Democrats Plan Starbucks Boycott If "Egotistical, Billionaire Asshole" Schultz Runs For President

Angry Democrats are planning to boycott Starbucks if former CEO Howard Schultz runs for president. The 65-year-old billionaire has said that he may run as an independent - a move which could peel votes away from whoever wins the Democratic nomination to face President Trump.


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Putting it bluntly was a heckler at a New York Barnes & Noble, who told Schultz: "Don't help elect Trump, you egotistical, billionaire asshole."

Fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg warned Schultz not to run as an independent, writing on Monday that he had to make the same decision in 2008 when he was considering running for office.

"I faced exactly the same decision now facing others who are considering it," said Bloomberg. "The data was very clear and very consistent. Given the strong pull of partisanship and the realities of the electoral college system, there is no way an independent can win."

"In 2020, the great likelihood is that an independent would just split the anti-Trump vote and end up re-electing the President. That's a risk I refused to run in 2016 and we can't afford to run it now," Bloomberg added. "We must remain united, and we must not allow any candidate to divide or fracture us. The stakes couldn’t be higher."

Schultz, on the other hand, thinks that there are enough moderate voters on both sides of the aisle who are sick of the status quo and will rally behind him.

"I believe that lifelong Democrats and lifelong Republicans are looking for a home," Schultz told Axios on Sunday night - acknowledging that a vote-splitting campaign "is going to create hate, anger, disenfranchisement from friends, from Democrats."

Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, called for a Starbucks boycott if Schultz enters the race, tweeting: "Vanity projects that help destroy democracy are disgusting. If he enters the race, I will start a Starbucks boycott because I’m not giving a penny that will end up in the election coffers of a guy who will help Trump win."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...asshole-schultz-runs

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Democrats Plan Starbucks Boycott If "Egotistical, Billionaire Asshole" Schultz Runs For President

Where are all these hipster douchebags going to go then? Dunkin Donuts? McDonald's?

yeah right

If hipster snowflakes can’t patronize Starbucks, there will be mass starvation.

Love to see the butthurt, love to see Starbucks take another jolt of their own PC BS, but...I wonder how many of the noble and the pure are aware that Schultz is no longer with Starbucks and hasn't worked there for some time now?

Come to think of it - well, gosh - will Starbucks have to launch a massive multimedia campaign repudiating Schultz?

"OK, guys, so Starbucks Corporate wants you all to start writing "Schultz is an egotistical billionaire asshole" on cups to, you know, start a dialogue with our customers. FluffyLuna, pass out those pens, willya? Yeah, the ones with sparkles on them."

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Love to see the butthurt, love to see Starbucks take another jolt of their own PC BS, but...I wonder how many of the noble and the pure are aware that Schultz is no longer with Starbucks and hasn't worked there for some time now?

Come to think of it - well, gosh - will Starbucks have to launch a massive multimedia campaign repudiating Schultz?

"OK, guys, so Starbucks Corporate wants you all to start writing "Schultz is an egotistical billionaire asshole" on cups to, you know, start a dialogue with our customers. FluffyLuna, pass out those pens, willya? Yeah, the ones with sparkles on them."

Heavy thinkers, these leftists.

I can't help but wonder if Trump will cut some type of deal with Schultz to get him to run.

My US$0.02, Trump is a master at dominating the news cycle. He took out quite a few experienced Republicans in the primaries by sucking all the oxygen out of the room. None of them could get any airtime to get their message out.

Remember Trump's feud with Rosie O'Donnell? If Trump can start a pissing match with Schultz the cable news networks would eat it up and the Democrats would all be forgotten.

Ah, but do we want them forgotten while they're all busy whizzing all over each other and sticking knives in each others' backs?

Gotta throw this in - when Michael Moore speaks out, you've arrived, baby!

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Michael Moore Calls For Starbucks Boycott Until Schultz Says He's Not Running For President
Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Fox News, Feb. 1, 2019

Prize excerpts:

"Right away by admitting that you had subsidized public housing paid for by the tax dollars of the American people, you aren't self-made. You got a hand-up from us like we wanted it," Moore said of Schultz growing up in project housing in New York. "We want to help our fellow Americans. It's a form of socialism, public housing, and yet he's saying, 'I'm all self-made'. He went to public university, he went to Northern Michigan University, actually, and you know, again, financed by taxpayers' dollars."

Here's my personal favorite -

"And he sells coffee, which is essentially water using city water systems, municipal water systems...You got to be a billionaire because we're paying for the water!"

Is there anyone here living in a municipality who doesn't pay for the water they use? Somehow I don't think Starbucks gets "free water". Now, you guys remember that Schultz no longer works for Starbucks, right? He retired last summer. Nevertheless -

"When asked whether Schultz should run for president, the political documentarian urged everyone not to go to Starbucks 'until he announces he's not running'. He also suggested setting up 'lemonade stand'-like tables outside of Starbucks and sell their own coffee."

Full original text at http://www.foxnews.com/enterta...unning-for-president

And, just to show that the Democrats fully believe in collective punishment when it comes to the corporate world, renowned buisness publisher Bloomberg is claiming that Starbuck's expansion plans hinge on growth in red states and that Schultz' contemplation of a presidential run is "very volatile for the brand".

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...as-schultz-mulls-run

Can we call this a full-court lunatic press yet? Starbucks is going to get the financial snot knocked out of it because someone who no longer works there is thinking about running for President as an independent.

I’m predicting that like Nike, Starbucks won’t lose any significant money. The leftist customers are hypocrites by nature, so they’ll still line up for their overpriced swill.

Yes!

Please. Please. Please run.

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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:
If hipster snowflakes can’t patronize Starbucks, there will be mass starvation.

Hipsters hate Starbucks, they go to the independent, local, fair-trade, cis-neutral gathering space coop.

Those who patronize Starbucks are a larger demographic...suburbanites. The demographic that is most susceptible to overwhelming marketing and commercial mass media.

Rush was discussing today how Schultz has indicated how shocked he is at the vitriol he’s getting from Democrats and apparently he’s been listening too much to advisors telling him the “moderate” “reasonable” guy track was the way to enter the crowded 2020 field.

I think this just goes to show how far left the Democrat party has moved in just the past year or two.

Howard Schultz is done... before anyone outside of Sigforum even knew he was running.

Howard Schultz Abandons Presidential Run, Says He Doesn't Want To Help Re-elect Trump

Hysterical Democrats who nearly had a stroke earlier this year when former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz declared his intention to run as an independent can rest easy: The corporate titan revealed in a letter to his "supporters" on Friday that he had decided not to pursue a self-financed third-party run.

The Washington Post reports that recruiting moderate voters was more difficult than he had imagined, and that he didn't want to risk being the 'spoiler' who handed Trump a second term.

Schultz's decision comes after he spent months out of the spotlight because of an unspecified health issue. The many candidates vying for the Democratic nomination will undoubtedly celebrate Schultz's decision. The billionaire executive added that he was ending his campaign now because he didn't want to risk his name showing up on the ballot if a moderate like Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...-help-re-elect-trump

"You broke my heart, Howie, you broke my heart!"

Ah, well. I guess he figured that if Andrew Yang couldn't get any traction then the whole "moderate, reasonable" thing was a non-starter for winning the primary. As for "unspecified health problems"? More like letting the dwarves kill each other off without his having to spend a nickel or take any risks.

Yeah, I know, Biden's still a live player. He's also (at present, at least) the last gasp of the Donkey Establishment. Either way, the whole "more radical than thou" movement will either swamp Unca Joe or give him an ongoing case of the agita.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

... The Washington Post reports that recruiting moderate voters was more difficult than he had imagined...

It will be even more difficult for the Democrat's nominee.

It sounds a lot more like he conducted a six month marketing/feasibility study. I think he figured out that he wasn't going to draw even 5% of the popular vote and was going to have to spend $100 million plus to generate that poor showing.



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