We previously discussed how companies were barring political protests or paraphernalia at the workplace and how such rules are entirely enforceable. That made a recent story interesting when Starbucks workers across the country stopped working for a silent protest over the deportation of unlawful immigrants. Starbucks does not appear to be moving to stop such protests in the workplace, which is its prerogative. Customers, however, may find the extra shot of politics with their Mocha Java to be a bit much in the morning.
The protest itself was rather anemic, with a work stoppage lasting just a few minutes as workers stood in silent solidarity with those being deported.
It would ordinarily not be something that a commercial chain would relish. Prior polling shows that 83 percent of Americans support deportations of immigrants with violent criminal records and almost half support mass deportation of all undocumented persons. Even less pronounced polls reveal a majority supporting deportations generally with a third supporting deportations of all unlawful immigrants.
Postings show Starbucks workers leaving shops or reading statements denouncing the Trump Administration’s deportation policies.
With an increasingly competitive coffee market and Starbucks struggling to slow a drop in revenue, it would not appear an opportune time to tie the brand to a controversial political issue. Think BudLight with a shot of espresso.
The management either does not want to confront employees on the issue or supports the public opposition to the immigration policies. The question is how stockholders and the board view the protests as a corporate policy. As discussed earlier, shareholders and board members of these corporations have been raising the cost of such entanglement with political and social controversies. A boycott movement has already arisen after the protests.
The danger is that a company like Starbucks can become the BlueSky of coffee shops, serving a fraction of the population with high-priced beverages to enjoy in a political echo-chamber.
When your whole platform is on ways to kill babies and get away with it, you’re not ever going to win. Simple as that. PEople have wised up to the left’s theft, arrogance and genocide.
“It serves to point out how incompetent Trump and his cadre of “economic advisors” is” that is just an empty gratuitous statement…I’ll put the treasury secretary up against ten of your choices. and the town hall resistance done by paid leftists mean nothing
What you said double that up!
I use my Nespresso Vertuo Plus machine to brew my coffee using their Intenso pod. Better than any coffee made by STARBUCK’s. Then, I clean out the NESPRESSO pods to fill with my very own coffee, which is better than NESPRESSO Intenso. I reseal the pods, brew, and am in coffee heaven.
Ooooooooopsie Daisy, STARBUCKS!!
I haven’t been a regular customer of Starbucks since I had kids 20 years ago. I got better things to spend on then their crap. We brew our own and take it in a steel container called a thermos. Saved thousands over a couple decades. Skrew Starbxs
Saloth Sar
Well said! I couldn’t understand the huge hurrah he got from the press and the applause from his party. I mean, so Corey can talk, read, whatever for 25 hours…big freaking deal. But those freaks can’t even stand and applaud a 13 yo cancer suffering kid. That says so much about who they really aren’t. They aren’t kind nor compassionate, unless you believe exactly like them.
Key phrases that everyone should repeat, “BlueSky of coffee shops, serving a fraction of the population with high-priced beverages to enjoy in a political echo-chamber.” Not only well-said but it’s a succinct statement of fact.
Sorry Dufus, making deals is not “caving”; the shouting at the town halls was mostly false flag paid Soros stooges, the mild protest is nonsense and just makes all of us who actually work for a living want to piss on a Starbucks worker.
Not even if they were on fire.
What a load of excrement. Your statement proves you did not pass the commonsense test before you posted. You should think about having an independent party well-versed in some political “reading between the lines” to fact check your statements before taking to your keyboard.
Sounds like you should go lick a moose.
It’s our right not to spend our money in Starbucks too. I didn’t tolerate their social justice lectures a couple of years ago and I won’t tolerate this nonsense.
This protest was noticed, by Turley. Despite his somewhat dismissive tone about it he clealry has a bit of a bone to pick with the idea of companies allowing such things. He admits it’s their prerogative and their right, but he seems insistent on companies not do that because its…what? A bad idea? So what? That’s just free speech in the making.
Coffee will be much more expensive everywhere now thanks to the tariffs. We can’t grow coffee beans here. They only grow in certain regions where the climate is favorable. Plus, it looks like Trump is caving in on some of his tariffs by exempting electronics and chips from Taiwan and even Chinese products.
This “mild” protest still serves a purpose. It makes people aware, it made enough of a disturbance to get Turley’s attention. It serves to point out how incompetent Trump and his cadre of “economic advisors” is. He’s already done lasting damage and there are growing worries among Republicans that they wlll not fare well in the midterms. I know it’s early, but Trump did do a LOT of damage in less than 100 days. Elon and DOGE are rarely mentioned now after the disastrous attempt ot sway voters in Wisonsin. Republican town hall meetings were nothing but angry voters citing Elon and their realization that they have been taken for granted as chumps.
Sooner or later Turley will have to contend with the fact that Trump and his acolytes are trampling on the rule of law and attacking free speech in ways even worse than Biden allegedly did.
lol. I’m sure you and your foolish liberal friends don’t care about how middle-class and working-class Americans have been screwed by the GAAT crap that Clinton signed. Or all the unfair trade practices, trade dumping, etc. that the other countries do to destroy our economic livelihood while bleeding us dry. I’m sure you don’t care how they’ve lost their jobs, their homes, and economic security so you can have a cheaper cup of coffee while some slave-laborer in China makes you a new iPhone.
Of course they could ‘learn to code,’ right? Oh, wait, thanks to the H1B Visa abuse, even if they learn to code, they”re probably not get the job as some guy from India will 70 hours a week for peanuts as they conduct Visa fraud to keep expensive Americans out of the field.
💯 Well said!!
George – I can not keep up with the exposure of malfeasance and slapdowns of the left
Left wing judges being told they are way out over their ski.
The revalations that the lawfare against Trump originated in the whitehouse – which means that AG Merit Garland LIED under oath to congress repeatedly
More and more Crossfire Huricane malfeasance exposed.
More and More Jack Smith malfeasance exposed.
Trump rising in polls when he is supposed to be tanking and everything is supposed to be going to h311.
The media reports inflation went up – only to have to correct, because it went down.
The EU politely telling China to pound sand when Xi tries top persuade Europe to tranship Chinese goods.
Even Vietnam cutting off china.
I can not even remember the long list of losses the left has suffered this week – or for the past 3 months or for the past 2 years.
If Starbucks wants to allow employees to protest – I am fine with that.
At the same time what I want out of my retailers is quality products with good and fast service.
I do not want to have to listen to a screed for or against Trump as I make my purchases.
But YOU are free to buy your coffee where you want.
This points out one of the HUGE differences between the right and left.
Those of us not on the far left, just want those of you on the left to leave us along.
To quit FORCING your nonsense on us, or our children.
To quit FORCING us to listen to your nonsense everywhere we go.
To quit FORCING the rest of us to PAY to have you FORCE your nonsense on our children and everywhere we go.
When we go for coffee – we want coffee , no coffee and a illogical moral declamations.
When we pay taxes – we want that to go for fundimental government tasks, thwarting theft, and murder and those who would use violence to impose their will on us, we do not want it to got to NPR or PBS to attempt to politically indoctrinate us with our own money.
If those of you on the left wish to go out on the public square and protest for or against whatever floats your boat
GO FOR IT!!!
Just do not block traffic of make the rest of our lives less pleasant by FORCING the rest of us to pay attention to your juvenile nonsense.
We DO NOT CARE what you do in the privacy of your own home.
We DO CARE when you try to FORCE your private lives onto us and our children.
Grow up.
If your life or the world do not live up to your expectations – that is YOUR PROBLEM.
If you want to make the world a better place – start with the man in the mirror.
I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could’ve been any clearer
If they wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change
—-
Sunshine, go away today
I don’t feel much like dancing
Some man’s gone, he tried to run my life
He don’t know what he’s asking
Well, he tells me I better get in line
I can’t hear what he’s saying
…
He can’t even run his own life
Be damned if he’ll run mine
Drunkposting is awesome.
Well said, John say
We will see what happens in midterms. The norm is that the party in power loses in mid terms.
If that is what happens – that would be the norm – not some political message.
It is way early so all tea leaf reading is out on a limb,
But signs so far are that it is democrats that are in trouble.
In state after state – republican registrations are outpacing democrats and have been for a decade.
The youngest cohort of voters is the most conservative ever recorded.
Democrats are losing the working class and are doing nothing to recover.
Inflation is coming down slowly – after rising in the last half of 2024.
Jobs numbers are rising – and NOW they are not gamed with jobs for govenrment and illegal immigrants.
If this is Trump wrecking the Country and the Economy
Please Sir, Can I have More ?
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz once pushed back against stockholders’ objections to the company’s politicization, saying basically, FU, go take your investment elsewhere. Perhaps Brian Noccol feels the same way. In which case, a boycott will not make any difference. I never spend money at Starbucks or Ben & Jerry’s, that’s just the free market at work. Let Starbucks adopt whatever political stance they want, it will just free up market share for some other more entrepreneur.
That said, I would not in a million years oppose the opening of a Starbucks or Ben & Jerry’s in my town. This is in contrast with when Chick Fil-A sought to open up a franchise in my town. The liberals banded together to block it by pressuring the town government to block through restrictive zoning. Why? Chick Fil-A had once donated money to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. I believe in free markets, the liberals in my town believed in government coercion. Yet they refer to my side as “fascists.” Go figure.
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They make terrible brewed coffee. I haven’t been in a Starbucks in years. So many local shops are way better.
I prefer to spend local.
It is unfortunate how in spite of your pedigree, you have helped enable the destruction of constitutional rights–I wonder if you will have the courage to at least publish something in light of what the White House Press Secretary Noted about deporting Citizens. If America is not known for the rule of law, then what is good for? Maybe being so smart that you are, you can answer that. But, I guess that’s just expecting too much.
Yes that’s expecting too much of JT. Deporting without any due process as long as it’s not a Maggot being deported, but let a Maggot be the subject of a minor slight and that is suddenly a major problem. This used to be a nice little blog with well reasoned posts, but now it’s just Maggot/tRump/Putin propaganda site, not really worth reading, so very predictable.
Yet here you are reading and commenting, anonymous hypocrite troll.
Plus, you are apparently mixing this blog up with another one, since your description bears no relation to Professor Turley’s actual blog entries, in fact it is just the opposite of what the professor says on a regular basis. I noticed you didn’t provide a link, and that’s because you’re content to tell lies and slander someone much more accomplished and honorable than yourself, you anonymous hypocrite troll.
Deportation is another name for “Sending someone HOME”
How much due process should that involve ?
Must you gather evidence get a search warrant and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that your neighbor is a criminal to ask them to go home after they refuse to leave after a visit ?
As is typical of those on the left – your anlysis is shallow.
Has this blog changed ?
Yes, the conduct of the left has been red pilling Turley as well as much of the country.
Rule of Law includes DEPORTING ILLEGAL ALIENS. Funny that.
# points zzmoses
Great to see a body of workers standing up to preserve constitutional rights for all.
You don’t have a Constitutional right to enter the U.S. without asking. If someone breaks into you house, are you going to let him stay until a judge says you can throw him out? Or maybe the judge will tell you to support him forever.
Remember when Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ CEO, came up with “Race Together,” an effort to encourage conversations among customers as they waited to get their drinks? Ostensibly, it was meant to promote congenial race relations. Only a liberal CEO of a coffee chain with sluggish service could come up with that kind of idea. The campaign didn’t last.
“No tip for you!” (Say in the manner and tone of the Soup Nazi.)
Jonathan: Cheers to Starbuck workers who are showing their solidarity with the immigrant rights community. Starbuck workers have now joined the millions around the country last Saturday who protested the DJT regime’s illegal deportation policies–depriving hundreds of immigrants of their due process rights, i.e., the right to a hearing before a judge before being shipped to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
The Pew Research poll is instructive. While the vast majority support deporting immigrants who have committed crimes that support drops off drastically for immigrants who are living here peacefully, who have a job (15%), those who are parents of children born here (14%), those who came here as children (9%), and only 5% support deportation of immigrants who are married to a US citizen.
The case of Armundo Abrego Garcia (AG) fits perfectly into the above poll results. He fled El Salvador because of gang threats against him and his family. In 2019 he was given TPS by a judge who ordered he could not be deported. Since 2019 AG has lived peacefully in Maryland and has committed no crimes. He has a job, is married to a US citizen and has a child born in the US. His family denies AG has any connection to MS-13 or any other criminal gang. Yet, the DJT regime grabbed AG, did not afford him a hearing before a judge, and shipped him off to a brutal prison in El Salvador where he has been sitting for the last 30 days–the very country he fled because of gang violence! And despite an order from SCOTUS still refuses to return AG back to the US.
The DJT regime is acting lawlessly and this is why Starbucks’ workers have stood up to support AG and the other immigrants who were denied their due process rights. But you support the MAGA crowd who wants to boycott Starbucks. And I thought you were against boycotts!
Perfect liar. Garcia was NOT given TPS status.
According to court records, in 2019, a confidential informant ‘had advised that Abrego Garcia was an active member’ of the gang MS-13. He later filed an I-589 application for asylum and although Abrego Garcia was found removable, an immigration judge “granted him withholding of removal to El Salvador.”
“WAS FOUND REMOVABLE.” –But not to El SAlvador. end of sentence.
Garcia left El Salvador when he was 16; supposedly to avoid gang recruitment. He’s 30 now. Is the gang back in El Salvador still a threat to him? Gangs typically try to recruit teens and young men, but I’ve never heard of them wanting to recruit a man in his 30s. I believe the issue should be whether the order of protection that he was given when he was a kid should be dissolved because it’s no longer relevant or necessary.
I am against undocumented illegals and not against legal immigrants.
I don,t know if you are aware of this difference.
You think legal immigrants don’t take American jobs. Check out the corrupt H1B visa program.
Marcel, I don’t think they know nor care about the difference. Independet Bob.
Illegals do NOT have “immigrant rights.” They aren’t even immigrants. They illegally entered the country. That’s an invasion. I’m going to come to your house, plop myself down, rid the fridge and refuse to leave because of my “rights.” Let’s see how long you tolerate that. Newspeak: Enforcing the laws on the books is now “lawless.” Orwell couldn’t have written it better.
There are 193 countries. The ONLY country he couldn’t be deported to was El Salvador. That’s it.
“ While the vast majority support deporting immigrants who have committed crimes…”
If you enter our country illegally, by definition, you are a criminal.
There is no sane person that wants to foot the medical insurance, housing, food, etc. for an illegal. Yet, many have better coverage and benefits than U.S. citizens.
Blue cities love them because they spend that “free” money in the local economy. Yet, that money comes out of the U.S. Treasury which eventually costs every taxpayer in the end.
Come legally. Contribute. Take nothing from the government.
Again, I couldn’t care less about Starbucks. Good for those who want to “protest” but I wonder how many could make a cogent, fact-based argument for what concerns them. Or, are they lemmings parroting the propaganda de jour?
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We need documented and working migrants to stand outside with posters that read, “STARBUCKED!” or “BUCK the STAR!”
#. Dock their pay.
#. Professor Turley, the cancel culture has succeeded. The question is how do sane people move forward.
As to the colleges, the old Professors will be gone by attrition and the hiring practices of progressives will take their place.
The constitutionalists will need a new center, other colleges etc. States will become more powerful in the future as the US slowly breaks into separate nations like the EU.
There’s really not much to work with.
Adieu
They stopped working for a minute right after they stopped working for a minute. When it’s the same no one notices.