An Agent Provocateur: Roger Stone
Roger Stone is an infamous man. He is a loved and hated man. His fans love him for his eccentric behavior and flamboyant rhetoric. His enemies hate him for his support of Donald Trump and his anti-authority attitude.
Roger Stone has been a veteran political consultant/strategist in American politics since the 1970s. He first got his start in politics by working as an aide for Richard Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign. In the decades following, he has worked as advisor on the presidential campaigns for Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, and Donald Trump. Also, Stone has gained a reputation for being an “agent provocateur” in Right-wing American politics. Stone’s specialty throughout his career has been to dig up dirt on his clients’ political opponents and to infiltrate left-wing groups.
Roger Stone has a lived quite a colorful life. Sure, he may be a member of the Republican Party. However, he’s not a Moral Majority or Jerry Fallwell kind of guy. Stone is openly libertarian and supports more liberal social issues such as drug legalization and gay marriage.
Roger Stone is such a unique character that I could go on and on talking about how wild this man is. Instead, I’ll leave that idea for another day and move on to Stone’s recent run-ins with the Feds.
Did I mention that he’s a big Trump guy. Stone has been a close associate of Trump’s for the past few decades. Well, it’s not a great look to have any association with President Trump nowadays. Of course, the Feds went after Stone for his support for President Trump. In February 2019, armed FBI agents arrested a half-awake unarmed Roger Stone at his home.
You would’ve thought that the FBI was arresting a big-term drug trafficker or a BLM activits that burned American cities down last summer. No, the FBI was just using excessive force against a retirement-age man in his pajamas.
Funny enough, CNN was tipped off about the FBI Raid of Roger Stone’s house. CNN came to Stone’s house an hour before Stone’s arrest, and CNN was the only news agency that filmed the arrest.
In November 2019, a federal court convicted Roger Stone 40 months in prison for the dubious crimes of “obstruction of justice, false statements, and witness tampering” related to Robert Mueller’s Russia hoax probe.
Fortunately, President Trump commuted Roger Stone’s sentence in December 2020. So, Roger Stone is free at last from his political witch-hunt. Don’t worry; Roger Stone is not finished yet. He’s only 68 years old, so he’ll be a factor in American politics for years to come.
The Best of Roger Stone’s Rules:
In 2018, Roger Stone wrote a book that I recently read. It’s called Stone’s Rules. In his book, Roger Stone shares 140 of his personal rules that have allowed him to succeed in politics, business, and life. Plus, he gives plenty of advice on how to dress well–which is an underappreciated part of becoming a success politician or businessman.
To close this amusing post, I decided to present my favorites rules from Stone’s Rules. *Warning: some of the rules use coarse language.
1. Rule #3: Don’t Hide Your Scars. They Make You Who You Are … But Don’t Fight the Last War, Either.
2. Rule #4: Past is F*cking Prologue
3. Rule #15: If You Are Engaged in Any Business or Profession, You Are Much More Likely to Succeed If You Are Well-Dressed Than If You Are Badly Dressed.
4. Rule #23b: No Bolo Ties East of the Mississippi River
5. Rule #45: Plans Are Worthless, Planning is Indispensable
6. Rule #54: Hate is A Greater Motivator Than Love
7. Rule #60: Sometimes You’ve Got to Turn Chicken Sh*t into Chicken Salad
8. Rule #67: What’s in the Public Domain is Fair Game
9. Rule #86: Greeks Bearing Gifts are Probably Trying to F*ck You Up the Ass
10. Rule #96: There Is Only One Party: The Party of Green
11. Rule #112: Too Much of a Good Thing is about Right
12. Rule #127: No One Ever Built A Statue to a Committee