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Morning Update: Starbucks on Strike?

December 4, 2025November 17, 2025 The Morning Update

Today, on the morning update, I take a quick look at the stupid Starbucks Strike. Pretentious coffee and pretentious Baristas making ridiculous demands. None of this is possible without your support – please give today! Links: Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, … Read more

They Shoulda Just Left James Cromwell There, Self-Super-Glued to the Starbucks Counter

May 13, 2022May 12, 2022 Skip

I put this into the same category as “if they are threatening to kill themselves via a hunger strike, gimme a lawn chair, popcorn, and a great prime rib steak.”

Coffee Politics: Does America Run on Dunkin’ or Is That Just the Northeast?

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 Steve MacDonald

I drink a lot of coffee, and I live in New England. I can’t drive more than a few minutes without seeing a Dunkin’ Donuts (rebranded now as Dunkin’).

Target, Macy’s, CVS, Home Depot, Starbucks, and Best Buy *Drop Mask Mandates

May 20, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Responding to more useless advice from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), major retailers are changing their masking policies. Remember, the CDC once said masks would make no difference until they did; they didn’t, then they did. Well, now they do, but they don’t.

Dr. Deborah Birx: In-Person Voting is Like Waiting in Line at Starbucks

August 24, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Dr. Deborah Birx was no one of interest to the general population until the COVID19 scare. Now you’d be hard-pressed to find folks who have no clue who she is – a coordinating member of the White House Coronavirus Taskforce. One of those supposed experts. And she thinks you can and should vote in person.

CVS and Target Join Growing List or Businesses Mandating Face Masks

July 17, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The band plays on as both CVS and Target jump on the retail mask mandate Titanic. Both companies have announced that customers will be required to mask up before entering and while shopping in their outlets.

Black Rifle Coffee Company Responds After Starbucks Barista Writes ‘PIG’ On Officers Cup

November 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Early on, Starbucks was an innovative free-market success story. But after a while, they became pretentious liberal privileged social-justice douchebags. We treat them accordingly. So, this story makes us smile.

Dunkin’ Donuts Win: Starbucks Barista Asks Police Officers to Leave Because Customer Didn’t Feel Safe

July 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Petty criminals of the world take note. Starbucks Baristas might be making your job easier by sending the message that the police are not welcome in their stores. Dunkin’ Donuts, this might be a great time to show your support for local PDs.

Escape Starbucks’ Pretentious Crap – At Dunkin’ There’s No Liberal Political Preachin’

November 16, 2025May 22, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Starbucks Coffee sucks. It does. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was six years old. Their coffee is overpriced, pretentious crap. And you are free to disagree. Spend your money to make Woke Liberal Wunderkind Howard Schultz wealthier. But if you’d like an alternative to any of that, Dunkin’ Donuts is apolitical. The Daily Wire … Read more

I guess Starbucks is getting serious about this; and the Enviro-wackos response?

December 13, 2018December 13, 2018 Skip

(H/T: Powerline)

“Spend Your Money On Feel Good Policies That Make No Real Difference”

September 26, 2018July 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Would it surprise you to hear that banning plastic drinking straws will accomplish nothing? How about this; that 500 million straws a day “fact” everyone is repeating came from a 9-year old kids’ school project. Or, that U.S. straws in the waste stream are a sliver of a fraction of 1% of all the plastic waste the ends up in the ocean.

The Last Straw

September 26, 2018July 13, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Sometimes you feel like a win, any win, is enough. Hey, what about banning drinking straws? They’re easy to use, convenient, people like them, but something about the environment.

Starbucks, the same company that very briefly brought us the opportunity to discuss race relations with their counter-people (pompously branded with the label barista), is leading a charge among globally known brands to end the use of plastic straws in our lifetime.

I think this would be a GREAT idea – no more having to pay for rental space

September 26, 2018May 30, 2018 Skip

And given the latest policy from Starbuck as they go all out self-flagellating over “unconscious bias and latent racism” by ALL their employees:

The Women’s Defense League should hold meetings at Starbucks

That would be the Women’s Defense League of NH. Remember, Starbucks made “a request”, not a demand and not a policy of “get out”. What, they want another PR Black Eye?

Sidenote: Hmmm, pun wasn’t intended as I was typing it, but why not pile on Starbucks right now? After all, by requiring ALL of their employees to attend this meeting, and telling their baristas a while ago that Starbucks was a place for them to engage their customers in talks about race (Huh? Trying to have it BOTH ways. Again?)

Go in and have a great meeting on the finer points of REAL gun control

Seattle Passes ‘Head-Count’ Tax On Job Creators

September 26, 2018May 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Back in March Skip reported on a discussion underway in the city that never stops taxing, Seattle. The city council debate over a new tax based on how many people a company employs. At the time the issue was not so much if but how. The “how” has been decided and their latest act of plunder approved.

The result is the so-called head tax on Seattle businesses that gross at least $20 million annually. According to The Seattle Times, 585 businesses in the city will be subject to the tax. Not surprisingly, the tech giant Amazon is expected to pay the most under the tax. The initial proposal was for a $500 tax per employee, which, in Amazon’s case, would have meant an added $20 million in labor costs. Thanks to a veto threat from the mayor, the council reduced its tax grab to $275 per employee.

The Left continues to create Trump supporters

September 26, 2018April 25, 2018 Skip

So, a Starbucks manager asked two black guys to leave as they weren’t buying anything after being there a while. Regardless of melanin concentrations, if someone isn’t buy something, why shouldn’t a restaurant ask them politely to leave? The problem ensued when the two gentlemen said no and the manager (who has now been fired) … Read more

Starbucks War On Women?

September 26, 2018November 2, 2012 Steve MacDonald

I’ve never been to Starbucks but they must have some darn good coffee there. Police were summoned to the Bradenton business “by the staff at Starbucks regarding a female that was in their lobby and was masturbating.” – Smoking Gun The woman was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia after a police officer, summoned by the … Read more

Environmentalists who love crony capitalism

September 26, 2018September 21, 2012 Skip

Because they can’t stand seeing their fellow citizens ignoring their bleats of “You shouldn’t do that” in some cases (like, you know, use electricity to live a modern lifestyle, or be allowed to drive a car that can, like, you know, can actually hold all of your family members and the grocery bags needed to feed them for a week – in 1 trip). So, they’ve convinced elected politicians (or increasingly, the unelected bureaucrats that doing the pols’ job). They certainly are in favor in taking away choice in little ways as in what kind of light bulbs you may purchase.

And when it comes to industries they like, like all things green, they are bound and determined not to let “green go dark” simply because the Free Market hates their ideas. From that ever amusing, ever complaining, bastion of Watermelon Environmentalism (otherwise known as TreeHugger), the denizens are complaining about the Federal Venture Capital spigot being turned off (gee, and I thought ALL forms of conservation was good – including conserving our tax dollars!).