BBC,
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant on Friday night because she works for President Donald Trump. A co-owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, asked Ms Sanders and her family to leave as a protest against the Trump administration.
She told the Washington Post that she decided to ask the Trump spokeswoman to leave the 26-seat, "farm-to-table" restaurant after talking to her staff. "Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave," she said she told them. "They said yes."
The incident comes days after Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC. Critics of the Red Hen's decision said that it was discriminatory. However, others compared the restaurant's decision to a recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, in a case seen by many conservatives as a test for religious freedom.
WaPo - the owner of the Red Hen explains
[...] She [Ms Wilkinson (the proprietor)] knew Lexington, population 7,000, had voted overwhelmingly against Trump in a county that voted overwhelmingly for him. She knew the community was deeply divided over such issues as Confederate flags. She knew, she said, that her restaurant and its half-dozen servers and cooks had managed to stay in business for 10 years by keeping politics off the menu.
[...] It was important to Wilkinson, she said, that Sanders had already been served — that her staff had not simply refused her on sight. And it was important to her that Sanders was a public official, not just a customer with whom she disagreed, many of whom were included in her regular clientele.
"They offered to pay," Wilkinson said. "I said, 'No. It's on the house.' "
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(Score: 5, Touché) by frojack on Monday June 25 2018, @07:43PM (4 children)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/05/28/democrats-blame-trump-for-photo-children-separated-border-illegal-aliens/ [breitbart.com]
Suddenly you found religion? You were fine with this in 2014.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by edIII on Monday June 25 2018, @07:54PM
How do you know I was fine with it? Are you playing the Obama card with ME? Try again mother fucker. There wasn't a whole lot that I ever agreed with in that administration, and YES, you are most correct that it didn't start with Trump. He made it worse, but it didn't start with him. FFS, just look at some of my older posts and see how much I really supported Obama, or blindly at that.
Don't play that card with me, or dare to assume I supported something because you also dared to fucking assume I'm a Democrat. I'm not a Democrat, nor a liberal, nor a SJW, nor a Trumpanzee.
Try again, mother fucker :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 25 2018, @09:02PM (2 children)
Trump campaign manager’s tweet omits that children detained under Obama were unaccompanied minors [politifact.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 25 2018, @09:05PM (1 child)
Fact check: Did Obama administration separate families? [nbcnews.com]
This is inaccurate — there was no widespread Obama-era policy of separating parents and children — but it's a common talking point for Republican commentators and members of the president's administration.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @09:28PM
Fact check: is there a paper trail detailing Obama's involvement in human trafficking?
True [threadreaderapp.com]
Fact check: Is human trafficking a form of modern slavery?
True [humantraffickinghotline.org]
Fact check: is DeathMonkey on the side of slavers?
True [soylentnews.org]