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[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 96 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry, this was just locker room murder talk. NBD!

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah yeah, I remember when I was in the locker room talking about grabbin' pussy and murdering people. We were such bad boys back then!

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just boys being boys! Smoking, snapping each other on the ass with wet towels, comparing Nixon portrait tattoos on our nether regions, etc.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey boys! Let's celebrate our locker talk with dick-punches all around!

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

In our day we called political assassinations boofing, lol!

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

..in Minecraft

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 84 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Said Stone: “It’s time to do it. Let’s go find Swalwell. It’s time to do it. Then we’ll see how brave the rest of them are. It’s time to do it. It’s either Nadler or Swalwell has to die before the election. They need to get the message. Let’s go find Swalwell and get this over with. I’m just not putting up with this shit anymore.”

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hello, FBI? I'd like to report a credible threat of assassination against sitting members of Congress...

[–] LeadSoldier@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The FBI knows. They just don't care.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

The FBI literally prosecuted him and won a conviction, after which he was pardoned.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

The FBI is trumplandia

[–] bibliotectress@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Another good one

The intervention from the Justice Department prompted Aaron Zelinsky, the prosecutor and Mueller deputy who led the case against Stone, to recuse himself from the case in protest. Mediaite reported last week that Stone was caught on tape in December 2020 urging Greco to “punish” Zelinsky.

“He needs to be punished,” Stone told Greco in the audio. “You have to abduct him and punish him. That has to be done. It will be easy to abduct him because he is a weakling.”

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

... who the hell are Stalwell and Nadler?

Are they like Statler and Waldorf?

[–] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Democratic Representatives in the House:

Both Nadler and Swalwell serve on the House Judiciary Committee. At the time of the Caffe Europa conversation, Nadler had announced the committee would be investigating then-President Donald Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence after he was convicted of federal crimes in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Democratic Congressmen.

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is this cut rate Batman villain still out of jail?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He was in jail. Biff Tannen let him out.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 14 points 10 months ago

I wish I didn't know the link between him and Trump.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

This dude is straight out of Gotham.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

But he looks so harmless and not sinister.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The difference is that Roger Stone is more cartoonishly evil.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Roger Stone vs Roger Rabbit Villain, lol

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
[–] ChucklesMacLeroy@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah but Octavius had a defective chip attached to his brain. Stone is a defective chip dangling from the asshole of America.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Not evil enough

[–] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well I will never be able to unsee that comparison now lol

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Nothing that a little dip can't fix

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

The exact reference that came to mind when I saw that picture

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Remember when I tALKED LIKED THIISSSSS

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

“HELLO, EDDIE!”

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stone was convicted on 7 felonies. Donnie commuted his sentence before he went to prison, then brought him back into his campaign pre-election, and coup plotting team post election.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The Penguin always finds a way back onto the street after Batman puts him away.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

claiming they were generated by AI

Flood gates are open. You can get someone dead to rights on recorded audio/video and they'll just weasel right out of it with the "AI" defense.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Too bad republiQans give absolutely not a single fuck about the rule of law.

Not a single. Fuck. Complete fascist cowards.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

First they came for JFK...

[–] sugarfree@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Talkers talk.