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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

They’re still mad about no more Aunt Jemima maple syrup, or Uncle Ben’s converted rice, or Mrs. Butterworth becoming Ms. Butterworth, or the change to the verse of Ernie Meenie Minie Moe, and other hallmarks of the heritage they expected would last in a thousand-year Reich.

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Susan Keefer's avatar

Anything to distract from Rapist Donny and the Epstein Files.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/congress-trump-doj-epstein-files-00519316

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Linda Weide's avatar

My recommendation is that in addition to Jeff's challenge to find a legacy journalist who will find a good senior assisted living facility that would be ideal for Trump and make a recommendation.

"To begin with I make this recommendation based on an AI recommendation.

While there is no facility explicitly described as having "many former politicians," Freedom Pointe at The Villages and Moorings Park at Grey Oaks are two high-end Florida communities that offer a golf course, memory care, and cater to an affluent demographic that could include former politicians. Freedom Pointe is located within The Villages, a large retirement community with extensive golf courses, while Moorings Park at Grey Oaks is a luxury retirement community set within a private golf club in Naples."

I realize that many will suggest prisons. However, I think this sort of option with memory care, would upset fewer MAGAs, as they figured out who to worship anew. Out of sight, out of mind is what I was going for here.

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celeste k.'s avatar

I don't care where he goes. As long as it's out of our White House and politics altogether, and as long as we, as tax payers, don't foot the bill. Personally, I'm hoping he dies, and soon. I really harbor a hate for that cruel person, and for the wedge he has driven between Americans. Sorry if that sounds heartless, Linda, but it's the truth.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Can't wait to see brand-new beautiful grass growing over Donald's ass.

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Lee Ann Vindasius's avatar

😂 Maybe just enough to use it his crack as bike rack.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

yuck!

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Lee Ann Vindasius's avatar

Touché

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Mary Busch's avatar

Celeste, you are spot on about the wedge. That is part of an autocrat's playbook. Read Jay Kuo's substack "Sadopopulism and the Fascist MAGA Ethos". Jay writes that sadopopulists like Chump look at the past and want to know how to revive ancient divisions, enmities and pain. Chump "wants people to understand that his government inflicts pain. It makes you hurt. It’s all encompassing and all powerful, and you just want so badly for it to harm others more than you. So instead of thinking about how we all might prosper together in the future, Trump would see us cast into different competing groups, fighting over scraps, trying to feel less relative pain."

https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/trump-sadopopulism-ice-maga?r=e4yq3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Polly Sears's avatar

My parents were at Moorings Park. They had/have a very good memory unit! My parents needed it at the end of their life. If you can afford it, you can have an aide- 24/7. They are wonderful and all are black! Wouldn't it be great if T's last vision was that of a dark face saying "good bye, asshole".

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Linda Weide's avatar

Today we are looking at the memory unit where my mom lives with her. My husband and I looked yesterday. It is not in sunny Florida, but in sunny Chicago (in the summer). I am for Trump getting care, and people acknowledging that memory care is what he needs, not running a nation.

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EtTuBrutex's avatar

TOUCHÉ!!!

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Dave Devine (Cologne, Germany)'s avatar

A dear friend of mine lives in The Villages and has enough MAGAs to contend with already. Let Donny lower the average IQ of Naples.

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Linda Weide's avatar

He would be happy and that would make MAGAs okay with it, as they move on to dealing with the also evil Miler and JDV.

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Diana's avatar

Nah- throw him in solitary confinement for the rest of his miserable existence.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

even better

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

It’s of course not the responsibility of journalists to figure out a suitable old folks’ home for fucking Donnie Demento. He’ll never end up at the Villages, or anywhere else. He plans to stay in our White House until he fucking dies, and his minions and handlers will continue to enable that until he’s dead. In conclusion, the only place I want him to go is dead. Soon.

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Aleksandra Wolska's avatar

I'm with you; however, I would not put it past his handlers to conceal his wretched demise - may it happen YESTERDAY! - and, having mummified him, use his corpse for further propagandizing. Ok. May the latter part not come true. May he the former - his departure into the la la land of death - happen this instant.

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James Vander Poel's avatar

I second your suggestions. Keep him in Florida, as far away from the capital as we can. I'd suggest adding a care facility as a new wing at the Alligator Alcatraz: that would be tax dollars well spent.

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

He’d fit right in at the Senate.

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P123Sunny's avatar

🫢

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Teri Gelini's avatar

The Villages is predominately MAGA so he should fit right in a Naples is prone to flooding being on the coast. He could hold meetings with the other residents and deliver word salads to them so they would think they are fortunate to have the prez with them....

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Linda Weide's avatar

And they can let him win at golf and flatter and clap for him. He might not even know he is no longer in the White House. Think we can get Melania in on the plan?

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P123Sunny's avatar

“…so, how did Donny’s patrolling of the streets of DC go last night?

it never fucking happened.”

WHAT⁉️ wow… how is ‘THE BASE’ spinning this???

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kdsherpa's avatar

Marvelous!! FOTF!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

It’s impossible that James Comer could or would be involved with anything legitimate.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

THIS. All day, every day.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Running out the clock is def a thing though… 😒

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Susan, Lack of transparency to say he least it’s a slow motion cover up.

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Don A in Pennsultucky's avatar

I get genuine maple syrup from the family that has cared for those trees for 2 generations. They also have apple orchards.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I used to live in Vermont. It’s the right way when you have a chance.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Or you can go to Wal Mart and buy Great Value syrup made of high fructose corn syrup and caramel coloring. It is syrup, just not maple.

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Mombeka's avatar

My daughter and her partner in Brattleboro actually made their own maple syrup this year!!

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Jan Moon's avatar

And what happened to the lovely, ahem, Native American, ahem, princess adorning the Land O Lakes labels?

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

She is now a matron in Alligator Alcatraz.

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Carolyn Enloe's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Is she gone? Hmmm… so many advertising icons, some deliberately vulgar (Ridgid Tools). Do you recall the campaign about Springmaid sheets? Worth looking at that particular long series of magazine ads. Holy crap. That may be the most “how did they get away with that?” campaign ever launched.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

"It's charmless and sterile, but so what?" could also be a remark about their food

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Emma Ray's avatar

good point! what is wrong with people??

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Mombeka's avatar

And what about the green M&M? OMG!

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Golly, I remember when Tucker Swanson Carlson was all big Mac’s because the candy cartoon wasn’t sexy anymore. How quickly that faded into oblivion.

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Mombeka's avatar

Remember the big brouhaha over the Proctor and Gamble logo being “Satanic”?

Why don’t people make a fuss over the Masonic symbols on the dollar bill?

It’s all just one big distraction.

When is Trump going to die? That day can’t come soon enough for about 75% of the population at this point. It’s going to be a lot easier to deal with the rest of these evil f*cks when he’s out of the picture.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

The crackers are upset that they took the cracker off the logo. Represent!

I'm a displaced Californian living in cool blue Oregon, where our gov is less theatrical but also very good at her job.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

that actually is one of Charlotte Clymer's theories

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Ann Anderson's avatar

The Cracker Barrel near us closed a couple of years ago and the space is now a Chinese restaurant.

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

Yep, as was pointed out elsewhere today, the chain is trying to rebrand itself because the majority its target demographic is no longer living. Same thing happened to Lawrence Welk.

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Joyce's avatar

Their surviving customer base is too busy, desperately searching the cable lineup for "Sing Along with Mitch," to go out to eat.

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Anne's avatar

I had a couple "Sing Along with Mitch" records when I was a wee lass in the 1970s... played them a lot. Full confession: I still have the LPs.....

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

I did too ! I would listen to them while I did my chores, singing along...

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Joyce's avatar

Full confession: I used to watch the show with my dad when I was a little kid. ;)

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Nora's avatar

I did, too! "Roll Out The Barrel", readily springs to mind. Now when I think of it, Mitch Miller suspiciously resembles Guy Fawkes. Just sayin'.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

This is way off topic, but I recently saw a YouTube of the Lennon sisters sitting around a kitchen singing. Perfect harmony like it was 50 years ago, kind of amazing.

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Leu2500's avatar

How dare you say Lawrence Welk is dead! I think the public tv station up here in the UP still plays reruns & people think he’s still living. He’s on tv, right?

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Cheri Collins's avatar

😂

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Joyce's avatar

Uh-oh--that's very, very close to the MAGA Sign of the End Times: taco trucks on every street corner. Except, of course, Chinese food--which, to a MAGAt, is basically the same, because FURRIN-NORS. Replacing White boy restaurants, serving up all the 'Murrican cheese and mayo you can eat on a Wonder Bread sandwich.

Wonder if EPSTEIN ever ate at a Cracker Barrel....

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Jennifer Welch on IHIP News ripped the MAGAs a new one (which she always does anyway, but this one was particularly vehement) about them being such anti Latino bigots and yet enjoying Mexican food.

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

Well, enjoying Taco Bell maybe. Actual, real Mexican food not so much. I made a comment a few days ago that these are the people who go to a foreign country and bitch that the food isn't "authentic" like at Taco Bell, or Olive Garden, or Dominos, or Panda Express. Ignorant, arrogant and giving Americans a bad name. I saw one comment where a woman attended a wedding in Mexico City and kept asking why everyone was speaking Spanish. Nothing penetrates their little bubble where they are the center of the universe. They complain and are actually shocked that other countries have their own currency. They keep insisting that US dollars are more valuable and merchants should be happy to take them. If you can't learn something about the wider world, stay in your trailer park in East Jesus, TN. (Shout out to MzNicky)

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Insult to injury, I think it's called Asia Pan.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I haven't been to cracker barrel in a long time. I never look at the sign because I don't give a shit. Also I know where it is. The rocking chairs are huge. News at 11.

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Debbie  Mitchell's avatar

Is that the one in Tualatin?

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K Pop's avatar

They took off the cracker *and* the barrel! How are the poorly educated supposed to find the restaurant now... by *reading*, I guess?!?

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J.R.'s avatar

The Cracker Barrel sign you use is priceless. Show us the Epstein files. Thanks, Jeff!

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Abbi's avatar

Hi, Ann! I’m another Californian living in Oregon and proud of Gov Kotek. Wish our mayor would follow her lead and stand up for our sanctuary city.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

If you’re talking about Portland’s Mayor, I couldn’t agree more. What the fuck does that fool even do?

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Jennifer's avatar

They're mad that they took the cracker out of the barrel. LOL

If anyone here is not following Brent Terhune, they should.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

And our Senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, ROCK.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

The truest statement you'll ever read:

"none of this is normal — and once again, we’re all numbed by the firehose of insanity."

The BS about Cracker Barrel is proof positive that America has lost its mind. These people get more upset about a logo than a sex trafficking ring serving up little girls to gross old white men. 🤦‍♀️ Anyway, Coming from an advertising background, I'd say the new design looks like something from Fiverr... but it's a crappy chain, and no artwork can improve their food.

#TGIF people. Hang in there. ✌️

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Dave Drell's avatar

Meh food, breakfasts were ok- but who cannot make a decent breakfast? Their gift shop, overpriced Chinese crap had some decent candies, but it’s not a place many of us patronize - UNLESS it’s one of the few in town.

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P123Sunny's avatar

It’s like a rogue political ‘herd’ - looking for its next dopamine hit…

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

One visit to some Cracker’s Barrel cured me of the place 40 years ago. When will they try to institute flavor into their product?

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Cindy Watter's avatar

Hey, I liked their greens and pinto beans! But allow me to point out that the geezer in the old logo is wearing dungarees, not overalls.

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Kay-El's avatar

Who gives a flying fuck what the Cracker Barrel logo looks like. Maybe they should have changed their man to a Cletus with missing teeth. 🙄

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL That would have been more appropriate. Have you ever been inside one of their nauseating gift shops? OMG!

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Lisa's avatar

But their pancakes are awesome!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I suppose...but I honestly quit stopping there when I drive back and forth to Philly. Sticky menus, so-so food... I look for locally owned diners now, and try to keep the business locally owned. And the food is almost always better.

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Lisa's avatar

I agree with the fact that their food is so-so, except for the pancakes! Where we spend our money doesn’t really matter. Our patronage supports everyone involved in getting those pancakes on the table. I feel this way about everything I buy. Somewhere my purchase helped put food on the table for a family.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

I know, my not using Amazon doesn't hurt Bezos, it hurts the employees who are just trying to make a living.

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arne link's avatar

That is a very good point. I'm feeling sorry for all the federal workers that Trump fired. How will their families get along, pay the rent, etc?

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Lisa's avatar

Exactly. Trump and his Nazis are destroying everything! I feel horrible for those people.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

My family has been contributing to our local food pantry from the beginning of the pandemic. After Biden saved the economy, we kept going with a monthly donation. Now we're glad we can still do it, because so many people are out of jobs, and they still have to feed their families, and they have friends who are also searching for jobs. The demand at our local food pantry has gone way WAY up since this regime took power. So if you can afford to, consider donating to your local food pantries and soup kitchens and shelters. Those families might just make it through the trump terror in part because of you!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I guess it felt like the principle of the thing. 🤷🏼‍♀️😄

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Lisa's avatar

Patronizing the places we enjoy is what it’s all about. The money we spend somehow finds its way all over the world. No matter what the GOP wants, or believes, we live in a global economy.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

Like Pandora?

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Exactly like Pandora! Cant wait to get settled here and meet up with you!

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J.R.'s avatar

My grandmother always asked us to take her there. I couldn’t stomach most of the food but I loved my grandma so we went. Pancakes were edible.

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Lisa's avatar

🥞🥞🥞🥞!

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meryl selig's avatar

Went into one, once, and left. Would rather go hungry than eat at one of those shitpiles

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meryl selig's avatar

The customers were more stomach-turning than the food

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Dave Drell's avatar

a definite sample of old rural middle Ahmerikans, fer sure

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HI2thDoc's avatar

We dun't have one here in the 50th state (aka the Kenya of Amerikkka) because, presumably, our demographics are lotsa brown and brown adjacent folks. Of course, mebbe some of the tourists would go. We recently got Chick Fil-Assholes, which will never get a fucking cent from me

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Lisa's avatar

We are a melting pot. Unless someone is wearing MAGA gear I can’t judge. People watching is my favorite sport.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

You haven’t tried mine, Lisa.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

their biscuits, too.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Or a sweaty fat guy with the fucking red hat?

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Stephen Brady's avatar

He called into rant at Toad Stains - the guy who wanders around sipping his own piss… we have landed in Bizarro World.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

That’s what I’m thinking, Doc!

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Tess's avatar

Took the words right out of my mouth Kay-El!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Just amazed they didn’t put Shitler on their logo.

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Don A in Pennsultucky's avatar

If he thinks that grass is needed, why did the fum duck have the rose garden paved over?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

To be as big an asshole as possible. That's what he thrives on. An intentionally shitty person destroying stuff that is bigger than him. He's been that way his whole accursed life.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

🎯

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meryl selig's avatar

Gonna turn Washington into a golf course

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Dave Drell's avatar

🎯🎯🎯 Don with the question of the day!

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Kari Scott's avatar

I live in DC, and ride my bike home along a bike path across the street from the National Park Police headquarters. Last night I was forced to wait a half hour a half mile from the headquarters, along with a dozen or so other bikers & walkers while the orange turd spewed his lies at the hapless national guard forced to be away from their families for his pointless “law enforcement” cosplay. The only saving grace is that I was able to flip 2 birds at him has he stared at us while his motorcade slinked past the booing crowd as he left, and I was finally able to go home.

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Kim Steeves's avatar

I find it interesting to see his motorcade......I don't think I have ever seen another president's with so many vehicles. Seems to be a waste of tax payor $s!

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Kari Scott's avatar

I forgot to mention the hapless young female secret service agent forced to keep us corralled. She kept saying 10 minutes bc that’s what they were telling her. I could see her expressions of unsaid agreement when I kept complaining of the “fascist regime” under my breath. But I was quite distressed that the entire time we waited her black SUV idled, spewing fossil fuel exhaust into the air while we waited.

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arne link's avatar

Thank you for representing all of us. I can't wait until he is under his big, beautiful grass.

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J.R.'s avatar

My hometown. It makes me sick

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

I saw a quote in The Guardian yesterday from the GQP leader in the CA state assembly, urging people to vote against this bill, by saying something to the effect of: “The problem with fighting fire with fire is that you burn everything down.”

Bitch. We didn’t start the fire.

But fuck yeah, at this point, burn it all down. 🔥🔥🔥

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Stacy B's avatar

Burning it all down is exactly what the regime and its followers are trying to do… so what is her problem

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

*Christ in a Cracker Barrel!* 🤣

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Adrienne's avatar

I know! It’s perfect!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂

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Hollie Rood's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣They sneak up every time and never disappoint 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Alison Parker's avatar

"I’m very good at grass"

WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU imagine if Joe Bid--no I'm sorry I can't I just can't even think about it right now

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Abbi's avatar

Are maga idiots ever going to figure out that he’s spending money that used to be theirs on things like his golden palace, new ballroom, gift plane, etc. etc?

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Irascible Ink's avatar

Nope.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

DOGE would fire them all and the economy isn’t going to come up with the money bc tax money will slow and stop negative GDP doesn’t work.

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meryl selig's avatar

I thought that the excerpt about grass was a parody. I am gagging that the words were a direct spewage from anus-mouth

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P123Sunny's avatar

Yet every statement is taken literally & seriously… good luck finding a seat at the table after a decade of this bs, America 🇺🇸👀

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Dave Devine (Cologne, Germany)'s avatar

I bet anyone who teaches or even studied here knows way more about grass than von Schitzenpants:

Penn State offers significant "turf science" education through its Turfgrass Science and Management Associate of Science (A.S.) degree and is also integrated into the Plant Sciences B.S. degree, which covers topics like plant physiology and ecology, and also offers undergraduate and graduate certificate programs.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Didn’t he steal cheech & chongs mantra?

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

'Bout time the Dems woke up and smelled what's brewing in this friggin' country and started calling and raising. Don't like Newsome for whatever flimsy reason? Tough. Wanta save what's left of this country? Time to get behind the people who can actually make a difference and not just write strongly worded letters!

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Deb's avatar

Strongly worded letters do have a purpose - for oversight and potential court cases. Those letters will have future value. We also need more actions like Newsom's.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's ratings in Michigan have soared among state voters after she hugged Trump and committed to cooperating with him. So fuck a duck, Democrats. This is why we need new parties. As a Californian, I'm tired of seeing the country screwed by the asshole swing states.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

💯Those “strongly worded letters” are as meaningful as the drivel that spins around tRUMP’s pinheaded brain then spews out of his rancid mouth

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Amen, sister!

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meryl selig's avatar

Thanks Linda. The pearl-clutching, eat-your-own

Dems cannot unite around anything. It is the undoing of the party. Everyone is busy in their own niche and cannot park their egos for a while and unite.

Just read that Democratic voter registration is seriously down

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Not surprised. With a few stellar exceptions, the "leadership" has become soft and wimpy. Not a bit inspirational! Hooray for the Bernie/ AOC/Crockett/Warren-breed of Dems! And...I miss Katie Porter.

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arne link's avatar

Katie might run for Governor when Gavin runs for President. Many people are saying...

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P123Sunny's avatar

shit-on-their-own-stars, too…

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Alison Parker's avatar

Days like this, I am proud to be a born-and-raised-and-never-gonna-leave Californian :D

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

I am a born and raised Californian , currently living in Oregon. I couldn't afford to retire in Calif.

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Alethia St. Joan's avatar

I used to live in Cali, and miss it dearly. Can't wait to return someday :)

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Mike Belfield's avatar

I like your name for the redistricting bill better. That is a must vote yes for those of us in CA.

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Chris Duncan's avatar

Gotta love “gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot “. Sounds like a Warren Zevon lyric.

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J.R.'s avatar

Yes it does

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arne link's avatar

You could substitute "virginity" and turn it into a Madonna song.

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DrBDH's avatar

I’m trying to decide which part of the old logo they miss, the barrel or the old cracker leaning against it.

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meryl selig's avatar

The cracker.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

😂😂😂

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J.R.'s avatar

😂

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Displaced California native echoes FUCK YEAH! among red-state troops, empty eateries in the picturesque, Humvee-adorned Occupied D.C.

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

Interesting, since Cracker Barrel hasn't ever been known as "woke". I remember that the LGBT community and supporters started boycotting them about 15, 20 year ago, due to their stance on gay employees.

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