The modern left is a regime of relentless nagging. For the latest instance of low-grade irritation, turn to Starbucks.
“Do you want a lid?” The Starbucks app prompts users, according to a screenshot posted to X by journalist Josh Barro. “A city wide ordinance requires us to ask if you want a lid on your beverage. If you don’t want a lid, please order with a barista in a store.” (RELATED: Internet Mocks Gen Z Whining About Starbucks’ New ‘Conservative’ Dress Code)
Democrats should stop looking for little new ways to make life more annoying pic.twitter.com/GO4HG5gcXC
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 7, 2025
Cities like San Francisco prohibit vendors from automatically distributing lids (and chopsticks, and napkins, and stirrers). They are available only upon request. Washington state instituted a similar policy in 2022, banning the automatic inclusion of lids for cold drinks, among other single-use plastic items.
I think this is a low key secret thing that hurts Democrats in politics. We’re always calling to take away people’s straws, light bulbs, e-cigarettes, shower heads, etc. We’re the party of You Can’t Have What You Want, and voters remember that and choose the other guys. https://t.co/sz0nUbXGxK
— Dilan Esper (@dilanesper) July 7, 2025
“Democrats should stop looking for little new ways to make life more annoying,” Barro, a Democrat, captioned his post.
Indeed. A savvy Democrat might build a whole campaign on making life less annoying. Something in the vein of Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, who proposed lowering the maximum brightness of car headlights (which, she claims, have roughly doubled in brightness in recent years). There’s more ground to be conquered. If a politician, Democrat or Republican, promised to conduct drone strikes on scam call centers, they might cinch the 2028 presidency. (RELATED: Democrat’s Radical Frontrunner For 2028 Is A Nightmare Hiding In Plain Sight)
As it stands, the Democrats’ annoyances aren’t just legislative, but cultural.
For instance, when liberals collectively decided that one must announce their pronouns before speaking. An aside: Why do some of those liberals persist in declaring “she,” “her,” and “hers”? Would the third not follow from the second?
But the nonsensical nature is the point. The more absurd the statement, the surer the signal of in-group belonging.
Recall former Vice President Kamala Harris speaking in 2022: “I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are ‘she’ and ‘her,’ I’m a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.”
Such pressures might’ve cowed the public into compliance when Democrats, and leftism, were ascendant. Today, many are comfortable declaring the emperor has no clothes.
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