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Zorro

(15,730 posts)
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 03:15 PM Sep 2021

Fox News Anti-'Cancel Culture' Warriors Applaud Diner Owner for Banning Biden Supporters

Pete Hegseth was positively giddy over a Florida restaurant’s ban on Biden supporters, but in 2018, when Trumpkins were similarly targeted, he whined a much different tune.

Several Fox News hosts on Wednesday praised a Florida restaurant owner’s decision to ban supporters of President Joe Biden from eating at her establishment, saying it’s “understandable” and that it could “lead to a lot more business for her.”

With conservative anger towards the Biden administration reaching a fever pitch following the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the owner of Debary Diner posted a sign outside her business telling Biden voters not to enter following the Kabul terror attack.

“If you voted for and continue to support and stand behind the worthless, inept and corrupt administration currently inhabiting the White House that is complicit in the death of our servicemen and women in Afghanistan, please take your business elsewhere,” reads the sign from owner Angie Ugarte. “God bless America and God bless our soldiers.”

Discussing Ugarte’s customer ban on Wednesday’s broadcast of midday panel show Outnumbered, co-host Emily Compagno said the owner “means it” before turning to Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, who expressed the segment’s only reservations about Ugarte’s decision.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-anti-cancel-culture-warriors-applaud-diner-owner-for-banning-biden-supporters

Seems to me like a good way to go out of business.
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Fox News Anti-'Cancel Culture' Warriors Applaud Diner Owner for Banning Biden Supporters (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2021 OP
They needn't fret EYESORE 9001 Sep 2021 #1
I agree TheRealNorth Sep 2021 #4
Do they serve Turbineguy Sep 2021 #2
Wed lunch special, only $19.95 comes with a ventilator. KS Toronado Sep 2021 #7
So, how are they planning on id'ing Biden supporters? msfiddlestix Sep 2021 #3
Business must've been waning. nt Baked Potato Sep 2021 #5
So Limiting Clientele Is The Solution? ProfessorGAC Sep 2021 #12
I agree, it's stupid. I think the business may be failing and Baked Potato Sep 2021 #14
She doesn't need customers. Historic NY Sep 2021 #6
Of course they do. GoCubsGo Sep 2021 #8
Private restaurants can choose who they serve as long as it is not a protect class. Chainfire Sep 2021 #9
Fine with me I wouldn't want to give them my business anyway, I think doc03 Sep 2021 #10
Seditionists Panich52 Sep 2021 #11
hmmm....somebody should refer to her sign and ask... bahboo Sep 2021 #13

ProfessorGAC

(64,951 posts)
12. So Limiting Clientele Is The Solution?
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 04:22 PM
Sep 2021

That's really stupid.
Doing anything to reduce the customer base is dumb business. No matter one's politics.
I predict either a short term for this ban, or a shortened life for this diner.
Either that or she's in a small community and 99% of her base know her politics & agree.
In which case, this ban is pointless.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
14. I agree, it's stupid. I think the business may be failing and
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 06:08 PM
Sep 2021

this is a ‘last hurrah.’ I think it made F*X news so they are definitely on the map now. With the pics of the joint on Yelp I saw it looks like the clientele was always the phony baloney patriotic crowd and that crowd was maybe dwindling.

GoCubsGo

(32,078 posts)
8. Of course they do.
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 03:32 PM
Sep 2021

Who do you think planted that shit in her worm-riddled brain? She probably has a half dozen TV sets in her diner tuned into The Propaganda Channel.

Chainfire

(17,515 posts)
9. Private restaurants can choose who they serve as long as it is not a protect class.
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 03:42 PM
Sep 2021

I am reasonably sure that most of her former Democratic customers appreciate the knowledge that they would no longer be supporting someone who was putting the "Fast" in Fascism.

I have a suggestion for what she may eat.

doc03

(35,320 posts)
10. Fine with me I wouldn't want to give them my business anyway, I think
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 03:43 PM
Sep 2021

they should all identify themselves so we know who to boycott.

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