Posted on 12/21/2024 5:32:51 AM PST by mbrfl
Menomale Pizza owner Mariya Rusciano joins ‘The Faulkner Focus’ to explain the controversy surrounding her shop after they congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his election win.
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I grew up hearing my grandmother exclaim “menomale!” And she made good pizza.
She’s in D.C. It’s a stupid business move to do that. She should have pretended to be “woke” instead.
It’s only a stupid business move if the woke-sters succeed. But the culture is changing, and conservatives can fight back with their wallets too.
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Wrong!
Stop being weak!
This is the exact bullying that conservatives have lived with for years.
Accessible location near New York & Florida Aves, Northeast. I’ve passed it often. Now I know where to stop in.
All she did was define her clientele. Here in Redmond Oregon, I go to a barbershop that accepts cash only, displays a large picture of John Wayne as you enter, and prominently posts a sign encouraging clients to bring their guns. We chose our favorite breakfast place as the one whose waiters wore shirts that said “we will not comply” when the governor decreed everyone had to wear masks.
That’s a good target for us. It’s a couple of miles north of us on the other side of New York Avenue and the railyards, but Brookland is still in our reasonably near range. It looks to be in an area that is of considerable interest to me. The Rhode Island Avenue corridor is coming back to life, as are the historically battered corridors along the rail lines running north and east out of the rail yards.
Brookland used to be one of those middle class neighborhoods hanging on by its fingernails; it was always too close to Catholic University to collapse entirely, and there’s nothing wrong with the basic housing stock. It started to rebound in a big way when Capitol Hill got expensive and people started migrating to the nearest affordable middle class bunker, which in this case is just to the north. It’s come a long way in the last 20 years. It’s not yet as expensive as Capitol Hill has become, and as you move north and east through Brookland, the rowhouses give way to single family detached homes, and they are a lot larger. Parts of Brookland are quite gracious.
This is on 12th street, the main drag through Brookland. It is a half mile south of 12th and Monroe, which is the heart of Brookland’s neighborhood main street, just across the tracks from Catholic University and the Brookland-CUA metro stop. It looks like a neighborhood joint relying on walk-in traffic from locals. I’ll see if the wife wants to try a new pizza place.
I wasn’t familiar with this place. I used to take 12th street all the time if returning to the Hill from the north, but in recent years I’ve taken to sneaking down on 9th, just because it feels funkier to hug the railroad tracks. And there’s no traffic, whereas 12th is busy. I have grown fond of my little “secret” cut through routes that confuse even the locals. It’s fun to get off the beaten track and watch how the neighborhoods change.
Yeah, DC votes 90 percent plus for the dark side, but this is Brookland. At least some of the Catholics are Republicans, as are the small businessmen, many of the professionals, and a fair percentage of gentrifiers.
Interesting. Thanks for the background info.
Nope… how much pizza can she make each day? She can get plenty of Republican business. And the perverts can have ping pong child buggering pizza.
We love Redmond, having played the fair there for nearly 30 years. Knew many of the Fair Board members personally over the years including the Fair Manager. Started out on the old fairgrounds downtown and of course moved to the other one out by the airport. Even considered moving there in the late 90s. Moved to Butte County, Northern California instead....
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Surely you gest... NY & Florida Ave N.E. is not as safe as Mogadishu...
All restaurants who publicly come out against DJT should be on the “do not do business with” list for all Fed employees. Similarly, this outfit needs to feed every conference until the end of 2025.
Surely you gest ... BATF headquarters is right there at the Intersection of New York & Florida. How could the neighborhood possibly be any safer?:)
It’s one of the ugliest intersections in DC because it is a monument to the car uber alles mindset of city planners back when New York Avenue was turned into a commuter sewer. There is a large FedEx Shipping Center there that I’ve used sometimes. That was also the site of the intergalactically famous Dave Thomas circle, which was a traffic nightmare. That has now been eliminated, and in the long run, getting rid of the perpetual traffic jam can only help. I like most of our traffic circles. I generally favor keeping the circles and getting rid of the cars. But Dave Thomas circle was an exception — although I sometimes did stop at the Wendy’s if it was late enough that the traffic had cleared. You know ... like the middle of the night. Anyplace with a Wendy’s can’t be all bad.
I’ve long since given up on New York Avenue. At this point, I’d turn it back into a normal city street, taking traffic lanes away for wide sidewalks and bike lanes, or perhaps a streetcar or trolley line in some fantasy future if and when a light rail system is ever restored. For the cars, put stop signs at every intersection and tell the commuters to leave their cars at home and take the train, or live closer to their jobs. We used to have some very pleasant trolley line suburbs that were destroyed by car addicted planners. There are a lot of surviving pockets that could prosper again if we could undo some past planning blunders.
Move BATF to the south side of Chicago and put it in an inner city neighborhood half a mile away from the nearest subway stop. Provide no employee parking and tell employees that they had to walk from the subway or take a bus. If DOGE ever gets around to relocating agencies, that would be a good place to start. I wouldn’t put most agencies in urban hellholes, but for BATF and HUD, I’d make an exception.
The pizza place in this story is a couple of ecosystems away in Brookland. Microhabitat is everything in the city.
I’m familiar with the area for my entire long life.
Thanks for your take on it, sphinx. While there is literally no place in America that is safe, in that we have been having a long "cold civil war", some places are still just okay. Looked hard at Brookland 20 years ago and kind of wish I had bought something then. What ticked me off was an anti-gentrifying sign on a lawn claiming the area was "historically black." LOL! I had generations of white relatives in NE going back to before the Civil War and until the MLK riots. Others have lived in other parts of DC proper and the near suburbs until the present day.
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