by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
There's this fellow out in Seattle who seems intent on shaking up the political scene. His name is Howard Schultz and at one time he ran Starbucks - and apparently he still a major stake in the company. He was also a primary owner of the Seattle Supersonics basketball team until his inept stewardship of that organization led him to sell to a group of businessmen from Oklahoma City - where the team promptly resettled.
Howard Schultz says he is thinking about running for President of the United States - as an Independent. He has rolled out that old trope about the two major parties being out of touch and posited his reasonable solution that a visionary businessman (like him) running from the outside could give Americans a path to repairing democracy.
Schultz, who unlike Trump, seems to be a legitimate billionaire worth three to four billion dollars, believes, like Trump, that his vast business experience gives him a unique position in the United States' social and economic order from which to launch a presidential campaign. An American billionaire and former sports team owner whose primary business has strong economic ties to Russia - why, what could be more perfect than that?
Why, if Howard Schultz had owned a fake university and had a strong presence on reality television, he would be the perfect old white man to replace Donald Trump!
This fellow, Schultz, says that he is a "progressive," a term that sounds good but often lacks a skeleton of precise definition - but he is clear on the fact that he does not like the plan of Democratic dynamo Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez to have America's super-rich pay their fair share of taxes for the first time in over half a century. In fact, he seems to be posturing as an alternative in case the Democratic Party chooses some leftist as its candidate - a hedge to insure that the country stays safe under the wise leadership of someone like him or Trump.
Howard Schultz, in fact, appears to be just a cleaned-up version of Donald Trump, one lacking the overt ignorance, rage, and blubber, but still well steeped in the arrogance of rich, white, male privilege. If he can pull off the concerned progressive ploy, Schultz might siphon enough votes away from the Democratic nominee in key states to insure that Trump has four more years of raiding our national treasury and conducting a foreign policy that continues to put Russia first.
My first impression of Mr. Howard Schultz is not positive, but I will wait to pass final judgment until he releases at least ten years of his tax returns and reveals all contacts that he and his businesses have had with foreign bankers and politicians. I also want to see medical records from competent physicians, as well current blood and urine testing. Are his children decent people, and, does he play golf?
One rich pig in a poke is more than enough, thank you very much!
Citizen Journalist
There's this fellow out in Seattle who seems intent on shaking up the political scene. His name is Howard Schultz and at one time he ran Starbucks - and apparently he still a major stake in the company. He was also a primary owner of the Seattle Supersonics basketball team until his inept stewardship of that organization led him to sell to a group of businessmen from Oklahoma City - where the team promptly resettled.
Howard Schultz says he is thinking about running for President of the United States - as an Independent. He has rolled out that old trope about the two major parties being out of touch and posited his reasonable solution that a visionary businessman (like him) running from the outside could give Americans a path to repairing democracy.
Schultz, who unlike Trump, seems to be a legitimate billionaire worth three to four billion dollars, believes, like Trump, that his vast business experience gives him a unique position in the United States' social and economic order from which to launch a presidential campaign. An American billionaire and former sports team owner whose primary business has strong economic ties to Russia - why, what could be more perfect than that?
Why, if Howard Schultz had owned a fake university and had a strong presence on reality television, he would be the perfect old white man to replace Donald Trump!
This fellow, Schultz, says that he is a "progressive," a term that sounds good but often lacks a skeleton of precise definition - but he is clear on the fact that he does not like the plan of Democratic dynamo Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez to have America's super-rich pay their fair share of taxes for the first time in over half a century. In fact, he seems to be posturing as an alternative in case the Democratic Party chooses some leftist as its candidate - a hedge to insure that the country stays safe under the wise leadership of someone like him or Trump.
Howard Schultz, in fact, appears to be just a cleaned-up version of Donald Trump, one lacking the overt ignorance, rage, and blubber, but still well steeped in the arrogance of rich, white, male privilege. If he can pull off the concerned progressive ploy, Schultz might siphon enough votes away from the Democratic nominee in key states to insure that Trump has four more years of raiding our national treasury and conducting a foreign policy that continues to put Russia first.
My first impression of Mr. Howard Schultz is not positive, but I will wait to pass final judgment until he releases at least ten years of his tax returns and reveals all contacts that he and his businesses have had with foreign bankers and politicians. I also want to see medical records from competent physicians, as well current blood and urine testing. Are his children decent people, and, does he play golf?
One rich pig in a poke is more than enough, thank you very much!
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