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Schadenfreude Open Thread: Get Me Roger Stone

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  6. 6.

    Viva BrisVegas

    One downside of the shutdown/backdown is that Ann Coulter seems to have made herself relevant to the MSM once again.

    First she was the spur that prodded Trump into action, and now that he has disappointed her she seems to have found a niche as a critic of Trump from the lunatic right.

    There’s money in them there shills.

  8. 8.

    Plato

    1. Democrats offered every day to open the government with a CR for 35 days. Trump said no.
    2. On Day 35, Trump said OK.
    3. On Day 36, @GOP tweets "thanks to President @realDonaldTrump's leadership, the government will reopen and federal workers will be paid" https://t.co/WSMFi7ucU5

    — Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 26, 2019

  10. 10.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Plato:

    Could Trump be worried that the Democrats might propose serious punitive actions against the employers of undocumented workers?

  11. 11.

    debbie

    If I weren’t afraid that someone would take a bat to my car, that top image would make a great bumpersticker!

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Will comment on Roger Stone in due course, but since it’s an Open Thread I shan’t apologise for the derailment:

    I spent several happy, absorbed hours today attending the annual Southeastern Stamp Exposition here in metro Atlanta. Per se, I’m not really a philatelist; but for 66+ years I’ve been obsessed with UK/GB/Empire/Commonwealth/Royal Occasion stuff, and “stuff” includes stamps, and I do like adding to my already-extensive collection.

    Dropped some serious coin on cool additions to my stamp collection today, but beyond that was the attraction of some of the amazing exhibits.

    There were 6-8 panels* devoted to early (late 1920s-early 1930s) stamps and First Day Covers and other philatelic ephemera featuring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

    There were equally as many displays devoted to iconic African-American women celebrated on stamps:
    Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan, Ella Fitzgerald and Marian Anderson, Dorothy Height and Rosa Parks, and many more. Truly inspiring.

    Given that I worked for the Government of Canada for a quarter-century and have all kinds of personal Canadian connections, I loved the extensive display of Canadian history in stamps. And I adored the “Astrophilately” exhibit of stamps and FDCs celebrating the upcoming 50-year anniversary of the Apollo XI moon landing.

    Super, if nerdy, afternoon. I had great fun.

    *Each panel measures roughly 36″x60″ (3’x5′), so we’re talking a LOT of displays!

    Hope my fellow OCDs (CDOs for those who insist upon alphabetical order) will appreciate.

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    WaPo has a piece up on Nancy SMASH: (ETA) titled:‘Pelosi does not mess around’: Democratic speaker emerges triumphant from shutdown.

    Speaking to a group of opinion journalists Friday, Pelosi explained the strategy: “You only start with a feather until you get to the sledgehammer.”

    Grudging respect, but respect.

  15. 15.

    West of the Rockies

    Stone is a homely human. His hair looks sewn on. The glasses atop that beak look fitting for am 11-year-old wizard-in-training. Skin like aged horse hide. Blech.

  19. 19.

    Suzanne

    @germy: Adam (if memory serves) made a statement yesterday about Roger Stone being a steroid and HGH user, and said that it is evident from the shape(?) of his head. I confess I am not familiar enough with these drugs to pick up on that. But the dude is kind of weird-looking, for sure.

  22. 22.

    plato

    A disgraced former commander in the New York Police Department's gun licensing bureau claimed in a court filing that Trump, Michael Cohen, and Don Jr. were among celebrities and donors who got licenses without proper credentials.https://t.co/rG7hBDVypA

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 27, 2019

    Everything about these traitorous thugs reeks of corruption.

  24. 24.

    mad citizen

    I’m sure others have commented on it (thought I haven’t seen it on BJ), but Stone pulling out the Nixon leaving the White House salute seems really weird as a piece of defiance. That’s your go-to dude?

  28. 28.

    germy

    @Suzanne:

    a steroid and HGH user, and said that it is evident from the shape(?) of his head.

    I missed that thread. It would seem more likely his mother used drugs while pregnant with him. I didn’t know his use of steroids could shrink his skull like that, but anything’s possible with these freaks I suppose.

  29. 29.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Another Scott:
    NOT gonna click that link. ?

    I’ve just eaten dinner.

    ETA: he’s always been an odd looking critter. He seems to strive for cool and eccentric but just comes off as weird and vulgar. (And stupid)

  31. 31.

    West of the Rockies

    @Yutsano:

    He has a fairly wide back, and obviously worked his chest, but neglected other areas. I don’t mean to appearance-shame the fellow, bit since he clearly places high value on looks, I guess it’s fair ground.

  33. 33.

    debbie

    @Another Scott:

    Believe me, MMDV. The only bodybuilder I can think of is Arnold and his shoulders didn’t slope down like that. Neither do pro football players’.

    I am disappointed that the tat above isn’t the actual one.

  36. 36.

    Mike in NC

    Hopefully Roger Stone will have ample time to lift weights in whatever federal prison he lands in.

  44. 44.

    Yutsano

    Re: any meet-up tonight: I’ll make this easy. I’ve been driving all day and I’m not in the best mood with humanity right now. Plus I can get pupusas delivered here. But tomorrow at 6pm/1800 I will be at the Indo Cafe for sure!

  46. 46.

    mad citizen

    @(((CassandraLeo))): I forgot about the Nixon (That creep could roll, Dude) tattoo. I learned here that the Nixon library or something similar dissociated themselves from Stone, pointing out he never worked for Nixon, he was 20 years old in 1972, etc.

  48. 48.

    Amir Khalid

    @debbie:
    A competitive bodybuilder (or a serious one, at least) pays attention to his proportions, and does extra work on body parts that need more muscle mass. The dilettantes tend to focus not on what looks good on the competition stage, but on what looks good at the beach. For instance, extra-wide shoulders can make you seem shorter.

  51. 51.

    Amir Khalid

    @(((CassandraLeo))):
    Nixon, we must never forget, led the Republican party in selling out to the Confederates, and this started the process that has ended up with the Republican party selling out to the Russians.

  55. 55.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @mad citizen: Mildly OT, did you see that clip Jeff Bridges posted the other night? I’m still puzzled what it’s heralding, though the date is the date of the Superb Owl, so I guess we’ll find out then. Hoping it’s more than a commercial spot at least.

  62. 62.

    plato

    For those keeping track:

    Hillary Clinton Benghazi / Email Investigation: 6 years – 0 indictments – 0 convictions

    Trump/Russia Investigation: 15 months – 34 Indictments/Charges of people – 3 Indictments/Charges (Companies) – 5 guilty pleas – 4 convictions – 191 CHARGES!

    — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) January 27, 2019

  66. 66.

    sdhays

    @plato: This even understates the difference. Hillary had how many Congressional investigations run by a hostile majority and no one was charged with perjury and no crimes were revealed. It all turned up absolutely nothing.

    The Russia investigation has had, to date, 2 investigations by Congressional Intelligence Committees, both run by sympathetic majorities (one farcically so), and several people are literally going to prison over lying to them.

  69. 69.

    Ladyraxterinok

    @Amir Khalid: In 60 election, JFK rep,IED to Correta Scott King; Nixon did not.

    He wanted to distance himself from GOP under Eisenhower supporting civil rights. He knew this distancing would help him in the South.

    He also knew/was told that the Southern Baptists were quite anti-Catholic and would very likely not vote for Catholic JFK. (SoBaptists were the dominant religious group in the so-called solid south)

    See JFK’s speech to the Houston Baptist Ministerial Alliance when he was in Houston during the campaign.

    I went with friends from college to a big democratic party get-together in downtown Houston. Rayburn and LBJ were there. Sadly, don’t remember if JFK was.

    We later went to a GOP rally in a big city park. We stood on the fringe of the crowd. We were muttering comments to one another and were told to go back to Russia where we belonged! Sigh–how the GOP has changed!

  70. 70.

    mad citizen

    @(((CassandraLeo))): I messed up the quote, it’s “That creep can roll, man”. Haven’t seen the movie in a while. I haven’t seen the clip but reading speculation it’s a Super Bown commercial.

  71. 71.

    trnc

    @Kelly:

    ““Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, however, noted that Mr. Kushner was still seen internally as one of the administration’s most successful negotiators.”

    That’s like Franken saying “I’m probably Ted Cruz’s best friend in the senate, and I hate Ted Cruz.”

  72. 72.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Plato: Only a matter of time before the GOP will be talking about “Trump sweeping victory in the shut down stopping the Democrats demand to build a wall of the southern boarder” It’s all Soviet Union from here on out.

  73. 73.

    Ken

    @Ladyraxterinok: How charmingly banana republic.

    Have they asked any of the many, many corporations that make huge amounts of money from the primaries what they think of this plan?

  76. 76.

    KithKanan

    @Honus: They’re two separate groups. Roger Stone named his 2008 group in what I assume he considered a play on the name of the original (1988) Citizens United – the one that won the campaign finance supreme court case.

  77. 77.

    chris

    @plato: Didn’t Lindsay Graham say recently that he was going to open a new investigation? He’ll get her this time for sure!//

  79. 79.

    sdhays

    @Ladyraxterinok: I don’t think they’ve actually done that yet. The RNC Rules Committee just released a unanimous statement saying how manly and Presidential the ASSet is, and his minions are shuffling around installing loyalists in key positions to try to make sure he doesn’t have a contested primary. But there were a bunch of stories today about how Larry Hogan is considering running for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination, so they haven’t succeeded shutting down the Republican Primary yet. And after this week, the Trump-skeptics will be emboldened.

  84. 84.

    Ladyraxterinok

    @Ladyraxterinok: For the hostility of SoBaptists to Catholics–during the 56 dem nation convention, JFK was nominated for vic-president. OK’s senator Robert Kerr, a staunch SoBaptist, led the floor fight against him.

    Note– it was his company , Kerr-Magee(sp?) that was later involved in a big scandal about some wrong-doing the resulted in the death (possible murder) of a woman investigator. IIRC the story was made into a moderately successful movie

  85. 85.

    Redshift

    @(((CassandraLeo))):

    Also literally engaged in treason to “win” the election by sabotaging peace talks in Vietnam. First time as tragedy, second as farce.

    I wish Trump was only the second time.

    Nixon – sabotaging Vietnam peace talks
    Reagan – sabotaging Iran hostage negotiations
    Bush II – sabotaging Israel-Palestine negotiations
    Trump – sabotaging Russia sanctions, etc.

    At this point, conspiring with a foreign power to undermine US foreign policy in order to win an election is just a standard Republican campaign tactic, and if we had competent political reporters, they’d always be on the lookout for it. Blowing the whistle in real time could be a big scoop.

  87. 87.

    sdhays

    @Amir Khalid: I think parties are generally allowed to choose their nominees however they see fit; they aren’t government organs, after all. That’s why some states have primaries, some have caucuses, and some have both and ignore one or the other.

  89. 89.

    sdhays

    @Redshift: I wish these facts would get the proper airing in the media so that it became something “everyone knows”. It’s a crime how Nixon and Reagan get a pass, and I didn’t even know about W and Israel and the Palestinians.

  93. 93.

    gbbalto

    @sdhays: Though I am anything but expert, I do live in MD. Hogan could be a contender. He is very popular in this blue state, more moderate than most Repubs these days, has made it clear that he doesn’t like Trump, can do bipartisan from working with a Dem-dominated Houses of Delegates and Senate. If he can actually beat out Trump, he will be a formidable opponent in my inexpert opinion. Thoughts of other MD jackals?

  96. 96.

    AThornton

    Each state has control over how its congressional delegation is determined, subject to the over-riding authority of the federal government, e.g., giving every citizen the right to vote in elections. The state may choose to not choose and let the political parties determine their candidate(s) or may step in and establish guidelines as California has done and to have the two top voter getters in an All-in-One primary continue to the general.

  105. 105.

    Redshift

    @chris: Yeah, similar treason, but not quite the same thing, since it wasn’t done to undermine a current Democratic administration.

    It is still kind of stunning that every Republican candidate in my lifetime who successfully ran against a Democratic incumbent or while a Democratic administration was in office conspired with a foreign power during the election.

  106. 106.

    Gretchen

    Rick Wilson is a highly-paid political analyst, but he thinks someone must have tipped off CNN for them to have gotten the scoop. I’m an old lady in Kansas, and I knew somebody was going to be indicted yesterday, and the likelies were on a short list – Credico, Corsi, Stone, Trump Jr. Send out 4 camera crews to stake out these guys’ houses. I could have run that operation. Why is it a mystery to Rick Wilson?

  109. 109.

    Mnemosyne

    @Gretchen:

    Meh. A lot of right-leaning journalists and commentators are having a knee-jerk sympathetic reaction to Stone’s arrest, because they’ve all been in the same circles for a long time.

    There’s actually footage from the previous evening of a CNN producer (I think) talking about who they were going to stake out the next day based on the grand jury meeting on Thursday. The CNN crew that was sent to watch Stone’s house just happened to get lucky.

  112. 112.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @Gretchen: Because Wilson would have been tipping off a camera crew if a Democratic critic operative was about to get busted, back before he decided he hated Trump.

  113. 113.

    trnc

    @plato:

    “Journalists, you love Trump’s tweets. You love the news of the day. You love the leads that get the clicks. But the final click could be a nuclear accident.” @JerryBrownGov at the 2019 #DoomsdayClock announcement.

    True, although an “accident” isn’t our only worry.

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