Starbucks India Scandal – The Real Reason Companies are Going WOKE

By Martin Armstrong

Indians are boycotting Starbucks after the company released a new ad normalizing the woke agenda. They sell overpriced coffee produced from cheap labor—what is Starbucks trying to achieve here? The marketing department for Starbucks India certainly heard about the Bud Light scandal that ruined the brand. People across India are stating that they do not want the Western woke agenda to infiltrate their culture built on tradition. But, there is a reason companies are trashing their brands to adhere to the woke agenda. Follow the money! Continue reading “Starbucks India Scandal – The Real Reason Companies are Going WOKE”

Starbucks, Carhartt Take Opposite Stand on Vaccine Mandates — Both Take Heat From Consumers

Via The Defender

The U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for private businesses left companies like Starbucks and Carhartt scrambling to decide whether they should abandon the mandate or force their employees to be vaccinated.

Starbucks was one of the first major retailers to backtrack on its plans to require workers to be vaccinated against COVID.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Jan. 13 ruling striking down the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for private businesses left many companies scrambling to decide whether they should abandon the mandate or force their employees to be vaccinated while the lawsuit plays out in the lower courts.

Meanwhile, a coalition of attorneys general from 27 states is calling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to rescind its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) because it lacks the authority to issue a broad vaccine mandate.

Starbucks was one of the first major retailers to backtrack on its plans to require workers to be vaccinated against COVID. Starbucks on Tuesday told its 228,000 employees at more than 9,000 U.S. coffee shops it would no longer require workers be fully vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID testing.

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Starbucks Barista Bullies Trump Supporter

Guest Post by Todd Starnes

Kayla Hart dropped by the Starbucks in Charlotte, North Carolina the other day for a cup of coffee. She left with a bitter taste – and it had nothing to do with the overpriced java.

Kayla happened to be wearing a Donald Trump t-shirt when she walked into the coffee shop on East Boulevard in the Dilworth neighborhood.

She tells Fox 46 the cashier took one look at her t-shirt and laughed. She also noticed her order was labeled with a political message – mocking her support of the president.

Instead of her name, the cashier wrote, “Build A Wall.”

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Starbucks’ ‘Brand Perception’ Takes A Massive Hit After Announcing Plans To Hire 10,000 Refugees

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About a month ago, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz decided to ‘take a stand’ in defiance of Trump’s immigration executive order and penned a message to the world vowing, among other things, to hire 10,000 refugees over the next 5 years and “build bridges, not walls, with Mexico”.  Here are some excerpts from the politically charged message drafted by Schultz with “deep concern and a heavy heart”:

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IT’S A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS

Whenever I see one of these stories about how little Americans have available for an emergency, my blood starts to boil. I understand that poor people making $25,000 per year are forced to live paycheck to paycheck. But when 63% of all Americans can’t handle a $500 emergency, and 46% of  households making over $75,000 can’t handle a $500 emergency, then they are just plain stupid, frivolous, and incapable of distinguishing between wants and needs. Delayed gratification is a trait almost non-existent among Americans today.

The first thing that infuriates me is the assumption that a $500 car repair or house repair is an unexpected emergency. It’s a fucking living expense. It’s not a fucking surprise. Your car will need new tires every few years. That’s $500 or more. Your hot water heater, air conditioner, roof, windows, etc. will need to be replaced. Everyone gets sick. That is not unexpected. Anyone who lives their life as if these expenses are a shocking surprise is a blithering idiot. And this country is crawling with blithering idiots.

So the majority of Americans can’t handle a $500 expense, but for the last two years there have been 35 million new cars “sold” to blithering idiots on credit or leases. Even though they have no money, they decide it’s a brilliant idea to commit to a 7 year payment of $300 to $500 per month on an asset that declines in value rapidly. Morons abound. These are the same people who must have their Starbucks coffee every day. These math challenged boobs could defer buying a Starbucks coffee every day, save the $3, and accumulate $750 of emergency savings in one year.

There are millions of brain dead Americans who are going to reap a whirlwind of consequences when this shit show implodes. They’ll be wailing and gnashing their teeth when their years of living for today catches up to them. Too fucking bad. The only way to accumulate wealth is to spend less than you make. It’s a lesson they failed to heed, and they will regret it for the rest of their pitiful lives.

Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street

Some 63% of people can’t deal with a $500 emergency

Stucky Q.O.T.D. —- Trump vs. Jeebus

Christians and The Donald have brought the culture war to disposable paper Starbucks cups.

You see, previous Starbucks paper cups had these images on them;

Snowflakes! Ornaments! Snowman!  These are all things that keep Christ in Christmas!!  How dare Starbucks remove them! They are waging WAR on Christianity!  Dontchya know that Jeebus died for snowflakes and snowmen??

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5 Stories the Media Missed While Obsessing over the #StarbucksRedCup

Guest Post by Claire Bernish

(ANTIMEDIA) U.S. Inc. — When billionaire presidential hopeful Donald Trump inexplicably decided this week that boycotting Starbucks over the ‘de-Christmas-ization’ of their ubiquitous red holiday coffee cup was somehow a matter of national importance, the internet exploded — and American mainstream media fanned the flames.

People from every conceivable walk of life suddenly found themselves with a reason to rise up against the establishment coffee chain and scream in indignation about this newly-neutral — and cheerlessly Grinch-ified — affront to humanity. As if this inane insanity over an innocuous paper cup weren’t an embarrassing enough commentary on the U.S.’ populace’ lack of priorities — by Wednesday morning, the corporatocracy ever-so nobly answered the outrage: Dunkin’ Donuts unveiled its decidedly cheerful, appropriately Christmas-ized version of its holiday cup.

Yes, indeed. Starbucks’ apparent war on Christmas has now fully morphed into a de facto corporate Battle of the Paper Cups. People immediately responded by declaring their undying allegiance to either Team Grinch or Team Santa, conveniently ignoring the fact that these mega-corporations just figured out their most lucrative holiday marketing strategies — weeks before Thanksgiving even crossed people’s minds.

But the passion these warring coffee cup factions have managed to muster is indisputably misplaced, especially considering the bevy of pertinent issues that directly affect us all and are inherently more deserving of outrage. Though the month isn’t yet halfway behind us, there are already myriad concerns in need of your immediate attention — and none have anything whatsoever to do with a commercialized holiday that’s still well over a month away.

Here are five things exponentially more deserving of your indignation than a paper cup — no matter its design (or lack thereof):

1. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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A Saturday Night at ‪Starbucks

A Saturday Night at Starbucks

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An unusual set of family events found me sitting in a Starbucks last Saturday night. It had been a reasonably decent day, but there are, as we all know, plenty of things in this world to be depressed about. And those things, as we also know, are massively amplified by the attention-seeking class. (Bad news sells.) Somehow, the parade of negativity had its effect on me.

Sitting in the Starbucks cured me.

What I Saw

It was a very average Starbucks in a very average location. And the very average people sitting with me were a near-perfect cross-section of the American demographic.

To my left was a middle-aged black man, doing something on his laptop. Just past him was a middle-aged white woman doing the same. Past her, in the corner, were three teenage girls – one black, one white, one Latin – studying something together.

Behind me was another black man with a laptop and piles of papers, and past him was a young couple falling in love over lattes.

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STARBUCKS IS A REFLECTION OF OUR SOCIETY

I’ve never understood the idiocy of people spending $5 for a cup of flavored water. I drink two or three cups of coffee per day, but I never buy it at Starbucks or any other retail outlet. I scoop some coffee into a filter and fill my coffee maker with water from the tap. My cup of coffee costs 10 cents and gives me the same caffeine surge as a pretentious overpriced Starbucks Triple, Venti, Half Sweet, Non-Fat, Caramel Macchiato or a Non-Fat Frappuccino With Extra Whipped Cream And Chocolate Sauce.

Walking around with a Starbucks cup in your hand is just another example of shallow math challenged people pathetically attempting to let others think they are successful and cool by flaunting that they can piss money away on flavored water with a fancy name. I guess it boosts their egos. Wasting money on such things is a reflection of a society of waste, egotism, shallowness, short range thinking, and ignorance. When you read the statistics about Boomer retirement savings averaging less than $50,000 and hear the sob stories about needing the government to support them, you just need a calculator and basic knowledge of math to see the impact of buying two Starbuck coffees per day versus saving that money. By brewing two cups at home versus buying two cups at Starbucks and investing the savings for 30 years with a 4% annual return, you end up with $50,000 to $100,000 of savings by retirement. Try it yourself:

http://www.hughcalc.org/coffee.cgi 

This is just one example of the frivolous expenditures made by the ignorant masses without thought for the long-term consequences. The chart below reveals a few more things to me. When the Fed is blowing bubbles and the people feel wealthy because their home price is rising or their stock portfolio is growing, the wealth effect convinces them to waste money on non-essential crap. You can see what happened to Starbucks when the financial system collapsed in 2009. Their sales went flat as they continued to add thousands of stores. Profits crashed and the CEO was shitcanned. They closed almost 400 stores as the reverse wealth effect convinced millions of morons to stop wasting money on overpriced flavored water.

But Bennie came to the rescue and began printing fiat at hyper-speed. The return of easy money, rising prices for McMansions, and expanding portfolios for the 1% have led to increased revenues and profits for Starbucks. The delusional masses never learn their lesson. I wonder how many frappuccinos they will be selling after the next financial collapse?

 

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