They that sow the jerk, shall reap the jerkwind

In a move sure to elicit outrage from the sort of people who love to feel outraged, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave the Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington Virginia. Why? Well in her own words...well, her own Tweet:

You do your best to treat people with respect? Really? Wow,
and I mean this constructively, but maybe try just a little harder?

Pictured: The Red Hen. Not pictured,
the shabby chic interior and mason jars
repurposed as glasses. I'm just guessing.

Ok, some background here. The Red Hen is a farm-to-table restaurant which, I don't want to make any broad generalizations here, but is kind of a millennial thing for people who care about things like organic food, carbon footprints and how non-GMO the grass their steaks were fed was so right off the bat I'm a little confused. As a member of the current administration, I would have had her pegged for someone who goes to a place that serves exclusively endangered animals or lets you slaughter your own cow, but that's just my own baggage talking.

Ok, but if Wilkinson hadn't asked her to
leave, is there any way, any way at all that
ther meal wouldn't have been 13% spit?

Anyway, upon seeing the Press Secretary enter with her party, the staff-who are unsurprisingly not fans of hers, called the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, and asked her what they should do. Should they prepare a fresh, organic and sustainable farm-to-table meal for a woman who makes a career out of lying to our collective faces, or just ask her to leave. Wilkinson came down personally and explained to Huckabee Sanders: "...that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation." 

She then asked Sanders to leave, which she did, and now her restaurant has two and a half stars on Yelp. Partly because Yelp is objective garbage, but also because thousands of people are furious about the way the Press Secretary was treated.

10,963 reviews...for a place that seats 30,
opened in 2008 and is located in a town of 7,000.

"Any of you idiots disagree
with me? Show of hands? Oh..."

-Sanders Huckabee

So I have some questions. I know her response was on twitter, so tone and facial expression are lost, but when Huckabee Sanders typed 'I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully' do you suppose she was able to keep a straight face? Like, we're a week out from that time she was, super rude to reporter Jim Accosta-with whom she disagrees-while explaining to him how Biblical the President's policy of separating children from their parents is. And remember that time she called for the firing of an ESPN host who disagrees with her?

Or, and this is my favorite, that time she insultingly suggested that CNN reporter April Ryan had her mind in the gutter when Ryan asked her if one of the President's gross, sexually suggestive tweets was in fact gross and sexually suggestive?

Above: Sarah Huckabee Sanders respecting the shit out of the White House Press corps.

"What did I do to deserve this
 treatment? Huh? No, I'm not being
ironic. Why would you ask me that?"

And do you suppose she was, while politely leaving The Red Hen, making any sort of connection between the treatment she experienced and the treatment gay people have faced when buying a wedding cake? You know, the very same treatment her boss and her party routinely defend as being the right of Americans to discriminate based on their personal convictions? I don't know if it was right or wrong for Stephanie Wilkinson to throw Huckabee Sanders out of her fancy hipster restaurant, but I do know that I don't have much in the way of sympathy for her.

Pictured: a box full of all
the respect due in this situation.

Like this is not the same thing as actual discrimination. She wasn't kicked out of a restaurant because of her race or sexual orientation. She was booted because the owner of the restaurant regards her as the hostile spin doctor for the smirking, thin-skinned man-baby the electoral college foisted upon us. Well, that and because she is, and I mean this with all due respect, kind of a jerk. A very public jerk, who works for an even bigger jerk who's also a racist and wants to take our healthcare away.

Have you tried not
supporting a fascist?

Speaking of people who work for public jerks, did you see this story about how Trump staffers are being socially ostracized in D.C.? They're facing something similar to what happen to the Press Secretary, getting attacked on social media, heckled in the streets and nobody wants to date them. Which, what did they expect? This is an administration that makes it a policy to call women liars, especially ones accusing the President of sexual assault.

It's like not showering. Sure, it's your right, but don't act surprised and victimized if people don't want to hang out with you. These staffers have a choice. They don't have to work for the President, they choose to. So does Sarah Huckabee Sanders. So does everybody in the White House. And that's not something that's going to wash off easily.

Speaking of, he's really got to stop hugging flags.
Spray tan and hair spray doesn't come out.