January 30, 2019
Howard “Daddy Starbucks” Schultz is threatening to throw his
millions into the 2020 ring. As if we
have not learned our lesson, and Americans just want a better “billionaire”
“president”. Schultz apparently missed
the 2018 midterm elections and the Blue (mostly progressive) Tsunami that
crushed Donald Chrump’s short-lived stranglehold on the American psyche. Chrump’s poll numbers – his ratings, if you
will – are dropping faster than a pile of hamberders down his ample, welcoming
gullet.
Chrump removes his foot just
long enough to insert his food
The Starbucks bigwig, who is certainly wealthier
than the Orange Gas Cloud, believes that the Democratic party has moved too far
to the left, and only he can fix it – to coin a phrase – by running as an
independent. Schultz needs to wake up
and smell the covfefe if he thinks he has his finger anywhere near the pulse
the American public. Bye-bye rich guy.
Schultz, formerly a life-long Democrat, is reportedly distressed
with the emergence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her increasingly popular
platform of holding the wealthiest one percent accountable. Schultz made this brilliant observation, “I
respect the Democratic Party. I no
longer feel affiliated because I don’t know their views represent the majority
of Americans. I don’t think we want a 70
percent income tax in America.” What do
you mean WE, rich man?
I guess Schultz did not get the memo that most Americans (over
60 percent at last count) do, in fact, want a 70 percent tax on people like
him. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to
tax earnings over $10 million at 70 percent is supported by nearly six in ten
Americans. Did I mention Schultz is a
billionaire? Coffee Boy also called the exceedingly popular Medicare-for-all “un-American.” So far, he is off to a dying start.
If Schultz does enter the race, the most likely outcome of
course, will be another term for the current White House occupant, as Schultz
will, if anything, take votes away from what is very likely to be a seriously
progressive Democrat. First of all, the
chances of an independent candidate winning the presidency are about as good as
the chances that Donald Chrump will stop whining about his, and I will quote
former Mexican president Vicente Fox here, “fucking wall.” Second, Chrump’s mostly moronic, racist,
alternately-informed core supporters will not vote for a Jew, not even a
wealthy one. Take a hike rich dude and
spend more time with your family and your ego.
But Wait, There’s
More…
Another billionaire, Michael Bloomberg is once again
weighing running for president, this time as a Democrat. Bloomberg is displaying the same fear of
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her campaign to rein in the excessively rich and/or
greedy.
What is wrong with these super-rich assholes? They made their fortunes thanks to the rest
of us – one way or another…or many ways.
They can’t cough up a few extra bucks to help their country and those
with less? I am willing to bet that most
people are pretty well fed up with these greedy bastards. Their voices are falling on increasingly deaf
ears. None of them will never be able to
buy enough votes to do anything but keep Chrump in office.
Another billionaire we do not need to run for president is
Tom Steyer, who has been hard at work pushing for impeachment. Don’t get me wrong, I have been a big fan of
impeaching the current interloper – with the big caveat of course, being the
possible presidency of Mike Pence – but I have no interest in sampling the
wares of another billionaire, regardless of the flavor of their politics. Steyer has not yet weighed in on better
taxing big dollars, but we simply do not need a battle of the bulging
wallets. It is time to get our socialism
on.
The “radical” Democrats are not the only ones itching to
take on income inequality. The World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland went askew when Historian Rutger Bregman spoke truth to money, “This
is my first time at Davos, and I find it quite bewildering, to be honest. I
mean, 1500 private jets have flown in here to hear Sir David Attenborough, you
know, talk about how we're wrecking the planet. And, I mean, I hear people
talking the language of participation and justice and equality and transparency
but then, I mean, almost no one raises the issue of tax avoidance, right? And
of the rich just not paying their fair share. I mean it feels as if I'm at a
firefighter's conference and no one is allowed to mention water, right?”
It seems Bernie
Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other “radicals” are
not alone.
I. Mangrey reporting.
Screw Wall Street, help Main Street.
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