The industrial-grade mental illness of the American right has found a new target, Cracker Barrel. And this has been the classic Twitter outburst on the subject:

It’s BEAUTIFUL. The reference to “pegging” actually indicates this:

…Which I gather is a game you find at Cracker Barrel cos that’s just one of the things they offer their customers for some reason. But obviously that’s not what you immediately think of… It’s an interesting choice of word, and I suspect kind of deliberate, especially after doing a bit of reading on Pericles:

On 19 January, the Chicago Reader revealed that 36-year-old Pericles “Perry” Abbasi — a campaign attorney, who was running for office in Chicago’s 25th police district with the backing of the Fraternal Order of Police — had a history of posting bizarre and unseemly content on social media. In a leaked screenshot from a group chat, he had written that “the horrible black diet” was the reason for “13/50”, referencing a common internet meme about Black Americans’ percentage of the population (13%) and supposed share of violent crime they commit (50%).
Abbasi denied these accusations of bigotry. He claimed he didn’t remember everything he was alleged to have written (without necessarily denying his authorship, either), while also offering a second more general defence of his behaviour: this was the internet, he argued, and if he thought of something funny, he’d immediately post it. If this meant writing a tweet about how a relationship with a 36-year-old woman led him to conclude that child porn sentencing is far too long, then so be it. If it meant “making up insane things to stir shit up”, then it meant just that.

So yeah, I have a feeling Perry may have been aware of what he was saying about “pegging” here. Still trying to work out what’s funny about “the horrible black diet”, though it may be something to do with Perry evidently also being a champion dickhead…

But the odd thing about the right losing its shit over Cracker Barrel is that, well, they’re doing it now. CB actually has a kind of mixed track record when it comes to, you know, treating Teh Queerz as human beings as you can see on their Wikipedia entry, but they’ve been trying harder to be better over the last decade or so. Why the meltdown now? Well, because the dickheads are even more dickheaded now than they were when CB started going actively queer-friendly, and the ramping up of the anti-“woke” culture war involves making sure the chuds always have something to get performatively angry about on social media. Whether or not it makes sense for them to blow up at Cracker Barrel now doesn’t really matter, I suppose, as long as they are blowing up at it.

Although the glitter is awfully hard to wash off afterwards. I mean, I presume it is. Er… anyway, The Federalist is a magazine started by Ben Domenech, noted liar, plagiarist and paid shill for the Malaysian government, and it previously attracted quite some controversy for an op-ed piece defending Roy Moore over, frankly, having tried to date teenagers (some under the age of consent) when he was in his 30s, and also for spreading bullshit about things like Covid-19, climate change and the 2020 elections. Being bigoted shits in the name of “freedom” comes as no real surprise, therefore, and I am pleased to see that almost all the responses I can find to this dickhead have been thoroughly negative. Indeed, someone posted possibly the best reaction image I’ve ever seen…

…and I am now positively itching for more opportunities to use it.