If you found yourself having difficulty buying your overpriced addictive drug of choice yesterday, it was likely because 8000 Starbucks locations had closed for the day in order to help their employees learn not to be KKK-loving bigots who have trouble differentiating between a latte and a lynching.

Or at least, that’s pretty much the implication when a major corporation feels the need to take (and promote) such drastic actions. They’re practically screaming “Mea Culpa,” although can’t actually do so because using Latin in front of people who’ve had only a poor public education is also considered racist and non-egalitarian and sexist if a blond says “what?”

But in complete candor, we find much that is admirable about the training Starbucks is paying for. Not because it will do any more good than hanging up a sign with The Golden Rule in every location, but rather because we have such appreciation for the con-artists who are teaching the baristas how to deal with their unconscious bias. By definition, it will be impossible to see results – which is the tastiest scam we’ve heard since the idea of charging $7 for a cup of java.

The “unconscious racial bias” instructors might as well be charging each location $2000 to scare away invisible tigers. Can anyone prove their services aren’t working? And is the web domain for InvisibleTigersBegone.com still available?

Of course, the real purpose of the training isn’t to aid race relations. Rather, it’s a very expensive bit of well publicized virtue signaling intended to showcase the idea that Starbucks is absolutely, positively, not racist when it comes to overcharging suckers for coffee.

At least, not consciously.

Carnies have feelings too, you bastards.

BONUS: ABC-ING YOU!

Well that didn’t take long. ABC has abruptly cancelled the new “Roseanne” series owing to an allegedly racist tweet sent by the show’s star.

The tweet in question suggested that Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Iranian-born puppet master, was the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes“…

Was it a stupid and tasteless joke? Sure. But was it really reason enough to cancel a successful TV series, especially with Barr quickly offering an apology? We don’t think so.

Rather, we think ABC was relieved to be able to dump the show in part because it was successful. And they were further tickled to be able to slap the “racist” label on this “pro-Trump” show which wasn’t so much pro-Trump (the show was still overwhelmingly liberal) as it was pro-working class. A class which the liberal Left doesn’t really like to get noticed, as the plight of America’s working families so clearly reflects the cruel impact of the Democrats’ countless political failures.

Personally, we thought the show was okay-ish…and it was the only network show we’d watched in years. If Starbucks was running the network, we presume that Roseanne might have gotten scolded for unconscious racial bias instead of canned.

But then, that wouldn’t allow ABC to label all of the show’s fans and all of Trump’s supporters as racists, would it?