Let Roger Stone Show You His Nixon Tattoo And Tell Ya ALL ABOUT DC Cokeboner Orgies
STONERBONERAMA!®
Skeevy old asshole Roger Stone has been quietly observing the fuss over Rep. Madison Cawthorn's very truthful not-a-fib (OK, probably a fib) stories about getting invited to Washington DC Political Cocaine Sex Orgies, and, as a libertine libertarian, felt the need to defend poor Rep. Cawthorn from all the mean comments people have made about how he had to have made up his tale of being invited to sex orgies. You see, Stone told the Washington Examiner as if anyone wanted to hear Roger Stone talk about sex orgies again, Washington DC is a regular sexpit of sexy sex orgies!
Despite House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's pooh-pooing of Cawthorn's orgy story (McCarthy really shouldn't kink-shame like that), Stone pointed out that Cawthorn himself hasn't publicly disavowed his earlier claims, and by golly, says Stone, Cawthorn is undoubtedly speaking the truth!
“All we have is McCarthy's version of the conversation, and nothing Kevin McCarthy says can be believed. Why would we believe him? I mean, let Cawthorn speak for himself — not Kevin McCarthy or Steve Scalise,” Stone said in an interview, adding that he witnessed similar conduct to what Cawthorn alleged during his time in Washington.
Remember, this is Roger Stone, who's proud of everything he's done to promote his own image as a naughty eminence greasy of Republican politics. Roger Stone assailing the credibility of Kevin McCarthy is one of those whatchacallits, like in that movie about false memories of aiding Nicaraguan freedom fighters, ContraCeption.
Stone, you may wish to forget but we keep reminding you, got shitcanned from Bob Dole's 1996 campaign over sex swinger ads that Stone allegedly posted in an alleged sex swinger magazine for sex swingers. It's all part of his carefully curated myth as a Rather Louche Fellow, like that time he was photographed participating in semi-nude lickings with a semi-nude lady in a 2010 New York Pride Parade. But it's OK because he also said the parade was "disgusting," thus preserving his Republican family values credibility.
Also too, Stone is careful to remind anyone who asks about his wild years that he found new life in Jesus Christ, so whatever his past sins, he is now pure as a factory-sealed bottle of personal lubricant. He's willing to talk about, but not to relive, his glory hole days.
So if anyone knows about Sexual Perversity in Washington, it's Roger Stone, or so it's profitable for him to have you believe. Stone explained to the Washington Genital Wart Examiner that Cawthorn's comments were right on the money shot:
“As someone who lived in Washington, D.C., for 41 years, who was once part of the Washington elite system, everything Madison Cawthorn says is absolutely true," Stone said. "And I can see why Washington elites would now be scrambling to try to deny it because maybe the voters back home won't like what they're hearing.”
“Does anyone really believe that that doesn't happen? In Washington, in Hollywood, in New York, among elites? I mean, it is — it defies logic. I know for a fact these things happened when I lived there prior to — and this is important — prior to the reaffirmation of my belief in Jesus Christ. I saw these things up close. I'm a different person than I was when I lived in Washington. But I know firsthand that what Cawthorn says is true — it's true,” he added.
For all his purported intimate knowledge of these rampant Washington Orgies (one of the finalists for the new f'ball team name), Stone politely refrained from fingering any of the participants. Perhaps he's still under a ball gag order.
Stone expressed his complete certainty that Cawthorn was telling the truth, because Stone had spoken with the lad. Stone added that if McCarthy allows any kind of discipline against Cawthorn, like a really sexy spanking that Jesus will forgive if you only ask, McCarthy's the one who'd need a safe word.
“We communicated only once. He told me he was not backing down from his claims, as I reported that on social media, so I take him at his word. I would, first of all, recognize he works for the people back in North Carolina. He does not work for Kevin McCarthy,” he said.
“Kevin McCarthy has no sway over him — take away committee assignments," Stone continued, "but if they did so over this, all they'd be doing is underscoring the fact that these parties and drug abuse do happen, and they are desperate to cover it up.”
Stone also vowed to go straight to North Carolina to campaign against Sen. Thom Tillis, who responded to the controversy by endorsing one of Cawthorn's opponents in this year's primary. Oooh, how that Thom Tillis will rue the day he tangled with the Nixon-tattooed self-proclaimed master of dirty tricks!
“Now I have to go to North Carolina and campaign for Thom Tillis’s primary opponent because Donald Trump and Madison Cawthorn are more popular with the grassroots in North Carolina than Thom Tillis will ever be, never mind the other RINO there, Richard Burr. The elites are circling the wagons — the people who are attacking him are the elites. ... I predict that Republicans will take the House, but Kevin McCarthy will not be speaker,” he said.
Neither Stone nor the Examiner? I Barely Know 'Er! made any mention of the real dirty surprise here, which is that Tillis was reelected in 2020 and won't be up for reelection until 2026. That Roger Stone is such a master of political intimidation — but he clearly knows most Trumpers won't be bothered by little details like that. Maybe they'll even send Trump some money right now to help defeat Tillis.
And now we will finally let you stop thinking of Roger Stone and sex orgies, you are welcome.
[Washington Examiner/ New Yorker / NYP]
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Idaho Gov Signs 'Unwise,' 'Unconstitutional' Abortion Ban That 'Weakens Our Liberties' For ... Freedom?
No, that's what he said.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law the state's version of Texas's six-week "bounty" ban on abortions Wednesday, although he did so with a signing statement that sure sounded like some excellent reasons to veto the thing.
Like the Texas law, the Idaho one attempts to avoid being overruled in court by leaving enforcement up to citizen lawsuits instead of the state, so there's no state officials to sue. But where the Texas law allows anyone to sue anyone involved in an abortion, from doctors and nurses to Uber drivers who take someone to a clinic, the Idaho law only allows lawsuits against doctors who perform the procedure, and the suits can only be brought by a family member of one of the fetus's "parents." Judgments in such lawsuits would pay minimum damages of $20,000 from the doctor.
That's where the law made Little a little hesitant, though not hesitant enough to actually veto it. Unlike the Texas law, the bill allows an exception for victims of rape or incest, as long as they file a police report. The bill also prohibits a rapist from suing a doctor who performs an abortion for the rapist's victim, but leaves open the possibility that the rapist's siblings, parents, or an aunt or uncle could sue, essentially allowing them to profit off the rape.
The bill amends last year's "fetal heartbeat bill," which also banned abortion at six weeks, but would only go into effect once the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade. Instead, the new law will go into effect 30 days after it's signed, so it'll be active before the Court's upcoming decision on Mississippi's abortion bill. The Idaho Attorney General's office has already issued an opinion saying that, since the bill effectively bans all abortions, it's unconstitutional.
In a letter transmitting the signed bill to Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, Little said he loves the idea of punishing doctors for providing healthcare to women, but wants the state legislature to fix the bill up some so it will pass legal muster:
While I support the pro-life policy in this legislation, I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will in short order be proven both unconstitutional and unwise.
Deputizing private citizens to levy hefty monetary fines on the exercise of a disfavored but judicially recognized constitutional right for the purpose of evading court review undermines our constitutional form of government and weakens our collective liberties.
Little fretted that the enforcement mechanism set a bad precedent, because what's to stop those goldurn liberals in "California, New York, and other states hostile to the First and Second Amendments" from closing the churches and taking all the guns, huh?
While he appreciated the effort to include an exception for rape and incest, Little said the requirement that victims provide a police report in order to get an abortion might be onerous for "those vulnerable women and children who lack the capacity or familial support to report incest and sexual assault." In addition, there's that whole bit where rapists' families could make bank by suing a doctor: "Ultimately, this legislation risks re-traumatizing victims by affording monetary incentivizes [sic] to wrongdoers and family members of rapists."
We just want to state again that this what Little said about a bill that he signed into law.
But he had to sign it, both because of his commitment to protecting the Sanctity of Life for those little "pre-born babies," and because McGeachin is running to unseat him in May's Republican primary, and if he vetoed an abortion bill simply because it "violates" the "Constitution," his poll numbers with the party faithful would go straight into the dumpster like a terrified teenager's unwanted newborn on prom night.
Little's signing of the bill was met with predictable opposition from those crazies who think people with uteruses may have more rights than an embryo. It was immediately condemned by Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Planned Parenthood announced it would keep its Idaho clinics open, and is looking at a legal challenge to the Idaho law.
“This law is unconstitutional, dangerous and an assault on the hundreds of thousands of Idahoans of reproductive age,” said Jennifer M. Allen, the chief executive of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates. “There is no excuse or justification for the trauma and harm this law will cause.”
Then again, causing harm and trauma to anyone seeking an abortion is the point, because only a monster would think she has a right to control her own body.
[Idaho Statesman / NYT]
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All The Crazies Flocking To Idaho Again
Oh, another child custody fight with insane militia ties? Must be something in the air.
My home state of Idaho has gone a little funny these days, although there's always a high level of background crazy here. Hot on the heels of Ammon Bundy's followers' fight to return a malnourished baby to the parents who allowed the baby to become malnourished, we have an all-new outbreak of crazy in the Gem State.
Like the Bundy story, it involves a child custody case. If anything, it's even more batshit crazy, and the militia dude who's gotten involved is, Crom help us all, probably far more dangerously off-kilter than Ammon Bundy. Nothing in the previous sentence should be misinterpreted as an endorsement of the stability or trustworthiness of Ammon Bundy.
QAnon, Sovereign Citizens, And Family Court: Not A Great Mix
Earlier this month, East Idaho News published a story about a custody fight between Lee Jennings, of Seattle, and Sarah Stanley, of god-knows-where-she-is because she's hiding from authorities to keep Jennings from seeing their son, three-year-old River. He's a dangerously cute little guy, as you can see in this photo, which in a decent world wouldn't have to be in the context of a "Missing" poster:
The story itself is very sad, and no doubt just one of many that will eventually be collected in a doctoral dissertation on the mass psychosis of Trump and QAnon adherents in the last few years. The two met online in 2016, and broke up in November 2018, when River was just eight months old. Before they'd actually arranged custody, Stanley took off for Arizona with 1) the baby, and 2) no advance notice. After a complicated series of court appearances, Stanley ended up back in Idaho, and eventually refused to let Jennings see River at all.
Jennings has been granted full custody, but that doesn't impress Stanley, who insisted in an interview with East Idaho News that River is just fine, she's not "missing," and that she's actually a victim of government persecution. Also, a whole LOT of Sovereign-Citizen word magic hooey.
Stanley argues the family court system is a “fake system with abusive males against women who are just trying to protect their babies.” She says judges in her case do not have valid oaths of office and claims her American Disability Act rights have been violated, along with her due process rights.
“I have filed a federal lawsuit against many people,” Stanley explains. “We the people need to realize courts don’t have power over you. People’s rights are being stolen left and right. I’m standing up for my rights and I’m being retaliated against.”
Stanley argues the family court system is a “for-profit corporation” and “the largest human child trafficking sector in the state.” In her eyes, the rulings from judges on child custody are unconstitutional and illegal.
"I have not done one wrong thing. I do not consent (to the proceedings). You need my consent. What is the opposite of not consent? It’s rape. And that is what the court system is. It’s a ‘legal rape system,'” she says. “They need my consent per the constitution to continue what they’re doing, and they do not have my consent. I have said that on record time and time again.”
Funny how that never seems to carry any weight with judges. Guess that just proves how illegitimate the courts are.
Enter Conman
And now we get to the dangerous bucket of crazy who's moving events along. Ms. Stanley refuses to "co-parent with the government," and instead says the custody case should be taken care of through her "church," an outfit called "Walking for the Forgotten Ministry," founded by one Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer of Tucson, Arizona.
If those four names sound vaguely familiar, that's because Yr Wonkette has covered Mr. Meyer previously: He's the guy who was briefly Wingnut Famous in 2018 when he found an abandoned homeless camp in the desert near Tucson and proclaimed it a "child sex trafficking camp," because what else could it be? Police said no, it's a homeless camp, which just proved they were covering up for the international Soros-Clinton cabal and all that. Meyer also operates a grifty border militia he calls "Veterans on Patrol," although predictably enough, he's never been in the military.
It says a lot about the guy that his desert militia cosplay shenanigans were too flaky for the Oath Keepers and for Gateway Pundit.
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Meyer told East Idaho News that, as "pastor" of Walking With the Forgotten Ministry, he's protecting Sanders from the evil government, and that she's staying in one of the "dozens" of "safe houses" that he very definitely operates all across America. Here's that audio interview, in which Meyer explains that he's ready to protect Sanders and River as long as they need it, and to mediate the situation just as he's done "dozens of times" previously.
Meyer explains that Sarah Stanley is "in a safe location with her son, and everything she needs will be provided for her and her son." Further, he insists he's really good at helping the helpless, since he claims to have run nine homeless shelters, and to have rescued more than 5,000 children at the border, plus another 14,000 immigrant children who'd been "dumped on my property" in Arizona in July 2021. Oddly, that appears not to have made the news, which again shows how deep the conspiracy goes.
Also, Meyer explains, River has to be protected from his father's nefarious plan to "vaccinate him and virtue signal to other families in Seattle. That’s not going to happen. We’re not going to allow anyone to inject the child with a bioweapon." Meyer apparently means not just the COVID vaccine (which isn't yet approved for kids under five anyway), but all childhood vaccines. He also accused Jennings of domestic abuse, a claim Stanley has also made, although there's no evidence, Jennings has no record, and of course Jennings denies being abusive.
Needless to say, he rejects the jurisdiction of the Family Court system, because "I don’t care what law enforcement says. I don’t answer to the government. The government works for me,” and Stanley "doesn’t have to comply with any of these court orders.”
Shit Gets Scary
Also, reverting to his usual strategy, he accuses everyone in the case of being criminals and "child predators." He's been doxxing most of them, too. Meyer earlier this week posted a nice video of himself standing outside the Idaho Falls office of Jennings's attorney, Laurie Gaffney, saying she's a "democratic socialist" and that he's simply there as a "border journalist," mmm-hmm.
Arizona border vigilante Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer has posted increasingly troubling rants recently regarding a child custody case in Idaho. Today, he shared a video from the front door of an Idaho Falls lawfirm involved in the case and warned: "We'll be seeing you again."pic.twitter.com/mWHjBxhOHD— Nick Martin (@Nick Martin) 1647374568
Nothing chilling there, just a guy accusing an attorney of perjury and of being "directly responsible for attempting to abduct 3-year-old River Stanley from his loving mother," then carefully naming the law firm: "Banks and Gaffney Trial Lawyers. Idaho Falls. We’ll be seeing you again."
This is actually getting into some potentially very dangerous territory; when he was chasing imaginary child smugglers around the desert, Meyer could confabulate all he wanted about rescuing thousands of kids, but now he's "protecting" a very real little boy, and the boy's mother appears to agree with Meyer's delusions.
In the latest turn, Meyer left a threatening phone message for Nate Eaton, the reporter who wrote the East Idaho News story.
Mr. Eaton, I want to know why you continue to pursue a woman and child in our safe house program. Do you want to get other women and children harmed? Are you interested in children getting hurt? Is that what your goal is? I’d advise you to remove your Facebook post; otherwise, you’re going to be seeing a whole lot of attention you don’t want. This woman is in protected custody. You are putting her life in danger, Mr. Eaton, and I’ll be knocking on your front door in a few days with a camera and a lot of people, your personal house, if you do not get off of her back. Leave her alone. Goodbye, Mr. Eaton. See you soon.
Eaton has filed for a protective order against Meyer; a judge signed off on it, but it can't be enforced until Meyer is served with the order. That's a bit of a challenge, since at the moment he doesn't seem to have a fixed address. Probably hanging out at one of his dozens of safe houses.
As of this morning, it appears nobody knows where Meyer is, or whether Stanley and River are with him. We're hoping this all has a peaceful resolution.
No, Mr. Bundy, we don't think your help is needed.
[East Idaho News / East Idaho News]
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'Domestic Terrorist' Matt Shea In Poland, Adopting Out Ukrainian Babies. That's Fine, Right?
No chance any of these 'orphans' still have family in Ukraine, is there?
In one of the weirder sidebars to the humanitarian disaster in Ukraine, former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea — who in 2019 was named a "domestic terrorist" in a legislative report, for participating in armed standoffs with federal agents — has turned up in Poland. He's at the center of what appears to be a scheme to send Ukrainian children to the USA for adoption. Or maybe he's a big humanitarian hero who's helping rescue the children from the fighting, who can tell?
Either way, Shea is currently holed up in a writers' retreat / boutique hotel in a small Polish town with 62 Ukrainian children and two adult caretakers he says he rescued from an orphanage in Mariupol, the Ukrainian port city that Russian forces have been destroying in a frenzy of war crimes, and nobody seems to know quite what he's planning.
The best that can be said right now is that local authorities have checked on the kids and verified they're being well cared for, and that the US State Department is aware of the situation, so it's unlikely any kids will be sent out of Poland for adoption in the US any time soon. That's good, because at the moment, it's not at all clear what Shea is up to, and his story keeps changing.
As the Seattle Times reports, Shea's original plans to have some or all of the children sent to America raised red flags among child welfare groups and local Polish officials:
But international agencies say, with the chaos and confusion of war, now is not an appropriate time for international adoptions from Ukraine. And Shea’s presence, and the lack of information surrounding the American group he’s with, has raised concerns among some residents of Kazimierz Dolny, the small Polish town where the children are staying at a hotel-guesthouse.
“I asked him many times, ‘What are you going to do with these children?’ and he told me that it’s not my business,'” Weronika Ziarnicka, an aide to the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, said of Shea. “I got the feeling in my gut that something’s wrong with this guy; he didn’t want to tell me his last name.”
Shea said on a Polish TV show that he was in Poland to help out a nonprofit called "Loving Families and Homes for Orphans," which he described as a "hosting organization that hosts Ukrainian orphans in America with Ukrainian families with the intent that ultimately that ends in adoption," and how could anyone object to that?
Why, the group even has a website that doesn't actually work! Just to check whether there was an archived version, Yr Wonkette checked the Wayback Machine and found only an automated message, from yesterday, that the "domain was recently registered at Namecheap.com," which shows that somebody's at least trying, huh?
The Seattle Times notes that while "Loving Families and Homes for Orphans" registered with the Texas secretary of state in 2018, it's not actually registered as an adoption agency — neither with the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, nor with "the Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity, the group that oversees American agencies involved in international adoption."
Oh, but the group did register in Florida last month, so that seems entirely legit!
Oh, and then there's this: Pacific Northwest journalism nonprofit Range Media reports it was unable to find any IRS documents indicating that Loving Families and Homes for Orphans is registered as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, which would be seriously weird for any group doing international adoptions. Maybe they should have looked into whether the group is a subsidiary of The Human Fund.
In a Facebook post, the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, Artur Pomianowski, said he had visited the kids and confirmed they're safe and being taken care of. He noted that local police and a Polish NGO were investigating as well. The Seattle Times also reports Pomianowski said the kids wouldn't be allowed to leave his town "without consent of the authorities." And that sure sounds like a good idea!
“I do not know what Matt Shea and his friends are doing here around children,” Pomianowski said in an email. “Mr. Shea and his friends have given us some contradictory information and, for that reason, it is difficult for us to trust them.”
The alleged charity claimed in a Facebook post that it is "in direct contact with the governments of Ukraine and the United States," and that its mission is "supported by the highest levels of politicians, international and local church leaders as well as dozens of companies from Ukraine, the USA and Poland," although as Range Media points out, the Facebook post didn't back up those claims with a shred of evidence.
A State Department spokesperson didn't tell the Seattle Times whether the agency was in contact with Loving Families Really Actually a Charity, but did point out that all international adoptions can only be done through groups with proper accreditation, which in Loving Families' case it has not got.
The State Department spox also pointed out that, in life during wartime, not all kids in orphanages are necessarily eligible for adoption:
“It is not uncommon in dangerous situations for parents to send their children out of the area, for safety reasons, or for families to become separated during an emergency,” the State Department spokesperson said. “Even when a child’s parents have died, children are often cared for by other relatives. Also, many children living in orphanages in Ukraine are not orphans.”
Yes, that even applies to children you personally brought out of an orphanage like a hero.
Disturbingly, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reports that Shea appears to have been planning, at least originally, to adopt two of the orphans himself. In a March 8 Facebook video, Shea said he "could hear machine guns firing in the background as he talked to his 'prospective daughters,'" and Joanna Stefańska, a Polish cancer therapist working with Ukrainian refugees, "said the State Department told her Shea himself had started the adoption process for two Ukrainian orphans."
The paper says an email from the State Department Office of Children’s Issues confirmed that the situation was under investigation, and that the US Embassy in Warsaw would be notified.
Shea, for his part, has made a great show of playing the victim in all this, because only Russian sympathizers could possibly criticize his work as a man of God:
He addressed the controversy on a Polish church YouTube channel “Against the Tide TV” which was founded by far-right Polish pastor Paweł Chojecki. Shea has appeared on the show in the past.
“There are lies and rumors that somehow we want to sell these children. The most outrageous, I think, was that we wanted to sell them for organ harvesting or something like this,” he said during a March 10 broadcast. “This is Russian-style propaganda and only Russian-style propaganda could turn a rescue mission of orphans to a resort-style facility that has basketball hoops and a soccer field. We’re even coordinating horse therapy which is for trauma. It also has medical care, psychological care. Only Russian-style propaganda could turn something that good into something that bad.”
Basketball hoops! Nothing could be more American. Besides, since the controversy arose, Shea now says no children will be leaving Poland. Does ... does that include his new daughters? If so, lucky them!
And if he says so, you can trust him. If the adoption thing doesn't work out, maybe Matt Shea can join other American evangelicals at the Polish border, yelling at Ukrainian refugees to find Jesus and get saved.
We're sure everything will turn out OK for the kids, eventually — at least now that Shea is being watched closely.
[Seattle Times / Spokesman-Review / Range Media]
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