and saying, ‘We ain't buying it.’”
Then the Black Friday rush came, and boy was Sellers in for an embarrassing surprise!
As Forbes reported December 1, Americans turned out spending a “record” $11.8 billion just on online Black Friday purchases alone, a 9.1 percent increase from the previous year. In addition, per Forbes, “E-commerce sales jumped 10.4%, while in-store sales grew more modestly at 1.7%, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse. Overall, retail sales (excluding autos) were up 4.1% on Black Friday compared to 2024.” Looks like Sellers’ sales pitch had the opposite effect:
Despite the headwinds—a recent government shutdown, high tariffs, elevated inflation expectations—American consumers remain the engine of the U.S. economy. They’re worried, yes, but they’re also boarding planes and spending where they find value.
So much for the boycott.
Open Society Foundations records show that Soros contributed $130,000 in 2022 for a fellowship to “complete a documentary to educate the public about the work of the founders of the Black Voters Matter Fund in order to empower African American communities especially in the rural south.”
Apparently, American consumers told the race-baiting group to buzz off, and Sellers too by extension. The irony that a guy named Sellers is not a particularly good salesman is pretty uncanny, to say the least.
