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.
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.
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.
Have you seen the current condition of Ivana's grave? JFC -- T💩p got some tax break for turning a few square feet of his golf course into a cemetery, and now it's just overgrown scrub and unrecognizable. Just die motherfker. Die!!
Sorry I am late to this post, but 😂. I blame her children. Who let's.their mother's grave look like that? That tells me those evil spawn never go to see her. Why? Maybe because she's not there? And I think they have homes on the property too. Must be angry they haven't been able to sell her beautiful but tacky brownstone that was so "Ivana-fied" with leopard wallpaper that whoever buys it will have to do a gut renovation. I have said from day one...DIG HER UP! He probably buried all the top.secret files he stole and hid in Bedminster. My childhood dog died in 1973 and got a better send off, a beautiful grave and headstone at the famous Bide-a-Wee cemetery in NY where even that scum Nixon buried his beloved dog Checkers, with PERPETUAL CARE! But now that I heard she was best friends.with Ghislaine Maxwell and was in limos with her when she stopped to pick up girls, fuck her! Hope they dump him.there soon too. He doesn't think he's getting Arlington and an eternal flame does he?
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."
I don't believe Trump thinks that deeply. He's got Stephen Miller for that.
You know Stephen jerked off to Mein Kampf as a teen—maybe he still does, now that I think about it—and can quote whole paragraphs of The Prince. He dips into Goebbels' diary for communication ideas and Mao's Little Red Book for tips on repressing a large population after you fuck things up really bad (cf The Great Leap Forward; The Big Beautiful Bill).
Then he proposes even harsher measures to Trump, who may or may not be listening but always says, Okay, do it and let's see what happens.
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".
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.
A kind gesture, Linda, and the step a caring family would choose for a loved one. Two things prevent that from happening here...his family is silent (at least to us), and he and his 'followers', including the republican party, will never admit to this as they see it as a weakness and not a normal thing that happens to many aging adults.
I wish your Mother well. She is lucky to have a family that cares.
Thanks for your wishes for my mother Celeste. I think she is doing alright given her loss of memory.
I do not see Trump as having the memory loss of my mom, who is 91, but a much earlier stage. Still, he might benefit from a different more age appropriate lifestyle, but the people around him who could put the kabash on his presidency need to use him for their ends too.
Trump ending up in a memory care unit in Chicago would be so sweet. Me, I'm thinking b out going back home (Chicago) end of September for the free public tour of the Obama Presidential Center site. Trump won't be there!
Care where people do not listen to his lies. A place where people will tell him what is real and what is not. I personally think he might be too dangerous in prison.
I personally would like to never see or hear from him again or about him again because there is nothing to report. Just living on a memory care unit, it can be in a prison, but somewhere where they understand that his mind is deteriorating and he is under 24/7 watch.
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.
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.
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.
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....
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?
Cathy, Melania is being what Trump picked her to be, the Eastern European trophy wife. She could be doing her nation credit, but she is not. Too bad. All of the young Slavenian women who could be looking to her as a role model of making it in the US on her own terms, only see a woman who lies through her teeth as she deals with the repugnant husband as little as possible, and monetizes it through the hilt. And, what is she doing for Ukrainian children. She could be. brokering their return instead of just writing letters to Zelenskyy's "wife" as if this is women's stuff to be concerned about the children. Maybe in her household it is. Her husband only shows interest in his children to parrot and kowtow to him or his daughter to sit on his probably engorged prick!
Can the base even be reached. MAGAs make me so grateful that with each and every problem I have had to face in life, lack of contact with reality is not one of them.
Speaking of which, my nephews just stopped by with their roommate. He and one of my nephews did a road trip to Florida in June to visit the roommate's parents. It turns out that while their trip was uneventful, his roommate, who is the US citizen child of undocumented parents lost his dad. His dad was picked up by ICE when he was on his way to work. They don't know where he is, but that horrid concentration camp in the Florida Swamps comes to mind. So, I personally know someone whose family member has been picked up by ICE. I am sure that sooner or later most people will know someone.
Not like the number of people that Ukraine has lost due to Putin's war, but certainly a lot of people are not here anymore. My husband will soon be another one. You can say he is deporting himself.
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.
She’s retreated to the many bogus family histories treasured by many Americans out there. Fortunately those who were motivated to check learned said history was false from 23andMe.
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.
I share your exuberance regarding the death of Shitler. Yet, it may be just a bump in the road for the Heritage Foundation and for their trained sycophants, waiting in the wings.
When the book was published, it was denounced for making the little black kid intelligent and heroic, even though it was explained that Sambo was from the south of India not Africa, still the idea of a Black hero was considered subversive at the time.
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.
"Sing Along with Mitch" caused a scandal when they added Leslie Uggams, a BLACK woman, to the choir, and many Southern stations cancelled it until they got inundated with angry mail from people demanding their singalong. Leslie Uggams was later given a short-lived show, the first to have a Black lead all alone (following I Spy, where Bill Cosby was paired with a nondescript white partner to make it less radical).
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.
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?
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....
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.
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)
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.
To Jeff's point about us Libs not getting upset at every little thing. There's something else we do, we have rational thought, we can prioritize our time, expend it on more worthwhile pursuits. I'm retired, but working on a 3D printing business. I don't spend all day reading substack or listening to Rick Wilson. Yo, MAGAs, turn off the whacked out fascist reactionary podcast on your phone or on your laptop, stop reading some crazed lunatic yelling at you that you're not American/Christian/Conservative enuf. Build some self esteem! Think for yourself. Are you better off than you were 6 months ago? Here's an idea, does it matter what Cracker Barrel (a billion dollar conglomerate) does? Do you like the corporation's food, trinkets, customer service? Have you been to one in the last 5 years. BTW, us libs have stopped caring what you think years ago. We are here becuz Jeff does a wonderful job of making fun of how completely out of touch you are.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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. 🔥🔥🔥
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.
'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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Anything to distract from Rapist Donny and the Epstein Files.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/congress-trump-doj-epstein-files-00519316
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.
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.
Can't wait to see brand-new beautiful grass growing over Donald's ass.
😂 Maybe just enough to use it his crack as bike rack.
yuck!
Have you seen the current condition of Ivana's grave? JFC -- T💩p got some tax break for turning a few square feet of his golf course into a cemetery, and now it's just overgrown scrub and unrecognizable. Just die motherfker. Die!!
Sorry I am late to this post, but 😂. I blame her children. Who let's.their mother's grave look like that? That tells me those evil spawn never go to see her. Why? Maybe because she's not there? And I think they have homes on the property too. Must be angry they haven't been able to sell her beautiful but tacky brownstone that was so "Ivana-fied" with leopard wallpaper that whoever buys it will have to do a gut renovation. I have said from day one...DIG HER UP! He probably buried all the top.secret files he stole and hid in Bedminster. My childhood dog died in 1973 and got a better send off, a beautiful grave and headstone at the famous Bide-a-Wee cemetery in NY where even that scum Nixon buried his beloved dog Checkers, with PERPETUAL CARE! But now that I heard she was best friends.with Ghislaine Maxwell and was in limos with her when she stopped to pick up girls, fuck her! Hope they dump him.there soon too. He doesn't think he's getting Arlington and an eternal flame does he?
The word “ass” needs the word decomposing placed in front of it
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
I don't believe Trump thinks that deeply. He's got Stephen Miller for that.
You know Stephen jerked off to Mein Kampf as a teen—maybe he still does, now that I think about it—and can quote whole paragraphs of The Prince. He dips into Goebbels' diary for communication ideas and Mao's Little Red Book for tips on repressing a large population after you fuck things up really bad (cf The Great Leap Forward; The Big Beautiful Bill).
Then he proposes even harsher measures to Trump, who may or may not be listening but always says, Okay, do it and let's see what happens.
It's an ideal working relationship for both.
Touché
Celeste, not heartless at all. Truth!
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".
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.
A kind gesture, Linda, and the step a caring family would choose for a loved one. Two things prevent that from happening here...his family is silent (at least to us), and he and his 'followers', including the republican party, will never admit to this as they see it as a weakness and not a normal thing that happens to many aging adults.
I wish your Mother well. She is lucky to have a family that cares.
Thanks for your wishes for my mother Celeste. I think she is doing alright given her loss of memory.
I do not see Trump as having the memory loss of my mom, who is 91, but a much earlier stage. Still, he might benefit from a different more age appropriate lifestyle, but the people around him who could put the kabash on his presidency need to use him for their ends too.
Trump ending up in a memory care unit in Chicago would be so sweet. Me, I'm thinking b out going back home (Chicago) end of September for the free public tour of the Obama Presidential Center site. Trump won't be there!
Ah, sweet home Chicago!
What kind of care do you think would help him?
an institution for the criminally insane
Care where people do not listen to his lies. A place where people will tell him what is real and what is not. I personally think he might be too dangerous in prison.
TOUCHÉ!!!
Made me laugh 😆
Nah- throw him in solitary confinement for the rest of his miserable existence.
Only if we can receive a video feed of his time there.
I personally would like to never see or hear from him again or about him again because there is nothing to report. Just living on a memory care unit, it can be in a prison, but somewhere where they understand that his mind is deteriorating and he is under 24/7 watch.
even better
An oubliette sounds like a good idea right about now.
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.
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.
We will have a weekend at Bernie's moment if he dies in the WH.
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.
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.
You’re deluded. Or perhaps a bot of some sort.
I recall that The Villages went for T💩p in 2016, but they were favoring Kamala in 2024. I recall seeing video of golf cart parades for her.
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.
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....
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?
Linda, isn't Melania being deported by ICE? Has she been thrown to the ground and beaten, with a knee on her neck? Oh...well, I wish!!
Cathy, Melania is being what Trump picked her to be, the Eastern European trophy wife. She could be doing her nation credit, but she is not. Too bad. All of the young Slavenian women who could be looking to her as a role model of making it in the US on her own terms, only see a woman who lies through her teeth as she deals with the repugnant husband as little as possible, and monetizes it through the hilt. And, what is she doing for Ukrainian children. She could be. brokering their return instead of just writing letters to Zelenskyy's "wife" as if this is women's stuff to be concerned about the children. Maybe in her household it is. Her husband only shows interest in his children to parrot and kowtow to him or his daughter to sit on his probably engorged prick!
She probably has her prenup in her favor and will take the money and run!
“…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???
Sick of this f’n Guy:
All foam, No beer”… SICK OF IT😐‼️
"All foam, no beer" -- good one!
Can the base even be reached. MAGAs make me so grateful that with each and every problem I have had to face in life, lack of contact with reality is not one of them.
He’d fit right in at the Senate.
🫢
I hear that hell is nice this time of year.
At this point, I don’t give a flyin’ fuck what might “upset fewer MAGAs.” This sounds like classic obeying in advance.
Marvelous!! FOTF!
It’s impossible that James Comer could or would be involved with anything legitimate.
Yet ‘we’ (the people), just shrug and go about our day… no one screams abt the waste of taxpayer dollars, still take him seriously. GEEZus
Hard to run a Democracy w/o SHAME 😞⁉️
THIS. All day, every day.
Running out the clock is def a thing though… 😒
Susan, Lack of transparency to say he least it’s a slow motion cover up.
I get genuine maple syrup from the family that has cared for those trees for 2 generations. They also have apple orchards.
I used to live in Vermont. It’s the right way when you have a chance.
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.
YEECH!
My daughter and her partner in Brattleboro actually made their own maple syrup this year!!
And what happened to the lovely, ahem, Native American, ahem, princess adorning the Land O Lakes labels?
She is now a matron in Alligator Alcatraz.
🤣🤣🤣
Speaking of which, my nephews just stopped by with their roommate. He and one of my nephews did a road trip to Florida in June to visit the roommate's parents. It turns out that while their trip was uneventful, his roommate, who is the US citizen child of undocumented parents lost his dad. His dad was picked up by ICE when he was on his way to work. They don't know where he is, but that horrid concentration camp in the Florida Swamps comes to mind. So, I personally know someone whose family member has been picked up by ICE. I am sure that sooner or later most people will know someone.
Apparently the number of US immigrants has shrunk over 1 million. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/23/us-immigrant-population-declines?utm_term=68aafed25f60d92a2783ba8196c0852c&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
Not like the number of people that Ukraine has lost due to Putin's war, but certainly a lot of people are not here anymore. My husband will soon be another one. You can say he is deporting himself.
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.
She’s retreated to the many bogus family histories treasured by many Americans out there. Fortunately those who were motivated to check learned said history was false from 23andMe.
"It's charmless and sterile, but so what?" could also be a remark about their food
And what about the green M&M? OMG!
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.
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.
I share your exuberance regarding the death of Shitler. Yet, it may be just a bump in the road for the Heritage Foundation and for their trained sycophants, waiting in the wings.
Never forget Nosferatu, the UNDEAD.
Those people were being led/played by fundamentalist cretins. Now there’s more of ‘em. Like fucking Paula White.
good point! what is wrong with people??
And they’re still wondering what happened to Li’l Black Sambo.
When the book was published, it was denounced for making the little black kid intelligent and heroic, even though it was explained that Sambo was from the south of India not Africa, still the idea of a Black hero was considered subversive at the time.
I didn’t know this. Thanks for the history lesson!
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.
that actually is one of Charlotte Clymer's theories
The Cracker Barrel near us closed a couple of years ago and the space is now a Chinese restaurant.
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.
Their surviving customer base is too busy, desperately searching the cable lineup for "Sing Along with Mitch," to go out to eat.
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.....
Full confession: I used to watch the show with my dad when I was a little kid. ;)
I did too ! I would listen to them while I did my chores, singing along...
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'.
I just found a photo of eight-year-old me holding the Mitch Miller Christmas album. It was my favorite. And Doris Day, too. Loved her!
"Sing Along with Mitch" caused a scandal when they added Leslie Uggams, a BLACK woman, to the choir, and many Southern stations cancelled it until they got inundated with angry mail from people demanding their singalong. Leslie Uggams was later given a short-lived show, the first to have a Black lead all alone (following I Spy, where Bill Cosby was paired with a nondescript white partner to make it less radical).
And don't forget Lawrence. Even the thought of that show/music upsets my stomach.
One Toke Over the Line, Sweet Jesus, One Toke Over the Line...
Ah one and ah two!
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.
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?
My grandmother loved him. I thought he was lame, even as a child. Those sure weren't the Cardi B days. LOL.
My mom said the word "wonky" was used for people like Welk, before "square" came into fashion
Stop the bubble machine!
😂
Gone with the hogshead cask and demijohn,
Gone with the sugar barrel, pickle barrel, milk pan,
Gone with the tub and the pail and the tierce
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....
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.
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)
Oh that was EPIC!!!
Insult to injury, I think it's called Asia Pan.
If the bus girls were under 18, he would have been there.
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.
Is that the one in Tualatin?
They took off the cracker *and* the barrel! How are the poorly educated supposed to find the restaurant now... by *reading*, I guess?!?
The Cracker Barrel sign you use is priceless. Show us the Epstein files. Thanks, Jeff!
J.R., sooner or later the files will be released . And many in the trump administration will be sent to prison, hopefully in Al Salvador.
They're mad that they took the cracker out of the barrel. LOL
If anyone here is not following Brent Terhune, they should.
To Jeff's point about us Libs not getting upset at every little thing. There's something else we do, we have rational thought, we can prioritize our time, expend it on more worthwhile pursuits. I'm retired, but working on a 3D printing business. I don't spend all day reading substack or listening to Rick Wilson. Yo, MAGAs, turn off the whacked out fascist reactionary podcast on your phone or on your laptop, stop reading some crazed lunatic yelling at you that you're not American/Christian/Conservative enuf. Build some self esteem! Think for yourself. Are you better off than you were 6 months ago? Here's an idea, does it matter what Cracker Barrel (a billion dollar conglomerate) does? Do you like the corporation's food, trinkets, customer service? Have you been to one in the last 5 years. BTW, us libs have stopped caring what you think years ago. We are here becuz Jeff does a wonderful job of making fun of how completely out of touch you are.
And our Senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, ROCK.
Excellent
If you’re talking about Portland’s Mayor, I couldn’t agree more. What the fuck does that fool even do?
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. ✌️
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.
It’s like a rogue political ‘herd’ - looking for its next dopamine hit…
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?
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.
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. 🙄
LOL That would have been more appropriate. Have you ever been inside one of their nauseating gift shops? OMG!
But their pancakes are awesome!
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.
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.
I know, my not using Amazon doesn't hurt Bezos, it hurts the employees who are just trying to make a living.
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?
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!
Exactly. Trump and his Nazis are destroying everything! I feel horrible for those people.
Yes, and the federal workers at the CDC where 200 bullets hit the facility in an attempted massacre...https://mindsitenews.org/2025/08/21/three-women-take-on-the-silence-after-the-cdc-is-showered-with-bullets/
I guess it felt like the principle of the thing. 🤷🏼♀️😄
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.
Like Pandora?
Exactly like Pandora! Cant wait to get settled here and meet up with you!
Same! Looking forward to it.
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.
🥞🥞🥞🥞!
Went into one, once, and left. Would rather go hungry than eat at one of those shitpiles
The customers were more stomach-turning than the food
a definite sample of old rural middle Ahmerikans, fer sure
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
We are a melting pot. Unless someone is wearing MAGA gear I can’t judge. People watching is my favorite sport.
You haven’t tried mine, Lisa.
their biscuits, too.
Reminds me of growing up in central Illinois as a child.
Or a sweaty fat guy with the fucking red hat?
He called into rant at Toad Stains - the guy who wanders around sipping his own piss… we have landed in Bizarro World.
That’s what I’m thinking, Doc!
Took the words right out of my mouth Kay-El!
Just amazed they didn’t put Shitler on their logo.
They want the guy to wear a MAGA hat.
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.
Thank you for representing all of us. I can't wait until he is under his big, beautiful grass.
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!
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.
My hometown. It makes me sick
Right on!
If he thinks that grass is needed, why did the fum duck have the rose garden paved over?
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.
🎯
Yes. THAT is his legacy.
Gonna turn Washington into a golf course
🎯🎯🎯 Don with the question of the day!
Exactly!
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. 🔥🔥🔥
Burning it all down is exactly what the regime and its followers are trying to do… so what is her problem
"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
I thought that the excerpt about grass was a parody. I am gagging that the words were a direct spewage from anus-mouth
Yet every statement is taken literally & seriously… good luck finding a seat at the table after a decade of this bs, America 🇺🇸👀
Nobody knows more about anything than he does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3f95BGIiA
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.
My brother is a retired grounds keeper. He worked for a school district for over 30 years, then a golf course.
What he knows would put this ramblin' spuddler to shame. An amateur gardener knows more than him.
That’s because he’s never mowed a lawn, planted a garden or done any yard work in his life.
Didn’t he steal cheech & chongs mantra?
Nope.
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.
*Christ in a Cracker Barrel!* 🤣
I know! It’s perfect!
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣They sneak up every time and never disappoint 🤣🤣🤣🤣
'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!
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.
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.
Zelenskyy and the Europeans had to utter flatteries at Trump too, for similar reasons.
New parties just divvy up the progressive vote.
💯Those “strongly worded letters” are as meaningful as the drivel that spins around tRUMP’s pinheaded brain then spews out of his rancid mouth
Amen, sister!
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
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.
Katie might run for Governor when Gavin runs for President. Many people are saying...
OOOOOO--delicious!!!! Can we dare hope??
She is running for governor.
Katie's running for governor in CA and leading right now.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is my legislative girlfriend. No surprise that Texas is trying to get rid of her district.
NO! Nonononononono!!! This cannot be allowed to happen.
They are *so* terrified of her.
And well they should be!
shit-on-their-own-stars, too…
Gotta love “gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot “. Sounds like a Warren Zevon lyric.
You could substitute "virginity" and turn it into a Madonna song.
Yes it does
I’m trying to decide which part of the old logo they miss, the barrel or the old cracker leaning against it.
The cracker.
😂😂😂
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Days like this, I am proud to be a born-and-raised-and-never-gonna-leave Californian :D
I am a born and raised Californian , currently living in Oregon. I couldn't afford to retire in Calif.
I used to live in Cali, and miss it dearly. Can't wait to return someday :)
I like your name for the redistricting bill better. That is a must vote yes for those of us in CA.
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.
Displaced California native echoes FUCK YEAH! among red-state troops, empty eateries in the picturesque, Humvee-adorned Occupied D.C.