The Cancel Culture Community™ is at it again. This time, their target is the McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania where former President Donald Trump worked for a day to take a jab at his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
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The move caused a massive mental meltdown among leftists on the airwaves and interwebs because of course it did. Now, some on the left have taken a rather bizarre tactic to punish the restaurant.
As RedState’s Brad Slager wrote Monday:
This event was obviously arranged to play off of Kamala’s claimed vocational past, a twist of the political knife, and having a laugh at her expense. The media, as expected, took to the cameras and keyboards to lambaste this appearance, and in the process, they exposed their own bias and contempt. These journalists sound like consumer activists who vow to be heard by downvoting a restaurant on Yelp.
Slager must have had his political crystal ball at the ready when he wrote that piece, because the Yelp strategy is precisely the plan of attack leftists took after Trump’s visit.
A McDonald’s location in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, that hosted former president Donald Trump on October 20 has had its Yelp reviews disabled after attracting a flurry of politicized comments.
Yelp told CBS MoneyWatch it decided to block new reviews for the McDonald’s location because it wants to ensure that user comments reflect “genuine, firsthand” experiences with businesses. Yelp placed an “unusual activity alert” on the Feasterville, PA-based restaurant’s page on the afternoon of October 21.
About 145 new reviews had already been posted prior to that, although Trump only served food to pre-selected supporters in five cars on Sunday. Otherwise, the restaurant, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was closed to the public that morning.
Trump’s appearance at the restaurant, where he donned an apron and worked the drive-thru, sparked some controversy, prompting McDonald’s Corp. to emphasize this was not a presidential endorsement. A sign on the door from the franchise owner and operator acknowledged they are nonpartisan, adding that they proudly serve everyone.
The same cannot be said of some reviewers on Yelp, who took distinctly partisan views on Trump’s appearance at the location.
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One reviewer complained about a “Senile old man working fries without proper restaurant hygiene.”
Another expressed concerns about “Felons working the window here with access to your credit cards and cash.”
Unfortunately for these left-leaning basement dwellers, Yelp shut down their efforts to smear the restaurant:
For its part, Yelp said its decision to disable comments is due to its goal of ensuring genuine reviews for its users.
“Consumer trust is one of our top priorities, which is why Yelp makes significant investments in technology and human moderation to protect the integrity and quality of content on our platform,” it said.
“When we see the activity dramatically decrease or stop, our moderators will clean up the page so reviews describing only firsthand consumer experiences are reflected.”
But here’s the thing: Don’t leftists always claim to champion the causes of folks who work at McDonald’s and other minimum wage jobs? Aren’t they always advocating for raising the minimum wage so that fry cooks can earn better salaries?
If this is the case, why would they try to cancel a restaurant employing these individuals? Do their jobs not matter?
If these people had succeeded and the restaurant had to lay off some employees or even shut down altogether, it would have had a negative impact on the workers they claim to care about. Once again, Democrats are putting their hypocrisy on full display. If I didn’t know any better, I might be tempted to believe they don’t care at all about the people they claim to fight for and are just exploiting them as political tools.
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