Showing posts with label Howard Schultz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard Schultz. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2019

AOC says it's good to put folks out of work because she has a job

If she looked like this, would Dems take
her seriously?
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [aka: Alexandria Obviously-Confused] (D-NY) said Saturday that folks ought to be "excited" about "being automated out of work." She then went on to support taxing corporations out of business at a 90 percent tax rate.

Ocasio-Cortez made the naive remarks while bloviating at the hard left-leaning South by Southwest Conference & Festival in Austin, Texas — where she also said America was in a state of "garbage" and suggested that former President Ronald Reagan was a racist, their main "go-to" ad hominem attack.

"We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work," said the New York socialist. "We should not feel nervous about, you know, the toll booth collector not having to collect tolls anymore."

Like, you know, right? Like so what if there are no cars for the toll booth collector who would also be a thing of the past. Like he or she can learn to

"We should be excited by that," Ocasio-Cortez continued. "But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die, and that is at its core a problem. And so there are a lot of different solutions— a lot of different proposed, uh, ideas about how we go about that."

Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of people who did not have a job and did not eat and subsequently died except they didn't.

The socialist with the annoying Jessica Tarlov sounding voice then appeared to support Bill Gates' idea of "taxing robots at 90 percent," explaining: "what that means— what he’s really talking about is taxing corporations at 90 percent, um, but it’s easier to say tax a robot." This is because robots have jobs and while they don't get paid money, we can tax their electrical input.

-People should be “excited” about “being automated out of work” Brilliant point!

“We live in a society where if you don’t have a job you are left to die and that is at its core a problem” And while that's a fact in her mind, it isn't a fact in reality.


Ocasio-Cortez's comments about how "its a core problem" that people should have to work in order to live goes back to her far-left Green New Deal, which stated that it would provide "Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work." This equates to all who are now unwilling to work because of that little thing known as human nature: if you're going to get paid to chill, you chill. Only idiots would work under those circumstances.

Her remarks that people should not be worried about losing their jobs to automation is absurd, as recent reports predict that tens of millions of Americans will be jobless in the coming decades due to automation.

Polling from Pew Research has found that approximately 85% of American "support restricting workforce automation to jobs that are dangerous or unhealthy for humans to do, including 47% who support the idea strongly." 

In other words, take choices away from humans and put robots in dangerous jobs like firefighting, law enforcement, driving cabs in bad neighborhoods and skydiving instructors.

"Over the next 13 years, the rising tide of automation will force as many as 70 million workers in the United States to find another way to make money, a new study from the global consultancy McKinsey predicts," The Washington Post reported.

Occasional-Cortex drew big crowds to hear her annoying voice. But was also the subject of criticism as former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz slammed her Green New Deal, a silly attempt to fundamentally make the country eliminate cows, cars, planes and retrofit every building in America to reduce carbon emissions to zero, which would then kill the planet. Brilliant!

"Going back to the Green New Deal, in the Green New Deal there is a proposal that says that by 2030 every building in America is going to be transformed to clean energy," Schultz said. "Now, that's a well-intentioned idea but it's never going to happen. Let’s propose things that are true, that are honest, that are sincere, and that are realistic."

Like a cup of Starbucks Frackatackatoris Cappucchininno with a splash of cream on every breakfast table, except for the robots.

"There's nothing free in America," Schultz continued. "So these proposals about Medicare for all, and free college, and a government job for everybody, that is not free. So someone is going to have to pay for that and that means that taxes for everyone is going to have to go up or someone's going to have to wave a magic wand and do something that doesn't exist but that has to be paid for by somebody and the difficulty in trying to pay for any of that is we're sitting with twenty-two trillion dollars of debt that has to be addressed."

But Schultzy, if you're the socialist in charge, it isn't your problem.


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Monday, February 4, 2019

Dems will soon purchase adult diapers over Howard Schultz's DOUBLE DIGIT numbers

Democrats are making cocky from the tooley in a panic over a potential third party presidential run in 2020 by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. It got so bad that Starbucks had to issue special guidelines to their baristas [fancy name for liberals who serve burnt coffee] on how to handle "aggressive" customers who freak out that Schultz will ruin the election for the Democrats and lead to yet another Trump victory.

Happily, they have good reason to be worried.

According to the first polls out on Schultz's campaign -- one internal and one Morning Consult/external -- Schultz is polling in the double digits against Democrats in a three-way challenge with President Donald Trump. This may have to do with the fact that Democrats such as Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren all have socialist plans that will make the country circle the bowl.

The Washington Examiner reports that the internal poll shows Schultz with a commanding 17 percent against Trump and either Sen. Elizabeth Warrren (D-MA) or Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), both among the top contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

That definitely puts Schultz in the position of "spoiler" for both potential Democratic socialists. When Schultz is added to the lineup, Trump posts 33% compared to Warren and Harris, who post 32% and 31% respectively -- a situation that would likely lead to a narrow loss for either.

It's also good news for Schultz: in order to be on the ballot in most states, a third party candidate must command more than 15% of the vote in five key national polls. Schultz is within reach of that, particularly given that his own internal poll is tight, with a nice, low 2.5% margin of error.

An external poll from Morning Consult shows similar results -- and that Americans are increasingly open to the prospect of a third party candidate in the 2020 contest, like they were when Abraham Lincoln ran as the first Republican. [But CNN, had they been around then, would have probably called him a Democrat.]

Politico reports that at least 35% of voters would consider a third party candidate, and at least 12% believe they would cast a ballot for someone other than Trump or the generic Democratic candidate.

That still puts Schultz in a spoiler position, but he's polling better than most Democratic contenders and he's a year out of the Iowa caucuses, indicating that the Democratic Party has gone so far to the left that voters aren't taking them seriously.

One place where Schultz falls short is among potential third party voters who are looking more for a "moderate" alternative to either the President or the Democratic field. Although most third party voters assume third party candidates are moderate, that isn't necessarily the case with Schultz, who waffles between being socially progressive and a "pro-business" conservative, based on the day, which way the wind is blowing and the issue.

"There’s a common misperception that independents are moderate,” said a Republican strategist to Politico. “Most independents aren’t any more centrist than traditional partisans. Rather, they’ve made the decision to switch because of a hostility or disdain for the way politics is practiced.”

For now, it's clear that Schultz's potential candidacy represents a very serious threat to the Democrats, who aren't sending rational people to the 2020 contest.

But since when have Democrats been rational with Donald Trump as President?

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Friday, February 1, 2019

Michael Moore willing to boycott Starbucks' scones and cakes until Schultz drops out

The Democrats are having conniptions over former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and his decision to run in the 2020 presidential election as an independent. Because the Democrats have gone so far over to the left, they're worried that Schultz is too moderate and will grab a lot of the votes of those who realize just how crazy the Democratic Party has become. When it comes for the left to choose between Kamala Harris, who wants to tax everyone to pay for programs that would make America look like Venezuela with perhaps more toilet paper, and Howard Schultz, who sees the left's plans are un-American, the choice for moderates is easy. He would likely never win, but he'd suck away enough votes to give Trump a second term.

Now Michael "Pass the Ketchup" Moore wants to boycott Starbucks to bully Schultz into dropping out of the election. Moore used to love the guy before he decided to exercise his right to run for office.

Speaking on the libtard show "Late Night with Seth Meyers," Moore has called for a boycott on the coffee chain until Schultz steps down, which will arguably be about as effective as the boycott against Chick-fil-A over same-sex marriage.

Moore first blasted Schultz for claiming to be a "self-made billionaire," which is hurtful anytime real liberals (as opposed to socialists) are actually self-made billionaires as Schultz really is.

"You take issue with 'self-made," said the unfunny Meyers.

Moore replied, "In the same sentence he goes, 'I'm a self-made billionaire, I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn.' 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,” Moore explained in his "You didn't build it" bull crap moment.

“You got a hand-up from us, like we wanted to, 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.'"

Well fatso, Social Security is a form of socialism and even the family structure is a form of socialism. It doesn't make the entire government a socialist entity--that would be Venezuela.

But to credit the city with making Schultz a billionaire because, as a child his parents got subsidized housing, is ludicrous.

Moore went on to critique Schultz for all of the public benefits he received while growing up, including his education. Seth Meyers simply nodded along with a "Yeah" or two interjected throughout.

"He went to public university; he went to Northern Michigan University actually, and you know, again, financed by taxpayers' dollars," he continued. "And he sells coffee, which is essentially water using city water systems, municipal water systems."

Are you following this nonsense? This is how socialists like Moore justify the system and attack anyone that causes them difficulty. By Moore's logic, nobody is self-made. Except if you fall into the intersectional criteria that makes you a victim and gives you 'creds' for being born that way. Schultz is white and is Jewish--he had it made in the shade when he was born.

Except he didn't. He was poor and the first in the family to go to college. He built a billion dollar business from a simple coffee shop.

By no means am I advocating you vote for him, just pray he runs.

And pray Michael Moore keeps touting his socialist schtick and doesn't eat all the hamburgers and fries.


I hope that 2019 will be the year you follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.




Monday, January 28, 2019

Leftists threaten Starbucks boycott if Schultz doesn't do what they say: but #IfTheyBoycottWeWillCome

The tolerant left has threatened to boycott the coffee and creative writing inspiration supplier, Starbucks, if the former CEO of the burnt coffee chain doesn't do what they say. Howard Schultz said he plans to run for president in 2020 and the leftists are saying, "You run at your own peril. We leftists will not go to Starbucks for our coffee if you do what your constitutional rights say that you can. We have spoken."

Schultz spoke in an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night and revealed his potential plans for the race.

But Schultz’s remarks were not well received by the Left because they hope to unseat President Trump and believes an Independent like Schultz could take away votes from the eventual Democratic nominee. Of course, it's also probable that he would also siphon votes from conservatives who are now less enchanted by Trump's tweeting.

In response to Schultz’s flirtation with a presidential candidacy, many on the Left suggested boycotting the burnt coffee chain until he calls off his run. 

But maybe he doesn't care if the burnt coffee chain succeeds or fails because it isn't his problem anymore. Besides, if Starbucks fails now that he's gone doesn't that make him look better than Kevin Johnson, the current CEO?

Neera Tanden, the president of the left-wing intolerant Center for American Progress, said she would start a boycott against Starbucks because Schultz’s run “will help Trump win.”

That's what conservatives thought of Trump's run in 2016--we thought Clinton would win.

“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,” Tanden, a green tea drinker, tweeted.

Side note: More choices does not “destroy democracy,” but one should expect nothing less than the president of a progressive think tank.

One of Tanden’s leftist minions at ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser, called on MoveOn, the Democratic National Committee, unions, and other Democrat campaigns to boycott the coffee shop to force Schultz to drop his bid.

“If Howard Schultz gets into the presidential race, @MoveOn, @IndivisibleTeam, the @DNC, the major unions, and the major presidential campaigns should all use their email lists to promote a Starbucks boycott until he drops out,” Millhiser tweeted on his computer at a local Starbucks.

Commentator Carol Roth noted that Millhiser and other stooges are essentially calling on people to “impair the livelihood of myriad workers to bully someone out of running for office.” 

But Tanden, Millhiser and their ilk have a good reason: they don't like Trump and don't care what happens to those victims of their collateral damage that a boycott would cause.

Maybe conservatives ought to do what they did for Chic fil-A and make special trips to buy their burnt coffee at a nearby Starbucks. Then when Schultz gets on the ballot, vote for Trump.

Starbucks is about as progressive [aka communistic] an establishment as one can get. And while boycotting their crappachino mocha grande lattes feels so good, even for conservatives, we can own the left by giving them our business for now, let him get on the ballot, then vote for Trump.

Let's make the hashtag #IfTheyBoycottWeWillCome go viral. 


I hope that 2019 will be the year you follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.





Monday, June 4, 2018

Howard Schultz to step down to maybe step up in 2020

Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman of the burnt coffee chain known as Starbucks, is stepping down as of June 26, the company confirmed Monday, and there is speculation that he wants to run for president.

Schultz, as you may know, was the guy who oversaw the Seattle coffeehouse chain's global expansion and who made all of the company's employees take racial sensitivity training after one of the chain's managers followed policy by denying use of a toilet to two men who were loitering in the store without buying anything. Unfortunately for the manager, the two men had higher levels of melanin than Caucasians, and Schultz had a cow.

Schultz, who is 64, worked for the pretentious coffee chain for about forty years. He has been the CEO from 1987 to 2000 and did a second stint from 2008 to 2016, when he was replaced by current CEO, Kevin Johnson. He is currently the owner of the NBA's Seattle Supersonics.

"I set out to build a company that my father, a blue-collar worker and World War II veteran, never had a chance to work for," Schultz wrote in a letter to Starbucks employees. "Together we've done that, and so much more, by balancing profitability and social conscience, compassion and rigor, and love and responsibility."

After the announcement, Starbucks' stock took a dive.

Schultz is a huge critic of President Trump and has been rumored to have political aspirations, as is common with narcissists and megalomaniacs.

If elected, Schultz will likely promise a coffee in every pot, but you have to overpay for it, but if you refuse, you can still use the toilet.

If elected, Schultz will capitulate to anyone with more intersectionality 'creds' than him in order to bow to the gods of leftist progressivism.

"I want to be truthful with you without creating more speculative headlines," he told the failing New York Times on Monday. "For some time now, I have been deeply concerned about our country--the growing division at home and our standing in the world [that began its nosedive when Barack Obama led from behind]."

"One of the things I want to do in my next chapter is to figure out if there is a role I can play in giving back" [hint, hint]. "I'm not exactly sure what that means yet."

Yeah, sure.

Starbucks now has more than 28,000 store and public toilet locations across 77 countries. All Schultz asks of store attendees is to not fall asleep on the floor, and flush when they're finished.

If Schultz does indeed run in 2020, his motto will be: "At least I don't say p***y!"


Friday, March 10, 2017

Starbucks CEO on politics sours company image

Starbucks Corporation has vowed to hire a boatload (or wall load) of refugees rather than Americans to spite our President's first executive order that temporarily bans travel from seven terrorist-spawning countries. 

Customers who believe in national security and personal safety are not happy with the pretentiously overpriced burnt coffee tasting sellers. And you don't have to be a rabid Trump supporter to be turned off by this anti-American sentiment.

The company's Chief Executive Howard Schultz promised to hire 10,000 refugees, most of whom will probably refused to sell you a BLT because of the "B", in countries where Starbucks overcharges.

Schultz wrote in a letter addressed to his mochadellafrappachino jockeys that the American Dream was "being called into question" and that "the civility and human rights we have all taken for granted for so long are under attack."

Yes, Starbucks is the same company that refused to write "Trump" on a man's cup who told them that is his name. But they are okay preaching politics with every Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Chocolate Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappucchino Extra Hot with Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended order. (Seriously, that's a real order, unlike the first one above.)

YouGov BrandIndex, a company that tracks consumer's sentiment toward companies and their willingness to purchase from those brands, noted that attitudes toward the company have gone south.

After they made the announcement about refugee hiring, the YouGov BrandIndex Buzz score fell by two-thirds between January 29th and February 13th. They have still not recovered.

Prior to Schultz's comments, 30 percent of consumers said they'd consider buy from Starbucks the next time they bought coffee, but that feel to a low of 24 percent and is now at 26 percent. 

One possible reason for the decline is that the product isn't worth the cost.

"Consumer perception dropped almost immediately," YouGov BrandIndex's CEO Ted Marzilli said. He added that the statistically significant drop in purchase consideration data indicated consumers became less likely to buy from Starbucks.

"That would indicate the announcement has had a negative impact on Starbucks, and might indicate a negative impact on sales in the near terms," he said, also noting that their holiday "red cup" controversy from November 2015 corresponded with an even larger drop in perception, but no real impact on purchase consideration scores. 

The controversy had to do with the removal of Christmas symbols from their red cups during the season.

Conservatives and others are supporting a boycott of the leftist chain and urge like-minded friends to support Dunkin' Donuts, which actually has the best donuts in America, whereas Starbucks has high caloric muffins that cause progressive stupidity.

If I want politics with my coffee, I'll go to the White House Press Corps room where Tom Hanks just bought the media a new coffee/espresso machine.


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