Back to episode — Episode 2964 CWSA 09/20/25
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a Starbucks napkin. Now, it could be that they just agreed that you can put anything on a cup as long as it's not obscene. It could be that they were just reiterating the policy or maybe clarifying. But boy, Starbucks didn't want a piece of this fight. If you were the Starbucks management, would you come anywhere near this topic if you could avoid it? No, you would not. You would stay as far away…
← Previous segment →to do it and when it's important and when it's not, well, that's where the free speech question gets in there.
Anyway, so Ted Cruz is going hard at the free speech being violated. Ben Shapiro, I believe did the same. Free speech being violated. Unacceptable. I think Kat Timpf did a pro-free speech. I don't recall, but I'm sure that Dave Smith probably did. Can you confirm that to me? Did Dave Smith? I'm guessing he went with the free speech position. And me, I'm also on the free speech position.
Now, is there anybody here who wants to go full NPC? If you want to go full NPC, this would be the time to say, Scott, but it was just a business decision. Scott, don't you understand? It's not free speech. If it's a business decision, a business decision doesn't need to worry about free speech. It's just a business decision. Do you feel like that would be a good point? Is that a good point right now? Like right now based on what I
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just said, is that a good point? No, it's not a good point. I started the whole thing by saying things could have two reasons. It doesn't have to be one reason. And the fact that it's also a good business thing does not excuse the free speech element of it. And we should be brushing back the free speech risk wherever we can. So let me say it a different way. I don't like to be on the other side o…
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