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Trumpenfreude strikes another business that made anti-Trump waves
American Thinker ^ | 23 Nov, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 11/23/2023 5:04:09 AM PST by MtnClimber

Trumpenfreude, which I believe is a word that Don Surber coined, happens when we get a warm glow learning about people who struck out at Trump or those close to him and, instead, managed to destroy themselves. While we should feel guilty about regular schadenfreude (e.g., delighting in other people’s misery), Trumpenfreude is something to be celebrated. The latest, somewhat delayed, comeuppance for a Trump hater is The Red Hen, the restaurant that, in 2018, proudly ejected Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family in the middle of their meal.

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Moreover, a whole lot of Americans who support strong borders, individual liberty, and the other policies Trump advanced felt that if Trump staffers weren’t welcome at the Red Hen, it wasn’t their kind of restaurant. That fact, combined with the dismal Biden economy and, perhaps, the lockdowns that Democrats supported during COVID, may explain why the Red Hen is no more:

The owners of Lexington, Virginia’s Red Hen restaurant have announced that the business will shutter and a new restaurant with a new name will pop up in its place. The announcement comes several years after The Red Hen faced massive scrutiny for removing Trump Administration Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family from the premises in the middle of their meal after triggered left-wing employees called the restaurant’s left-wing owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, requesting that she take action to remove the family from their midst.

The people have spoken, and I can only say that it’s a gloat-worthy thing when Trumpenfreude strikes again.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: commiecluck; deadchicken; redhen; restaurant; sanders

1 posted on 11/23/2023 5:04:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Trumpenfreude :)


2 posted on 11/23/2023 5:04:24 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
They say that the way to make a small fortune in the restaurant business is to start with a large one. I suspect the half-life of boutique restaurants in rural western Virginia is probably about five years in anyway. No surprise. Ousting Sanders party may have actually given her place a certain cache with the kind of people who eat at boutique (i.e., overpriced with small servings) joints.

I'll a rib joint in Alabama out behind the railroad tracks with a broken down screen door any day.

3 posted on 11/23/2023 5:16:27 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: MtnClimber
the business will shutter and a new restaurant with a new name will pop up in its place.

So all they're doing is changing the name? Same bad actors, same deranged staff?

Hopefully the locals will see through this charade and keep the pressure up.

4 posted on 11/23/2023 5:16:40 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: MtnClimber

The people around Lexington will have a restaurant with a new name to boycott


5 posted on 11/23/2023 5:19:19 AM PST by KingLudd
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To: MtnClimber

Go woke. Go broke. I don’t think anyone will be fooled by a rebranded Commie Cluck either.


6 posted on 11/23/2023 5:19:23 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: grobdriver

Commie Cluck Part Deux...?


7 posted on 11/23/2023 5:20:21 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Ignorance begets failure.


8 posted on 11/23/2023 5:24:48 AM PST by chopperk
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To: MtnClimber
I'll bet the Red Hen owners thought the Colorado baker should've baked the cake for the queers, but they have the right to kick out people they don't like.
9 posted on 11/23/2023 5:26:57 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: MtnClimber
Trumpenfreude

Brilliant!

10 posted on 11/23/2023 5:29:17 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: MtnClimber

GOOD!


11 posted on 11/23/2023 5:49:25 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: grobdriver

I have a suggestion. They should call it the Red Guard.


12 posted on 11/23/2023 5:50:49 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: MtnClimber

Putting lipstick on a hen.


13 posted on 11/23/2023 5:52:28 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (May I please have a government shutdown?)
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To: grobdriver

SOP. Folks are looking for the next new thing. They get bored easy and businesses are accommodating. Jake Tapper says changes are necessary at least every 7-10 years.


14 posted on 11/23/2023 5:53:27 AM PST by griswold3 (I cannot change the Tide but I can learn to Sail)
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To: MtnClimber
. While we should feel guilty about regular schadenfreude

Why ? The key to ‘regular schadenfreude’ is the negative action or result is deserved and occurs to someone not liked.

We have all seen the video of Hillary being hoisted by her team into van. Perfect example of well deserved schadenfreude. No reason to feel guilty on that.

15 posted on 11/23/2023 5:57:30 AM PST by Michael.SF. (There is only one reason why I will ever vote for a Republican: Democrats)
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To: chopperk

Indeed.


16 posted on 11/23/2023 7:14:34 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber
I'm so so sorry...

NOT!!!!

17 posted on 11/23/2023 4:06:03 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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