Not surprisingly, I have a couple of thoughts about this. First off, the guy is a total clown with no plans for anything, except for his plan of not paying more in taxes than he’s paying now. This idiot was given the privilege of getting a huge amount of air time for no other reason, other than the fact that he’s really rich. Before the Iowa caucus in 2016, Bernie couldn’t get on TV to save his life, and he’s been in congress for over twenty-five years. But because this clown has money, he’s on every fucking show that he deems worth his time because everyone was willing to give him air time. Literally the only thing he said was that he wanted to do some serious tax reform. When asked if he favored the republican mythology that cutting taxes for the obscenely wealthy, or the democratic plan of raising taxes a tiny bit to create more jobs, he didn’t want to answer “hypotheticals”. Someone needs to explain the definition of hypothetical to this clown. Only a billionaire would be treated as a serious candidate, when they have only one issue and no idea what their approach to that issue is.
So shame one you again, media for elevating an empty suit. I’ve never seen a more disastrous start to a presidential campaign than this one. Last week he retweeted an article that referred to Kamala Harris as “shrill” and Elizabeth Warren as “Fauxcahontas” and commented that the piece was “thoughtful analysis”. That’s “thoughtful analysis”? Maybe to an 8 year old. Hey Howard, let me apply your standards of thoughtful analysis to you: you’re an assface. In the limited scope of his intellect, that was downright Kierkegaardian in its depth. Moron. He said he liked Ronald Reagan because Reagan never took his jacket off in the oval office. He did, but even if he hadn’t, are you that fucking shallow in your assessments of presidents? Oh wait, Fauxcahontas. I forgot, you already answered that question for us.
That said, I’m glad he announced he’s thinking about running. This shines a light on what the democratic donor class looks like: liberal, unless it costs them a nickel. Sure, you can gay marry or exercise dominion over your own reproductive rights because that doesn’t cost them anything. But if you want guaranteed health coverage, you’re a far left extremist and must be stopped.
They like to crow on about how they’re self made without realizing that every opportunity they had to succeed was paid for by a top marginal tax rate of 91%, at a time when US corporations paid nearly 50% of all the taxes in the country. They now pay 9%. They’re all fucking oblivious to the fact that opportunity doesn’t happen organically: it’s paid for. Hey Howard Schultz: the projects you grew up in were paid for by rich people who preceded you. Oh, and let’s not forget about all of the sweetheart deals you made with different cities who subsidized your mediocre coffee chain through tax incentives. Michael Fucking Dell: go ahead and try to start your company in Somalia, where taxpayers didn’t pay for the infrastructure you relied on to ship your products.
I am so fucking tired of these douchebags with delusions of grandeur and stratospheric greed. They are all nothing without the country that gave them the opportunities they had, and it’s time they start ponying up to pay for those opportunities for future generations because insuring that your kids grow up to be miscreant ne’er do wells who don’t ever do anything productive because they got to keep all of your money isn’t the future of this country.
Now onto another interesting part about Shultz announcement: the reaction from the democratic electorate. I find this, “You’re going to get Trump elected again!!!!” rallying cry from die hard democrats puzzling. If you’re “still with her”, love the establishment, think that Bernie should die already because he’s “not a real democrat”, why are you telling everyone that democrats can’t win unless there are no other options?
I don’t believe that democrats are awesome, I like Bernie because he’s too liberal for democrats, and I recognize that establishment democrats sold out the middle class. I wrote a piece on the day after the election in November describing why I believe democrats are fucked. I’m the one that should be freaking out about Howard Schultz’ candidacy. So why are the die hard democrats the ones freaking out? You can’t be freaking out and not want to change anything. That doesn’t make any goddamned sense, and republicans are right (for the wrong reasons) to mock you for your reaction.
You guys really need to make up your minds: either everything is great and democratic establishment candidates rule or it’s time to shake things up in a major way, a la AOC and Bernie Sanders. And you should know that democratic sell-out, and former Obama deputy press secretary, Bill Burton is on team Schultz. He hasn’t actually changed teams or policies. He just has a guy without a “D” next to his name this time around.
Please let me know what you decide, but don’t keep talking out of both sides of your mouth. You sound ridiculous.
