Charlie Redd, owner of Redd's in Rozzie on Washington Street, posts a call to arms against the gathering darkness:
The resistance begins now. Trump is an obvious danger to the rights I believe in and that this business is built around. Why fight? Because we are fucking Americans. That’s what we do, fight. Fight for values we hold dear. Just because I lie on the liberal view of the issues doesn’t mean I don’t have the will to fight. Just because we live in Massachusetts and are protected from the madness that will be unleashed on our other states does that give us a reason not to speak up and act? I will fight for the other states and in this state. I will fight for the ones that can’t. Right now that’s my daughters and all the girls growing up today in this confusing time where the end of male dominance in the Oval Office was ripped from their dreams and a whole other peril to their rights entered it. Olive and Viola cannot fight. But I can. Cecilia, who I tutor in the 2nd grade, cannot fight. Her family is laying low as their future as immigrant Americans lies in jeopardy. I can fight for them. I can stand up when they cannot.
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1st Amendment
By Jurphy
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 6:09am
Feel free to excercise that 1st Amendment. Only thing he's accomplished is putting the final nail in his own coffin. That restraint was crappy to begin with and now he managed to alienate what little clientele he has. Hope they're like minded moon bats. Speaking freely is a great thing, but stupid when you do it under your own co logo
Or maybe he feels so strongly
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 11:37am
Or maybe he feels so strongly about it that he has no issue saying it under his business logo? All I've heard for the last year is "he tells it like it is" but is it only ok to tell it like it is for some and not all?
It's funny that Repubs always
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:32am
It's funny that Repubs always scream "freedom of speech" but when someone else does it they are children or crazy.
Huh?
By bosguy22
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:06am
Like when?
Trump is a 70 year old trust
By Kinopio
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:50am
Trump is a 70 year old trust fund brat who spent years crying that Obama was elected and saying he shouldn't be president because of the color of his skin(Obama got way more votes than Trump, BTW. Romney and Hillary got more votes than Trump too). He also brags about raping women and has more failed marriages and failed businesses than he can count on his tiny little hands. He still gets in fights on Twitter every night even since being elected. You think Trump is an example of someone acting like an adult?
In through the nose out
By Lmo
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 11:31am
In through the nose out through the mouth. Everything's going to be alright.
But, Anon...
By dmcboston
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 11:03pm
Rosie's calling for, well, I dunno...
DONALD TRUMP IS MENTALLY UNSTABLE
LESS THAN 3 WEEKS TO STOP HIM AMERICA
— ROSIE (@Rosie) January 1, 2017
She wants someone to stop him.
If one-one hundredth of the insane vitriol of the left was said by the right eight years ago (your opening, Swirl...) there would have been hell to pay. Hell, that Congresswoman in Arizona got shot and it was blamed on Sarah Palin's graphic (in the technical sense of the word) targeting of Democrats. Printed on a map.
So, Rosie, how do you propose to stop Trump in three weeks? Insult Barron again? Claymore mines? Witchcraft?
So?
By adamg
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 11:06pm
Twitter randos are a dime a dozen, and for every "Rosie," it'd be easy to dig up similar Clinton ranters. But this isn't about randos on Twitter. It's about a very specific, fairly well known restaurant owner in Roslindale. Try to keep it together!
She's a famous noted leftie.
By dmcboston
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 11:52pm
Rosie O'Donnell.
She's the noted metallurgist that once said, "(um, paraphrasing) It's a well known fact that fire can't melt steel"
She was blaming Bush for September 11th...
Rosie lives in NY
By Josip
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 5:38am
This thread is about a guy who owns a business in Roslindale.
Um...
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 10:20am
"Donald Trump not welcome in Roslindale restaurant "
This thread is about Donald Trump.
Re: dmcboston "But, Anon"
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 1:01am
Your post about the U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords shooting reminded me of fake-news coverage of the Marathon Bombings. Giffords attacker was a drug addict, described by some friends as liberal, and registered independent. Nothing to do with Republicans, despite the hype. On the day of the Marathon Bombings, I recall some of the Boston TV anchors saying because it was April 15 (Tax Day) the suspect could be a conservative or Tea Party member upset about paying taxes. The gravity of that day made it impossible to laugh but it goes to show what you're dealing with.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was mad at the government
By Josip
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 5:42am
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was mad at the government because they wouldn't let him compete on the US Boxing team but enough about the Tea Party, let's talk about the Roslindale restaurateur.
Ah
By bosguy22
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:08am
So the Marathon bombing had nothing to do with his radical Islamic beliefs and had everything to do with him not being able to represent the United States in the Olympics? You should really inform the producers of the latest documentary, because they were misinformed.
Another really shitty thing about this election
By lbb
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 11:17am
Another really shitty thing about this election is how mouth-breathers like dmcboston discovered the word "vitriol", and now they have to use it or one of its variants in every other sentence.
Vitriol
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:06pm
Vitriol. I used to associate it with copper sulfate from a book I read as a kid. Pretty much forgot it, then read it this year. It's my new favorite word.
Oh, and I'm only mouth breathing when I snort beer through my nose reading your pathetic attempts at re-writing the dictionary.
Do tell
By lbb
Thu, 01/05/2017 - 9:29am
Do tell, you original humanitarian genius, just how I attempted to rewrite the dictionary.
What does his resistance mean in reality?
By anon
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 10:25pm
Trump supporters only will be refused service?
All Republicans? Conservatives and libertarians?
Let's say the Pope walks in, what then?
You need to read his entire post
By adamg
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 10:32pm
No, he is not talking about instituting some sort of entrance exam at his restaurant. He's talking about helping to organize politically to fight the damage he sees Trump and the Republicans doing over the next two to four years. In that, he's no different than a lot of other people.
Really?
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 12:17am
"In that, he's no different than a lot of other people."
Except that he can predict the future.
Predicting the future is much easier
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:14am
When you use facts and evidence and don't say "oh God's will" and stick your head up your arseend.
Trump doesn't invoke "God's will".
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 11:00am
That would mean sharing the credit.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/HocJllt.gif[/img]
Good god I hope it means he
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 2:35pm
Good god I hope it means he won't serve anybody wearing one of those ridiculous (made in china!) hats.
Read the whole thing. Where
By anon
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 10:35pm
Read the whole thing. Where does it say Trump isn't welcome in the restaurant?
It's kind of implied
By adamg
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 10:46pm
If you read the entire post, you know his feelings on Trump.
I wouldn't dream of going there but now I might
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 12:36am
The profanity laced tirade speaks for itself. Is this guy really tutoring children? Is a form 51-A with DCF in order? Ignorant and angry. Can't wait to wear my Trump "Make America Great Again" hat, "Choose Life" T-shirt and a crucifix, order a water and cheap appetizer and be asked to leave this establishment. Based on his rant, I doubt he owns much but it will be fun to sue and call Maura Healey's Trump hate hot-line (very slow there lately), the Licensing Board and ABCC when denied service. Maybe I'll bring my service dog with $9 vest for good measure, she can lick the plate. Perhaps the ACLU and the dying Boston Globe will back me.
Nice fascism
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 11:09pm
Way better than BAD WORDS OMG!
Because we can't have children being raised by dissidents. Oh no. Much better that they be "disappeared" into "good homes", Right? Like this.
Go away fake liar cop, you're done.
The police pension came on Saturday Swirly.
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 12:38am
It was nice to get it a day early, direct deposit even! Still waiting on the Section 8 checks, a few days late. You might want to bicycle down to the pension board and voice your displeasure and quibble over years of payroll records. Hit Boston Housing while you're at it. Keep your arms out, it will be harder for them to put a net over you.
Ha ha
By Sock_Puppet
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 5:08am
So funny! We all know that you're neither a cop nor old enough to get a pension.
Does your therapist know you're pretending to be a cop on the internet again?
Ah! Here's his Experience with Policing!
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:10am
How did that work for you last time, liar?
Put up or shut up
By adamg
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 11:07pm
You keep talking about domestic-abuse forms and how you're going to sic DCF on somebody. Yet you never do. You just like playing a tough guy on the Internet. Wears thin after awhile.
Wears thin after a while?
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 2:30am
Kind of like the unhinged trashing of President-elect Trump wears thin? I might talk about domestic abuse forms once or twice a year, I didn't realize it bothered you. I filed many 51A's and protected dozens of children over the years but I'm no longer a mandated reporter. Still, you're right. Morally, a phone call might be in order based on the extreme language and tone of this man.
I'll never forget the night I was given the honor of being appointed guardian ad-litem for a family of small orphaned kids on a night when former Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez had the overnight judicial response phone. Judges would take turns on-call, issuing restraining orders and warrants when court was closed. Although far-left, (she was a Dukakis appointee and husband owned the Boston Phoenix) I found Judge Lopez to be very professional and genuinely caring about the kids and the police. McDonald's fed them Happy Meals and provided toys until DSS (now DCF) could place them in a foster home. One of the better memories.
Liar
By Sock_Puppet
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 4:30am
Everything you say is made up. Everybody here knows it. You proved you don't have the most rudimentary understanding of the work you claim to have done. Go back to the funny farm.
conservative troll infestation
By Josip
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 5:57am
Adam has a conservative troll infestation. Feel free to use dry ice Adam G.
I'll be happy to vote
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 10:28am
for a Democrat. Show me one worth voting for.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/AyFjCRy.jpg[/img]
Say 'conservatie troll' on UniversalHub
By Josip
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 3:11pm
Say 'conservative troll' on UniversalHub and they self-identify.
Sorry, newbie.
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:13pm
I've been here a while. I'm not a conservative troll. I'm just sick of the leftie pandering. So, just for you...
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JUbg4HN.jpg[/img]
Yawn
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:18pm
*yawns like the guy in the picture*
That's not all made-up.
By Rob
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:34am
That's not all made-up.
McDonalds does feed Happy Meals to children.
Remember that time when the
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:43am
Remember that time when the current president was hung in effigy?. Or when he and his family were called the N word, apes, baboons? Or when the president elect kept claiming the presidents birth certificate was fake? You mean like that? Or do you mean when the right blocked his every move just out of spite, even if it was bad for their constituents, for the last 8 years? You mean like that? I'm so confused.
Lying
By Toneye
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 5:31am
He's lying about when he 'allegedly' received a pension check. That, I know. ;)
Better yet
By Sock_Puppet
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 5:09am
Show up in a fake cop uniform. Then get wrestled to the ground and held until the real cops show up and take you in on a felony charge. That'd be fun!
I won't be going to Redd's.
By jonbowen
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 11:19pm
I like open minded people and this guy ain't one of 'em.
More room for the rest of us.
By Sally
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 1:01am
Feel free to find a restaurant run and staffed by Trump supporters--it'll be like the Ted Nugent of restaurants--while we enjoy our shrimp and grits and cocktails and so on. And when you find a used Band-aid or a rat turd tucked in between the bun and the congealed, grayish burger, just remind yourself what an open-minded guy you are and keep eating.
Nice projection!
By anonism
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:24am
Maybe, just maybe, folks like jonbowen and me prefer our entertainment -- restaurants, musicians and celebrities in general -- to be apolitical?
Nah, that will never sell, at least on UH!
Great!
By erik g
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:51am
Then go find yourself an apolitical restaurant to eat at. It's tough to get a seat at Redd's at peak hours these days, so the rest of us appreciate your devotion to your political agnosticism. Meanwhile, I'll be spending my money at places that are openly opposed to fascism.
Funny thing is i usually only
By yup
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:49am
Funny thing is i usually only see whites of a certain demographic in this restaurant. It's not really what you would consider a melting pot.
So stop
By Sock_Puppet
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 11:40am
hanging around in the bathroom
Maybe...
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:18pm
...it's a whites only restroom?
JUST KIDDING!! It's a joke! OK?
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: That's not funny.
Here's a joke for you
By lbb
Thu, 01/05/2017 - 9:32am
dmcboston is an ignorant, lying, hysterical bigot.
IT'S A JOKE! C'MON CAN'T YOU TAKE A JOKE?
Trump supporters?!
By jonbowen
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 10:41am
Did I mention Trump?! No. I don't like shrimp and grits served with a side of intolerance so feel free to continue to stuff that intolerance down your gullet. Yum!
Open minded you say
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 6:46am
May want to refrain from read UHub as of late as well.
Open minded
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 10:35am
That doesn't mean "tolerates idiocy and sloppy arguments/sourcing".
Tolerance is for people. Not for bad ideas and willful stupidity.
Please, no politics with my meal
By Gary C
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:25am
I more agree than disagree with the owner, but I feel like restaurant/bar owners should try to be fairly neutral in a public setting. If you want to be a political theme restaurant, that's fine, but generally I'd prefer the owner/chef to stick to cooking.
Why did the 'progressives' (leftists) and Democrats fail
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 6:38am
so miserably? Do you think it was because most who voted for Trump or didn't vote at all love the Republican party anymore than they love the Democratic party? For myself, when I see a party and more specifically an ideology (self described 'progressive') whose only hope of winning in many cases, especially at the federal level, is through having a large enough population of needy, desperate people, I have a problem with that. And I do hold some 'progressive' views, I'm not a raging 'fascist'.
The lunatic fringe left has damaged the Democratic brand, just as, imo, the lunatic right have damaged the Republican, Maybe we need a third, or forth, way.
And yes, Mr. Redd needs to calm his tits. Mr. Trump spent most of his adult life championing liberal (sorry, progressive) causes, and financially supporting them.
Democrats lost because of a quirk of American history
By adamg
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:24am
I guess it's time for the obligatory reminder that, in fact, Clinton won the popular vote by 2.9 million votes or so. Where she blew it was in not paying enough attention to Electoral College math, in states such as Michigan, which she could have won. In any other democratic country in the world, she'd be president-elect now. That's a flaw in her campaign, but even despite that, a majority of people who voted voted against the Republican candidate.
As for Trump spending most of his adult life championing liberal causes, I suppose that would be true if liberalism included outright racism and misogyny, which, at least in the reality-based world, it doesn't.
Let's not forget
By Gary C
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:34am
I voted for Hillary, but I was not a huge fan. Lots of people who voted for her (maybe even the majority of people) didn't really like her that much. Even though I like most of her stands on the issues, she was still the lesser of two evils. She didn't lose because she "forgot about the blue collar worker", she lost because she wasn't very likeable while Trump was, to a lot of people, strong and saying what they wanted to hear.
Um, you might want to recheck that.
By whyaduck
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:52am
I did not vote for Hillary or Trump since I disliked them both. So, yes, there is truth in what you say. However, much has already been written about how she choose not to connect with the middle class who are having a real difficult time living in this country (for a good many many years) and, in which, has been basically ignored by the democratic party. (Personally, she always came across to me as a phony who could give a rat's ass for those not in her class.) Trump played those poor people who voted for him to a T and won; she and her party ignored them and lost. (Never mind about half of the country did not bother even to show up and vote. That, in itself, should tell us something).
And in regards to the popular vote, her job was to convince enough voters to vote for her by our current electoral process. Period. Jumping up and down after the fact makes one look like a sore loser. She and the democratic party failed. And it appears to me that that party may be too far gone to understand why they failed.
Yes, Trump is a narcissist demagogue and his election has allowed some of the country's anger to manifest itself as we see it now. But again, the democrats should of and could of stopped him by running a more viable candidate.
They tried
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 10:33am
" But again, the democrats should of and could of stopped him by running a more viable candidate."
Bernie Sanders was sandbagged by the DNC and Hillary supporters.
Would of been nice if she
By whyaduck
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 8:37am
and her hubby decided not to attend the inauguration as a head nod to the burgeoning resistance movement. But politics is politics.
Nahh I think going is the right thing to do
By Gary C
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 10:05am
Not going looks like sour grapes. She's not attending with a "Make America Great" hat, she's going as his former opponent as a sign that in America we can transfer power smoothly, even in a crazy year like this one.
"transfer power smoothly"
By lbb
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 12:16pm
Sour grapes? Is that what you call it when someone decides not to show up to be abused? Because you know that even if Trump shows an unprecedented* level of restraint and refrains from taunting her, his brownshirts will have a fucking field day letting their sexism and misogyny and insane irrational "lock her up" hatred hang out. It will be a completely undignified, wallowing triumphalist orgy, and no amount of gracious behavior on Clinton's part will help to "transfer power smoothly". Showing up is just plain stupid.
*For you low-information types, "unprecedented" means "he never did it before, and there's not a snowball's chance he's gonna start".
Not likley
By Gary C
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 1:52pm
I'll be really surprised if this is how it plays out. But then I was surprised he won, so we'll just have to wait and see.
"I'll be really surprised"
By lbb
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 2:37pm
And I bet you were also surprised at some of the jaw-dropping flaming-asshole moves he made both during the campaign and since the election -- as in, how can anything with a central nervous system show its ass in public like that, and just keep on doing it? With that as an established modus operandi, I think I'm dead on as far as how the "inauguration" is going to play out. Like everything else that Cheeto Hitler has touched, it will be a shit show.
I agree
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:25pm
"Like everything else that Cheeto Hitler has touched, it will be a shit show."
Yup. Cars burned in the streets of Washington, the sweet smell of tear gas wafting over the gentle hills, public urina--oh, sorry, that's in March.
LOL. Just pictured Trump with a cheeto under his nose.
Just making it up now.
By dmcboston
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:21pm
"*For you low-information types, "unprecedented" means "he never did it before, and there's not a snowball's chance he's gonna start"."
For you high-information types, "unprecedented" means "never happened before". It is silent about the future.
Wrong
By bosguy22
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 11:29am
She's going as the wife of a former President. Romney didn't attend Obama's inauguration, Trump wouldn't have been invited to attend hers. That's not the tradition, the tradition is living former Presidents attend.
Yes.
By Rob
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 10:22pm
Yes.
For all their differences, Bush41 understood the dignity of the Office and the bond between those who have held that Office, and was respectful of Bubba. Some of Bubba's people acted out with the keyboard thing in Jan 2001, but W still has a cordial relationship with him.
Carter has said he will be there, 41 has declined due to health/travel, Bubba has now confirmed he will be there. W was still unknown, last I heard.
oops - just read that W had
By Rob
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 10:29pm
oops - just read that W had actually confirmed before Bubba.
What racism?
By anon
Wed, 01/04/2017 - 9:09am
And regarding misogyny, he is quoted as saying in a casual conversation 'grab 'em by the p***y...how is that any different than the extremely common phrase, used by all genders, 'grab 'em by the balls'?
If Trump has a lot of really bad dirt on him, it would most definitely have come out during either the primary or general election, and most likely by Republicans who hate him,more-so than Dems, but during the final stretch of the general election, 'progressives', or at least Dem. operatives, would have released the most damning stuff; why didn't they? Because it doesn't exist, or, they are as 'bad'as, or worse, than him?
I'm immediately leery when the go to accusations against anyone are vague but repeated ad nauseam charges of 'racism', misogyny, homophobia (transphobia,etc.), etc., etc. One of the last refuges of a scoundrel may well be extreme patriotism, but there are others, like endless accusations of misogyny, racism, sexism, homophobia.
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