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1 hour ago, locodos said:

I wonder if they'll release the Epstein files when the brand gets reverted?

I'm pretty sure we're going to find out that John Bolton stole the only copy of the Epstein files and shredded them all yesterday. The raid could've retrieved the files before Bolton shredded them, but the Deep State slow played the warrant giving Bolton time to shred before Trump could secure the files to release to the public. 

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Why do you think an unpopular man with the left was chosen to test the waters for using the FBI against those critical of Donald Trump and his successors?

Trump wants to shape the FBI to be more like Putin’s FSB.
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On 8/19/2025 at 7:42 PM, Biff Tannen said:

I’ve long said “American Exceptionalism” is the base reason for our downfall. 

The insecure, bitchass pathological need for American Exceptionalism leaves no room for humility or intellectually honest analysis of our actions. It’s the ultimate entitlement, as if we’re exceptional because of who we are, not what we do or how we treat the least of us. 

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Well we certainly don't want the Justice Department to be weaponized like it was under Biden. Oh wait, what Trumps does makes no difference to hypocritical assholes.

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14 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

I was got a handjob in a Mervyn’s California fitting room so like you, the Cracker Barrel thing hits close to home.

username checks out

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he thinks this is all a game (and probably that he is still on reality tv) and everyone around him is enabling this shit. he has no idea what he is doing but the folks around him are ok with it because that fact gives them plausible deniability down the road. it won't work, but they'll try. 

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Ok can someone fill me in why the maga morons are saying Cracker Barrel’s logo change is woke? Like it’s dumb and unnecessary but what makes it woke? I’m sure it’s something really really really fucking stupid.

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1 minute ago, 'stache said:

Ok can someone fill me in why the maga morons are saying Cracker Barrel’s logo change is woke? Like it’s dumb and unnecessary but what makes it woke? I’m sure it’s something really really really fucking stupid.

Forget it Jake, It’s MAGA

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3 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Ok can someone fill me in why the maga morons are saying Cracker Barrel’s logo change is woke? Like it’s dumb and unnecessary but what makes it woke? I’m sure it’s something really really really fucking stupid.

Because an old white man — a “cracker” if you will — was removed and replaced with a black person . . . no, wait [checks notes] . . . he was replaced with nothing.

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1 minute ago, South Austin said:

Because an old white man — a “cracker” if you will — was removed and replaced with a black person . . . no, wait [checks notes] . . . he was replaced with nothing.

Yeah, this is the source of my confusion. Sweet Jesus these people are hopeless.

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1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Can't stop laughing....

 

 

I posted this yesterday. This might be Brett's finest work to date. So goddamn good.

 

5 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Ok can someone fill me in why the maga morons are saying Cracker Barrel’s logo change is woke? Like it’s dumb and unnecessary but what makes it woke? I’m sure it’s something really really really fucking stupid.

Because they're stupid fucking idiots whose only policy platform is outrage at stupid fucking shit.

Apparently, CB is a dying brand probably two reasons -- it's for old people and those people don't live forever (especially not when loading up on biscuits-and-gravy from CB) and MAGA rednecks who no longer have enough money to eat out. This is a redesign to hopefully take the chain in a new direction and appeal to a new audience. It won't work but at least they're trying something.

 

4 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Forget it Jake, It’s MAGA

Plus this.

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6 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Because an old white man — a “cracker” if you will — was removed and replaced with a black person . . . no, wait [checks notes] . . . he was replaced with nothing.

I thought he was yellow. I did a quick google and I guess they had a rainbow painted rocking chair a few years ago that maga thought was for the gays so they were already on the woke cancel culture list with these morons. I’m guessing that’s the real explanation.

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5 minutes ago, 'stache said:
I thought he was yellow. I did a quick google and I guess they had a rainbow painted rocking chair a few years ago that maga thought was for the gays so they were already on the woke cancel culture list with these morons. I’m guessing that’s the real explanation.

That. And the decision to introduce "plant-based sausage" to the breakfast menu in 2022.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/magas-cracker-barrel-meltdown-rebrand-branding-logo?r=3agz2m&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

 

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Morning Shots

MAGA’s Cracker-Barrel Meltdown

Why let things go quietly when you can make them die violently?

Andrew Egger

 and 

Jim Swift

Aug 22, 2025

Today’s newsletter is breezier than usual, but a grim story broke just as we were putting it to bed: FBI agents this morning searched the home of John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser who has in recent years become one of the president’s most stringent critics. “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted as agents descended on Bolton’s house.

Lawfare’s Ben Wittes livestreamed a portion of the operation on his Substack; JVL has a quick post up on the website going deeper on the context of the ax Trump has to grind against Bolton. We’ll be all over this story as it develops. Happy Friday.

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A Crack in the Barrel

by Andrew Egger

Lord help me, but we’ve got to talk about the Cracker Barrel.

Yesterday, the hokey old-timey restaurant chain suddenly found itself the subject of a big honking spasm of the culture war. The cause of the trouble was a corporate rebrand involving a simpler, sleeker logo and more minimalist restaurant interiors—changes the online right denounced as a shameful capitulation to “wokeness” by the nostalgia-drenched brand.

“Cracker Barrel is done,” wrote the Federalist’s Sean Davis with characteristic restraint. “Woke executives killed it, wrapped the corpse in a rainbow flag, and then made it do a little puppet show in New York City for the entertainment of all their woke little friends.”

“We must break the Barrel,” antiwoke boycott maven Chris Rufo proclaimed, extolling the importance of “creating massive pressure” against companies considering “any move that might appear to be ‘wokification.’”

I found all this a little confusing—not just because it seemed like a lot of rage to spill over a new coat of restaurant paint, but because I’d been under the impression Cracker Barrel had already been canceled for its woke crimes.

First was the 2022 grouch-off about Cracker Barrel’s addition of woke plant-based sausage to their breakfast menus. “I just lost respect for a once great Tennessee company,” one fan wrote on Facebook. “Cracker Barrel used to be so good, we looked forward to eating in them but not anymore,” said another.

Then came the 2023 e-outrage over Cracker Barrel’s acknowledgment of Pride Month, which included a rainbow-themed rocking chair and some corporate-speak about “diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging at Cracker Barrel.”

“We take no pleasure in reporting that Cracker Barrel has fallen,” the organization Texas Family Project wrote at the time. “A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob.”

The reality is that Cracker Barrel is rebranding, not as a villainous act of sabotage by the women and gays who supposedly control corporate America, but because the restaurant is slowly dying off. The reason why this is happening is obvious to anyone without terminal right-wing brainworms: It’s a store selling the nostalgia of an era pretty much nobody’s around to be nostalgic for anymore. Behold the whole issue in one tweet:

Nostalgia has been the point of Cracker Barrel since the restaurant’s launch in 1969. Its business model of plopping down decent facsimiles of old-time general stores and Southern home-cooking restaurants conveniently just off America’s interstates was, frankly, a triumph of the capitalist imagination, and has made a lot of money for everybody involved for more than half a century. But the pre-war general stores Cracker Barrel evoked were just a couple decades gone in 1969. Today, they’re a relic of a vanished past. The only nostalgia Cracker Barrel evokes for most people today is their memories of eating at Cracker Barrel—a Xerox of a Xerox.

The American urge to eat cheapo slop in a nostalgic setting hasn’t gone away. It’s just that younger consumers are nostalgic for their own childhoods, not Chuck Grassley’s. You can see that energy in the increasingly nostalgia-focused branding of august American dining institutions like Pizza Hut, which is quietly retrofitting more and more of their restaurants into old-school “Pizza Hut Classics,” or Taco Bell, which began testing a “Nostalgic Menu” at certain locations last year.

The gradual vanishing of Cracker Barrel, in other words, is simply the natural order of things—which makes the MAGA freakout over it seem particularly apropos. The rage at “wokification” is actually despair at the vanishing image of a past that was imaginary to begin with.

What to do with all that rage? It might as well be Trump’s mission statement: Why let something go quietly when you can make it die violently?

 

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Nice hat, Mr. President, sir!

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The Brave New York Times.

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1 Template says: Get a quote from an authority; don't use your eyes. You lead with FBI cover story. Fuck you.

2 What, he didn't have them in bathroom with a candelabra? You can't mention the irony?

3 Second affirmation of FBI cover story from fucking anonymous sources. Fuck you.

Unclear motives? Brave first address to gross abuse of power that you are witnessing.

4 Whole of government approach? Did all the grad students huddle to find just the right level of obscurity? How about, Trump has employed all levels of the executive branch to endanger, harass, and arrest anyone who has criticized ever?

5 Cowardly obfusctating language. He's wrongfully using government to persecute anyone he wants to persecute. 

6 Oooh, a high-fallutin' principle! In doing so, Trump corrupts law enforcement agencies which he deploys for personal and political grudges.

7. Here's part of your lead.

The Trump administration has dispatched the FBI to search John Bolton's home allegedly for evidence Bolton mishandled secret information. Trump personally ordered the removal of Bolton's securtiy detail earlier in his administration as retaliation for Bolton's criticism of Trump's policies.

Sources in the White House say that this action is entirely politically motivated. The FBI claims only that conducting this search is "a court-authorized" activity. Ironically, Trump was investigated for the same alleged crime when secret documents were discovered at Mar-a-Lago.

I'm cancelling my subscription. I'll stick with AP and The Guardian. I'll not subsidize kowtowing.

 

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4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

So Jerome cut rates? Is that why the Dow is up 900pts?

Wife said Jerome only hinted that rates could come down next month.



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