Tom Toles for July 14, 2020

This commutation may in fact be the act that puts him in jail. Though I sort of doubt it will ever happen.

“You’re free!. . .until I get sent to prison, too.”

The Trump/Stone Duo – {4 beats/line}

Stone has remained // to The Donald chained,

and mutually the two by each other are stained

from maneuvers and gambits so bigly harebrained

that they oughta be drawn and quartered and caned.

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Stone has promised to do all he can to get tRump reelected. OH NO…here we go again!!

Here’s a weird thought. Perhaps Don Juan is going out in a blaze of glory intentionally. He expects to lose – maybe even wants to lose – knows he is only going to have this power for another six months, so he is not even going to pretend to care about “norms” and “customs.” He has decided to be the most corrupt, the most blatant, the most venal, irredeemable boor he can be. His true, unrestrained self. “You’re going to dump me, so I’m going to show you just how BAD I can be.”

Roger Stone will fly just fine on his own now that he’s released again into the wild. He has lost a few feathers over the years, but he will return to a falconer eventually. He has been a falcon mainly in the Republican eyrie since the Nixon administration. Serving as political raptor is a role he obviously enjoys. Again and he returns to a royal falconer’s gauntlet, and that would-be royal is now Donald Trump. His previous associations with Trump show they think much alike, are birds of a feather.

Of those raptors and corvids now in Trump’s eerie eyrie, Stone is the most outrageous, the least disciplined and solemn; and likely more than a bit unhinged — rather an unstable genius. He is juicy copy in the press, and a sort of court jester, although a dangerous one, to most in serious political circles.

His actions are often cartoonish, and he seems to me as a freelance cartoon Minion that has always found the most despicable public character to serve. Whenever a desperate Republican politico requires a flying monkey to defecate on an opponent, Stone has volunteered for the bombing run.

Attach it to their dicks… .We don’t need another generation of these particular Dorian Grays.

Birds of a feather, please, fly like Icarus!

The phrase “go down” has a rather surprisingly different meaning for the Capo, Stone, et al.

Evidently Stone has promised to get a tattoo of trump on what remains of his chest.

With Trump, there’s a lot of truth to the saying: There’s no honor among thieves. In this case, it’s criminals.

I say: Let gravity do its job. We’ll get a two-fer.

Honest military men get fired, Trump’s felony committing henchman goes free.

What can you expect from a president who has told over 20,000 lies and killed over 135,000 Americans and put 40,000,000 out of work.

I’m curious as to why only a commutation was granted; a commutation does not alter the status of the underlying criminal conviction. Why not a full pardon? After all, if the “rule of law” is so meaningless to Tresident Prump, why allow the stain of conviction to remain with his good buddy, Roger Stone? Oh, maybe we’re waiting for the next payoff to come in before we go that far.

When AG Barr publicly states the process leading to the guilty verdict was fair and justified is very telling. It means even Barr knows he can’t rewrite the history the way he did with Mueller’s Report and Flynn’s guilty plea deal.

I like this cartoon a lot. When Stone plummets to the ground he takes Twitler with him! Ah, if only….

No Trump Disciple comments about Stone anywhere, it seems.

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Trump has us Nonplussed – {4 beats/line}

The Donald’s sick psyche compulsively MUST

persist in his ways which have made him a bust,

as fewer and fewer convey their trust

and more and more convey their disgust.

Trumpism leaves us all nonplussed: -

- Why ain’t we dumped this sicko dude

who both himSelf and us Others has screwed?

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I’ve often wondered if Stone and Andy Warhol were created in the same laboratory……..