Thread by @Shoq

The goal of #planB is is to creatively #disruptAmerica (actually, the business of America). It would effect actions that cost big business money —a lot of money— in a very short time, with no promise of those actions stopping without major governmental … 1/16

reforms.

Without specific details (that could be me arrested, according to the ACLU):

- Rotating flash protests at major makes and retailers
- Air and seaport protests & blockades
- Synchronized national traffic slow-downs
- Large scale syncopated sponsor … 2/16

shaming
- Synchronized phone flooding
- Bank and broker switching
- Negative branding assaults (massive social media vetting of every shameful and embarrassing corporate act or policy)
- Synchronized false alarms
- Mass product ordering, cancellation and returns.
- … 3/16

Rapid response shaming of the “both sides” punditry that fuels most media accounts.
- Shipping vandalism (flattened tires)
- Newspaper publisher shaming (for complicit editorials or columns)
- Politician taunting (and dining) disruption

In short, coordinated … 4/16

chaos. These are just examples of the safer actions to discuss.There are far more disruptive ones which I won’t say publicly (yet). What matters isn’t the specific actions, but their common #resistance messaging, the “asks” (demands), and most of all, the … 5/16

frequency, scale, and repetition. A simple #DisruptionTools hashtag would generate hundreds of other good ideas.

What is vital to understand is these actions required only thousands of people engaged in them; not millions. (The cost of getting millions of people … 6/16

to do anything is far too expensive).

The goal is to make big business (AND the public) weary of this climate of conservative malfeasance and democracy tampering affecting their bottom line, pushing them to push Congress to enact “Urgent Reforms” to restore … 7/16

accountability, fair elections, media ownership restrictions, securities taxes, public campaign financing, and new ethics laws to forever disable the kinds of chicanery now deconstructing our very expensive government. All things already proposed again and again, … 8/16

and which MOST people agree with, which have been rebuffed by radical conservatives.

It’s completely doable and takes maybe $50 million in seed capital to organize in such a way that the organizers can’t be arrested and shut down for inciting lawlessness—under … 9/16

present law. (This is probably the hardest part.)

This, in my view, is our only hope of derailing this Trumpism train that isn’t Trumpism; it’s radical conservatism and capitalism run amok.

It wouldn’t take long. Businesses hate losing money. When Walmart, Apple, … 10/16

Google. Amazon, Exxon and GM tell Republicans that’s it’s a new day in America, I promise you, the sun will start coming up again.

Alternatively, we can pretend that famously ineffectual politicians can work some magic, have a few more vigils and marches that are … 11/16

mostly ignored, or shriek “just vote” a little louder and see how well that works out for us. (It will barely budge the needle.)

Remember, even if we controlled all 3 branches of government, we’d need supermajorities to do much of anything. Meanwhile, these … 12/16

enemies of democracy would simply ramp up their efforts at the state level (already onerous and out of control). We must eradicate this conservative cancer at its source and stop wasting most of our time and resources on the national symptoms of it. It hasn’t … 13/16

worked, and it won’t work.

Does that mean we don’t vote? Hardly, we triple-down on it, so long as it stands a chance of removing even one of these treasonous people from public office. But have no illusions; it’s not going to fix America. That’s going to take a … 14/16

massive upheaval or our daily commerce. I honestly believe it would reap positive results very quickly.

Would some innocents get hurt? Sure. They always are. They are being hurt far more now.

It’s time to start pushing back against this privately funded, publicly … 15/16

administered tyranny before they pass laws that prevent it, and start locking up or disappearing those who try.

If anyone has a comment, action, or a better idea, please share it. 16/16

I have 2 group chats and 4 DMs discussing #planB. But almost no one wants to discuss it in public. We’re becoming almost as comfortable with oppression as the Russians. What may seem radical now may well seem like a missed opportunity sooner than later. I will bet on it.