Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert from Colorado is about to lose her
gun-themed restaurant, which by the way, has been in the red, does not turn
a profit and it's kinda questionable that it's been operating regardless of that.
But nonetheless, apparently her landlord is kicking her out, giving her the boot.
What are the details?
Well, Boebert said that she and her husband, Jayson Boebert,
had been surprised to receive a notice last week announcing that their lease
would not be renewed.
The building's ownership changed hands last month, she said, and
now Shooters, super clever name for a gun-themed restaurant,
would either have to find new digs or shut down for good.
Now what happened here?
First, I should note that changing owners is a complicated way of
describing it because it's still within the same family, okay?
So the company that took over Shooters building,
that's Milkin Enterprises, was formed days before the purchase.
The two men on the Milkin Enterprises incorporation documents,
Mike miller and Dan Meskin, run a cannabis dispensary, Rifle Remedies,
which until 2019 shared a street address with Shooters.
Shooters had cut its previous rent checks to Dan Meskin's father,
Mike, who owned the building through Meskin Enterprises.
So it's technically different owners, but it's members of the same family basically.
Now Boebert couldn't say or
wouldn't say why they were suddenly being forced out of the building.
She didn't explain exactly why her business was being kicked out.
A person familiar with the arrangement said the property manager felt he had
a moral imperative to close the business and
had planned to lease the space to another restaurant.
And look, as the owner, he does have the right to do it, right?
This isn't the government punishing her for her political speech.
These are capitalists.
These are people who own the building and they're like,
we don't like what you're doing here, we want you out.
Now, Shooters has marketed itself as a Second Amendment-positive business and
get this, where waitresses open carry loaded firearms on their hips and
serve up menu items like Swiss and Wesson sandwich.
Some of those waitresses, however, were too young to carry and
a rare few chose not to, one former worker said.
Good for that one former worker.
But yeah, it's hilarious.
They're having servers break the law when they're underage and
not old enough to carry the weapons that they're carrying, loaded.
Look, I'm not for either one of these situations, right?
But it's one thing to have the aesthetics of a pro-gun restaurant, right?
Maybe they're carrying toy guns or something that look realistic.
It's something entirely different though in my opinion to legit
have loaded guns on you as you're serving food.
What is the point of that?
That's so incredibly irresponsible and stupid.
But I mean it's Lauren Boebert, irresponsible and stupid is her, I mean,
that's her name, it's in her name.
>> Yeah, what I was thinking about is like,
why not have a book themed restaurant, right?
We could use that.
Or maybe a restaurant where you get some free vaccinations or
people can get their blood pressure checked for free or check for diabetes.
>> Aida, come on, Aida.
I love you, Aida.
Ain't nobody going to that restaurant, Aida.
You know it, you know it, girl.
[LAUGH] I love you.
[LAUGH] >> And
what I'm saying is if you really cared about the people, because this is
what that is supposed to be under the banner of caring about the people.
The what you care about is so, I mean,
even people who have guns, hopefully never have to use them.
If you really wanna have a restaurant that's themed after
something with the best interests of the people, your constituency,
why wouldn't you do something that could improve their lives?
She doesn't care about the people.
She cares about the NRA checks.
>> But let's have a little bit of fun while we help the people.
So some suggestions.
So an anti-homeowners association restaurant.
>> Facts. >> You get to vent and
carry out your hatred for the HOA.
It'll help, people need that emotional release and
I feel like maybe we have a restaurant that has that.
By the way, I'm kidding.
All of these ideas are terrible, but I hear what you're saying, right?
If you're going to use your private business,
which I don't think members of Congress should have, honestly,
as they're supposed to be serving the people in general.
But if it's allowed and you're gonna do it and you're gonna make a political
statement through your establishment, why not make a political statement that
doesn't translate to an insane amount of people getting killed on a yearly basis?
Or dying from suicide on a yearly basis because of how laxed we are with our
gun laws?
Everything about politics right now isn't really about substance.
I feel like most of it is about aesthetics.
It's all about identity, right?
And so when we talk about identity politics, it tends to always be in
the context of Democrats wanting to represent specific groups of people,
whether it's the black community, trans community, this and that.
But no, let's not get it twisted.
The right wing is all about ID politics all the time.
They just focus on hating the various groups of people that
are already disenfranchised in society.
That's what their identity is.
Lauren Boebert's identity is I support guns at any and all circumstances.
It's pathetic.
And at the end of the day it does nothing to serve anyone, really.
The only person it serves is Lauren Boebert for her campaigning purposes.
>> Yeah, especially so fresh, to be in the news for this,
right, so close to those babies being slaughtered and
people in Buffalo that we are still reconciling and dealing with.
It just shows the quality of these people and how trash they are as human beings.
Politics aside, just like the people who would deny a trans kid a meal,
we have to be able to say that people are not good because this whole
thing that everybody has good in them and nobody is bad is foolishness.
Some people are bad.
If you are peddling guns to minors when you have watched so
many minors die as a result of guns, you are bad.
If you don't wanna give a baby some food because they're struggling with identity,
you are bad.
Why can't we say that people are trash?
Because these people are trash.
>> I say it all the time.
Don't you worry.
I love telling people that they're trash.
>> They're garbage, and to make profit off the people, like you said, you shouldn't
have these private businesses, you're already making money from the NRA.
You're already making a salary based on the taxpayer's dollars and
now you're taking a page out of the Donald Trump book.
Make as much money as you can off of the vulnerabilities of the American people.
Do it, do it, do it.
The people are struggling.
Let's make as much money as we can off of them.
>> That's what we see in government all the time, unfortunately.
By the way, Lauren Boebert's restaurant has lost $600,000 in total in just two
years, 2018 to 2020.
And that's according to Boebert's financial disclosures and
it appears to have struggled with annual tax obligations.
Wow, what a shocker.
Including a number of liens totaling nearly $20,000.
So I don't know, maybe getting driven out of this building is a convenient excuse
for shutting down the restaurant, maybe, maybe.
We'll see.
>> What does she think? She thought people from Texas were gonna
drive there like it's Disneyland for gun people?
They can't afford gas, lady, they can't afford gas to travel across state lines.
Who was gonna come to your stupid little restaurant with little kids
running around with guns on them?
>> With loaded guns [LAUGH].
>> Who wants to take that risk?
Not anyone who has common sense.
>> I should hope so.
I definitely hope so.