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7/10
Roger Stone Taking Credit for Everything
About midway through the documentary, Tucker Carlson asks "Is it more brilliant and impressive to influence world events, or to stand on the periphery of world events and yet get recorded as having influenced world events."

While he was referring specifically to Roger Stone's self-proclaimed crucial role in getting George W. Bush elected in 2000, Carlson's question could apply to almost every major moment in Stone's life.

Unfortunately, the documentary does not question whether Stone is actually a major figure in American politics, but rather, takes Stone at his word that he is. Thus the documentary isn't so much a look at Stone's life as much as it is a look at Stone taking credit for everything - especially the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the Presidency.

Donald Trump is the supporting actor of this documentary, second fiddle to Roger Stone, who is seemingly the mastermind of his entire candidacy. The problem, however, lies in the film's inability to provide much supporting evidence that Stone is really as important as he claims to be.

For example, there are montages which show Stone saying something on a radio show followed by Trump saying the same thing on the campaign trail. But, we are never given much context for these clips. Is Trump repeating Stone or is Stone repeating Trump? Is Stone the only one making these campaign talking points that Trump is repeating, or are others as well? Without context, these lingering ambiguities make it more difficult to conclude that Stone was a major player in the Trump candidacy.

Additionally, Stone is given such an out sized role in the Trump candidacy that other crucial members of the Trump campaign - specifically, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway - are barely mentioned. And while there is no doubt Trump did associate with Stone, the extent to which Stone helped elect Trump beyond securing the vote of the Alex Jones/InfoWars audience remains questionable.

The documentary is well-made and offers much in the way of flash and bedazzle, primarily due to its flamboyant and outrageous star, but it offers little of actual substance. In a sense, the documentary itself has been co opted by Stone for his own benefit to make sure, as Tucker Carlson said, that he is at least recorded as having influenced world events. Whether he has or not, remains a mystery unexplored by the documentary.
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7/10
No shame for the shameless
paul2001sw-12 April 2018
Roger Stone in one of America's worst people. He started out doing dirty tricks for Nixon; he made his money as a lobbyist for some terrible governments; now he's a confidant of Donald Trump. In a healthy society, Stone (and any politican who worked with him) would be shunned. This account of his story is consistently fascianting, and a tale of much of what has gone wrong with American politics.

And yet, although the documentary is critical in tone, I suspect Stone loves it. A man who revels in his own notoriety, he is given plenty of screen time to speak for himself; while numerous others, friend and foe alike, take turns to testify to his evil genius. For anyone who dislikes the man, there's plenty of grist to the mill here. But how do you shame the shameless? Not, perhaps, by allowing them to star what is essentially a 90 minute promo vehicle. The real tragedy is less that people like Stone exist; but that we allow them to polllute the public space.
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7/10
Excellent expose of a truly effective political genius
juhanijspurdo14 May 2017
This documentary is a thrilling history lesson that paints Roger Stone for the persona he has created for himself -- a deviling political provocateur whose ruthless appetite for controversy and infamy influences all things he touches, for better or worse.

Whether or not you're a Roger Stone fan, Trump supporter, liberal, conservative, American or otherwise, this documentary is fascinating to watch because Stone is such a unique character in an otherwise boring and mundane facet of society, the American political system.

"Get Me Roger Stone" is essentially a history lesson and mythical propaganda machine at the same time. Is Stone really to blame for all the political scandals he has a hand in? Or is he merely a larger than life figure who happens to revel in his own sense of political clout? The documentary does a pretty good job of letting the viewer come to that conclusion, albeit through an expectantly liberal lens. The editing, production, and musical score always play against (or with, depending on how you look at Stone's persona) the protagonist and while it does not overtly disparage the man, it certainly pulls no punches either.

The only truly atrocious bias in the film comes from the brief clips of Alex Jones's expectedly erratic behavior which aims to align the "racist" "conspiracy theorist" and overall "unstable madman" with Stone's persona. I felt it was a very cheap shot, and while I'm not an Alex Jones supporter in the least, the footage they use is definitely cherry picked to make Stone's association with InfoWars to paint him as a fringe lunatic.

If you watch the documentary carefully, you'll see that Roger Stone is anything but an irrational, crazy, or otherwise unruly brute who has a hand in nearly every political campaign in the past forty years. Instead, he's merely an ingenious machiavellian who will always play the political game as if he has nothing to lose.

As a documentary I'd give it 6.5/10 As a character piece, I'd give it 9/10 Altogether it's a strong 7.
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7/10
Trumpism Porn
gibbs-1817224 November 2020
A real babe flick for every Trump supporter and those who believe that the Clintons controls the Moon. Theres indeed enough in here to make any rash minded left or centrist think that maybe just for for one day let's abide by amendment number 2 all get kitted up and hunt this clown.

Its noticeable that since this was released Stone has been been indicted, sentenced and pardoned by the Bafoon in Chief ( yeah I know I'm gonna get lots of 👎) because you MAGA types hate Truth but heres one Truth no matter what RS does in 2020 it wont work.

I like these type of documentaries whether they attract dems , gop , labour, Tory etc and this delivered. I knocked a point off due to a Recount.
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9/10
All you ever needed to know about Roger Stone, and politics for the last 50 years...
sgcim13 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Netflix really scored big time by releasing and airing this doc on Stone. It's going to be talked about a lot, and probably for a long time, which will make RS very happy, and increase his fees.

It seems the central point might be that hate, and beyond that, fear, might be the most powerful force in the US today, if not the world... RS has gleefully exploited that observation, and built a career around it.

The doc makes it clear that RS had a lot to do with getting our current prez elected, and hints that he might have been involved with the story that is in the news at this moment.

This was five years in the making, and was started when RS was on the outs with the Republican Party, and was relegated to working for foreign dictators.

Even the filmmakers didn't know that Stone was going to be back in the limelight again by the time the film was being finished.

You might as well see the film now, because it's going to all anyone will be talking about for the next few weeks...
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7/10
Slightly Above Average
nitro7211 February 2019
Slightly above average in style & execution, this doc excels at illustrating how much of a smug, narcissistic, arrogant, hate-filled, spiteful, self-aggrandizing, lying sociopath Roger Stone (&, by extension, Donald Trump) is.
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10/10
Near Perfection
Belnick12 May 2017
this is a 9/10, but I had to give it 10/10 because of all those that vote 1/10 out of personal hate.

I like this documentary a lot, I expected it to be leaning left, left to the extreme, but it it is well balanced on right and left i thought considering who this was about.

late night with steven kolbert got me to listen/watch a few episodes of Alex Jones, which got me to listen to Roger Stone. Alex Jones might have some crazy ideas, but it is easy to filter out truth from conspiracy by searching on both left and right viewpoint and go with the logical choice, but this was not about him, this was about Roger Stone.

It is remarkable how much this man have influenced American politics for so long. did they create the cigarette smoking man from x files after Roger Stone ? I really enjoyed this one and if you have political interest you will like this too
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This Documentary's makers lack Stones
VoyagerMN19862 January 2019
If you watch know that the swamp is filled with people just like this who got Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama elected as well, then this is a useful documentary. Unfortunately the implication by the documentary makers (several of whom have direct connections to the DNC, including producers who are DNC activists) is that Stone is some kind of outlier. Nothing could be further from the truth. But the makers are themselves part of the same swamp so they are going to imply this is a phenomena solely of the other side. Only a moron would believe that.
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7/10
The Power of Disinformation
Kingslaay13 September 2022
You heard it directly from Roger Stone, he learnt the power of disinformation. If you spread lies and peddle false truths, a number of people will fall for it. We now live in the age of disinformation. 'Social' media is facilitating immediate access to all kinds of information. Back in the day the flow of information was controlled. You had a few mediums and reputable sources got their message out. Not anymore.

Roger Stone was an opportunist who capitalised on people's ignorance and naivety. I had no idea he played a major role in the lobbyist movement which has been so harmful for US politics. Stone showed the scary role he has played in Al Gore's defeat in Florida during the 2000 election and helping elect Trump as president. Again he used the power of disinformation. But in the digital age he was able to peddle all kinds of disinformation to a huge amount of people. Stone has no conscience. He wants to win at any cost, even if its lies through and through. He loves chaos and wanted to disrupt the apple cart. Netflix has produced another decent documentary about a despicable person. Netflix shows that the world would be a much better place without Roger Stone and people like him.
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10/10
Very good documentary
zat-8317423 May 2017
It is an important documentary to get background information on the ugly politics business in the U.S.A. when it is voting time. Do we have to thank the film team for this effort? Definitely. But they couldn't have done this without the fundamental trait which is driving Roger Stone in front. His ego which want to be remembered in history and do not want to be forgotten. When his pure ego is getting predominant he gives information away he would definitely deny at another time. With additional intelligence on the consulting company of Roger the movie shows clearly how the Trump voters get fooled by the same people who are pulling the strings since decades. Is Roger Stone entertaining and the movie funny? - Everyone who gets a malicious joy out of the misfortune of other people will find it funny and thrilling and Roger Stone admirable. Others will find the movie educational - it depicts human hubris on large scale.
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7/10
Horrible little fool...
m_winship16 January 2021
America has been befuddled, conned and made into a side show for the rest of the world. Playing however, with the world's most powerful military could have been the end of humankind. We are so lucky to rid ourselves of this horrible nightmarish circus. Thanks God! Murf
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8/10
Puts 2016 in the Context of the Last 50 Years
gavin694214 June 2017
A documentary exploring the life and career of notorious Republican dirty trickster and longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone, who helped create the real-estate mogul's political career.

As I write this (June 2017), Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Despite polls to the contrary, he won the election and has taken the reins with his unique style of governing. How did this happen? Where did Trump come from? Although Roger Stone has been around since Watergate, his name may not be all that well known beyond those who are into political minutia. Here, we see how he was behind Nixon, Reagan, Trump and more, with a blend of dirty tricks, and conservative libertarianism. How the far right has become mainstream slowly but surely.

I can only wait until the FBI files on Stone someday become public... and then we will see that not only was he involved in much of American political history, but perhaps much of the secret history as well. The last word on Watergate is yet to come.
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2/10
Going through the motions
sabertooth-tiger10 August 2017
This documentary is actually very funny. Stone recognizes from the outset that the fact that an entire doc is being done on him means that liberals are scared as hell. He's very open that "the evil guy who scares liberals" is simply a character he uses while doing his work, he even mocks the interviewer constantly for taking the character too seriously, but it appears that the thing must be done.

Stone is portrayed as a cunning political operative who "pioneered" the art of using tactics in the US, like false rumors and scaremongering, that the CIA had already used overseas for some decades, and indeed have often been part of American history. He doesn't really stand out as a genius tactician, but rather as someone who's very clever and learns through experience exactly what he can get away with. One fairly interesting fact is that he himself switched parties from Republican to Libertarian, which exposes him as a bit quirky.

The director, though, is clearly worse than quirky, as he deadpans the entire thing and paints Stone as a Grand Moff Tarkin or some Disney movie villain's assistant character. We hear from multiple people that Stone is evil personified, or whatever. I regret to inform the director that Harry Potter is just a story.

I rate this 2 stars because the purpose of the documentary is to make people anxious and scared. It's a product of a completely demented, senile liberal culture that's unable to do anything but rack up big psychiatrist bills. I have to condemn the movie for preying on American's weakest links, the liberals. Watch in the right frame of mind, though, and you'll be laughing quite frequently.
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10/10
A Masterpiece
jimtron1118 May 2017
One of the best documentaries ever made! Great for viewers on either side of the political isle. Stones influence on political events (whether real or perceived) makes for fascinating material, Hopefully a second documentary is in the works. My liberal friends enjoyed it just as much as I did.
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8/10
Chilling case study of the Darth Vader of American politics
CineMuseFilms11 June 2017
Of all the global threats to democracy that swirl around the houses of parliament, congress, and senates everywhere, none is greater than the growing power of lobbyists. They hunt in packs and alone; their activities are shrouded in secrecy; they manipulate political outcomes for profit; and they distort, undermine, and usurp the political rights of the masses who cannot match their resources or their deeply entrenched hold on the levers of power. The excellent, engrossing and chilling bio-documentary Get Me Roger Stone (2017) is both an exposé of this species wherever they exist and an in-depth factual case study of the Darth Vader of American politics: Republican lobbyist and consultant Roger Stone.

While America digs deep to see where Russia got under the fence to influence the 2016 election, people like Roger Stone proudly boast of how they create Presidents out of very ordinary people. Using arms-length documentary techniques, the writers behind this film have gained direct access to a stellar cast of political operatives, including Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, and of course extensive and unrestrained commentary by Roger Stone himself. A shadowy figure centrally involved in political campaigns dating from the Nixon-Watergate era, Roger Stone allows the narrator to ask any question and responds with jaw-dropping arrogance and candour. For example, when asked how he feels about being described as a despicable immoral political trickster he proudly declares "I revel in your hatred". Appearing resplendently in outfits reminiscent of a cashed-up Mafioso or The Riddler, often with a fat cigar and martini, Stone takes obvious delight in explaining how he put George W. Bush in office by demolishing Al Gore's campaign, how he invented the 'birther' campaign that plagued Barack Obama's presidency, and how he manufactured fake news to undermine most of the key Democrat campaigns over past decades.

One of the many remarkable features of this extraordinary documentary is the ease with which it shines light on a species that traditionally burrows only in the dark. It shows admirable restraint in keeping its political biases in check and allows an audience to reflect on what's wrong with commercial lobbying in a free market capitalist economy. The answer is simple. Top echelon lobbyists manipulate the apparatus of democracy to produce undemocratic outcomes. If you wonder how the once-great democracy that was the hallmark of American governance could possibly have descended into the global farce it has become, you need to see this film.
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10/10
This movie totally explains the corruption by Donald Trump and in the Republican Party.
mrothacher26 January 2019
OMG!!! I could not sleep last night. I watched this movie and it totally explains the corruption by Donald Trump and in the Republican Party! I feel like I have just discovered the cure for cancer or at least the cancer that is Donald Trump and which has infected the Republican Party (a party that I used to support when Gerald Ford was in office) for years.

One of Roger Stone's sayings is "Never underestimate the power of disinformation!" Roger Stone is truly evil. He will do anything to win an election. He will lie, cheat, create false narratives, whatever it takes. He feels that anyone who plays fair is a sucker. He has been around since Richard Nixon and even has a tattoo of Richard Nixon's face on his back!!!

Roger Stone has been active in the Republican Party working on the campaigns of Nixon, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He is likely behind the "Birther Movement" claims. He was a partner in a law firm with Paul Manafort and Lee Atwater. They represented and lobbied for the most notorious dictators!

I would not be surprised to learn that Roger Stone is the author of many of Donald Trump's tweets and lines he uses at his rallies.

This film explains everything! I think it deserves an Academy Award for Documentaries!!! Every American and even people outside the USA should watch this film.

To cure the cancer in our politics, we need to first diagnose the problem and this film does just that!!!
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9/10
Truly scary watch
muamba_eats_toast21 March 2019
The fact people have a whole film bragging about corruption and lies and people still think they're anti-establishment is the scariest part of all.
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Childish documentary with utterly naive implication this only comes from one side
random-7077812 January 2019
Exactly which major candidate has not had an operator like Stone?
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2/10
A new low
I watched the whole thing. Can't they just accept the result of the election?

The process is flawed? Sure! Are political strategists (on both sides) angels? No! So, what's new?

The "documentary", so to speak, tries to persuade (who?) that republicans are the only ones to use dirty tricks to win elections. Really, guys?

It is a new low for the left. Shame on them.
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9/10
Engaging Embodiment of the Threat of True Democracy Personified by A Single Political Operative Who Is Ultimately a Nowhere Man
classicalsteve8 December 2018
What's interesting about this documentary is Roger Stone makes no excuse or deflection concerning his dirty tricks methods to increase the chances his political candidates will win. He is one of the few operators of his type who owns up to his tactics. His tactics are fairly straightforward. Use any means necessary to win. Ethics and civil discourse have no place in Stone's "world". Among his breed of political operatives is the notion that civility is weakness. That's why he was trying to get Donald Trump to run for 30 years, and he was received his wish. Trump became Stone's racehorse in 2015. But after viewing this film, I had no sense what Stone wanted for the country, only that he wants to win and be famous. He is in my view a "nowhere man", like the Beatles' tragic figure, engaging in his nowhere plans for nobody. He doesn't even have a point of view and knows not where he's going to.

The documentary has an interesting format. It begins with him in the press box watching the Republican National Convention. He watches with intense elation as his dream candidate, Donald Trump, accepts his party's nomination. Interspersed are Stone's "rules", a few of which are most telling. His main one is "It's better to be infamous than to never have been famous at all." Others are of a similar vein: "Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.". The other primary one is "Win at all costs." Stone's main philosophy is to win. But throughout the documentary I never understood what Stone was in fact winning.

It chronicles Stone's rise from his first political maneuver in 1960 during the Kennedy-Nixon election. His school was going to have a mock election in a district which was predominantly Republican. So he told his classmates that Richard Nixon was going to force public school students to attend school on Saturdays. Come election day, the students voted overwhelmingly for John F. Kennedy. It taught him how he could sway the electorate with fabrications. It would also be the last time he would support a Democrat candidate.

Stone and a few others, such as Lee Atwater and later Karl Rove, would develop dirty tricks tactics to help them win elections. Stone was a fervent Reagan supporter and later desired George H.W. Bush to win the White House in 1988. He does in 1988 but in 1992, Bush was under threat from a new party called the Reform Party. Stone calls Pat Buchanan and urges him to run as the nominee for the Reform Party. Stone had no desire to see Buchanan as president. He thought if Buchanan ran, it would discredit the party. But then Stone's plans were thwarted when a much younger Donald Trump made overtures to do the same thing.

One of his earliest "dirty tricks" was to give a campaign contribution to one of Nixon's rivals in 1972, probably either Musky or McGovern. The contribution was supposedly from an organization called the Young Socialist Alliance, a far left-wing group. (The contribution was in fact not from the them, but from Stone.) But Stone took the receipt for the contribution and gave it to the press, hoping Nixon's rival would be painted as a socialist or worse, a communist.

He then meets Roy Cohn, the infamous political operative who assisted Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the communist witch-hunts in the 1950's. He would later help with Reagan's campaign by giving secret money to left-wing political leaders hoping they would run for president. The idea was if they ran against Carter, it would split the party. (Sen. Edward Kennedy did Stone the favor anyway.)

Stone is a sly and shameless operative who will do anything to win. But he also likes press coverage. He was a Trump consultant early on in the 2016 campaign and led rallies of "Lock her up", referring to Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton's supposed illegal behavior. However, eventually Trump fired Stone because he was hugging too much of the candidate's spotlight. Stone claims he quit, but I would give that reality odds of a million to one. Stone was begging Trump to run for nearly 30 years. Why would he jump ship from the campaign he been dying to be a part of? Trump's rational: he had to fire him because he often made it clear there could only be one celebrity among his campaign team. Stone was taking away Trump's press coverage, supposedly. Typical Trump at his best.

Maybe one of the strangest men in modern politics. He wants to win and hit his opponents below the belt. Not just attacking them with fabricated stories but giving secret money to opponents. However, after seeing the documentary, I had no sense of what Stone really wants for the country. There is nothing in his rhetoric which tells me his desires to make a better US. He only wants to aggrandize himself. He "wins" if his candidates win. And in my book, that's neither someone who is famous or infamous. He is a nowhere man, making his nowhere plans, for nobody.
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9/10
Supervillain Documentary
matthewssilverhammer11 April 2018
A perfectly frustrating capsule of everything infuriating about American politics, and specifically the 2016 election. Every single one of "Stone's rules" is the opposite of all that is decent and good, and I often found myself laughing at the sheer insanity of all this. A portrait of an evil genius who helped to destroy our political system probably more than anyone else.
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10/10
may be biased
realIK1711 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Not all Republicans are criminals and cynics. Some far-left filmmakers or talk show hosts like to portray us that way, but some Republicans do believe in the principles of conservatism. It is true that Roger Stone was a sidekick to many crafty figures like Richard Nixon and a real negative force in the political sphere. The invention of a negative campaign undermined the tradition of calm and rational political debate, leaving us with Trump's angry rants and abuse. However, we must take into account that conservatism has some invaluable contributions to the development of the idea of liberty. Without the power of conservatism, how can we have the kind of affluence that has lasted for almost a century for most people? Support for entrepreneurship and personal financial freedom is essential to our mass consumption and capitalist miracles like the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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8/10
Showing the truth behind American politics!
thegirlir4 February 2019
This documentary shows this guy real personality!! Hope we see him in jail!
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10/10
I Love this movie!!
harmony_nation17 May 2017
I have been following Roger Stone on all of Social Media & I love it when he is on Infowars, with Alex Jones! As soon as I heard that he would be releasing this documentary I could not wait until it was available! I laughed, I cheered, I loved every last minute of it! I highly recommend seeing it, love him or hate him you will still enjoy "Get Me Roger Stone". I remember watching the cable movie "Recount" last year, & then I heard the now infamous battle cry-The character in the movie said (in a panic) "Get me Roger Stone". Stone was not even in the movie but, for me, it was the most memorable part of the film! We all have the Roger Stone Warrior within us, we just have to let it out. Learn how it's done from the master Roger J. Stone Jr!!
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8/10
The Art of Repugnance
TroliusMaximus2 August 2017
An essential documentary for those who voted for "Trump" for no other reason than what they heard, saw and digested during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign.

This film outlines who usurped "Trump" the gold-plated toilet seat (aside from the Russian mobsters, that is!), in the now affectionately renamed "Shite House". The titular orchestrator of what may prove the final nail in the U.S. hegemonic coffin, Roger "Hatchetman" Stone; the reviled lawyer to New York's slimy underbelly, and "Trump's" surrogate father, Roy "Pitbull" Cohn; the aforementioned Colonel Sanders clone's cohort, Paul "Prozacface" Manafort; the snake oils shonk and lunatic method actor, turned "Trump's" ear to the 'X-Files' grind stone, Alex "Israel Did Nothing Wrong" Jones... A veritable cavalcade of cancerous crony capitalists and Mammon-worshipping, minions of money ― all conspiring to puppeteer the profligate whose stage name is now etched into the History's annuls, as the 45th canard-teller-in-chief of the 'Divided Failed $tate$ of Avarice'.

Of course, this piece mainly concerns Stone himself. However, those others mentioned, are done so for their integral, in-concert role they played in the rise of the broke pseudo billionaire in question, to within 4-minute dummy-spitting distance of initiating world wide, nuclear Armageddon.

For someone who is unfamiliar with this Stone's diabolical handiwork, it can be hard to discern which of his words―if any―are true. As a self-confessed and boastful pathological liar, one must filter every syllable Stone utters, through the proof-checking of those political pundits who have worked afoul of this fundamentally flawed man's fetid miasma for decades; and who serve as narrative links between Stone's unashamëd self-fellatio in this film. Notwithstanding, there is that which is indeed true and which Stone, suffice to say, revels wallowing in and vaunting about ― largely that which he perceives as his successes; such as, all but rigging U.S. politics―from Nixon to "Trump"―by way of misinformation, misdirection and emotional manipulation of the laymen, voting public.

In much the same way as Donald John "Trump" assumes a kind of embodiment of everything ever seen as being wrong or digestible about the United States, Stone is the political marionetteer equivalent of this manifestation. It is not only fitting that Stone ― having pushed for "Trump's" presidential run for so long ― finally helms (at least philosophically and notionally ― as he was officially "fired" as "Trump's" campaign manager) the rapacious roué's accession to the desecrated democracy's dunce stool; but the sequence of events surrounding this man's involvement, smack heavily of fate's interloping. The combination of the worst elements of the corrupted U.S. political system, having conspired with its literal escutcheon of excess, to now preside over the entire nation ― is mostly certainly the wettest of dreams for any budding, moral bottom-feeder of this dastardly troops' ilk.

Love or loathe Stone, one must to give it to the guy ― he sure knows how to play the U.S. political game. One might even argue that he is merely a byproduct of the society he resides, and simply does what he is hard-wired to in order to achieve his bent. This would be a sound argument to make ― to be sure... IF one had no scruples whatsoever!

Although liberals will hate learning of the feculent framework their society is wrought upon, this is a must-see documentary for all tribes, and neutrals alike.
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