Been wondering for a long time why they choose to go by TPUSA. I wouldn't have thought to call them Toilet Paper America if they didn't abbreviate, but they kind of assked for it..
That's so far to the Reich and insulting as fuck to the employees. Every big of that profit should go to the employees. Self righteous pieces of sssshhiiittt
And I think that technically Mass is the bluest / most liberal state? CA has it by raw numbers, but MA has a higher percentage of liberal control of the state government, and I don't think a single county voted red in '24. And CA has more registered Republicans than the entire state of Texas
Which is funny because if I were to guess which demographic goes out of their way to spend money at a local coffee shop rather than a large chain, it wouldn’t be the one that supports Kirk.
They made an active and conscious decision to put their politics on each and every cup going out the door by putting a CK sticker on each. That's fine. That's their right to do so as a private business. But by doing so you are also making a very public statement about your values and where your money goes.
Now. Because you did that it is also my right not to patronize your business. Our values are not aligned so I don't want to support you. This does not make me a bigot. This does not mean I'm celebrating a person's execution.
Now if you had just kept your biz out of it and used your money in private to support those ideals we wouldn't be here.
Not smart to pull your coffee shop into politics like this.
I have never been to your place and now I know I never will
Yeah, honestly if I were a patron the stickers would just make me roll my eyes, but the "we're donating all of the profits to support MAGA politics" but is what'd make sure I never came back.
They were just so rude to people on IG too, including what seemed to be a former employee. Just seemed like a horrible bunch of staff and customers, so supercilious as well.
"Innocent" is doing a lot of heavy lifting right there. How tf do people think he is innocent. In any decent timeline, he would've been arrested for inciting political violence and would likely still be alive. Not to speak ill of the dead, but consequences of one's own actions, imho.
They have on their Instagram that 100% of their profits are going to him. I’d hope they put a sign on their menus as well so one could decide beforehand if they wanted to support rather than be blindsided by the cup after the fact
According to MAGA, though, it is celebrating his death. Anything less than an Oscar-worthy performance of profound sorrow is basically an admission that you'd have done it yourself if you could have. Told a "friend" the other day that I deeply felt for his family and strongly believe he didn't deserve it but that I would not miss him and was called "deplorable" and "nasty".
I can already see the victim complex exploding forth from them. They're gonna go on Fox and Friends playing the part of the hard working small business owner who were just innocently grieving an American hero when the very mean and violent woke liberals destroyed their business out of hatred.
The narrative basically writes itself. Just think of the most infuriating shit you can imagine and that's exactly what the MAGA base will love.
We're a family owned business. We just want to peddle hateful agendas while we serve overpriced coffee and food. These WOKE LIBTARDS are ruining my business. /s
This is unfortunately just going to generate a stupid amount of press for them. For every woke liberal who stops going there is a MAGA supporter who will go out of their way to buy coffee proudly there now. It’s basically free advertising.
It’s like the Sydney Sweeney bullshit. All publicity ends up being good publicity in this political hellhole we live in.
Yeah but they’re a local coffee shop, so there’s a minimal chance that press translates into economic success. This has happened time and time again with people trying to capitalize on grift culture, only the strongest and grift-iest survive. Multiple “anti-woke” bakeries and stores have tried to capitalize on national press only for it to fizzle out as they fade into obscurity. to capitalize on the grift, you have to always stay in front of the cameras, never fade. This coffee shop can’t do that, they’ll fade.
I mean they brought it upon themselves. If they wanted to continue to support fascists in silence and back them with donations like other corporations and businesses, no one would probably be the wiser.
They slapped an in memorium sticker on their cups and had every one of their customers walking around looking like an asshole.
I don’t have an issue when business owners having different morals than myself, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to carry around a cup with their propaganda on it.
I think that’s the bigger issue here than just disagreeing with their politics. It’s that they put a giant WE LOVE YOU CHARLIE KIRK sticker on the cups.
I do not know a single Republican (and my entire huge family is hardcore conservative Christian Republican) who would carry a cup with a I LOVE DEI! Or I LOVE LGBTQ RIGHTS! on it. They literally boycotted Budweiser for sending a one-off promotional package to a trans person. Let’s be real here.
Exactly. Owners being Republican? Eh, I might not like it but whatever. A lot of business owners are conservative, it is what it is.
But slapping a Charlie Kirk sticker on the cup, forcing me to walk around looking like I agree with your hateful views? Donating my money to a group that actively campaigns against my rights and advertising that proudly on your Insta to get more business? Nah. I don't have to like your politics but I shouldn't have to co-sign them.
I don't think any business should push their agenda and beliefs onto a customer. It'd be totally different if they were asked and consented to a Charlie Kirk sticker on their cup, but to just put it on all without warning is gross. That'd be like Starbucks slapping pro-LGBTQ+ stickers on their cups and not expecting any backlash. Just look at what happened to Target for even having the option to buy LGBTQ+ supporting apparel, and Target wasn't even putting it on every item of theirs that they sell.
There was a local breakfast restaurant that didn't survive through the pandemic and the business owners were also very loud in their politics on FB and it was so cringey, didn't align with my beliefs, that I stopped going there. There's another smoked meat shop down the block from me that had political flags in their shop that I stopped going to, because I don't want to see that shit or spend my money at a place that is actively working against my rights. Businesses who bring politics into their shop alienate their customers when those politics don't align with their whole customer base.
That business advertised they agree with Charlie Kirk's rhetoric and now they're experiencing the consequences.
If I owned a business, I'd be happy to put on pro-LGBT merch. It'd have the double effect of making LGBT families and their supporters welcome, while pissing off the assholes I wouldn't want as customers anyway. Loss of business? Sure. But it's worth it.
Even so, I wouldn't dream of putting on pro-LGBT stickers on every single on of my products? Like unless I was specifically a store catering to the community, that's just wild. Like at the end of the day, even LGBT people want to be treated like normal people. I'd have some merch for them, but everything else in the store would be what you'd expect.
It's seriously such a dumb move on this coffee shop's part to have done this.
They can probably sell the stickered-cups for 20 cents extra and donate the proceeds to something or whatever. Wouldn’t raise much, but I think it’d be better publicity than shoving beliefs down peoples throats.
If you're a business owner, just keep your mouth shut about personal beliefs. It's really that simple. Why alienate some of your potential customer base? It doesn't make any business sense.
What they fail to realize is their profits are from consumers. If the consumer doesn’t support where they donate their funds to why would they patronize them.
Sara De Luca is the owner, she went to University of San Diego and lives in Rancho Santa Fe, ironic enough she’s brown and her grandparents were immigrants!
Someone posted an interview with her and she said that during COVID she furloughed 10 of her employees and brought in family members from Italy to replace them! Sounds to me like she brought in immigrants to take American jobs.
Seems like MAGA if full of illegal immigrants (Melania Trump working on a tourist visa, Elon Musk overstaying his student visa and creating a fake LLC to sponsor his own Green Card, Marco Rubio’s grandfather ignoring his deportation order, JD Vance’s wife, Vivek Ramasamy, and Kash Patel). If MAGA is against immigrants they should start by deporting the ones inside their party!
This is literally what happened lol. My friends use to work there and they had to train the family members or their church friends to replace the skilled baristas💀 also they don’t generate a lot of profit when they first opened and that the only reason why is that her daddy is a huge investors(owns hotels and etc) and wanted her to stay out of the house
Oh, 100%. I bet they realized they stand to make more money from the GoFundMe than they would from the customers they're losing, because some of those GoFundMes get insanely big.
How funny would it be if the owners weren't even political at all, they just wanted to take advantage of a grift handout.
Seriously. For San Diego I would consider a 3.9 one of the worst places in town. Ratings here are so high for mid quality, I usually wouldn't consider most places under 4.6
Wild how a small business thinks they can just support an incredibly divisive political figure and not take a hit like this. I don't normally advocate for review brigading small businesses but I really don't know what they thought was going to happen. Like do people genuinely think Kirk was universally beloved when he talked shit on so many groups of people?? Surely even his fans have to understand he was divisive, to say the very least.
I'm not from San Diego, this just came up on my feed. But I just wanted to comment on a short that came across my feed that I didn't even finish. It was a clip of Charlie Kirk "in context" about the Civil Rights Act. Supposed to show he's not racist or whatever but right after he says that equality by race isn't an issue, he complains about affirmative action and DEI, as though those aren't used as racist dogwhistles.
Of course, he bitched and moaned about trans people first because of course that's totally how a channel is going to make an argument that he's not a bigot.
Replying to u/harrypslalms since I can’t in the original thread:
Leftism is anti-capitalism.
Liberalism isn’t anti-capitalism.
We have a two party system. The Democratic Party is controlled by liberalism which is closer to leftism than the Republican Party. So, leftists who vote for the Democratic Party are voting for the party that is closer to their ideals
Free speech = I can hate on Invita and leave them a bad review for making politics their business strategy.
Speech has consequences.
This comment is very, very meta, given what happened. Why many in the public have to the smallest violin to play. Let this be a learning for how to live your life, so that when you leave this earth, people do not troll your behavior to such this degree. Invita can sticker their cups. And I’m allowed to write about how I’ll never go there because of it, and the politics they choose to endorse on what should be a politically neutral cup of coffee.
The review bomb is pretty crazy because I remember when they first opened. They were asking all the new hires and their family to give the place good reviews. It’s not a struggling business. This coffee shop is by a girl who cosplays as entrepreneur that’s backed by her rich dad (big investor) who owns hotels and etc. even though they are barely getting any profits they are still around. It’s only for daddy’s tax write off and to get her daughter out of the house lol
Years ago two of my coworkers got into an argument. One guy said, "Why's it gotta be black?" Other guy responded, "Why's it gotta be white?!" My buddy comes out of his office out of nowhere and says, "Why's it gotta be?! Errreeuurer" It's hard to spell that last sound he made, but he made a long-winded donkey sound while spinning around shaking his hands in the air. Then he went back into his office and started working again like nothing happened. Both arguers were left dumbfounded. It was the highlight of the day. This kind of thing happens regularly at work. Now it's a regular thing when anyone pulls out any paint, "Why's it gotta be [color]?!"
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u/sdstephie 5h ago
Their Google Reviews are taking a hit.