And people say I shouldn't go to Walmart

[ripcord]

I do car pickup when I shop at Walmart but there was a problem and I had to go into pick it up. As I come out there is a commotion it seems an anti masker was railing at the police, she was claiming that Walmart was public property and she couldn't be asked to wear a mask or be asked to leave. The police kept telling her that only government owned buildings are public property, her answer was she walked though the door so it was public. She went on about the Constitution and her rights, then she started going off on the cops saying she can't believe how stupid they are and that they need to go back to the academy to be retrained. They gave her several more warnings that she had been trespassed but she wouldn't leave so I got to watch her resisting the police and finally get literally stuffed into the back of the patrol car swearing like a sailor the whole time, all this was missing was popcorn.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. And as a bonus, Walmart's will ban her for life too, if they follow the usual pattern.

[Shrike47]

3. As well they should. Anyone that ignorant shouldn't be allowed to leave their home.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. You got free entertainment

Not a bad freebie

[ripcord]

4. It sucks living in a heavily red area

So you take your entertainment where to can find it.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Where was this, may I ask?

[ripcord]

7. Hesperia, California

[SammyWinstonJack]

37. Hysteria, California. Lived there for 20 yrs, finally escaped. Family members still there.

[C Moon]

67. That's where my adopted rescued dog was found!

[Cha]

59. lol

[keep_left]

5. Wow, another "extremely online" MAGA Constitutional scholar.

She no doubt got her degree from Reddit or TheDonaldDotWin. (Spelled that last one out, no need to give them a link).

[BaronChocula]

28. Donald Trump School of Lawlessness

[BlackSkimmer]

8. I live in a red area, and our Walmart hands out masks at the door.

Never seen anyone refuse, but I don’t stand there to watch. I do see unmasked in the store, but for the most part, most people are staying masked.

We’re a peaceful little town though.

[lpbk2713]

9. It was nice of Wal*Mart to provide entertainment.

She probably got her law degree on eBay.

[littlemissmartypants]

44. And her degree in Public Relations from Craigslist. nt

[sarge43]

66. Walmart: Come for the sales; stay for the arrests. n/t

[L. Coyote]

10. I boycott Wal*Fart because they under pay employees and are owned by far-right Trumpers.

I shop at employee-owned businesses and co-ops.

[2naSalit]

11. Same here.

We also have lots of small mom&pops around, I make a point of shopping there instead. Of course, I have to go for a bit of a drive over to the next county to find a big box store so I have an advantage there.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. And be thankful that you are so fortunate. Not everyone is.

[Hortensis]

13. Why not read about what employees say and expand

your knowledge? Although average U.S. pay these days is underpay in my estimation as well, Walmart pays somewhat over average rate for the kind of jobs we see being performed, and overall employees report it's not a bad place to work.

It's amazing that more people haven't started employee-owned/cooperative businesses given how many say they want socialization; there are several hundred in the U.S., so it's not impossible. And federal and many state government programs offer substantial financial assistance to those business types.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. I sat down with a paper and pencil

and listed what I made when I was twenty, in a decent job and I can still remember the amounts of what I wrote checks for every month. Then I wrote down what the same job was paying today, and the prices of the basics we all pay every month.

Wow, was that ever revealing. No wonder the kids can't buy a house in today's world...............

And the worse thing? We lived on my salary alone. Today TWO salaries can't cut it...........

[erronis]

55. My first house in 1971: 16,000. Two stories, nice lot, three bedrooms, college town.

Young wife's parents helped us out with a $2,000 loan.

Even given inflation, this just can't happen anymore. The greedies have taken over real estate.

[discocrisco01]

82. RE: My first house in 1971: 16,000. Two stories, nice lot, three bedrooms, college town.

Federal Reserve printing too much money to speculate on things.

[Hortensis]

86. Agree! I've had the same experience. I dropped out of high school

in my teens to go to work full time and was able to support myself. State and local college was affordable, and social mobility was comparatively wide open.

I was blessed by the golden conditions that still prevailed toward the end of the liberal-dominated New Deal era.

Today, toward the end (we hope) of the conservative/business dominated era that followed, things are terrible for young people taking similarly un- or low-skill jobs.

Today is also after an intervening 40 years of enormous wealth creation due to technological advances. America is far wealthier now than in the 1950s-60s. When I dropped out of high school, there were no centimillionaire and billionaire classes.

Note what Nancy calls for below. This subject always makes me angry at the damned lying liars who claim Democrats are like Republicans, and the useful LW idiots who believe them. Republicans are a minority and couldn't have done it without generations of useful idiots.

[albacore]

84. Mall-wart's wage and employee turnover rate....

Walmart's average wage is $16.40 (Sept. 2021)
44% per year. Costco's is just 6% after one year’s employment.

"'Permanent' for Walmart may not mean what many people think it means.....as store associates often have turnover of between 50% and 100%, meaning that typical tenure is one to two years."
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/sep/30/walmart-on-hunt-for-more-workers/

[radicalleft]

15. And your point as it pertains to this thread is what

Or are here to show how truly progressive you are?

[L. Coyote]

30. And your point as it pertains to this thread is what

Or are here to show how truly progressive you aren't?

[LuckyCharms]

61. Having a bad day?

[radicalleft]

77. Not at all...

Just hate the "holier than thou" attitudes of people who just have to show how enlightened they are...

[stopdiggin]

74. does seem to be kinda' the point, huh?

also been described as virtue signalling.

[3Hotdogs]

22. I don't know if that's true anymore. My daughter started at Wally World in August.$1875 per hour.

In December, she got promoted to pharmacy technologist. Now making over $25 per hour and another raise coming when she passes the state pharmacy assistant test.


Not fully part of this discussion.... then the other tech got sick. She worked 12 days straight, roughly 40 hours at time and 1/2.

[cinematicdiversions]

26. At least in my area they certainly pay their employees better than mom and pop stores

I mean it isn't Costco wages but certainly better than what small businesses pay.

[George II]

31. Walmart is a publicly traded corporation.

[onenote]

62. The Chairman of Wal-Mart isn't a far right Trumper

https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/gregory-penner.asp?cycle=20


And the CEO hasn't made any political contributions in years.

[Ziggysmom]

14. Costco online ordering & delivery has worked well for me. Not sure if it is available everywhere

for grocery items though.

[lagomorph777]

16. Damn, that's beautiful!

So, when I break in to her front door, her house becomes public property?

Good to know.

[jcgoldie]

17. I begrudgingly go to walmart every couple of weeks

I always swore I wouldn’t but they raised the price of beer a couple of bucks at the grocery store and I drink too much not to be thrifty on that product…

I almost always see some interesting shit from people in there and I usually wish I hadn’t… 😕

[pandr32]

18. I'll just bet she has read the Constitution

[erronis]

56. Read? That's a stretch.

Maybe listen to her favorite lunatics spouting.

[yaesu]

20. I haven't been in a Walmart since pre pandemic. nt

[Tommymac]

45. 2002. Once that year. b4 that - 1998.

I wondered what I was missing.

[xmas74]

54. That's where I got my booster.

I was able to walk in and get it done in 20 minutes.

[Moebym]

21. Huh. I thought her type was all for Backing the Blue.

Not when she's breaking the law, though.

[ificandream]

23. Love this ... :)

Wish there was video.

[LoisB]

24. Sounds like one of those "1st Amendment Auditors" or "Sovereign Citizen" types.

[NutmegYankee]

43. 1st Amendment Auditors usually are well versed on the law.

And know not to resist. Their goal is to win big on the 42 US Code § 1983 suit.

[LoisB]

53. I apologize. I should have said the fake 1st Amendment "auditors" who just want to make money

on YouTube. I recognize that there are legitimate 1st Amendment Auditors out there.

[Aristus]

25. Reason # 1,439,391 while I will never visit a Wal-Mart.

Sounds like the kind of person who gets married at a Wal-Mart, which is another discussion for another time...

[CaptainTruth]

27. Netflix needs to make a MAGA Meltdown series.

Just collections of videos of incidents like this. It would be one of my favorite shows.

[Traildogbob]

29. White woman

And they are all about rights, white rights. Even making em up on site. Like mentioned above. Some areas have only on choice. Wally World or the Dollar Store. In a tourist primary area in WNC all small businesses are dedicated to extremely wealthy tourists. No one here can afford or needs their inventory. Google Art Pope, heir of dollar stores. Right wing trump humping billionaire. Check out their employee wages and benefits not to mention the crappy shit they sell. In my relatively small county, there are approximately 15 dollar stores. One Wally World. So, I triple mask, choose safest hours, get what I need about once a month, and laugh under my masks at the supreme race of white folk in there. Always healthy to laugh. And, we have about a dozen gun stores, probably 40 churches. Mark Meadows and now Cawthorn’s district. Other than that I have thousands of acres of forests and wild areas to hike. Don’t even need to drive. Can bushwhack up to unlimited trailess Forested mountains. So I put up with once a month Wally entertainment.

[Evolve Dammit]

35. A very healthy approach to your surrounds and life!

[erronis]

58. A very reasoned approach to your wonderful (and personally awful) area

I've also lived in places where the natural resources and beauty were worth the hassles with the hicks that live in the surrounding towns.

All along the Appalachia spine there are places of beauty and some people that think it's where they throw their trash.

[Traildogbob]

63. Roger that

Native (white) people of such amazing surroundings Care the least about it. Our Natural Resources Division at the college orchestrated with students a biannual stream cleanup, through town, and each cleanup of the 4 mile stretch took out 3,000 pounds of garbage, for 20+ years I worked there. The rural areas were much worse, with appliances and tires. And trash left in Shinning Rock Wilderness is just sickening. The worst are from hunters. Many of my backpacking trips had me carrying out more weight, their trash, than I walked in with. I still remember the commercial of the Native American with years from discarded trash and river pollution and its destruction. It’s gotten worse after all the environmental legislation passed through the 70’s. That generation of “Earth Ranger’s” has long gone. The ones dumping trash and fine with refrigerators in the rivers, are not liberals. It’s ignorant fools that think it’s freedom to through trash where ya want. Best part of not using trails and adventuring out in the real wild, no trash, no people. Just me and my two black labs. But then once a month, a needed Walmart March back into reality.

[packman]

32. Dammit,Ripcord, we need a video

So we all can enjoy it - pretty selfish of you

[Evolve Dammit]

33. That would be great YouTube (or whatever)

[IronLionZion]

34. These delusional idiots think they're fighting for civil rights or something

[DFW]

36. Interesting take on the legality

I guess she thought that if she put on a big enough show, free to the public, then it was, by definition, a public place. With her performance, she had transferred ownership from the Walton family to herself, and then on to her community. Oops, she's a communist!

Well, OK, no, she's a candidate for the nearest psychiatric evaluation office of the public defender, but who's quibbling over details?

[erronis]

60. "She's a candidate". Yes - that fits the bill. Be a lout-enough (stet) bitch and you can run

for any office. Even the peeResident!

[WillUSAF]

38. Popcorn and "Go Karen" cheerleaders

[Crowman2009]

39. They do the poor pitiful me routine, then switch into total asshole mode when they can't...

...get their way.

[True Blue American]

41. Bravo for the Police!

Those people walking at Walmart are hard working, some older who need the income and hard working teens who never fail to be polite if I aske them a question, willing to joke. Most are headed for College.

[samnsara]

42. oh maaaaan its days like this I wish we had a walmart

[Stuart G]

46. SO, If you have seen it all....THERE IS ALWAYS MORE!!!! and MORE!!!...even MORE!!!!

[Joinfortmill]

47. They don't even recognize their own ignorance.

[patphil]

48. So, essentially, she begged them to arrest her.

I guess she didn't have anything else to do that day, so she opted for a ride in a police car.
Humm, the stupid is strong in this one, yes.

[Permanut]

49. Sounds like an epic performance..

She hit all the basic right wing wacko talking points. Should give Karen lessons.

[appleannie1]

50. Where I live more people inside are maskless than not.

I have to go there for my prescriptions, which I cut to 3 month instead of 1 to cut the times I have to by a third, but my mask is in the minority group. Since omicron I double mask. Surgical mask covered by a cloth mask is my new get up for forays outside my house. I am also back to sanitizing everything I buy before bringing it into my house. I also carry a small spray bottle of alcohol in case I have to use a restroom. I even sanitize my shoes before entering my car. You should see the stares I get by the maskless bunch of omicron spreaders when I do that. At my age, with my health issues, I can't be too careful so I mentally give them all the finger salute.

[dchill]

51. I'm reasonably sure Walmart HAS 🍿!

[The Jungle 1]

52. Why does it always seem like it is women doing this.

[Cha]

57. Go Police!.. Here's your Popcorn!

[NurseJackie]

64. A Sovereign-Citizen who got her law-degree from Youtube!

[Hassler]

65. Did the cops gag her? I would have.

[The Wizard]

68. There's a price to pay

for being a maskhole.

[Ford_Prefect]

69. The Cray-Cray is strong in this one...

[Rabrrrrrr]

70. Funny how the MAGAt-fascists love it when cops beat down brown people in fascist violence,

but when the same police are actually following the law and applying it to those selfsame MAGAt-fascists, they get all snowflaky and assholey.

They'll wave their guns in the air screaming "Blue Lives Matter!!!!" but as soon as one tries to stop them during an insurrection, or trying to get into WalMart, or on an airplane, they sure do fucking hate the blue and have no respect for it.

[pecosbob]

71. If that sort of thing tickles you, follow this link...

https://www.youtube.com/c/CharlotteDobre/videos

"Remember, they're gettin' paid minimum wage to put up with your bullsh*t"

[llmart]

72. Sounds like you got to see an episode of "Cops" live and in person!

All I had for entertainment today was the new season of "Ozark".

[OneCrazyDiamond]

73. It would great if there was a YouTube channel

With nothing but magats screaming while being arrested for refusing to wear a mask. It could be covid therapy.

[GoneOffShore]

75. She'll be on Schrodinger's Cat's channel by next week. 'I'm a sovereign citizen!' Bzzzt..

Lucky she didn't get tased.

[cstanleytech]

76. Poor woman. Sounds more like she is in severe need of a mental evaluation and

to perhaps be placed in a mental institution for treatment until she is no longer a danger.
Either that or jail.

[samplegirl]

78. Hate Walmart and that

circus! I won’t shop there.

[FailureToCommunicate]

79. Entitled toddlers whose tantrums get other people

arrested…or killed.

“Karens”

In a Walmart parking lot we watched as a Karen in pink baggy sweatpants struggled to make her handgun stay in her saggy waistband when she got out of her car. After a few moments of chuckling about her difficulties, we decided maybe we really didn’t need to shop there.

[Emile]

80. Wondering if she goes to school board meetings too. .

[DownriverDem]

81. Never shop at Walmart

I don't do Chick Fil A or Hobby Lobby either. I can't go along with their beliefs and I have alternatives for shopping.

[crim son]

83. I've been watching "Karen in the Wild" videos.

Your incident sounds just like one of those. What amazes me, is that law enforcement often takes the time to listen to the crazy person for much longer than I would. As soon as they started their sovereign citizen rant and made the inevitable claim that they knew the law better than I, I'd ask them once more to confirm they were not willing to leave, then put on the cuffs and haul them away.

[not fooled]

85. Here in dumbass blood red SW AZ

the Walmart doesn't require masks. About 1/3-1/4 of shoppers wear them.

[OMGWTF]

87. If you think that was entertaining, have you ever been to www.peopleofwalmart.com?

I only shop there when there is no other choice. I last shopped in Walmart in 2009 when I asked a young man working there where the potting soil was. He burst into tears and said that after three years of abuse, he just couldn't take working there anymore. any place that has a large percentage of its employees on public assistance, and who has a Thanksgiving food drive FOR ITS EMPLOYEES is one totally fked-up company IMHO.

[Piasladic]

88. I've seen a lot of things on the Internet,

but I think that link actually injured my brain. I had to stop at the headline "Woman does karate, son gets nude, dog steals cornbread mix from Walmart, police say."