Starbucks deserves to be busted up simply because of the depredations they commit on coffee.
I attended the University of Washington in Seattle in the mid-1970s and tasted the widely heralded Starbucks brand of coffee in its original coffee shop near the Pike Street Market. I thought it was over-roasted and bitter then. Blech!
I still feel the same way now on those extremely rare occasions when I am forced by a blinking low caffeine light and no reasonably close by alternatives to have a cup of the stuff. (This usually happens when flying and I’m stuck between connecting flights at a mid-field terminal.)
Given the long ago “woke” politics of its owners and management, the many reports of the snarky political antics of its baristas, its overly inflated prices, and their megacaloric vulgarization of the drink, I am glad to say I have been actively denying them my patronage for what?...40+ years?
On a more serious note, isn’t threatening and attacking the press (and citizens generally) to prevent them recording the break-in and destruction of public and private property a violation of the First Amendment and, when acting as a group to intimidate, a conspiracy to do the same?
Might be its FedTime again!