For all clarity, I’m not one of those populists. I stressed that I didn’t see fundamentalist Islam taking over any time soon, only that there are populists that contend that. And that if the choice were between an Islamic Theocracy and Russian Authoritarianism (which I don’t see as eminent either) I’d rather choose the latter.

Yes, I think the noose is tightening.
I also think Mr Trump lost ‘bigly’ with his longest partial shut down, and then caving in with nothing to show for. He appears weak now, even to many of his supporters. I mean, he got squeezed by a woman (God forbid!). [It is the perfect foreplay for a bipartisan impeachment when Mr Mueller will release his report. And Mr Stone will definitely be part of that].
I think Ms Pelosi’s grip on Mr Trump is at as great as that of Mr Putin now, at least were domestic affairs are concerned.
She could eg. relaunch the early 2018 proposal: money for the wall, linked to the road to citizenship for the DACA ‘dreamers’ (personally I couldn’t care less about a wall, but I do care about the ‘dreamers’). Offer him 11.4 billion, twice the amount he shut the government down for, but half of what was on offer earlier. Win-win, everybody can claim victory. (However, I think Ms Pelosi is a far greater strategist than I am, so we’ll see.)

One thing the Trump cultists and Russian trolls are right about: Mr Trump resides rent-free in my attic. 🙂

🙂 🙂

Trump looks positively sane next to Stone. With Stone as one of his closest friends, perhaps that’s why he thinks he’s a “very stable genius”!

If you try to intimidate a witness by threatening to kill his dog,
and if you have a portrait of Nixon tattooed on your back,
You just might be successful if you plead diminished capacity.

Talking about diminished capacity, where does mr Stone keep his frontal lobes?

CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin calls Stone, Manafort, and Trump “The Three Amigos” because they have been friends and doing business together for forty years. They know each other really well – they’re not just acquaintances as it often seems in the media. They go way back. Toobin also said he was with Stone (and others) in Florida last weekend and Stone was saying that he thought Mueller had lost interest in him and he wouldn’t be arrested.

Yeah, I knew about the tattoo and that he thinks Nixon was innocent. I was just saying how it appeared to me. Though given that he did have a lot of his conspiracy theorist friends outside the courthouse who agree with him, I suppose it’s not a surprise that he did it. And the pose will get his picture everywhere and he’s a publicity $*&%.

Ann German sent me this tweet the other day, which says it all when it comes to Roger Stone:
https://twitter.com/Fantazy/status/1088908922507776000