Today is Saturday, August 23, 2025. After boasting that he would patrol D.C. streets with his own version of the Gestapo, the cowardly president apparently changed his mind about doing this and this forms the crux of an MSNBC article by Steve Benen entitled “After boasting about plans to patrol D.C. streets, Trump fails to follow through.”

It was on Thursday when the repugnican raised eyebrows after he announced unexpectedly his intention to patrol the streets of Washington on a conservative radio program. The convicted felon told host Todd Starnes on Thursday afternoon, “I’m going to be going out tonight.”

Dump’s unanticipated announcement led this writer to speculate that Chump would carry zip-ties with him and wear a “Dukakis-like helmet.” But this never became reality after protesters mingled in the streets with pots, pans, and spoons in their backpacks and were prepared to bang them together to express their anger at Dump’s federal law enforcement surge in their city. Instead, Demented Don just returned to the White House.

Instead of following through on his strange boast, Dump spoke for about 10 minutes to a group of uniformed personnel outside a U.S. Park Police operations center in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood.

You would think the fool would have devoted his comments to the subject at hand, which was alleged crime in the streets, but the toddler in chief talked about his civil fraud case and a future White House ballroom, as well as artificial intelligence [that’s curious considering that the fool has no intelligence] and how much he hates wind power. These were definitely on-topic subjects for him to discuss in front of that crowd.

Anyway, those thinking unrealistically that Dump would follow through by going on patrol in the streets of the nation’s capital were certainly left disappointed by the failure of their law enforcer in chief to do exactly that.

Have you heard this new crazy opposition from the far right over a company’s new logo? The restaurant chain is Cracker Barrel and the idiots on the far right have been in a dither over the change of its branding. This ridiculous, latest culture war forms the basis of a current online MSNBC opinion entitled “Cracker Barrel’s new logo sparks a familiar MAGA outrage,” by Hannah Holland.

As you might also recall, the far right lost their shit over the new James Gunn Superman because it emphasized empathy, kindness, and civility over the forces of divisiveness and the fact that Superman is portrayed as an immigrant from another planet.

When the restaurant chain unveiled its new, streamlined logo, it sent the internet in a free fall. Now the Southern-themed restaurant found off highways across the country has unwittingly become the latest battleground in an increasingly unpredictable culture war over American identity – and who gets to define it.

“The previous logo, introduced in 1977, featured the outline of an older gentleman wearing overalls, sitting in a chair and leaning his elbow on the eponymous barrel. The new logo strips away ornamentation, leaving only the restaurant’s name in dark type inside a vaguely barrel-shaped blob.”

In the wake of the new logo reveal, it seems there is bipartisan and widespread outrage over the rebrand. Some on the left have even criticized the aesthetic change to the logo, but it’s MAGA enthusiasts and armchair pundits on the far right who have read this change as representing just another “woke” rebranding. “They are not lamenting a design failure; rather, they’ve cast Cracker Barrel’s rebrand as a capitulation to woke liberalism, an erasure of the so-called American ideology that Cracker Barrel apparently represents.”

Some background on Cracker Barrel: it was founded in 1969 and it is has a universal design in the store section before you walk into the restaurant part. There is something of a faux general store, replete with foodstuffs that we had as children and even clothing, as well as music CDs, most of which reflect the brand’s embrace of Christian gospel and country music. “Cracker Barrel’s entire ethos is early-1900s nostalgia, steeped in Southern Americana. It is a relic of a bygone era in both origin story and brand aesthetic.” That is why Elliot and I are drawn to eating at one of these restaurants when we’re on the road. I always enjoy going through the general store for the whiff of nostalgia in the items being offered for sale. I also have purchased music CDs when we had the old Nissan Altima. These were primarily country music CDs, even though I’m not too fond of the genre. Its prices are quite reasonable and that’s why it attracts Americans of all stripes to its doors.

This is not the first time the chain has been the subject of far right ire over the past few years. In 2022, almost three years to the day, the chain sparked outrage after adding a breakfast sandwich with plant-based sausage to its morning menu. Then in June the following year, Cracker Barrel incensed half of the internet again after posting in support of Pride month and debuting rainbow-colored rocking chairs. Yes, outside their stores, you will see a row of rocking chairs on display and even checker boards for those who are waiting for a table. Of course, for this terrible transgression, the chain was derided for “falling” to the “woke mob.”

In conclusion, Holland sees Cracker Barrel’s rebranding not as a woke conspiracy but only as a rebrand, with no interior motive to pull the wool over the idiots on the far right who see conspiracies in almost everything.

Have a great Sunday, everyone.

And so it went!

Here is a picture of our Atticus taken last night after I finished typing my blog. He almost looks as if he is daring me to take a picture of him in this delectable pose.

I think these are the same photos, so just enjoy them.