Poll of the Day > Conservative Restaurant SHUTS DOWN after they got DEATH THREATS!!!

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Christopher Smith and Jay Warren, the Pro-American Conservaloons and owners of the "Cup It Up American Grill" in Tucson, Arizona were forced to close their restaurant "indefinitely" after they posted a Pro-Trump tirade on their Facebook and received hundreds of HATE mail and DEATH threats!!

It said "We believe in and support 100% in the following: OUR President, Always Standing for the National Anthem, repealing Obama Care..."

Then it went on to praise God, the Bill of Rights, the US Armed Forces and drug screening for welfare recipients

Then it said it did not support "those that DON'T respect our President, Armed Forces and First Responders, kneeling for the national anthem, Antifa, fake news, global warming and late night hosts getting political"

It finished off with "If you like this post, please share it with 5 friends and we look forward for your next visit! if you disagree with this post, please share it with 100 friends and we won't be expecting you anytime soon"

No surprise it had a furious backlash receiving "angry phone calls" with staff who quit on the spot.

Ron Sanchez, whose daughter worked there said people even threatened to burn the restaurant down with the owners in it!!

The owner told ABC news "It's a crazy world we're in"

Last week it said on the door "We have made a decision to close our doors indefinitely as of today, Monday, October 9, 2017. The safety of our employees and our families is of great concern and is our #1 priority at this time. We would also like to extend a special thanks to our Military and first responders, Thank you all and God Bless"

Ericka Ayup, a regular there said she respected their decision to speak up and said it was "smart" of them to do what they did from a business aspect since they are around a big University which was more "liberal and young".

Do you have the same beliefs as what these conservatives posted? let's see if people do

What they posted -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/10/16/14/456365D000000578-0-image-a-62_1508160150438.jpg

Cup it American Grill - Defunct

https://tinyurl.com/yakvhshk
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The free market spoke

Seems this publicity stunt backfired.
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Does it really matter in Arizona? It's a Republican state.

People making death threats from New York and California shouldn't really matter to your business in the long run.

I don't know how much of their business depended on the college which normally are very liberal places.
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It is 2017 who doesn't get the occasional death threat?
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Drug screening for welfare recipients is not worth the cost to taxpayers. On top of that, you kick a bunch of people off of welfare for smoking weed, and then you have a large uptick in homelessness, children of welfare families going hungry because they can no longer afford food, etc. It's just a bad idea all around. Welfare fraud isn't as pervasive as right-wingers would have you believe.

Also, they claim to believe in the Bill of Rights, then whine about people kneeling for the anthem, among other things. Guess they only believe in free speech when people are aligned with their political and religious beliefs.
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Death threats aren't cool, but they also sound pretty stupid.

Far-Queue posted...

Drug screening for welfare recipients is not worth the cost to taxpayers.

What would be worthwhile, however, would be drug screening for anyone receiving more than $100,000 in tax breaks. They're getting money from the government, after all, why shouldn't we make sure they're spending it responsibly?

You have be neutral when in business...
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Not particularly, but those are respectful personal views. Not sure if they should speak on behalf of their entire workforce like that, though.

But leave it to the cupcake generation to do away with reason.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

You have be neutral when in business...

I mean, that's the smart route, but I don't think that should be enforced.
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I think it's funny that they stated late night show hosts shouldn't state their political views, but their whole post was about how their business is stating their politics.
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KevinceKostner posted...

The free market spoke

Not how the free market works by any stretch, especially considering that the vast majority of thugs weren't locals and therefore couldn't buy from them if they actually wanted.

TigerTycoon posted...

Does it really matter in Arizona? It's a Republican state.

Most of the threats were almost certainly coming from out of state and from far-left liberal-progressive places. However, the workers don't necessarily know where the threats are coming from, crazy people can travel, and crazy people can do a lot of harm even without traveling.

TigerTycoon posted...

People making death threats from New York and California shouldn't really matter to your business in the long run.

If your workers are quitting and/or distracted from their jobs, it makes a big deal.

Far-Queue posted...

Drug screening for welfare recipients is not worth the cost to taxpayers. On top of that, you kick a bunch of people off of welfare for smoking weed, and then you have a large uptick in homelessness, children of welfare families going hungry because they can no longer afford food, etc. It's just a bad idea all around. Welfare fraud isn't as pervasive as right-wingers would have you believe.

If it was implemented in a practical manner and paired with rehab services, it *could* be worth the cost. However, if it's poorly run and if the problem isn't pervasive enough, it won't do much good. The best compromise might involve random drug screenings targeting batches of people who don't hold down jobs, with the intention of putting them into rehab programs.

_AdjI_ posted...

Far-Queue posted...

Drug screening for welfare recipients is not worth the cost to taxpayers.

What would be worthwhile, however, would be drug screening for anyone receiving more than $100,000 in tax breaks. They're getting money from the government, after all, why shouldn't we make sure they're spending it responsibly?

lolwut? Equating tax payments with getting money from the government is an argument so intellectually disingenuous that you'd earn a platinum medal from the olympics-class mental gymnastics used to reach that conclusion. Any such argument is predicated on the completely wrong belief that 100% of your income belongs to the government and anything you get back is essentially a favor. In no rational universe should a tax break be conflated with an actual payment

Further, the argument stupidly overlooks the intent of the law which, in theory if not in practice, aims to improve the individuals so they can hold down a job capable of generating a net benefit to the government rather than creating an economic drain. Somebody who gets $100k in tax breaks pays far more than $100k in taxes which means that their value to society is higher than the person whose net contribution is a negative amount. However, to some extent, some of the negative-earners *are* at least partial contributors and others are people who contributed up until retirement.
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_AdjI_ posted...

Far-Queue posted...

Drug screening for welfare recipients is not worth the cost to taxpayers.

What would be worthwhile, however, would be drug screening for anyone receiving more than $100,000 in tax breaks. They're getting money from the government, after all, why shouldn't we make sure they're spending it responsibly?

People on welfare should be showing their receipts for their purchases to keep welfare. And if they showing they are being irresponsible with the money they lose it. Or money goes "missing" they lose it.
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Steven010702 posted...

I think it's funny that they stated late night show hosts shouldn't state their political views, but their whole post was about how their business is stating their politics.

good point

nothing really wrong with what they posted, but they should have shown a little more back bone from weightless death threats.

It is pretty sad how death threats are thrown around so liberally now. They need to start handing out serious prison sentences for it. Some pasty nerds and sheltered college SJWs would certainly do poorly in prison with hardened murderers.
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