The con-man behind the Starbucks red cup freak-out

[LongTomH]

From Daily Kos:

When I read that the latest persecution of the rightwing Christian involved Starbucks changing their cups to red for the holiday season, I thought that the War on Christmas had officially hit rock bottom.

The MSM jumped all over the story about a video from a "pastor" saying the red cups Starbucks is using for the holiday season aren't Christmas enough and that Starbucks literally "hates Jesus". Video goes viral and rightwing is outraged. This whole thing is beyond stupid, even for them.

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The asshat's name is Joshua Feuerstein and he's not even a real pastor. Read on:

Joshua Feuerstein is a self-described evangelist and "social-media personality". I recognized his name because he is the same asshat who harassed one of my local bakeries (and illegally recorded the phone call) because they refused to fill a fake order for an anti-gay cake. His followers bombarded their Facebook site with Ben Carson-like yarns of their supposed "bad experiences" with the bakery. Astoundingly, all of these reviews happened immediately after the date Joshua posted his hate-filled video. The bakery had to temporarily close in response to the harassment, which included death threats.

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First off, he is an entitled brat who apparently lives quite well sponging off of his mega-rich parents. Yet he is not above e-begging his duped followers to raise money for a $20,000 camera that he claimed he absolutely had to have to make YouTube videos. His followers, unable to think of anything better to donate to, gladly gave him the money and Joshua utterly ****** thanked them. Yet all of his videos since he has raised the funds, from the bakery harassment video to his latest red cup diatribe, have been shot on a cellphone. People rightfully asked where the camera was that he promised to buy. He was even confronted directly and admitted he didn't buy it after all. Meanwhile, his social media is filled with pictures of outrageously expensive shoes, jewlery and watches. I mean VERY Expensive Watches.

Add in the fact that he's a middle aged tool who still goes around wearing his baseball cap backward!

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Read the rest here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/10/1448007/-Simply-Red-The-Con-Man-Behind-the-Rightwing-s-Starbucks-Cup-Freak-Out

Edited to add video:

CNN treated him like the tool he really is!!!!!

[yardwork]

1. He's THAT guy! I remember that incident with the cake.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Wow! And he got that many people to go along...

thus reaffirming the simple observation that our problems are largely because half the population is below average. But won't admit it.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Swatting flies

[lame54]

4. That's it - I'm boycotting King of Queens

[Wellstone ruled]

5. And the fake war on Xmas continues.

[Eleanors38]

6. Another antedeluvian gas-pass who got him some fame. 'Least he didn't shoot up a school.

[Octafish]

7. Joshua Feuerstein sounds like a real dandy.

"Un social media bigot."

http://www.joshuafeuerstein.com/about-josh/4585043155

[MisterP]

8. in Protestantism anyone who calls themselves a pastor can be one, followers or no

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_priesthood_%28doctrine%29

but getting the cheapest Cartier you can get for just the name is doubtless condemned somewhere in there--Melanchthon, I wanna say

(hey, the story's been pulled, what gives?)

[jalan48]

9. So we have arrived at the point where the blatant commercialization of Christmas is a good thing?

[L. Coyote]

10. All I can say is, "Don't kill a tree for Christ's sake."

[ErikJ]

11. Dont tell him his main man Ben Carson doesnt beleive or celebrate Christmas

cuz he's 7th Day Adventist. His pinhead might explode on camera.

[eggplant]

12. You HAVE to watch the video all the way to the end. It's perfect. n/t

[bluedigger]

13. I'm old and wear my cap backwards all the time.

It blows off with the window down in the Jeep otherwise.