Monday, November 27, 2023

slow but inevitable karma

Call it the Trump Effect, the Trump Curse, or whatever, but it catches up with you eventually. Remember the Virginia resto called The Red Hen, which kicked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her party out because the restaurant's owner vehemently disagreed with Sanders's conservative politics? Well, guess what finally happened:

The owner Stephanie Wilkinson is, as you saw in the video, trying to establish a new restaurant with a new name. This reminds me of how ValueJet had that huge airline disaster (a plane literally plunged full-speed into the Florida Everglades, killing everyone aboard), then acquired AirTran Airways and rebranded itself as AirTran. I think this new resto is going to tank, too, but hey, good luck to Wilkinson and her team of illiberal oppressors.

NB: again with the clickbait-y thumbnail. Sarah Sanders didn't "get revenge" because she's not the one who deliberately orchestrated the restaurant's downfall. At best, it's a case of "Sarah Sanders Feels Schadenfreude as The Red Hen Collapses." But even that seems false given what Sanders says in the video above. She might be guilty of feeling a hint of grim satisfaction, but that's about it. She doesn't strike me as vindictive. I would be, in her place.



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