Social media was lit up this weekend. A North Carolina man was seen on video serving a Black girl a serving of knuckle style chili at the Asheville Mall.
Asheville is located in the western corner of the state. The population of the city is 124,000 residents.
There was a fight between a group of teenagers and they were ejected from the property.
We don't know how this event started but I can straight up tell you that words were exchanged between the girl and the white man.
The suspect shoved the girl. When she got near him again, she served a hot plate and it laid her cold.
North Carolina man found out his knuckle style chili isn't good.
An off duty cop arrested the man. He is facing assault on a child, assault on a female under 12, assault on a female, trespassing and battery. Some charges could be are felonies. Some are misdemeanors.
Each charge could put this guy in the iron college for up one to five years. The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Not only that, he will likely lose his job, face a public shaming, get banned from the mall, face a potential lawsuit from the victim and her family, he will be likely required to go to domestic violence classes and racial relation seminars.
Thankfully the girl didn't die.
That knuckle style chili has people heading to the hospital.
Welcome to Donald J. Trump's America.
On a side note.
I know one thing I do detest is auto-correct or insert. Whenever I post on Journal de la Reyna, I often try to proofread the post before submitting it.
I use Samsung Galaxy Tablets for most postings.
I hate when the Galaxy's brain dictates words. It's like having a T9 function on your phone where it automatically deduces the word you want. I often have words I didn't write show up on these postings.
My apologies to those who read on Journal de la Reyna.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a bawse. She shuts down Joe Lieberman and Steve King.
They really want to shut her up. She is the youngest elected member of Congress. She is also a prominent woman of color who faces an onslaught of personal attacks from the right.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has become a bawse with progressive activists. She won't let the right and the corporate Democrats dictate how her message of inequality. She has been pressuring Democrats to support the Green New Deal. The lawmaker has been a troll on social media. She has been wacking back at Donald J. Trump, Republicans, Democrats and the junk food media.
Democrats want to cap the noise. Progressives vow to fight and push the party towards the left.
Instead of calling it the left, it should be called towards diversity and equality.
The thing Republicans taking cheap shots forget to mention is that it’s about having trouble affording a SECOND apartment.
I live in the Bronx and work in DC. Need a spot in both.
But I understand how they can’t conceive of a life where people don’t casually maintain 2 homes. https://t.co/K2cxCcRyk9
The President’s actions have been so destabilizing + destructive that the FBI had to open inquiry on whether the most powerful person in the United States is actually working for Russia.
In her latest fight Ocasio-Cortez has hit back allegations that she took a nude selfie. The Daily Caller posted a fake photo of a woman's pretty feet in a bathtub. They made the assertion that Ocasio-Cortez is inexperienced and a hypocrite.
Let’s learn about this, shall we?
Many have recognized that @FoxNews has crossed a line beyond conservatism and into outright bigotry with their financing of Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. Tucker finances the @DailyCaller, which posted fake nudes of me.
For those out of the loop, Republicans began to circulate a fake nude photo of me. The @DailyCaller reposted it (!) and refused to indicate it was fake in the title as well.
Completely disgusting behavior from Conservative outlets.
She also got into it with former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman. On Fox News, the former 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee for Al Gore and endorser of John McCain's failed 2008 presidential campaign said that Ocasio-Cortez isn't the face of the Democratic Party.
She hit at Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Steve King (R-IA), two lawmakers who are white extremists. The two lawmakers have openly supported the alt-white movement. Scalise is the Minority Whip of the Republican House. King admits he is a white supremacist.
“Seeds.”
Out of the minority of seats they have in Congress, the GOP allowed a white supremacist to represent ~700,000 people.
Republicans won’t even censure him.
They also protect a president who can’t bring himself to condemn neo-Nazis.
At this point those who use the terms “racially tinged” or “racially charged” to describe white supremacy should be prepared to explain why they chose to employ those terms instead of “racist”/“racism.”
If the answer is their own discomfort, they’re protecting the wrong people.
You’re the GOP Minority Whip. How do you not know how marginal tax rates work?
Oh that’s right, almost forgot: GOP works for the corporate CEOs showering themselves in multi-million💰bonuses; not the actual working people whose wages + healthcare they’re ripping off for profit. https://t.co/R1YIng2Ok1
She hits back at the former lawmaker and warned Democrats to stop undermining her and progressives. Ocasio-Cortez vows to support primary challengers if the 2020 House and Senate races if Democratic incumbents go at her.
Bury this jackass.
Only a few weeks in and Ocasio-Cortez has been the most talked about lawmaker besides Hillary Clinton, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Ocasio-Cortez made national headlines last year when she defeated Joe Crawley, a 10-term incumbent and former chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, in the primary for New York’s 14th Congressional District.
The 29-year-old self-identified democratic socialist became the youngest woman ever elected to the House in November.
She often hits back to criticism on her social media accounts and roiled conservatives earlier this month when she floated the idea of higher tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to fund a "Green New Deal" as an aggressive response to climate change.
Donald J. Trump is causing an uproar. The imbecile is now facing a slew of controversy.
The New York Times and Washington Post released back to back bombshells.
The Times reported that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia. After he fired FBI director James Comey out the cannon, the feds were concerned that Trump was acting in the interest of the Russian Federation.
Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the imbecile's own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow's influence.
The FBI is determining whether the cannon firing of Comey constituted to obstruction of justice.
Trump continues to deny his 2016 campaign had ties to Russia.
His infamous remarks about asking Russia to hack into the emails of his former opponent Hillary Clinton raised red flags.
Trump refused to criticized Russia on the campaign trail. He praised the Russian Federation leader on numerous occasions.
Also he has also scrubbed private encounters with Putin.
The Washington Post made the bombshell report that Trump concealed details from senior staffers.
Trump went to "extraordinary lengths" to keep details from his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin secret – even from officials within his own administration, The Washington Post reported this weekend, citing unnamed sources.
After meeting with Putin at the 2017 Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Trump took his interpreter's notes and told him not to discuss the meeting with anyone, including other U.S. officials, the Post reported.
The paper said Trump's handling of the Hamburg meeting was "part of a broader pattern by the president of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries."
No detailed record exists from five of Trump's interactions with the Russian leader since taking office, the Post reported. It was unclear if that was the only time Trump took his interpreters' notes, but the paper said several administration officials have been unable to obtain a readout from his meeting last year with Putin in Helsinki.
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was present at the meeting in Hamburg. The Post said Tillerson did not answer questions about Trump asking the interpreter to keep details of the meeting quiet, or if Trump took the interpreter's notes.
Fiona Hill, a senior Russia adviser on the National Security Council, and former State Department official John Heffern asked Trump's interpreter for more information about the Hamburg meeting, which is how they learned of the president's request to keep the details under wraps, the Post reported.
In a news conference after the meeting, Tillerson said Putin denied interfering in the 2016 election, but refused to say how Trump responded to the denial, per the Post. Officials told the Post that the only detail from the meeting that the interpreter did share was that Trump told Putin, "I believe you."
Trump denied the report during an interview with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro Saturday. He called the Post "basically the lobbyist for Amazon," because it is owned by the tech giant's CEO Jeff Bezos, a Trump critic.
"I’m not keeping anything under wraps," Trump said. "I couldn't care less."
"I have a one-on-one meeting with Putin like I do with every other leader. I have many one-on-one, nobody ever says anything about it," Trump told Pirro. "But with Putin, they say, 'Oh, what did they talk about?'"
"I meet with Putin, and they make a big deal. Anybody could have listened to that meeting. that meeting is up for grabs," Trump said, adding that he and Putin spoke about Israel and "lots of other things."
Trump dismissed the "whole Russia thing" as a "terrible hoax" and said he won in 2016 because he "was a better candidate than Hillary Clinton," not because of collusion with Russian efforts to undermine her campaign.
"The fact is, I was obviously a good candidate. I won every debate. I won everything I did, and I won, and I won easily – 306-223, I believe," Trump said, referring to his performance in the Electoral College.
Democrats were alarmed by The Washington Post report.
Many Democratic lawmakers are pressuring for an investigation into this matter.
Trump also shocked the world when he phoned in an interview on Fox News. He talked to that shrew Jeanine Pirro.
Lil Uzi Vert claims he's done with music. Do you believe him?
Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert is has thoughts of quitting the music industry. Mr. Symere Woods has been stalled on the music since his debut album. I thought it was a stunt.
Still believe its a stunt to get people interested in his album out.
Uzi was promoting his sophomore album which is expected to be released this year.
In the meanwhile, we can listen to his debut album and his collaborative mixtape with Gucci Mane.
"I wanna take the time out to say I thank each and every one of my supporters but I"m done with Music." I deleted everything. I wanna be normal .... I wanna wake up in 2013. You are free."
The entertainer has announced on social media that he's done with music and it left his fans in a state of shock. The rapper posted on social media that he plans to live a "normal" life.
The album that he's planning on releasing is called "Eternal Awake" a follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album, Luv Is Rage 2.
The rapper is signed to DJ Drama and Don Cannon's label Generation Now and has released his mixtapes and albums through Atlantic Records.
Uzi collaborated with Gucci Mane, Wiz Khalifa, Future, Meek Mill, Travis Scott and Nicki Minaj.
Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi may separate. Rumors of Rae Sremmurd breaking up.
No Flex Zone!
Oh, no, Slim Jxmmi and Swae Lee are breaking up!
The rap group released three album under Ear Drummers and Interscope Records. The two grew up in the Mississippi city of Tupelo. They were homeless and struggling. They found music and it helped them cope with turmoils.
Aaquil Iben Shamon Brown (Slim Jxmmi) and Khalif Malik Ibn Shaman Brown (Swae Lee) found their calling when they met up-in-coming rap producer Michael Williams known professionally as Mike Will Made-It.
The three collaborated and found a calling.
The two were virtually unknown when they released the two hit singles No Type and No Flex Zone.
Those singles introduced the two into the mainstream. With help from Nicki Minaj and Young Thug, Rae Sremmurd released Throw Sum Mo and it became clear that the group was here to stay.
The group released the album Sremmlife and it became a three time platinum album. This would be one of the few albums with such critical acclaim.
The group released two more albums, SremmLife 2 and SR3MM. Along with the SR3MM, the two released their debut solo albums Swaecation and Jxmtro.
The two were on top of hip-hop's most successful trap artists. It seems like them days could be over.
TMZ has gotten word that the two are pursuing solo careers.
BREAKING: Slim Jxmmi seems to announce the end of Rae Sremmurd on Twitter https://t.co/CMJHvnB7pl
Slim Jxmmi dropped some disheartening Twitter bombs on fans of the Black Beatles rappers Saturday morning, including 3 he later deleted implying he's parting ways with his brother, Swae Lee.
One said, "Y'all won it's a wrap," while another was even more telling, with Slim saying ... "I'm not Rae Sremmurd I'm slim jxmmi and ima sink or swim by myself."
Jxm also boasted he'd bought his mom a home off the money he made from his own work ... which is a tweet he actually left up.
The 2 have both done recent solo work but confirmed they have a new album coming out in early 2019 ... called "SremmLife4."
This isn't the first time there have been rumors of a breakup, but they've denied them in the past and maintained all was well between the siblings. It seems like it could be different this time.
Julian Castro is in the run for the Democratic nomination.
Former Housing and Urban Development secretary under Barack Obama is officially in the race for the Democratic nomination. Julian Castro made the official announcement in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas.
He will be one of the many Democrats who will be potentially running for president.
Castro joined the 2020 presidential race Saturday as the rush of Democrats making early moves to challenge the incumbent accelerates.
Castro, who could end up being the only Latino in what is shaping up to be a crowded Democratic field, made immigration a centerpiece of his announcement in his hometown of San Antonio, less than 200 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Two days after the president visited the border to promote his promised wall, Castro mocked Trump for claiming that the U.S. faces an “invasion” from its ally to the south. “He called it a national security crisis,” Castro said. “Well, there is a crisis today. It’s a crisis of leadership. Donald Trump has failed to uphold the values of our great nation.”
Castro, the 44-year-old grandson of a Mexican immigrant, said he was running for president “because it’s time for new leadership, because it’s time for new energy and it’s time for a new commitment to make sure that the opportunities that I’ve had are available to every American.”
He made the announcement as a government shutdown drags into the longest in U.S. history, and as the field of 2020 contenders widens and anticipation grows around bigger names still considering runs.
It's official, Julian is in.
Castro was San Antonio’s mayor for five year and U.S. housing secretary in President Barack Obama’s second term. He became the second Democrat to formally enter race, after former Maryland Rep. John Delaney.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has also started an exploratory committee for president, and four other Democratic senators are taking steady steps toward running. Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu elected to Congress, said this week she is planning a bid, too.
Castro is getting an early start in trying to stand out. His first trip as a candidate comes Monday, to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, where an outcry has begun as the White House considers diverting disaster funding to pay for the wall.
The impasse over paying for a border wall that Trump made a central part of his 2016 campaign has led to the partial federal closure. That stalemate, along with Trump’s hard-line immigration stands, drew sharp rebukes from Castro.
“There are serious issues that need to be addressed in our broken immigration system, but seeking asylum is a legal right. And the cruel policies of this administration are doing real and lasting harm,” he said.
He argued for securing the border in a “smart and humane way.”
“There is no way in hell that caging babies is a smart or a right or good way to do it. We say no to building a wall and say yes to building community. We say no to scapegoating immigrants,” he said.
Joining Castro at the campaign kickoff was his twin brother, Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro, chairman of the Hispanic congressional caucus and a frequent Trump critic. The Spanish-style plaza in the Castro twins’ boyhood neighborhood was packed with supporters who streamed through the gates between a mariachi band. Castro had said leading up to his announcement that a Latino candidate was a must in the 2020 field.
That group of hopefuls is starting to take shape even though the first primary elections are more than a year away.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California this past week published a memoir , a staple of presidential candidates. Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke is doing little to dim speculation that he might jump into a field that has no clear front-runner.
Castro is aware he lacks the name recognition of potential 2020 rivals or the buzz surrounding O’Rourke, whose flirtations with 2020 have tantalized donors and activists after a close race last year against Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Even some supporters at Castro’s announcement could be torn if O’Rourke gets in the race. Diana Delrosario, a social worker in San Antonio, warned she might cry while she recounted how Castro once went out of his way as mayor to help wheel her mother out of a restaurant.
“I have this heart for Julian. But it’s going to be a big discussion if Beto decides to run,” said Delrosario, 45.
Castro, who has repeatedly dismissed talk that an O’Rourke candidacy would complicate his own chances, has framed the neighborhood and his upbringing as the story of an underdog.
He was raised by a local Latina activist, and after a brief career in law, was elected mayor of the nation’s seventh-largest city at 34. It wasn’t long before Democrats nationally embraced him as a star in the making, particularly one from Texas, where a booming Hispanic population is rapidly changing the state’s demographics and improving the party’s fortunes.
Castro delivered the keynote speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Two years later, President Barack Obama picked him to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
He was on the short list of Hillary Clinton’s potential running mates in 2016. During Castro’s trip this past week to Nevada, one state Latino business leader told Castro that he should again be a top contender for vice president if his campaign falls short.
Like other Democrats running, Castro has said he will not accept money from political action committees tied to corporations and unions, and he has sought to introduce himself to voters as a champion for universal health care and affordable housing.
Donald J. Trump has a 65% chance of winning reelection. Despite the government shutdown, many Americans will give Trump a chance to fix the mess. They mostly blame him for the government shutdown. This is the longest in U.S. history.
Trump will not relinquish his demand to have the funding for a border wall added to the budget resolution.
Washington state governor wants to battle. He wants to join a growing list of potential Democrats who might face a goliath named Donald J. Trump.
The imbecile has a 65% chance of winning reelection.
Gov. Jay Inslee is the latest contender hoping to win the Democratic nomination. He will be focusing on issues like climate change, corporate greed and the middle class.
The Atlantic explained that Inslee will be on the list of 20 or more candidates willing to take on Trump in the 2020 presidential race.
Do you believe Jay Inslee is ready to run for president?
Inslee isn't getting the name recognition like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Julian Castro. He hopes that he can change the tide.
Inslee is currently the governor of Washington. He served the post since 2013. He was then a lawamker from the 1st Congressional District which represented the Seattle suburbs, Point Roberts and Bellingham.
A native of Seattle, Inslee decided to formally announce he's exploring a run for the president.
Inslee has emphasized climate change, education and drug policy reform. He garnered national attention for his critiques of President Donald Trump. Inslee, State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and State Solicitor General Noah Purcell sued the Trump Administration over Executive Order 13769, which halted travel for 90 days from seven Muslim-majority countries and imposed a total ban on Syrian refugees entering the United States.
The case led to the order being blocked by the courts and it was later superseded by other executive orders. His outspokenness on climate change issues and public opposition to Trump have led to speculation he would run for President in 2020.
He is married to Trudi Inslee and has three children.
