Bad debut for Mr. Coffee

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[madaboutharry]

1. Vanity candidacies are an insult to voters

and an insult to the serious business of democracy.

[ProudLib72]

2. As we have learned the hard way over the last two years

[madaboutharry]

4. We sure have.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. HEAR! HEAR! eom

[TomSlick]

3. If this billionaire a**hole runs.

I will never again cross the threshold of a Starbucks. I know, he is the former (not current) CEO. Nevertheless, I am confident that his retirement is either coming from Starbucks or dependent on the value of Starbucks stock. Absent considerable proof that hurting Starbucks doesn't hurt Schultz, none of my money goes through a Starbucks cash register if Schultz runs.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. He owns 38 million shares of Starbucks. Starbucks is trading at $65.00

Do the math,

[zentrum]

6. Don't cross the threshold

......right now.

Can't tell you the number of local mom and pop coffee cafes this corporate s$#t has put out of business in NY.

[yardwork]

7. Can't drink their crap products.

[iluvtennis]

12. +++ agree. Mickey D's has better coffee than Starbucks

[Volaris]

28. FOLGERS is better than Starbucks lol

[iluvtennis]

30. + agree.

[bullwinkle428]

23. My workplace switched to Starbucks as their coffee supplier a couple

of years ago, and it tastes like garbage to me. I bring in my own Kava brand instant, and that stuff is light years better.

[NewJeffCT]

25. Never liked Starbucks coffee

I need to load it down with sugar and cream to offset the bitter taste.

I've always preferred Dunkin Donuts, but they kept raising their prices, so I switched last year to my local Cumberland Farms, where you can get a coffee up to 30 ounces for 99 cents vs 24 oz at Dunkin Donuts for $3.00 now. Since it's on my way to work (and across the street from a Dunkin), it's easy enough for me.

[iluvtennis]

31. Great price at Cumberland Farms. Hope they come to California

[SunSeeker]

8. I second what that protestor said!

[Julian Englis]

9. A succinct, yet accurate , summary. eom

[Honeycombe8]

10. Yeah, I heard that. Childish and rude.

He's entitled to his opinion. He's not entitled to yell derogatory names at people or interfere with other people's enjoyment of the book tour. It's also not a good advertisement for liberals, if that's what the guy is.

[mysteryowl]

14. I liked it.

[world wide wally]

11. Just what we need for a change. A billionaire businessman with no political experience...

Wait!

[MrsCoffee]

13. Oh let's please not call him that, lol!

Mr. Coffee that is.

[LakeSuperiorView]

15. Hey, he burned his beans a long time ago.

[dlk]

16. A Very Real Concern for His Candidacy-Who is His Constituency?

A vague, “disaffected Democrats and Republicans” isn’t enough. Also, an independent candidate has never been elected for a reason. He would merely siphon off votes & ensure Trump’s re-election. What is his true motivation?

[Honeycombe8]

18. Independent candidates suck voters from another party, tho. Trump thinks it'd be Dems...

Trump thinks Schultz would siphon off Democratic votes. But Schultz has views that are clearly conservative (cut Social Security and Medicare, no single payer healthcare, an austerity view of taking care of the huge debt we have, he wouldn't have cut the wealthy's taxes as much as was done in the tax cut bill - but he would have cut them - so might raise taxes somewhat on the very wealthy).

I can't see any Democrat, or left-leaning Independent, voting for him.

Could be that Schultz knows this. And so does Schmidt.

Trump, as usual, doesn't know the details. People assumed, as I did, that Schultz is liberal, because of his good treatment of his employees, his humble upbringing, etc. It turns out, looks like, that he's a conservative. That is what it looks like to me.

[srey704]

19. boycott Starbucks

Hit him where it hurts.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

20. Some people think they're better at everything cuz they're rich

How about Mr. Coffee helps Puerto Rico or improve inner city schools like LeBron did? If you really wanted to do something beneficial to society than do something worthwhile rather than doing an ego tour. He wouldn't even get 2% if he ran.

[klook]

21. A few responses from Twitter users --

Preet Bharara: “I think @HowardSchultz should totally run for city council in whatever city he lives.”

Gerwalk It Out: “I'm fine with him being HOA president of the gated community of estates he lives in.”

Kiss My Asterisk: “Hard pass...
maybe he can run for President of his yacht club.”

I’m So Over This: “I'm so sick of anyone who is reasonably famous thinking the only political roles they can play are at the top. Some of these people would catapult through the ranks if they'd just take a minute to get SOME experience.”

[donkeypoofed]

22. What is "getting ratioed" on Twitter?

I have no idea what that means.

[uponit7771]

24. When there's more comments than likes IIRC

[roscoeroscoe]

26. Dumb ass

He's one of those; so smart! Yet smashing with no reserve right into the Kruger-Dunning effect.

Mr. Schultz, if your ideas are so good, run in a primary like a real candidate.

You are going to embarrass yourself worse than you already have.

[madinmaryland]

27. Hey wait a second. Joe DiMaggio would not put that shit in his coffee pot!!

The Original mr. coffee.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. CEOs (current or former) do not make good politicians.

The principles of those two jobs are contradictory.

The majority of CEOs are assholes to common people and we've had enough assholes in W and tRump for a very long time.

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