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Sandbox – 12aug25

[NYC’s Mamdani is a communist in socialist’s clothing.  He is now polling at the 40+% level and sure to be the city’s next mayor.  On his current Hate Trump tour he is telling his double dummies that he’s willing to work with Trump as long as the president is ready to federally subsidize his ‘affordability’ projects like free city transit rides and cheap food from city-owned grocery stores.  Gerald Baker in the 12aug25 WSJ (here) posits that Mamdani may herald a new kind of class struggle – “It’s the overeducated elites, not laborers or the masses, who are getting behind socialism today.” gjr]

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  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Mamdani who is contending to be Mayor of New York is not a high priority topic to me. Aside from that one quote repeated incessantly on this blog I don’t see where he is any different than Bernie Sanders who also declares him self a Socialist. Bernie would have been elected President if the Demss hadn’t rigged the Primary election. Thats my opinion.

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul “If its not about Trump I refuse to discuss it” Emery | 21 August 2025 at 01:58 PM
    Mamdani who is contending to be Mayor of New York is not a high priority topic to me.
    Wonder what is a “High Priority” topic to Paul Raymond……wait….never mind!

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  3. gjrebane Avatar
    gjrebane

    PaulE 158pm – Paul, your 415pm launches with, “What’s this obsession with Mamdani? He’s a primary candidate on one State yet you make up all this stuff that he represents the Democratic party.” With this you tell the world that you are ignorant of and shielded from the news Mamdani generates and that your own party admits to having their undies in a bundle about. They are about to witness a disaster in their own ranks when Mamdani become NYC mayor. That you consider this attention to be only mine or local – “… you make up all this stuff …” is a clear testimony to your attention to and awareness of national affairs.

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wow….(to quote Paul Raymond)….that didn’t take long!

    Cracker Barrel loses almost $100 million in value as stock plunges after new logo release

    Say goodbye to Bud light……err Cracker Barrel now that this progressive nitwit, Julie Felss Masino got her grubby mitts into it!
    Good rant about the matter…..

    “The real reason Cracker Barrel has been struggling is that its service and food quality nose-dived after COVID, and instead of fixing that, the company and its woke executives decided to go full Bud Light and taste the rainbow and dare its customers to object.
    They stopped bringing you biscuits and cornbread as a matter of course, then they shrunk them, the food started to taste and look reheated instead of freshly prepared, and the service got slower and sloppier. Everyone who’s been a loyal customer over the years has experienced this. It’s undeniable.
    Those are admittedly tricky problems to fix, especially given how service quality everywhere has sucked after COVID. It’s hard to find wait staff and cooks who always show up when they’re supposed to and take pride in their work.
    Cracker Barrel executives refused to address those problems—problems that any customer would’ve pointed out had they bothered to ask. Instead, the executives went all-in on woke alphabet BS: DEI this, BLM that, LGBT whatever.
    Because that’s what people want at an old country diner: gay race communism shoved in their faces.
    The stupid rebrand in which executives stripped every last bit of charm and character from the company and its restaurants and stores was just the latest in a long line of attempts to set money on fire by breaking what didn’t need to be fixed and refusing to fix what was obviously broken.
    Cracker Barrel had the simplest restaurant model possible, and it was one that made people fall and stay in love with the brand for decades: comfort food in a setting that reminded you of your grandparents’ home. The food was good, the people were kind, and the setting felt like a loving home filled with people who cared about each other. That was it.
    And the moronic executives who’ve now destroyed something like $2 billion worth of that company’s value since 2020 have decided the last little bit of charm left in the place needed to have its soul ripped out and covered up with ship lap and geometric artwork and consultant-approved off-white paint. Forget your grandmother’s home-cooking after church—this is now IHOP by Joanna Gaines, complete with gay pride rainbows and in-your-face DEI sloganeering.
    Cracker Barrel wasn’t just a company or a restaurant. It represented a slice of Americana that millions would desperately like to return to. A time where people worked with their hands, and prayed before meals, and didn’t bother locking their doors at night. The old soda signs reminded us that our money wasn’t always worthless and our country wasn’t always run by greedy bankers. We used to be a country that built things and conquered the frontier.
    That’s the feeling that Cracker Barrel used to evoke, and it’s what made its customers so loyal. It’s why people would stop there for lunch during a long road trip instead of just grabbing fast food and getting back on the highway. It’s why people were happy to wait 30 minutes for a table after Sunday School and happily mill about the store until their table was ready.
    And it’s that feeling and that America which the woke parasites in charge of Cracker Barrel deliberately sought to maliciously destroy. They refused to fix the actual problems and instead decided the real problem was its own customers, which it set out to re-educate.
    I hope they had their fun, because Cracker Barrel is done. They killed it, wrapped the corpse in a rainbow flag, and then made it do a little puppet show in New York City for the entertainment of all their woke little friends. If the stupid woke CEO Julie Felss Masino had the sense to lose the dumb prop glasses and stop looking down her nose at the millions of people who used to frequent Cracker Barrel, it would’ve been obvious to see.
    But no. It was beyond her capabilities. It’s not that she’s dumb. Poor woke little Julie is just plain ‘eg-no-ra-moose.’ ”

    Don’t have to like or dislike Cracker Barrel to recognize that progressives destroy everything they touch!
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cracker-barrel-cbrl-stock-down-200-million-loss-new-logo-change/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/08/21/photo-cracker-barrels-soulless-logo-update-sparks-outrage/
    PS: jeffy…you’ll always be my favorite cracker!

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    WINNING!
    The local police union reported that there had not been a recorded murder in seven days following Trump’s D.C. takeover, along with an 83% drop in carjackings and a 46% drop in robberies.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/watch-live-donald-trump-joins-police-national-guard-for-d-c-ride-along/
    😉

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  6. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Has anyone ever eaten at Cracker Barrel?
    Is it better than Trumpty Dumpty?

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    SOMEONE GET THE PO OL PONYTAIL OF IGNORANCE SOME SMEELING SALTS STAT! Now NY owes the prez interest on his bond! LOL
    In New York, a court revealed that a leading citizen had cooked the books by inflating questionable figures without any support in reality. Moreover, his wild overvaluation was widely viewed as motivated by his self-aggrandizement. The final reported figures are so absurdly inflated that they were rejected in their entirety. In the end, he was off by over half a billion dollars.
    That man is Judge Arthur Engoron.
    After a New York appellate court unanimously threw out Engoron’s absurd half-a-billion-dollar judgment and interest against President Donald Trump, the irony was crushing. It was Engoron who seemed, as he characterized Trump witnesses, as having “simply denied reality.” It made his notorious reliance on an assessment of Mar-a-Lago as worth between $18 million and $27.6 million seem like good accounting.
    In the end, he could not get a single judge to preserve a single dollar of that fine.
    For some of us who covered that trial, the most vivid image of Engoron came at the start. He indicated that he did not want cameras in the courtroom, but when the networks showed up, Engoron took off his glasses and seemed to pose for the cameras.
    It was a “Sunset Boulevard” moment. We only need Gloria Swanson looking into the camera to speak to “those wonderful people out there in the dark!” and announcing “all right, [Ms. James], I’m ready for my close-up.”
    The close-up was not a good idea, and, on appeal, it was perfectly disastrous. The court found little legal or factual basis for his fine. The purported witnesses not only did not lose a dime, but they testified that they made money on the loans and wanted new loans with the Trump administration. That did not move Engoron. From the start, he was speaking to those “wonderful people out there.”
    Yet, James could not have succeeded if she had not had a judge willing to ignore reality and cook the books on the fines. She needed a partner in lawfare. She needed Engoron.
    Even for some anti-Trump commentators, the judgment was impossible to defend and some acknowledged that they had never seen any case like this one brought in New York.
    Judge David Friedman gave Engoron a close-up that would have made Swanson wince. He detailed how the underlying law “has never been used in the way it is being used in this case – namely, to attack successful, private, commercial transactions, negotiated at arm’s length between highly sophisticated parties fully capable of monitoring and defending their own interests.”
    He accused Engoron of participating in an effort clearly directed by James at “ending with the derailment of President Trump’s political career and the destruction of his real estate business.”
    Other judges said that Engoron’s fine was so off base and engorged that it was an unconstitutional order under the Eighth Amendment, protecting citizens from “cruel and unusual” punishments. So, Engoron not only inflated the figures but shredded the Constitution in his effort to deliver a blow against Trump.
    Some of those limits could be moot by the time of any final judgment. Ironically, if Engoron had shown a modicum of restraint, he might have secured a victory. During the trial in New York, I said that he would have been smart to impose a dollar fine and limited injunctive relief. That, however, required a modicum of judicial restraint and judgment.
    Instead, Engoron chose to walk down the stairway into infamy. He was off by half a billion dollars, which could put him in the Bernie Madoff class of judges.
    In other words, if he wanted to be remembered on that first day, Arthur Engoron succeeded.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-who-fined-trump-500-million-gets-books-thrown-him
    😉

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I don’t care for Gov. Newsom very much but I applaud him for what he’s doing to nullify the gerrymandering by Republicans in Texas

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  9. gjrebane Avatar
    gjrebane

    PaulE 512pm – Do you also approve of your Democrat legislators in Sacramento bypassing the citizens commission on congressional districting in 2020 to allow it to gerrymander California into its current Democrat super-majority map? Are you even aware that this happened?

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Are you aware of what happenned in Texas? Here’s a Republican vew of what the goal was:
    “You want transparency,” said representative Todd Hunter, the Corpus Christi Republican who drafted the redistricting bill. “The underlying goal of this plan is straightforward: improve Republican political performance … We are allowed to draw congressional districts on the basis of political performance, as recognized by the US supreme court in Rucho v Common Cause. These districts were drawn primarily using political performance to guide the redrawing of districts.”
    The strong assertion that the genesis of the redistricting is about increasing the number of Republicans in Congress, and not to diminish the voting power of people of color, is an early defense to expected legal challenges to the proposal under the Voting Rights Act.
    “When you say the word ‘redistricting’, I think you know there are going to be legal challenges,” Hunter said.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/texas-house-redistricting-bill-floor

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    MORE WINNING!
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-lets-trump-administration-cut-783-million-of-research-funding-in-anti-dei-push/ar-AA1KYRNC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68a7ca914edc49d9a399fbc628d4eb82&ei=47
    😉

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  12. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “I applaud him for what he’s doing to nullify the gerrymandering by Republicans in Texas”
    So you applaud him for doing exactly what the Dems have been doing in CA and other states and now Texas is doing.
    But Texas is “destroying democracy” and Gavin is doing the Lord’s work. Typical partisan BS.
    As has been pointed out – the Dems have been doing this for quite a while and there isn’t a lot more they can do. The red states can gin up way more new seats than the Dems can if they want to have this battle.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 21 August 2025 at 04:39 PM
    Has anyone ever eaten at Cracker Barrel?
    Is it better than Trumpty Dumpty?
    What do you prefer jeffy?

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    If greasy gavin actually got in a fight all you would have to do is mess up his hair and he would start sniffling and call you a meannie! –
    Podcaster Gavin Newsom Imitates Joe Biden: Says He’ll Punch ‘Sons of Bitches’ Trump, Republicans ‘In the Mouth’
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/trump-gavin-newsom-punch-violence-mouth/
    😉

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    When can we expect the parade for the perps –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/cincinnati-police-union-rips-arrest-of-white-victim-in-viral-street-attack-as-political-interference/ar-AA1KXOUO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68a8080980704e2180593b6f1a8d776c&ei=53
    😉

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    from psul: “These districts were drawn primarily using political performance to guide the redrawing of districts.”
    How else are they redrawn?
    That’s how you get California with 58% Kamala Harris voters and 75% Democratic Assemblymen+State Senators.
    I can’t say there’s a good way to do it. There’s plenty of Congressional seats with pretty extreme gerrymandering in order to get a black dude in there, which also causes ‘dilution’.
    My guess is that you’re in favor of any districting concept that results in maximizing things you like.
    And no, adding political parties doesn’t help. You just end up with coalitions.
    Seriously dude, you need to think these things through and make good arguments.

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    scotto: “So you applaud him for doing exactly what the Dems have been doing in CA and other states and now Texas is doing.”
    I love it when anyone from Illinois bitches, from hard-right publication Politico:
    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/10/democrats-pritzker-republicans-redistricting-gerrymandering-00501739
    Gotta love that Pritzker guy. He’s like some Thomas Nast cartoon of a politician.
    …plus he’s worth $3.75B
    …plus his brother, ‘Jennifer’, is an insane man in a dress worth $2.5B who heavily backs things that insane men in dresses like
    Honestly, if a Democratic politician says it at this point, it’s a combination of perverse and dishonest. There must be a word for that.

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  18. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    And now it turns out the Dems in CA broke the law regarding the 30 day rule for new legislation. This is to allow ample time for public input, but who cares about the public?
    The CA Supreme Court says it’s OK because “duh-mock-cracy!”
    Having failed as mayor and as governor, Newsom sets his sights on the presidency.
    “punch them in the mouth”
    I guess that’s the new democracy.
    Hilarious!

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  19. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Posted by: fish | 21 August 2025 at 07:27 PM
    IHOP

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  20. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Get John Bolton, he said bad things about me in his book!

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Too bad about Mr. Mustache. You know what they say about playing stupid games.
    My take: Announce a top-secret/controlled document amnesty. Print up the rules for those who forget too easily, allow people to turn them in no harm no foul. I guarantee that horrid creatures like John Brennan have a pile of this stuff somewhere because a)they are members of the ruling class so why not and b)they ‘might write a book’ sometime.
    Of course, part of the problem is that a lot of classified stuff shouldn’t be, but that’s a different issue.
    It seems that the rule sets for information access, campaign contributions, tax law, election law, are so insanely complex that you can arrest anyone at any time. Obama set the stage for weaponizing government recently (although Lincoln or FDR had to be the kings of that), but it’s now simply become part of the landscape.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 22 August 2025 at 09:04 AM
    IHOP
    Hmmm….a lateral move at best!

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  23. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Watching a clip of President Archie Bunker today, wearing his latest MAGA 45-47 cap fashion accessory emblazoned with the immortal phrase,
    ‘Trump Was Right About Everything’
    Welcome to conservative America.

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  24. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    ‘Trump Was Right About Everything’
    Oh that’s right – BeerBelly still thinks the Russian collusion hoax was accurate and Biden is sharp as a tack!
    LOL – Trump is POTUS and BeerBelly goes to IHOP.
    We just have to deal with it, don’t we?

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 22 August 2025 at 10:08 AM
    Welcome to conservative America.
    Indeed! Welcome!

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    More on corporate enshittification….

    Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance
    Cracker Barrel is learning the same lesson Bud Light did: fat, bearded, gun toting middle Americans not only dislike change — especially the “woke” kind — but will also turn on you for taking a staple brand they love and pile-driving it into the ground.
    Today Cracker Barrel’s stock cratered more than 10% after the company unveiled a rebrand that scrapped its iconic barrel-and-man logo in favor of a sterile, text-only “woker” design minus the old white guy and the…well, cracker barrel. The move, pushed by CEO Julie Felss Masino, has triggered furious backlash from customers, conservatives, and investors alike, with many calling it the chain’s “Bud Light moment. And me, just calling it grossly f**king incompetent.
    I mean, honestly. How do you become goddamn CEO of Cracker Barrel without understanding that this is your demographic? If you asked me to find me a woke Democrat in this crowd, I couldn’t. If you asked me to find someone who does their own plumbing or shot a deer before 6AM the day this photo was taken, I could simply point to anyone — including the women.
    How does the company’s CEO just not walk into one of their own restaurants and open their eyes? How does she not understand that nobody has ever said, “Let’s pull off at Exit 49 for a plate of woke minimalism.”
    People go for biscuits the size of baseball mitts, kitschy décor that hasn’t changed since Nixon, and that faint smell of maple syrup soaked into the walls. Instead, the CEO has singlehandedly torched decades of brand identity with a text-only logo that looks like it was spit out by a bored intern with Microsoft Word.
    The backlash has been ferocious. Meanwhile, CEO Julie Felss Masino is insisting the feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive,” which is corporate-speak for “I muted my notifications yesterday morning and set my e-mail to my ‘out of office’ reply”.
    This is the executive leading a $700 million “modernization” push to swap cozy country stores for sterile farmhouse chic. In other words, the woman who thought you could make Cracker Barrel better by making it look less like Cracker Barrel. Masino’s vision is essentially to strip away the hokey charm and replace it with something she clearly believes will appeal to “younger, more diverse diners.” The menu is being tinkered with too—lighter options, healthier twists, a nod to “evolving tastes.”
    But here’s the obvious question: did she learn nothing from Bud Light? After watching the number-one beer in America self-immolate by alienating its core base, Masino still thought bulldozing nostalgia in favor of bland “relevance” was a stroke of genius?
    That’s not bold leadership—that’s corporate malpractice.
    Forget about not having a case study back at Harvard Business School to remember. Bud Light walked this exact plank literally just 2 years ago when it decided to suddenly pivot into a progressive rebrand via Dylan Mulvaney.
    The fallout was brutal: sales cratered, Modelo swooped in as the new king of American beer, and over a year later Bud Light is still limping like a horse that should have been put down. Ex-Anheuser-Busch execs admit it hasn’t recovered at all. And here’s the kicker—once you lose that loyal customer, they don’t come back. People who think salisbury steak is gourmet eating will switch to Modelo or, in Cracker Barrel’s case, literally any other highway diner, and they’ll never think twice about it.
    The stock immediately plunging more than 10% should be all the impetus the board of directors needs to show Julie Felss Masino the door immediately and try and save its brand. How can anyone with a straight face defend this gamble after the smoking ruins of Bud Light and even Jaguar’s own branding fiascos showed what happens when you gut your brand’s entire identity to chase “relevance”?
    This isn’t bold leadership, it’s gross incompetence. In one trading session she managed to vaporize over $100 million in shareholder value. One day. So the $700 million renovation now has costed $800 million. If wiping out nine figures in value with a single rebrand isn’t grounds for termination, what exactly is?

    https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/cracker-barrels-board-should-fire

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    scenes

    re: fish@10:45AM
    “CEO Julie Felss Masino ”
    roflmao.
    Inventing girl jobs is the Prime Directive of a large part of corporate, education, non-profit, and government America.

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Awww po ol greasy gavins thin skin gets pierced regularly by the king of late night who regularly beats all the others combined. As if they would cancel this massive cash cow killing it in the most important demographics.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/gavin-newsom-calls-for-late-night-tv-show-s-cancelation/ar-AA1L1L53?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68a8b018af2c467c83ba354cebbc0c9b&ei=66
    😉

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    A simple truth I’ll express on Gavin Newsom.
    Regardless of how darned ambitious he is, regardless of his low abilities, the truth is that it’s essentially impossible for a California politician to be elected as President at this point.
    The brand is too damaged.
    Really, someone should do a study about how many points you lose being from this state at this point. It’s like that ad for salsa from ‘New York City’.
    Going from the Beach Boys and Endless Summer to boys-in-dresses and Endless Immigration took some doing, but here we are.

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    MAKE ORWELL
    FICTION A’GIN

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  31. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Trump is a genius! He knew it was okay to have all those classified docs at his country club,
    he knew that the election was rigged all this time, he knew it was a perfect telephone call,
    he knew it was okay for his foundation to commission a painting for him donor funds,
    he knew that all the culture warrior propaganda bullshit that doesn’t matter except to a bunch of homophobes would stick like shit to a shoe with his magaloon base.
    He was “Right” about everything!

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  32. Showmekid Avatar
    Showmekid

    As someone who has eaten at Cracker Barrel, I think I educate the IHOP gourmet. I was back in Missouri, visiting relatives and doing ancestry work in western Kentucky when my cousin said let’s have lunch at a Cracker Barrel. Man, the food was wonderful, plentiful (I think they could even possibly fill up Hillbilly). Southern comfort food at its best.
    Go forward several years and I saw the news, a Cracker Barrel was opening in Sacramento and one Rocklin. Couldn’t wait to go. Went and tried both locations and the food was TERRIBLE!!! Nothing like what I had in Kentucky. Portions were about half what they were in KY and had the flavor of cardboard. Beeter off at Balck Bear Diner. I’ve wondered why so terrible and after all the news lately, I know why.

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    scenes

    re: RH@1:31PM
    Some information on records.
    https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/3.1.23_nara_briefing_transcript.pdf
    My suggestion is to have an LLM like Grok give you a summary.
    (teach a man to fish and all that)

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    re: SMK@1:37
    Expecially post-COVID, I just assume that the value proposition at all restaurants is poor.
    Besides the issues with prices, it’s basically just Sysco slop served up fresh ‘n hot. Cost reductions at all levels.

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Those woke groomers at disney managed to lose snoop dog too-
    Snoop Dogg Bodyslams Disney over His Grandson’s Reaction to ‘Lightyear’ Lesbian Moms Scene: ‘I Didn’t Come for This Sh*t’
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/08/22/snoop-dogg-bodyslams-disney-over-his-grandsons-reaction-to-lightyear-lesbian-moms-scene-i-didnt-come-for-this-sht/
    😉

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  36. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “…all the culture warrior propaganda bullshit that doesn’t matter except to a bunch of homophobes”
    Yeah – objecting to adult men in the girls’ locker rooms waving their junk around. Perverts dressed as cheap tarts doing sexual gyrations in front of little kids. Putting sexually confused, mentally ill men in charge of governmental affairs and trotting them out in front of the camera and demand we accept them as normal?
    That only matters to “homophobes”?
    Hillbilly really is a sick bastard.
    Keep it up, dude – you loons will lose the national elections forever.

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  37. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    MAGA America folks
    https://www.threads.com/@jerrynmn12/post/DNlsMNnpOn7?xmt=AQF0db4OW-jLalkyAWVYCFWlVVgTg97JlumknqJOb3BVSw&slof=1

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  38. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    The truth is out there,
    “The admin’s hunt for a “weaponized” government is a stunning success. They found the culprit in the mirror. Today’s raid on Bolton isn’t an investigation; it’s a loyalty purge disguised as law enforcement.
    The blueprint is clear. First, launch probes into critics like Comey and Brennan (July 2025). Then, get the president’s wink-and-nod for the next target, as Trump told Bondi today: “you have to do what you have to do.” All while AG Bondi’s “Weaponization Working Group” hires a lawyer who compared J6 prosecutions to the Holocaust.
    The oath of office has been replaced with a loyalty oath. Justice is no longer blind; it’s just obedient.”

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    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Trump abandons Afghanistan immigrants
    AI Mode
    AI Overview
    Since his return to office in January 2025, Donald Trump has pursued policies that negatively impact Afghan immigrants, halting resettlement flights, ending temporary protected status (TPS), and blocking legal pathways to residency. These actions are widely seen by refugee advocates and U.S. veterans as abandoning Afghan allies who assisted American efforts during the war.
    Key actions taken by the Trump administration in 2025 include:
    Suspension of the U.S. refugee program. On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order that halted the Afghan resettlement program. This left thousands of vetted Afghan evacuees stranded globally, with some having their flights to the U.S. canceled.
    Ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS). In May 2025, the Department of Homeland Security ended TPS for thousands of Afghans, claiming that conditions in Afghanistan were no longer dangerous enough to warrant the protection. Critics, including military veterans, strongly dispute this, stating that the move puts Afghans who aided the U.S. at risk of persecution by the Taliban.
    Closing legal pathways. The administration blocked or limited various immigration avenues for Afghans, including Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) and other programs for allies. This has created new barriers for those seeking permanent residency in the United States.
    Context on the 2021 withdrawal
    While the user’s query references recent events, the situation with Afghan immigrants is also rooted in the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
    Trump’s 2020 deal with the Taliban: Trump’s first administration negotiated and signed a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that bypassed the Afghan government and set the conditions for a U.S. troop pullout. Critics say this paved the way for the Taliban’s eventual swift takeover.
    Chaotic 2021 evacuation: The final, chaotic withdrawal was overseen by the Biden administration in 2021. The resulting evacuation effort, while large, left many Afghan allies behind. Those who were evacuated often entered the country on temporary humanitarian parole, not a permanent visa.
    Parole and legal limbo: Many of the more than 80,000 Afghans evacuated in 2021 entered the U.S. on humanitarian parole, a temporary status. They were then left in legal limbo, with no clear path to permanent residency. A legislative effort to create a pathway, the Afghan Adjustment Act, has languished in Congress.
    Differing perspectives
    Advocates and veterans: Organizations like the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and #AfghanEvac, a coalition of U.S. veterans, have condemned the policies as a “betrayal” of American allies. They argue that the policies undermine the promises made to those who risked their lives for the U.S. mission.
    Trump administration position: The Trump administration has focused on tightening immigration enforcement and border security. In terminating TPS for Afghans, the administration claimed that conditions in Afghanistan had improved enough for return. Concerns have also been raised about vetting processes for Afghan evacuees, though critics say this is being used to justify restrictive immigration policies.
    Trump’s conflicting statements: Despite the restrictive policies, Trump has made some statements vowing to help “the good ones” among Afghan allies. However, refugee advocates note a contradiction between these words and his administration’s actions.

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    Dumbass knows how to waste money on remodeling
    https://www.facebook.com/reel/762049376470211/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e

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    “Dumbass knows how to waste money…”
    That’s PRESIDENT Dumbass to you, dude.
    If he’s so stupid how did he manage to actually control the border in weeks that the Biden admin couldn’t for 4 years?
    Remember that Biden claimed the border was under control and then claimed he couldn’t do anything about it until congress passed new laws.
    And you’re worried about wasting money?
    Funny how that just started.

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    The border under Biden was probably doing just what Biden and friends wanted.
    It was under control. It’s better now.

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    Scott O

    A socialist admits they’re out of other people’s money:
    “German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has made it official:
    The German welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Friedrich Merz said on Saturday.
    The chancellor argued for a fundamental reassessment of the benefits system as spending continues to soar past last year’s record of €47bn (£40bn).
    In a state-level party conference meeting on Saturday, Mr Merz said: “The welfare state as we have it today can no longer be financed with what we can economically afford.”

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    What happens when Chessmaster Trump pulls the National Guard from the cities with Black mayors?
    Crime will no longer exist?
    The Trump Show Episode 86

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    Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 25 August 2025 at 07:51 AM
    What happens when Chessmaster Trump pulls the National Guard from the cities with Black mayors?
    They go back to being cities with black mayors.

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    Posted by: Scott O | 24 August 2025 at 10:30 PM
    I’m guessing that Mr. Merz will soon be shown the door…….

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    So, hook,line and sinker, you agree – and admit that the National Guard power play is essentially a useless show of force by Proto Fascist Chessmaster Trump?
    Whoops! another murder in D.C.! Meanwhile, Trump’s Praetorian Guard is spending all their time goose stepping around the tourist spots on the National Mall for photo ops.
    I guess the only solution is full takeover of blue states and cities by the military.
    Freedom!
    MAGA!

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    Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 25 August 2025 at 08:54 AM
    So, hook,line and sinker, you agree – and admit that the National Guard power play is essentially a useless show of force by Proto Fascist Chessmaster Trump?
    Jeez jeffy…you read an awful lot into a brief post stating that the cities run by black mayors tend to be crime ridden shitholes.
    In the short term the military will settle things down….after…. those cities will go back to being crime ridden shitholes just like the progressive intelligentsia prefers.
    They are the way they are because that’s the way you want it!

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