A Calif. restaurant hosted Mike Lindell. Getting backlash

[Demovictory9]

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/california-restaurant-hosts-mike-lindell-17502100.php


A Calif. restaurant hosted Mike Lindell. It didn't go over well.

Tres Chiles Picosos, a Mexican restaurant in Humboldt County, became the subject of intense social media backlash last week after it posted a photo celebrating a visit from Mike Lindell, the so-called MyPillow Guy who rose to notoriety a few years ago for his conspiratorial views on COVID-19 and the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.


The restaurant’s owner, Michelle Hill, told SFGATE that two employees — a waitress and a bartender — recognized Lindell because they buy his MyPillow products, and were unfamiliar with his role in national politics. Hill said she allowed a manager to post the photo on the restaurant's Facebook page because her staff was excited that a quasi-celebrity like Lindell had visited; it was not intended to be a political statement, she said.

"I don't get into politics," she said. "We knew nothing about him apart from that he's the MyPillow guy ... my staff buys his pillows, his sheets, his socks, they were just excited to see someone famous."


But some social media users thought that Tres Chiles Picosos associating with Lindell goes beyond normal partisan politics.

“It's not about the politics, it's about the crimes and sedition,” one Facebook user wrote. “You don't post photos with other tourists, why start with him.”

[dchill]

1. Bullshit, Michelle.

[Mr.Bill]

6. Seriously.

Have they been living on another planet for the last two years?

[dchill]

7. Well, yes - but that planet has Fox News.

So they do know.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Ha!

[sdfernando]

2. I call bullshit

The explanation is lacking any credibility!

[paleotn]

3. Your staff is dumb enough to buy his crappy products?

Oh, please. Ain't buying it. Shut the fucker down.

[ShazzieB]

18. I'm just gobsmacked that

restaurant employees can AFFORD to buy his crappy, WAY overpriced products!

[paleotn]

19. That too!!!

[RKP5637]

4. Pleas of ignorance to the facts are no good!!! n/t

[BigmanPigman]

5. LIAR!

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Apparently Michelle Doesn't Know...

...that Mikey runs a small company and that her 2 employees aren't representative of the vast majority of her customers.
Leaving aside the frivolous suits, inflammatory craziness & possible direct involvement with sedition, he's at most a class D "celebrity".
Even ignoring the above, what benefit would her business derive from that FB post?

[SergeStorms]

10. I smell what Michelle's cooking....

and it smells like a steaming bowl of bullshit.

If her employees are buying all of Pillow Dude's crap, they must know what a freaking asshole he is, and that his "stuff" is overpriced garbage.

I don't think I'd like eating in a restaurant where the catch of the day is a huge freaking liar!

[Cha]

11. It's All Politics, Michelle.. Air, Water, Food..

Try to Keep UP!

Mike, LIAR Gaslit DT Shit Lindell in a Cali restaurant? Stupid.

[IcyPeas]

12. The article says even if she knew who he was she would have allowed the picture anyway

Because he's like any other celebrity.

Celebrity?

[ZonkerHarris]

17. that means she knew who he was and what he stood for.

[stopdiggin]

13. Ain't buyin' it. And predict a whole lot

of people - ain't gonna' be buying your food.

(on the other hand - the 'nutters' just might double down - so you might actually see an increase - for about a month)

[ForgedCrank]

14. I don't

support economic terrorism or bullying.
People can be dumb if they wish, and I don't feel a need to destroy them for it.
That would make me no better than them.

[LNM]

16. I agree with you. Nt

[Liberal In Texas]

15. How could they possibly in this day and age not know who that idiot is?

Totally living under a rock?

Or just gaslighting.