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Starbucks vs. Seattle: LATER, LOSERS! [With Corrected Audio]

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4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The Mayor of Seattle, Washington has publicly stated that everyone in the city should boycott Seattle’s signature brand — STARBUCKS — until the company takes a knee to Seattle’s Progressive politics and allows unionization of its workers. Starbucks’ reaction? LATER, LOSERS! We are OUT OF HERE! We’re going to need a bigger Nashville…

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0:00.0

So let's say for the sake of argument that you're the mayor of Seattle, Washington, and your

0:05.4

labor leaders in that community want you to get all lathered up about the fact that Starbucks

0:10.0

will not let their people unionize. Let's say that mayor stands up in front of a microphone

0:17.1

and you decide you want to say at a rally that you think everybody should boycott

0:22.1

Starbucks and they should never buy another one of their products. What do you think Starbucks

0:26.8

should do about that? Hi, I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green and this episode

0:30.9

of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at billwittle.com. And Steve, one of the things that

0:36.1

Starbucks has done, not exactly as a result of that, but

0:39.2

coincidental with that, is decided to expand a headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, that will

0:47.0

employ some 2,000 people and apparently save Starbucks something like $12,000 per employee per year compared to the tax rate in Seattle.

0:59.6

Some of the workers, Steve, in Seattle, are saying, well, we don't want to move to Nashville.

1:05.5

And of course, they don't have to move to Nashville.

1:09.0

Starbucks will find people for those six-figure jobs in Nashville.

1:13.2

Do you think, I mean, Starbucks is not known as some sort of bastion of conservatism,

1:18.2

but when even Starbucks has had enough of Seattle, I think it's sending a signal to municipalities,

1:27.0

to states, and to governing officials. Do you

1:29.4

agree or disagree? Well, here's the thing. Seattle, excuse me, Starbucks leaving Seattle is

1:35.6

entirely is just impossible. That'd be like Boeing leaving Tacoma. It could simply never,

1:42.1

ever happen. Oh, wait, Boeing did leave Tacoma. They went to Chicago,

1:46.6

and then they went to Northern Virginia, and now I actually like this part, a little off topic here,

1:51.2

but they are moving their defense division headquarters to St. Louis, where McDonald was, to oversee

1:59.4

production of the F-47 there at the old facility where I used to drive. Louis, where McDonald was, to oversee production of the F-47 there at the old facility

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