Just In Case You Were Wondering ….
“I am praying for a pardon.”
Roger Stone, last week
He’s due to report on April 30, which according to my calendar, is on Thursday. He’s supposed to serve 3 years, 4 months. He doesn’t want to. His jury was unfair and probably fake jurors.
“I’m 67 years old. I had very, very severe asthma as a child. If you look at the profile of those who are most at risk, I think I fit that,” he said.
Plus, I don’t think you get your $1,200 check if you’re in prison.
And the cherry on top? Stone says he’s found … yep, Jesus.
The former political adviser says he’s received counsel from Evangelical and fellow Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr
According to Stone, Falwell Jr. to, “put myself in God’s hands. That I should put my faith in God, and confess my sins, acknowledge Jesus Christ in my life. And I have done that.”
The self admitted dirty trickster continued, “I’m aware of the fact there are skeptics who are going to say ‘Stone is posturing. Stone is maneuvering for public sympathy,’ and so on. But that’s just not the case. And He, God, knows what’s in my heart.”
Why would we think Stone is posturing? I mean, he’s never done that before in his life.
He’s probably just being sarcastic.
Most of us “out here” have not gotten our $1200 checks. Feels like we’re in Fraud’s hands.
1“Counsel” maybe since Falwell Jr is an attorney (with all due apologies to real attorneys), but Flipper Junior has never been a preacher, ordained or otherwise. Pictures of Stone confessing to a goat would have more credibility. Nah. Not really. Wouldn’t trust Stone to not be whispering into the goat’s ear something about signing an NDA before …
2I don’t care if he’s confessed to Jesus. I want him to confess to a United States Attorney.
3God may know what’s in his heart.
4The rest of us know he has a tattoo of Nixon on his back, who also claimed he wasn’t a crook.
Prisons are full of people who have claimed to find Jesus. …..and here I didn’t even know he was missing. Should we let them all out?
5After a lifetime of dirty tricks and other evil I believe Roger found Jesus just like I believe his buddy Lee Atwater conveniently found Jesus on his deathbed. That is to say, I don’t believe it at all.
6Prison ministries are very active – I’m sure he’ll find one at the prison he reports to! BTW – I didn’t think Commander Clorox could pardon him?
7What is it about these guys that they don’t understand the concept of Atonement? Penance?
Oh, and if Falwell Junior is your spiritual counselor, you’ve got bigger problems than a mere jail sentence.
8I was thinking about that tattoo, too. But more along the lines of which other of his heroes he could get smaller, prison tattoos of, surrounding tricky dick like his posse.
9Hitler. Mussolini. Pinochet. Ceausescu. Gotti. Capone. Maybe that kooky Charlie Manson.
He’d probably seriously consider Danny Devito’s Penguin, strictly on the basis of style. But eventually he’d realize that he’s just too old-fashioned to be so cavalier about something he cares so deeply about.
It’ll definitely be Burgess Meridith. Life-sized. On his chest.
And by the way, the swingin’ lifestyle he’s been notorious for might be about to take on a whole different dimension.
10Anybody talking to Jerry Falwell, Jr., has found something, no doubt, but it ain’t Jesus.
11Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy
12Oh come on folks, how could you *not* indulge?!
Lock him up!
Lock Him Up!!
LOCK HIM UP!!!
13Lol he must be broke. Lots of fools, err people, give you money when you play the Jesus card.
14Once a con, always a con.
Send him powdered soap. That will take a lot longer to pick up in the prison showers.
15“Commander Clorox” — mind if I borrow that, Grandma Ada?
16I couldn’t stop gagging reading this. Anybody can claim they’ve found Jesus and they’ve been praying like crazy since then so that God will give them [name your favor], but if I’m not mistaken, repentance involves going to lengths to make amends, changing your ways, and admitting your wrongdoing. I don’t have the sense that is happening with this pathetic excuse for a human. I don’t think blaming others and whining about your asthma counts.
17The idea of Roger Stone and Jerry Falwell, jr together really does describe the entirety of this administration doesn’t it???
18O Brother Where Art Thou? Had as many quotable lines as any movie I know.
19On being baptized:
Pete: The preacher said it absolved us.
Delmar: they was witnesses that seen us redeemed.
Ulysses Everett McGill: That’s not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi’s a little more hard nosed.
I believe I read somewhere that the Orange Blob, having been impeached, no longer has the right to pardon anyone … not even if they fart!
20Oh … I got the $1,200 on the 15th … direct deposit. And, today … in the mail … his letter of appreciation that he thinks was necessary! I ripped it into small pieces and put it in the container to be shredded!
21@#20: That isn’t correct; a president may not grant himself a pardon or clemency. It must be done by his successor, such as Ford and Nixon, although that hasn’t been tested in any court.
22RA, I have said many unkind things in my life but one of my closest friends said the unkindest of all was when — just before Atwater died — it was announced that an exploratory surgery had removed a growth from him but declared it was not malignant.
I quipped that that was just like the doctors, to find the only part of Lee Atwater that was not malignant and take it out.
I’d like that one engraved on my tombstone.
23Wanna bet that Stone looked at that other paragon of virtue from the Nixon presidency, Chuck Colson, and decided that pretending to have a soul was the best ticket to carry?
24WA Skeptic at #22 … you might want to read this!
25https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/27/trump-pardon-roger-stone-constitution-117757
There’s just no end to the weirdness this crowd is willing to enter into!
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