I've been following with great interest the struggle by the "privileged" citizens of the city (
not county - ed.) of Palm Beach to keep the scourge of Starbucks - and the hordes of the unwashed rabble - out of their pristine little enclave. Regardless of what one thinks of Starbucks, the battle has been entertaining.
Well, yesterday Starbucks won, so soon the lattes will be flowing in The Donald's neighborhood. But if you want to see people who are truly out of touch, you need go no further than the Palm Beach residents who opposed Starbucks so vehemently.
It isn't the coffee so much as what comes with it, many wrote.
"T-shirted coffee-drinkers, slopping down the Avenue, dropping their paper cups who-knows-where," resident Peter Reed wrote.
Starbucks' free Wi-Fi hot spots for Internet connections will make it worse, said Henry McIntosh, leader of the newly formed CUSP: Citizens United for Sensible Planning.
"It's not a matter of someone dashing in to pick up a cup of overpriced mediocre coffee and dashing back out to their double-parked car," he wrote. "These folks hang around for hours, and you will positively love their dress code and personal grooming. Some of the body piercings are quite imaginative."
What's next, Nike? wrote Jere Zenko. "How about a Disney store?"
You think they even know that there's an immoral and illegal war going on? Let alone that there's poverty and violence almost literally in their back yards? I'm embarrassed to share a congressional district with these morons.
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