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Starbucks Under Fire for Allegedly Banning "Charlie Kirk" from Drink Orders
jfeed.com ^ | 9-16-25 | Eliana Fleming

Posted on 09/16/2025 10:23:35 AM PDT by doug from upland

A customer's attempt to honour the late conservative activist by having his name printed on her cup was reportedly denied, with a barista claiming the company's system blocks "political names."

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DO THIS!

CHARLIE-MONEY

1 posted on 09/16/2025 10:23:35 AM PDT by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland

Preferably at every single Starbucks coffee shop in the country.


2 posted on 09/16/2025 10:24:28 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: doug from upland

Well, I can’t boycott them any more than I already do.


3 posted on 09/16/2025 10:25:14 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: doug from upland
"a barista claiming the company's system blocks "political names."

I suspect that was a quick and dirty lie.

Whatever. As per the last 30 years, they haven't and won't get a cent of my money .

4 posted on 09/16/2025 10:25:40 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Quickgun

Yup. How do I boycott them when I have never spent a dime there???


5 posted on 09/16/2025 10:26:27 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: doug from upland

The best is still to say “Bueller” and leave.


6 posted on 09/16/2025 10:26:41 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Michael Bennet claps on 1 and 3.)
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To: Quickgun
Well, I can’t boycott them any more than I already do.

Truth
7 posted on 09/16/2025 10:26:58 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: shelterguy

They won’t get anymore if my money.


8 posted on 09/16/2025 10:29:22 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Quickgun

Yup. How do I boycott them when I have never spent a dime there???


9 posted on 09/16/2025 10:30:34 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: doug from upland
Image from Gyazo
10 posted on 09/16/2025 10:32:50 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: No name given

No one knows what they put in your coffee if they don’t like your looks on a particular day.


11 posted on 09/16/2025 10:35:03 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: All

Spartacus


12 posted on 09/16/2025 10:35:48 AM PDT by BipolarBob (There's a bike in town that keeps running me over! It's a vicious cycle.)
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To: doug from upland

I live in liberal NY- the gym i go to is having computer problems and there’s a sign in sheet...i’ve been signing in as “Charlie Kirk” the past couple days....i wonder if they are noticing...


13 posted on 09/16/2025 10:36:24 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: doug from upland

Just say Charlie.

“I am Charlie.”

Prove I’m not.


14 posted on 09/16/2025 10:37:21 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: doug from upland

I guess the employee hasn’t heard about Office Depot critters — now unemployed — pulling the same thing.


15 posted on 09/16/2025 10:38:43 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Quickgun

+1


16 posted on 09/16/2025 10:40:19 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: doug from upland

“claiming the company’s system blocks ‘political names’.”

Is that in the corporate Policies And Procedures, or Employee Manual?


17 posted on 09/16/2025 10:40:54 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: chopperk

Or your shirt/hat.


18 posted on 09/16/2025 10:41:37 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: doug from upland

I. M. Kirk


19 posted on 09/16/2025 10:42:10 AM PDT by txeagle
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To: doug from upland

If I was to order anything from a restaurant of coffee shop that notoriously hired young, irresponsible, leftists, there is no way I’d order under the name, “Charlie Kirk”. Maybe using “Che Guevara” would get me a latte with a happy ending.👍🤣


20 posted on 09/16/2025 10:42:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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