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August 27, 2025 Kim du Toit Corporate Fuckery, Marketing / Advertising

…as Cracker Barrel turns away from the Bud Light precipice:

Cracker Barrel will bring back its old logo after days of ruthless criticism and a plummeting stock price following its botched rebranding.

The company’s board, led by CEO Julie Felss Masino, ignored warning signs and criticism for months ahead of the announcement last week that the restaurant chain would ditch its old logo and give its stores a modern look. The company appears to have walked back part of that decision on Tuesday.

Which part, I wonder? One commenter shared my doubts:

If they don’t change their support for all the weird sexual politics and attendant shenanigans, none of that matters. In fact, focusing on the logo, etc., just drives publicity and brand awareness up for them. Lose the CB-sponsored drag queens and maybe I’ll care about the decor.

As with the Bud Light “fegeleh” and New Coke episodes, companies seem to forget that if your ethos is traditionalist, you mess with your brand positioning at your peril, and chasing new customers is a fool’s game if you alienate your existing base.

I haven’t eaten by myself at Cracker Barrel for years because their prices have become just outrageous — but when I get an overseas visitor to entertain, it’s a must-see experience (along with Buc-ees and rodeo).

Even The Donald weighed in, telling Cracker Barrel not to be idiots and go back to what has, after all, been their basic positioning since forever.

Kudos to them for acknowledging their mistake.

Unlike Jaguar. [#Morons]

Random Totty

August 27, 2025 Kim du Toit Gratuitous Chick Pics

There is this singer named Ellie Goulding — no, I couldn’t sing one of her songs with a gun pointed at my head, either — who may be worthy of a look or two. She has one of those Drew Barrymore faces (i.e. a large chin), but the rest is quite tasty:

That said, being a Modern Womyn she’s not exactly shy about showing off the girls either:

Alternative

August 26, 2025 Kim du Toit Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Trumpism

There’s a good reason why this is happening:

Mass protests have exploded outside migrant hotels across the country this weekend as furious families gathered in major cities including Birmingham and London.

Hotels across Dudley, Epping, London, Manchester and Norwich have also braced for protests as communities seek to replicate the ruling for The Bell Hotel which, pending an appeal, must be closed within weeks.

It comes after more than 30 protests under the Abolish Asylum system were held in towns and cities across the UK on Saturday.

These included Bristol, Exeter, Tamworth, Cannock, Nuneaton, Liverpool, Wakefield, Newcastle, Horley, Canary Wharf, Aberdeen and Perth in Scotland, and Mold in Wales.

A separate batch of protests were also organised by Stand Up to Racism in Bristol, Cannock, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Wakefield, Horley and Long Eaton in Derbyshire.

Quite frankly, the Brits are rebelling against their government’s accommodationist [sic] policy towards illegal immigrants — I’m sorry, I meant “asylum seekers” — because Britain doesn’t have anything like this*:

And here’s the big difference. We have facilities like the above because:

The Brits, on the other hand, never voted for “asylum hotels”, but had them thrust upon them by their (elected) government. So it’s all very well blaming the Britgov for doing this, but let’s be honest about the whole thing: it’s not like the awful Labour Party ever disguised their intentions — and the Brits voted them into power anyway because the “Conservative” Party had cocked up the whole migrant issue themselves, and I suppose the Brit voters wanted to “teach them a lesson”.

Well, that worked well for them, didn’t it?

Now, the Tories are but a shadow of their former [ahem Thatcherite] glory, and the party most likely to replace them as the proper Opposition is…

That’s assuming, of course, that Farage can survive the typical (and tiresome) British tradition of political treachery and backstabbing.

But if all the above popular demonstrations are anything to be believed, it means that native Brits have finally fond their voice, and a principle to rally around.

And it’s about damn time. Let’s just hope that it’s not too late.

*I know, I know: some idiot judge has rued that AlliAlc must be closed or something, so we’ll just have to find another place that doesn’t upset the local ~~Democrats~~ Indian tribe. (Maybe we should just offer to convert AlliAlc into a fucking casino in ten years’ time, just to shut them up.)

Burning Question

August 26, 2025 Kim du Toit Classic Beauty, Foreign Affairs

Okay, it’s probably just me, but…

Where the hell does Trump find all these beautiful and intelligent women to work for him? (I know, the Left is all over this, whining that he only appoints these “bimbos” — their word, not mine — as though it’s utterly impossible to be clever and beautiful, the combination of which is conspicuous by its absence on their side of the aisle.)

I mean, probably the ugliest woman working in Trump’s administration is his AG, and Pam Bondi is not at all ugly — especially when compared to leftists like OMG Janet Reno, Rosa de Lauro and that screeching lesbianist on MSNBC/MS NOW(?) with the black glasses.

The latest one to catch my eye was when reading at American Thinker about Trump’s Deputy U.S. Envoy for the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, whose first name made me think it was a guy. But nope, Morgan is absolutely no guy:

Now young Morgan is not just a pretty face. Here’s what the boffins at AmThink have to say about her:

Hezbollah, rattled by her bluntness, staged demonstrations against her remarks in February, when she declared that the group had been defeated militarily and that its role in government was no longer tolerable. Many in Beirut concluded she had been sidelined, replaced by Tom Barrack’s more measured style. By June, her name was shorthand for a missed opportunity—the hawk who had pressed too hard, too fast.

Now, though, President Trump has issued a directive ordering her back, a powerful signal that Washington has not abandoned the line of pressure and accountability she embodied, but is rebalancing it, pairing Tom Barrack’s optimism with her credibility.

In the meetings with President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and Speaker Berri, Ortagus sat quietly through most of the formal sessions, letting Barrack take the lead in public. Lebanon’s political class, however, understands that her silence was because she already knows the playbook. She has studied the system, understands the “political theatre” that governs decision-making in Beirut, and has seen how elites manipulate time and process to stall change.

That knowledge is why her return matters. Lebanese leaders thrive on ambiguity and exhausting new envoys with a maze of committees, statements, and staged “dialogue.” Ortagus, though, has already rattled the system once, and her reappearance signals she will do so again.

And I’ll bet her combination of brains and beauty confuses those Arab assholes beyond words, because they’re likely more accustomed to gargoyles like Obama’s one-time Secretary of State, who combined astounding ugliness and stupidity:

…quite the reverse of Mrs. Ortagus.

As I said, I don’t know where Trump is finding all these smart, attractive women to work for him, but let’s hope he keeps the trend going.

Oh, and by the way? Morgan Ortagus has a twin sister named Megan.

Have mercy.

Not Bothered

August 26, 2025 Kim du Toit Patriotism

I see that The Usual Suspects are going apeshit because POTUS has made burning the American flag illegal.

I know that there are all sorts of Constitutional issues involved, and I actually don’t mind too much if some malcontent decides to take a Zippo to Old Glory.

It makes Target Identification all the easier, you see.

Yeah I know: “Ooooh Kim, that’s so hateful and threatening.” Tell it to your fucking psychiatrist, or sell your angst to someone who actually cares.

If it happened the way I’d really want it to happen, I’d want the asshole to set himself on fire along with the flag and burn to death, slowly and painfully.

News Roundup

August 26, 2025 Kim du Toit Bad News

And you’re going to need a few dry ones, after reading this roundup. Or maybe champagne might be a better idea, in some cases. But first:

...AND it’s rising in Sagittarius! [/fucking bullshit]

In Business News:

Target Tanks
...couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of woke assholes.

And in MAGA News:

...you know, it’s not nice to tease us like this.

...I for one mourn the end of Afrikaans in the system. [/sarc]

...cheaper than machine-gun towers and landmines, anyway.

...wake me when the Oklahoma number reaches 500,000.

...wait, wait: Alligator Alcatraz, Deportation Depot, Speedway Slammer, Camp East Montana (in Texas!)… pretty soon we’re going to need a scorecard, fellas.