Uncancellation

Last week, after a brief campaign by the DFL‘s noise machine too spin remarks by GOP lieutenant governor candidate Matt Birk out of context, to local restaurants – the nook and Shamrocks, both owned by the same company – removed the “Matt Birk“ burger from their menus.

The petition reportedly got 176 signatures. And the restaurants caved.

I think it’s high time they realized that the vast majority in Minnesota does, in fact, stand for a free market of ideas, where everyone can and should be heard without having to worry about having their livelihoods clobbered by the mob.

The first step of pushing back? What the heck – a counterpetition. If they got 176 signatures? We are going to get 352.

There’s a pretty good chance this is going to be followed by a group of people who like burgers, and who tip well, going down to one of those restaurants just to make sure they’re getting the message.

Go ahead Dash sign up. And pass the link around to everyone who is sick and tired of cancel culture and doesn’t want to take anymore.

27 thoughts on “Uncancellation

  1. Great idea and I eagerly await an outcome. But playing this out: what if you collect 3520 signatures and restaurants still are in the cave mode? What if libturds escalate and start picketing restaurants? Will counters do the same? What if… will counters counter? I sincerely hope that petition tit for tat will speak volumes, as in dollars and sense to the powers that be at the cavee’s manager’s corner office, but what is plan B?

  2. jpa;
    I say that we get as many SiTD members as possible, to go to both of those restaurants and order the Matt Birk burger. When they refuse, we all get up and leave.

  3. Matt Birk recently bought a house in Mac Groveland, from the estate of one of my friends’ father. He grew up in Mac-G, but man, I cannot imagine living surrounded by people that hate me.

  4. Maybe they’re working on a new version? The manager stands over you and forces you to finish the burger. If you don’t, he berates a female employee for having the audacity to work outside the home.

  5. I don’t understand why you(‘all) even care about whether there are or were or will ever be “Matt Birk“ burgers.

  6. The only abortion law that is acceptable to the left is a law which permits abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. We know this by the vote on the Women’s Healthcare Protection Act, which legalized abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. Forty-six senators, all Democrats, voted to pass the WHPA. The WHPA earlier passed out of the House with 217 “Yea” votes, all cast by Democrats.
    That is what abortion extremism looks like, and it was not an off the cuff remark, it is the recordrd vote of virtually all the Democrats in the legislative branch of the federal government that abortion on demand should be legal up to the moment of birth.

  7. “Matt Birk recently bought a house in Mac Groveland”

    Matt also owns 40 acres and 1,000 feet of lakeshore near Hayward Wi just down the road from my ski shack in Seeley. He uses this property as a retreat for his motivational speaking. You may not agree with Birk on his Mac Groveland purchase but he’s well diversified with his property investments.

  8. MP, did you post in the wrong thread? I know there is a “b” on both “burger” and “abortion”, but that’s a bit of a stretch. no?

  9. How can a woman be a full citizen, with bodily autonomy, in one state, and not a full citizen when she crosses a state boundary line? Does a woman’s biology work differently in different states?

  10. How can a woman be a full citizen, with bodily autonomy, in one state, and not a full citizen when she crosses a state boundary line?

    The same way a gun owner can be a felon in Illinois and a normal guy 1 mile across the border in Indiana.

    Because that decision is delegated to the states.

    Pro-infanticide activists will now need to do what we gun owners have done for the pasdt fifty years; convince voters and legislators, one at a time.

    They’re off to a crappy start.

  11. Matt believes that a fertilized egg, which is a single cell, is a human. It’s legitimate to discuss when that cell becomes a human, but his belief is based on his religion.

    Forcing your religious beliefs on everyone else is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. These are the theocratic impulses of a certain segment of society over the interests of others.

    , but Americans are supposed to have more freedom.

  12. Absolute and mindless threadjack initiated by MP’s faux pas and then perpetuated by the blogmaster himself. But then it is his blog and if he wants to condone threadjacks, so be it.

    So, to continue with the threadjacking theme, remember when CC and BS were vilified for fiddling and driven out of business? TU to shutter in three… two… never!

    Report: At Least 181 K-12 Educators Arrested on Child-Related Sex Crimes in First Half of 2022

  13. The words spoken by Birk that got his sandwich canceled concerned his belief that that there should be no abortion law carve out for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.

  14. Matt believes that a fertilized egg, which is a single cell, is a human. It’s legitimate to discuss when that cell becomes a human, but his belief is based on his religion.
    This is just a confused mess. Has Birk justified his belief that abortion at any time is an evil using his Catholic religion? Not that I’ve heard. He didn’t mention God in the remarks that caused the sandwich controversy: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3568209-minnesota-republican-scrutinized-for-pro-life-speech-our-culture-loudly-but-also-stealthily-promotes-abortions/
    So we have Emery erecting a straw man (again), attacking an argument that Birk never made. The actual reasons he gave for his opposition to abortion were that it cheapened women’s value as mothers and that it amounted to slavery because it gave the power of life and death of one person to another person.
    Hard to argue against those things, so up goes the straw man.

  15. In the big picture I doubt Matt Birk gives a damn if some local joint has his name on any menu item. Was he getting a cut for allowing his name to be used in the first place?

  16. I’m not a biologist but I took the class in high school. As I recall, the thing which differentiates humans from other animals is genetics. We have 46 of chromosomes, no others do.

    So test the single-cell zygote. How many chromosomes does it have? 46 = human. No religion involved. Pure SCIENCE.

    Prove me wrong.

  17. It is imperative to know what Matt Birk and Scott Jensen believe and would do if they are elected.

    BTW Woolly—your sense of comedy needs work. Nice try, though.

  18. Let’s look at some data! Good ol’ data . . .

    Results: The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year. Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator. Only 11.7% of these victims received immediate medical attention after the assault, and 47.1% received no medical attention related to the rape. A total 32.4% of these victims did not discover they were pregnant until they had already entered the second trimester; 32.2% opted to keep the infant whereas 50% underwent abortion and 5.9% placed the infant for adoption; an additional 11.8% had spontaneous abortion.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8765248/

  19. In other words, E, your 12:56 concedes that as a matter of pure science, I am correct and so is Birk: a fertilized human egg is human.

    Thanks for admitting you were wrong to accuse us of religious bigotry.

  20. Not sure about Jensen, but I do like what I see out of Matt Birk. Perhaps he’s too pro-life for the electorate as a whole, but he’s definitely worth consideration.

    But the burger? Maybe that’s what he likes, but seems a bit too plain.

    Regarding Emery’s challenge about religious positions becoming law, all laws are at some point based on someone’s religion. You might as well have it be a religion that doesn’t have a sacrament called prenatal infanticide, IMO.

  21. So what Birk said is a non-issue. He is not a legislator. He has never invoked religion to defend his belief that a human life begins at conception.
    Jensen and Birk make bookends to Walz and Flanagan, who believe, very strongly, that a living human being can be killed up to the moment it leaves the birth canal.
    It’s imperative that people know what Walz and Flanagan believe and would do if they are re-elected.

  22. So looking at the NIH pregnancy data tells me that their is a strong overlap between pregnancies from rape, incest, and adolescence.
    Less than 12% of the victims in these cases received immediate medical care, and nearly half never received medical care for the rape. How many police reports were made? Don’t know. Was CPS notified? Don’t know.
    I would need to look at more data, but on the surface, anyhow, it looks like around half of the rape victims are minors and so there is questionable whether they can truly consent to an abortion. Again, I would have to see better numbers, but the NIH stats indicate than many of the abortions performed on minors who became pregnant from rape and or incest are likely sought, at least in part, to cover up a rape.
    Well, then you have a problem. Allowing carte blanche for abortion due to rape and/or incest may have the opposite of its intended effect. It may conceal the rape (possibly ongoing) of a minor female. Not seeing a lot of Grrrl Power! in that.
    I think that the difficult nature of these questions is the reason why the case of the pregnant Indiana ten year old disappeared from the media shortly after we learned more of the circumstances of her pregnancy.

  23. Notes with supremacist overtones distributed across metro area, police investigating

    Proven to be hoax in three… two… one…

  24. It is difficult to justify equality under the law without using religion. Believing in equality under the law defies reason as well as the evidence of our senses.

  25. “just down the road from my ski shack in Seeley”

    Wait, what? Now it’s a FabUloUs SKi ShaCK?

    Hahahahahaha! Lemme guess…just a humble HQ where you tune up before shredding ThE BirKiE, right?

    Oh God….you are too much rAT.

    Hahahahahaha! Bwaaaahahahahaha! Say Hi to Matt as you pass by! Hahahahahaha!

  26. The NFL is the gift that keeps on giving. Georgia has Herschel Walker and we have Matt Birk…

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