Angry Starbucks Guy was a 2020 Premonition
They say hindsight is 20/20, but in the age of Trumpism, I’d argue it’s 20/15. In November 2015, I was freshly into a local community college just trying to finish out the semester when my Facebook feed was taken over by Joshua Feuerstein, the man above often likened to an angry Kevin James.
Feuerstein expressed a deep frustration over Starbuck’s red holiday cups, namely the lack of printed messages saying “Merry Christmas.” But as a true American seeing an injustice in the world, Feuerstein posted a call to action on Facebook (linked below) to mobilize his fellow Christians, get them into their nearest Starbucks, and stamp Merry Christmas on those damn cups!
If you’re like me, you probably rolled your eyes, clutched your pearls at the absurdity of the video (and its supporters), and scrolled on to greener pastures imbued by op-eds discussing how laughable of a candidate Donald Trump is — no way that guy is winning. Ha. Ha. Ha.
And yet, here we are. 2020. Still watching angry men in red hats tell us we are wrong. Still bearing witness to long rants about…
