HEY EVERYONE – NIXON’S FINALLY GOING TO PRISON!! #RogerStone pic.twitter.com/Ic2lidQJmc
— Sib Ventress (@cposnarky) November 15, 2019
A jury has now found Stone guilty of committing crimes to hide the Trump campaign's efforts to optimize the release of emails stolen by Russia.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 15, 2019
The press treated him as a valued off the record source, thus tacitly protecting him from scrutiny for years
— J.D. Turner (@turndeaux) November 15, 2019
Holy crap. @Popehat, @washingtonpost managed to not completely screw it up. pic.twitter.com/CCX0z0AO2Y
— Adot Crawley (@AdotCrawley) November 15, 2019
Remember when the Nixon Library had to publicly clarify that Stone had no role in the Nixon campaign, because they felt Stone could tarnish Nixon’s reputation.
— Every Chicken Sandwich Is A Policy Failure (@agraybee) November 15, 2019
The real point of the Yovanovitch hearing was underscored by the Stone conviction and Giuliani's pending charge: Trump is surrounded by crooks https://t.co/7JEweA1Lgj
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) November 15, 2019
Bannon is really the only non-family member of the Trump Campaign's inner circle not in prison.
— Grudge of Whales (@grudging1) November 15, 2019
With the Stone trial over, time to declassify a big chunk of the Mueller report!
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 15, 2019
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Dump pardoned those war criminals tonight to send a signal to Sondland and Stone to keep silent and he’ll reward them with a pardon.
I mean Dump could have pardoned the war criminals months ago, but he picked the day Stone is convicted and the day testimony backs Sondland into a corner.
NotMax
This joint used to be hopping on Friday nights.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I saw Trump on the local news and he was saying that the evil Democrats are taking away his rights and all Republican rights. He can’t even engage in a little bit of witness tampering which noted legal expert Donald J. Trump says is a violation of his freedom of speech.
Poor Donald.
CaseyL
@NotMax: The traditional Friday night news dump came early this time – all day, actually – so not as many late-night fireworks.
Also, most of us are Olds and getting Older.
sukabi
Harumpfff. Can’t do my happy dance in color as the comment tag selections have changed.
Still pretty happy Stone is getting his.
Ok that’s weird… On edit the other visual edit functions show back up…color is back.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: Can’t speak for other commentors, but in its current incarnation, putting together a legible post is a real chore.
I haven’t been as pissed off at a ‘helpful’ tech platform since the unlamented Clippy days, and for much the same reason — the ‘improved’ system wants to help me do all sorts of crap that is of no interest or use, while obstructing me from doing what I know & want to do.
Took me almost two hours of frustration & start-overs to finish this crappy little post, and I already had all the materials at hand.
But at least it’s sorta working, so I can’t afford to bitch (except on empty-ish pre-dawn threads).
Hopefully everything will shake down, eventually…
Elizabelle
@Anne Laurie: Hey there. Up with a bit of insomnia.
Thank you for everything you do, and my sympathies on learning a new system that still has some bugs.
SiubhanDuinne
Test bold
Test italics
Test deleteTest ins
Test ul
Test ol
How do you do color?
Elizabelle
test
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: The A with the underline and arrow to the right is text color.
ETA: It’s the icon just to the right of the two bullet list types.
Elizabelle
It’s not giving us our edit function, is it? And surrounding text with “ol” does not seem to have done anything.
Subaru: Put the commands tab at the top right (of your commenting box) in Visual (vs. Format) and a color function comes up. Near the A with an underline.
Elizabelle
WRT Roger Stone: I am thinking how I wake up every morning and check if Trump stroked out overnight. Cuz it’s gonna happen one of these days. Stone will be doing that even more fervently. And more slowly. Cannot imagine he will have the access to wifi that he takes for granted (along with his choice of clothing, food, daily activities) …
I hope Amb. Yovanovitch is sleeping more soundly tonight. Hoping her testimony will change the game.
?BillinGlendaleCA
…and the visual/text tabs have disappeared again..
…and a refresh brought them back.
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie: Proof that no matter how bad one thinks they have it*, there’s always somebody who has it worse. Thanx for all you do.
* for the record, I have very little to complain about. some things are a little buggy but mostly I bitch because I like to.
mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL: It dumped all over us all day. So. Covered. In. Dump.
OzarkHillbilly
@SiubhanDuinne: I do color with crayons. The screen gets a little messy tho.
mrmoshpotato
Is this a challenge?
opiejeanne
@mrmoshpotato: I think I’m a bit over-stimulated tonight, and not in the fun sexy way. I’m tired but wide awake, waiting for sleep.
opiejeanne
@OzarkHillbilly: Cute.
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne: I see… *settles into the awkward silence*
OzarkHillbilly
@opiejeanne: I’ll tell my wife you said that the next time she complains about having to clean the screen.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly:
Jazzberry Jam
#A50B5E
for all!
mrmoshpotato
Silly just-above-freezing temperatures causing ice to come crashing down into the alley.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Supposed to 85° here today, then into the low 90’s for Sunday. By Wednesday, a storm is predicted and about 3/4″ of rain.
OzarkHillbilly
Irony isn’t dead, it’s just on vacation in Italy:
Venice council flooded moments after rejecting climate crisis plan
Before I hit “Post Comment”, it looks like the copy pasting of headlines is a little… problematic.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Waiting for sleep. Hope you are better at it than me.
Sounds like me most every night. Up till 1 to 3 am then wake at 6:30-7. I’d bet that’s not good for one’s health but it is what it is. I’ve had a few times in my life when that hasn’t been the norm, but the few have a lot of years in between. At least I’m not working 60-80 hrs a week any more.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Shades of Winky Dink and You!
;)
JWR
Just an observation, but all this talk about overhearing a cell phone convo is entirely plausible to me, because my neighbor often talks on his phone while walking along the driveway that separates our houses, and I can, (or could, if I wanted to), easily hear whoever he’s talking to. So yeah, DJT prolly wouldn’t have to be screaming into his phone to be recognizably heard. The End.
OzarkHillbilly
But not after it gets posted, thank Dawg.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: How’s the firefighting going?
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@NotMax: Nobody come here anymore; it’s too crowded.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Wild how weather works. Along the west coast, it will be 85 in LA; 400 miles north, it will be 70 in SF; 600 miles further north, it will be 55 in Portland.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: No fires in these parts right now, but until Tuesday the fire danger will be high due to the Santa Ana’s which is why the temperature will be high.
NotMax
Been many a year since any have infiltrated the abode; glimpsed it out of the corner of my eye skittering along the baseboard the other day. Final score as of tonight: NotMax 1, Mouse 0.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
On his “show”, Matthews was calling on Dump to show mercy and pardon Stone.
Imagine how Matthews would be screaming if a Democrat pardoned some asshole who committed treason and lied to Congress about it.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: They infiltrate our abode every winter.
Miss Kitty- 1,736
Mice- 1
satby
@NotMax: it’s not night, it’s morning ?
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Wondered what became of her after Gunsmoke.
;)
NotMax
@satby
Uh oh. And here I just refilled my tumbler with a fresh double martini.
satby
It’s an opinion piece, but it’s a well-written one that lays out the clear facts. Of course, it’s not U.S. media.
satby
@NotMax: you should sleep great once it gets to be bedtime in Hawaii!
NotMax
@satby
Every little
bitgulp helps.:)
Frankensteinbeck
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch:
No way. If Trump was willing to pardon people who took a dive for him, he’d have done it by now. I’ve heard “Trump will pardon him” a dozen times about coconspirators and it has never happened. Trump throws people under the bus, he never rescues them. Personally I think he’s such a mean shit he doesn’t grasp the concept of protecting someone else to protect himself.
The war criminal pardon has been in the works for awhile. He’s said they should be pardoned before. It’s consistent with his pardoning pattern making sure that government brutality to non-whites is not a crime, which is consistent with his previous statements and his personal philosophy. If there is any relation to Stone at all it’s just that Trump is in a bad mood and being an asshole soothes him.
yellowdog
@NotMax: I loved Winky Dink! I still remember how excited I was when my screen came in the mail.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Elizabelle: Thread probably dead but that’s an HTML syntax thing. <ol>…<\ol> tags will create an ordered list environment but you won’t see the effect until you surround individual numbered “list items” with <li>…<\li>.
Elizabelle
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Thank you for the explanation.
SteverinoCT
@satby: To be up after midnight is to be up betimes.
—Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Tinare
@JWR: One of my coworkers has the volume so loud on her cell phone that I always hear both sides of her conversations with her husband. We sit about 8-10 feet from each other.
dr. bloor
Am I engaging in unacceptable prison rape humor if I simply point out that the tattoo makes Stone the least likely victim of prison rape in the history of incarceration in the USA?
J R in WV
@satby:
The opinion writer for the Guardian nails it all the way through that article. A large part of the problem is Faux Mews, building an alternate reality based upon evil misinterpretations of the facts in front of our eyes daily. Along with Republicans who no longer believe in American values at all.
The rest is the regular media in the charge of committed corporate stooges and true-believer fascists — look at Chris Matthews, acting as if Trump is a legitimate politician instead of a petty mob boss hanger on. Matthews is as bad as the worms acting as the faces of Fox News, or nearly so.
He manages to pretend to be an impartial news opinion broadcaster, but when the steel hits the grindstone, he can be counted upon to twist the facts to meet the needs of state fascism, like he did last night. Despicable wurms; like Hannity, Fucker Carlson and all the rest of those ilk the names of which I thankfully do not recall at this time.
ETA: Comment looks pretty good this morning. Obviously work is going on behind the scenes all the time. These guys are good, regardless of the oddities a large group of users in daily functioning are finding. Note that I use guys as an ungendered term, to include Watergirl and all the other B-J folk who have helped, as well as the development team they found and led on this project.
Ohio Mom
Re:Tinare at 48: I am always reminding Ohio Dad to leave his cubby at work and go to conference room, outside, someplace else, when he’s the phone with me for anything involved (that is, more complicated than me asking him to pick up milk on his way home), his mother (who is hard to shut up), his troubled BFF (also had to shut up), or anything personal beyond assuring the dentist’s office he hadn’t forgotten his appointment in two days.
There are no private phone calls if a third person is within earshot.
Villago Delenda Est
Access Journalism is an evil that needs to be annihilated.
Uncle Cosmo
“And it makes you feel better, somehow, that there’s someone out there that’s got it worse than you.
“But think of the last guy…”
Obligatory. (2:05 on) :^D