The Roger Stone Collection - November 15, 2019

I’ve been watching that amoral Roger Stone damage American politics all my life.  With his love of dirty tricks and hurting people, his prideful contempt for humanity and civility, ethics, dignity, honor, respect, empathy and then the self-worship and his own gluttony - he epitomizes the "Ugly American" as much as Trump does.  Winning is all that mattered.

Future of humanity?

Stone's response, Who the fuk cares!?  I got mine and fuk you and yours!  Too much is never going to be enough for me and it doesn't matter how much carnage I leave in my wake. 

He had a hell of run.  Roger Stone was tough enough, bullying enough, that Democrats wilted  time after time,  time after time,  and today in many ways our political mess is Roger Stone's legacy as much as anyone’s.

The Republican’s selective acceptance and their normalization of such criminality makes me more fearful for our short term future than ever before.  I think Democrats in general simply have no conception of the 'war footing' going on in their god-fearing minds.  But, I digress, here I wanted to share a selection of articles to introduce the uninitiated to why Roger Stone is a big deal.

Roger Stone found guilty on all 7 counts | ABC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpk9-pibcEE

ABC News  |  Nov 15, 2019

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Roger Stone’s New York intrigues

By Zach Williams November 15, 2019

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/personality/personality/roger-stone-new-york-arrest.html

The ‘malevolent Forrest Gump’ has never strayed far from his home state.

1960 – Fake news in school …

1972 – Nixon’s reelection campaign …

1980 – John Anderson campaign … 

1999 – Trump’s aborted Reform Party campaign …

2000 – The Florida Recount …

2002 – Billionaire Tom Golisano gubernatorial run …

2004 – Al Sharpton campaign …

2007 – The New York state Senate …

2010 – The Kristin Davis for governor campaign …

2015 – Trump campaign …

Specter of Trump Fascism.

Seems to me this was a pretty decent summary of today's situation.

I got nothing to add.

Specter of Fascism: Cohen Says Trump Won’t Leave Peacefully in 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY7fEDpgO9o

The Real News Network

Published on Feb 27, 2019

Hearings reveal deepening systemic corruption, further degeneration of GOP, progressive members standout in questioning - Jacqueline Lukman, Henry Giroux and Carmen Russell-Sluchansky join Paul Jay 

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Elijah Cummings' stunning closing remarks at Cohen hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72gy-LZ4UN0

CNN  |  Published on Feb 27, 2019

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) concluded the House Oversight Committee's questioning of President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen by delivering a call to "keep democracy in tact" and a return to normalcy in the political arena.

Democrats Alarmed At GOP Use Of Private Security Documents (Spanberger)

MSNBC

Published on Aug 29, 2018

Following revelations that former C.I.A. officer running for office, Abigail Spanberger's confidential personnel file was given to a Republican Super PAC, other Democratic candidates who served in U.S. intelligence are concerned that this is a new Republican tactic. Rachel Maddow reports the latest.

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C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application

By Michael Tackett - Aug. 28, 2018 - New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/us/politics/cia-officer-house-election-super-pac.html

WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer running for Congress accused a super PAC aligned with Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday of improperly obtaining her entire federal security clearance application — a highly sensitive document containing extensive personal information — and then using it for political purposes.

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate challenging Representative Dave Brat of Virginia, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Corry Bliss, the executive director of the Congressional Leadership Fund, which has raised more than $100 million to help Republicans in the midterm elections. She demanded that the super PAC destroy all copies of the form and agree to not use the information in any fashion.