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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Conservatives Smash Keurig Machines In Social Media Uproar

Over the weekend, CNBC reported on five companies that halted all advertisements of their products on Fox News’ Sean Hannity show. These companies included:


  • 23 and Me

  • Eloquii

  • Keurig

  • Nature’s Bounty

  • Realtor.com

The story began last Thursday, with the sexual allegations against Roy Moore, the Alabama senate candidate who, The WaPo reported that day, made sexual advances towards four teenagers when he was in his early 30s. As of today, there is even a fifth women accusing Moore of sexual misconduct.


After the story broke on Thursday, Fox host Sean Hannity came out and asked his audience to give Moore the benefit of the doubt. According to NYTimes,








Mr. Hannity, describing those actions on his radio show while speaking with a co-host, Lynda McLaughlin, seemed to justify Mr. Moore’s reported conduct by calling one of the encounters “consensual.”



Hours later "On his television show, Mr. Hannity said that the statement “was absolutely wrong” and that he “misspoke.” He then brought up the possibility of accusers lying for money, or for political purposes."


The following day, Angelo Carusone, President of Media Matters, a ‘politically progressive media watchdog’ that monitors “conservative misinformation in the U.S. media” said this to Keurig:



On Saturday, Keurig responded by saying “we worked with our media partner and FOX news to stop our ad from airing during the Sean Hannity Show”.



What happened next was a firestorm on social media that swept across the United States late Saturday into Sunday. The bulk of the trend #BoycottKeurig exploded on Sunday, as many conservatives who have boycotted the NFL because of kneeling problems, decided they had to urgently get involved in the latest bitter debate splitting America. We start with ‘Snoop Baily’ who smashed the living hell out of Keurig with a driver.





To keep it short, this is what it looks like when a sizable chunk of the US decides to go "Office Space":



For a while, Hannity played along with the trend empowering it to grow through his enormous social media network as conservatives were called to action to smash Keurig machines. As the day closed, he then told his audience that he was buying 500 coffee makers to give away on Monday.



On Monday, however, the Krush The Keurig fun ended when Hannity told his audience to stop smashing the Coffee machines, after Keurig CEO apologizes for ‘taking sides’…



Moore"s sexual allegations aside, which have yet to be rejected or confirmed, what is more concerning is the blind willingness of substantial portions of the population to succumb to instant mobilization through social media and or a media figure(s), to collectively work as a unit in completing tasks, in this case the destruction of one"s own property. Ironically, something tells us that for Keurig the news that its machines were being "Office Spaced" across the nation, was music to the CEO"s ears (think replacement value), not to mention the unprecedented media exposure as virtually everyone spent the day talking about the incident (think unlimited advertising).



There"s more: as The Atlantic writes, "in destroying Keurig machines also clearly aligns these people with a global environmentalist movement. In 2015, the “Kill the K-Cup” campaign took hold among those concerned about the net waste of so many pods. A Canadian advocate encouraged people to publicly abandon the machines."








Now America finds itself in the midst of hordes of angry people with clubs who will soon be going through caffeine withdrawal. They could go to Starbucks, though the chain has also been condemned and boycotted by some isolationist conservatives, since earlier this year it promised to hire 10,000 refugees in response to President Trump’s executive order barring them from the country.



Meanwhile, always eager to ride on the latest social media trend, corporate America has promptly noticed the events over the past 72 hours, and it is guaranteed that many more companies will follow in Keurig"s activist footsteps. Who knows: the resultant breaking and smashing of various "resistance" products may just end up being the CapEx spark that the US economy so desperately needs...









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Monday, November 13, 2017

Why People Are Smashing Their Keurig Coffee Machines and Posting It Online

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) Birmingham, AL — Well, it’s 2017. Donald Trump is president of the “free world,” so it’s safe to say politics has gotten pretty strange in America. Today, we found out that apparently, people are smashing and destroying Keurig coffee machines to make a political statement. Yes, in 2017, even coffee is being politicized.


So why are people smashing their Keurig machines? It’s pretty pathetic, to be honest. But here it goes.


A lunatic by the name of Roy Moore is running for the U.S. Senate (surprise!) in Alabama — and he’s a lunatic even by 2017’s political standards. He literally thinks Sharia Law is taking over America and has already been implemented in Indiana and Illinois (it hasn’t). He more or less hates Muslims and their religion. He thinks the U.S. government should be run by Christianity. He thinks being gay “is an inherent evil against which children must be protected.” He was suspended from being a judge in Alabama because he’s a prehistoric dickhead who refused to allow gay people to get married. According to Slate, he has even argued that “the government should seize the children of gay people and send their parents to prison.” Wow he really, really cares about conservative family values!


He also thinks grown men engaging in intimate relationships with 14-year-olds girls perfectly fine — and he should know — he’s being accused of doing it. Another woman is expected to come forward Monday claiming he sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. Just to reiterate, former Judge Roy Moore thinks gayness is “an inherent evil against which children must be protected,” and he thinks 30-something-year-old men having sexual contact with children is… not an inherent evil against which children must be protected?


Right now, you may be asking yourself, “how does this have anything to do with Keurig coffee machines?” Don’t worry, I’m getting to that.


As if Roy Moore’s dickheadedness and hypocrisy weren’t bad enough, the reaction from people coming to his defense is arguably even more despicable. Alabama state auditor Jim Ziegler invoked the bible to defend his colleague Roy Moore’s contact with children. “Take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter,” Ziegler explained. “They became parents of Jesus.”


Jerry Moore, Roy’s brother, has gone as far as comparing his brother’s recent trials and tribulations in the media to the persecution of Jesus Christ. Yes, that Jesus Christ.


Roy Moore, to his credit, has called the women’s reports against him — growing in number by the day — “fake news,” a deflection often used successfully across the political spectrum in 2017.


Following the news breaking about Roy Moore’s alleged sex acts with children, evangelical voters in Alabama are now more likely to vote for him, according to a recent poll. And, according to The Hill, “A group of 53 Alabama pastors has signed onto a letter urging Alabamians to vote for Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore after the allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled against him.”


Finally, Fox News host Sean Hannity stepped up to bat for Moore, downplaying the allegations against him as likely false — and definitely not as serious as the allegations against… Bill Clinton — a sexual predator and former president who was relevant politically… 17 years ago. Hannity’s argument basically boiled down to Bill Clinton was worse and the allegations against him were true. Roy Moore is not as bad (probably) and the allegations against him are probably false… because, well, just because.



And finally, here’s how Keurig ties into this political joke who is probably still going to be elected. In response to Sean Hannity defending Roy Moore, an accused sexual predator and possibly worse, advertisers have begun abandoning their sponsorships of Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News. One of these advertisers happens to be Keurig, and loyal Hannity fans are now smashing their Keurig machines to boycott the company’s boycott of Roy Moore, accused sexual predator.


Below you can revel in peak American #iStandWithHannity political discourse and activism (take that, libtards!):










Isn’t 2017 amazing?!


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