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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on August 23, 2025, 07:29:21 AM
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yardwork
The self-owning begins.
It had to happen eventually,
MAGAT fans of Cracker Barrel turn on the company for changing its logo. The logo dropped the old man and the whip. Problem is - MAGATs are the Cracker Barrel consumer base. The rest of us are pointing and laughing.
Today the MAGATs are celebrating the resignation of the CEO of Target. "Woke means broke." The trouble is, the company turned its back on all its woke merchandise and HR policies a year ago, resulting in boycotts. But wait, the Fox News viewers kept boycotting it too. So everybody stopped going to Target, which, I hate to say this - MAGAT country depends on Target more than I do.
Meanwhile it's August and all the people who pick our food are being deported. And somehow those "34 million able-bodied people on Medicaid" just haven't shown up to work in the fields. Because - surprise! - it's actually skilled labor and very hard work and most people can't do it. (And most people on Medicaid aren't able-bodied either.)
At this point everything the MAGATs do hurts them much more than it hurts us.
When MAGA punches down they punch themselves in the face.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220578885
The people who pick our food? Racist much?
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That was hard to read. I feel so owned and ashamed.
:rotf:
I can’t tell you the last time I was in a Target or a Walmart. I would rather do most of my shopping local. HEB and Brookshire Brothers have most everything I need. Academy has the outdoor stuff I need.
Those are all Texas businesses.
Cracker Barrel isn’t being eviscerated due to the logo change. They changed WAY more than just the logo. I like Cracker Barrel and when the opportunity arises, I eat there. I’m not much into the cancel culture but it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
KC
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yardwork
The self-owning begins.
It had to happen eventually,
MAGAT fans of Cracker Barrel turn on the company for changing its logo. The logo dropped the old man and the whip. Problem is - MAGATs are the Cracker Barrel consumer base. The rest of us are pointing and laughing.
DUmmie yardwork self-beclowned, unsurprisingly.
1. While I'm certain that some Trump voters patronize Cracker Barrel, I doubt that they do so as some sort of cultural-political gesture or ritual. Whether Trump voters' % of Cracker Barrel customers is greater than their region's percentage of votes for Trump is very doubtful.
2. Here is a picture of the old Cracker Barrel logo on an outdoor sign:
(https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cracker_Barrel_Logo_49385.jpg)
Could someone tell me where the whip DUmmie yardwork called out is (outside of his/her :stoner: , of course)? Was this race-baiting ignorance or an intentional lie?
3. Until this AM, this Trump voter had no clue where the Cracker Barrel nearest me is located, or even if they have stores in CA. Using the location finder, the nearest store to me is in Bakersfield, around 300 miles from this Trump voter (for some states, a 300 mile drive would be into a neighboring state, :-) ). Now, the nearest CfA or In-N-Out, they're 15 or 20 minutes' drive from my home.
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It’s not just MAGA supporters who mocked Cracker Barrel for the logo change- it’s everyone outside the left’s little corner of the world, and even some within it.
Also, the comment about “punching down” made me roll my eyes so hard I can see backwards. The people who dehumanize “MAGATs” are here to tell us about punching down. The unwitting defenders of the political overclass are here to accuse us pf punching down.
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Today the MAGATs are celebrating the resignation of the CEO of Target. "Woke means broke." The trouble is, the company turned its back on all its woke merchandise and HR policies a year ago, resulting in boycotts. But wait, the Fox News viewers kept boycotting it too. So everybody stopped going to Target, which, I hate to say this - MAGAT country depends on Target more than I do.
Ignoring socio-political aspects, former CEO Brian Cornell's retail experience was weak. His experience with Pepsico and Yum! Brands - i.e. food sales - kind of outweighs his retail experience. His 2021 very publicly announced support for DEI in the context of George Floyd rioters' looting and destruction of a Target store was moronic and the PR damage more lasting than the quick withdrawal of the wokechandise could undo. Doing in the face of strong competition from the likes of Walmart, Kohl's, Costco, and Amazon - i.e. similarly strong alternatives - even more so. Withdrawing the wokechandise was could not repair the damage done. Any restored trust with those who objected to it was counter-balanced or more by the reaction of the woketivists. Target jumped into a ditch from which extrication was not possible, in the short- and medium-term.
As to "depending" on Target, our family does buy some things there. We also buy, variously, at Lucky (groceries), Costco, and Amazon. There's also a Walmart we don't shop because the parking lot access and egress suck. If the two Targets on Hillsdale and Saratoga magically closed tomorrow, we would have zero problems getting our needs and wants elsewhere and at similar costs.
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DUmmie yardwork self-beclowned, unsurprisingly.
1. While I'm certain that some Trump voters patronize Cracker Barrel, I doubt that they do so as some sort of cultural-political gesture or ritual. Whether Trump voters' % of Cracker Barrel customers is greater than their region's percentage of votes for Trump is very doubtful.
2. Here is a picture of the old Cracker Barrel logo on an outdoor sign:
(https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cracker_Barrel_Logo_49385.jpg)
Could someone tell me where the whip DUmmie yardwork called out is (outside of his/her :stoner: , of course)? Was this race-baiting ignorance or an intentional lie?
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Re: 1) According to VRWC Handbook, we are to reserve cultural-political patronage for Chik-Fil-A, specifically. :II:
Re: 2) I'm presuming the DUmp'Rat is seeing the swoop originating from the upper branch of the K in Cracker Barrel and circling the original logo and interpreting it as a slave massa's whip. (All I can do is guess here; I can't remove enough of my brain to reduce my intelligence to DUmp'Rat levels of stupid without involving .45 ACP moving at Mach Jebus.)
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DUchebags once again making thr mistake of thinking anyone gives a flying **** about what they say, think or do. They're legends in their own mind and irrelevant.
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As is often the case in these butt-hurt instances, I'm having trouble seeing the issue with the original Cracker Barrel logo. Likewise, I don't see an issue with the new logo. Both are not the most attractive logos, but the first logo seemed to fit what Cracker Barrel appeared to be going for which is old(ish) fashioned country food for hard working country people. Not just white people. Not just black people. Just people.
I'm sure the left doesn't realize this, but there are a fair number of country people who work hard and are "of color". As a kid, the first paying job that I ever had that wasn't on my grandparents' farm was bailing hay. I got the job due to some hard working country friends who were black. We're friends to this day, and although they no longer live in the country, they are still hardworking and would consider themselves to still be country. They'd also eat in a Cracker Barrel without giving a thought to the logo.
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Is there any estimate of how many MAGA//R//conservative self-own fizzles like this one have been posted on DU in the past 24 1/2 years or so?
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Is there any estimate of how many MAGA//R//conservative self-own fizzles like this one have been posted on DU in the past 24 1/2 years or so?
For some reason, reading that reminded me of when the loony left was going to boycott "evil" Chick-Fil-A and put it out of business, and in one of the biggest backfires ever, more folks than ever were lining up to buy Chick-Fil-A.
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For some reason, reading that reminded me of when the loony left was going to boycott "evil" Chick-Fil-A and put it out of business, and in one of the biggest backfires ever, more folks than ever were lining up to buy Chick-Fil-A.
In the time since then (2012, IIRC) CfA has expanded from 0 SF Bay Area locations to 15-20-?? (depends on how "SF Bay Area" is defined) with more being built (most recently, Morgan Hill, San Mateo, and Petaluma, that I know of).
Their Hobby Lobby boycott is not doing well, either, with one opening in San Jose early this year. Before that, the nearest was in Morgan Hill, about a half hour drive from our home.
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the OP:
yardwork (67,749 posts)
4. It was my intention.
Reply to intheflow (Reply #3)
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:16 AM
I live in the south and I'm tired of MAGATs. I do feel superior to them. I think they're dumb. And mean.
They're trying to destroy our democracy and right now, they're winning. I'm tired of being nice.
I'm turning to ridicule.
:rotf:
kinda full of yourself there - how about you ridiculing this?:
My predictions
I've never done this before! Please add your predictions to the thread.
I feel very confident that:
- Kamala Harris will win both the popular vote and electoral college by clear margins. The decision will come fairly quickly.
- Harris will win most of the swing states outright, with the Georgia decision coming in late (maybe weeks later) and not being essential to her win.
- The political careers of Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Ron DeSantis are over. Vance will not run for reelection to the senate. Trump and DeSantis will never win their party's nomination for anything again.
- Nikki Haley will be back, a contender for the 2028 GOP nomination. Liz Cheney will run, too.
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TD;DR
Too DUmb; Didn't Read
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“The Cracker Barrel Story Is Not About a Logo, They Thought We Were Stupid”: Robby Starbuck
https://wokespy.com/the-cracker-barrel-story-is-not-about-a-logo-they-thought-we-were-stupid-robby-starbuck/
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck released a lengthy video this week criticizing Cracker Barrel after the company unveiled a new logo design. In a 15-minute breakdown posted to his followers, Starbuck argued that the restaurant chain’s shift represents a departure from “old American nostalgia” to what he described as “cold, dead, lifeless and modern.”
Starbuck’s video examined both the company’s logo change and its broader corporate direction.
He claimed that Cracker Barrel, traditionally associated with Americana, has embraced what he called “wokeness” through its recent business and cultural decisions.
According to Starbuck, the company is now “infested with left-wing activists who are more interested in safe spaces, pronouns, and virtue signaling than they are in their customers.”
The logo is just a mere tip of the iceberg. Cracker Barrel is ridden with leftists.
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“The Cracker Barrel Story Is Not About a Logo, They Thought We Were Stupid”: Robby Starbuck
https://wokespy.com/the-cracker-barrel-story-is-not-about-a-logo-they-thought-we-were-stupid-robby-starbuck/
The logo is just a mere tip of the iceberg. Cracker Barrel is ridden with leftists.
Yeah, at first this seemed like much ado about nothing, but as some griping about the new logo spread into revealing other changes going on in the company, it is yet another case of a few elitist leftists (mainly the current CEO) telling people "we know what you want". I'm not finding the pictures now, but Cracker Barrel stores are being built or remodeled with ugly, minimalist exteriors and interiors, getting rid of the "grandma's attic" aesthetic that so much of the customer base likes.
There's times for rebranding, and times to stick with the classics. Cracker Barrel has no real need for rebranding, IMHO, and the backlash plus the executives seeming to not care about said backlash indicates the people in charge want their way and will let the company fall apart to get it.
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The problem is once woke executives and BoD takes over the corporation is toast.
If they get their way and make it woke they win for a time because eventually the corporation will go belly up. During that time the wokesters win by forcing their ideology on decent and civilized people.
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https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1960382983749386602
Cracker Barrel employee CONFIRMS their business is way down because of their woke CEO destroying their heritage
She says normally employees have at least 9 tables each, they are down to JUST 2, “So, as y'all can see, I work at Cracker Barrel as a waitress, and we're struggling”
“Everybody has had, like, two or three tables max. I say at least, like, nine tables their whole shift — Cracker Barrel. What are we doing? What? Something's got to give. Y'all people got families to feed.”
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The sad thing about mismangled companies like Cracker Barrel currently seems to be is that the mismanglers often are able to cut and run just before the company enters its final throes and smoothly move on to "the next thing". Meanwhile, ordinary employees, like that waitress, like the employees of two formerly high-flying, now-defunct, computers companies from which I was laid off, have to struggle to find their next gig. I'm tempted to name names or post initials and throw some :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: s, but they aren't worth the energy.
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Yeah, at first this seemed like much ado about nothing, but as some griping about the new logo spread into revealing other changes going on in the company, it is yet another case of a few elitist leftists (mainly the current CEO) telling people "we know what you want". I'm not finding the pictures now, but Cracker Barrel stores are being built or remodeled with ugly, minimalist exteriors and interiors, getting rid of the "grandma's attic" aesthetic that so much of the customer base likes.
There's times for rebranding, and times to stick with the classics. Cracker Barrel has no real need for rebranding, IMHO, and the backlash plus the executives seeming to not care about said backlash indicates the people in charge want their way and will let the company fall apart to get it.
I was just reading that yesterday. I've only been to Cracker Barrel about four times, and that was several years back. Based on what I read yesterday, everything has changed. Including the food. And not for the better.
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. Problem is - MAGATs are the Cracker Barrel consumer base. The rest of us are pointing and laughing.
You have individual political information of Cracker Barrel customers? I didn't think so. But by all means, keep pointing and laughing armed with your pretend facts. Good plan.
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Apparently CB has decided not to change its logo. I do not think this will end CB's mismanglers' FO consequences for their years of FA.