No thanks, we have one already
Jim Wright nails the Mister Coffee thing.
Everything I’ve seen from this guy, every word he’s spoken, every interview he’s given, every poll he’s bought, every article he paid someone to write, everything over the last few days tells me just how utterly horrible he’d be as President.
And we already have someone utterly horrible as president. We don’t need more of that.
Look at this. Look at what Schultz tweeted this morning.
Lots of opinions this week. Here’s another: ‘They’re trying to bully Mr. Schultz out of running, but along the way they’re making the case for why he should.’
Bully.
He thinks he’s being bullied.
He thinks he’s a victim. Of bullying. This guy.
He’s quoting the conservative press, who thinks he’s being bullied.
Bullied.
Howard Schultz, billionaire straight white guy running for president – the very epitome of power and privilege in America – thinks he’s the victim.
He thinks he is being bullied because the press asked him some questions.
And, again, we already have someone who reacts that way to normal questions and criticism. We don’t need another one.
Great. Another rich white straight male martyr, just what America needs.
These sons of bitches should be bullied. Maybe they’d understand what it actually means. How it actually feels. The damage that it actually does. The lives it destroys.
Listen to me: bullying is what happens when those who have power use that power to brutalize those who do not.
Trump and Mister Coffee have power because they have money and Rampant Ego. They are the bullies around here.
I, I, I, I, that’s all these guys ever talk about. I. Me. Because that’s all they ever think about. Themselves. You don’t get to be Donald Trump, you don’t get be Howard Schultz, without first being a self-centered self-involved self-aggrandizing prick. If you do anything for anybody else, it’s only because there’s something in it for you.
And…[whining a little]…we already have one of those.
He’s really probably getting a lot more attention than he deserves… I mean, he’s the sort of candidate that doesn’t really appeal to anyone.
I think a lot of people thought that about Trump. But it was all the attention he got that drove him to the White House. Which is why I agree…don’t give this man any attention
I prefer Daddy Starbucks to Mister Coffee. But that’s just me.
Eric Berne identified this syndrome in his classic Games People Play, as the game he called ‘Poor Me’. Fits well.
But we’ll miss out on all of his interesting and novel policy ideas, like “let’s put aside partisanship and work together as a country,” “leadership we can trust,” and “government that works for the people””
Although, to be fair, he does have one original aspect. I’ve never before seen someone try to pull off the “we’re too divided as a country/everyone who disagrees with me is unAmerican” combo so explicitly.
Yes, that is a high point.
Wait.
I thought Daddy Starbucks was bald. And wasn’t Joe Dimaggio Mr. Coffee?
Can’t we just stick with “You egotistical billionaire asshole?” But I repeat myself
I’m so confused.
Hey, Trump turned part of the W.H. into a fast food joint, surely it’s only in the spirit of corporate America that it gets a coffee shop too?
Acolyte,
I think that should be rephrased as
A self-confessed genius like Trump should find the details of the real-estate deal a piece of cake; a piece of pussy; whatever.