Day 750 Saturday January 26, 2019 843 Days to Go
Wow. Wow. What a day yesterday was. I was watching the news in the middle of the day and Hallie Jackson was bouncing between three different stories: The Shutdown, Roger Stone, La Guardia Airport being shutdown to incoming flights. She didn’t even have time to report on another story and that was that Paul Manafort was back in court.
So what does it all mean? One, and this is very important, watch The Godfather again, because there will be unending references to that movie until Stone is sent to jail for the rest of his life. Is he Luca Bracci or is he commenza? Or something like that.
Stone was in business with Manafort in the early days and is pictured years ago with Lee Atwater, before Lee found out he had brain cancer and began to repent. Manafort and Stone never repented. They liked doing dirty deals and unseemly things, and they each got rich doing it. Now the bill is coming due.
Other than that? I want to see the Nixon tattoo. Supposedly Stone has one on his back. How big is it? Is it the little one or is it huge and between the shoulder blades?
The indictment is what the legal commentators called “a speaking indictment,” which means that there is a lot of stuff in there to lay out a story of what happened. Why do it? Seems the reason is to lay the groundwork for other things to come and to make sure that the story is told to the public if perchance the Attorney General doesn’t release Mueller’s final report.
Stone says he’ll fight. That he won’t bear false witness against the president. blah blah blah. Hey. I got news for you Roger. You don’t have to. It’s all in your indictment.
Whoa! The news just showed his tattoo.
Bill Maher said Ann Coulter will be on his show this week. She called Trump a wimp for caving. Yes, what a wimp. He gave in to reality. People like Coulter live in a self absorbed universe where they talk to each other and convince themselves of things that just aren’t true. I’ve talked and texted with people like this. It’s always the same: “You don’t understand,” they tell me. “Here are the facts,” as the point me to some article written in some publication I’ve never heard of. Then I google said publication and it’s a right wing conspiracy theory place or it’s owned by someone like that. If I try and show them something factual it’s “fake news” written by some liberal.
In essence what the argument comes down to then is a racist type of thing. By liberal they mean someone they don’t agree with and thus they need to attack the person, not the argument or the facts. The facts are also dismissed as being not true.
In the case of Stone, well, there’s this indictment. He says he did nothing wrong. Really? What do we know about Roger Dodger? Aside from having a lifelong career as a dirty trickster? He’s the only person in America that was talking to Russian GRU agents in the form of Guccifer 2.0 and Julian Assange. According to the indictment Stone was doing a lot more than just talking; he was coordinating. Not only that, but he was being asked “by a senior Trump campaign official” to find out what else Assange had and when it was going to be released. That senior campaign official was being directed to ask. The list of people that are senior campaign officials in the Trump campaign is pretty small. The list of people who could direct senior Trump campaign officials to do something is even smaller. I’d go out on a limb and say that list is one. Okay, at most three, and they all have the name Trump. Stone was using intermediaries to talk to Assange. Fellow conspiracist James Corsi and a guy named Randy Credico, who is a radio host, political gadfly and god knows what else. Corsi is known for his wacky books that make claims that there is a deep state, Obama wasn’t born in America, etc. You name the conspiracy and Corsi has written a book about it. Stone is in a similar belief system. When Corsi was confronted about this stuff, he’d say things like, “I never said that, what I said is there is a possibility that …” etc. etc. etc. (Look for Ann Coulter to say similar type things on Maher’s show – btw. And to wave “some facts” from a report or paper no one has heard of or seen before.)
So who ya gonna believe? I mean on the one hand we have a guy whose career has been dirty tricks, lying, and conspiracy theorizing and on the other you’ve got a former Marine, former head of the FBI, and lawyer who has settled some of the biggest cases in the last decade, who is heading up a group of the top lawyers in the country that write indictments and supporting evidence that is fact upon fact, and carefully written? For instance in the case of Paul Manafort’s legal brief why that laid out they were pulling out of the deal with him – it ran to 800 pages. Most of it was redacted, and they didn’t want Manafort to serve any extra time for it. Eight hundred pages!
What is Stone betting on? Nothing. Maybe a pardon.
Let us not forget that as a young man Stone was part of the plot hatched by Chuck Colson to kill or maime Daniel Ellsberg. Colson hired the same guys that later broke into the Watergate to try and get close to Ellsberg as he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial. Stone was a young man and part of a fake protest designed to siphon off police from the Lincoln Memorial.
“Here we stand or here we fall
History won’t care at all
Make the bed, light the light
Lady mercy won’t be home tonight yeah”
Queen “Hammer to Fall”
844 Days to Go
PS Roger’s tattoo of Tricky Dick.
Is that that real?
What I’m afraid of is that Mueller is supposed to present the Senate with his findings. At least that is what I heard on NPR. If it is the case, couldn’t the Senate just bury it?
Is Mueller and Congress our only checks and balances?
When are we going to get rid of this orange scourge?
How much damage has he done to the U.S.Government? It seems as though we will never be the same.
And then! What about all those people who were on furlough, they said they would vote for the S.O.B. again? I’m thinking deportation!
Is the tattoo real? You bet your sweet bippy!
The Mueller report will go to the Attorney General who decides whether to release it or put out a report of his/her own.
If we get rid of Trump then there is Pense.
It may be best to do what we can to improve conditions for average people as much as we can in the next two years and wait for the 2020 election.
Hopefully, Mueller will indict him and we can watch the conservatives on the Supreme Court twist themselves in knots trying to say that the president is above the law. I like the idea of Trump being thrown in jail while president. Come on, that’s where most crime bosses run their operations from.