VP and Presidential candidate Kamala Harris visited a spice shop in Pittsburgh over the weekend and apparently Republicans are triggered by the event, with a number of negative reviews flooding the store’s Yelp page as well as social media.
It’s unknown which Fox News reporter was searching for spices, but apparently they found more than they bargained for on the Pittsburgh shop’s website.
Weird Florida Republican Laura Loomer piled on as well, with claims that the emotional encounter at the spice shop was staged.
The Penzeys website has an “About Republicans” page, penned by CEO Bill Penzey, in which he says there is “no way to respect the nonsense the Republican Party is promoting and have any hope of overcoming the problems we as a nation and we as a planet face.”
The page on the shop’s website is worth reading in its entirety, but some snippets I’ll share.
- The Republican departure from conservative values and embrace of what, from a distance, looks a whole lot like insanity didn’t happen by chance. All of it has been intelligently crafted with the goal of preserving the position of those who profit from the inhumanity that is at the very roots of pretty much every problem we are facing. From the environment, to racism/discrimination, to health, to saving our democracy at home and growing it abroad, half the time Republicans are intentionally blocking the solution to the problems we face. The other half of the time they are the problem we face.
- The truth of our time is we’ve arrived at the point where there’s no way to respect the nonsense the Republican Party is promoting and have any hope of overcoming the problems we as a nation and we as a planet face. Given the choice between saving America and planet Earth or saving the feelings of Republican voters, we are choosing to side with saving our country and our world. I’m sorry it’s come to this.
- Remember when your distrust of big city types, and your deep rooted beliefs in paying your debts, respecting your marriage, raising kids willing to serve, honoring your word, and going to church every week had you voting for Donald Trump over Joe Biden all because Biden’s son had a computer? Or how you couldn’t vote for Hillary because she was over-prepared and used emails?
- Going forward we would still be glad to have you as customers, but we’re done pretending the Republican Party’s embrace of cruelty, racism, Covid lies, climate change denial, and threats to democracy are anything other than the risks they legitimately are. If you need us to pretend you are not creating the hurt you are creating in order for you to continue to be our customer, I’m sad to say you might be happier elsewhere.
- We can and will work without Republicans to solve the problems we face, but it sure would be nice to get back to a time where Republicans were equal defenders of equality, the environment, and democracy. We look forward to that day.
“People are exhausted about the division and the attempts to kind of divide as Americans, and them [Penzeys] stepping up to make this public statement, I think is courageous, but also for people like the folks I was just talking with, it really reinforces that we love our country and have more in common than what separates us,” Harris said to reporters after her visit to Penzeys, according to the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette.
