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Matthew Chapman
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Screw this guy.

He's essentially just a long-lost Koch brother who really sucks at it.
To put this in perspective, Schultz's earned income salary is less than $900,000 — he makes most of his income from stock options. www1.salary.com/Howard-Schultz…

So @AOC's 70% top rate wouldn't even apply to him!
But no, the mere idea of some rich people not keeping all their money is so offensive to Schultz that he is throwing a hissy fit on national TV and planning a grand vanity campaign to sabotage the Democratic Party.

I'm starting to think we should abolish billionaires altogether.
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What @HowardSchultz means is, he wants to run on neoliberalism without the attacks on blacks, gays, and women the GOP sells to voters.

He missed the point: the GOP *has* to appeal to racists, sexists and homophobes TO DISTRACT FROM THE NEOLIBERALISM BECAUSE THEIR BASE HATES IT.
If pro-billionaire policies were what Americans were all secretly pining for, @HowardSchultz, there would already be a major political party that put them front and center.

There's a reason the GOP can only sell them with a bait-and-switch culture war.
The only way the GOP makes neoliberalism palatable is by selling it in terms of all the Black people, Hispanics, and women that our current government is enforcing the rights of.

Take that away and try to package their economic ideas in a "centrist" platform, you'll get nothing.
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There's a ton of misinfo going on about what's happening in Venezuela.

This is not a "coup". This is the National Assembly using its constitutional powers to remove Maduro for rigging the election and the judiciary. It's not that different from impeaching a president in the U.S.
What needs to be understood here is, the Assembly is the only branch of govt that was democratically elected.

Maduro's election was a sham. As was his creation of a puppet Supreme Court that tried to dissolve the Assembly. The Assembly alone is trying to establish rule of law.
Maduro is trying to convince the world that this is a secret plot by the U.S. to invade and overthrow him, and that the economic collapse and famine in his country are a result of U.S. sanctions that were designed to manufacture unrest.
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And this is why I can't take seriously the "Harris is a cop" crowd.

It would be one thing if they left it at just criticizing the cases where she didn't push back against DA misconduct. But no — they make sweeping statements like this that ignore her entire policy record.
This guy completely refuses to acknowledge, say, Back on Track. Or her being one of the first DAs to require body cams. Or her statewide programs on bias training for police. Or her making police shooting data public. Or her efforts to end cash bail in the Senate.
I am perfectly fine with debating whether Harris made mistakes, either prosecuting certain cases too hard or not pushing back enough against the misconduct of separately elected local DAs. But to claim she would "oppose meaningful criminal justice reform" is ridiculous.
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