Speaking of someone who made it (previous post), how about our boy Rocky? For those of you who didn’t know it, Sylvester Stallone has County Boy roots:
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I watched the movie Prisoner of Second Avenue the other night and was surprised to see the following scene featuring a young Stallone being chased down by old guy Jack Lemmon. Yep, only in the movies does crap like that happen.
After I watched the movie, the very next morning I check the news to learn that it was Stallone who recommended to Idiot Trump that a Presidential Pardon be given to boxer Jack Johnson (click here for story.) (Johnson was incarcerated in 1912 for violating the Mann Act.)
And since it seems that the Trumpster doesn’t mind wasting his time talking about pardoning dead people, how’s about we launch an effort to also get Chuck Berry his full pardon for violating the Mann Act (click here.)
Then there is this modern day Jack Johnson who, as far as I know, has not done anything that requires a Presidential Pardon: