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Goebbels Jr. Tweeted this.
Going to announce another boycott this week… Stay tuned ? pic.twitter.com/XIURHxFgW4
— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) April 16, 2018
He’s just toying with companies’ bottom lines now.
He has revealed his true self with this Tweet.
He is an opportunistic sociopath, drunk on social media power.
It’s not about saving lives. It’s about tormenting people he doesn’t like.
I love Chick-Fil-A. They have the cleanest bathrooms of any chain restaurant I’ve ever seen. When you have little kids, that makes a world of difference. The staff they hire is polite and competent. I’ve never had an order wrong at Chick-Fil-A or treated with the causal discourtesy that makes the self order kiosk at a McDonald’s the preferable option. Also their waffle fries are beyond awesome.
I’m not the only person that thinks so. They are the fastest growing fast food franchise in the country. Chick-Fil-A does a record $4.4 million in sales per store. That is the highest of any fast food franchise. That includes them being closed on Sundays.
Much of the success of Chick-Fil-A comes from the Christian culture that is part of the Chick-Fil-A corporate culture crated by founder Truett Cathy.
Of course selling good food in a clean place, tended to by polite people, while making great profits is everything that Progressives hate.
There is nothing like a socialist hell hole filled with tent cities, homeless people pissing on the streets, and piles of garbage, human shit, and needles everywhere to make Progressives feel like home.
Despite the fact that Chick-Fil-A was founded in 1946, the first store wasn’t opened in New York City until 2015.
That event was marked by the Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, encouraging a boycott.
“What the ownership of Chick-fil-A has said is wrong…. I’m certainly not going to patronize them and I wouldn’t urge any other New Yorker to patronize them. But they do have a legal right.”
Because that is what a mayor is supposed to do. He’s supposed to publicly fuck over one of his residents who had the temerity to buy a franchise of the fastest growing restaurant chain in America.
The New York Post called him out for that. I’d take it a step further and call him a complete piece of shit for that.
Three years later, Chick-Fil-A has expanded in New York City.
The New Yorker decided to double down on de Blasio’s hatred of the brand.
Chick-fil-A’s arrival in New York City feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism. https://t.co/wnhMrMBN6z
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 13, 2018
Yep, that’s the title “Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City.”
The same people who think it’s great to make New York City a sanctuary city that shields illegals who drive drunk from prosecution are upset about a popular, law abiding business “infiltrating” NYC.
New York has taken to Chick-fil-A. One of the Manhattan locations estimates that it sells a sandwich every six seconds, and the company has announced plans to open as many as a dozen more storefronts in the city. And yet the brand’s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism.
That’s some Progressive bigotry if I’ve ever heard it.
Its headquarters, in Atlanta, are adorned with Bible verses and a statue of Jesus washing a disciple’s feet. Its stores close on Sundays. Its C.E.O., Dan Cathy, has been accused of bigotry for using the company’s charitable wing to fund anti-gay causes, including groups that oppose same-sex marriage. “We’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation,” he once said, “when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’ ” The company has since reaffirmed its intention to “treat every person with honor, dignity and respect,” but it has quietly continued to donate to anti-L.G.B.T. groups. When the first stand-alone New York location opened, in 2015, a throng of protesters appeared. When a location opened in a Queens mall, in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a boycott. No such controversy greeted the opening of this newest outpost. Chick-fil-A’s success here is a marketing coup. Its expansion raises questions about what we expect from our fast food, and to what extent a corporation can join a community.
Oh, and it continues.
This reminds me of Governor Cuomo’s statement about New York.
You’re seeing that play out in New York. … The Republican party candidates are running against the SAFE Act – it was voted for by moderate Republicans who run the Senate! Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that’s who they are and they’re the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.
I’m getting a sense of who New Yorkers are. They are a bunch of bigots who hate everyone outside their progressive bubble.
Letting a nine-year-old drag queen be the headliner of a pride parade and open up a drag club for kids isn’t perverse, child abuse, it’s progressive.
Believing in a definition of marriage that goes back to early Roman Christianity is creepy.
I noticed that word—community—scattered everywhere in the Fulton Street restaurant. A shelf of children’s books bears a plaque testifying to “our love for this local community.” The tables are made of reclaimed wood, which creates, according to a Chick-fil-A press release, “an inviting space to build community.” A blackboard with the header “Our Community” displays a chalk drawing of the city skyline. Outside, you can glimpse an earlier iteration of that skyline on the building’s façade, which, with two tall, imperious rectangles jutting out, “gives a subtle impression of the Twin Towers.”
This emphasis on community, especially in the misguided nod to 9/11, suggests an ulterior motive. The restaurant’s corporate purpose still begins with the words “to glorify God,” and that proselytism thrums below the surface of the Fulton Street restaurant, which has the ersatz homespun ambiance of a megachurch. David Farmer, Chick-fil-A’s vice-president of restaurant experience, told BuzzFeed that he strives for a “pit crew efficiency, but where you feel like you just got hugged in the process.” That contradiction, industrial but claustral, is at the heart of the new restaurant—and of Chick-fil-A’s entire brand.
I wonder if The New Yorker knew that McDonald’s had so many reports of rude employees it had to have a corporate level crack down on employee behavior.
Chick-Fil-A with its “community” attitude doesn’t have that problem.
Its arrival in the city augurs worse than a load of manure on the F train. According to a report by the Center for an Urban Future, the number of chain restaurants in New York has doubled since 2008, crowding out diners and greasy spoons for whom the rent is too dear. Chick-fil-A, meanwhile, is set to become the third-largest fast-food chain in the nation, behind only McDonald’s and Starbucks. No matter how well such restaurants integrate into the “community,” they still venerate a deadening uniformity. Homogeneous food is comfort food, and chains know that their primary appeal is palliative. With ad after ad, and storefront after storefront, they have the resources to show that they’ve always been here for us, and recent trends indicate that we prefer them over anything new or untested.
I’m sorry that Chick-Fil-A isn’t some impossible-for-a-working-family-to-eat-at expensive or unpalatably awful hipster restaurant (don’t think I’ve forgotten how you fucks ruined BBQ). I figured there would be plenty of room in NYC for a diversity of business. But I guess they like their eating establishments like they like their people, that is a rainbow of like minded Progressives.
Defenders of Chick-fil-A point out that the company donates thousands of pounds of food to New York Common Pantry, and that its expansion creates jobs.
The company donates, does good works, and creates jobs. Well fuck those guys then.
The more fatalistic will add that hypocrisy is baked, or fried, into every consumer experience—that unbridled corporate power makes it impossible to bring your wallet in line with your morals.
Says who? The defenders of socialism?
Still, there’s something especially distasteful about Chick-fil-A, which has sought to portray itself as better than other fast food: cleaner, gentler, and more ethical, with its poultry slightly healthier than the mystery meat of burgers. Its politics, its décor, and its commercial-evangelical messaging are inflected with this suburban piety.
Clean and polite is so gross. New York is about a syphilitic trans-gender performance artist making a statue out of Xer’s used tampons for the #Resistance. That’s avant garde.
A representative of the Richards Group once told Adweek, “People root for the low-status character, and the Cows are low status. They’re the underdog.” That may have been true in 1995, when Chick-fil-A was a lowly mall brand struggling to find its footing against the burger juggernauts. Today, the Cows’ “guerrilla insurgency” is more of a carpet bombing. New Yorkers are under no obligation to repeat what they say. Enough, we can tell them. NO MOR.
This was nothing more than a hate fest of Christianity and the South and Middle America where Chick-Fil-A is the favorite fast food restaurant.
This is nothing but contempt. But the way it is framed, as Christian Middle American values “infiltrating” New York City is something else.
This attitude is from someone who doesn’t like that New York City is part of America. New York is above the rest of the country and how dare our provincial ways enter the city. How dare something loved by flyover country peasants exist in New York City.
This is just another example of why I think it’s time for a national divorce.
When you hate your fellow countrymen so much that you have to take your anger out on a chicken sandwich, we have nothing in common anymore.
Joy Reid interviewed the rapper and social justices activist Killer Mike. Part of what they talked about was gun ownership and the African American community.
Killer Mike is apparently pro-gun and did an interview with NRA TV and Colion Noir and claimed that the NRA misused the interview.
Joy Reid decided to ask Killer Mike about the two men arrested for “doing nothing” at Starbucks. She impugned the police, but in doing so pushed the idea that concealed carry is racist. Essential, black people can’t carry concealed because they’ll get shot on the spot.
“My thinking on is that if either of those two men had been concealed carry holders, and any of those police officers had seen a gun, even though they were being as peaceful as they were, there is a great probability that they would be dead. Do you worry that encouraging black people to carry endangers black people’s lives? We know that implicit bias is real.”
I don’t know what the point of that was. Is it that since she thinks blacks can’t CCW than nobody should because racism? Maybe police should have better training on how to deal with CCW holders. Maybe she just wants black people to cry victim more? I’m not sure.
Yes, the Philando Castile case was a cluster fuck. So was every stop of a CCW by psychopath cop Daniel Harless.
I was taught by the cop who did one of my CCW courses that the best way to tell a cop you are carrying is to start by announcing you have the permit first and early on, then show deference to the officer.
“Officer, I have a CCW permit and firearm. What would you like me to do?”
I can’t speak to every situation, but being calm and respectful seems to go a long way.
Which goes back to what started the whole Starbucks situation. Not respecting the “bathrooms are for paying customers only” rule and/or social convention. Even if you have to use the bathroom first, once you come out, get in line to buy something.
I think that is part of the CCW equation Joy Reid doesn’t get and doesn’t want to. When carrying, you have to be conscientious of your actions.
For Reid it’s easier to play the victim and cry racism.
Starbucks sent out this Tweet:
We apologize to the two individuals and our customers for what took place at our Philadelphia store on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/suUsytXHks
— Starbucks (@Starbucks) April 14, 2018
Okay, what happened?
Apparently two black men were arrested at a Starbucks in Philly.
Now Starbucks is being blasted for being racist.
https://twitter.com/80sGirlCheryl/status/985504236275367943
https://twitter.com/IAmRaeHope/status/985495558742839297
Even VOX got in on it “Two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for doing nothing.”
This is what an entitled victim mentality ultimately leads to.
The black men did nothing and that was the problem.
Starbucks is a business. It is not a hangout. They make money selling coffee and snacks. They spend money on rent, cleaning supplies, and labor. If you use the bathroom you cost them money. If you buy something from them, you make them money.
This is why the policy “bathrooms are for paying customers only” is a thing.
It also keeps vagrants out of the bathrooms. There is nothing worse than a homeless man giving himself a sponge bath with the hand towels in a bathroom. (Yes, at one point in my life I had to deal with that.)
I have bought more cups of coffee or frozen lemonades* than I can count just to be able to take a baby into a bathroom to change a diaper.
*Chick-Fil-A has the cleanest, most family friendly (diaper changing stations in men’s rooms) bathrooms of any chain restaurant I’ve ever seen. I will go out of my way to find a Chick-Fil-A when I hear “daddy I need to potty.”
The manager called the cops because that is precisely what he was supposed to do. Employees are not supposed to get into confrontations with customers or other people in the store. That’s become standard policy.
When I worked in a convenience store, the employees were not allowed to stop shop lifters. You could walk in and start carrying cases of beer out the door and all they could do is say “stop.” The rule was they had to call the cops for any type of disturbance.
This whole situation could have been avoided if the two men had the common courtesy of buying a drink before asking to use the bathroom. That’s how I was raised.
When the manager approached them and asked them to leave had they said “We’re waiting to meet someone, but how bout we buy some drinks?” I’m sure the manager wouldn’t have called the cops. But not being a paying customer and asking to use the bathroom and not offering to buy anything after being confronted by the manager is asking for trouble, regardless of race.
The Starbucks near where I used to leave would kick people out after so long because kids would buy a short coffee and use the WiFi for hours taking up tables.
A business exists to make money and if you are not making them money, they have every right to ask you to leave.
But when you have a world full of people who are entitled victims, they don’t get that and see racism as the only reason why two men can’t loiter in a Starbucks and use the restroom without a purchase.
Of course Starbucks issued an apology and “plans to investigate the pertinent facts and make any necessary changes to our practices that would help prevent such an occurrence from ever happening again.”
What they should say is “we’re sorry that these men were arrested but if you want to pee in a Starbucks, buy a drink first.”
Nope, they apologized so the dumping on by cry-bullies will continue.
So I am plowing ahead with Lost In Space.
Why? Because I am not a quitter. I’m going to finish this turd sandwich. It’s like building up a a tolerance to iocane powder. If I can handle Deep Space 9, I can handle this.
So…
The Robinsons and other survivors are stranded on an unknown planet with dangerous creatures.
They don’t have guns.
If they want guns, they have to use the 3-D printer to make them, but they need a “colony representative” to authorize the build.
Keep in mind they are on their way to a new planet in a new solar system with a small colony of perhaps only only a few thousand people (it’s never specified).
So of all the survival equipment they have, they don’t have guns, and when a family is stranded alone in the wilderness far from civilization, they can’t make any.
THEN…
The Maureen finds out that John tried to print one and couldn’t, and she tears into him about “you know how I feel about weapons in the house.”
Yet mom completely trusts Will in the care of an alien robot.
THEN…
The robot somehow manages to override the gun ban and prints one, then gives it to Will, who hides it under his mattress where it is stolen by Dr. Smith (who has already killed one person and tried to kill another). So the ONLY gun on the planet in in the hands of a psychopath.
Sure, it makes for more suspenseful plot, but Jesus. You’d think that the first thing that would happen when a bunch of people are stranded on a planet filled with dangerous creatures is break out with the guns.
Nope.
People are going to get eaten, I guarantee it, and I’m not going to give a shit because they all support gun control.
I’m not going to go into the woods on Earth without a gun because I don’t want to get turned into bear shit.
If I’m going to go to an unknown and dangerous planet, I’m going to take a gun because I don’t want to get turned into alien shit.
Mike Mulvaney is my favorite person right now.
One of the golden rules of politics is: whatever you do to your opponents now, your opponents can do back to you when they gain power.
The Democrats spend the Obama years forgetting that.
Remember when Harry Reid removed the filibuster from the Senate for presidential nominations. The so called “nuclear option.”
That bit them in the ass when Trump got elected.
Remember when the Democrats cheered when Obama said he “had a pen and a phone” and could executive order whatever he wanted?
Now they are pissed that Trump has a pen and a phone too.
The Democrats passed Dodd-Frank. The language in the bill gave Congress little to no oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because Obama was president.
Then Congressman Mike Mulvaney protested at the time that having no Congressional control of the CFPB was a bad idea. Now he is in charge of the agency and is making Senate Democrats eat their words.
Mulvaney, a conservative who was an outspoken critic of the bureau during his time as a congressman, told Warren in a letter sent Wednesday that the structure of the agency, which she helped design, shields him from accountability.
“I encourage you to consider the possibility that the frustration you are experiencing now, and that which I had a few years back, are both inevitable consequences of the fact that the Dodd-Frank… Act insulates the Bureau from virtually any accountability to the American people through their elected representatives,” Mulvaney wrote.
In his second day of appearing before the Senate, Mulvaney has gone all out of poke Senate Democrats in the eye.
When Mick Mulvaney served in the House, he tried to warn colleagues that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was too independent of Congress. Now that he’s running the CFPB, Mulvaney wants to demonstrate just how correct he was. For the second straight day, the acting director has told a congressional panel that he can just sit in front of them all day and ignore their questions, and there’s nothing they can do about it:
“While I have to be here by statute, I don’t think I have to answer your questions,” Mulvaney told the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. “If you take a look at the actual statute that requires me to be here, it says that I ‘shall appear’ before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate. And I’m here and I’m happy to do it.”
“I believe it would be my statutory right to just sit here and twiddle my thumbs while you all ask questions,” Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told the House Financial Services Committee.
Fuck yes, he did.
And it is GLORIOUS!!!
The lesson here should be to remind everyone about the golden rule of politics.
No side will be in power forever and you have to be prepared to reap the whirlwinds that you sow.
Argue that Heller was wrong and push gun control now and find out when happens.
Hell, if I were in Congress I’d be pushing bills to put YUGE excise and windfall profit taxes on movies and TV. Most of the crap that comes out of Hollywood is garbage and I will fuck them sideways on every cent of profit the have just to shit in some Liberal star’s organic breakfast cereal.
Come after my guns and maybe your beachfront property needs to be turned into a homeless shelter via some eminent domain.
Unfortunately I think that the Democrats, most politicians in fact, are too stupid to learn this lesson. Which is too bad because it’s just going to make things worse.
My son is almost four.
He was playing with Legos and I asked him what he was doing.
He said “I made a rocket ship.”
At first, I was excited. My son is a Trekkie.
Then I realized, he made the Event Horizon.
Now I’m scared.