February 18, 2019 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Think his lawyers sat him down and explained what a gag order is???
1Too late – a gag order is a gag order, and going after the sitting judge in your case is as good a way as any of getting pre-trial detention. Couldn’t happen to a nicer SOB.
2What this dumb ass doesn’t seem to understand until your are actully sentenced – the President can’t pardon you. Now piss of a judge and threaten her – well sweetpea they will throw you down a dark dungeon, consider you a threat and throw away the key. ooooh perhaps some time in Guantanamo (like everyone else without legal representation and no hope of ever leaving).
3Count the lies in just two sentences!
4Susan Greiff-
5We can only hope the record keeping for Trump related prisoners is as pathetic as it was for children separated from their parents at the border. If Trump does pardon any of them, maybe it’ll take a few months to find them.
Time for Stone to pay up on those “pranks” he’s been subjecting us to…
6Why does he and Spanky sign their names with super huge sharpies?
7Sharon Grieff (3) “What this dumb ass doesn’t seem to understand until your are actully sentenced – the President can’t pardon you.”
I don’t think that’s true, else how did Gerald Ford pardon Nixon?
8fierywoman (7) “Why does he and Spanky sign their names with super huge sharpies?”
Late stage bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
9“[S]houldn’t have been posted” ranks right up there with “mistakes were made” on the personal responsibility scale. His lawyers made him do this to try to keep him out of jail. I sincerely hope it doesn’t work.
10Does he really think he gets a mulligan simply by writing a note and signing his name?
11I certainly don’t want prisons to be the nightmare hell holes that they are but can we make sure this arrogant asshole goes to a “normal” prison, not one of the white collar, country club facilities?
Gee I hope he likes orange.
12Oops. Stone having set his wingnut conspiracy theory nutjob fans loose on a federal judge, and the best his lawyers can pen is a weak apology “oops” note?
Mr. Charles R Phillips, you named the most infamous pardon, Nixon. More recently Sheriff Arpaio, the AZ racist was pardoned by IQ45 post conviction, but prior to sentencing. Pardons can happen at any time, as you indicated. With Bill Barr as AG and this IQ-45, expect a flurry and flaunting of previous conventions. If inoculation by slow drip is a legal strategy, we’re being treated to daily outrages so at the end of each case public opinion is worn down. No surprises for any jury. Impeach a witness on the stand? When all of them are proven liars already, not much of a jury jolt in that tactic.
13I have a couple of hopes regarding the potential of unbridled pardoning by the sitting president of his co-conspirators.
First, I hope the Special Prosecutor has engaged state attorney generals along the way where state law more or less matches Federal law. This might give the state an opportunity to prosecute a pardoned criminal for offenses that occurred within the state.
Second, I hope against hope that Russians, oligarchs and the petty dictator himself, will judge Manafort, Stone, and possibly others as too troublesome to themselves to allow to live. At the end of the day I’m not sure I wouldn’t feel as good about a Russian end to this story as to an American one.
I understand these crimes are prolly not legally treason. I understand that death is not within the range of punishment for these crimes. Maybe 18 U.S.C. § 2381.
14Micr, Polonium210 omelets for ’em all?
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Methinks Mr. Stone is playing Russian Roulette, has the bullet traveling down the barrel, and now wants to stop it as he pounds on the ‘oh shit’ button.
15Sandridge #15,
Stone must have unmitigated gall and/or have manure for brains to post a photo of the judge on instagram.
He can press the “oh shit” button all he wants. I don’t think a Mea Culpa going to work.
16BREAKING NEWS: The judge has ordered Stone to appear in court today. He’s got some ‘splainin to do. He oughta show up with his toothbrush.
17Papa, I think we’ve all hit that ol’ ‘oh shit’ button a few times and find out it ain’t wired up.
BarbinDC, It would be a hoot to watch, is that court televised? –Mr. ShitEatinGrin Stone morphs into hyper-desperate Mr. Buttkisser, before being briskly perpwalked out the side door.
18Hard to tell what Stone was thinking. He’s already made the mandatory noises about it being posted unauthorized by a “staff member”. Maybe he thinks that if Judge Amy Berman Jackson does come down hard on him, his lawyers can use it in an attempt to get a different judge assigned, or to use as grounds for appeal later. This could have been a planned move, including the non-apology apology.
But it’s more likely that he’s an superannuated frat boy who has gotten away with crap like this all his life, and this is the first time he is really facing any real penalty for being a jackass. Note that all of his announcements now include a “pay for my legal defense” link or hashtag, so maybe he is getting really desparate.
Also, IANAL but isn’t it true that money penalties are not wiped out by a pardon? That’s one reason I think Mueller should push for the full $50 million fine for Manafort, and that lovely lady in West Virginia gets slapped with the maximum fine of $500,000.
19Mr. Stone has not yet learned the art of faking sincerity. Except badly.
20Charles R. Pierce @ 8 – I believe that Tricky Dick had already been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the various crimes committed with respect to Watergate and many, if not all, of his co-conspirators had already gone to prison for their involvement. That being the case, Ford (wrongly) decided that, now that Nixon had been forced to resign as President, the quickest path to restoring peace in the country. Stupid, shortsighted decision.
So the Ford pardon was for political purposes as much as any other reason. Stone, on the other hand, doesn’t have that cover. Any pardon for him will be clearly to protect Dotard45’s backside.
21Mr. Stone must have graduated from the Leona Helmsley College of Law where millionaires and billionaires can get away with anything.
22Bob Borlan (21)
We as a “nation of laws,” need to prosecute the high and mighty with the same vigor and integrity as we prosecute the lowly and powerless. Else, we become an elitist society incapable of lighting the way for other countries.
And more on-point, Nixon was not only pardoned before he was sentenced, he was pardoned before he was tried and convicted.
23Kinda hard to maintain that the FBI used unreasonable effort to arrest you. You just threatened the presiding judge. The judge gave him a very lenient gag order. Clearly that was a mistake. She needs to draw the gag order a bit tighter and keep him off social media and TV. A Celtic symbol, says he! Give me a break. And stars of David are sheriff badges.
24@Sandridge
25Or their accompanying Bloodies.
In my own lexicon of bullpoopie phrases, “thoughts and prayers’ and “misspoke” I will add “mistakes were made”. Actually I could add just about anything dribbled out of the mouth of a republican.
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