Roger Stone to pal Trump: Amp it down, Boss, 2024 VP wannabes are out of orbit
When loyalty’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Donald Trump Gets Surprising VP Suggestion From Roger Stone
Mar 29, 2024; Updated Mar 31, 2024
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gets-surprising-vp-suggestion-roger-stone
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“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.”
- President John F. Kennedy
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Our narrator, Roger Stone, still unindicted:
Whatever you think about Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen, for the briefest moment he had one thing right - Trump’s litmus test of loyalty - “I’d take a bullet for Trump”.
That, my friends, is no shallow undertaking.
To submit oneself to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, to stand ready to defend the Boss’s daily outpourings of pure bile and sinister acts, that headstrong effort has driven at least one Trump VP to an early political grave.
Imagine defending every ruthlessly false Trump innuendo, childish self-embellishment and patently false lie. Covering up misdeed after political misdeed. Telling poor Melania you have no idea where he is or might be.
Would you freely sign up for a job that exposes you 24/7 to (1) universal ridicule, (2) serious criminal exposure, (3) a better-than-even chance of a trip to the slammer, and (4) your very own page in the big book of the political treacherous?
Which leads me to this insight:
Surely Don Don’s 2024 VP wannabes fail to grasp his twisted idea of loyalty. That somehow Demon Ambition magically masks his patently transactional scheming. “Play the game, take the bullet, show me you’re no Pence”.
I read the political news, so no argument here that everyone in the Boss’s 2024 VP lineup clearly understands at least this much - the Boss’s brand of loyalty screams out for extreme acts of public self-abasement. And every member of his aspiring cast of 2024 VP candidates seem to delight in performing them, especially when the Boss is watching.
But what they fail to understand is this - that the winner of this reality show must suffer in silence the harsh consequences of all that self-abasement, no matter what. Abiding public disdain, frequently shocking MAGA fans who nightly pray for our republic. Thankless errands to godless places like menacing Kim Jong On’s North Korea, kleptocrat Orban’s Hungary and murderous Putin’s Moscow. And rightful vilification as a total toady (especially biting for headstrong politicos from places like North Dakota, Texas, upstate New York, and sunny Florida).
Just talk to Mike Pence - about the fun of being hounded into joining criminal conspiracies to overthrow the Republic, being chased by angry lynch mobs, and facing the prospects of imminent prosecution and overwhelming legal fees. And that strangely peaceful and terrifying realization, arriving late in the night, that Boss Trump can never make you whole. And won’t remember your name if you take the bait.
A quick look at a few of these VP wannabes supports my insight:
Take wildly ambitious Kristi Noem. To impress the Boss with the true esprit de MAGA, Kristi plugs the family dog and caps a couple of prize horses, leaving distraught children in South Dakota endlessly inquiring about Fido’s whereabouts and why the state fair pony rides have been cancelled for fear of a gubernatorial visit. But would Noem welcome a long stay in a women’s federal prison after all that cosmetic surgery?
Consider Trump VP aspirant Texas Gov. Abbott. He gleefully orders his Texas Rangers to separate demonstrably peaceful student protesters from their state tuition-paying parents, outrageously punishing members of God-fearing, hard-working Texan families, each having proudly lived up to the state’s citizen-empowering motto: “Don’t tread on me”.
Given Trump’s cat-and-mouse relationship with Lyin’ Ted Cruz, can wily Greg Abbott doubt for a Lone Star minute that my Boss, in order to save his own ass, would not cheerfully throw the disabled governor, wheelchair and all, under the proverbial bus?
This profound misunderstanding as to Trump’s nature and idea of loyalty would explain - as would evidence of a recent change of medication for mania - the wild swing from dejection to euphoria of FL Gov. DeSantis, now miraculously transformed from deeply humiliated candidate for U.S. president to deeply humiliated supplicant for the Trump 2024 VP slot.
Surely DeSanctimonious would prefer to swallow hard and accept that starter position in Disney’s in-house copyright department rather than sit out so many future presidential elections while doing 30 to 40 in USP Coleman II of Sumterville, FL after being implicated in Trump’s very first 2025 move to be “dictator for a day” ?
And what about the puzzle known as malignantly ambitious Elise Stefanik, who only this year demonstrated a remarkable facility to re-characterize the shameful events of Jan. 6, 2021 from “truly a tragic day for America” to the “tourist outing” account that Freedom Caucus members adore?
It appears that our dear, sweet Elise really has no idea of what Boss Trump expects of a sassy young woman. Is this former moderate truly prepared to yield all, to discover Orange is the new Peach Fuzz?
Folks, I could go on (and on), but by my count every single Trump 2024 VP wannabe fails to comprehend that to get the VP nod, it’s not enough simply to commit extreme act after act of public self-abasement.
You must take a bullet, always keeping in mind that my pal Trump is, and forever will be, a voyeur - a deeply disturbed guy who enjoys not only the occasional spanking but delights in seeing others in pain and distress.
So, you ask, how did I convey such a sensitive insight to Don Don about those wannabes?
Even though the Boss never confides in me (wink, wink), and I don’t speak for him in any way (double wink, wink), it’s very easy. Being political dirty tricksters, we communicate via coded public message.
This time I chose a public interview with Newsweek, under the pretext of recommending former House member Devin Nunes as his 2024 running mate.
Decoded, however, the message was along these lines:
Pal, your 2024 VP candidates are getting nervous. You insist the litmus test for VP candidates is 110% loyalty. But these newbies assume loyalty Trump-style is all about sucking up.
But Nunes and I know better. You and I invented the rules of the game. So I will instruct the newbies:
Only touching all four bases makes for a Trump loyalty home run:
#1 Trump loyalty is purely transactional.
#2 We protect you and you protect us.
#3 Silence is golden.
#4 But no guarantees of when, how and even if the Boss makes you whole.
The Newsweek piece conveyed exactly that.
#1, # 2, # 3: Devin and I agreed not to spill the beans about the Trump 2020 campaign’s collusion with the Russians and you agreed to protect and reward us.
#4 In exchange, Devin received the sweet deal: 115,000 Truth Social shares, reportedly worth about $4.3 million, a salary of $1 million, and a ‘retention bonus’ of $600,000, even though Truth Social and its 36 employees lost $58 million.
Alternative #4: I, on the other hand, only got a pardon - a commutation of my sentence. really.
I am still waiting for the rest, bro - a high-paying Trump 2024 gig, a second pardon (for helping to set up Jan. 6), and a very cushy retainer “consulting” on Project 2025.
I’m a patient guy, pal, but a guy needs to pay the rent, capiche?
Do I have any other advice to offer?
Yes, you bet. Think about bringing Kristi Noem’s VP hopes to a merciful end, before she caps any more four-legged friends. I learned the hard way it’s just bad publicity to even think aloud about shooting dogs, even ones named Nadler and Swalwell.
Maybe try Huckabee Sanders. She stays in her lane and can truly say that she has never identified with a woman who can think for herself.
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"Do you think that a city, an army, a band of robbers or thieves, or any other tribe with a common unjust purpose would be able to achieve it if they were unjust to each other?"
- Plato’s Republic
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To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act III, scene I (64–68)
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