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26 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Turkey is a third rate bird. I won the argument.

But I’m grateful for Virgil anyway.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Proof that I know good turkey: me and mom with the beast Thanksgiving 2018. (Still opted for the roast).
People be like: if you brine the turkey for days to change the texture and fill/cover it with stuff to obscure the flavor, it’s tasty. Stop making excuses for big turkey! Break up with him already! 😂
Just tasted the turkey. It’s excellent. Truly a fantastic effort. Moist. Flavorful. Falling off the bone.

Not as good as the spatchcocked chicken we made a few days ago. 👹

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BJG 👑 Profile picture
27 Nov
Lots to say about the first 15 min of Hillbilly Elegy but I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that he just “joked” that Whitney Houston sounds better with the volume turned down.

I have very little sympathy left for this character.
Also, he’s at a law school function at THE BEST LAW SCHOOL IN AMERICA, and the *tension* in the scene is that he might not get a summer job AT THE BEST FIRM IN AMERICA, because he can’t pick btwn Chardonnay and Cabernet blanc.

God forbid he go to the 2nd best one firm.
The movie pretends his ability to pay for school hinges on getting a summer job at this particular firm, but all the top firms pay the same, so not sure it matters if he knows which plate is his bread plate & what’s a fish fork.

(Also nearly everyone struggles with that stuff!)
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21 Oct
Me: Black people are suffering by dozens of measurable metrics there's a link between the party's indifference to our grievances and the fact that our votes are captured.

ChomskyLuvr1996: "Why are you shoehorning idpol into everything?"
Solidarity for me but not for thee I guess.

I'm sincerely committed to a multiracial coalition that includes white working class voters. But I'm getting tired of the eye-rolling that emerges from some segment of the left whenever black grievances are up at bat.
This includes leftists who beat their chests saying "just vote" and then "do the work of activism" while scoffing at the idea that a precarious person might reasonably resent being told that climate change is more important than whether they survive the year.
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8 Oct
Ok, just getting into the West Wing and at the top of episode 3 the president is giving a speech under a banner that says "practical idealism."

This is peak hate-watching.
Elizabeth Moss!
Bradley Whitford’s character just asked the Black guy from Psych to grab a beer in Georgetown after work and the Black guy was all “what kind of bar is this?” and boy oh boy I do NOT miss the “no homo” nineties.
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24 Sep
“Vibrant.” ImageImage
Bernie Bro stories were like “she called me a heartless neoliberal for not caring that 68,000 people die a year from lack of health insurance.” And credulous reporters would characterize that as “harassment.” Meanwhile: ImageImage
Bernie repeatedly and forcefully disavowed any random acts of online bullying and was held accountable for it anyway. Meanwhile: ImageImage
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22 Sep
Anat Shenker-Osorio gives excellent advice here. She points out that “law and order” is a trap set by Trump that serves to keep the base at home. (Also, leaning into right wing framing is immoral). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…
She also argues that emphasizing Trump is an authoritarian helps him. Instead, he should be described as weak, bumbling and ineffectual. (Interestingly, that is Trump’s approach to Biden).

Prior to the interview, the hosts argue, correctly, that Dems should emphasize policy.
Notably, this is what the left has been saying this whole time.

Stop panicking. Stop blaming the left. Stop using right wing framing.

Start emphasizing policy. Start phone banking.

And the better the policy is the more electable Biden will be.
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21 Sep
It was entirely predictable that ppl targeted by the Crime Bill & the "law & order" messaging exploited by Biden/Harris would object to this pair come the general election.

Instead of picking a safer candidate, the Dem establishment pretended records don't matter. Image
By forging ahead with this ticket, the party calculated that they didn't need these votes; a version of 'for every Blue collar voter we lose in Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia.'

But for Black/young/progressive voters.
To many voters, it feels like the party wants to have it both ways. Some folks will cave to the pressure of defeating Trump. Others will abstain out of frustration that their substantive needs -- needs as exigent as 'kids in cages' -- were ignored to advance corporate interests.
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