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GOP: businesses have the right to refuse service!!!
Business: Hey fascist. Get out. You’re making people with moral compasses uncomfortable.
GOP: wait. No, not like that!
“Businesses have a right to deny minority groups, but denying me is ‘cancel culture’.”
I know there are some members of this community who are at least as surprised that anybody living in Arkansas has a moral compass
There are good people everywhere.
There are definitely jerks everywhere. You're likely to notice them because they're apt to be disrespectful of your time, space, quietude, etc.
But the good people are certainly around too. You just might not notice them so easily because they do respect your right to exist independently of their intrusions.
They don't even have a regular compass or they wouldn't be in Arkansas in the first place.
Check the full article (linked within the posted shorter article) and you'll find this...
"About an hour into the visit, a staff member approached someone on the security detail and "asked to encourage" the governor to leave, "as she had finished dining," according to the statement.
Since the restaurant has a 90-minute table limit, the security detail was approached a second time and asked to leave roughly 10 minutes before that time limit.
As they were leaving, the governor's staff said that a man allegedly yelled, “it’s time to go,” and then proceeded to make a crude hand gesture in the governor’s direction. The Croissanterie would say that man was a customer and not an employee."
Yeah, she just found out, that not only do people disagree with her views, she's also not special and not above the rules. Get gone, bye Felicia..
Also not the first time she has been asked to leave a restaurant.
Oh shit, interesting. I'm in a different state, so she's not much on my radar, but would you have a link?
She was denied her cheese plate, the poor dear!
lol god she sucks so much.
As a former Arkansan, the moment she announced she was running for governor, I moved out of that state. Not even joking.
Sanders claimed the restaurant asked her to leave because she made their employees feel threatened, a claim the restaurant directly refuted.
That's... a valid reason to ask someone to leave.
But, it wasn't the reason she was asked to leave. Odd, though, that she chose to claim she made the employees feel threatened, like that's something to boast about?
My point is her explanation is “people were uncomfortable” as if that’s not a valid reason to ask someone to leave.
It is.
It very much is.
Especially if your security goons are acting like assholes questioning/stopping people, etc. (not saying they were but usually details like that will want as much control as they can legally take.)
She’s making me uncomfortable and I’m thousands of miles away
She went to the place she wanted to go, with her guests and her security detail, and she got the food she wanted to eat. She had the chance to eat it.
Somehow even this write-up. which is not particularly sympathetic to her, is framing this as a kind of affront, a consequence, a humiliation. But she pretty much got what she came for, didn't she? She's facing no practical consequences at all. She lost a little face, maybe. This was a public declaration that people don't like her, don't like what priorities she's chosen to serve.
Maybe we wouldn't be in this pickle we're in, if this kind of getting-through-to-the-isolated-elites happened more often. If we didn't have isolated elites in the first place.
As Kinky Friedman once said:
We reserve the right to refuse service to you.
Take your business back to Walgreens!
Have you tried the local zoo?
I’ll be honest, especially outside of their typical context, like the White House or haunted houses, ghouls would make me feel threatened too.
So the authors did change "threatened" to "uncomfortable", but "asked to leave" to "thrown out."
Is this fair and balanced?
Looking at her would put me off my dinner too.
It just occurred to me that the likely many hundreds of emails between Trump and Epstein haven't been released yet.
Oh, no!
Was she denied her cheese plate?
I remember how very butthurt all these assholes were the first failed term of this dumbass "president" when this happened:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/hero-restaurant-gives-sarah-huckabee-sanders-the-boot
good. now throw that cow off the planet
o.0
Please don't insult cows.
you're right. I'm sorry, cows.
She’s a guinea worm. A creature with no notable purpose in the world except to complete its lifecycle at the pain and expense of others. Literally the only parasite even hardcore animal rights and environmental groups don’t fight to save. Nobody likes the fucking guinea worm.
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