Discussion: Roger Stone Pleads Not Guilty In Special Counsel's Russia Probe Case

Why are all these not guilty pleas big headlines. The fact nearly all criminal defendants plead not guilty at this stage.

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He still thinks he’s in ‘The Godfather’ movie.

He’s about to find out that life doesn’t always imitate art.

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Sometimes it does.

Take the cannoli.

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I just wonder if the no-points-on-the-collar thing is current fashion, not fashion, or just plain fucking ugly?

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He has, for decades, looked like a dude you would definitely not trust to feed your cat while you were on vacation.

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I’d rather deliver the wrapped fish.

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Wait, there were crowds of SUPPORTERS for this fucking assclown???!??!!

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As a ratfucker Stone was simply another cog in the manufactured image machine: in this case, dragging down one to help elevate another.

In a 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Aldous Huxley predicted we would one day fail to elect a national leader of substance and instead elect one based on manufactured image alone. Regan was a foreshadowing but, however it may have occurred, the failure to elect Hillary Clinton in favor of an empty suit like Trump was proof of concept.

Huxley’s argument was emphasized by Neil Postman in 1985 viz

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture.

As much as racism and misogyny, the election of the Orange, Ferret-wearing Shitgibbon was a consequence of fecklessness.

Animals like Stone were basically grimy stokers in the engine room of public opinion. It may make us feel better to see him strung up but it fixes little; not even the criminal trial of Combover Caligula will repair what most needs repair. We’ll probably have to just hope the dying off of a lot of old white people is matched by the willingness of their successors to pay better attention and not be distracted so easily.

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I’m surprised he didn’t make his court appearance in his usual attire.

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Those are some fine folks right there: two felons and a racist.

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Separated at birth?

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That news is shocking to…exactly no one.

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Why are the tRumpanzees so kookoo for the bronzer? Same goes for tRump himself. It makes them look … clownish.

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I just want to know, have you ever seen them in a room together?

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it is Sacha Baron Cohen in a Roger Stone mask!

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I wonder if the gag order will involve duct tape?

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Mother would never allow that.

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watching Gladiator movies …

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Young Republicans are total dweebs, almost by definition.

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You must not have met very many YSA members.