She said her business did better when Trump was president.

[kpete]

Milwaukee Vegan Cafe Owner Appears With Trump, Assails Migrants.
She said her business did better when Trump was president.

The catch?

“Gray’s 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]

1. I was going to ask if she ran a funeral home.

[Diamond_Dog]

17. Ha!!

[3auld6phart]

52. Thhey can lie with

With a straight face. These are the freakin idiots that give that lunatic drmpfh hopes

[AZ8theist]

41. Good one!!

[Rhiannon12866]

62. That was my exact first thought, too!!!

[North Shore Chicago]

2. These deplorables

make me want to hurl! Lies after lies after lies. Then, they double and triple down on the same lies.

[republianmushroom]

3. Oh, damn, someone noticed, damn.

But, but, she is sure it would have done better under trump. You bet fool. chuckle , chuckle.

Liars lie for trump.

[calimary]

25. All anyone has to do is scratch the surface.

You weren’t even IN BUSINESS when he was in OUR White House, girlfriend.

“Gray’s restaurant on Wells St. opened in August 2023, more than two years after Trump left office.”

[Raven123]

4. Gee, how will that that lie will affect her business?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Good Question

I'm thinking the clientele that seeks out a vegan place isn't heavily MAGA.
Following in the footsteps of Lindell, perhaps?

[PatSeg]

7. That is true

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]

27. He thinks its the scientific word

for where he says women let him grab them because he's a star.

[PatSeg]

46. Oh my god!

That hadn't occurred to me!

[Ojerly]

48. My guess is

he thought it was the plural of vagina.

[PatSeg]

60. BaronChocula said something

similar above!

[Ping Tung]

6. So, what was "her business" when Trump was in office?

Manufacturing knee-length pink ties?

[oldsoftie]

67. I wondered that too; did she have a different one?

Because this isnt even CLOSE to being accurate. Opening LAST YEAR??? How stupid could this person BE

[SarahD]

8. Vegans lie? Horrors!

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]

18. I own 2 Corvettes.......

but I HATE trump!

Am I OK now?

[CANADIANBEAVER69]

21. Made me laugh

[mercuryblues]

35. Let's start a righteous club.

[mucifer]

63. Plenty of non vegans love trump. Plenty of non vegans are liars. But, thanks for bashing us vegans.

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

71. Most Vegans I Know Are...

Humble, nice people trying to be helpful.

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

72. I Know More Than a Few Vegans...

...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]

9. Opened new restaurant August 2023 and doing publicity with Trump in May 2024 because

she wants Biden to know she's struggling?

[mopinko]

10. click through to the thread. this is randy bryce who ran for congress in wis a while back.

a good follow.

[Takket]

11. from the article.......

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]

19. Hmmm. Wonder if she got an SBA loan and then a PPP loan to subsidize her business.

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]

49. That's a very good question...

weren't those loans recipients made public at some point?

[LiberalFighter]

12. Shana Gray, the co-owner of Gray Jett Cafe, a vegan restaurant on the Marquette University campus, joined Trump on stage

[ZonkerHarris]

50. Gray does not understand her target demographic.

I wonder what kind of place will be there next year?

[Chi67]

77. Yep

I was just gonna say- most vegans hate Trump. She's an idiot.

[XanaDUer2]

13. Well, bully for her ass

Is she a mortician?

[madashelltoo]

14. Religion motto

Look for the lie! Oh, it’s there. Seldom buried deep. “Everything” is a lie with this gang.

[Celerity]

15. Shana Gray

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shana-gray-a0481434/



Plant based vegan food services

Gray Jett Enterprises, LLC

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

[AZ8theist]

45. Sounds like someone who's failed at everything......

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]

54. I'm surprised trump didn't make her wear a "Blacks for Trump" t-shirt before he'd be seen with her.

[spanone]

16. She lies like him. They all lie.

[Renew Deal]

20. Being a liar is a minimum qualification for a trump shill

[Joinfortmill]

22. Shouda kept her mouth shut. Dumb & Dumber

[hay rick]

23. The wonderful Trump economy transcends time.

[wiggs]

24. Lying is like a secret handshake for these people so they know who is in the club. nt

[cojoel]

26. But will this impact her business going forward?

It might if people who are not Trump supporters decide this is not an establishment they wish to patronize any longer.

[Kid Berwyn]

28. That is my sincere wish, as well.

Republicans today lie as much as they breathe.

[MagickMuffin]

29. Perhaps Florida can help you out with your vegan business

Oh wait, perhaps reconsider since Ron banned and outlawed plant based foods.

Suck it up buttercup, because you are a liar!

[obamanut2012]

73. "Ron banned and outlawed plant based foods"

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]

82. Well I learned about right here on DU

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/05/01/desantis-signs-ban-on-lab-grown-meat-in-florida-says-elites-are-pushing-it/

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, it’s 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 we’ve being doing for hundreds and hundreds of years in the state of Florida,” he said.

[RockRaven]

30. A vegan cafe in an urban area is going to benefit from associating with TFG?

Okay, good luck with that, I guess.

[BaronChocula]

31. True story

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]

32. Some asked if her business will continue, and I suspect that if she's lying about Pres. Biden now and her

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]

33. Funny what people will say for a few bucks.

She may have been bought cheaply.

[LenaBaby61]

47. These tap-dancing, tRump-humping .....

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]

34. Your business is probably struggling

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]

36. Got news for you, Hon . . . .

Your business is STILL OPENED because of Joe Biden.

You're Welcome!

[nuxvomica]

37. The cafe isn't even vegan

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]

83. So she lied about it being a vegan restaurant

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]

38. Well....maybe not for long...

People may boycott her services now that it is public that she embraces a treasonous bastard, tRump.

[sanatanadharma]

39. The pile on has begun at Yelp reviews

She is going to go through some things.

[NBachers]

40. I'm sure her reviews on Yelp have been tuned-up a bit.

[Warpy]

42. Maybe her business didn't involve food.

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]

43. live in milw...another place i will never go

bet it becomes a gop hot spot between now and convention

[surfered]

44. She must have been selling Kool Aid and Bleach

[OAITW r.2.0]

51. Trump's Potemkin Campaign.

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.]

53. rightwingers lie.

They don't tell the truth.

It's because they are rightwingers.

It's what rightwingers do.

[marble falls]

55. Y'all are using facts to put the lie to the narrative. Just so unfair to basket of deplorables.

[Siwsan]

56. I'd suggest a more enticing name for the restaurant

The word gray as related to food just seems to me to be something to be avoided.

[NanaCat]

84. Depends on the reason for the name

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]

57. Sets up a go fund me account in 4...3...2...1

[Pototan]

58. She will see a marked reduction in customers

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]

59. We don't even need to fact check to see the absurdity here.

A restaurant doing better during Trump's mismanaged pandemic response?

What would they have to have served, hydroxychloroquine cocktails??

[Rebl2]

61. Well another

lying trumper. (She thinks trump was president last year I guess.). No dearie your business wasn’t better under tfg because you didn’t open until last year.

[DemocraticPatriot]

64. The Stupidity--- it BURNS!!!!!!

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]

65. Tons of this are still in cold storage. Maybe she was made an offer she couldn't refuse.

[mwb970]

66. My God, they are so STUPID.

[Chili Pepper]

68. Sequence of Events:

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]

69. Did she say that, or did Trump?

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/05/01/milwaukee-vegan-cafe-owner-appears-with-trump-assails-migrants/

[...]

Trump vowed to visit the restaurant, 1617 W. Wells St., during the Republican National Convention.

“It’s supposed to be really good. I’m not into the vegan stuff I must say, but I’m going to have to try this. When we come here in a short period of time, into Milwaukee, we’re going to come and try that vegan food. I don’t know if I’m 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]

70. Her take on who should receive food assistance:

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/05/01/milwaukee-vegan-cafe-owner-appears-with-trump-assails-migrants/

[...]

“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]

74. Her clientele are not trumpers. Hope she likes a failing business.

[JustAnotherGen]

75. Liar liar

Pants on fire. These people know what they are doing, they just don't care.

[GoneOffShore]

76. She's been called out on FB - It's a hoot.

[Emile]

78. She has filed for bankruptcy three times in the

past TEN YEARS and reported receiving Food Share benefits in the most recent filing.

[Redleg]

79. Yes, and I was still married and living with my wife and kids

Things really were better under Trump. I guess I voted for the wrong guy and will do so again in November.

[Rabrrrrrr]

80. So, is it really a business, or did a Trumper start a business with the intent to fail, just to speak ill of Biden.

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]

81. Virtually every word out of Trump supporter's mouths is a complete lie.

Bald-faced lies are all Trump has and all that they have.

[LeftInTX]

85. Another one a Trump's useful idiots. How much was she paid for this ad?

She will probably be a speaker at the GOP convention.