Billionaire Howard Schultz doesn't want to be called a billionaire and people are having none of it
The 65-year-old billionaire from Brooklyn didn't quite agree with this sentiment and instead said that he'd prefer billionaires to be called something different.
The moniker 'billionaire' now has become the catchphrase. I would rephrase that and say that 'people of means' have been able to leverage their wealth and their interest in ways that are unfair, and I think that speaks to the inequality but it also speaks to the special interests that are paid for 'people of wealth' and corporations who are looking for influence.
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Spot the male pale and rich stale first world snowflake......
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... still biting us in the ass each and every day.
those telling him The Word to say. 
Of course, his handlers came well before him.
Ever watch Alpha House with John Goodman, etc? Remember the one at a Republican retreat held at an old slave plantation, where an entertainer's act was all Reagan quotations? The audience went from puzzled and not believing he ever said those things to increasingly outraged until they all walked out.
Hilarious because true. Those who took over the Republican Party purged the conservatism the Reagan era opened with long ago, instead harnessing (and becoming harnessed by in turn) extreme-right passions to serve their interests. I hear even the Kochs, murderous anti-regulation criminals that they are, are dismayed by the tigers they loosed from their cages.
My best guess has always been that if they did succeed their faction would end up against a wall, shot by the most ruthless and committed group among their allies, Christian dominionists. But a murderous white nationalist authoritarian dictator, empowered by the same destructive populists the Kochs once developed into the Tea Party, might well decide they were too powerful to leave alive also. I could see Pence in both roles.
Who really knows what Starbucky Billionaire is, besides suspiciously dishonest and willing to sabotage his own professed goals. Nice to see he's having a bad launch so far.
... will all be dead soon. I can't believe I'm writing that, but it's about all we have to look forward to. The Kochs, Mercer, Scaife, and many others have done so much damage to this country. I wish we had a way to confiscate all their money. But of course we don't, because this isn't 18th century France. BTW I don't believe Cheeto or anyone in his family are Liberarians, they're just career criminals who saw an opportunity.
And I agree, Pence has to go - along with the entire Chump family.
that we will. These billionaires obviously learned from the mistakes of the ruling class that arose from the first Gilded Age of greed. They didn't sufficiently divide to conquer the electorate, who were finally motivated when the Great Depression hurt the middle classes to use their power. This group divided us first. But we do know what to do if we unite. Under current law.
I'm afraid Venezuela is a model for a takeover, though. And not the only one either. When opposition groups finally came together and should have been able to take power and reform, Maduro quickly rigged the courts and laws and used them to block opposition and increase his power instead.
Agree entirely about the Trumps, a tacky low-end crime family. They're not our big problem, and if those who are decide to get rid of them...
Hey, even if Pence doesn't serve time in prison, how about after 5 awesomely (scarily) disciplined years doing his male Nancy Reagan act he leaves politics in disgrace, abandoned by God, without ever becoming president?
I posted a poll which gave her stronger support than the poll in the Tweet and I mostly ventured into the main forums because I thought this would be a Schultz bashing thread because I'm sure he is one person we all agree on that needs to go.
I'm not one against the other I love them both. I'd be happy if Warren won the nomination and agree the plans do compliment each other
or ”billionasses” 
From Juanita Jean http://juanitajean.com/satire-not-satire/
Howard Schultz would like me to stop calling him a billionaire because – get this – I am not a billionaire. Schultz feels that only billionaires can call other billionaires … billionaire. You know, kinda like the n-word. He wants me to call him “a person of means” or “a person of wealth.”
I think he ought to be really thrilled that I don’t call him a robber baron or a dragon guarding his hoard of gold.
Surely this is satire so I kept reading. And then there’s a recording. Surely Schultz was being satirical. Until I realized that Schultz has no sense of humor. But, to his credit he’s filled with whacko.
