George really lets the liberals have it here. NSFW.
Posted on 07/11/2018 3:23:17 PM PDT by Jonty30
Demarketing plastic products in order to try and demarket oil?
Remember the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster? The gulf sure doesn’t. The ocean is an amazing filter.
78.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
They concern themselves with straws because it’s meaningless do-goodery that they can demonstrate in a public manner without having to incur a cost to themselves.
In sum, it’s a Toyota Pious without the car payment.
They hate children and want to take all the little kiddies sippy straws away from them so mom has to work even harder keeping their little clothes and hands clean. Meanies.
And they hate cows, and therefore, milkshakes, which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be sucked through a PAPER straw.
Seattle just outlawed plastic straws starting sometime in the future. We’ll see if they go through with it.
What else will they use to snort the stuff they snort? Rolled up taxpayers money?
Use them with Chick-fil-A frosted lemonade- YUM!
And the ‘sippy cup’ caps on these cups are made of what?
Plastic.
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They are essential in hospitals and nursing homes (bendy straws) for hydration and nourishment.
they don’t want to run out of straws because that is all they have to grasp.
They’re told that their environment is a cesspool, a disaster, the world is going to end.
They essentially banned plastic bags. On to the next local target.
It is easy and readily available, they can advocate for it without leaving home, and it gains them moral points with their friends.
There’s nothing dirty, nasty or hard as you’d face building latrines in India, sewers in Haiti and Guatemala, or signs telling the Chinese not to litter.
Virtue signalling. People love to find hills to die on. The more visible and less inconvenient the better. Much like the anti-bag crusade this too shall pass.
Plastic over paper.
Straws bear an uncanny resemblance to the necks and arms of liberal men, which encourages mockery of a group that already suffers from low self-esteem.
Straws are obviously phallocentric. "Nuff said.
Straws facilitate the consumption of carbonated beverages, chocolate milk and milkshakes. Evil, evil and evil. Global carbon emissions could be reduced by at least 15 percent if we could dispense with the cows that are needed currently to produce chocolate milk and milkshakes.
Small children find straws fun. This leads to early childhood conditioning oriented to the simple joys of life, which undermines proper leftist character formation.
Most straws are produced by corporations, for profit.
Straws were invented by men, and white men at that.
This is just scratching the surface, but once one starts connecting the dots, the world historical significance of abolishing straws become obvious. A fully woke person will naturally feel compelled to take action.
Just one more thing to bitch about, like plastic shopping bags.
Straws are for sucking.
The left wants blowing.
We can't have nice things because some foreign pinhead hominid with an IQ of 60 throws its garbage into a foreign river.
Maybe one of their big donors is ready to produce a biodegradable straw.
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