Trump's Second Term

AmyStrange said:
Well stated and thank you, but I wonder why Cracker Barrel decided to change their logo now? Was it to piss off the fat clown and his maga weirdoes? I sure hope so, because it's doing a bang-up job, and I love it!


ETA: I mean, is anyone here really offended that a white guy was in their old logo?
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I was under the strong impression that it had far more to do with trying to attract a younger clientele overall, so boring business reasons that had nothing to do with politics. There's something to be said about how the GOP decided to insert itself into a private business' business affairs like this again, under similarly nonsensical "woke" related BS excuses that try to shift blame for their wrongdoings onto the left. To me, this behavior is rather reminiscent of Arkansas Republicans seeing that 1 Democrat got elected and kicking up a big fuss about how things weren't fair, so they needed to rig elections even further in their favor.
 
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It was my understanding that it was something similar to CBS' "rural purge" around 1971, when they cancelled all their shows like Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hee Haw because they wanted to present a more modern and cosmopolitan image.
 
Aridas said:
I was under the strong impression that it had far more to do with trying to attract a younger clientele overall
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That's my thinking, too. Isn't CB's main clientele the rapidly-aging Boomers and earlier? Not a comfortable place for a business to be when their main clientele is dying out, and the survivors leaving the house less and less each passing year.
 
alfaniner said:
It's hard to notice, but the original logo is circumscribed by a whip, making him a "whip-cracker" (which I think is where the original, now slur term, comes from.
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I'm looking at it. It's not a whip - there's no handle and no end. It's just a curved line connecting the K to the R and continuing around behind the barrel.
 
arthwollipot said:
I'm looking at it. It's not a whip - there's no handle and no end. It's just a curved line connecting the K to the R and continuing around behind the barrel.
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It's subtlety; like I said, the old logo was super sexy. The squares just see an old guy and a barrel full of crackers (were crackers ever kept in barrels? Why? Surely other containers would be a more reasonable shape for them?) but those in the know would see the whisper of forbidden erotic delights. Cracker Barrel was coded as safe and folksy but secretly they were hotbeds of dark sexual fantasy made real.
 
Norman Alexander said:
So why has Watters gone off like a wet fart about it?
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It's strange, even Penguinz0 has done a rant video about it and corporate drones that drain the individuality out of company brands.
There was similar outrage in the UK not so long ago when WH Smiths a chain of stationers changed the colour of their logo. They don't exist now, they got bought out.
 
Andy_Ross said:
It's strange, even Penguinz0 has done a rant video about it and corporate drones that drain the individuality out of company brands.
There was similar outrage in the UK not so long ago when WH Smiths a chain of stationers changed the colour of their logo. They don't exist now, they got bought out.
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I'd forgotten they were gone, it's genuinely that long since I've been on a High Street. It used to be one of my favourite shops and I can only think of any town of any half decent size that didn't have one. No-one is safe now.
 
They are still there but under a new name.
Their core sales were records and magazines.
Records have gone and magazines are going.
 
Remember when conservatives created a national uproar over a false claim that President Obama was scheming to impose military rule on Texas?
Trump is now doing just that in LA, DC, Chicago next and New York soon.

“The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago … The use of thousands of active-duty troops in Chicago also has been discussed”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1959414778603897056
 
Apparently the difference is Donald is doing it to save the USA.
Obama was going to do it to destroy the USA.
It's only the vigilant patriots that stopped him by exposing his plans.
 
Andy_Ross said:
They are still there but under a new name.
Their core sales were records and magazines.
Records have gone and magazines are going.
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And books, they were a major book seller. I remember when they used to sell almost everything, at their peak they were a huge outlet for home computers and software, we're talking ZX Spectrum era! Board games were big for them, and roleplaying games were a good fit too blurring the line between board games and books.
 
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