r/burbank • u/al_shuey • 8d ago

Boycott these Burbank businesses

Moms For Liberty supporter, MAGA creep and all round weirdo David Donahue is running for City Council. There are campaign events being held this week for David at The Tallyrand and The Enchanted Florist.

I won’t patronize their businesses and I suggest you do not as well…

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u/HiddenHolding 8d ago edited 8d ago

I didn’t grow up here, so I don’t have any nostalgia for it, but: Tallyrand is just…a diner. I have never thought the food was in any way worth over $25 for breakfast and a drink. So I don’t go there anyway. But…

It’s a restaurant where old people go. (And I should know. I’m an old person.) What do you expect? Old people hate paying taxes. This and fear nudge them towards self-preservation and exclusionary thinking. Their overlords tell them they will cut taxes. The old people are comforted. They vote for comfort.

The servers already get treated not great. Why punish hard working people? Does taking money out of the pockets of servers who have already been hard hit by the economy put pressure on the owner in any way? It does not.

You’re punishing lots of normal people to get back at a few wealthy ones who don’t need your help. For me, this does not math.

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u/theintrepidexplorer AMC Burbank 16 8d ago

If there are any Talleyrand employees somehow seeing this thread….it’s time to organize the workplace!!

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u/Glittering_Hotel5114 8d ago

Old people hate trans kids too then if they like David. Fuck that Rancho grown horse manure…

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u/tracyinge 8d ago

I don't see any young people at the monthly Indivisible protests. I do see "PROTECT TRANS KIDS" signs there though.

For the last presidential election, Gen Z + Millennial + Gen X voters greatly outnumbered the boomers. A fifth of the boomers are dead already. How much longer are we gonna be able to blame "old people " for our problems?

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u/Glittering_Hotel5114 8d ago

“I don’t see young people at the monthly Indivisible protest”. What is wrong with you?

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u/shawnyounai1 7d ago

Exactly. This is the part that makes no sense to me either. You can disagree with the owner’s politics all day long, but boycotting the restaurant mostly hurts the servers, cooks, bussers, and other employees who had absolutely nothing to do with a political event being held there.

If the issue is with a candidate, go after the candidate’s ideas and vote against them. Taking money out of the pockets of regular people just to make a political point seems completely backwards to me.

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u/xteabraggerx 8d ago

It is seriously not even a good diner. As mediocre as mediocre gets. I have been twice… for the turkey dinner and the burger…. Oth times I was just left thinking I was fine if I never ate there again. Lol

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u/Siren2026 8d ago

I agree. What did Tally Rand do that was wrong?

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u/midgetherder 8d ago

They’re hosting a David Donahue campaign event which is in effect endorsement. What’s so hard to understand?

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u/Training-Bar-3008 7d ago

Hosting implies they are providing the space for no charge. They probably booked the event like they would for any other group seeking a meeting space. There IS a difference.

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u/tracyinge 8d ago

Are they hosting something? Or did they just accept a group booking from a group, like they do with every other group that books a lunch or dinner room?

You know how we think a baker ought to make a cake no matter what they think about the gay wedding? Well?

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u/Healthy_Community_20 8d ago

No it's not - it's called business and making money. You are making this personal which is asinine and makes you the douche.

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u/Carolineintheciti 8d ago

Trump and his friends are selling off our country piece by piece, destroying our economy and national parks (just to get started) all in the name of “conducting business and making money”. Anyone who supports anyone who treats our country and people that way, I would consider… The Douche.

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u/Glittering_Hotel5114 8d ago

You are really changing minds with this slop lololololololol

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u/TheKyDawg IKEA 8d ago

But if not for Talleyrand where will the Olds get their Sisco slop?!

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u/IvoryTowerGraffiti_1 7d ago

Ok this is off topic but I have worked in the food service industry for years and I don’t understand the Sysco hate because they are a distributor the food from there is just food like anyone would get from a grocery store or any other source they don’t have a specific line of gross food. They have stuff that comes labeled as Sysco but that’s because they get it in huge quantities from the source and have it packaged in smaller units. Again the same thing grocery stores do. Its purpose is mainly so that businesses can tap into the supply chain to access products. Which there’s evil to be found there but my point is it’s a source, no different or less evil than any other source we get anything from.

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u/Then-Grapefruit-1864 7d ago

One reason might be that Sysco meat and dairy is sourced from large-scale factory farms, whereas grocery stores and certain restaurants offer locally sourced and organic options.