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Late Night Schadenfreudelicious Open Thread: Stone Cold Guilty

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  1. 1.

    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.

  3. 3.

    ?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.

  4. 4.

    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.

  5. 5.

    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.

  6. 6.

    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…

     

  7. 7.

    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.

     

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Test bold
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    10. How do you do color?

  12. 11.

    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.

  13. 12.

    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.

  15. 14.

    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.

     

  18. 17.

    mrmoshpotato

    Bannon is really the only non-family member of the Trump Campaign’s inner circle not in prison.

    Is this a challenge?

  26. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Irony isn’t dead, it’s just on vacation in Italy:

    Venice council flooded moments after rejecting climate crisis plan

    Veneto’s regional council rejected a plan to combat climate change minutes before its offices on the Grand Canal, in Venice, were flooded, it has emerged as the city continues to battle high water levels.

    Venice has been hit by recurrent flooding since Tuesday, with 70% of the lagoon city engulfed on Friday morning as the acqua alta, or high water, level reached 1.54 metres amid heavy downpours.

    On Tuesday night, as Veneto councillors were debating the climate emergency in Ferro Fini Palace, Venice experienced its worst flooding since 1966.

    Politicians from the regional council’s majority rightwing parties: the League, Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia, rejected amendments to fight the climate crisis in the 2020 budget that were proposed by the centre-left Democratic party.

    Sharing pictures of the room as water entered, Andrea Zanoni, the Democratic party’s deputy chairman of the council’s environment committee, wrote on Facebook: “Ironically, the chamber was flooded two minutes after the majority parties rejected our proposals to tackle climate change.”

    Before I hit “Post Comment”, it looks like the copy pasting of headlines is a little… problematic.

  27. 26.

    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.

     

  29. 28.

    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.

  30. 29.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @OzarkHillbilly:  Before I hit “Post Comment”, it looks like the copy pasting of headlines is a little… problematic.

    But not after it gets posted, thank Dawg.

     

  33. 32.

    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.

     

  35. 34.

    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.

  36. 35.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    The NYC press treated him like he was a rascal. He wasn’t. He was a dangerous, cruel miscreant who arguably committed treason to put a narcissistic, monstrous Russian asset in the White House.

    J.D. Turner @turndeaux

    The press treated him as a valued off the record source, thus tacitly protecting him from scrutiny for years

    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.

  44. 43.

    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.

     

  46. 45.

    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>.

     

  49. 48.

    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.

     

  50. 49.

    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?

  51. 50.

    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.

  52. 51.

    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.

  53. 52.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The press treated him as a valued off the record source, thus tacitly protecting him from scrutiny for years

    Access Journalism is an evil that needs to be annihilated.

  54. 53.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @OzarkHillbilly: Proof that no matter how bad one thinks they have it*, there’s always somebody who has it worse.

    “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

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