A Florida business owner has made headlines after asking Joe Biden fans to take a hike and take their business somewhere, citing the president’s handling of the Afghanistan pullout.
After putting a sign on the DeBary Diner with a message for those who still support Biden, Angie Ugarte, the owner, sparked uproar in the Florida community and local media.
The Diner’s owner was blunt in her assessment of the administration’s “success” in Afghanistan.
“If you voted for and continue to support and stand behind the worthless, inept, and corrupt administration currently inhabiting the White House that is complicit in the death of our servicemen and women in Afghanistan, please take your business elsewhere,” Ugarte’s sign reads.
“I was just enraged. I was simply disappointed.“I felt like one of those moms, spouses, or sisters who were going to have that knock on the door,” she told Fox 35, adding that she does not want to be “associated” with anybody who continues to support the present government.
Ugarte stated that she intends to keep the sign up until all American troops have left Afghanistan.
She said the debate hit close to home because of her large veteran client base.
The poster accuses the administration of being “complicit” in the deaths of 13 US service members and hundreds of civilians in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, with some of them purportedly dying in the subsequent fighting.
ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack.
The incident occurred amid the chaotic evacuation, which ended on Tuesday and left many civilians and allies behind.
In response to the Kabul airport tragedy, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, “This doesn’t take away from the progress and work that’s been done to evacuate people,” while Biden called the operation an “extraordinary success”.
“No nation in all of history” has achieved such an “extraordinary success,” the president said on Tuesday, despite severe criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, some of whom have called for Biden’s resignation or impeachment.
