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How you know the economy is every bit as good as the Demedia tells you? Chain franchise closings.

Posted by: Axeman on A♠

These 53 Restaurant Chains Are on the Brink of Disappearing Entirely

The restaurant industry has seen a lot of ups and downs in recent years. Most recently it has suffered greatly at the hand of the global crisis we have all been a part of. The failure of the restaurant business has come in part by the wide range of choices consumers have, as well as labor shortages and high overhead costs.… According to the National Restaurant Association, some restaurants are not going to be able to recover from these losses and will have to close many, if not all of their locations. These are the major chains that are in serious danger of disappearing altogether.…

I hate seeing Eat-n-Park on this list. The food is good, and if you've ever lived in Western Pennsylvania, you'll know that they have the greatest Christmas commercial of all time. They've been showing it for 40 years now, unchanged.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky on A♠

h/t A♠ Morning Report
How Tone Deaf Is Jill Biden? Look at This Christmas Scene From Her White House Decor
Stacey Lennox, PJ Media, Nov 29, 2021

Jill Biden tweeted out her first White House Christmas photos today, and several of the images look like scenes from the live-action Grinch movie. Huge boxes representing wrapped presents with bows around doorways and candy cane pattern striped stockings already stuffed have a department store flair. The first lady’s team put out an extensive explanation of what the decorations are supposed to mean. Apparently, even they know it’s kind of a mess.

President Ice Cream and His Whorish Dum-Dum of a Wife Wish You a Very Trashy Christmas
Ace of Spades

The pile of gifts represent all the goods piled up on container ships off of Long Beach that won't get here until February.

But what the hell are those blue globules supposed to be? Is that supposed to be exogenous dopamine being injected into Joe's dying brain?