So the owner of a small ramen
noodle restaurant in
San Antonio discovered on Sunday
that his restaurant was vandalized
a few days after he spoke out on
CNN about how he's opposing
Governor Abbott's new mandates, or
at least his removal of mask
mandates in the state and
opening everything up.
So in his CNN appearance he did
criticize Abbott and
it appears to be the reason why his
establishment was tagged with
things like no mask, kung flu,
a few other racial [LAUGH]
declarations on his building.
And it also delayed him reopening
his his restaurant by an hour or so
or maybe a couple hours when he was
really supposed to open.
But first let's see what he had to
say on CNN that got
him this kind of response.
>> The governor and
others will say listen, we have
small business owners' backs here.
But you're saying, and
you've said you've heard similar
from other business owners,
that and is it that customers would
prefer to some degree that
you keep the mask mandate up?
In other words they'd be
more comfortable coming with masks
than without,
is that what you're finding?
>> Absolutely, I will say that
the governor doesn't have us Texans
interests at play at this point, I
think it's more all about personal
interest.
I think his decision to drop
the mask mandate is selfish,
cowardly, and that there's no
reason to do it, that dropping
the mask mandate will not help
the economy, will not help us open.
And a lot of us feel that he's
putting a lot of us in danger,
at a time where we need him to be
a leader he's not being a leader.
>> That restaurant owner is also
fighting currently, and so
when he mentions the danger of
opening up without any
of these regulations in place,
that's what he was talking about.
So also, you would think that maybe
people have,
that were upset about vandalism may
also be upset about this vandalism.
Tucker Carlson did have something
to say about vandalism and
the kind of people that like to tag
people's businesses just last year,
let's remember that.
>> They get to ignore the rules,
they don't believe in order or
fairness, they reject society
itself.
Reason, and process, and
precedent mean nothing to them,
they use violence to get what they
want immediately.
People like this don't bother to
work, they don't volunteer or
pay taxes to help other people.
They live for themselves, they do
exactly what they feel like doing.
They say exactly what they
feel like saying, they spray paint
their opinions on buildings.
On television hour by hour
we watch these people,
criminal mobs, destroy
what the rest of us have built,
they have no right to do that.
They don't contribute to the common
good, they never have.
>> Imagine if he said that about
the folks that did this.
Lastly, some of the things written
on there, as I was saying,
was kung flu, commie,
hope you die, and ramen noodle flu.
Sure, sure Cenk.
>> Yeah, so the owner's Asian, as
you could tell from the interview.
And imagine if we had said the same
things that Tucker Carlson did,
which is look, they're spray
painting their opinion on walls
like we gotta listen to them.
This is something the rest of us
built, okay, ignorant right wingers
who don't work for a living, who
are bums and don't believe in law
and order obviously by definition,
look at what they did to
the guy's building,
destroying private property.
No, no, no, these are thugs,
these right wingers, and
so it's totally unacceptable.
They'd be like how could you,
those are right wingers,
those are real Americans,
not like black people.
I mean,
black people are only protesting
getting killed unjustly when they
had no weapons.
Whereas the right wingers
are protesting eating ramen noodles
while endangering everyone else's
life.
But wait a minute, wait,
one side's trying to save lives,
the other side is endangering lives
and breaking the law to do so.
And funny enough, it turns out
the right wing is on the side of
the people actually endangering
lives and who dare to put their
opinions on a building and
destroy private property.
What kind of commie right wingers
are these people?
>> You won't find the logic in it,
Cenk, it's just not going to work
out for you.
It doesn't even matter because it's
the redirection that we've always
seen, talk about what's going on
over there while you go ahead and
do it, and then maybe hopefully
your supporters will buy it.
And I guess it works,
because Tucker Carlson is going to
run for president.