Companies I Can No Longer Do Business With (although I should never end a sentence with a preposition)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/technology/meta-fact-checking-facebook.html

("Meta Will Stop Checking Facts on Social Media")

Mark Zuckerberg has now sold his soul for what, a trillion dollars or so? Meta and everything it encompasses now officially on my banned list. Meaning these entities are now persona non grata (or whatever the corporate equivalent of a person is, although if I understand the Supreme Court correctly a corporation is in fact a human being).

The list of who, or what, I can no longer speak to, make eye contact with, or in any way enjoy, is exhaustively long. I will not drive, or even be driven in a Tesla, will not take one of Mr. Musk's flying machines to another planet, will not enter into a discussion on X (or even Y and Z).

Mickey Mouse, having paid a $15 million dollar gratuity to the Mafia Don in exchange for not having his ears cut off, can no longer expect to see me in the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

Mr. Bezos, his Washington Post candidate non endorsement followed up by his Amazon $40 million gift to Melania for revealing her favorite tales of Donald's gluttony (a food reference only) means I will now be receiving my packages by carrier pigeon and my news through Morse code.

I could go on from here to eternity (or at least 2028) with those who have kissed the Devil's ring. But if I should follow through with my contemplated prohibitions, I fear there will be virtually nothing left to do, my life a wasteland in search of the one company that (who) has chosen morality over money, decency over dough.

And thus we enter Donald redux, our nation now corrupted, bankrupted in its frantic search for ever greater riches. America’s boardrooms now but another place for Mr. Trump to rest his head and remove our collective spine.