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El Tiempo Cantina shuts down social media accounts amid backlash over Jeff Sessions photo
Houston Chronicle ^ | 8-11-2018 | Robert Downen

Posted on 08/12/2018 9:59:38 AM PDT by Snickering Hound

Houston chain El Tiempo Cantina appears to have deleted its social media pages, a day after a photo of the restaurant's owner with Attorney General Jeff Sessions drew outrage and calls for a boycott.

El Tiempo did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the chain's Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages were down Saturday afternoon.

On Friday, owner Roland Laurenzo posted a photo with a caption saying it was an "honor" to serve Sessions, who was in town to discuss immigration enforcement with law enforcement officers. The post was quickly condemned by customers, some of whom called for a boycott.

Laurenzo soon after responded, writing that the photo "does not represent us supporting (Sessions') positions."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: agsessions; liberalfascism
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Bask in the tolerance of the left.
1 posted on 08/12/2018 9:59:38 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

Imagine how mad they’d be if an effective member of the Trump admin was in that photo.


2 posted on 08/12/2018 10:03:03 AM PDT by M1911A1 (MAGA must include jail for the Swamp's leading lawbreakers)
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To: Snickering Hound

“Bask in the tolerance of the left.”

Or bask in their food! Let’s teach the Left a lesson.


3 posted on 08/12/2018 10:07:25 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: Snickering Hound

I’d boycott it too. For completely opposite reasons.
Trumps latest tweet:

Trump: AG Jeff Sessions Is ‘Scared Stiff and Missing in Action’


4 posted on 08/12/2018 10:08:13 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Snickering Hound

As has been said by President Trump. Jeff Sessions is “scared stiff.”


5 posted on 08/12/2018 10:08:20 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Snickering Hound

I already boycott them because they are crowded and overpriced. What a weasel the owner is for not standing up for what he posted.


6 posted on 08/12/2018 10:08:46 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: Snickering Hound

Since the owner insists that the photo “does not represent us supporting (Sessions’) positions.” he has lost both sides.

Once the commitment is made, you’ve got to stand by it.

Scripture tells us, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”

And common sense tells us that he who straddles the fence gets a picket in the crotch.


7 posted on 08/12/2018 10:10:27 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Snickering Hound

Businesses. Is it worth having social media pages if those pages just act as lightning rods for the outrage mob? Better to follow this business and shut down social media.


8 posted on 08/12/2018 10:12:25 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Snickering Hound

Bask in the tolerance of the left.

**************

I worked around many lefties for a long time. Tolerance and respect for the opinions of others is not their thing.


9 posted on 08/12/2018 10:12:41 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Snickering Hound

Wow! Imagine how mad they’ll be if he ever wakes up...


10 posted on 08/12/2018 10:13:44 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: Snickering Hound

Digital terrorism


11 posted on 08/12/2018 10:14:18 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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Sounds like Roland Laurenzo has not been paying attention to what happened to the guy from Papa John's. But, he did seem to want to be on both sides of the issue, like the owner of the Dallas Cowboys.

Being conflicted seems so much more difficult these days....

12 posted on 08/12/2018 10:16:29 AM PDT by Bernard (We will stop calling you fake news when you stop being fake news.)
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To: Vaquero

He was found at El Tiempo!


13 posted on 08/12/2018 10:17:52 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Snickering Hound

..and to think, this used to be a free country.. now it is enslaved by the ideologies of idiots and assigned to an inglorious end at this rate.


14 posted on 08/12/2018 10:21:01 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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Well well well well. Guess a whole bunch of Trump supporters should start giving them business.

The man said the picture didn’t mean they agree with all of Sessions’ positions. That doesn’t mean anything. You are not allowed to state your opinion. So NEVER backtrack.

And this isn’t a violation of the free speech in the Constitution. The government isn’t calling for destroying his business.

These people will attack you for having a Trump bumper sticker. We need to fight back by mirroring them..


15 posted on 08/12/2018 10:21:29 AM PDT by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go jst inraight to the comments.)
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We don’t approve of anyone separating parents and children.”


I guess that next they will post a dramatic statement that they do not approve of people breaking laws that require they be jailed in jails that are not satisfactory places for children.


16 posted on 08/12/2018 10:22:09 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: Snickering Hound
The DOJ, which Sessions heads is the top of all law enforcement in the US. Which is why he was in Houston.

So the protesters hate law enforcement?

17 posted on 08/12/2018 10:22:24 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Savage Rider

The owner may have been happy to have a a photo.
Back in the kitchen, I bet the illegal cooks spat in his food.


18 posted on 08/12/2018 10:26:31 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right!)
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To: texas booster

These people hate the entire country for them losing the white house. I am not sure that people can stoop any lower in maturity than this.


19 posted on 08/12/2018 10:29:08 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Paine in the Neck
Businesses. Is it worth having social media pages if those pages just act as lightning rods for the outrage mob? Better to follow this business and shut down social media.

(I guess this applies to my own 'pontificating' on FreeRepublic as well as the current rage of "Social Media diarrhea of the mouth" that afflicts personages both high and low, and businesses.)

"If the shoe fits..."

20 posted on 08/12/2018 10:34:41 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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