US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

.⁦@KamalaHarris⁩ took a break from debate prep and visited Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh on Saturday. She told the pool she was honored to have Dick Cheney’s endorsement and it’s time to turn the page on divisiveness and bring the country together. pic.twitter.com/EEZimHLsri

— Nandita Bose (@nanditab1) September 7, 2024

i've never been to a spice store. must be the kind of place those WEST COAST LIBERALS go when they need a rub for their TOFU.

lol I actually went to a spice store...just pre-pandemic I think? in Berkeley where I was visiting a friend, like a full-on "oh you're in this very curated feeling neighborhood and of course they have a SPICE STORE," but I had a good paying gig that weekend so I did indeed venture into the spice store and fuckin A those spice mixes were delicious. overpriced no doubt but very delicious, one of them we mixed with sour cream to make a very delicious dilly dip. well that's what I have to say about spice stores

Posted this before a while back:

On January 14, 2022, CEO Bill Penzey sent out an email newsletter announcing that he would be renaming the extended Martin Luther King Jr. Day sale weekend to "Republicans are racist weekend", with the reasons given including alleged voter suppression in red states and their response to the George Floyd Protests.[10]

those damn WOKE spice mixes. probably come from Eye-ran.

i need to buy spices actually. i was looking at my pitiful selection the other day. definitely some pre-pandemic jars in there! yeesh. i could use some good mixes. i didn't know that there was a spice store chain! spice store CEO kind of a rad title.

I got a nice jar of Himalayan pink salt crystals today, and some palm sugar. We are usually stocked to the gills on spices.

xxp yes Penzeys has ruthlessly trolled Republicans for years

I recommend this local place for delicious organic spices and blends

https://mountainroseherbs.com/

A few years ago I attended a friend's birthday dinner where I sat across from a Penzey's scion who wrote a book about spices.

my epiphany awhile back: i bought this local-ish chicken rub and it tasted so good i just ended up putting it on everything when i cooked and i felt like an idiot thinking all that time that i HAD to use mixes and rubs for whatever the label said they were for. you can use them for anything! its spices! i take things so literally sometimes.

mmm yes, see also Midyetts rub

they only have one spice product with variations but Zwita's harissa paste gets an A+ (despite the cost)
https://zwitafoods.com/

must be the kind of place those WEST COAST LIBERALS go when they need a rub for their TOFU.

fwiw Penzey's is headquartered in the Milwaukee suburbs

If you spend enough at Penzey's they give you a bumper sticker that says "love people / cook them tasty food."

But with a quick snip of scissors, it can say "love people / cook them."

and then serve them

I loved going to Spice Ace in SF's Fillmore district, it was an amazing store, but it closed in 2019. They still have a great book though called Secret Blend Recipes from Spice Ace

I hear it closed because its name was too close to that of another nearby niche business, Space Ice.

You Thought I Was Feelin You? - A Thread for Spice Ice

xxp - I frequently use lighter steak sauces on chicken; seafood rubs or marinades on chicken or turkey, and generally mix & match sauces, marinades, and rubs made for meats and seafoods with good results. "Suggested uses" are just that.

What if Harris didn't get a post-convention bounce because all the coverage of the handoff from Biden was her effective coronation publicity blitz

That was Silver's argument I think

"I loved going to Spice Ace in SF's Fillmore district, it was an amazing store, but it closed in 2019."

I heard that COMRADE KAMALA destroyed the spice industry in California. sad. very sad.

Im so tired of this shit

its genuinely crazy that the entire country isn't sick of him yet

That was Silver's argument I think

the original Matlock t.v. show went away after 9 years. Walker, Texas Ranger went away after 8 years. its Trump's time to go. he is literally talking about sharks. that's how you know!

Never mind, it's OK to like polls again.

Harris leads Trump 50-46% among all adults and registered voters alike, and 52-46% among likely voters, per latest @ABC News/Ipsos poll.

Closer assessment shows movement to Harris in some groups when comparing all adults with likely voters.

Read more: https://t.co/Es0eiqapeZ pic.twitter.com/keKcGoo7X4

— ABC News (@ABC) September 9, 2024

isn't it an older poll?

Yes, that poll was conducted Aug. 23-27 and released by Ipsos on Sept. 1. Not sure why ABC is publicizing it now.

Yeah it's from the end of August. Not that you can tell from the article.

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oops sorry! I just saw it was on the timeline now. Never mind, polls are bad.

A spectre is haunting Kamala

Shadow of Tulsi Gabbard looms over Harris ahead of Tuesday’s debate
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/08/tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris-debate-00177869

Current entirely fictitious and repulsive talking anti-immigrant point being circulated by people including Elon and Jim Jordan is that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are eating good honest white Americans' pet cats and dogs.

There's also a fake story about Venezuelan gangs taking over an apartment complex in Aurora, CO.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13829557/owner-sells-colorado-aurora-apartment-complex-venezuelan-migrant-gangs.html

Hells Angels took care of that problem

"When they came for the cats, I did nothing, because I was not a cat..."

xp - I almost posted about that Ohio thing earlier, it's disgusting. I stumbled on it (in the replies to an account focused on architectural photography no less!) and couldn't believe how horrifically racist the whole thing is.

Why are they so obsessed with cats? Weird.

Jim Jordan is such a stupid asshole.

so let me get this straight, the GOP candidate is a 34x felon with 3 criminal trials pending who tried to overturn an election on the basis of zero actual proof, is now currently campaigning on throwing all Democrats in jail while claiming that Kamala Harris is going to get your pets eaten alive, and according to polls this is a toss-up

People like their pets

he's giving the people what they want

the stories circulating about Aurora CO are maddening, I can't tell if it it's willful disinformation or what; as of a week ago it looked like legit news orgs were reporting stuff about videos with people with guns in the building. Now the people who live there say nothing of the sort happened. Was it somewhere in between? completely false? this shit is going to get worse and worse, and on a bigger scale, very soon; aided by AI, I can imagine film clips of really heinous, terrifying shit being widely disseminated with no good way to counter with the truth outside of eyewitness reports. I mean this stuff was already happening with the Syrian civil war a few years ago, no doubt it's happening with Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza.

also, she might not have even worked at McDonalds!! sham candidate!

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flashback to two weeks ago:

Does anybody think Harris has finished climbing in the polls?

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, August 21, 2024

I worry that she may have.

just yesterday I saw this video of some Walter White-lookin fuck talking about how his granddaughter had to be pulled out of preschool because she didn't speak Spanish and that the school was demanding they hire a full-time interpreter, it is so fucking stupid and yet it had like several million views. I guess once you've convinced people there are litter boxes in schools now because of wokeness you can pretty much just say anything

at least they have released a platform now:

https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

harris stalled with the gaza bullshit

xxxxpost afaict with the Aurora, CO situation, there is a building owned by a slum-lord who refuses to get it up to code or fix anything. The tenants just stopped paying their rents, and the landlord went to the press with a BS story about how he can't enter his building because armed Venezuelan gangs are squatting inside. Of course this was swallowed whole by Fox News and the like.