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I'm protesting against this company! Give me another latte'
9 years ago
It seems Trump supporters are protesting against Starbuck (whose CEO supported Clinton) by (Ready for this?) buying Starbuck coffee! Now we already new Trump supporters were an illogical group. But this raises the bar to a new extreme: protesting a company by buying more of their product. We need more protests! Right....
“This was never meant to be a boycott. I love Starbucks. I have no intention to stray any business from Starbucks at all,” he said, adding that he encouraged his Twitter followers to give baristas an extra tip if they were enthusiastic about writing Trump’s name on the cups.
Any more fake news you wish to share?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news.....=.69e84bed34d4
But the inference you made, "Now we already new Trump supporters were an illogical group".
That they somehow don't know how to do a boycott correctly. "protesting a company by buying more of their product."
" I don't care how the guy tries to spin it. "
Really... So no matter what you say, I can make up any hidden meaning I want. and say "you are just spinning it" I know what you really meant.????
Is that how the next 4 years are going to go?
Care to send anymore GOP-type lies my way?
Gee I had no idea Mark Zuckerberg was part of the Alt Right.
Friday night, the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg went on his vast social network to convince an expanding chorus of critics — including the departing president of the United States — that he honest-to-goodness wants to combat the “fake news” that is running wild across his site and others, and turning our politics into a paranoiac fantasy come to life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/b.....ruth.html?_r=0
I have one hope...that most of his so-called campaign promises were window-dressing just to get elected. That he might actually do some good...but with those he's appointing to his team, many I wouldn't even consider as a human being, my faith is faltering.
After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that's taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America. In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor. In five days, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election, that tries to pit region against region, and city against town, and Republican against Democrat, that asks -- asks us to fear at a time when we need to hope.
Was Obama hinting that he was planning to turn America into a social democratic Euro-state? We had to wait and see, didn't we. We gave him time.
Which is all I'm asking for.
Also you need to check out some of the folks President Obama surrounded himself with in the early days. Talk about scary.
October 2010, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
Robert Draper’s book, “Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives,” spring 2012. The book reports on a dinner of leading Republicans held the night of Obama’s inauguration and how they plotted not just to win back political power but to put the brakes on Obama's legislative platform:
"If you act like you're the minority, you’re going to stay in the minority,” Draper quotes [Rep. Kevin] McCarthy [R-Calif.] as saying. “We’ve gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign.”
The dinner lasted nearly four hours. They parted company almost giddily. The Republicans had agreed on a way forward:
Go after Geithner. (And indeed Kyl did, the next day: ‘Would you answer my question rather than dancing around it — please?’)
Show united and unyielding opposition to the president’s economic policies. (Eight days later, Minority Whip Cantor would hold the House Republicans to a unanimous No against Obama’s economic stimulus plan.)
Begin attacking vulnerable Democrats on the airwaves. (The first National Republican Congressional Committee attack ads would run in less than two months.)
After the 2008 election but before Obama and Biden took office, Vice President Joe Biden told the author that during the transition, “seven different Republican Senators” told him that “McConnell had demanded unified resistance.”
“The way it was characterized to me was: `For the next two years, we can’t let you succeed in anything. That’s our ticket to coming back,’ ” Biden says.
The nation was falling off the fiscal cliff thanks to the Bush administration. The global economic system was hanging in the balance and we were on the verge of another Great Depression. When the nation needed single-minded focus, the Republican political establishment put regaining their own power over the national interest.
So don't tell me about Obama's failures to live up to his campaign promises when he had an entire political party dedicated to making him fail. The GOP is just as much responsible for Obama's "failures" as he is, if not more so. I didn't see them give one ounce of concern for the average American. But anything and everything they could do to block Obama and regain their power in the government was fair game no matter who it destroyed, and then they blame Obama for the failure.
Oh, I'll give him time...as they say, give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. But then, we'll have to put up with Pence, who's social position of far, far right is even worse than Trump's.
Doesn't sound like they were too inhibited to me.
BTW: President Obama was voted into office twice, by those very same white blue collar workers that you now blithely calling Racists. So were they misguided sheep then? Or now?
As for your comment on Obamacare, Obama spent the first two years of his administration stopping a crashing economy left behind by Bush. He didn't write the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, though Republicans love to attach his name to it when in fact there were Republicans who supported it at the time. According to the Senate Finance Committee's website, they held meetings from June to September 2009 to develop the health care reform bill, Present at those meetings were Democratic senators Max Baucus, Jeff Bingaman and Kent Conrad and Republican senators Mike Enzi, Chuck Grassley and Olympia Snowe. There was no single author of the bill and it definitely wasn't written by Obama. According to Jonathan Cohn of New Republic, it was a collaboration of Senate Democrats and Republicans, members of the House of Representatives, the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and other interested parties. They deliberately drew on bipartisan ideas as those supported by former Senate majority leaders Howard Baker, Bob Dole, Tom Daschle and George J. Mitchell to garner the votes necessary for passage. The Act was patterned after a similar act in the state of Massachusetts where Mitt Romney was governor. That health care reform law, passed in 2006, mandated that nearly every resident of Massachusetts obtain a minimum level of insurance coverage, provided free health care insurance for residents earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level and mandated employers with more than 10 "full-time" employees to provide healthcare insurance
After the ACA was written but before it was voted upon, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell demanded Republicans shouldn't support this bill and worked to prevent defections (Republican voting for it.) McConnell, a known racist from the state of Kentucky, had already been critical of a "black man as president" and was the one to utter that famous statement of making Obama a one-term president. Under McConnell's insistence, Republican Senators that supported previous health bills with similar individual mandates (dating back to 1993!) began describing the mandate in the ACA as "unconstitutional.". Journalist Ezra Klein wrote in The New Yorker that "a policy that once enjoyed broad support within the Republican Party suddenly faced unified opposition," while reporter Michael Cooper of The New York Times wrote that: "the provision ... requiring all Americans to buy health insurance has its roots in conservative thinking."
So the entire Republican anti-ACA stance comes from one white supremacist who couldn't stand to see a black man succeed at something they tried and failed at. Now he's pushing to extend the short-term spending deal until May, well into Trump's term, essentially robbing Obama of his last year's budget which is supposed to go to October 2017 when Trump's first year budget is supposed to take effect. McConnell has no concern about the people of America nor the condition of this country. He just wants to get the black guy out of the White House.