It’s not every day that a degenerate former swinger and serial scumbag who built a career based on a single line of bullshit and self-fellation so constant and vigorous that it is practically a yogic art form stands before the bar of justice, but here we are. Roger Stone is, as he loves to be, in the center of a national political scandal, and with his sentencing approaching in just days, Stone hoped the Trump “Justice” Department would save him from a well-deserved sentence of seven to nine years in prison.
Stone earned the recommended sentence not because he is a Trump ally, but because he threatened witnesses, lied to the court and to the House of Representatives, and got caught. Worst of all, he threatened Judge Amy Berman-Jackson online, defied various gag orders, and engaged in his usual rat-fuckery. He made the mistake of thinking that Judge Berman-Jackson is as gullible as the claque of hangers-on, wanna-be catamites, and scumbag errand boys with whom Stone usually surrounds himself.
The political class thought both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders couldn’t win … 🤔
But I think that fact alone makes the case for Bernie Sanders — Donald Trump very much did win the President. He appealed to his base, he got people excited about him by saying proactive things and not shying away from criticism. Americans are well settled into their base camps now, there are few swing voters, only voters to be mobilized to show up on election day. Candidates that create a buzz by saying new and unusual things and dominating the news cycle are stronger, they are able to take the social media by storm. Boring, centrist candidates can’t do that.
Do I think Bernie Sanders will be a particularly successful or good president? Probably not, he doesn’t have a strong relationship with the business community, and I doubt he can work across party lines in Congress. I don’t see him helping many candidates get elected down ticket, and his election may very well create a backlash that delivers congress into the hands of his Republicans in 2022. But heis a good match to Donald Trump. His style is that of Trump, he excites the base, he is pure. In an era when there is no swing voters, Bernie Sanders is the Democrats best hope for winning back the White House.
President Trump has commuted the sentence of the ex-governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, who has been imprisoned since being convicted on corruption charges over his attempt to sell the Senate seat vacated by then-President Barack Obama.
On Tuesday, the White House announced that Blagojevich is among 11 people who will be receiving clemency.
Those individuals include Edward DeBartolo Jr., former San Francisco 49ers owner convicted in a gambling fraud scandal; convicted Wall Street financier Michael Milken, who became known as the "junk bond king"; and Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who pleaded guilty in 2009 to tax fraud and lying to federal officials.
There are many ways to describe Bernie Sanders: a democratic socialist, an independent senator, a Democratic presidential candidate. But the best adjective may just be: consistent. No matter how you label it, Sanders' worldview is locked in.
Over 40 years, Sanders has built his political career on a very focused message about what he calls a "rigged economy."
Now he's running for president, which typically means reacting to what's happening in the world, in real time. But even in the wake of terrorist attacks by ISIS, Sanders' primary focus is still where it's been since the 1970s.
"Such behavior is a grave threat to the fair administration of justice," the former officials wrote. "In this nation, we are all equal before the law. A person should not be given special treatment in a criminal prosecution because they are a close political ally of the President. Governments that use the enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies."