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Of Course He Fucking Pardoned Stone

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I am not even remotely surprised he did. You shouldn’t be either. Donald Trump is a criminal and a fraud, and those aren’t just words or heated political rhetoric. He’s a fucking mob boss, and of course he rewarded the guy who didn’t snitch. I’m not happy about it, but there is the slight silver lining that he is just too fucking stupid and too impatient to wait until Barr can finish his dirty work for him, and now this shit is on Trump and the Republicans, who stand by him. And I, for one, intend to never let them forget about it.

In other news, I don’t give a fuck of that CEO of Goya apologizes. If he did, he wouldn’t mean it. It’s 2020- everybody knows who Trump is, so he didn’t misspeak of get excited and have a bout of logorrhea. He said what he meant. He’s just like Trump- the failchild of billionaires who thinks the world owes him everything, and he and Trump are in the same fucking club. So fuck him and fuck Goya brands.

Speaking of Goya, I used my last back of kidney beans tonight making chili out of the brisket left over from last weekend, and god damned it was good. I didn’t know what to do with the leftovers, and then it was 100 fucking degrees for the last three days so I figured I might as well eat like a Texan.

That’s it from home crap home. Starting my first run of kraut and pickles tomorrow. Excited about that. Gotta be prepared for when the supply chains and economy collapse in a couple months.

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  1. 1.

    Aleta

    Andrew Weissmann @AWeissmann_

    Time to put Roger Stone in the grand jury to find out what he knows about Trump but would not tell. Commutation can’t stop that.

    Stone in GJ has three choices: lie and risk prosecution, refuse to testify and be held in civil and criminal contempt , or tell the truth. Let’s do what we can to get at the truth.

  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    it was 100 fucking degrees for the last three days so I figured I might as well eat like a Texan.

    Too bad the guy who runs this place doesn’t like rotating tags that are too long, because this one wold be perfect.

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    I made chili this week.  I don’t know why, but I make chili a lot more in the summer than I do in the winter.  Perverse self-destructive tendencies or chili in the summer cools you off?  You decide.

  4. 4.

    Kropacetic

    I don’t know what I’m going to do without Goya products. I’ve never seen any of the brands discussed this morning as alternatives, except the rare odd la preferida product. But certainly not the diversity of options I’m looking for.
    Also, need to figure out what the hell is in sazón that makes my black beans and my cheese sauces sooooo good.

  5. 5.

    MisterForkbeard

    @WaterGirl: I made a sweet chili for dinner tonight and it was excellent. Good food and good times, especially with cornbread.

    I think it made the day heat better in comparison.

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    Watch Stone and Flynn get late term spots in the Trump Campaign.  Probs too late, but the commercials will be epically absurd.

  9. 9.

    Jazzman

    Texans consider it a sacrilege to put beans in chili.  Not us Midwesterners, though–I come from a long line of frugal housewives who knew all the ways to stretch a pound of ground beef.  But as long as the drinks are cold, it’s all good.

  10. 10.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Amen, Cole

    In other news, I don’t give a fuck of that CEO of Goya apologizes. If he did, he wouldn’t mean it. It’s 2020- everybody knows who Trump is, so he didn’t misspeak of get excited and have a bout of logorrhea. He said what he meant. He’s just like Trump- the failchild of billionaires who thinks the world owes him everything, and he and Trump are in the same fucking club. So fuck him and fuck Goya brands.

    Let the boycotts commence!

  15. 15.

    CaseyL

    I’m not going to talk about the Stone pardon, because it makes me want to line every GOP politician in DC up against a wall and…and…um…

    …cough on them.  Yeah, that’s it.

    If you don’t put beans in chili, it’s basically just meat and tomato sauce, isn’t it?  Might as well put it on top of spaghetti.

    (There’s a restaurant somewhere in the Midwest where they do exactly that: put chili on spaghetti.  In fast, they put EVERYTHING on spaghetti. Makes for some odd combos.)

    Every so often I get a hankering for a really good bowl of chili, and then I wait until it passes :)

    I could get one at a good BBQ place, but the urge always seems to strike me at impractical times, like late at night.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    Got so hot inside the homestead for a couple of hours late this afternoon that my sweat was perspiring.

  23. 23.

    West of the Rockies

    @CaseyL:

    Bob’s Big Boy did that:  Chilietti.  It wasn’t terrible.  Of course, I was in my mid 20s when last I had it.

    The Stone thing sucks.  But I don’t want to give in to misery.  It only makes me unhappy and the Trump clan point and laugh.  Fuck them.

  24. 24.

    HumboldtBlue

    I’m not a big black bean fan (note: there is a local black bean burrito that when warmed with some cheese and some Frank’s is delicious and my mouth is watering) and I don’t think I’ve ever purchased any Goya products so I’m not losing out here.

    Now I gotta do something with two pounds of pinto beans.

  26. 26.

    West of the Rockies

    @Scott Alloway:

    That’s a lot of soup.  One is reminded of that 3rd grade knee-slapper:

    Whadja have for breakfast?

    Pea soup!

    Whadja have for lunch?

    Pea soup!

    Whadja have for dinner?

    Pea soup!

    Whadja do all night?

    Pee soup!

  27. 27.

    trollhattan

    Enjoyed this set of pelican photos and you will too. And it’s a good spot for Ogden Nash.

    A wonderful bird is the pelican.
    His bill can hold more than his belican.
    He can hold in his beak
    Enough food for a week,
    But I’m damned if I see how the helican.
    .

  36. 36.

    Spanky

    @CaseyL:

    Every so often I get a hankering for a really good bowl of chili, and then I wait until it passes :)

    Yeah, and then it burns the other end as it passes.

  39. 39.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Yutsano:

    Small world. I see people occasionally buy frozen Cincinnati Chili brand Cincinnati chili. Don’t know if it’s any good. Maybe I’ll try it soon

  41. 41.

    Benw

    Just one quick thought: Donald Trump isn’t a mob boss like we see in the movies. He’s a prissy, fussy, NY real estate speculator and failure. He acts like a mob boss as some kind of cosplay, but it’s only working because the real bosses: McConnell and Barr won’t let him fail.

  42. 42.

    Calouste

    @Aleta:

    Eden Foods sued the Obama administration because they didn’t want to provide contraception coverage under the ACA. They are the Hobby Lobby of canned beans.

  43. 43.

    Kropacetic

    @trollhattan: Black beans seem to require a lot of pork products and spices to become interesting. This is my observation, anyway.

    Saute some onions and bell peppers and some minced garlic once those are done (plus a half to a whole habañero if you’re adventurous), put in the black beans with some water and a packet of sazon (or equivalent) and maybe a dash of vinegar, simmer til soft.  I usually serve this over rice with either pork or chicken.

    @Redshift: I enjoyaenjoy black beans and rice with Cajun seasoning.

    I’ve been looking to develop a sense for cajun seasoning too.  Nothing I can find pre-mixed comes anywhere close to my favorite cajun restaurant experiences.

  44. 44.

    tinare

    Made black bean tacos from one of the two cans of Goya black beans that I have. Never buying that brand again. Fuck him and his family.

  45. 45.

    NotMax

    re: above

    Bush’s canned black beans are satisfactory, in my experience, after rinsing off most of the gunk they’re packed in.

  47. 47.

    ArchTeryx

    @CaseyL: It’s called Skyline, or Cincinnati-style chili, and I love it.  I can make it myself, from scratch, and it’s awesome.

  48. 48.

    kindness

    Here in CA we steal ideas from everyone.  Consequently our chili can be from anywhere or a fusion.  But out here chili always has beans.  As it should.  Chili is the sauce and the beans.  Chili con carne is chili with meat.

  56. 56.

    Aleta

    There was an old man in a tree
    Whose whiskers were lovely to see
    But the birds of the air
    Plucked them perfectly bare
    To make themselves nests on that tree.

    There was an old man with a beard
    Who said “It is just as I feared!
    Two owls and a hen,
    Four larks and a wren,
    Have all built their nests in my beard!”

    E. Lear

  59. 59.

    Aleta

    @Calouste: I had no idea.  Thanks for telling me.  But fuck.  Their nori and sesame salt and other things from Japan are so  good.  Rats.  (Goya black beans were the best too.)

  61. 61.

    Kent

    @CaseyL:If you don’t put beans in chili, it’s basically just meat and tomato sauce, isn’t it?  Might as well put it on top of spaghetti.

    With a big pile of ground chili and pounded chilis mixed in and probably cumin and other spices not normally found in spaghetti sauce.  Plus Texan chili isn’t made with ground beef or ground pork like regular spaghetti.  It is made from big chunks of brisket or other big chunks of beef that are cooked until shredded and falling apart.   Think soupy pulled pork but made with beef and a lot of chilis instead of BBQ sauce.

  62. 62.

    Kent

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:@Aleta: Unless it’s what he’s been convicted of and the sentence been commuted, he could take the 5th.

    They could grant him immunity from prosecution for anything he testifies to and the toss him into prison for obstruction of Congress or perjury if he refuses.  Of course Trump could pardon him for those crimes too but not if they wait until January.

  67. 67.

    West of the Rockies

    @Cameron:

    That is the best DJT voice impression I’ve heard.  I actually thought It was a Sarah Cooper voice-over thing at first (I love her efforts, too), with the guy playing an actual Trump soundbyte, not doing an impression.

  69. 69.

    Another Scott

    Thanks to the great @BookCameo service I got former Gov. Rod Blagojevich to record some tips for prison for @Scotttaylorva.

    Taylor's staff go on trial in September for their role in Virginia's largest voter fraud scandal of all time- and I expect Taylor will soon follow. pic.twitter.com/hvZHNAJekQ

    — Ben Tribbett (@notlarrysabato) July 10, 2020

    Good, good.

    More please. Maybe Stone will join him eventually.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  70. 70.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @CaseyL:  (+ @Yutsy & @ Goku, et al.)

    TL:DR: More than you ever wanted to read about Cincinnati Chili

    Cincinnati Chili isn’t chili – it’s a Greek Bolognese. There’s no cumin in the sauce, but garlic, cinnamon, allspice, clove, and a wee bit of oregano, plus Worcestershire and cider vinegar. The difference among the recipes is the proportions of each. The standard pasta order is a 3 way – spaghetti, “chili” and finely grated mild cheddar cheese. There is a combo dish that includes beans as an add on, but it’s not the canonical choice. Onions are another add on. Beans are wrong it the context given its origins, but lots of people like it. Hot sauce at tables and in packets for carry out. Also, in my view, not appropriate in context of a Greek pasta dish, but I’m pedantic even about cuisine.

    The first place it was served was Empress Chili, followed not long after by Skyline, opened by Nick Lambrindes – formerly of Empress.  Skyline is the best known, and most widely spread, of the restaurants. In my view, Skyline has best recipe, with Empress a close second.  It’s an acquired taste but reminiscent of Pastitsio with the spices. I’m a fan.

  71. 71.

    Omnes Omnibus

    He didn’t pardon Stone and chili doesn’t have beans.

    And now to read the comments.

  72. 72.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:

    Skyline is the best known, and most widely spread, of the restaurants. In my view, Skyline has best recipe, with Empress a close second.  It’s an acquired taste but reminiscent of Pastitsio with the spices. I’m a fan.

    That’s it! It was Skyline brand Cincinnati Chili I see people buy. I’m totally going to get the chili spaghetti next time I’m at the store to have for dinner

  73. 73.

    worn

    @CaseyL: If you don’t put beans in chili, it’s basically just meat and tomato sauce, isn’t it?

    Depends on where you come from. If you make it like this, no. A fair bit of work, yes, but the results are worth it.

    I’m agnostic as regards the beans. Sometimes yes, sometimes, no.

  75. 75.

    miles2go

    @CaseyL:  I think you may be referring to Chili Johns. The original

    in Green Bay Wisconsin, and one in Burbank California.

  76. 76.

    Juju

    @CaseyL:  I believe you are thinking of Cincinnati chili. I was thinking about making some this weekend or sometime next week. If made well it can be quite good. I like Cincinnati chili three ways, that’s chili with spaghetti, a bit of onion and cheese.

  83. 83.

    Honus

    @Kropacetic:  fuck texas and fuck texans. For 100 years hillbillies had to make a living going 500 feet underground and setting off dynamite to get coal. God had to invent oil because texans were too dumb to make a living selling beef to the army. They think cooking meat for hours on end is some kind of fine cuisine. Dumb motherfuckers got no business telling anybody how to make chili.

  88. 88.

    Central Planning

    Gotta be prepared for when the supply chains and economy collapse in a couple months.

    OK, prepper.

  89. 89.

    Central Planning

    @Kropacetic:

    I’ve been looking to develop a sense for cajun seasoning too.  Nothing I can find pre-mixed comes anywhere close to my favorite cajun restaurant experiences.

    I went to a class at the New Orleans School of Cooking (it was awesome!) and the woman leading the class recommended Joe’s Stuff for the gumbo. It does not contain MSG and is low sodium. I find many other blends have too much salt in them. It’s delicious, and I use it on all sorts of foods.

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