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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShe said her business did better when Trump was president.
Milwaukee Vegan Cafe Owner Appears With Trump, Assails Migrants.
She said her business did better when Trump was president.
The catch?
Grays restaurant on Wells St. opened in August 2023, more than two years after Trump left office.
Link to tweet
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/05/01/milwaukee-vegan-cafe-owner-appears-with-trump-assails-migrants/
Ocelot II
(116,691 posts)3auld6phart
(1,084 posts)With a straight face. These are the freakin idiots that give that lunatic drmpfh hopes
AZ8theist
(5,693 posts)Rhiannon12866
(210,108 posts)North Shore Chicago
(3,491 posts)make me want to hurl! Lies after lies after lies. Then, they double and triple down on the same lies.
republianmushroom
(14,796 posts)But, but, she is sure it would have done better under trump. You bet fool. chuckle , chuckle.
Liars lie for trump.
calimary
(82,087 posts)You werent even IN BUSINESS when he was in OUR White House, girlfriend.
Grays restaurant on Wells St. opened in August 2023, more than two years after Trump left office.
Raven123
(5,149 posts)ProfessorGAC
(66,262 posts)I'm thinking the clientele that seeks out a vegan place isn't heavily MAGA.
Following in the footsteps of Lindell, perhaps?
PatSeg
(48,500 posts)I don't think a Trump endorsement is necessarily a positive thing for a "vegan" restaurant. It didn't help that Trump mispronounced the word "vegan" several times.
BaronChocula
(1,744 posts)for where he says women let him grab them because he's a star.
PatSeg
(48,500 posts)That hadn't occurred to me!
he thought it was the plural of vagina.
PatSeg
(48,500 posts)similar above!
Ping Tung
(961 posts)Manufacturing knee-length pink ties?
oldsoftie
(12,927 posts)Because this isnt even CLOSE to being accurate. Opening LAST YEAR??? How stupid could this person BE
SarahD
(1,680 posts)I know a few vegans. Some of them are self-righteous about their high moral virtue, believ8ng themselves to be better in all respects than those who eat animal products. Their problem is that they sometimes excuse their own bad behavior because they are vegans. This is not unusual. We get the same thing from religious people, opera fans, stamp collectors, Corvette owners... anyone who gets so deeply and passionately involved with something that it takes over their life.
MyOwnPeace
(17,008 posts)but I HATE trump!
Am I OK now?
CANADIANBEAVER69
(396 posts)mercuryblues
(14,623 posts)mucifer
(23,757 posts)Mr. Mustard 2023
(154 posts)Humble, nice people trying to be helpful.
Mr. Mustard 2023
(154 posts)...and they're humble kind people trying to be kind in a cruel world.
I know many meat eaters and all of them become obnoxious, especially when they laugh about how much they enjoy eating a cow.
Based on their extreme reactions, it seems they're into the power of dominating animals over the flavor of the food or value of eating protein.
struggle4progress
(118,566 posts)she wants Biden to know she's struggling?
mopinko
(70,762 posts)a good follow.
Takket
(21,944 posts)In a 2023 interview, Gray told Urban Milwaukee that she met her then-fiance Andren Jett during the COVID-19 pandemic and launched the business a year later. They initially made pop-up appearances throughout the city before opening the cafe, which she now operates as a sole proprietorship.
A limited liability company, Gray Jett Enterprises, was organized in November 2021 and dissolved in November 2023.
~snip
so sounds like she was in some sort of business possibly in 2020, formed a formal company in 2021 (when biden was president) and wants to blame inflation from then until now on Biden. But her concerns are not specifically in regards to the vegan cafe that opened in 2023.
though i have to say it is odd... if she opened the cafe in 2023, that is well beyond the "peak" of the inflation boom that has come in recent years. if she was in the food business prior to that, in 2020 or 2021, surely she was already well aware of the increased cost of food for her business when she opened the cafe in 2023. So if it was too expensive to be sustainable, why did she open the cafe???????? Sounds to me like she is just a bad business person. She knew the operating costs before she ever opened the cafe.
Guessing a vegan cafe on a university campus is not racking up a ton of MAGA customers either so she's probably doing herself no favors by alienating what I'm sure is a VERY Democrat heavy customer base.
haele
(12,783 posts)She may well have been doing better because of tax breaks, small business start-up and COVID related grants and assistance she was eligible to get in late 2020/2021. The economy is also getting better, so she's getting more competition as other restaurants are going back to normal operations and expanding.
All of this, and now, she's having to pay back on some of those loans without the recovery act tax breaks and subsides. Just like all the other normal people's businesses who aren't quite as brazen as those of GOP politicians who have baldly stated they can't pay back their loans and seek "forgiveness" while they laugh all the way from their accountant's offices.
Haele
druidity33
(6,483 posts)weren't those loans recipients made public at some point?
LiberalFighter
(52,210 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,488 posts)I wonder what kind of place will be there next year?
I was just gonna say- most vegans hate Trump. She's an idiot.
XanaDUer2
(11,200 posts)Is she a mortician?
madashelltoo
(1,723 posts)Look for the lie! Oh, its there. Seldom buried deep. Everything is a lie with this gang.
Celerity
(44,630 posts)Plant based vegan food services
Gray Jett Enterprises, LLC
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
AZ8theist
(5,693 posts)Graduated Nursing school.
Union rep in the auto industry.
Fake vegan restaurant owner.
Now a lying sack of shit supporting a fellow loser whose EVERY SINGLE business venture has failed.
Seems to me she's a moron like her hero: Doturd couldn't give a shit about her. He only cares that she says nice things about him and she is black. She's too stupid to realize the destruction of American democracy will kill her business faster than you can say cofefe.
Too stupid to realize she being used as a tool.
Maybe she THINKS she's in line for the head of Doturds SBA......if the SBA will even exist in Project 2025.
calguy
(5,398 posts)spanone
(136,296 posts)Renew Deal
(81,966 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,878 posts)hay rick
(7,810 posts)wiggs
(7,875 posts)cojoel
(966 posts)It might if people who are not Trump supporters decide this is not an establishment they wish to patronize any longer.
Kid Berwyn
(15,704 posts)Republicans today lie as much as they breathe.
MagickMuffin
(16,119 posts)Oh wait, perhaps reconsider since Ron banned and outlawed plant based foods.
Suck it up buttercup, because you are a liar!
obamanut2012
(26,355 posts)That isn't true at all. DeSantis is a loathsome creature, but plant-based food has not been outlawed, and he cannot do that anyway. Plenty of vegan and vegetarian restaurants in Florida, plenty of plant-based "meat" in stores.
MagickMuffin
(16,119 posts)DeSantis signs ban on lab-grown meat in Florida, says elites are pushing it
Take your fake, lab-grown meat elsewhere, governor says
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Wednesday banning cultivated or lab-grown meat in Florida, placing it within a conspiracy by global elites to destroy agriculture in the interests of fighting climate change.
The bill (SB 1084) contains a number of programs for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, including provisions allowing members of 4-H and Future Farmers of America (FFA) to get excused absences from schools to attend events.
It also makes it unlawful for any person to manufacture for sale, sell, hold or offer for sale, or distribute cultivated meat in this state, punishable by up to 60 days in jail. Food establishments that sell or serve the stuff are also subject to penalties including loss of commercial licenses.
The law defines cultured meat as any meat or food product produced from cultured animal cells. The USDA began authorizing its sale in the United States last June.
DeSantis waxed indignant about the prospect.
They want to basically eliminate meat, they want to eliminate cattle, they want to eliminate chickens, all this stuff, and they want to create protein in laboratories. So, its essentially lab-created meat. And their goal is to get to a point where you will not be raising cattle, you will not be developing meat like weve being doing for hundreds and hundreds of years in the state of Florida, he said.
RockRaven
(15,337 posts)Okay, good luck with that, I guess.
BaronChocula
(1,744 posts)I was at the mall in the middle of the day on Friday. No empty parking spaces. Everyone had to circle waiting for someone to leave. Fuckin Bidenomics!
SWBTATTReg
(22,590 posts)business (business wasn't even around), she's always lied and thus, is one not to be trusted.
How can one trust her? Will she lie about warranties, will she lie about guarantees, etc. The whole basket of things that a responsible business should do, to attract and keep customers.
paleotn
(18,208 posts)She may have been bought cheaply.
LenaBaby61
(6,991 posts)black MAGA 'suckers' are hilarious (And easily fooled)
Their 'massah' tRump is more than likely calling them the N-word in what's left of his mind
Turns Out 'MAGA' Is the Nigerian Slang Word for 'Easily Fooled Idiot'
The term still applies.
Evan Brechtel
Aug. 14, 2019
Turns Out 'MAGA' Is the Nigerian Slang Word for 'Easily Fooled Idiot'
Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images // Aaron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via G
No acronym has seen such a sudden, stratospheric rise to fame in the last four years than "MAGA," after President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
Over the course of Trump's raucous campaign and erratic presidency, the term evolved to become a battle cry of sorts for the right; a way to own the libs in a perfectly manageable two syllables.
https://secondnexus.com/news/donald-trump-maga-nigerian-slang-sucker
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Because you don't understand the clientele you're seeking. The vast majority of vegans probably loathe TSF; ergo, the number of vegan TSF supporters aren't enough to generate a profit.
As it is the few vegan clients you had who didn't know you were an insane traitor are going to peel away now.
Might as well close up shop now, traitor.
no_hypocrisy
(46,780 posts)Your business is STILL OPENED because of Joe Biden.
You're Welcome!
nuxvomica
(12,573 posts)They may offer vegan options but check out the menu: hamburgers, chicken parm, a side of sausage, etc.
https://grayjettcafe.com/milwaukee-gray-jett-cafe-food-menu
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Big surprise.
If I were vegan, I wouldn't eat there. If she lies about being a vegan restaurant, then you can bet she's cooking her limited vegan selections with the same utensils and cook surfaces as she does animal products. That's a no-no for serious vegans.
FarPoint
(12,636 posts)People may boycott her services now that it is public that she embraces a treasonous bastard, tRump.
sanatanadharma
(3,820 posts)She is going to go through some things.
NBachers
(17,355 posts)Warpy
(111,899 posts)I imagine ladies of the evening did much better going from town to town where TFG was holding his pepp rallies, business in those towns would have been great.
dembotoz
(16,919 posts)bet it becomes a gop hot spot between now and convention
surfered
(935 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(25,325 posts)There's no one to vet these type of "photo-ops".
It's all bullshit, except the part about Trump trying to escape justice.
Think. Again.
(10,390 posts)They don't tell the truth.
It's because they are rightwingers.
It's what rightwingers do.
marble falls
(59,023 posts)Siwsan
(26,532 posts)The word gray as related to food just seems to me to be something to be avoided.
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)When I lived in San Antonio, a long-time restaurant was the Grey Moss Inn, located since the 1920s in a village north of the city known as Grey Forest. For that location, the name made sense.
Freethinker65
(10,212 posts)Pototan
(1,348 posts)I don't think Trump supporters are vegan eaters.
I'm going to guess that she pissed off a large portion of her cliental.
Shermann
(7,708 posts)A restaurant doing better during Trump's mismanaged pandemic response?
What would they have to have served, hydroxychloroquine cocktails??
Rebl2
(13,841 posts)lying trumper. (She thinks trump was president last year I guess.). No dearie your business wasnt better under tfg because you didnt open until last year.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,741 posts)Republicans might be correct when they assert that there should be some 'intelligence test' for voting---
Unfortunately for them, it would appear to me that more of their own voters would fail such a test, than otherwise....
Marcuse
(7,655 posts)mwb970
(11,422 posts)Chili Pepper
(108 posts)1) Opens business in predominantly Democratic city
2) Appears with Trump on stage
3) Publicly proclaims support for Trump
4) Alienates a good portion (majority?) of her clientele
5) Business declines due to fewer customers as a result of her publicly proclaimed political position
6) Business closes
7) Blames Biden and the economy for the closure
sl8
(14,776 posts)[...]
Trump vowed to visit the restaurant, 1617 W. Wells St., during the Republican National Convention.
Its supposed to be really good. Im not into the vegan stuff I must say, but Im going to have to try this. When we come here in a short period of time, into Milwaukee, were going to come and try that vegan food. I dont know if Im going to like it, said Trump.
He then claimed Gray and her cafe did better when he was in office.
[...]
On edit:
After Trump says that her business was doing better under him, she does say that she was doing better under Trump. She didn't actually say that her business did better, altough given the context in which she said, it could easily be interpreted that way.
sl8
(14,776 posts)[...]
Just recently I had a migrant come into my cafe that recently passed through the borders and paid for their food with one of the prepaid cards they were given, said Gray. How is that as a slap in the face as a proud American who worked hard, just like each one of you? And to be affected by the food costs, utility costs, to have someone just come and just willy nilly pay for their food, in my cafe, with prepaid dollars that was funded by us.
But Gray, according to federal court records, has received her own prepaid food.
She has filed for bankruptcy three times in the past decade and reported receiving Food Share benefits in the most recent filing.
Gray, in an interview, acknowledged receiving the benefits, but said there is a difference: she is a U.S. citizen. I have worked since I was 16, said Gray, 45. I paid into the system.
[...]
58Sunliner
(4,526 posts)JustAnotherGen
(32,369 posts)Pants on fire. These people know what they are doing, they just don't care.
GoneOffShore
(17,361 posts)Emile
(24,484 posts)past TEN YEARS and reported receiving Food Share benefits in the most recent filing.
Redleg
(5,876 posts)Things really were better under Trump. I guess I voted for the wrong guy and will do so again in November.
Rabrrrrrr
(58,363 posts)I wouldn't past then rightwing duplicitous fucks to set up a vegan restaurant solely with the intent for it to fail and do poorly, just so the "owner" can then pal around with MAGA talking about how impossible it is to have a business under Biden.
hadEnuf
(2,332 posts)Bald-faced lies are all Trump has and all that they have.
LeftInTX
(26,357 posts)She will probably be a speaker at the GOP convention.