A Trump fan proudly shows off his Trump Starbucks cup (Twitter).
Donald Trump’s most ardent coffee-drinking followers are not happy that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz endorsed Hillary Clinton this year — and they’ve come up with a curious way to get revenge.
As The Hill reports, Trump fans have started asking Starbucks baristas to write down Trump’s name on their cups when they order drinks. The “movement” was inspired by a Trump fan who had a temper tantrum in a Starbucks earlier this week when he accused Starbucks of engaging in “anti-white discrimination” because his coffee was delayed.
Now Trump fans are posting their #TrumpCups all over Twitter in an act of rebellion against Starbucks that also happens to involve giving the company more of their money.
There’s a shining example of right-wing logic for you. “We’ll make you say Trump’s name, hahahahaha!” all while handing over absurd amounts of money for what I understand isn’t an all that grand of a product. They’re also handing substantial amounts of money to a company they are all upset with. Life is beginning to resemble an episode of The Simpsons. In the midst of despair and feelings of helplessness, it’s important to remember the virtues of mockery. When something is absurd, it’s good to point it out with a healthy dose of mockery.
Via Raw Story.
In yet another fine example of right-wing logic, the white supremacists of Daily Stormer have their knickers in a knot over the Twitter ban of Richard Spencer and other prominent white supremacists. Twitter is trying to curb openly white nationalist garbage, so the solution? Well, the white dude club came up with this: fake black accounts! Yep.
“Twitter is about to learn what happens when you mess with Republicans,” said Anglin in the blog post. Anglin called on his readers to create more fake Twitter profiles, saying that their posts needed to be “indistinguishable” from actual Twitter accounts belonging to black people.
“When you have time, create a fake black person account,” Anglin wrote. “Just go on black Twitter and see what they look like, copy that model. Start filling it with rap videos and booty-shaking or whatever else these blacks post.”
Sounds like a really solid plan, right? No flaws at all, nope. Having an account which is absolutely indistinguishable from that of any actual person of colour, that will show them! Not that they can pull off that indistinguishable business. Seems they don’t realize that people of colour are people, y’know, individuals, with different ideas, tastes, likes and dislikes. They’ll be creating caricatures, and are confident they won’t be spotted.
Via Raw Story.
Wasn’t there a thing promoted by Ray Comfort or someone like that, a few years back, of giving your name in a restaurant as “Jesus Christ Is Lord,” so’s the wait staff would have to call it out when they’ve got your order ready? Seems eerily similar.
No fat latte for tRUMP.
No fat latte for tRUMP.
Too little, too late
But I love how they’re showing Starbucks! That’ll teach them!
The appeal of Starbucks is fat and sugar and peer pressure. I remember my first Starbucks: We were in Edinburgh and my BFF was “OMG, a Starbucks, we gotta go there!*” She bought some 500 calories white chocolate something while while we went for an ordinary café latte. It was underwhelming and expensive, even for Edinburgh (this was also obviously long before the pound crashed). It was also back in the time when “coffee to go” meant filter coffee that had been on the warming plate for hours. I must thank Starbucks for ending that. Nowadays if you go to Starbucks you deserve to pay every penny you do.
*This was obviously before they appeared in every mid sized town in Europe so they still had that big cosmopolitan cities appeal. They were something special.
Never been in a Starbucks. I’ve never heard one good thing about their products, either.
Since Starbucks is notorious for misspelling or misinterpreting names anyway, maybe the employees should fight back with “Drumpf” or “Rump” or even “White Supremacist Asswipe”.
I think I’ve been in a Starbucks a few times, but don’t recall too clearly: I’ve always preferred local coffee shops / cafes, and have been in Europe for a large part of Starbucks history. Having said that, I know there is a Starbucks in Paris (of all places), and more-than-less recall one in London; don’t remember about Dublin or (most) elsewhere. I am vaguely — very vaguely — tempted to go into the next Starbucks I stumble across and order a “Feck trum-prat Large” or something similar (“Feck le penazi Even Larger”?), but since Starbuck’s has nothing much to do with the current fascist fruitcake invasion, it doesn’t seem too appropriate, effective, or tasty. Also, as the mildly deranged penguin pouts out, they don’t offer cheese, not even in France (nor snails).
handing over absurd amounts of money for what I understand isn’t an all that grand of a product.
It’s pretty good, though I am concerned that it’s cruel to animals -- the “boiled dog hair” flavor of floor-sweeping coffee beans, over-roasted to extract as much flavor, then filtered with a mat of dog-hair… You can tell why it’s popular with cyanobacteria…
I would assume that if I waved my trumpishness in someone’s face, who was preparing my food, that I might be ingesting a certain amount of spit with my coffee.
Enjoy, fascists.
Caine@#4:
I’ve never heard one good thing about their products, either
They’re not mandatory?
(Starbucks is why I travel with teabags in my attache case)
Starbucks, much as I prefer local coffee joints that do not burn their beans to remove all semblance of palatable flavor nor open three adjacent shops in a three block radius nor charge double what a plain cup of coffee should cost, does have at least one good thing going for it. They pay a living wage to service workers, which is rare enough in the corporate world to make them nigh on a unicorn.
I’d still rather buy beans from a local shop and make French Press at home though.
France’s first-ever “primary election” is tomorrow (Sunday). I admit I am very very vague on what is happening, but believe it to be some sort of a pseudo-contest among wingnuts to decide who provides the token opposition for the not-quite-so-obviously-facist-as-le penazi groupies. Anyways, today the local le penazis stuffed a (fortunately short) flyer through my letterbox. Very loosely translated, paraphrased and abbreviated, it reads It also takes some kind of a shot at the local mayor, who, despite banning the burkini and canceling the local autumn harvest / historical festival with a hugely bogus fear about “security”, is not actually a fool. I suspect they are annoyed he is not an obvious nazi.
I am still dithering whether to burn it (my usual reaction), or to return it to them, crossed out with a note added something like “Please accept my doubts about your world-view, and my invitation to use a rusty saw and fuck yourselves.”
Blf @ 11:
There’s been a fair amount of coverage of Le Pen, she definitely feels emboldened by Trump’s win here, and there’s a low level fear that she will win, at least by those who are aware of the current global tendency towards fascism.
I miss the on campus coffee shop with good coffee at student friendly prices. Is it really only a year ago that I graduated? I mean, I’m on the third job since.
France is becoming increasingly worrisome.
Caine@12, Here in France, it’s not a “low level fear that she will win”, but a near-panic that she will make it to the second round of next year’s election (e.g., The Guardian view on the French presidency: the far-right is too close to power). My own opinion, at the moment, is there is some denial she could then win; I would rate, at the moment, the possibility considerably higher then “maybe”. A broad assumption is a wingnut will win, either her or (presumably) whoever wins tomorrow’s “primary”, albeit there is a possible white knight candidate (whom I know essentially nothing about but who is not, as far as I know, a wingnut / authoritarian), Emmanuel Macron.
If a wingnut does win, it means ALL the nuclear arms in the world will be under the control of authoritarians: Trum-prat (USA), Le Pen or similar (France), Putin (Russia), May et al (UK), Big China, Pakistan, N.Korea, Modi (India), and Netanyahu (Israel).
Blf:
That’s certainly familiar, there was a lot of denial over Trump here.
And won’t it be fun for us peons when they fall out…
Fall out to feel the fallout.
I only half joked when I said we’d dig out the cellar under the basement again.