I never thought I’d say this but I love Howard Schultz right now.
I’m not saying that I would vote for him, I just love what he is doing to politics right now.
He started Starbucks down the path to corporate wokeness, and frankly I don’t trust anyone woke. I don’t yet know what his social policies are, but I have a feeling I won’t like them.
I am all about civil rights and equality of opportunity. What I cannot abide is this new social corrosiveness where a person can be destroyed, either on social media or in the courts, for toeing the hard Left line, and I believe it is time that we start having freedom of conscious protections in this country.
But when it comes to Schultz’s economic positions, boy howdy, he’s hammering the Democrats.
He came right out and said that he decided to run because he didn’t want AOC to the be the future of the Democrat Party, and that her 70% income tax rate is both infeasible and destructive. “Un-American” is one of the words he used.
He has come out against Medicare for All as an economic disaster, and has attacked our $21 Trillion national debt as our greatest domestic threat. Yeah, not global warming but debt.
This has just brought out the HATE among Democrats.
The Democratic Party’s public enemy No. 1: Howard Schultz
He’s only been in the 2020 presidential fray for two days, but Howard Schultz has already accomplished the near-impossible: He’s united the Democratic Party.
Against him.
Everyone even loosely affiliated with the party, from billionaire centrist Michael Bloomberg to the hard lefties at Justice Democrats, has paused their ideological infighting to join together in open season on the coffee mogul and his potential independent presidential bid.
This is where it gets good.
Adam Parkhomenko, who founded the group Ready for Hillary and went on to work for Clinton’s campaign, set up the website ProtestHoward.com to help organize aspiring hecklers.
“Howard Schultz has spent a lot of time in the last 24 hours telling America that ideas from women are un-American,” Parkhomenko said, referring to his criticism of presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris. “He’s as dumb and out of touch as his idiotic indy bid would suggest.”
Because that’s all the Democrats have now. Warren and Harris’ ideas are shit that should have been left on the ash heap of Communism, but the only defense they can muster against legitimate economic criticism is the accusations of misogyny.
Social media is LIT over this.
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1089585033269137409
And it is prompting a boycott of Starbucks because of it.
https://twitter.com/AmpDemocracy/status/1089735404939501573
Please tweet this at Starbucks CEO @HowardSchultz so he understands exactly what will happen if he runs for president as an independent pic.twitter.com/3NELhANsIZ
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) January 26, 2019
This goes to show you just how Democrats think.
Schultz is no longer the CEO of Starbucks, and has resigned as Chairman of the Board of the company. Other than maybe stock, he has no ties to Starbucks anymore. But because he’s running, Democrats are going to hurt working class baristas and managers. These people are fucking brilliant.
What Schultz has done is laid bare the Democrats plan.
The DNC has become a party led by extremists, even if most Americans are not terribly extreme in their politics.
I have come to believe that the Democrats know this, so the plan has been to get an extremist, Socialist Democrat elected by convincing moderate Americans to hate Trump and vote for whoever is running against him.
If Schultz comes along and economically sounds more moderate if not ever so slightly classically conservative (that national debt thing was spot on old school Republican), he will draw a lot of votes.
The only way the Democrats have of voting in a Socialist at the national level is by relying on a huge swath off the middle of the political spectrum voting from the position of blind hatred for Trump, and for that there can only be one other candidate, Not-Trump.
The apoplectic response to Schultz proves that they don’t want to give the Americans a moderate candidate to vote for. They want to put a radical Leftist in power by way of the “anybody but Trump” vote.
It is incredible to watch. I want Schultz to keep going with this campaign until election day on 2020, just to expose the Democrats for the extremists that they are.
The bathroom policy he implemented was a terrible idea and is having serious negative consequences, and he quit being CEO not long after that.
IMO, we don’t need a president who’d formulate policy based on the latest social conniption — that’s no way to govern.
What ever happened to not holding jobs hostage for a political agenda? Wasn’t it only yesterday when the liberals were saying that?
I don’t know much about Schultz’s policies, but it sounds like he’s a Democrat from 10 years ago- as in not into destroying fundamental principles of this nation for wildly expensive socialist agendas. Like the way bill clinton governed. Amazing how fast they’ve shifted left.
I can see the ads now, “Howard Schultz: 1/3 less crazy than Kamala Harris or Alopecia Pistachio Kotex” All he has done here is point out that the Two Twits are arguing for flying unicorns everywhere. Not possible. Ain’t gonna happen.
Hell, even Bloomberg, the most dependable asshole in American politics, said basically the same things and I’m sure not gonna follow Bloomberg either.
My standpoint is the enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend. The enemy of my enemy is just that.
I think what Jkb was saying was that the enemy of my enemy is great entertainment and possibly a useful vote sink.
Yep.
I saw where some reporter asked him how much an 18 ounce box of Cheerios cost, and when he didn’t know, attacked him for being an out of touch billionaire. I don’t know what a box of Cheerios cost, either.
Yeah, that’s a stupid question. I don’t know, either. Nor do I know the cost of a gallon of milk (another classic question posed to politicians).
It was Mika on Morning Joe. That’s one of those questions I’d love to field if I ran because they always try to make the Republican seem out of touch.
“I’m not sure because I don’t buy Cheerios. I buy the Kroger Toasted Oats for $1.49, but what is really nice is that I get double fuel points on Kroger brand items. So every other month I save $0.50 per gallon when I fill up the pickup.”
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