Those states should send a message to conservative nazi bigots by telling Buccees theyāre not welcome. Deny permits and make them as unwelcome as possible.
Nah. Retribution is less a leadership thing and more Trumpās style. Itās our job to remind the bucees guy about his statement.
I respect your kindness. I wish I could still feel that in me. Iām old, retired and angrier than Iāve ever been in my life. These nazis are an infestation at this point and it seems excruciatingly obvious to me now that my years of turning the other cheek were wasted.
I could have been pushing back against these shitbags this entire time and I truly regret being so kind to them. Conservatives see kindness as weakness. Not pushing back is how theyāve gotten this strong and overtly evil. I feel like I am partly to blame for this situation for being so nice all these years.
I have finally reached an age where I truly donāt give a single fuck about a conservative nazi life anymore and am going to make up for lost time in the very little time I have left. All that is to say I genuinely do respect your position of kindness. It just doesnāt work for me anymore because I think it will only make the conservatism even worse.
Two different cultures. Its so annoying to deal with it. Please give them a territory and let them make everything Buc-ees. I actually want these people to flourish in their own land.
My state already has Walmart with gas stations, Iām not sure why Walmart needs brisket at 3am.
Iāve had 3am 7-11 apple pie. Iām not proud of it now, but it was awesome then.
I understand 3am brisket.
Went to the buccees in Colorado recently after hearing about it since they opened up. It was fucking disgusting. Everything I got tasted like shit. The orange cream soda I got had such a chemical taste I threw the entire thing away. The pudding was shit tier and also tasted like chemicals. The whoopie pie was the sweetest most disgusting thing Iāve ever laid eyes on. The cheessteak wrap was soggy mush - the bever nuggets had the consistency of sand. The entire thing was such a disappointment. Iāll never stop again. Iāll actively avoid these tourist traps for the rest of my life. Absolute shit - totally tracks that it started in texas.
Conservatives love that chemical taste. Seriously. I was born in the rural south and if you complain about the taste of contaminated well water near processing plants, you get made fun of as a āpussyā. They intentionally wonāt drink filtered water, cUz ThAtāS WoKe yāAll!
What do you expect from a gas station
There was a Shell station on my way to the community college I used to stop at at least a couple times a week regardless of if I needed gas because the bean and cheese burritos were always crispy and yummy. Also the point of sale system sounded just like when Sonic got rings.
I donāt think Iād go into a buccees though. I donāt really like cults.
I donāt go often so I canāt say if the quality changed, but I can say that in the beginning the BBQ and Beaver Nuggets werenāt (arenāt) bad. But that initial āwowā factor wears off fast. Extremely fast with the nuggets ā the amount of butter coats the tongue. The BBQā¦ yeah doesnāt taste that great. Decent breakfast sandwhich though (but that isnāt saying much).
Cinnamon and sugar roasted almonds thoughā¦ Yeah, mild food poisoning is delightful. Let me just say if you eat a roasted nut from Buccees and you go āthat doesnāt taste rightā spit it out. Was it the oil? The nut? Who knows. But youāll avoid having a most unpleasant time if you just eject it and probably the rest of the bag.
Still, great place to stop for Ice Tea on the road, otherwise, and the bathrooms really are clean.
A CEO lied? No way.
Iām not sure if he lied per se (or at least in this instance?) but he definitely got out over his skis saying this before the election. Even back in August, it was pretty fucking stupid since Colorado is blue and there is one of his gigantic gas stations thereā¦
āā¦got out over his skisā¦ā? I am guessing this is a phrase from places with snow.
As if I didnāt already have enough reasons to avoid that retail hell.
Remember this the next time you see someone fawning over buc-ees.
Iāve been there a few times. Itāsā¦okay? Bathrooms are nice and clean, as advertised.
But I donāt really see what the big deal is. Just seems like the Walmart of gas stations.
But now that this asshat went and opened his big mouth I have no plans on going there againā¦ironically, there is one right off I-25 near Fort Collins in Coloradoā¦which has been pretty much blue for years. Somehow, the place is busy as hell and seems to be doing alright.
Conservatives always have to make things so goddamned weird. Has anyone asked this guy what āfamily friendlyā means?
To a yaāll qaeda Christian, āfamily friendlyā means:
Jesus is watching you masturbate, disapprovingly.
He also wants you to remember its a sin to discuss your wages/salary, and that unionizing is an unforgivable/deadly sin.
ā¦ its camp. They donāt realize theyāre doing camp, because theyāre in a cult, but its camp.
Right, hereās Betty Bowers, Americaās Best Christian.
https://youtube.com/MrsBettyBowers
10 years ago or whatever, you could tell this was obviously satire. Nowadays? Much closer to indistinguishable from shit yaāll qaeda Christians do and say totally earnestly.
Iām not an expert, but doesnāt ācampā require at least a minimal amount of self-awareness?
I am also not an expert but my inclination is ānoā.
You could, having never seen an impressionist painting, come up with an impressionist art piece on your own.
Similarly, you can act and behave in ways that follow rules and patterns you are not consciously aware of.
You can be broadly described as a parody of something, with yourself either not aware of / intending this, or even with you vehemently denying it.
You donāt have to be self aware to delve into an oddly specific, intense, and reverant form of nostalgia. You can do that without realizing that that is what you are doing.
Family friendly means christian and conservative.
Itās southerners trying to pretend like they have anything special other than highway-side gas stations.
Itās exactly this.
The south has a lot of special things. We have specially bad public schools, specially bad public transportation systems, specially bad worker protections, etc.
Family friendly means paying for the best lawyers for his son to fight child porn charges.
But I donāt really see what the big deal is.
People who make a big deal out of it are over the top, but itās pretty good at being a gas station:
- The gas is usually priced well. Iāve seen 10% lower than anything else in the area before.
- Thereās a variety of hot food, all adequate. With a group of people, itās likely everyone will find something.
- There are a lot of snacks.
- Thereās a variety of caffeine, all reasonably priced instead of the usual gas station trick of energy drinks are only reasonably priced if you buy three.
- There are always gas pumps open. No waiting.
- Itās clean, from the pump to the toilet.
If thereās one on my route and the timing makes sense, thatās where Iāll stop.
Yeah. I get all that. Most or all of the (hot) food is not vegetarian or vegan so our options are drastically narrowed, but thatās every single gas station, really.
I appreciate it being clean. It seems other chains could just step their bathroom and game up - like say, Loveās - and itād be about the same.
What I really donāt get is when people make it a destination and want merch and so on. The signs for Bucāees (in Fort Collins) start up in Wyoming, IIRC. Youād think it was a place like Wall Drug or somethingā¦
To me, the whole thing struck me as a bit goofy as we first pulled off the highway a few years ago. Then I walked in and the store seemed like a combo of Hobby Lobby and Walmart as far as Americana schlock being soldā¦definitely got a whiff of what they were probably going for. Figured it was kind of coded for conservatives.
I was right.
Iāve been wondering how you square your avatar with your politics for a couple of months now.
(FWIW, I like the food at Buc-eeāsā¦)
Itās a great place to stop if you want to waste an hour on a road trip stop.
Visited a Buc-ees for the novelty of it, but didnāt otherwise get gas or anything else there to avoid supporting such a conservative-leaning business.
Stop at every one. Just to use the bathrooms. And leave. The bathrooms are massive, and you get to pee on their organization at the same time.
The cool thing is, if you already owned Buc-eeās swim trunks before you found out what a tosser he is, you can piss on them all the time and never set foot in the store!
This sounds like youāre just peeing in the pool.
Well, yeah, but now itās justifiedā¦
nonzero chance they still profit from this due to being able to categorize you into a percentage group to sell to advertisers.
This is unlikely. Bucees makes all their money from the extremely overpriced items in the store. The bathrooms and cheap gas are only there to get you into the store. They even got sued in Alabama for selling gas below wholesale pricing, violating a state law.
This guy is such a pisser. Gunna sell him so many turlets.
Its more that they can analyze demographics based on race, perceived gender and clothing style to estimate financial brackets that shop in the store and cater ads to groups of people based on how you interact in the store. Things you looked at, how long you looked at it, your walking style, what youre doing with your hands. Its all tracked and used and/or sold to mentally manipulate you into buying.
you probably know this but Iām responding for people who may not.
Turlets and boilers. Also that one boilin turlet.
Being a man of his word, I suppose he has no choice but to close them all.
Thanks, now I know to avoid them. Much like that weird Jesus flavored chicken sandwich joint. Hard pass.
Chik Fil A so bad you can taste the gay hate in the food. Bland AF
Before all that became a thing and back when I still ate omnivore food, they did have a decent breakfast biscuit thing with chicken and that was actually pretty good. Their coffee was passable, too.
Never really did understand the appeal of the basic sandwich they have. Oh, it has a pickle? Well color me impressed! I mean, it was okay, at least it was a decent cut of meat and tasted okay, but overall the sandwich didnāt exactly āpopā as something extremely special.
But I havenāt been to one in over 20 yearsā¦if theyād drop the hate and bring back something for vegans and vegetarians, someone should let me knowā¦
There are so many stories to delight in after this election, but this one is like manna from heaven.
Why do these idiotic businessmen open their cake holes and speak about politics at all?
His son was arrested for child pornography so he needed to manufacturer headlines to create a distraction. Heās pulling the Nicki Minaj tactic.
Narcissistic tendencies, disconnect from reality due to their self-inflicted segregation from the poors, etc.
Iām a Buc-eeās fan and love going to them on road trips, but Ngl, this is fucking hilarious. I hope heās seen people calling him out on this or has been asked about it. Iād love to see his reaction. You know itāll be some backpedaling because he loves money more.
Should be asking him about his pedophile son instead
The guy with the pedo son?
Fuck buc-ees
I love how the Jalopnik writer wanted to write about the election results so bad that he grasped at the tenuous Buc-eeās connection to shoehorn it into the websiteās ācar journalismā format.
