Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of another restaurant this week. Years ago, I wrote about how Sanders, then the Trump White House spokesperson, was told to leave the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. Now, the Croissanterie Restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, has told the governor to leave because employees said they felt uncomfortable having her in the restaurant. One person yelled at her and flipped her off as she left with her friends and security.
Sanders went to the restaurant with three other moms for a quick meal. She recounted how she and the other moms were then told to leave: “Last week I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the State Police Executive Protection Detail and said my presence made their employees feel threatened and told us to leave.”
She added: “Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality, and while that restaurant certainly doesn’t meet that standard, my administration will continue to focus on lifting Arkansans up, not tearing others down with discrimination and hate.”
Sanders had already started to eat when the restaurant’s owner approached a member of the security detail and requested that the governor leave.
The Croissanterie released a lengthy statement and admitted that they told the governor and her party to leave. While offering a hand-ringing explanation about being “surprised and uncertain how best to respond,” it admitted that it “ultimately made the decision” to “support our employees and guests who expressed they were uncomfortable.”
It added, “We regret being placed in this position and having to make a difficult decision. However, we stand by our choice to support our employees and guests.”
The restaurant is founded and owned by Jill McDonald, executive chef, and Wendy Schay, pastry chef.
We have seen various restaurants refusing to serve Trump supporters, conservatives, and even those deemed allies. Democratic members of Congress have defended such actions and even encouraged liberals to disrupt meals of conservatives.
Liberals went to social media to celebrate the move by the restaurant. One posting from an employee declared:
“Good Morning! Sarah Huckabee Sanders no amount of evil you send our way can ever take our smiles away!!! I’m proud af to work here! I’m proud af to be gay and I’m proud af to be an Arkansan. My voice matters. Try again.”
There have been virtually no condemnations from leading Democrats, who either fear or support such mob actions.
In my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” and my new book, Rage and the Republic, I discuss what I called this “age of rage.”
Rage is a curious emotion. It is the ultimate release. It allows you to do things and say things that you would not otherwise do or say. That is why it is addictive and contagious. What people will not admit is that they like it. It allows them to hate completely; to dispense with notions of decency or civility.
This restaurant yielded to hate and intolerance to appease not only its employees but the radical left.
This action occurs the same week as a poll showing that a majority of Americans now view those with opposing views as “morally bad.”
The rage addiction is obvious in these postings, as shown most recently by James Carville.
Democratic leaders believe that they can fuel this rage addiction and lead the mob to victory in the midterm elections. The cost is also to fuel the product of rage, including political violence.
The most recent targeting of Sanders presents a moral choice for the left. If you rationalize this action or continue to patronize restaurants like the Croissanterie Restaurant, you have made a choice. You have embraced the intolerance and hatred sweeping over this nation.
For all of their superficial expressions of reluctance, Jill McDonald and Wendy Schay chose hate over tolerance. While claiming to be “uncertain how best to respond,” the answer was obvious for anyone with a sense of decency: you serve everyone regardless of your political differences. Food, like music, allows people to come together; share common experiences and environments.
I truly believe that this age of rage will end as prior such ages ended. Eventually, the rage burns off and people recognize that their hatred had twisted them into grotesque figures. To reach that point, however, we must learn to speak to each other again and tolerate those who disagree with us. To put it simply, we have to break bread with one another and consider what we have in common.
Jill McDonald and Wendy Schay appear to want to cater to the rage and make their food exclusively available to those with whom they and their employees agree politically. We will have to see if that is a winning business strategy, but most of us have little appetite for their type of culinary-based hate.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Mueller croaked and Trump says good! Can’t blame Trump one bit! Kind of a tit for tat I guess with this article. Democrats go ape sh!t, oh the horror…the world is a vampire.
Mueller was a senile partisan hack, I mourn the loss for a true American hero! That would be Chuck Norris! May Chuck be kicking butt all the way to heaven where his brothers are waiting.
woke celebrates! Saleh Mohammadi, a member of Iran’s national wrestling team, hanged
When owners Jill and Wendy asked their Governor, Sarah Huckabee, to leave the restaurant, they demonstrated a depth of intolerance towards others with differing beliefs and politics that is shameful, a slimy residue of the distasteful social attitudes displayed by too many today…. in our “age of rage.”
Under the guise of supporting their employees and customers, they bowed, bent the knee, to political prejudice and bigotry. This was an opportunity to demonstrate unity with their entire community, to face and speak to power, to represent themselves proudly while symbolizing a unified community. Instead, their business become a symbol of division and hate. Concepts like these, that they probably claimed to oppose -their business now represents to the country.
They are now the other side of the same repulsive coin they think they reject.
No worries Clayton
They are gay blue haired LGBTQ people and “No amount of evil and darkness Governor Huckabuck will ever keep them from smiling in ecstasy as they bugger each other in their own ways of moral depravity”. Let them eat cake…and croissants!
I hope they enjoy their inspection visits from the AR Dept of Public Health.
I remember when Blacks would make many of the people of Arkansas “uncomfortable” and be asked to leave.
I am encouraged to think it wasn’t anything about Blacks, but just these southern folks’ need to hate some group (Black or White). There must be something in grits or fried green tomatoes that makes one a bigot.
Maybe it’s a need for drama to offset their miserable, hapless lives. I was thinking about driving through Arkansas on my next vacation but do not see that happening now.
Yeah, I remember when raucous blacks made people uneasy and feel threatened too. Seems like it was just yesterday in Daytona Beach…
I think the next time I want to go out to eat, I’ll make it a point not to give La Cosa Nostra Restaurant my business.
Have you ever tasted their food? Good thing Sarah got out of there before ptomaine poisoning left her biden brained.
It would be interesting to see a follow-up to this story and see what kind of repercussions, if any, this place had following this incident.
Not a legal violation, just plain rude. Seems we’ve forgotten how to treat each other with basic dignity and respect. The restaurant management could have chosen to treat everyone equally, but instead proved – again – that the left is riddled with hypocrisy.
It’s normal to leave a restaurant if uncomfortable or certainly quit your job. People do that everyday.
It’s a 1A violation. GOP is an assembly and the redressed a grievance by electing Huckabee. Huckabee was singled out. Republicans, go into the restaurant en mass and after receiving food pull out your Maga hats.
Such BS
“It’s a 1A violation.”
The First Amendment is a restriction on *government* that prohibits regulation of speech and religion. This is not that. Reprehensible as it is, this is a non-governmental action, and 1A does not apply.
I would LOVE to see a MASS OVERFLOW of MAGA HATS there for a few hours…..
Seems like a going out of business suicide wish to me. There goes 62% of their business. This is not Virginia Dorothy.
Shabbat shalom everyone 🥳🎊🎉🎊😎🎈🍾🍷🍞
Peace
FYI – Sarah Huckabee Sanders won re-election as Arkansas governor in 2022 with 62.96% of the vote, defeating Democrat Chris Jones (35.20%)
The rage isn’t going away. Everything that has brought us here, is still at work.
Yup, and the Left must be fought tooth and nail in every generation, or else freedom is lost.
Crime, you mean? Be careful of the boomerang effect. From the river to the sea? 👀
It’s a civil rights violation in lalaland.
So stupid, gbye
^^^ If patrons don’t like it, leave. If employees don’t like it, quit.
Where’s the DOJ on this?
^^^ Only certain people are covered. File for white female until it’s amended to a general position, for any reason in a public accommodation that includes all businesses private and otherwise servicing the public. IT’S PUBLIC STUPID, the PUBLIC utilizes the business. It’s not if the business is registered as private. A$$ backwards.
What else do these duma$$es do…
The establishment maintains the right to refuse service to anyone at their discretion.
No shirts, no shoes, no service?
I don’t think it’s a civil rights violation.
It is in reality. It’s misread for the sake of bigotry in many guises.
It’s a 1A Violation, as well. Huckabee has assembled with her fellow Republicans and frequently addresses grievances.
I am afraid it’s private property. We do not have the right to assemble in their house. The fact that it’s open to the public does make it a crime to discriminate based on the usual suspects – race, religion, age, etc.
Was a sign posted? FOR WHAT? We don’t serve Republicans?
The GOP is a peaceful assembly across the nation. It’s 1A.
I can’t take much more corruption. I’ll be singing sandcastles…
It was originally a trespass idea. It’s not meant for businesses that serve the general public. Does she check IDs at the door? Is a sign posted and is it consistently upheld as in no trespass on private land? The shirts and shoes is for insurance purposes as in broken glass etc.
The focus of the cake baker was the speech requested which he consistently turns down and not the people. A straight mother might request a cake for her same sex children’s anniversary. She’d be told no. I don’t think the restaurant was an lgbt venue exclusively? Would it matter?
This reminds me of a liberal woman who kept asking a police officer to leave because his presence was allegedly making people uncomfortable. She was extremely rude, but he was very polite in response, explaining that he was just trying to write up an accident report and if she would just let him finish, he would be gone that much sooner. But she wouldn’t let him finish, she kept harassing him. I wonder what she would do if she is the victim of a crime, or is afraid of being victimized by a criminal, and needs the police?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/25932285943104618
She keeps telling the officer silly stuff like “you have to show that you understand the feelings you evoke” or “can you just acknowledge that your presence here makes people uncomfortable”. These types of things have exactly nothing, nada, zilch to do with the law, law enforcement, criminal law, auto accidents, the rule of law, or anything else pertaining to a police officer’s job. This is the kind of moronic thinking that characterizes so much of liberal thought today.
The Left is a black beast, a monster that destroys civilizations.
Like most issues, it’s not black & white. Also if some (not all) members of both sides are wrong, that doesn’t make it right.
The “Public Accommodations” clause of the Civil Rights Act was created so that private businesses (hotels, restaurants, gyms, swimming pools, etc) couldn’t deny equal services to African-Americans or any person.
Next time you plan a long trip, imagine if there were no bathrooms, restaurants or hotels along the way. As a consequence of no public accommodations, if you used the bathroom on the side of the road or in the woods, your family was then arrested for public indecency by the local police. This was Jim Crow America until mid-20th Century in many states.
The rationale for the Public Accommodations clause was private businesses that were open to the general public, also benefited from government infrastructure – public roads, public police, public utilities and other public services.
So on this one facet of the equation, yes Democrats should follow and respect the Public Accommodations clause of the Civil Rights Act.
On the other hand, we currently have a federal Executive Branch that blatantly disobeys the U.S. Constitution and its subordinate local, state and federal laws.
So we have a federal Executive Branch that wants all of the benefits of a constitutional-rule-of-law system only when it benefits Trump. These same Trump officials then want that system they hate and ignore, to then protect them.
Can’t have it both ways. The U.S. Constitution and its subordinate local, state and federal laws protects everyone – regardless of race, religion and politics. If Trump and Huckabee respected and followed their constitutional Oath of Office they would have more credibility. If Pam Bondi actually enforced civil rights statutes fairly, she would have more credibility to complain about this.
TL;DR
nobody reads your slop Gigi…not even Svelaz
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Your reference to a supposed executive branch that “disobeys the Constitution” is delusional left-wing claptrap. You made that highly generalized and tendentious statement without even bothering to name one single clause of the Constitution that the federal government or Gov. Huckabee has violated. You’re so full of BS it’s coming out of your ears. Pfffffft.
As for the Civil Rights Act prohibits refusal of service based on characteristics such as race, but not political affiliation, so the restaurant’s actions here were not involation of that act. The restaurant had the freedom to deny service to a particular person they disliked, but once she was let in and ordered her food, they shouldn’t have kicked her out. That was a breach of an implied contract that if they accept payment from her, they allow her to sit, order, and eat the food. Your attempt to suggest there is any connection with your personal policy disagreements with the Trump administration, or your personal dislike for Gov. Huckabee, is silly, childish garbage.
Only the owner of private property alone may “claim and exercise” dominion.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
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14th Amendment
No State shall…deprive any person of…property….
Nonsenses
I was following your thoughts. . . until you evoked your hate for Trump and Huckabee. You just couldn’t let this opportunity bypass you, could you.
“The U.S. Constitution and its subordinate local, state and federal laws protects everyone – regardless of race, religion and politics”
The Constitution, with the exception of the Thirteenth, Eighteenth, and Twenty-first Amendments, regulates *government* entities only, not individuals. The first Ten Amendments further restrict what regulations *government* is entitled to impose on citizens. The Fourteenth Amendment extends many of those restrictions to State governments. None of that “protects” any private citizen from action by any other private citizen. The scope of the Civil Rights Act, like all other legislation, is also limited by those restrictions (whether or not those limitations are currently recognized by legal precedent notwithstanding). In order to comply with the Constitution, the Public Accommodations clause of the CRA should have been (and should still be) applicable only to accommodations provided by *government*. Ironically, the establishment of many of those “public accommodations” also fails to pass muster according to a plain reading of the restrictions imposed by the Constitution.
“Good Morning! Sarah Huckabee Sanders no amount of evil you send our way can ever take our smiles away!!! ….! I’m proud af to be gay …. My voice matters. Try again.”
There is ghey failure like Zachary Hickman of Little Rock, AR, who made the above quote.
And then there are gay heroes like Rick Grenell who is proud af to be an American.
Few Americans will ever be as successful and impactful as Rick Grenell or US Secretary of Treasury and Cabinet Member, Scott Bessent, 2 great Americans.
Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
Drama Queen.
> Max Cohen
> @maxpcohen
> House Oversight Dems just walked out of the Bondi briefing.
> Robert Garcia, ranking Dem, is furious and says Bondi refused to commit to following the subpoena that Comer issued.
> Says the briefing is being staged as a “fake hearing,” adds Bondi was not under oath
https://x.com/RichardGrenell/status/2034407255026921519
Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent (/ˈbɛsənt/ BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962)….is the first openly gay person to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, the first openly gay U.S. Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration,[4] and the second openly gay U.S. Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary.[5]
Personal life
Bessent lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C.[122][123] He previously lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.[124] He is a member of the Huguenot Church,[125] a religious association whose expansion his ancestors supported in 1680.[14] He married John Freeman, a former New York City prosecutor, in 2011. They have two children, born through surrogacy.[15]
Bessent reportedly has a close friendship with King Charles III. He was also friends with Donald Trump’s brother Robert, whose ex-wife, Blaine Trump, is the godmother of Bessent’s daughter.[126]
Philanthropy
Bessent and his sister Wyn made donations to establish the H. Gaston Bessent, Jr. Library at Yale University, in their father’s honor.[10] Bessent, Wyn, and the rest of their family created the Kenneth V. McLeod Rehabilitation Center at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville, South Carolina, in memory of their maternal grandfather.[10] He has supported restoration of the Nathaniel Russell House, a National Historic Landmark in Charleston.[127] Bessent also supports the King’s Trust in London and the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City.[123]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent
Democrats have alienated every minority group in America but especially gays
e.g. “Gays Against Groomers”
gaysagainstgroomers.com
That was my comment
I will Make sure when I’m In Little Rock not to eat there. I sure do wish we had Gov Sanders here in Alabama!! We would treat her right. I love her and all that she’s done for Arkansas.
No. Eat there and leave no tip. If they get angry just say you refuse to tip bigots.
Liberal women – the destroyers of civilizations.
Women were not enabled to vote at the inception of democracy in Greece in 508 B.C. for good reason.
In the Year of Our Lord, 2026, one might infer the immense value of bearing, raising, nurturing, and educating children.
The food stinks anyway!! ha ha
It will make you gay…
Men eating Puff pastry turns you into a Puffer, it’s a well known Scientific fact…ladies, do not get the banana split.
It’s a fact – documented back in the early 80s through careful scientific research! https://www.amazon.com/Real-Men-Dont-Eat-Quiche/dp/0671448315