Refusing Service to Trump Admin

Several!


   (1)    Do not kid yourself. The Trump administration and Sarah Sanders LOOOOVEEE that this happened, and that is the sole and only reason I think people might be better off ignoring and shunning them, but letting them eat, so that we don't play into it. (Note that I do not scold them on their manners, for reasons I elaborate on in (2) below.)

I've noticed there has been quite the rash of Trump admin folks getting a hankering for Mexican food this last week! Danged if Stephen Miller didn't get also hissed out of a Mexican restaurant this week, as well as Kirstjen Nielsen! It is abundantly obvious, and could not possibly be more so, that they deliberately chose Mexican restaurants, hoping to provoke boos and hisses so they could say "TEH LEFT IS SOOOO INTOLERANT!" and distract everyone from their baby cages, etc.

This is what they want. For that reason, and no other we shouldn't give it to them. But other than that, not a damn thing wrong with what the restaurant owner did under the circumstances, IMO.

   (2)    Sarah Huckabee Sanders works for Donald Trump. Trump and his supporters have made a fucking MANTRA out of "fuck your feelings, snowflake!" They have MAGA t-shirts saying exactly that. Gee, too bad when it's THEIR feelings, they feel differently.

See, this is kind of what happens when you champion a guy who constantly, unrelentingly insults people, mocks the disabled, sneers at opponents, demeans women, dogwhistles race issues, and pushes, hard, the idea of "WE'LL SHOW THESE LIBTURD SNOWFLAKES WHAT WE THINK OF THEIR PC BE-SENSITIVE STUFF!" When it comes to your feelings, we libturds -- very much including me -- are inclined to say "I really don't care, do U?" Or more succinctly, "womp womp." Especially if you are currently, say, advocating putting migrant vermin children in cages.

Um, yeah, fuck their feelings. Really. It took me a while to get here, but that's squarely where I am.  I'd prefer people let them eat unmolested, but only because they want people to kick them out so they can crow about how intolerant we are in order to distract the base from maybe, maybe thinking that putting babies in cages is wrong.

   (3)    As you note, government officials are not a protected class. I've already talked elsewhere about how Masterpiece was not an "it's now A-okay to discriminate against Teh Gays" decision. I'm not going to go into it again here. But suffice to say, it remains legal, as it always has, for an individual business owner to refuse to serve an individual, as long as what we're talking about isn't an "I won't serve some protected class because I don't like that kind of people."

Moreover, we're not talking about the owner being bigoted against someone being black or gay, which are inherent characteristics a person cannot change, but protesting against actions Sarah Huckabee Sanders has taken in her capacity as a government official. Not at all the same thing.

(ETA:  BTW, Sarah wasn't refused service because she is a Republican. I am quite sure the restaurant serves lots of those, and would likely roll out the red carpet and be thrilled if, say, the Bushes or Jeff Flake dropped in. This is a pretty specific response to the current actions on the border, from what the restaurant owner said.)

If he were refusing to serve Sarah because she's white, maybe we'd have a problem here. But it's not. It's because she is working for and enabling a government currently taking actions he finds immoral. It's a political protest.

The restaurant owner is also free not to serve his asshole ex-brother-in-law whom he hates.



A side note -- do any of these people think, even if they get served in a Mexican restaurant, the staff will not be spitting in their food? I guarantee you Trump is eating a lot of spit (or worse) at Mar-a-lago, which apparently has many immigrants on the staff.


ETA:

So.  You own a kosher restaurant in an alternate universe.  Hitler comes in.  Would you serve him with a smile?

'cause I wouldn't.

ETA:

Another NeverTrump conservative, Tom Nichols, noted that a more appropriate, less inflammatory comparison to Sanders, Miller, or Nielson might be Senator McCarthy -- whom Nichols would not serve (nor would I). 

This is actually a perfect analogy. Sarah Sanders could qualify as an asshole. GTFO.

I'm disturbed by the idea that they (Trump's ilk) may be visiting Mexican restaurants on purpose, to generate backlash and claim victim status. I really hope it's not true. I prefer the tone-deaf excuse. I wouldn't be surprised if you're right, just... even more disgusted.

Oh, another hilarious comment on Twitter on this. Someone said (paraphrase) "they should have done what she does at the press conferences -- let her order then never bring her her food. Just let her keep asking about it."

I added, in a comment, that after she's bombarded them with unanswered questions for an hour or two, they should bring her a Pickle.

*curtsies*

Excellent Twitter comment, IMO:

Oh, and now indignant Trump supporters are boycotting and giving bad online reviews to all restaurants named The Red Hen, regardless of whether they are have any connection to the restaurant that refused to serve Sanders.  Which is, whatever, their right IMO. They don't want to eat there, OK by me. They get to eat where they want, just like I do. (I also suspect the restaurants will make it up with non-Trump supporters.)

But I'm totes confused. When it was people boycotting companies because of their NRA connections, consumer boycotts were, as I recall, a totalitarian suppression of gun rights, PC fascism and stuff. Yet when they're about someone being mean to Sarah Sanders, they're a really rad awesome free expression/free market all-American patriotic thing.

I'm soooooo confused, Trump supporters.

Nah.  If it was that, they'd LOVE it.

(Mmmmm, I want the fried chicken and borsht combo meal, with a side of piroshki.)

Indeed, Gilroy. It would ruin my appetite to sit next to Sanders or Miller right now. I'd leave. I'll bet a lot of customers would.

Frankly, I have zero patience with Trump supporters whining about whether restaurant owners and other individual citizens are being polite when they are, every day, actively and tacitly defending a president who is monstrously rude, crude, nasty, insulting, demeaning, and whose administration has no regard for civil discourse, our constitution, due process, or our rule of law, and on top of it all, thinks it's okay to take babies from parents and dump them in cages.

I'm sorry, Trump supporters. You have forfeited the right to tut-tut us. Look to the board in your own eye, and maybe we can talk about the speck in ours.