Howard Schultz, strip searches, shutdown and SOTU
By: W. Island
Tags: Politics, News

5 Things That Will Piss You Off This Week

1.Howard Schultz runs for President

The CEO of Starbucks has decided to run for president as a centrist independent. After the complete disaster of a rich businessman as president with a cabinet filled with other rich businessmen, Mr. Schultz thought that what we really need now is another rich businessmen. If this last week of the government shutdown has taught us anything, where super rich people told the working poor that they should be able to “volunteer” to work without a paycheck. They laughed at people who couldn’t afford diapers or daycare or gas. Super rich Commerce Secretary, Wilber Ross, couldn’t understand why people just didn’t call up their banks and get loans without a time frame on when they would be able to pay it back. Donald Trump thought people could do repairs for credits on their rent and mortgages. He thought people should be able to go to the local grocery store and work out a deal for food. He said the grocery stores would work with folks.

It’s really funny if you disregard that real people suffered. People could make a game of Trump’s approach. Go up to the local supermarket, get a cart full of groceries, head towards the door without paying, and on the way out tell the cashier you’ll be back later to settle up. Then time how long it takes for the police to arrive. The person with the lowest scores gets free food in jail.

It’s takes an ego as big as someone super rich to think that right now in this country it would be a good idea to try and split the Democrat votes to make sure another rich guy stays in offices for four more years. Billions in tax cuts are a hellava drug.

2. Government Shutdown

35 days with 800,000 federal employees, 1 million+ contractors, small businesses who provide services to federal workers, restaurants, Uber/Lyft drivers, subway systems, etc. etc. etc. without pay for a wall that Republicans know we don’t need, won’t work and a majority of Americans don’t want because it was a 2016 campaign slogan. Just let that sink in.

3. 12-year-old girls Stripped Search

Just in case you aren’t keeping a running tally, let me remind you of the things we can’t do while black…BBQing, swimming, wearing socks by the pool, driving, sleeping in the dorm room, shopping, walking, moving into your own apartment, renting an AirBNB, golfing, and now smiling. Three 12-year-old girls were stripped searched because they seemed “giddy” during their lunch hour at a middle school in New York. A nurse and an assistant principle stripped searched these little girls on suspicion of drug use because the girls were laughing during lunch. Imagine the audacity of this nurse and principle for assuming they had the right to strip search little girls for simply being happy during lunch. There has been outrage from the parents and the community but there needs to be a national outcry to prevent other children being subjected to this type of abuse. And that’s what it was, abuse. I’ll wait for the girls to appear on major network news like the MAGA hat kids. I’ll wait and wait and wait.

4. 15,000 Kids Still Separated From Their Parents

And speaking of the MAGA hat kids, I wish the kids still locked in cages, still without access to their parents, and still without legal representation would get the same news coverage as that smirking kid and his band of apologists. But they don’t and they won’t. This is the real humanitarian crisis at the border. I’m pissed that the media continues to under-report this crisis.

5. SOTU is back on

After the Nancy Pelosi dogged walked Trump, she invited him to give his SOTU address next week. I’m pissed that Trump gets to stand in front of congress where the republicans will loudly applaud what will surely be a rambling, xenophobic, racist, sexist word salad of a speech. But I am happy that Stacey Abrams will give the response. I was sorry she didn’t win her Governor’s seat but I look forward to her running again in the future or being a big part of Kamala Harris’ administration. So tape the SOTU, face forward through Trump’s nonsense and check out Stacey Abrams. #KamalaHarris2020