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DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 01:23 PM Jan 2019

How is Howard Schultz's running or not running the top story in Google News?

There is no doubt in my layperson mind that this being manipulated by search engine optimization etc. I'm not a techy, so perhaps I am wrong, but with everything else going on, it's not credible that people care this much.

It seems to me the seeds to sow dissension among us are being planted. Can we not counter this?

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still_one

(92,531 posts)
2. I suspect it is because of his 60 minutes interview, and he is probably high on Google's search
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 01:25 PM
Jan 2019

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BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
6. Just another bright shiny object for the M$M to chase...
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 01:32 PM
Jan 2019

It shouldn’t be too hard to point out the lunacy of electing one billionaire with zero government experience to fix another Billionaire with zero government experience’s epic disasters is a fucking rediculous idea..

dem4decades

(11,322 posts)
7. I would like to say that if he runs not only will I boycott Starbucks but I will guarantee I'll
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 01:43 PM
Jan 2019

NEVER step foot in one of his store or buy any of his products again. NEVER.

What kind of business model wants millions of people to boycott their products forever?

And I'll drop a note to Costco to tell them to drop that coffee to.

 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
10. Because they want it to be!!! I bet you ask 25 people on the street who Howard Schultz is you get
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 01:56 PM
Jan 2019

3 who can tell you. I didn't know and I'm a political junky. I know now that he is the new Donald Trump and is getting free advertising to screw up the next election by the corporate controllers...

catbyte

(34,552 posts)
13. Covering a billlionaire's potential vanity campaign is so much more fun than real reporting.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 02:04 PM
Jan 2019

And we all know how well the last vanity campaign worked out.

Schultz's empty platitudes and "both sidesism" is just what they want to distract from the real issues. And, if he does run, he'll be no better than Ralph Nader & Jill Stein, a spoiler who will most likely guarantee that republicans will control the White House for four more years, with or without POtuS. So, if he's been a supporter of the Democratic party for years, what has made him all of a sudden abandon it for a third party run other than sheer ego? Competent, qualified, decent people are declaring their candidacy. It's sheer egomania. It's disgusting.

dlk

(11,606 posts)
14. The Last Person We Need in the White House is a Billionaire with Zero Experience in Government
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 02:33 PM
Jan 2019

Informed voters understand there is an enormous difference between success in business and success in government because they are vastly different entities. A billionaire running for the top national office with zero experience is merely another failed vanity project in the making.

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