Posted on 06/22/2018 8:06:26 AM PDT by texas booster
Amanda Werner‘s friend was dining at MXDC when he recognized none other than Kirstjen Nielsen at the sleek downtown Mexican restaurant—just a day after the Department of Homeland Security Secretary defended the separation of children from their parents at the border.
He immediately texted Werner: “DHS Secretary Nielsen is having dinner at MXDC. Can you tweet on your account? Get activists here.” He sent a snapshot of the Trump Cabinet member in a black suit checking her phone at a nearby table.
Werner, who identifies as transmasculine and uses they/them pronouns, is a campaign strategist for legal advocacy group Public Justice. But in the past year, Werner has also made a hobby out of confronting the rich and powerful. Last October, they went viral after dressing up as the Monopoly Man and photo-bombing the CEO of Equifax during a Senate hearing about the company’s data breach. More recently, they showed up as a Russian troll at the congressional hearing for Mark Zuckerberg.
Werner’s protests are mostly solo, but they texted at least 20 friends, messaged another 15 or so on Facebook, reached out to a couple organizing groups, and blasted the Nielsen sighting out on Twitter. Members of Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America seized on the call to action and rallied its members and followers to meet at the restaurant and confront Nielsen.
Encountering powerful and controversial people shopping for groceries, dining at restaurants, or hitting up SoulCycle has always been a normal facet of DC life. And for the most part, there’s an unspoken code that we allow them to go about their daily lives uninterrupted.
Within about ten minutes, others started to show up. In total, the protest included about a dozen people, Werner says. Among them was Margaret McLaughlin, a member of MDCDSA’s steering committee.
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...“We ran out of chants, so we eventually were like, well, I think we’ve made our point, they’re not going to come, I guess we should leave at some point,” Werner says.
For his part, Safi, the owner, has tried to remain diplomatic. He notes that the place has long hosted a lot of high-ranking government officials from both parties. “We respect their privacy. We accommodate them, and they like that. They feel like a normal customer,” he says. “We welcome everyone.”
Safi says his first concern was safety. There were some families, including kids in high chairs, in the dining room during the protest. At one point, someone did call the police, but he isn’t sure if it was his staff, Secret Service, or someone else. But he says it was quickly evident that the protest was peaceful.
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I never saw elsewhere that the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America was involved. Sounds typical of childish trust fund kiddies and young adults that are raised in a bubble.
DC Just voted for a $15 minimum wage (including waiters) ... Restaurant’s probably gonna close soon
That sentence alone put me over the edge.
I wonder if I should devote a lunchtime to protesting these protesters, when I visit Dc in a couple of weeks?
ahhhh for the good old days when they sent 18yr olds 10,000 miles away trained and ready to eliminate communists. Sometimes those goals actually made sense, maybe it’s getting close again but not 10,000 miles away but walking down our own streets and usually displaying their communist affiliations with signs & masks instead of hiding in black pyjamas among the population.
The City Council is working to cancel the voters’ intent in this new law, so I expect that it will continue to generate headlines for newspapers all over town.
Don’t forget to not leave a tip at any restaurant.
Woe unto he/she/they/them who disrupts my meal.
Forcing people to leave before eating and disrupting others in the restaurant is deemed "not harming anyone"? I disagree.
i stopped reading at transmasculine.
That restaurant needs to go out of business.
WTH is a “transmasculine”?????????
So “they” are not an individual but more than one person? Do “they” get to create their own grammar, and we’re all to indulge them in their madness, on pain of prosecution or civil action? I’m glad I live in a normal part of the country.
I guess because "they" is confused everybody else needs to be confused as well.
The media is ginning up this violence, there is enough stupid people to take their message and run with it. It's how ISIS recruits forlorn and hopeless people into their ranks
I am trying to figure out what “transmasculine” means? A poofter that things he’s alpha? I stopped reading at that point as well.
Using government time and resources is not a 'personal' action and 'verbal assaults' on private property during a contractual event (ordering a meal) is not a 'valid protest' as I understand it. Am I wrong?
warm up the helicopter
” the DOJ employee (as in the rank ‘n file) who used government records, at work, to verify their target’s meal location? “
First I’ve head of that. Can you point the way to a link with more details?
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