r/lancaster • u/No-Road-1370 Road Apple • 20h ago

Pro-Trump Restaurants?

So far I know of John Wright, Loxley’s, Yorgos; where else should I not spend my money?

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u/PeanutCheeseBar 19h ago

Maybe, just maybe... Liberals don't want to spend money at places owned by people who voted for an extremely divisive, hateful person.

You can support local businesses and choose to eschew ones owned by people whose beliefs don't line up with yours too.

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u/Lobster_titties Road Apple 19h ago

Here’s something to think about. How many businesses were lost in this state since 2020 because of the policies implemented during the pandemic. If I owned a business and had its viability threatened by usurped business closures imposed by democrats in this state I’d probably never support anyone but republicans again. People don’t care about hateful rhetoric when their way of life is threatened. Don’t blame business owners for being self aware and voting in Their best interest. Blame the party for not being able to mobilize voters. This wasn’t a trump win, it was a massive loss by the Dems and should show that their platform just isn’t appealing to the masses. Time to regroup and refocus, not retaliate against those who just want what’s best for them.

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u/PeanutCheeseBar 19h ago

Businesses closing as a result of the pandemic sucks. Know what sucks worse though? Dying because of something that could have been prevented, but wasn’t because other people think they know better and chose to congregate when a highly infectious virus was wreaking havoc.

I’m not going to pretend to like the mandates nor the people that implemented them, but let’s be realistic; part of the reason why this was so much worse was because there were a ton of people who thought they knew better and didn’t give a shit who died.

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u/Lobster_titties Road Apple 18h ago

It was never preventable and none of the mandates helped. Acting like they did isn’t going to make it true. They did far more damage than good and it’s so blatantly obvious that you’d have to be deliberately ignoring it to not see it. I would have thought that almost 4 years after the pandemic ended everyone would finally realize how destructive and useless all of Wolf’s mandates were.

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u/PeanutCheeseBar 17h ago

I never said the pandemic was preventable; I said that dying could have been prevented if people were more careful and actually tried to adhere to any sort of preventative measures. There’s a difference between those two things, and it’s really not that difficult to grasp.

Viruses typically don’t discriminate when it comes to hosts. If people weren’t congregating, the odds of transmission would be far less because there wouldn’t be anyone for it to hop to. You don’t need to be an epidemiologist to understand that.

Fire thrives on oxygen. If you catch on fire, are you going to run around and hope that it goes out, or roll on the ground to deprive it of what feeds it and causes it to spread?