Reflections From a Murky Pond

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.

Exactly! Because far too many people complied with government mandates and internalized the message delivered again, again, and again by their Lamestream Media, Covid-19 has, as I predicted 4 years ago, never really left us and probably won’t for the foreseeable future.

Plaga Ad Eternum – plague forever or the eternal plague – that’s the best way to describe COVID-19 or, at least, the Lamestream Media’s and certain political parties’ current spin on things. For exactly so long as it serves their purses or political aspirations, this disease will be with us, not only in fact but in reporting, browbeating, and carefully crafted countermeasures.

— Plaga Ad Eternum
August 23rd, 2021

I’m still seeing many people wearing masks in public, and the Lamestream Media is still dutifully fulfilling their investors’ requirements of reporting on their “scary” upticks in Coronavirus infections. This, even though hospitalizations and deaths from COVID are increasingly inconsequential as the virus naturally adapts to better survive in a human host.

At Least There’s An Upside

Well, at least there’s the upside of them giving me an excuse to pull out and post some more Corona QTs. 😆

😆 Babylon Bee got it so right. And, it’s funny in a laugh-out-loud so you don’t do something illegal way.

That’s really how Democrat Mayors, City Councils, and what passes for their Police Chiefs operate. They fight crime statistics, not crime – especially not street-level, violent crime. It’s so much easier for them – and less “racist” – to redefine crime and violence than to actually enforce the law.

Better pace yourselves, Libtards. You’ve got just about 3½ More Years of President Trump Making America Great Again, which will rightly and necessarily come at the expense of most of what you want. So, stock up on eye drops and hydrate, so you don’t run out of tears, and keep throat lozenges handy, so your throat can keep up with all your screaming. 😉

Liberals’ tears are the birth fluids of a renewed and restored America, and their screams are its birth cry.

Miscegenation is real, and it’s wrong. But it’s not really what it was once defined as long ago before Loving v. Virginia in 1967. It’s liberal womyn that should neither be married by men nor allowed custody of or access to men’s children. The horrifically deleterious effects of ignoring that proscription or too bad to be ignored or, worse, condoned.

On the brighter side, however, this seems to be a self-correcting problem, as more and more liberal womyn are practicing positive eugenics by voluntarily taking themselves out of the gene pool through refusing to breed. 😉