US Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"

maybe buckle up now if you live in a "left wing" city

President Trump is planning to direct federal law enforcement “help” for Democratic-run cities that have seen a rise in violence this summer, calling them “war zones.”

In a meeting with Attorney General William Barr and other federal officials at the White House on Wednesday, the president said he’ll make a “very exciting” official announcement next week.

“The left-wing group of people that are running our cities are not doing the job that they’re supposed to be doing,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office, adding that he will soon announce “what we’re planning to do to help them.”...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/15/trump-plans-send-federal-authorities-cities-break-/

he's been threatening to help LA with law enforcment for literally years

but a “very exciting” official announcement!

trump's already sent helpful federal officers to Portland. a couple of days ago one of them helpfully shot a 'non-lethal' projectile at a protestor spraying graffiti on the Justice Center. It hit them in the head and they were concussed and lying unconscious for quite a while before being sent to a hospital.

New @JohnCornyn campaign video on @mjhegar: "Don't fall for the special effects — she's Elizabeth Warren on a motorcycle" #TXSEN https://t.co/RT9FWArmOO

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) July 15, 2020

don't know where to put this, def not in police brutality thread, because these are not police

Militarized Federal Agents from a patchwork of outside agencies have begun policing Portland (in rented minivans vans) without the explicit approval of the mayor, the state, or local municipalities. This is what that looks like in practice: pic.twitter.com/losap4SsgI

— The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) July 15, 2020

Would vote for Elizabeth Warren on a motorcycle, and will vote for MJ Hegar in November.

that video is pretty weird. who are they picking up? speculation on the thread is that it's an undercover agent extraction or some shit. where did the video come from?

i don't think it would help in the current circumstances, and i'm not worried about the implications if biden is elder-abused by his team into picking her as VP, but you can tell they wish warren was the nominee.

they also wish trump was not the president because they keep running adverts about how bad things are.

he's been threatening to help LA with law enforcment for literally years

"LAPD, we'll treat you like a King!"

xxp

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/who-are-these-federal-officers-sent-to-portland-to-deal-with-protesters/283-b2c3b375-cd6a-4e8a-b2c3-25cbbb911335

hold yr fire sic, that's the actual link

I think you misread the content of my links

I wish I knew KGW was going to autoplay a fucking video when I clicked on that link while on a conference call at work

soz doesn't autoplay for me

look, i'm as sorry as anyone to have to keep posting these, but

things that are real:

pic.twitter.com/Gil5hS7rFI

— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) July 15, 2020

pick your fucking bean, america

Rancho Gordo obviously

i fight for the cannellini

I really love Goya’s butter beans so please send alternative recommendations

same here w the black bean soup, it’s a staple

Like I said, I stan for these. Just cook, as usual, what we criollos call a sofrito: green peppers, garlic, onion fried in olive oil before you add the beans.

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/c7fed202-ad71-4ee1-a1c2-4ae7745b520e_1.92addbc417956b505ea826af90bf34d5.jpeg?odnHeight=450&odnWidth=450&odnBg=FFFFFF

In non-bean-related news, Parscale out (or, rather, demoted to an advisory role)

That is the first and, I hope, the last time I type the words "In non-bean-related news".

Though "In Sean Bean-related news" is still fair game.

One does not simply purchase frijoles refritos.

I make a sofrito! It’s not the Cuban black beans I can’t approximate but whatever devilry Goya is up to with that soup that gives it the nutty buttery thing.

My man.

it's kind of crazy that I have never seen these other bean brands (besides the 365) before.

yeah this brouhaha has been educational. Dunno what the fuck you people by for friojoles negros

Oh: be sure to use a bay leaf.

by = buy

Goya has such a strangle on nyc. fuck a bay leaf.

El Ebro in the Morning

2016, only the DNC is hacked, emails leaked in July
2020, twitter accounts of only Dems and left leaning billionaires hacked in July

There goes a big chunk of my optimism about the polls. Doesn’t matter how much of a lead Biden gets if the cards are all getting stacked for, minimally, an election that Trump can throw doubt and chaos into, or worse.

The timing and targets of this hack are just way too fucking convenient to be any bitcoin scam.

Actual Joe Biden campaign: follows up platform negotiated with Bernie Sanders with $2 million climate and jobs plan
Joe Biden campaign in my hallucinations: Steve Schmidt helped fund some anti-Trump ads so he is awarded unilateral control of Democratic policy if Biden wins https://t.co/tptJIesgrC

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 16, 2020

wow I really don't understand that

Elon Musk is "left leaning"?

I’d say more than he is right leaning, maybe? Point being, I didn’t see any notable right wing or GOPers targeted in that hack and it’s not like there’s a dearth of them with a ton of followers on twitter.

He's more libertarian

Elon is absolutely a right winger

It was done in a way to specifically avoid pissing off Trump’s DOJ, that’s all. Pathetic hack tbf, sad that Twitter didn’t have a better playbook for dealing with it

It was nice to lose the blue checks for half an hour but bummed we didn't get:

to whoevers hacking these accounts show us elons dms

— br◎seph (@on3ness) July 15, 2020

why would you fire parscale but also keep him around

firing him but not allowing him to leave is the ultimate punishment

lol lagoon should go viral on that one

why would you fire parscale but also keep him around

― mookieproof, Thursday, July 16, 2020 12:04 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

1. his company is a shell for $$$ being moved from the campaign to various family members iiuc.

2. there is no way the trump campaign has a bunch of other people who are set up to do the shady but effective ad tech parscale did before he became campaign manager. i'd be surprised if they had anyone who knows how to use excel.

jared

he knows vlookup

fuck, he knows xlookup

let's face it, he's the thought leader

*whispers* there is no xlookup, that's not possible, what has he done?

Maganauts madly googling "pivot table" rn

Dunno what the fuck you people buy for friojoles negros

whatever Benny's puts in the burrito

(RIP takeout)

there's literally no reaching people who think "repealing an obscure 2006 bill that intentionally bankrupted the post office" was too heavy a lift for a party that had merely 57 Senate votes in 2009

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) July 16, 2020