Howard Schultz for President? God Help Us All

Howard Schultz is contemplating a run for president, while Kamala Harris leans into Obama-style rhetoric. If you have trouble reading this message, [view it in a browser](. [The Last Thing America Needs Right Now is a 'Centrist Independent']( Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been pondering a run for president as a "centrist independent," God help us all. All of the progressive ideas that have been gaining public support over the past two years are anathema to him, which is why a lot of the Never Trumpers are Howard-curious. Steve Schmidt is already onboard. (I've tried to warn y'all about this.) But the towering, blistering arrogance of Schultz's vanity exercise is precisely what the country does not need in its two-year effort to wrest the wheel from El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. [Read More]( [Why Are Celebrities Like Michael B. Jordan Wearing Harnesses on the Red Carpet?]( ) Last night at the SAG Awards, Michael B. Jordan joined the small but influential list of men who have rocked a harness (his pink, purple, and Louis Vuitton) on the red carpet for an awards show in 2019. This isn't the first time the harness has made an appearance at a major event this year—think back to Timothée Chalamet and Adam Rippon. So, despite the tinge of S&M and the maybe-leather-daddy vibe the accessory carries with it, it's becoming kind of A Thing for black-tie affairs. What is going on here? [Read More]( ) [The Big Lebowski May Not Be Returning, But The Dude Is Back On Super Bowl Sunday]( ) Listen. Sometimes it's just better that you don't mess with a good thing. That doesn't mean it's not nice to check in on good people every once in a while though. Last week's ominous teaser featuring The Big Lebowski left people curious if we might actually be getting a sequel to the Coen Brothers classic. The answer to that is a definitive no. But we are getting a quick catch up with The Dude in a Stella Artois spot, and he just happens to be seated next to Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw. The '90s, man. You can't escape them. [Read More]( ) [Stories Like the Groveland Four Are Why R. Kelly Has Gone Unpunished]( ) Earlier this month, nearly two million people watched Lifetime's Surviving R. Kelly. The series offered so thorough an accounting of the allegations against Kelly that it seemed impossible to understand how he not only stayed out of prison, but maintained a largely black fan base in the face of a mountain of evidence suggesting he is a serial assaulter of black women and girls. And then just a week after the show aired, another story made the news, one that offered some explanation for how the allegations against Kelly came to be overlooked by his fans: the story of the Groveland Four, four black men who were falsely accused of raping a white women in 1949. [Read More]( ) [The President's Racist Brain Is on Full Display in the Latest Trump-Era Beach Read]( ) Like everything else in the Trump Era, the art of the White House tell-all has been transformed into a breathless rat race, as former aides and free-range interlopers capitalize on the chaos to turn the ongoing national disgrace into spicy newsprint and crisp greenbacks. Yet the stories are spicy, the latest series of which hail from another new presidential beach read, Team of Vipers, by ex-White House communications aide Cliff Sims. By all accounts, the book paints a familiar picture of an administration in disarray, led by a man whose particular proclivities make the job...difficult. [Read More]( ) [The Michael Jackson Documentary Is Already One of the Most Controversial Films of 2019]( ) Late last week, Park City police were preparing for the worst at Sundance. Fans of Michael Jackson were threatening to protest the premiere of Leaving Neverland, a new documentary from director Dan Reed that investigates child abuse claims against the late artist. The night of the premiere, policemen patrolling the area with bomb-sniffing dogs outnumbered the few protesters outside of the Egyptian Theater, according to reports. And the film debuted to a standing ovation, with Variety calling it a "devastatingly powerful and convincing testimony that Michael Jackson was guilty of child sexual abuse." But Jackson’s family, unsurprisingly, has condemned the film. [Read More]( ) [Read More on Esquire.com]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Notice]( esquire.com ©2019 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019