The one thing that is the unfailing constant in this world, regardless of current events, is the childish projection and temper tantrums of the progressive left.

I don't know what in their childhoods gave...no, that's the wrong word. What ingrained in them that their every need must be met, their every wish satisfied, that life had to unfold before them exactly in the manner of their choosing, or they were entitled to spazz completely - and publicly - until whatever irked them was changed to their satisfaction.

Does it matter if people completely unassociated with the source or pseudo-justification for their frustration are impacted by the actions they take in response to being aggrieved by some perceived slight or injustice in life?

Nah.

That ambulance can wait as these resisters block the highway for, say, butchers in Gaza or a newly sainted career criminal who died as a result of his own actions and/or the toll years of drug abuse takes on a body.

Besides, it's fun acting out. It's liberating to be a complete ass and a bully in a crowd of like little minds.

Lemmings find it easy to convince themselves that their asinine, offensive, and sometimes life-threatening behavior - on behalf of either fully fraudulent or outright criminal causes - is STUNNING!, BRAVE! and so smugly righteous.

Last go 'round, after the 2016 election, Trump officials were routinely treated to the upscale but totally low rent progressive version of 'We don't want your kind around here.'

Unwilling to accept that there was a new administration in town, people who worked for it were harassed in restaurants across the city. 

In some frightening instances, Trump officials and their families were trapped in restaurants by protestors who cared not a whit about what their actions were doing to other patrons who also had a right to dine unmolested, regardless of who might be eating alongside them.

The activists heckled Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at the eatery near the White House.

....Her security detail kept the demonstrators from approaching too near her table at the back of the restaurant.

The activists shouted: "How do you sleep at night?"

"If kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace."

"Do you hear the babies crying?"

"Aren't you a mother, too?"

There was the famous case of Sarah Huckabee Sanders pretentiously being asked to leave a tony Lexington establishment with her family simply because of who she worked for. The stench was too much for the progressive wait staff and co-owner to bear.

...A co-owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, asked Ms Sanders and her family to leave as a protest against the Trump administration.

Ms Sanders tweeted that "her actions say far more about her than about me".

Stephanie Wilkinson said she believed Ms Sanders worked for an "inhumane and unethical" administration.

She told the Washington Post that she decided to ask the Trump spokeswoman to leave the 26-seat, "farm-to-table" restaurant after talking to her staff.

"Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave," she said she told them. "They said yes."

SO STUNNING - SO BRAVE

...Ms Wilkinson said that she asked Ms Sanders to talk to her outside before explaining "that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation".

She said Ms Sanders immediate response was: "'That's fine. I'll go.'"

As opposed to Sarah's pure class.

The Red Hen closed for two weeks after the storm, which erupted in response to their discriminatory actions. Afterward, when a reporter from the lefty Tampa Bay Times traveled to Lexington to check in on the restaurant, he was asked to please "not disturb the guests as they dined."

Another hallmark of progressives is a willful blindness to their ingrained blazing hypocrisy. It was perfectly acceptable for the Red Hen owners to throw diners out based purely on #feelz, so it logically follows one may not disturb the chosen ones who were deemed fit to be seated.

(In a 'now for something completely different' switcheroo, that restaurant has since closed and reopened, but with the same owners so...)

Chasing Trump officials became a progressive sport that was unfettered by any sense of responsibility for curbing this behavior from Democratic leadership.

It was, in point of fact, actively encouraged by senior Democrats using the most dangerous and inflammatory language imaginable.

Two senior Trump administration officials were heckled at restaurants. A third was denied service. Florida GOP Attorney General Pam Bondi required a police escort away from a movie about Mister Rogers after activists yelled at her in Tampa — where two other Republican lawmakers say they were also politically harassed last week, one of them with her kids in tow.

In the Donald Trump era, the left is as aggressively confrontational as at any time in recent memory.

What it means for 2018 — whether it portends a blue wave of populist revolt for Democrats or a red wall of silent majority resistance from Republicans — largely depends on one’s political persuasion. But there’s a bipartisan sense that this election season marks another inflection point in the collapse of civil political discourse.

Few disagree that Democrats are marching, protesting and confronting Republican officials with more intensity during the midterm elections than at any time in decades. The progressive fervor recalls conservative opposition to the previous president in his first midterm, when Democratic members of Congress were left running from disruptive town halls and ended up being crushed at the polls in November.

“If you see anybody from that Cabinet — in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station — you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” implored California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters at a Saturday rally, prompting an immediate conservative backlash on social media.

As even-handed as Caputo normally is, the piece above equates Democrats "running from disruptive town halls" with individual Trump officials and their families being repeatedly confronted, threatened, and sometimes pursued when out and about on personal business.

Not at all the same-same.

Classically, things changed when Biden took over. Yes, there were protests in the streets - all leftists, naturally. But Biden officials have been able to eat unmolested by interruptions when and where they choose.

Republicans are polite that way. We always have been. 

For one thing, no one wants a screaming, smelly harpie hanging over the table for a meal they're paying a premium for when trying to relax a little.

For another, there are other diners to consider, as well as the restaurant business itself. Why are other diners expected to indulge your hissy fit, and the staff and owner absorb the losses your ill-mannered, noisy incursion cost them? 

The staff works hard for what they get while owning a restaurant is thankless and hugely expensive.

That was part of Trump's calculations when he announced he would attempt to pull the taxes off of tips workers receive.

It's a handsome gesture and could be quite a boon for waitstaff from fly-over country diners to D.C. Michelin-rated places.

But the children of the progressive movement in the nation's capital are more intent on their resistance movement and were busy talking smack earlier this week.

According to these bold predictions, Trump officials will again have dining difficulties in D.C. 

'TAKING OUR POWER BACK': Food workers in Washington, D.C., are pledging to refuse service and cause other inconveniences for members of the incoming Trump administration when they dine out over the next four years. https://t.co/FtwAp8dCCm pic.twitter.com/eFlVnmxRWE

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 13, 2024

Lord, these petulant, entitled, delusional screechers are so tiresome. 

..."This person theoretically has the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your entrée," Nancy, a fine-dining bartender, told the Washingtonian.

"There’s a lot of opportunities for us as workers to feel like we’re taking our power back, while not necessarily ruining someone’s life. Giving them a subtle inconvenience feels like a little bit of a win for us," she continued.

Nancy said she would refuse service to certain Trump officials. If her employer tried to force her, she claimed she would quit "on the spot."

"There is power in making it known that you’re not comfortable with a situation, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be this big dramatic show," she said. "It’s just little bits of resistance that add up, and little bits of resistance that other people will see and hopefully feel empowered to stand on those convictions as well."

Resistance to what you addlepated poltroon?

"I'd like a cheeseburger, please."

NO! I'M RESISTING YOU!

Infants.

I think it would be awesome if this Nancy person didn't have a chance to quit. What would be cool is if her employer saw this little interview, realized who it was talking and fired her before she had the opportunity to sabotage the restaurant. 

It would also be smart business because restaurants in D.C. in 2024/5 are not what they were when testy, trendy children pulled this act in 2018.

The city itself is fugly with crime and decay, and, at the moment, the 2023 dining scene reflects that decline since the carnage from '24 hasn't been toted up yet.

More D.C. restaurants closed this year than last, and some were longtime establishments that hold sentimental value for locals.

Dozens of area restaurants close every year, a byproduct of a dense industry with low profit margins. But more have closed this year compared to the last two years, according to the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW). And not as many restaurants opened as did those previous two years, per RAMW, though there were still more openings this year than closures.

Approximately 52 restaurants closed in the District in 2023, compared to 48 in 2022 and 40 in 2021. And 72 restaurants opened in the city in the last year, compared to 74 openings in 2022 and 77 in 2021. Even when 100 restaurants closed in 2015, more than double opened that year. The trade association representing hundreds of local businesses sees a concerning downward trend in the rate of restaurant openings compared to closings.

Restaurant owners are facing a lot of challenges right now — including higher costs for goods and labor and fewer patrons looking to eat out–so people are more hesitant of continuing to operate or more skeptical of starting a business, says RAMW President Shawn Townsend. Some factors complicating an owner’s operation are specific to the District, like increased crime, less foot traffic in downtown, and Initiative 82, which will eventually phase out tipped minimum wage.

“At some point the dust will settle,” Townsend tells DCist/WAMU. “Things will get back to some type of new normal.”

A simple Google search tells a sad tale. It should hammer home the point to anyone but Nancy and her pea-brained friends...

...that having a good paying gig at a popular D.C. dining spot is something to hang on to with both hands.

Then again, that would require some basic good manners and rational thought processes.

Who am I kidding?

Progressives choose to act instinctively like crabby two-year-olds with torpedoes.

Note to Nancy and fellow screechers: the 2025 reaction to 2018 tactics?

Best reflect before you resist.