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November 9
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump .. congratulated himself for strong ratings as host of "Saturday Night Live" and called for a boycott of Starbucks over holiday cups ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/ct-trump-calls-for-starbucks-boycott-at-raucous-springfield-rally-20151109-story.html
KarenS
(4,085 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)I was wavering before.
Thanks, 'The Donald' and that thing living on your head.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)no message on it. Just a plain red cup. Just right for a secular Xmas.
elias49
(4,259 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)I get my java fix from locally owned small businesses anyway. Always have always will. Better baked goods.
struggle4progress
(118,334 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...when a lot of his supporters showed up wearing Trump ties with Trump's face instead of Jesus'.
doc03
(35,364 posts)murielm99
(30,761 posts)I would go there tomorrow if I did.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)don't ask what I'll buy. I find their food to be awful but then again, I'm very careful about what I eat.
Crunchy Frog
(26,630 posts)Now I'm going to have to start going there.
NowSam
(1,252 posts)Trump vs. Starbucks? I Think he just got chumped. I don't care for the bitter over priced code there but people live up around the block for it so I would bet good money that Starbucks is mode popular than Trump.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)TRUMPBUCKS!!
840high
(17,196 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)I went to Target and was not offered a Christmas style bag. Same at Menards, Home Depot, Kohls, Barnes and Nobles, McDonalds, Dairy Queen, Subway, Papa John's, and my local used book store.
And not one single employee at any of these businesses I visited over the weekend wished me a Merry Christmas!!!
We, as God-fearing Americans need to boycott every one of these businesses that disrespect our Judeo (oops, forget that part)-Christian values.
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)Is calling for a boycott.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)In this part of the world, that's going to make Starbucks a really nice place hang out.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)Was there a Starbucks next to the manger?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)Ben Carson explained that a mistake was made when translating the NT from it's original Greek. Christ wasn't born in a manger. It was actually a Starbucks. Silly translators.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)He's basically just throwing whatever red-meat he can think of into the crowd to generate a reaction.
If anything he's exposing the mouth-breather faction of the GOP as utter and total morans (sic)...not that there was much doubt about their intellectual level to start.
Delphinus
(11,840 posts)more often because of stupid things like this.
Ack!
What is wrong with us?!
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...a few extra times this season, just because Trump thinks we should boycott the place.
What a joke / jerk he is!
BTW, how absurd this whole "issue" is to begin with. In other years, Starbucks has included motifs like ... snowflakes, candy canes, snowmen... none of which emphasize the Christ part of Christmas. So even IF one took this whole thing seriously, if one were to examine the motifs of years past, there is NO evidence that there has been any change. Basically people are pissed about some company who decided their Christmas motif this year is minimal. That's it. It is basically a protest based on esthetics. It's like protesting the house next door because this year they adorned their home with red and green lights, but didn't put up the icicles or the Santa with sled on the roof or the snowman in the front yard, and claiming that they are against Christmas.
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)Keeps me from having to wait in line with psychopaths, racists and bigots.
It's a win-win.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Oh yeah, he doesn't do those, just this stupid fluff to shore up his teahadist support
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)StrayKat
(570 posts)The repubs complain about the last debate not being substantive enough, and then float this kind of non-issue in the days before the debate.