Reflections From a Murky Pond

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, those who created this axiom deeply undervalued it. 😆

Americans (The Right) and Democrats and their sharecroppers and hangers-on (The Left) are not the same at a fundamental level. Americans love America and its culture, history, and mores, whereas Democrats worship – or, at least propitiate – at the altars of depravity, insanity, and anti-Americanism.

They support, endorse, and appreciate things like Dylan Mulvaney, which portrays itself as a gross – and to suborn their own rhetoric, misogynist – caricature of a woman. Americans, on the other hand, celebrate the classic American beauty of Sydney Sweeney.

Oh, and the majority of us also celebrated Beyoncé’s Levi’s ad. The Left, especially their Blacks, not so much. 😉

Well, that didn’t take long at all. It only took nine days – and at least $100 million in losses – for Cracker Barrel to reverse course and restore its old logo. So, after a brief hiatus, the “soul of Cracker Barrel,” Uncle Herschel, is back where he belongs. 😀

Now, in order to follow normative business practices and do the right thing, Cracker Barrel needs to terminate its woke, America-hating CEO, Julie Felss Masino, as quickly as possible.

This waste of a cunt might actually have a great deal of generalized business acumen. She has, after all, served reasonably well in senior positions at a number of significant companies. But she obviously has no understanding of- or allegiance to Americana and those businesses that are part of it.

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There Be Dragons Once Again

Once again, it’s time for Dragon*Con. Well, technically it starts tomorrow, but a lot of the staff, including one of my wives as of this morning, are already there doing the prep work. If you can make it, awesome, and enjoy yourselves. For the rest of us, here are some cosplay babes as a consolation.

Sadly, that is an apt contrast between men of 1775 and the bois and gurls of 2025. Those of the modern generation are lesser children of a fallen house. Worse, we did this to ourselves, to them, and to our once great nation.

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

— John Adams
Letters of John Adams Addressed to his Wife

John Adams was in many ways a great man. But he was right in what he hoped and thought would happen, but so very wrong in hoping for it. He, over the course of 250 years, got what he wished for. And now, we have to live with that degenerate nightmare.

Cracker Barrel’s current CEO, Julie Felss Masino, has apparently screwed the pooch again. :Roll: The vegan sausage folly taught her nothing, and the failure that was her “modernized” redesign of the iconic restaurants also seemed to teach her nothing. Now she’s decided to minimalize Cracker Barrel’s logo, removing everything about it that branded the chain.

Crackers Got Salty About That Logo

And, as you can see above, Americans have almost immediately responded – cruelly, sarcastically, and extremely harshly. They’ve decided that Cracker Barrel is now a Leftwing, Democrat establishment. Essentially, relegating the 55 year-old restaurant chain to locus non grati status.

And, despite Felss Masino’s people trying to play this all off as just griping from a “vocal minority,” this latest affront to their customers has already cost Cracker Barrel a barrel of money. In just 48 hours, shares of Cracker Barrel (CBRL) fell $4.22 (7.2%) to $54.80 during Thursday’s trading, shedding $94 million in market value. The stock had dipped to a low of $50.27 earlier in the day, representing a loss of almost $200 billion in its capitalization. And yes, that’s orders of magnitude worse than the $1.4+ billion in sales that Dylan Mulvaney cost AB InBev.

For the record, I didn’t care about the addition of vegan sausage to Cracker Barrel’s menu; I despised the modern decor – might as well be Bob Evans; and don’t really care about the new logo, which matches current trends in logo design. But, here’s the thing: I don’t need to agree with all the details of the outrage. I just need to understand that it’s real and that it has the power to fuck Cracker Barrel.

And, much more importantly, Cracker Barrel’s current CEO, Julie Felss Masino, needs to understand that and should have already understood it. Angering and alienating your existing customers, presumably in the hope of attracting completely different ones, is a non-success strategy almost every single time.

Honestly, Cracker Barrel’s BoD needs to fire Felss Masino… and possibly nail her in a barrel and send her over some waterfall. 😉

And, the very, very, very first thing either the BoD or the CEO needs to do is hire – and I don’t care how much she costs – Sydney Sweeney to shill for Cracker Barrel. 😆 Honestly, there’s not much else they can do if they want to turn things around in the next couple of quarters.