Reflections From a Murky Pond

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.

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. 😆

The females in the WNBA keep demanding more and more money despite the simple economic fact that their entire league has never once turned a profit, instead losing between 10 – 50 million dollars per year. They wouldn’t even have a league or jobs if the NBA didn’t subsidize them and cover those multi-million-dollar annual losses.

But hey! What fans they have have instituted a barter economy for them. 😉 Dildos! Big, green dildos! On the brighter side though, maybe the females on the teams can pick up some endorsements from Bad Dragon or Doc Johnson.

😆 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.