Monday, August 18, 2014

Ironic Pizza

Maria's Pizzaria [sic] is a local pizza joint on the south side of Milwaukee.  Even though I live relatively close to the place, I never heard of it until this week, when it was reported that the owner had a Scott Walker yard sign in her front yard.

When it became public knowledge, it raised quite a ruckus.  There were calls from the left for people to not patronize the place.  Predictably, the right stopped their calls to boycott Penzey's Spices long enough to circle their pizza cutters around Maria's, decrying how awful it is that the left use right wing tactics against them.

Maria's Pizzaria [sic] took to their Facebook page to thank people for their spurt of support and to deny that the business is in the business of politics. While they did not serve up any pizza with their statement, they did serve up a big slice of irony when they ended with this paragraph:
What Maria's does support is freedom of choice and the ability to practice your own views and express your identity freely without persecution. We think that's something all of us can agree is a great thing! If you would like to make a difference in your community there are many more viable options for you that won't affect small business or the economy of Milwaukee negatively.
Actually, there are two points of extreme irony in that paragraph.

The first is when they claim that they support freedom of choice and the freedom of speech without persecution.  

May I remind you that this is from the same people who support Walker, who has used the recall petition as a basis for whether someone gets a job.  These are the same people who support Walker, who has gone after anyone that speaks out against him, like Professor William Cronon and yours truly.  Or that these people, by supporting Walker, also support his attacks on unions and his limiting their members' rights to express themselves.

Apparently, the owners of Maria's Pizzaria [sic] only support these freedoms for themselves and the rest of us can just shove a pepperoni up our backsides.

The greater irony comes as they mewl about options that won't affect small businesses or the economy of Milwaukee.

As has been repeatedly shown, they are supporting Walker and his agenda which has done more damage to their survival than any disorganized boycott could ever hope to do.  They are supporting Walker's agenda that takes spending money out of the pockets of the people who are most likely to be their customers, thereby hurting their own business at the same time.  Odds are that the people most likely to boycott their business don't even have the money to spend their in the first place.

The other point they miss with this argument is that they are by far not the only local pizzeria in town.  Even if people did have the extra cash that they could spend on an overpriced pizza like Maria's, they could go to any number of other local pizzerias, thereby still supporting small businesses and Milwaukee's economy.

And based on the online reviews of the place - even from their political supporters - one would be better off going somewhere else anyway.

15 comments:

  1. Always enjoy watching you and your fellow LW nutters whine about Walker. That alone tells me the Governor, and his agenda, are successful at making Wisconsin a more business-friendly state. Can't wait to see Right To Work enacted in 2015 after he and the WI GOP retain, not just the Governorship, but the Senate and Assembly.

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    1. You can tell how successful we are by the lack of jobs. Apparently no one has told the businesses that we are open.

      You can also tell the love of republicans by their incessant need to draw partisan lines and suppress voting.

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    2. Ha ha yeah real "business friendly" state. That's why so many businesses in WI are closing up shop, moving away and/or doing poorly. And unless you're wealthy, "Right to Work" would put the state even further into the sewer. You idiot.. keep on supporting the criminal asshole governor.

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    3. That's right, it is all the "nutters" who are against Walker.
      Pull your head out of the posterior part of your anatomy and think about the comment from the moron who owns the pizza place. They support freedom of choice when it comes to politics, but people should not stop going to their business if they CHOOSE not to because of their political beliefs.
      Unlike the owners, I do believe in the right to have "political choice", and this applies both ways. If a business is that flipping stupid that they put out a sign in the support of Walker, then I have a right to never spend any of the money I have left at Maria's, after it was basically stolen from me because of Walker. As a matter of fact, just because they are really that stupid, I don't trust them to be able to make a pizza.

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    4. The retarded left is at it again, good to see you dimwits started this boycott because as usual the union failed at what they try and the place has been bursting with customers. Just amazing how stupid union members are, they can never do anything right except whine, cry and look like fools

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    5. What an intellectual, rational and coherent argument you present!

      Ask Serb Hall how well their anti-union stance worked for them.

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  2. ^^that's funny. I can't wait to see Walker indicted just like Rick Perry.

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  3. Anon at 7:35,

    If you were remotely conservative, you'd understand the real "job creators," are consumers with money to spend.

    Capitalism runs on sales.

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    1. You got that right. And consumers have the right to say "I'm not giving my money to someone who supports that jerk off."

      Between this and their confusion about why so many teachers are leaving the profession after having their take-home pay cut, it sure seems like righties don't understand that the "free market" can work both ways. Simpletons

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  4. In 40 years of eating at Maria's I never heard one word of political discussion, nor had I seen any signs posted inside or outside. Now a sign on her home's front lawn means I'm not supposed eat there any more? I've had Obama, Moore, Clinton, etc. signs on my lawn. If my mailman is a GOPer is he supposed skip my mail? This is America where one has the right to be an idiot when it comes to lawn signs without it affecting your livelihood. She serves a cracker crust pizza much better than Zaffiro's and the pizza may well be the dollar for dollar the best food bargain in Milwaukee. I hate her lawn sign but I will continue rotate my pizza destinations with Filippo's, Transfer, and Maria's, imho Milwaukee's best. You need to step back and reconsider trying to put a 70 something out of business because she doesn't pass your version of a purity test.

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    1. Well said. Maria's pizza is a locally owned family run establishment which is IMHO easily in the Top 3 best pizza places in town. I will support businesses that are LOCAL regardless of differences in political affiliation between myself and the owners. We should not let some of the extreme statements from either the right or the left represent the vast majority of us who tend to fall somewhere in the middle. I judge a business especially a local one, based on the quality of their product, in this case pizza, not on some ideological dogma, That would be stupid, and ignorant. I thought the more left leaning voters would be happy to support LOCAL businesses. Whats wrong with that?

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  5. If I spend money at a business that supports Scott Walker and the republican party, then I'm voting with my dollars to reduce my financial situation even further than these people already have reduced it. This I try to avoid as a true fiscal conservative.

    If a business promotes republicans, or places advertisements on republica talk radio; I boycott the business and encourage others to join me.

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  6. So do I. That is my point. That business did nothing to support Scott Walker. She's doesn't advertise anywhere. She doesn't carry Coke or Pepsi but serves locally owned and made Black Bear soda. She's had a rough personal life and I think she's pretty cool. I believe free speech extends to her lawn. Should her business have such a sign I'd never return but her home lawn is her own business.

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  7. Dear Maria's Pizzeria:
    Your supposed right to force YOUR "choice" on ME, allows me to CHOOSE NOT to eat your pizza. So there.

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  8. Thanks for the heads up about Maria's pizzeria. Count me as a former customer now that she proudly proclaims she is "Standing With Walker". As a member of the Wisconsin Blacklist, I do not support ANY business that "Stands With Walker".

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