Me too - never happen

But then their real estate investments might lose value.

Yuuuup

They’ll have to go against hedge funds or what ever greedy businesses are buying homes —so they will do nothing to stop their masters and funders.

Kind of hard to make politicians care about real estate when they get bribed by the groups making a killing on it.

Did any of them turn their lives over to Christ in the driveway of an affordable single family home back when such a thing existed?

Most of the people complaining think their job is going on podcasts and cable news.

...um. sir. they took both THE CRACKER and THE BARREL off of the logo. How will they set themselves apart?

It’s not like they changed the name to “Woke Barrel,” though. Still a tub full of crackers.

Cracker Barrel is sure getting a lot of free publicity and advertising fro all this...Would that all of us be mad about housing costs/prices...But that Capitalists in charge will never let that happen...

What's that saying about straining on a gnat but swallowing a camel?

They don't get angry about house prices, they get angry when house prices fall.

We need republican voters to be as mad that they don’t have healthcare, a living wage, ability to unionize, the president is a child rapist that sold his pageant contestants to a sex trafficker as they are about a freaking logo

WORD.

The fight we’re up against is that the previous emblem supports an 🍊 Man 🤦🏽‍♀️🥴🤷🏽‍♀️

Why didn’t you need them to be mad about open borders when Crooked Joe was in charge?

Indeed! I want to know where RFK, Jr. is. Cracker Barrel's average calorie intake on a dinner menu is 1800 calories. RFK, Jr. should be hair on fire 🔥 outraged by this. (Studies show that Republican states have higher obesity rates than liberal/Dem states.) MAGA= Making America Gigantic Always

Maybe we start with them actually having to deal with the home prices, like not having the money to afford them themselves. Similar to how they should maybe step foot inside a cracker barrel to eat before complaining about their changed logo. I can GUARANTEE that every member of the Trump family as

Well as 95% of the Fox news network heads who have been crying about it rhe last 2 days have never eaten there in their lives. They just know it as something that "regular ppl enjoy". Simple as that

I remember when the only people getting riled up about a rebrand were designers arguing over the kerning.

The crackers are hoping to bring everything and everyone back to '69, when this very dated logo was created. Including which rights BIPOC folks and women had (or had not).

I wish a logo for a restaurant that oversalts its pancakes was my biggest concern and not finding a job.

I need people to be as mad about the poor quality of CB dumplings as they are about the new logo.

For the Epsteinth time..this is a distraction.

bsky.app/profile/debt...

Or about the fact that this is now a police state. Or about the fact that the president commits acts of corruption daily. Or the fact that people are dying as a direct result of cuts to healthcare. Or the fact that the Supreme Court is in the felon's pocket. Or [looks around] anything else.

It’s just a pile of crackers tryin to start a war

Never going to happen.

Or child care, health, education, finance, environmental, usw

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Good luck.

You're gonna need at least $500,000 for the psyops, boss

Meanwhile

I can not press the heart to like, because mine is breaking.

No shit!

You see the rainbow crosswalk anger yet?

That's right! High housing prices are woke!

I can think of at least 450,000 things that are more important than a Cracker Barrel logo. What is wrong with people? Do they really have no life?

Why are people concerned about chain restaurant branding? Other than the brand's marketing people of course. But, yeah! Build housing! DO IT NOW!

But Byron Donalds never gave his life to a Christ in a house. He did it in a Cracker Barrel parking lot by gawd.

Behind the dumpster.

Dont you have relatives?

Republicans are a bunch of crackers, white supremacists, or anything else you want to call them. When Trump falls, they all will fall.

If this means I can eat biscuits n gravy at a Cracker Barrel White Nationalist & trailer trash racist free. Let them melt the fuck down in peace.

Are politicians mad or is it RW Social Media Influencers? I've seen more bitching from people like Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro than real people. It REALLY reminds me of the Sydney Sweeney Jeans ad, no one really gave a shit but RW influencers trying to stir up the left.

bsky.app/profile/warr... Liz has a plan for that.

Do you want to stop by and check out this cute starter home in Silicon Valley?

😳 #WTF My Dad gave me a Deed to a starter home in 1995. He paid $12,500 for 1.5 city lots/housr. We gutted it,remodeled ($28k),added 1,000 sq foot Master Suit, added 1/2 a city lot ($8K), and it appraised for $138k within a year. Total cost was $48,500. This new reality? Obscene. 😒

Location location location. I can't afford to live in Santa Fe so I don't. I live in the woods of Puget Sound, 12 miles to the closest stop light. Our ancestors crossed an ocean to find a better life, but too many of us just want to whine about not being able to live in our preferred location.

I think that appeals to “our” mythical ancestors are a poor basis for housing policy. Congratulations on avoiding stoplights, I guess.

Pretty sure my ancestors were running from the law or just horny. Probably both.

Build more where people want to live.

People who say this also complain about burritos, pho or sandwiches being too expensive. If you want to live in the woods, by all means go for it. However, cities need more than high earning professionals. People should be able to live within a reasonable distance from where they work.

Cupertino is fuckedddddd

There’s me thinking London was expensive!

Try buying a box of tuna with gas fees, then we'll talk about expensive.

You think gas is expensive in the US? Try in the UK where we’re paying $6.80 a gallon (US)! That’s similar across all of Europe.

GOOD, wish that was here

If all the subsidies, the cost of clean up, and health issues totaled $500 billion in 2022 alone, the cost of the military protecting oil/gas around the world. All of it together, our gas per gallon exceeds $15.00 per gallon. We don't see all the costs because it comes out of our tax dollars.

That is no doubt true all over. The price of course should reflect the true cost, then the acceleration towards green energy would be unstoppable, though it probably is anyway.

I think they are referring to the closet sized apartments with gas utilities. Those prices are nutty though!

Gas fees in crypto exchange

Perfectly legit. 🤦🏽‍♀️

It’s a lot of fuss over a place whose entire cooking philosophy is “let us microwave that for you”.

I need them to be as mad about women’s and children’s rights as they are about housing prices and new logos!

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More mad that that please. No one should be mad when a corporation rebrands. Happens all the time

good luck, for this is the grifting and enragement economy

Don't forget the basic fact of that situation: As long as some bank, somewhere is getting some entity to pay those housing prices, ALL IS WELL, AS FAR AS POLITICIANS ARE CONCERNED. This can be generalized to all industries. If the supply side is profiting, there's no further discussion to be had.

Further thought along these lines would indicate that we need to swap a lot of politicians out for ones that are fundamentally less stupid and evil. Like, since we're stating the obvious and shit.

As mad at EVERYTHING.

I've got just the solution for that. And by that, I mean I do not at all. Sorry, lying's the brand.

I want politicians to be mad thatTrump is a pedophile ,a fraud that is getting out of paying $500 million to New York a rapist that hasn’t paid e. Jean A traitor to America

I personally couldn't care less about their logo. I lean towards liking the old one better. But more important to most Americans is HOUSING!

Oh sure “Just a Gal” but what about the unemployed logo model? Maybe he could get work at the Hickory House?

I'd be happy if politicians were mad about high rents, first. High housing prices are important, and everyone who can't afford to buy is renting right *now*, so...

#WeAreAmerica #resist

I want my politicians to say,” this country was built on genocide and exploitation. I will work to make government empathetic and humanitarian. This is what I propose……” and who cares cracker what????,

Home prices will go up as there is a finite supply of land to build on. Disruption with construction during COVID. Now interest rates. Also consider that people had large families in much smaller dwellings yrs ago so part of it is our expectations, and I also blame zoning in some communities.

Why would they get mad? Their stock portfolios have never looked better!

@governor.ca.gov 👋🏻 I've been told my monthly rental fee could be a mortgage payment. Where I grew up in California, I could rent two homes for the price of one in the Bay Area. So, that's depressing. After we take down the fascist regime, can we target corporations fucking up the housing market?

maybe even a smidge madder

not really. we need citizens to see through this bullshit. until they do, well they'll all dress like JD Vance.

Hey, if they can’t maybe they could get mad about the cost of Healthcare Or how about the cost of living Here’s another thought how about how the Rich are screwing over everyone else?

The only thing that'll make 'em mad is if prices go *down* - they and their donors have stock to move.

Politicians are self-enriching bastards. They don't give two shits about what they're "suppose to" care about. They only play pretend long enough to get elected.

So let me get this right. Cracker Barrel took out the cracker dude and the barrel and that's a problem?

Exactly

We all need that. Like get a grip.

I had to look up the controversy. *sigh* What a stupid time to be alive.

Right?

Being mad at one shows you really care about people and what is happening to them. Being mad at the other shows you could care less about the first one and people in general. I think our politicians choose the 2nd one because the first one is an annoying inconvenience and they can't be bothered.

Maybe when they try to throw stupid shit like this out there we should steer the conversation back to why does our healthcare suck so bad

And that Trumps a Pedophile and a criminal!

No kidding. So many ridiculous distractions. Real issues - housing being a big one, go barely addressed, if at all.

Based.

We would like them to be mad about invading Canada. But—meh.

Pffft..Canadian bears, beavers, and politeness would whup our butts into next year.

If you focus on bears and beavers as the dangerous ones to watch out for, you’re not gonna be watching for our national nightmare the Canada Goose, the true northern killers.

Canada Goose don't give no [bleep].

But they’re sure as hell ready to give anybody and anything* shit. * yes I mean the ground

Right? Gives insight into their obsession with cultural issues over concerns for the struggles of their constituents. Crazy. Hopefully the constituents will demand the same as you are asking for.

I dunno why everyone is so hooped about this. Or have I been cooped up too long?

Hahaha!!!

PS. Extra points for having the perma-wreck in the ADA spot.

They need to park close because it’s hard to carry the PallMalls AND the oxygen tank.

... How's the Chicken and Dumplings there? ... I bet they're ... ... "pillowy."

;)

you need voters to enjoy a politician addressing housing prices as much as they enjoy a politician doing an insult comedy routine

The problem is they are so removed from the middle and lower classes they can’t relate to the issues of trying to buy a home. Most are millionaires

🤷🏿‍♀️

The great majority of national politicians in all parties are wealthy Real estate is the most common way that people become wealthy, and by far the most common way they become wealthier Wealthy politicians love expensive housing

can someone explain to me why the logo change triggered them???

I had to break my news blackout and look it up. They are upset because they feel the logo is part of Americana and its more attempts to destroy they country they love. Yes, it's beyond fucking stupid. And its a great example of why I completely cut the news out of my life.

Please make those calls to your representatives. We need to be LOUD!

That still doesn’t make sense. All that is occurring by out of touch white men who are focused on branding. People need to get their priorities right.

Yuck #CrackerBarrel = tortured animals that are highly processed and packaged to make you not think of what you are really paying for #Fluff #AnimalAbuse

as someone who has never set foot in a Cracker Barrel? I am tickled, I may go round for a cup of coffee and a look see.

If only they were actual politicians and not some spineless jelly fish.

i just got evicted from that fucking barrel man

There are seriously 5 empty houses per homeless person in the u.s. The laws of supply and demand are bullshit and capitalism has failed to house the poorest of us. We don't have a homelessness problem, we have a landlord problem.

Petty!

they have no clue. they have somehow been allowed to become our betters. MAX congressional family income to the middle class median and watch the world change they dont have to be rich. plenty of poor teachers teach anyway. we would probably get better politicians that way

real

It's much easier for the politicians to work up synthetic outrage over a logo change than to do anything real about housing cost.

I know, isn't that pathetic. It's a sign, for their company and they're not allowed to have the autonomy to make a change. Damn snowflakes.

Or at least as mad about housing prices as they were when Cracker Barrel added a vegan “meat” to the menu.

Of all the things I don't understand about MAGA I don't understand why this has so upset them.

They erased the white man. It’s an actual metaphor for their belief’s they are the victims of wokeness.

Even worse, it was an orange-tinted white man.

😂 true

It brought Cracker back. They want to say the N and R words…I now get to say the C word AND Cracker.

What is wrong with the new logo, or is their brains that are rotten.

Haven't you heard? According to Lil Marco, housing costs are coming down due to rounding up migrants. You got a keep up. Please don't hurt me.

When the culture wars stop, the class wars begin. Must keep the plebs angry at each other over garbage issues.

To be fair, cracker barrel is a corporate entity. I hope conservatives realize the ruling class don't care about their culture war either if it'll make them money. No war but class war.

Me too, but unfortunately those who are mad at cracker barrel's new logo are incapable of anything but performative politics. "Real problems? What are ya' talkin' about?"

Nice one 👌🏼

enhance

Only people who don't like AI are the people its putting out of business.

"People hurt by AI hate AI" more news at 9 In all seriousness, AI does cause harm for artists by stealing their art and exploitation of theit efforts due to lack of significant regulations.

You have a valid point, but this story isn't new. Read the history of the Art Nouveau movement where craftsmen rebelled against the machines that were reproducing their work. Long story short, the craftsmen either bought machines or they went broke. Thanks for the sensible reply.

What machines reproducing what work? A lot of the global popularity of Art Nouveau is because of new tech in printing, it was in major art magazines and poster advertisements. You could be thinking of the Arts and Crafts movement?

Furniture. Lamps, Vases etc. "The new art movement had its roots in Britain, in the floral designs of William Morris, and in the Arts and Crafts movement founded by the pupils of Morris." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Nou...

That...just makes me sympathize with the craftsmen. In what sense were the machines reproducing the work?

In every way. The arts and crafts movement were people who had been trained all their lives to make things by hand. Art Nouveau was a style they thought would be difficult to copy. But by 1900 machines had become so sophisticated they could copy almost anything.

I assume it's not in the same manner as generative AI where a program does all the work and the commissionners expect all the credit and instead more as a tool that artists could still use to shape their work and vision.

Ever seen a CNC machine? Once programmed you just push a button and the product is made by the 100's. The machine doesn't care who designed it. Today the talent is the programmer. Don't artists have copyrights? Seems to me they should be suing AI companies if they are stealing their work.

The problem is with no sufficient regulations, it's not easy to know when your stuff is stolen and it's harder to raise a case about it. And I haven't seen CNC before, no. Are they just copies? That seems normal since I'm more concerned about original artwork.

What's it like being unimaginative, untalented, and also bad at thinking?

Homeboy gotta ask ChatGPT to write a comeback

enjoy your bad meme

AI cannot do my job and does not affect my livelihood whatsoever. That said, these pictures fucking suck and you should be embarrassed to post them. They all look exactly alike and there's nothing clever about this slop you posted.

Thanks for sharing your opinion. Rest assured I will give it the consideration it deserves.

Hey man, you're the one that likes posting garbage and then getting made fun of. Who am I to stand in the way or your kink?

Thanks for the feedback. I took a course in social media etiquette and they taught me the best way to treat ignorant people online was to say ... "thanks for sharing your wisdom" instead of saying "go fuck yourself" So... Thanks for sharing your wisdom with me.

Aye aye, sir!

you kids out there aren’t gonna believe this but there was a time in america where a corporation would do a thing and half of the population did not suffer an apoplectic fit over the corporation’s doing of that thing

Politics is complicated. If your politicians are idiots, they will be drawn towards subjects that their intellect can cope with.

I just want a city where I can use my land without having to worry about some random fuckers real estate values

I need them to be more concerned with the well-being (short and long-term) of their constituents than the party line, and that goes for all countries.

Hey Derek Guy, if the universe ever aligned in such a way that I was able to make a suggestion to the powers that be to appoint a new Secretary of Aesthetics, would you be a willing appointee? I just want to note it in my records.

💯💯💯

The rent really is too damn high

They're at it everywhere. Same in the UK. They are exploiting the lack of housing stock and the banking mortgage system which needs to check itself into this century. It's likely that Revolut and newer banks will demolish the traditional banking sectors when they are allowed to compete.

Ofcourse, this type of thing doesn't help: fintechreview.net/revoluts-ban...

The “Rent is too damn high” guy was not wrong

Just start saying it's because of woke

Ok, but the housing market didn't ERASE a man, a WHITE MAN, from the HISTORY, of an AMERICAN company. Thank you for your consideration in the hamter. (I don't even know what's going on, but release the lists you criminal scum)

Da fuq is that all about??? Did they put kale on the menu or something?

Not quite yet. But apparently getting baptized in sweet tea in the parking lot so they can beat the after-church crowd is a thing.

Best laugh of the day and I really needed a good laugh. Thank you!

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I need that... And for it to be mandatory to be first in line in the battlefield, in a war that you helped create... Maybe THEN we will finally see less war... Perhaps

They don't make money from the cracker barrel logo

“Many popular right-wing X accounts united against Cracker Barrel, including End Wokeness, an account with nearly 4 million followers that frequently torches brands for going “woke.”” www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

These seems a bit inconsequential when there are major human rights violations happening on a daily basis. Do they know how dumb “End Wokeness” sounds. Who was the first to add ness to woke? Why am I now talking about a restaurant I’ve never heard of before?

The depth of corruption is astounding.

They can’t because if they’re NOT slum lords, they receive kickbacks from them… 🙄

You just need to convince them that high housing prices are woke

Housing?! Start small, they don’t give a crap about groceries & gas either.

Representatives Gomez and DelBene Reintroduce “Affordable Housing Equity Act of 2025” to Better Target LIHTC Resources to Meet the Needs of Renters with the Lowest Incomes | National Low Income Housing Coalition share.google/KpwBf26vWgeb...

Senate panel advances bipartisan housing bill share.google/89QM2NtCH8kw...

I would suggest listing to this…. open.spotify.com/episode/0Eqy...

The housing/Cracker Barrel divide is the line we've drawn, choose a side

They would be if they lived like we did. But alas....

OTP vp

So many politicians have been in housing that’s paid for or homes with no mortgage for so long they don’t know what the rest of us go through. My own homeowner friends don’t have empathy for renters like me- it’s a “well you should have bought…then you’d wouldn’t have high rent…”

We literally have secret police grabbing folks off the streets & THIS is what is causing some folks to lose their shit?!!! This is officially the idiocracy. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

But the real estate lobby writes such big checks.

Unfortunately the housing prices aren’t woke, but we can make them that way

Housing Food prices Car prices Energy prices Low wages Child care Let’s make a list

LOL. they can afford their houses. why be mad?

Doesn't 'cracker' mean a white racist guy in the USA, or is that out of use now?

Exactly!

If they did that we wouldn't have an unhoused population and they'd have to find other demons to campaign on.

Agree

Or at the fact there are unhoused people at all in the US. Ah, the smell of Late Stage Capitalism in the morning. 🤌🏼

What exactly is wrong with the new logo? It’s fresh, simple, and well, uncluttered

That'll be the day...when I die.

C'mon, we all know that's a big ask from a group of people who pretend they win popularity contests (and who actually sell us out) in order to rule every aspect of our lives. It would be more realistic if we asked them to be mad at things only in election years.

gonna say it as many times as it takes: there are many people in power - from our communities - who have consistently let us down. whether out of pure selfishness or blackmail same with celebrities, sports players, people who have money who could help ca: mphighaf help please and thank you

Dont forget, there are guy cheerleaders, a woman umpire, and rainbow crosswalks that need to be removed. They need these things to be angry about so they don't solve any problems.

Exactly this!

This is the political version of pretending to do work while you are actually surfing the internet.

It’s not shaped like a pinto bean! Doesn’t that make you mad?

How about they show the same concern for our healthcare crisis?

Oh they aren't mad at all. They are using it as a distraction.

housing prices? you mean *property values*?? they can never ever ever ever go down, only up. but we can provide you a loan to cover half of your down payment on your 5,000,000 first home if you make between $50k and $55k a year and live in an underprivileged community, does that help?

I need them to make like the Cracker and his Barrel and remove themselves permanently

i need politicians to be as mad at healthcare and healthcare insurance in this country as they are about cracker barrel's new logo

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So that’s where the FOTUS got his makeup idea, from the Cracker Barrel man on the logo.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why I love this graphic... it doesn't look like ai slop. It looks like someone took the time to do engage in a process of basic cut/paste.

i like how you did this

love it! we made some different versions over the past 24 hours and just released two as stickers at EpsteinStickers.com

#pedopotus

Time to bring out this gem, crafted by #winstonrowntree for #cracked.com and reproduced here for educational purposes as well as for being all kinds of awesome.

Private equity is selling off their short term rentals. Phoenix available up 20% prices down 4% Palm Springs CA prices down 16.5% Austin rents down 15% Sarasota Fl rent down 42.67% housing down 7% Miami rent down 30%. Housing 4% Nashville housing down 3%

At the very least and to have actual proposed legislation in their portfolio, or in their legislative talking points. Do our politicians release position papers? Perhaps they should start. We should start requesting them for issues that matter.

That's asking a little too much from those elected to represent us, Derek.

Never going to happen, performative outrage beats work any day!

That logo is a distraction

The entire premise of America is that stock and housing prices only go up. 100% of government financial policy is devoted to this goal.

Right!?

Truth. My family gave up trying to find an affordable small single family

Amen. We have to stop allowing people to just accept these insane prices as a fact of nature that can't be changed and demand dramatic policy shifts to fix it.

Analog version

that's the Dollar, De-valuing. "Real" things will be subject to inflation. If you think Housing is bad... just wait and see what happens to Food! Clothes! Medicine! (oh, wait-- we don't get that last one anymore 🤷‍♂️).

Shhh, i’m trying to sell mine.

Never gonna happen, since they ARE the landlord class

yeah and I want wings

The housing market has crashed so bad people can’t even rent their houses. MSM : 🤐

They can afford houses, often more than one. They can't relive the good old days of crackers while eating breakfast anymore. 😎

Bernie in Iowa: “We need to build about 4 million affordable housing units.” And he proposed paying for it by eliminating the 2017 trump tax breaks for billionaires. It was a very good speech. The crowd went insane when he was introduced. In Iowa.

Y'all need to figure out some way to make your YIMBY bullshit interesting. I mean, look, I'm not against it. It makes sense to me. I'm as sympathetic to your cause as someone who doesn't really care about it could be. I'm just saying you gotta workshop some more compelling rhetoric.

Damn straight they should be!

Which logo ? This one ?

Lowering rates are not going to be your friend here.

i need politicians to be as mad about human suffering in the US as they are about a corporate logo

Democrats tried to pass a law two years ago on this issue. It would have required hedge funds to sell off all single family homes in their portfolios.

New word-PROTESTANATION. People have the power! Need to organize protest in the millions and shut the USA down completely.Enforce justice like they've never seen. It can be done! Or else... Time to take ownership of our Country!!! Trump must go!! Young organizers needed, where are you.Share/repost

Yes

How about if they just get mad at an African born man who beat their sexual-assaulting banking buddy?

I have not heard about a new corporate logo but I can already tell it’s one reason Americans aren’t instead talking about HNWIs running the country and their capitulation to Dear Leader.

Evil can't discern that.

No cracker! No barrel!

Good luck. They’re upset about losing the old white cracker not about if you can’t find housing.

It's hard to believe that a party that cares more about corporate logos than the well-being of the people is running the country. Maybe this says more about the intelligence of the average voter.

Then Citizens United has to go. Lobbying has to go. Get corporations out of politics. Because BlackRock butters their bread on both sides.