You are one hundred percent correct. Trump's people always end up taking the fall for him. Barr will come out of this wishing he had never met Trump, as his power will be tarnished. I doubt any future president or leader will ever employ him in a position of power again.
That is, if he doesn't go to jail first.
@allyn. Thank you. Excellent post! P.S. I am moving your Barr post, however excellent it is, which it is, from the Hits thread to the Barr thread.
Thanks for this great information. Very interesting to read.
FYI, no lawyer jokes from me.
Yes, some lawyers deserve a bad reputation. For the last 3 years however, I have come to have a great deal of respect of our need for lawyers. We NEED lawyers fighting for our constitution, our protected rights, the rights of marginalized human beings, our civil liberties and everything else the MAD ORANGE NIGHTMARE in office is trying to destroy.
If it were not for lawyers right now, we would be in a heap of trouble. I view most lawyers as huge bright lights right now. There will always be a few bad apples, but the good ones are gold.
@allyn and @lovendures I would like to add that I too will not be telling any lawyer jokes. I think of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is comprised of lawyers, ended the Ku Klux Klan and made a huge dent in hate crimes, by filing lawsuits starting in the 1970's.
Dang, I had a good one, too. ?
Seriously, though, Allyn, excellent analysis. I don't think Twitler gives a d*mn about Stone except for all the dirt he has on him. T. doesn't think twice about discarding anyone who has outlived their usefulness to him. Manafort, prison. Stone, prison. Let's hope he's next.
This may sound crazy, but whenever I think of Trump, I see him on a chess board ruthlessly moving his pawns across the board. But while he is the one playing all the pieces on his side of the board, the other side is being controlled by multiple players with their own individual pieces. Each one comes to the board with their own strengths and weaknesses, and I don't think they are all coordinating with one another, but they share one goal; Attack the great Orange King who is invading their homes. The Democratic candidates, the media (not including Fake Fox News, of course), the Democratic House and Senate, Never Trump Republicans, private citizens that was targeted by Trump, etc.
While Trump has the advantage of controlling all of his pieces (McConnell, the Republican House and Senate, Fox News, his mindless, Satanic followers, etc.), he does not have the intelligence or the restraint of looking ahead into the future. Right now he thinks he can single-handedly wipe out all of his opponents through shear force of will. All he has to do is use his mindless pawns. And if they fall, what does it matter?
Now, I don't expect the pawns to suddenly grow a brain (We know that after three and a half years of cruelty, they are already lost). But because they lack the ability to think independently, they and Trump are gleefully walking into a trap (or multiple traps) by the other side. Trump believes he has the judiciary on the run, and he is using Barr to wipe the pieces off the board. But he is completely ignoring the State Judiciary, who is silently waiting until Trump gets into the wrong place before they pounce. The same hold true for other groups as well.
Eventually, Trump will outplay himself. And then...checkmate.
Personally, I don't care if anyone tells attorney jokes on this site. I hear them all the time, along with women jokes (let's face it, men outnumber women in the legal profession 4 to 1 where I live), along with blonde jokes (yes, I am a natural blonde.)
But seriously, I don't mind so much as long as it is in good fun. Most people appreciate that attorneys are like everyone else. Some are good people, and some are not-so-good people. Most of the time, we are misunderstood, because we work in the legal profession and have been trained to think that way (hence my analysis as to what may be going on behind the scenes for Stone and Trump, as well as Judge Jackson's likely reasoning behind the sentence she imposed.)
I am actually concerned that there may be a few people who believe that attorneys are inherently evil and are already destined for hell simply for being attorneys. Yes, they exist, and yes, I have encountered them. One was a distant family member, too! :P
I can hear my mother's voice saying, 'twas ever thus.
This quote from Dorothy Sayers-"to oppose one class perpetually to another-young against old, manual labor against brain-worker, rich against poor, woman against man, is to split the foundations of the State-and if the cleavage runs too deep, there remains no remedy but force and dictatorship. If you wish to preserve a free democracy, you must base it, not on classes and categories, for this will land you in a totalitarian state, where no one may act of think except as a member of a category. You must base it on the individual Tom, Dick and Harry, and the individual Jack and Jill, in fact, upon you and me."
It unfolded right before us. The rethug's dream.
I'm sure Stone thinks he's being discriminated against for being a rich white guy.
I did not watch last night's rally, but I did catch a few clips online. He was totally deranged last night. I will spare you the summary because if this was anyone other than Twitler we would all be very sad at the public spectacle of a very sick individual.
I do believe that he is quite ill and that his handlers are medicating him as best they can, but the bar of what their interventions are able to achieve is getting lower and lower. If last night was the best he could be....well then the predictions for March certainly seem within reach.