No, YOU talk to him. We’re not related.
— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) January 28, 2019
Well, *that* made me laugh. For some reason, Howard Schultz isn’t getting a whole lot of encouragement for his vanity run, apart those with ulterior motives…
Oh man I am really excited to see this new candidate enter the field, I wonder how people are reacting to the– pic.twitter.com/QEl2nd87lo
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) January 28, 2019
In the battle between the billionaire running as a Democrat versus the billionaire running as an independent, both of whom want to face the (professed) billionaire Republican, I will take…pretty much anyone else.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 28, 2019
1. Who is the person advising former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to run for president as an independent?
It's Steve Schmidt, John McCain's campaign manager in 2008
Schultz can't win but Schmidt can certainly make a lot of money
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 28, 2019
Trying to get a consulting gig from the billionaire? https://t.co/6uLA9Sh4sz
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 28, 2019
Mr. Pierce, at Esquire:
… Leave aside for the moment that the country is not exactly hungering for another inexperienced plutocrat and that, if we have any sense at all, the current president* has murdered all that Let’s-Run-Government-Like-A Business bilge forever, we are seeing the stirrings of a genuine progressive moment for the first time in over 50 years.
The idea that the times now cry out for deficit-hawkery married to MBA-worship is not a little horrifying. But it’s a quite predictable reaction to the current political moment. As you can see by the hysterical reaction to Senator Professor Warren’s proposed wealth-tax, and to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to bring back the Bolshevism of John F. Kennedy’s tax plans, the masters of the universe are running scared for the first time in a long while. This is a good thing. God knows they need the exercise.
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