>Voter ID is a blatant 4th amendment violation.
What about having to have ID to buy a drink in a bar?
Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino steps down after ‘woke’ rebrand sparked backlash from customers — and even Trump
Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is stepping down after the failure of her “woke” rebrand last year, which was rolled back following intense backlash from loyal customers, the company announced Monday.
David Deno, a restaurant exec who most recently served as CEO of Bloomin’ Brands, which owns Outback Steakhouse, will replace Masino on August 10, according to a Cracker Barrel press release.
Masino will remain at Cracker Barrel in an advisory capacity until October 9 to ensure a smooth transition, the company said.
Shares in Cracker Barrel plunged 5.3% Monday morning.
Her departure comes after less than three years at the helm, during which diners revolted against the company’s attempts to modernize the Southern dining chain last August by axing its beloved mascot Uncle Herschel and revamping restaurants without its trademark tchotchkes.
Following heated backlash from longtime customers and even President Trump himself, Cracker Barrel reversed the changes and leaned into its folksy charm – ultimately sending the stock up 100% so far this year.
Masino’s exit “was certainly a surprise for me,” Benchmark analyst Todd Brooks told The Post.
“The company had never indicated a search was underway. Very surprising given the series of positive announcements that the company had early last week,” Brooks said.
Michael Gunther, SVP of research at Consumer Edge, said Cracker Barrel had started narrowing losses in June – “but it’s not as if sales momentum started surging.”
“We will be watching to see what new management communicated about its strategy, particularly as it relates to its core customers,” Gunther told The Post. “The company is way over indexed in the 65 years-old and up crowd and those customers stayed away.”
It has been nearly a full year since the Lebanon, Tenn.-based chain reversed the rebrand and the embattled chief executive has remained in her position – even giving several interviews on her experience navigating the controversy.
Last November, Masino told Glenn Beck, radio host of “The Blaze,” that she felt she had been “fired by America” after he asked whether she was surprised that she managed to keep her job.
That same month, Cracker Barrel shareholders had voted to oust DEI marketing executive Gilbert Dávila from the company’s board – but spared Masino despite an activist campaign by investor Sardar Biglari, who accused them both of years of mismanagement.
In early 2025, Cracker Barrel’s stock was in freefall after Masino admitted the chain was “just not as relevant” as it used to be.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/business/cracker-barrel-ceo-julie-felss-masino-steps-down-after-woke-rebrand-sparked-backlash-from-customers-and-even-trump/
Xi Jinping’s Bank Purges Could Have a Negative Impact on China’s Economy
China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced on July 19 that Ouyang Weimin, former president and deputy party secretary of the China Development Bank (CDB), is under investigation for suspected serious violations of party discipline and the law. Typical of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) purges, no further information was given.
Ouyang joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1986 and spent much of his early career at the People’s Bank of China before serving as vice governor of Guangdong. He was appointed CDB president and deputy party secretary in 2019 and stepped down as president in 2023. CDB, founded in 1994, is a state-funded development finance institution overseen directly by the State Council.
In a separate action, a former CDB vice president was sentenced in 2024 to 12 years in prison and fined for accepting bribes. A second CDB official, Liang Qingkai, former party secretary and president of CDB’s Hunan branch, was placed under investigation the same day. This detail has only a single Chinese-language source and has not been independently confirmed.
Ouyang’s case fits into a broader pattern of purges across the China Development Bank (CDB) and other state-owned financial institutions. The CCP has punished or opened investigations into at least nine CDB executives for graft in a single year, with several accused of accepting bribes in exchange for approving loans.
Former CDB chairman Hu Huaibang helped CEFC China Energy and HNA Group obtain billions of dollars in credit. Both companies later collapsed into insolvency or restructuring. Former CDB vice president He Xingxiang was placed under investigation in September 2021, and former Yunnan branch president Hong Zhenghua was investigated the same year.
The South China Morning Post reported that more than 30 regulators and bankers were detained in a single year as part of the broader financial-sector crackdown. Analysts said investigators were targeting officials accused of approving loans in exchange for kickbacks, and more than a dozen senior executives at China’s largest financial institutions were investigated during the same period.
Taken together, the cases involving Hu Huaibang, He Xingxiang, Hong Zhenghua, Ouyang Weimin, and the unconfirmed investigation of Liang Qingkai suggest a recurring pattern in which CDB executives allegedly approved loans in exchange for bribes. In at least one documented case, the CEFC and HNA credit lines, the lending went to companies that later defaulted or entered restructuring.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/xi-jinpings-bank-purges-could-have-negative-impact/
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Not all anons are in the US.
Not all anons work 9-5 that anon might be working shift work.
Wednesday, under oath…
https://x.com/kevincorke/status/2081812783339823242
Dr. Fauci's own diary, in his own words, shows he knew the lab leak theory was credible from the very first weeks of the pandemic. 10 of 12 scientists on his call believed deliberate insertion was possible. He wrote that the wet market was never the real source. Then he spent the next 2 years telling the American people the opposite and smearing anyone who disagreed as a “conspiracy theorist.” That is the definition of a cover-up.
On Wednesday, under subpoena, Fauci finally has to answer for it.
https://x.com/RandPaul/status/2081802297110040930
https://x.com/RandPaul/status/2081802297110040930
He's going to end the war in Iraq?