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Home Front: Culture Wars
Time for a National Conversation
2015-03-20
by Spengler

[PJMedia] It's time to have a national conversation about one of the most sensitive, controversial issues in American culture, the stain on our national honor: Coffee. American coffee is now and always has been revolting, and it behooves us to look deep into our souls to understand why we overpay for muck at Starbucks. There's a sucker born every minute, and he's almost certain to be American. We are boosters, enthusiasts, tent-evangelicals, fly-by-nighters, snake-oil salesmen and honky-tonkers as a people, and get swindled every time. Now, to tell a man that his coffee is disgusting is just a tad less offensive than explaining that his wife really is a shaved chimpanzee. Next to one's spouse, nothing gets under our skin and into our soul like coffee. It's the one thing we ingest daily for which there is no substitute, and without which the day hardly seems worth enduring. To get snookered over coffee is a sad thing to admit, but we have to start our great national dialogue somewhere.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#14  That one was one-sided.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-03-20 16:50  

#13  I wonder whatever happened to the conversation about carrying firearms in Starbucks?
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-20 15:55  

#12  I know Starbucks was mocked for the lack of people of color in their ads for this idiocy, but what is the demographic of starbucks hiring in general? I suspect it does not match the spectrum of colors in America and I'd like to know.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-03-20 14:36  

#11  The beloved Angkar congratulates you, comrades, for these confessions, so necessary to the progress of each.

Your Starbucks barista, Pol Pot,
Thinks workers are cool, but you're not:
"Your tender pseud hands
And ironic Ray-Bans
Have earned you a free double shot."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-03-20 14:00  

#10  The Left does not like open debate of anything, so when they call for a "conversation" it can't be a good thing.
Posted by: Iblis   2015-03-20 12:30  

#9  Silly me. I thought we were talking about coffee. I want it black with no sugar. I don't care if it tastes like battery acid as long as it contains enough of the active ingredient. Coffee is one of the few things that McDonald's does well but I can afford an extra buck so if I feel like going to Starbucks, dammit, I will. In my neighborhood there is a Starbucks on every corner. There is a Starbucks counter inside the super market so I can drink espresso on sleepy Sunday afternoons when Mrs. Uluque forces me to go shopping with her. If you aspire to that kind of lifestyle then you might have to work for it like I did. I don't worry about neighborhoods that don't have these amenities. Let them worry about themselves. I don't want to know what the kid behind the counter thinks about anything and I have no spare change for the bum outside the door. I just want my coffee. Can we leave the politics out of it?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-03-20 12:27  

#8  They want a conversation? I'll give them one.

In the drive-through line during the morning rush.

"Never mind all those honking horns, what about race?"
Posted by: Steve White   2015-03-20 10:14  

#7  Maybe ask them why there is no Statbucks in Selma, or Fergenson, or many other majority black areas?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-03-20 10:06  

#6  Wonder what response you'd get if you asked your local barrista why the black illegitimacy rate is over 70%, and what that meant for the stability and economic future of the black community.

Somehow I don't think that's the conversation they're looking for.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-03-20 09:58  

#5  "Or at least a cashional nonversation!"

Not a flying hapax. Dammit.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-03-20 09:54  

#4  Let's indeed talk about percent of population vs violent crime stats. I suspect that those rich enough to live in gated communities or virtual 'gated' towns never have or had family members who've been victims of such crime and thus have no understanding that regardless of the censorship of the MSM race relations have been seriously impacted and not in the manner they 'wish'. Reality eventually gets around mugging fantasy. It also undermines the 'guilt industry' sold by the Left. If there is any guilt, let it be carried by those who supported slavery and segregation and discrimination*, the Donks.

* let's talk about the systematic exclusion of highly qualified Asians from the UC system on going today by that same Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-20 09:22  

#3  I grab a starbucks when I'm hungry and need coffee and there isn't anything else reasonably close.

Now I'll just drive the extra 10 minutes and Starbucks can go fuck themselves.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-03-20 09:06  

#2  I'll go to Dunkin Donuts or MickeyDees where I can have a cup of coffee at a reasonable priced in peace.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-20 08:18  

#1  I've never had Starbucks coffee. I guess there's no reason to start now.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-03-20 07:21  

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