Let's not be too hard on Bannon. Yes, he made a mistake in picking a fight with Trump. He knows he was out of his mind, now, but too late. He had millionaires backing him; he never will again. So let's give Steve some slack until he gets a new millionaire to back him. -Estaban Goolacki out
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What a bizarre rise and fall for Bannon -- and even faster than anyone imagined a year ago! Less than a year ago, he was featured on the cover of TIME, portrayed as not only the mastermind who put Trump in office and now controlled policymaking behind the scenes, but as a threat to American society. Now, he's persona non grata, the butt of jokes from both conservatives and liberals. Even people who share many of his extreme views have now abandoned him and dismissed him as a disloyal crackpot. I wonder if he will fade away altogether or lurk around in even more extremist circles, the outer fringes of society? I can't imagine he has many "friends" left except neo-Nazis or the Milo types.
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Probably the only credible statements this man has made are in the Wolff book. Looks like the big donors (Mercers, Koch, Adelson, etc.) who have propped up their liar in the Oval Office don't like it when their minions tell the truth.
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Lost his status and his job. No one could be as deserving. His obvious racism and hate mongering makes him unqualified for anything.
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Enough already with continued coverage of this malignant narcissist. He is bent only on destruction and the channeling of resentment and racial and political animus.
Good riddance!
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Good. They're starting to eat each other.
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Just let me know when he leaves the planet.
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I guess, even a fool can tell the truth- sometimes. But that too, is unseemly. Good riddance.
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I have an idea! Steve Bannon should write a tell-all book about Donald's campaign! He'd be a multi-millionaire in no time!
Come on, Steve, you know you've got lots to tell!
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It should be pretty clear now who pays the bills at Breitbart.
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Maybe he’ll have time to take a bath, get a shave and haircut, and a new set of clothes. Who knows this outside clean up just might shake the cobwebs from his soul.
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Bannon needs a vacation from himself and politics. Breibart too needs a vacation from its dogma.
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Everyone is raving like a Trumpster against Bannon. Not one of you have pushed past the media programmed caricature of evil you think Bannon is.
Google the Charlie Rose interview with Bannon. He looks and talks normal, kinda sounds like a nice guy.
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"She [Mercer] feared that some of the website’s cheerleading coverage of populist conservative campaigns ... could be construed as corporate contributions to those candidates, which are barred under federal election law."
Newspapers are free to endorse candidates. What "federal election law" would "bar" a newspaper from backing candidates for public office? The Fake News Times needs to answer that instead of accepting the word of an anonymous source.
2018-01-10 19:12:05 UTC
Bannon,
Thanks for agreeing to leave Breitbart News.
Now, do us all another favor. Leave the country.
(And don't come back.)
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Steve Bannon has become Orphan Bannon whom no one wants and everyone hates. I bet no one wants to be in his shoes. The one and only solution for him now - poof! And vanish!
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So long, Steve. Too bad we ever had to know ya.
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"Please, don't go! Please, don't go!
We'll eat you up we love you so!"
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I'm sure that Stevie will have a great future appearing as "Mr. Before" in infomercials for skin repair products.
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I encourage people to visit Breitbart to see what a toxic wasteland it is...the comment section gives you a flavor of the people who visit that site. I warned people before the election that when Trump brought Bannon onto his team this signaled that the gloves were off and hate would prevail...I was proven correct and Trump used this to his full advantage. Hardly anyone I knew had heard of Bannon or Breitbart at that time (mid 2016). I am surprised that he threw Bannon under the bus but I guess he had to when Bannon said that Jr was a traitor.
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Bannon leaked information against his former patron, and worse, made vile remarks on Trump's children. But what goes around comes around. Now he
has lost his platform and his financial backers. He has become a non-entity
in the political sphere, and worse, the kiss of death for any Republican candidate.
For a former strategist at the White House, he has plotted the worst strategy
for himself. Very ironic.
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Raci$m does not pay!
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This was the American version of the June 30th, 1934 "Nacht der langen Messer".
I am glad that one nazi is gone, however, I worry the remaining ones will continue to move more stealthy.
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Well, Steve, can't say I'll be shedding any tears over your departure from that Right Wingnut rag, unless you count tears of joy from unstoppable laughing. We hardly knew 'ya, Steverino. Toodles.
DD
Manhattan
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Steve,
Find some time to take a shower now that you have been freed of the burden of being a know it all attack flea bitten mongrel for now.
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Fear not. Maggots will always find carrion on which to feed. We’ll see him again.
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Drain the swamp, next one is Stephen Miller. Get rid of all the fascists. You are not my president but I wish you well.
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Mr. Bannon, thanks for your input..
Please close the door on your way out..
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Bannon's mission was to "deconstruct the administrative state"; translation: destroy our institutions. Great start! Dotard Don was the perfect vehicle for Bannon's aspirations. They succeeded in installing no-nothings or enemies of our democracy like DeVos, Carson, Price, Pruitt, Perry and others. And since Don the Con has no real ideology, he was the perfect Ear for Bannon's hateful goals. Now, its showtime for the likes of Stephen Miller, the 32 year old expert in hate and Hitler-like speech writing. I loved watching the fall of Bannon, but I can't wait to watch the fall of the Orange Man and his posse of traitors and criminals. Mr. Mueller, Godspeed Sir!
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Ten bucks says Bannon is at Fox News within a month.
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"Hard edge nationalist ideas"? I believe you meant to write xenophobic, racists ideas. Show some courage in describing such rags.
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This proves how detached from reality many liberals and the press are. Remember the countless articles after the election how the evil genius and racist, white-supremacist mastermind Steve Bannon was the real president behind the scenes and Donald Trump just his tool? Now we can all see how ridiculous that was. One wrong word against Trump, Trump denounces him, and immediately Bannon gets the boot and is kicked out on the street. A proper mastermind and puppeteer, so powerful!
Already back then it was obvious that Bannon is not the problem, Trump is. And yet much of the initial liberal rage was directed more against Bannon than Trump. So stupid!
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Bannon was broken by Trump. Next.
I'm no fan of Bannon's white supremacy, but for all of you that thought Trump was an outsider, draining the swamp, notice that he has jettisoned the revolutionaries and embraced the establishment elite. Trump's populism was a big fat lie, just like pretty much everything about Trump.
He is a global crony (cronyism-the appointment of friends and associates to positions of authority, without proper regard to their qualifications) capitalist, who outsources jobs to foreign countries, and made "you're fired" his catch phrase. He made his money welching on debts and screwing over small business people. The tax deal he signed gives big deals to real estate moguls, but after the bait and switch, raises taxes on workers, from bracket creep, since they changed the way inflation is calculated. And the profits he makes on his overseas deals will now be taxed at ten percent, another subsidy for outsourcing.
The true elite is the global billionaires who make 90% of political donations and write 90% of government policy, not college professors, who are mostly adjuncts making little more than minimum wage. This billionaire elite are the real Deep State, which uses their vast wealth to overrule democracy, and their political appointees that grant global corporations they own shares in fat no bid contracts. When workers band together our lives will improve. Billionaires will never care about you because you are white. The only color they care about is green. You are being lied to and used.
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Bannon is the kind of guy you don't want to turn your back on in the tool room.
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Another Republican, Rep. Darrell Issa, R(Vista,CA) has announced that he is 'retiring' from congress. This is beginning to look like a Democratic tidal wave in the midterms. If that happens Trump is in serious trouble. He should begin considering his options when he is no longer President.
I hear Breibart News is looking for someone. Oops! My mistake, I forgot you have to be literate to work at a news organization. Sorry.
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Please God, let them keep eating their own, stabbing each other in the back, being their typical hateful selves, each and every last one of them. Let karma be the final moral of this sad and sordid story in American politics. And let every one of them be gone forever. Let the Rapture some of them believe in actually occur and leave all of us who are sane, rational, compassionate, science, environment and people loving creatures behind so we can move effectively into a future without them. Amen.
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Steve Bannon who is so full of himself is now deflated; it could not happen to a nicer guy. Rebekah Mercer who is furthering the cause of the Oligarchs will eventually learned that her extremists ideologue will eventually play itself out.
Are people that dense to suscribe to such nonsense like Breitbart mumbo-jumbo?
I’m saying this with lots of trepidations.
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Bannon can start another website with $1500 and a tweet. It was his movement. The Alt Right without Bannon is like Apple without Jobs -- still there but less and less revolutionary with every step. I wouldn't count him out until he is dead.
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This story reads like it was written by the Trump press office.
Bannon told the truth - he made no mistakes.
The extremely dangerous message in all this is that no one can challenge Trump or the billionaire donors.
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Why Steve Bannon "Steps Down" from Breitbart Post rather than "Resigns"?
When I read "steps down," I think of the respected university president who "steps down" from that position to return to his teaching post, not disreputable politicians who got caught being abusive to employees, or Mr. Bannon, who was clearly forced out of his position and out of the company. Steps down is a euphemism.
Nevertheless, the good outcome is that Mr. Bannon, whom no normal citizen had heard of two years ago, can now quietly or noisily return to the rock from under which he crawled to spew his venom in much less noticeable fashion, perhaps unheard (if we are lucky).
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I'm wondering whether Bannon will go quietly into the void or seek revenge. The apotheosis of his political and media influence has certainly passed. However, Bannon strikes me as someone carrying all the markings of a disgruntled employee let go. I have a feeling Trump's unrelenting vindictiveness will come back to haunt him. "Fire and Fury" is likely only the beginning of Trump's discomfiture regarding Steve Bannon's testimony. Trump just made an enemy for life. That enemy is also more intelligent than Trump. I suspect this will not end well.
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I suspect this shows that there's no real muscle behind the populist part of the populist movement. I don't deny that there's a real movement there, but it's the moneyed polluters and corporate powers that be, surprise surprise, have the power. Trump the narrow-minded narcissist is manageable enough after all. It was just the corporate wolf dressed up in 'angry "salt of the earth"' clothing all along.
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I'm sure that many people on this forum are welcoming Donald Trump's move towards centrism and say thank heaven for the influence of Ivanka Trump. As for myself, I'm less certain that it's really a good thing.
Stockowners must be very happy at the moment and the president is getting more and more appreciation from Wall Street types. But a rise in stock prices follows automatically from a lowered corporate tax rate, reflecting how stockowners get to keep a larger share of their due future income. Most of the so-called deplorables don't own a whole lot of stocks and will be far more dependent on how real wages develop.
If corporations want to invest their increased profit in new labor-requiring ventures, wages might go up, but only if labor remains scarce. With a continued influx of labor from other countries with lower wages than the US, it might not happen.
That last scenario is where the US well and truly enters the danger zone. Just imagine. If the Wolff book can be believed, even Henry Kissinger, himself Jewish, described the White House conflict as a "war between Jews and Non-Jews". I would certainly have preferred to say nationalists and globalists, but there is some truth to it because many of the latter are, in fact, Jewish.
I think you understand what I'm getting at. With or without Steve Bannon, the White House must find a way back to a labor market policy that allow the working man's wage to rise. It is crucial.
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Too bad when Steve Bannon as crazy as he is, SOUNDED like the most sane man in the WH. Head over to Fox News, they need a few good men without a record of abusing women.
I don't believe he's that stupid. Plus, Trump said he's sloppy and dumb, so he's clearly not.
He calculated this in some way. We haven't seen the last of him.
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While we can rejoice that Steve Bannon is out of the picture (for now), let's not forget that he's merely the host organism for the toxic Rebekah Mercer virus.
There WILL be another Bannon clone, mark my words.
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The virus no longer needs its vector, the GOP influenza is now an epidemic.
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Please, those that think the Vampire known as Steve Bannon is slain, that there is a stake through his Heart and he shall never rise again don't know the world of 2018. Sure he lost the support of the Mercers, but who needs them, not in todays world, he can do a facebook live or Periscope, or youtube -all free platforms which he can use to get his word out. The fact that he groveled before Trump will hurt his brand- he came off as the ultimate loser, the beaten mutt that comes back to his master with tail between his legs. But his fame is made but the public has a short memory and he better act quick, and if he has true talent and true guts he can take to Facebook, twitter, youtube and all the other platforms and keep going, but that's the real question: does Steve Bannon have real talent? and does Steve Bannon have real guts?
I always felt the press had been overly focused on this guy, in particular after he left the White House and worked for a news outlet that virtually no one read. In the end, he was just a loudmouth with no real long term strength. No one knew who Bannon was two years ago and no one will remember much about him two years from now. Good riddance.
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In another article today, a former Breitbart spokesperson wrote that, "He (Bannon) saw Breitbart as his weapon in a war against the establishment."
I'd like to have him explain how Bannon's support of a credibly accused pedophile for the Senate comports with that line of reasoning. Or does "establishment" simply mean "basic human decency" in this context?
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Steps down? More like kicked to the curb.
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You were used and tossed Mr. Bannon - Whatcha gonna do?
Bannon once called Trump an imperfect vessel - but he was the perfect one for shredding the republicans using a populist platform - but then a funny thing happened after the election - they pushed Bannon out and the vessel governed as a corporatist because the "vessel" doesn't care about policy only accolades
The Mercers are happy with deregulation, a giant tax break and the elimination of the estate tax - and the destruction of the agencies. None of these "accomplishments" were the base's priorities. These accomplishments won't create jobs or drive demand, or make healthcare cheaper or maintain our infrastructure...just the rich - richer
You've been Trumped Amerika!
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So that answers the question: There is no Trumpism without Trump.
Well, there's still plenty of hate, vengeance and polarization out there for Bannon to tap into an stir up, so his work is far from done. At the moment, he no longer feeds at the ginormous Mercer Family's financial teet, but he may yet find sustenance elsewhere in the barnyard.
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It took these dim bulbs over a year to figure out that El Banyo, the guy they threw all this money at, is just a boorish windbag drunk with a persecution complex. No skill other than that. Just a quick look at the guy tells anyone that he couldn't even handle a mop job.
The 'genius' behind the stables genius victory is the unfettered dirty political work of the russkies, not the resident souse.
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Steve, I hear the KKK is looking for a factchecker for their new newsletter.
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What all this news about the Wall Street billionaire owners of Breitbart firing Bannon for telling the truth about Trump screams out to me, is how could anyone believe henceforth that Breitbart News is anything but a billionaire conservative donor class propaganda tool designed to manipulate Breitbart readers to do what its wealthy owners want?
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I initially mis-read the title of this article as it appears on the main NY Times Page - I read: "Bannon is leaving Brietbart after his BREAK UP with Trump". I actually think that is a more appropriate title - as it captues the emotionally driven - completely reactive tone of the their personalities and their relationship.
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Bannon made the alt right and was undone by it. Poetic justice.
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Next to go should be Miller, the other angry gasbag. I don't agree with much of what Bill Maher says, but his comment about Miller was the best I ever heard. "His is the last face you see before the trunk closes."
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When you lose your job in Media... for questioning the fitness of the raging Narcissist whose finger is on the trigger of the world's largest nuclear stockpile, we are all in a country closer to Russia than the US I grew up in!
Time to be very afraid!
These people are so full of themselves that they can't help but spill the beans on Trump. Bannon thought the Trump kids were dopes and said so. He saw treasonous activities and spilled the beans.
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Bannon's objective is to disrupt the process of government, for him true freedom exists only in a state of anarchy. To succeed in this objective he must oppose whatever is happening, even if it is something he once advocated. If his ideas gain acceptance, he must shift to new ideas which have little acceptance. No doubt he is relieved to be out of the Trump administration and out of Breitbart.
He will find another platform and another patron.
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The book is fake?
Trump attacks Bannon for comments he made in the book?
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I have never understood why anyone anywhere paid any attention to this guy. The media certainly extended his fifteen minutes. He has never been anything more than a peripheral character to the unthinking, rabid right.
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President Trump demands total loyalty, hates any criticism of himself or his family, and loves to say "You're fired!" As a New York City real estate developer, Donald Trump learned how to play REAL politics with Mayors, zoning boards, unions, the Mob, banks, attorneys, contractors.....Like other real estate developers in all cities, Trump is far more politically savvy than most career politicians, DC bureaucrats, and lawyers. The political pundits and news media seriously underestimated Trump during the Republican primaries and even the general election battle with Hillary Clinton, who could have won easily but who ran an embarrassingly tone-deaf, weak campaign focused ONLY on "womyn's issues" and snubbing working-class "Little People" as "deplorables." Hillary blew her chance.
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We are now witnessing "the night of the long knives" phase of Trump's reign.
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I wouldn't write him off just yet. Bannon is going to have a field day if the President caves in on DACA, or even worse, a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal aliens. Wall, or no Wall. President Trump's base is already fed up with Ivanka and Jared, who they consider extremely liberal. The backlash will be unrelenting, at which point a lot of Breitbart readers will move to whatever Bannon's new populist platform is. To get a sense of their state of mind, just quickly browse through a few Breitbart comments attached to any immigration story they have up on the website.
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So many Republicans in Washington kept telling us to ignore what Trump said and focus more on what he did. Bannon would have been wise to listen to the very people he despised. Trump has delivered for very wealthy and large corporations in this country while the middle class and poor received the equivalent of table scraps. And then told to be thrilled. The self-declared genius in show business had Bannon believing the act. And now, in less than a month after passage of the new tax legislation, he finds himself on the street.
The Republicans should not be giving each other high-fives because Bannon has left Brietbart. He will find another platform. He may have been knocked down but I don't believe in any way has he been knocked out. It is very difficult to put a raging lion back in its cage.
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So Bannon slithers away from yet another swamp.
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Has Bannon been invited to "have lunch" with Mueller yet?
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From "President Bannon" to unemployed in less than one year.
Out of the White House
Out of Brietbart
Out of grace and no allowance from Momma Mercer
What's to worry he can go work for Roy Moore.....
How is that war on the entire GOP going Stevie?
The only wonder is:
1. Why did it take so long?
2. How quickly will Trump follow his footsteps?
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Now that Populist Reps have lost the brains of their movement all that is left is the political brawn of Trump and the Royal Family.
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Bannon was instrumental in boosting Trump into presidential orbit. Unfortunately for Bannon, he failed to remember that boosters do not join their satellites in orbit; they fall very quickly back to the ground as soon as they run out of fuel.
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Putin will find another funding mechanism for him. But the venum will be redirected away from Trump, who is so well behaved and always ready to surrender American interests. No stone can be left unturned in the weakening of America.
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One can only hope that the coverage of Steve Bannon goes mute as well.
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I don't like Bannon or Trump. What no one is mentioning is that Trump and his backers, GOP Senators and Congressmen, Mercers, etc. are puppets and flunkies of Trump and now anyone who DARES to criticize Trump and his family are likely to be publicly humiliated, fired, discredited, stomped on, etc., at Trump's request. What does he have over these people that they would do his ugly bidding? This is what's happened to the GOP who were first disgusted by Trump but now are fawning over him like he's a savior. They are terrified of what he might have on them or does have on them. Disgusting. Repulsive. All of them.
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One White Supremacist denounces another White Supremacist. Then the platform that he used to empower the Supremacist movement, ejects him because the Supremacist he just denounced is untouchable? Really ?
Imagine Charlie Rose roasting Harvey Weinstein on TV and then getting chucked out of CBS not because he (Rose) was also guilty of assaulting women but because he skewered Weinstein.
At least, if anything, this is proof that Breitbart is more a dog whistle for Trump than it was an ideological trumpet for Bannon.
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It's certainly entertaining to see the alt-right eat their own, when directed to do so by Herr Trump. I wonder how many in the GOP will realize that this is their fate as well, if they attempt to exercise their constitutional responsibilities in relation to Trump's many high crimes and misdemeanors... oh, wait, it seems they realized that a long time ago...
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Is it possible that mastodons Big Donnie and Big Stevie got together, talked over a way out of the tar pit, and decided that the surefire way to go would be for Big Stevie to take a dive, while Big Donnie stands on his back until a flying elephant rescues him?
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When is Steve Palpatine going to show his real life saver?
Maybe Steve will have a new career as an MSNBC contributor. Can't wait.
It seems obvious that Trump used every means possible to become President of the United States. Bannon's presence is a case in point. He provided Trump's base the opportunity to grow by appealing to white supremacists who believe they are being disenfranchised. He offered the closest possibility that their voice would be heard and heeded as never before. Say what you like about Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, but without their influence (which is the reason Bannon disparages them so openly), Bannon might still be in his position.
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He'll go on the internet and start his own "publication." Can't keep those fascists waiting. They love this vicious "derelict drunk."
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I guess Bannon is gone for good.
So the Mercer's cut him off at the ankles, and now he has no one to fund his crazy rants and Quixotic quests. The Mercers are pretty odd themselves, so Bannon had to have really gone off the rails to have them dry up his piggy bank.
It couldn't happen to a more deserving egotistic sycophant
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Cannibalism season is here.
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Glad to see Bannon "the bully" continues to get visited by Karma. He is a nasty, hateful excuse of a human being. I wonder if he got hurt falling from the pedestal upon which he sat. Sure hope so.
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This is an American fascist replay of the Nazi "Night of the Long Knives". They and the other racists of Breitbart should know the rest of decent society is enjoying watching them destroy each other.
8
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At least he can sign up for Obamacare, now that he is unemployed.
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In Trump world, Dear Leader can not fail, he can only be failed.
Send Bannon off to the re-education camp.
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Steve Bannon, chief propaganda minister for the alt-right mental disease now afflicting America and occupying the White House, finds himself in need of a new financial patron and "media" platform from which to spew lies and simple-minded nonsense. How pathetic. How utterly amusing.
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Bannon had a pipedream is his mind that there was actually something called "Trumpism" and it meshed with the revolution in his mind. As the president has gladly turned into "just a signature" for signing whatever legislation the GOP congress might be able to produce, it became more and more obvious that there is no "Trumpism." No revolution. The president has joined the leaders of the political institutions that Bannon has railed against and sought to remove. Trump is Trump and there is no "Trumpism" or revolution. Just Trump. What's left for a revolutionary when the revolution evaporates?
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the fall of Bannon.
couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
reminds me of Aaron Burr. perhaps one day soon he'll go to Texas and try to establish an indpendent fascist duchy.
or be eaten by an insulted honey badger.
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May Steve have all the success in future endeavors that he so richly deserves.
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Don't underestimate Bannon. Trump donors may move away from him, but Trump voters will stay with Bannon. They know Trump sold out to globalists, and Breitbart isn't what it used to be, and soon will be insignificant. Just look at their numbers. Bannon can run in 2020 against Trump, entirely with cash directly from voters.
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As long as you lot chew on one another, who cares?
Glad to see Steve Bannon ostracized, but Stephen Miller is, if anything, worse. Watching Miller try to take on Jake Tapper on CNN last Sunday conclusively showed just how immature, uninformed, and alt-right he is. If Miller's the person who now has Trump's ear and writes his speeches, it's Bannon all over again...
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All of this adds up to being an example of how Trump wins. We'll never know the half of what happened to bring this about, but of course it has to do with giant money.
Trump plays plutocracy hockey. Not trying to be cute with a phrase, just looking for the words that describe all of this action. Trump hits an ever-moving puck (Bannon one day, immigration the next), and he's fine with all that action. The temporarily unpredictable puck doesn't tire him; it feeds him because he's too rich to ever really lose. If Bannon were to be blessed by the Mercers again for whatever reason, he'd be back to being another puck in Trump's game. Trump himself is not the most powerful player, of course; those with greater wealth, singular or combined, slap Trump around as well.
While I am getting tired of the democrats who no longer act like democrats (when did it become cool to be anti-American?), I am also stunned that the average Republican allows this group of thieves to represent it.
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Steve is now in a "deep state" of unemployment.
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Best comment of the day.
No honor amongst thieves.
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Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal?
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Whatever else you might think of him, Steve Bannon is an interesting guy. He was quick to identify a political groundswell, pulled the right levers, and rode a winning streak all the way to an office in the West Wing. I'd say he's finished in politics, but will re-appear on cable news or as a radio talk show host.
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This is great news. I started reading Breitbart's website when Andrew Breitbart was still alive. Then, the stories were about the meaning behind some things that are said in the media. The stories were referenced with a quiet understanding that Conservatism is legitimate, and we looked at them from a framework. When Bannon came in, it started to look distorted from the other point of view, like Conservatives were right to get hysterical. That's not the Conservatism I know.
Steve Bannon is an advocate of what's called "generations theory," the notion that this country goes through 80-year cycles. According to that theory (laid out most notably in Strauss and Howe's The Fourth Turning), the US is now in the "Fourth Turning" or crisis stage, "a decisive era of secular upheaval, when the values regime propels the replacement of the old civic order with a new one."
Bannon no doubt tells his admirers he's a white knight dealing with this foreordained crisis. Given his egomania, however, I wonder if he isn't actually and deliberately promoting the crisis. That's what all his actions suggest.
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Who cares? So the chief architect of the Trumptonian alternate-fact universe has been brought on by his own inconsistencies along with a walloping dose of vanity and hubris. This was entirely predictable. What else can be the result when your entire political "philosophy" is built on an endless series of false premises, false equivalences and outright falsehoods.
The significant part is that there are so many others in the Breibart world lining up to take Bannon's place. So many who -- like Trump -- are perfectly willing to burn down the nation so long as they get to rule the ashes.
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The fact that Bannon was drummed out of Brietbart "news" because he wavered from the party line means that Brietbart is not, nor ever was, a legitimate media organization, but rather the propaganda arm of the current White House.
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Bannon became the victim of his own outsized ego. The so-called Master Manipulator made too much of his press clippings, became mesmerized by his "status" as the go- to- guy for the alt right. In the end, he created a monster,(himself ), that he could not control. The Mercers' are now looking for the next Leninist to blow up government and advance their alt- right wing agenda.
It would be wonderful if we never heard Bannon again, but then I feel that way about Trump too.
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All of Trump's enablers and surrogates will eventually experience similar public derision and humiliation. Trump is a toxic waste dump, and all these people ignored the posted warnings. Some like Manafort,, Gates, Flynn and Papadopoluos , and there will be more , are now part of criminal proceedings..
Sessions, Graham, Grassley, Ryan, Kushner, McConnell, Tillerson, McGahn, Hicks , Mnuchin , Pruitt , Miller, Cohn and Kelly to name just a few will not be spared the odious smear Trump for the rest of their lives.
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Last seen departing DC in an old Chevrolet Impala 1997 and lots of newspapers and boxes of clothing in the back seat. When Steve re-emerges, say hello to him in his new job as a Greeter at your local Wal-Mart.
Maybe we will see Hope Hicks and Steven Miller working in positions they are better qualified for in the future - car wash vacuuming attendants.
One down and a couple of more to go before America becomes a genuine and inclusive democracy, once again.
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Breitbart is a bunch that turns on its own, like sharks or wild dogs. When you hate half of everything, it’s very easy to hate the other half next.
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Breitbart needs to pace itself. They're going to run out of people to hate.
Bannon just got Trumped.
One wonders whether this will lead Bannon to any re-evaluation of his world view.
He was a key element in leading Trump to the Presidency and developing Breibart.
And now this is how they treat him. They throw him under the bus the minute he says anything against the Dear Leader.
Still think Trump and the alt right are great guys, do you Steve?
No re-evaluation about that?
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Bannon is gone but not forgotten. He has a gift for turning a phrase. His quotable quotes regarding the Trumps will keep him alive for now: “treasonous”, “unpatriotic”, “dumb as a brick”, and “crack like an egg.” Reporters will contact him on slow news days to get a new tidbit. Bannon will find a new website and use inflammatory rhetoric to generate a following.
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watch for his new tell all book, "My Struggle".
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As Dirty Harry once said, "a man's got know his limitations". Bannon, the job hopping, alt right "go to guy" exceeded his with his support of Moore..the alleged child rapist and bigot. At that point the implosion had begun. In looking at the totality of Bannon's tenure, his brush with the very forces he attempted to manipulate ( the Republican party) did him in....he was himself, for lack of a better term, bad news, and had to go.
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When you call Breitbart a "wordclass news platform" and gush that Bannon "helped instill the discipline and focus that allowed Mr. Trump to narrowly prevail in the three Midwestern states," you come off a little bit like an alt-right bro, yourself.
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Good Bye Stephen Bannon. Your footnote in history is written.
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Did you actually want to say erase?
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Draining the swamp, one creature at a time! And wait til Mr. Mueller comes in with an arrest posse Fixin to get almighty messy as the swamp creatures scurry for cover!
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One thing the current occupant of the presidency is consistent about: throwing anyone and everyone under the bus. Couldn't happen to a worse bunch of liars and thieves.
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Oh what a tangled web....... bye, bye Steve. Sheriff Joe is calling.
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Trump saying Bannon has lost his mind...pot meet kettle. Bannon being ousted from multiple posts in the last several months: couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
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He'll probably go run Arpaio's campaign. Birds of a feather...
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"Live by the sword,
die by the sword"
Gospel of Matthew
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"Breitbart, a platform for hard-edge nationalist ideas..."
If this description is anywhere near accurate, then it would be entirely fair to categorize Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times as platforms for hard-edge Communist ideas.
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Have you even read breitbart? They most certainly embrace this description of themselves. To the Breitbarter, everything is left wing, communist propaganda if it isn't anti-left propaganda.
Bannon himself identifies as a nationalist and his brain-child (Breitbart) reflects that.
Apparently Ms. Mercer's concern that Breitbart's extreme right propaganda would be considered as corporate contributions to candidates was only after Breitbart's candidates failed? Breitbart has got to be the oddest place in the realm of conservative media that seeks to live under Trump's shadow. It is compelling how the impetus for the founding of Breitbart was to support Israel's conservatives but yet it is the very same space where supporters of the "Blood & Soil"--- neo-Nazi's also congregate. Goodbye, Steve Bannon in less than one year from the best seats at Trump's inauguration to the streets themselves---the curb if you will.
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You reap what you sow.
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Cue the tell-all book, due out this summer, from Steve 'the Lose Cannon' Bannon. Pass the popcorn, this should be entertaining...
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FOX News will give this nut a soft landing place. He is absolutely right about Trump's son (et al) being traitors, however.
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Does anyone else think Bannon might start his own party?
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The message he message is clear to all who anger Donald Trump. You will be destroyed.
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Bannon should look on the bright side: I hear former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is runnin' for senate. He may need a svengali campaign manager. Seems like a perfect fit.
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The snake has begun to eat its tail.
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It seems everyone is now bannin’ Bannon.
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What Steve Bannon said about Trump, Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump: Accurate. What Steve Bannon's comments say about Steve Bannon's judgement: He does not have any. As for Steve Bannon's ideology and politics: Good riddance to bad rubbish..
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Steve Bannon will have to find another administrative state to disassemble.
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So who's next on he chopping block before Trump?
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One "Steve" down, another to go.
Maniacal Miller is another loose cannon.
Once Bannon's ties to the Mercer gravy train were severed, Breitbart threw him under the bus. It's not personal...it's business.
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Unless we have an outright fascist coup, Bannon is finished.
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Karma is real!
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For the first time in his life Stephen Bannon speaks the truth and the Mercer family severs ties with him after years of pumping money into Bannon's far right, white supremacist, anti-Semitic organizations and projects. To possess so much wealth and power and yet be the lowest of bottom dwellers ...
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One less foaming at the mouth lunatic in US politics probably won't be missed.
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Wow, his karma came around very fast. Ah, Steve, that groveling apology to Trump (who's the last person on earth to whom ANYONE should ever apologize) showed your true color: YELLOW!
Steve, you're not strong; you're pathetically weak - just like Trump. All that bluster, yet devoid of substance - just like Trump. Backpedaling as fast as you can from what you're on record as saying - just like Trump.
You & Trump are two dogs who lay down together & now you've got each other's mange.
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"Steve Bannon Steps Down From Breitbart Post"
Let me fix your headline.
"Steve Bannon Unceremoniousy DUMPED From Breitbart Post"
There. Better.
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They say an injured animal is the most dangerous. Everyone is counting Bannon out. I'm not. His ego is too big to just fade into the sunset. Bannon knows A LOT. Trump should be very worried. We haven't heard the end of him.
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The Mercers and Kochs have been feeding the rats, now one goes back in the woodwork. When will there be laws to send their masters back ?
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I could make many cogent points against Stephen Bannon, his behavior and his politics, but, for brevity's sake... Bwahahahahahahah!
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So much for loyalty
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Like everything that Steve Bannon does, the book interviews seem too much or too extreme to be believed.
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Bannon’s expressed desire to “burn it all down”, meaning the current government, was nearly realized. We have Pruitt in charge of the EPA, Zinke in charge of the Interioir, DeVos in charge of Education, Perry in charge of Energy, and the president in charge of of a mad twitter account and monitoring Fox News. Bannon is the ideas man who helped Trump look like he had a platform to stand on. Bannon leaves and the president stumbles around like Chauncey Gardner in Being There. I’m not suggesting bringing Bannon back: he deserves a nice jumpsuit and a comfortable room. Maybe Trump and Bannon will meet again in prison. You know, the white collar kind where they can play tennis and badminton.
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emboldening its defiant editorial spirit
What in the world does that mean? Breitbart News? What is defiant? What is bold? What spirit?
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Lives, dies, swords....
Are we supposed to feel sorry for Bannon in this scenario? It just shows that the Deep State of the Republican party has been pulling the strings all along.
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Bannon has a bright future in Hate-Talk Radio - He can speak for hours non-stop to millions of fans nodding their heads in agreement to his explaining why it's high time to start building internment camps for undesirables.
He'll be a star.
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Bannon is a racist and a political crackpot, but he did have one redeeming feature in that I think he was genuinely interested in bettering the lives of ordinary (white) Americans - hence his push for a substantial tax hike on the rich. That policy was always destined to become roadkill in a Republican administration, but I find it amusing that so many Trump supporters have turned their back on somebody who really was on their side in preference to the con man in the White House. These people just haven't a clue who their real friends are.
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At least Bannon has been following the old adage, don’t dress for the job you have, dress for the job you want to have.
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Brilliant!
Bannon is finding out what is becoming abundantly clear; everyone who associates with Trump eventually gets ruined.
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Not true. They'll always have a friend and a platform at Fox News.
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Even though I don't like Bannon's ideas, at least he's the only one inside the White House who has been willing to tell the truth about all the crazy dysfunction going on there since Day 1. Everyone should read Fire and Fury. It confirms what we all know and can see for ourselves but it's well worth the read for additional inside drama surrounding a truly insane, barely literate, thoroughly corrupt president and the chaos that follows his every step and utterance.
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Maybe Bannon can now speak the truth for Trump's base which Trump abandoned through his tax giveaway to the rich and hamper the Obamacare which his base badly need to treat rural opioid addiction. But sadly, I don't think the base will take to Bannon, what they want is a rich, fleshy fool not a dark blooding sloppy schemer.
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He lost conservatives with his smearing out of revenge and will be devoured from the left after they use him to attack Trump. The guy has lost all credibility and will never be trusted again.
Bannon ruined his life selling out.
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Bannon is as delusional as ever. Breitbart is a joke, it reads like a comic book for the alt-right and other assorted fringe kooks.
But Bannon is getting off easy, banished to the political wilderness. He probably steered clear of conspiring with the Kremlin and there’s no indication he was laundering money for the oligarchs.
So it’s highly doubtful he’ll be indicted along with Don Jr., Kushner, and Ivanka. But he might be caught up in one of Trump’s crimes, Obstruction of Justice.
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Probably he has a lot of dirt & will be a gift that keeps giving.
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He knows enough that he could make life even worse for the kids.
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It might look like he's down right now, but would you rather lose your influence, or go to prison? Bannon knows what is coming for Trump and everybody around him.
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"...that confidence faded in recent days and weeks as they came to believe he displayed serious lapses in judgment, according to interviews with half a dozen people close to the situation. Some associates and friends described Mr. X as being detached from reality, unable or unwilling to grasp the severity....."
Take your own guess. Who is Mr. X? And how many Mr. X's are there?
Which of these Mr. X's does Rebeka Mercer pay for political services?
Is this how the 400 richest folks treat each other? And what about the poorest 65 percent of us who combined don't have as much money as this little band of narcissists--why do we let these X's take over our lives? If only half of us voted sensibly, the newspapers wouldn't be filled with the rantings of these greedy life-losers. Do they have no sense of dignity at all?
They brag about their gold-plated toilet seats, so how do they expect us to picture them in our minds? If we're wrinkling our noses, they must understand why, no?
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Bannon is nobody without his megaphone at Breitbart. He will have to invent a new way to broadcast his vitriol. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
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You don’t have to like the guy to realize that he was the man with the plan. Now the plan is gone leaving only a genius with a Twitter account
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Yea, why wouldn't he?
The real story is: "Who will pick him up?"
M m M. I I I. Very gah. Mmm mmm. M
Former naval officer Bannon forgot these WWII words of wisdom
“Loose lips sink ships”, now his political and media career has been relegated to Davey Jones’ locker.
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Oh joy, if this is the first positive sign that there may be a strong witness to testify that Trump committed treason and is sentenced to the highest punishment for the crime , i’m throwing a huge party !!! It will be awesome if they televise it and had a countdown and a live feed for the exact time of death. Is that bad to say? Sorry if you’re going to dream dream big
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The Mercers, Bannon, & Trump quite simply represent the worst elements in American culture. They are not conservatives. They are not populists. They are not sincere in any way. They are just crass, arrogant egomaniacs with nothing useful to contribute to any real dialogue. They are an insult to the very people they claim to speak for (whether their supporters realize that or not). The idea that Bannon ever had a job in the White House is just an obscenity.
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The past week has revealed the truth about Bannon, the self-proclaimed iconoclast: that he is as dependent on other people's money as anyone else in the swamp.
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Steve was a MAJOR factor in getting people excited about electing Donald Trump as POTUS. He's one of the only reasons I voted for Trump over a write-in in 2016. I'm looking forward to seeing the Titanic sink over the next ~3 years of campaigning as Trump realizes that showing Bannon grace rather than more-of-the-same childish name calling would've proven much more useful against whatever evil clown the Democrats push to the forefront in 2020.
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I never understood the right's enthrallment with Stave Bannon.
He's an obvious misfit, with serious mental issues, who blusters but rarely delivers. His blinders are on so tight, he can't see ahead, let alone to either side.
His demise was inevitable. He is as much of, or more of, a narcissist as Trump, but didn't have the real power to assert his wishes - strange as they were..
Bannon, like Trump, was always destined to appeal to a very small slice of Americans - a volatile and disloyal slice at that.
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My bets on Bannon although I am completely opposed to him.
So the would be scruffy kingmaker who always presented unshaven and in dirty clothes will now take his place on a park bench in the ranks of the homeless
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as a democrat, i am truly sorry to see bannon leave breitbart!!! he was doing such a good job for democrats and the nation with his divisive and destructive commentary. i hope he can find another organization for which he can spew out his wonderful prose!!!
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Bannon, the nihilist wanted to destroy everything around him.
In one of the most successful destruction events in political history, he has succeeded.
My hearty congratulations Steve.
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This is what an alcoholic bottom looks like: angry, bitter personality, lashing out, feeling victimized, making bad decisions, unable to control his emotions, which leads to serious consequences, and a cycle of anger, victimization, bad decisions. But the bottom doesn't necessarily mean he'll change. He may not have the humility or humanity. So before he expires an angry, bitter little man, let's hope that among the people he inevitably drags down with him are the Trump clan.
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Trump isn't an alcoholic, but he behaves in the same self-centered way. Reckon he's just a Trump-aholic. And we may have three years to go, though I doubt it as reality attacks him on many fronts, from the Mueller probe to sexual abuse scandals to chaos in the White House. Only those far-right Republican hypocrites are supporting him now.
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Bannon was able to clobber together a shaky alliance for an electoral victory (leaving aside the absurdity of the electoral college). Establishment Republicans hated him from the beginning and could barely contain their disgust at some of the voting blocks that helped eke out enough electoral votes. The continued message being pushed these days, that he played no key role whatsoever, seems to be wishful thinking and fairly desperate. The establishment part of Republicans seems to be gaining the upper hand (again) but their noticeable fear makes a lot of sense. And Bannon will likely not go quietly into the night. It's not what he came to do.
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And then Haystacks Calhoun was a BAD guy! Fighting against Bruno Samartino! A few fans of 1960's professional wrestling fans will know what that means. It's all just a spectacle. Hit each other with chairs in the ring. Fake blood. And then, when the crowd's gone home, go out for a beer. What's REALLY going on?
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Why can't people cut ties with Trump too? WHY?
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The fact that Bannon was fired from Breitbart News because Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of a hedge fund billionaire wanted him fired proves Breitbart isn't a real news outlet and is just the mouthpiece for the Mercers and their business interests (and makes me wonder what they want to hide).
Mercer, who made his money as co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, also funded Cambridge Analytics, which is under scrutiny in the Russia Investigation ("Beyond donating to political campaigns, Mr. Mercer became a large financial backer of Cambridge Analytica, a voter-data firm that worked closely with the presidential campaign of Mr. Trump. Lawmakers in Washington are scrutinizing Cambridge Analytica in connection with investigations into Russian meddling in the presidential election; the company has turned over documents to the House intelligence committee. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/business/robert-mercer-renaissance.html" )"
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Any bets on how long it will be before we hear that Bannon is writing a book . . . likely a "tell-all memoir"? The man's ego is bigger than the state of Texas, and he will want to stay in the public spotlight. .
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Bannon and Trump are birds of a feather -- claiming to be self-made, throwing mentors and proteges under the bus, denying facts that are patently, verifiably obvious, repeatedly changing their stories, and blaming/projecting all their worst traits on others.
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Hubris always leads to a fall. But that said Mercer cutting him off reveals where his true loyalty has always been hasn't it? Money, especially big money, talks so Bannon has to walk. Same as it ever is with the dynamics of Power.
John~
American Net'Zen
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The irony of him holding and displaying a copy of TIME magazine with him on a goer....just like a former boss of his....
See, it's simple.
Roy Moore didn't win.
Someone had to lose.
Bannon is simply Trump's newest road-meat,
losing terribly.
For now...
Well, there went his 15 minutes of fame.
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I suspect that Bannon was aware of this possible fall out and did it to further distance himself from Trump and all things Trump, because he knows that a charge of treason is on the horizon.
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"[Ms. Mercer] feared that some of the website’s cheerleading coverage of populist conservative campaigns — like the Senate race in Alabama — could be construed as corporate contributions to those candidates, which are barred under federal election law."
Assuming this is/was a legitimate fear for Breitbart, wouldn't the same fear apply to the NY Times itself, for example, their full-throated support for Hillary Clinton; as well as other media outlets such as CNN, who provided debate questions in advance to Hillary but not Bernie Sanders, etc.?
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Lest we forget, “Those who the gods destroy ~ They first make proud.”
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This administration reminds me of the Agatha Christie book "Then There Were None." Bannon who wanted to deconstruct our government is now being deconstructed himself. He is like the proverbial bad penny and will pop up somewhere else in a new configuration.
So who is next?
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It's almost amusing to see how almost everyone who worked to put Trump in office, from Christie to Priebus to Bannon, has been thrown under the bus the moment they became inconvenient.
Unfortunately, the rest of us are being thrown under the bus as well.
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Upon more reflection, though, I can’t help but wonder if there is an ulterior motive (or motives) behind all this. Steve’s work here is done. He got his guy in the White House and has sown enough turmoil and distrust to affect the next several election cycles.
I don’t look for him to “go gently into that good night.” He’ll find (or create) more mischief somewhere. Sheriff Joe’s campaign? Maybe. Arpaio would be another politician Steve could fit into his Trump mold.
We’ve not heard, nor seen, the last of Bannon. Unfortunately.
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No time for celebrations at Bannon's demise from Breitbart while the Mercer puppet-masters are still funding propaganda and hate speech. I hope Bannon focuses his not inconsiderable pugalistic talents towards them.
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Steve! Finally! Please see a dermatologist now that you have the time and aren't busy tearing it all down.
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Nice to see that Ms. Mercer puts a higher priority on protecting her tax exemption than on wrecking the nation. A real patriot.
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Our national free fall into a total chaos is not yet complete.
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Steve Bannon forgot where his bread was buttered. Without Trump's election, he'd have remained a minor player. Now he's on the road to being an after thought.
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I will miss SNL’s charming portrayal of him. Always good for a belly laugh.
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Bannon did exactly what Mercer wanted him to do. He got the tax bill through by scaring weak kneed republicans with the threat of primaries from the right or from the Trumpian universe. The entire populist agenda was a barefaced lie to the working class voters. Now that the tax bill is passed, Bannon can retire to his yacht and enjoy the fruits of his labor.
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Bannon's twenty minutes of fame is over and now he can take his cultivated Faux Street Looking Tough Guy act packing. The look he was and is cultivating is just about as authentic as his loyalty to Trump. For a guy so bright to not realize that his rich patrons would not pick Trump over him is very telling. Bannon tried to play Trump's Che Guevara and fell flat on his face. Bannon is now a revolutionary without a revolution. Maybe he will shave now and get a real day job.
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Talk about going out in style! Act 1 scene 1 with the Grim Reaper over, now it's Miller's turn to play the bad guy, the Grim Expressionless. Same plot, just different actors.
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Sadly, Bannon appears hellbent on imploding and destroying a message and interest (working class Americans) that needs to a be represented at the table as national trade and foreign policy are crafted. While he has been reviled by both the left and the establishment, he helped put the issue of economic nationalism on the table. Having watched for decades, as an economic development professional, as entire industries pulled up stakes and moved to Mexico or elsewhere I often wondered if anyone was concerned about the jobs lost. Like Ross Perot before him he does to appear to be capable of a sustained strategic effort.
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It was my impression that Steve Bannon enjoys a significant following.
What does it say about today’s politics when big-time investors and donors, rather than the populace, decide whether Steve Bannon should enjoy airtime.
“Say what we want you to say or you lose your job.”
Regardless of our political affiliation, I think we should be asking ourselves whether the current role of big money in the political media landscape is aligned with our vision of free speech and democracy.
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Until Americans decide they want to end the Electoral College and somehow see that the rich--and not any kind of patriotic duty--control the Republican Party, our nation will be controlled by the rich for the rich via a one party ruled nation.
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Steve is gone during the same week that the Trump administration abandoned all semblance of following through with it's promises to actually deal with the immigration problem.
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No way back?
Just watch.
This is the beginning of his presidential campaign.
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So, bottom line for all these principled right wing idealists is, actually, just the bottom line. Bannon threatened their profits so he had to go. It turns out money is their only principle.
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This is the USA. The bottom line is the bottom line. Nothing else matters. That's why we lag all other G7 countries across key areas that define quality of life. We've been bought and sold – and still vote against our own interests. Taken in hook line and sinker by the haters. Gullible? Absolutely – it's pathetic.
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Bannon was an outsider who became a bad insider. And his motivations finally doomed him. This is equivalent to being shunned in the Amish community.
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I harken back to a little over a year ago, when in an interview in these very pages Bannon offered: "You are defeated. You are humiliated," suggesting he could peer with expertise into the psyche of the journalists mind, and the Democrats.
We now use the term "projection" as often as the right declares "fake news."
I would suggest that given the circumstance we could say to Steve Bannon: "You are defeated. You are humiliated," and we'd probably be right.
I feel no better about myself or my political positions as a result, though, and perhaps that's one of the major differences between conservatives like him, and liberals (like me).
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Am I one of the only people to be horrified by how one rich woman can determine whether a major change is made in the political universe? In other countries there are strict limits upon the power of political "donors" to influence elections. Here in the US (thanks to Citizens United) there is no limit upon the power of mega donors to influence elections
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A lesson from 20th century Europe and Russia is that internal feuds are a typical, and probably necessary, aspect of populistic-demagogical and anti-democratic political movements. They feuds feed their basis with news and and parody diverting from from real issues - such as, currently in the USA, the judicial being changed for many decades to come, the social responsibility of society and state being reduced, and the USA withdrawing from the international scene. That is what's to be remembered, not the entertaining tweets, not the endless quarrels.
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This is turning out to be an epic worthy of Orson Welles: as Leading Actor and Director...
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I think the most instructive moment in "Fire and Fury" was during a meeting of Trump and his staff people when Trump told Hope Hicks, his 29 year old Communications Director, that she was "the best piece of tail Corey Lewandowski ever had." (A story that probably came from Bannon, who was appalled by Trump's crude behavior).
Imagine working anywhere and taking that kind of abuse & humiliation from your boss - in front of your colleagues.
Nothing about Trump's big televised meeting today on immigration could push that story out of my mind.
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The Democrats need to hire Bannon immediately - that's how you drive a wedge into the opposition. I realize this is not pedestrian thinking.
Bannon has insider information and a large following. If he brought over 10% of the Trumpsters, Trump's approval floor would crack. The Trumpsters are the key to Trump's strength the reason the Congressional Republicans are following Trump's lead.
The Trumpsters are where you first apply pressure.
The Republicans control everything so what's needed is disruptive change. We need to get in front of the them and make them react to our moves - you do that by thinking different.
Put Bannon on the payroll and task him with getting rid of McConnell and watch what happens.
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"Steps down?" Was kicked out sounds more like it. (A broadcasting trade paper used to say so-and-so "exits" whatever employer so-and-so worked for.) My, what a reversal of fortune for this master of the alt-right universe! Clearly, one does not attempt to take credit for Trump's successes unless one is Trump himself, a lesson that Bannon should have learned long before Mr. Wolff appeared at the door. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Now, will he redeem and/or avenge himself by talking to Mr. Mueller?
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One hopes that Bannon’s alt right supporters will stick by him after seeing his dismissal by the aristocracy. Fomenting more division within the right wing extremist community would go a long way towards making America great again.
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I would like to see a lot more reporting on the Mercers and other super-rich individuals who support Bannon, Breitbart, etc. Recent developments have shown that without the Mercers, there is no Bannon, no Breitbart, maybe no Trump. They are the real story.
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You'll find such reporting, of excellent quality, in The New Yorker. A few months ago, for instance, they offered a detailed, well-researched and documented report on the malignant cluster consisting of Bannon, the Mercers and Cambridge Analytica. There's also been a series of detailed reports on Trump's nefarious business activities in Russia, Kazakhstan and elsewhere, as well as on the Kochs, on Trump's supporters at Claremont, and other related issues. It all makes for very interesting reading, although it also gives rise (in me at least) to a sense of powerless rage. It might be a good idea for the New Yorker to publish the whole series in book form.
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Bannon is an interloper with minimal social skills and questionable motivations. He is now down and out due to his malfeasances with the Trump brood and other motley conservatives with only their self interest as a cornerstone for national ambitions. Conservative ambitions as a rule are intimately self serving to the detriment of less fortunate Americans.
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Expect to see pictures of Bannon and Trump altered to airbrush Bannon out, as the Soviets did to Stalin's henchmen who lost favor with the boss. Of course that's more difficult with the Internet, but I'm sure they will manage to expunge his memory and image with some success. What remains, of course, is "Fake News".
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Will Bannon's book follow Wolff's?
Bannon's comments in Wolff's book have done more than anything to give the book credibility. He has not denied them nor accused Wolff of writing falsehoods.
However, he probably kept the best stuff for his own book. This is not over.
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Re: "ostracized for now from conservative circles and the Republican Party"
Wait isn't Bannon being punished by the right for what they like to call "telling the truth"? Does this not amount to Bannon leaving for political correctness? Ot conservative correctness?
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Reality sinks in: without the Mercers, he's nothing. But I doubt he will see that his political judgment is flawed.
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Goodbye Mr. Bannon. Despite the press screaming that Bannon has been handed his hat, he, and many others, still see him as a "winner." In the corporate world winning is not about being there or even accomplishing a deed it's about the money. Bannon got the money, he is a "winner." We citizens got the losing end of the stick, to put it mildly. Now we have Oprah, the celebrity era of politics is now in full swing. Soon we will have presidential debates hosted and mediated by Dr. Oz, Gordon Ramsay, and One or more of the Kardashians. Winners get the money.
Bannon has been seen as a Svengali, or sometimes as an Iago. After this, however, I see him as a Malvolio character: "I'll be revenged upon the whole pack of you!"
His demise does nothing to diminish the influence of Trump who is still the heinous president that he is. Until he and his admin are gone we are in peril as a civilized nation and our environment is endangered,
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Now Steve Bannon knows how true the saying is: "Blood is thicker than water." Criticising Trump's polices was still tolerable, but bashing his children - as revealed in Wolff's "Fire and Fury" - proved Bannon's undoing.
It remains to be seen whether Bannon's removal from Breitbart would improve Trump's political fortune. Trump would never have won without Bannon's populist and economic nationalist views. In the summer of 2016, with his campaign lacking a leader, Trump made Bannon its chief executive. Using the Breitbart News, Bannon helped Trump reach out to white natioanlists, Christian evangelicals and disgruntled blue-collar workers, who blame migrants and globalisation for their grievances. These voters came to form the core of Trump’s base.
The problem for Trump is that those he was wooing have never added up to a near-majority of voters - they make well under 40% of the public. Only time can tell whether Trump's diehard supporters will still stand by him without Bannon pulling the strings. They won't go mainstream and Bannon will still have their ear. It is interesting to see what Bannon intends to do in the future and whether Bannon will take vengence on Trump and the GOP.
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Apparently for Mr. Bannon who threatened the Republican establishment, "Your day of reckoning is coming"-- the reckoning came for him. But what was the final straw for his backers? Apparently Bannon's Breitbart platform amplifying alt-right white nationalists and outright fake news and hate memes, his support of pedeophiles' Milos Yiannopoulous and Roy Moore, and his crudity-laced rants weren't enough to detract his wealthy benefactors. It took telling the truth about Mr. Trump as relayed by Mr. Wolff for these upstanding folks to pull their support: Robert and Rebekah Mercer, David and Charles Koch Vegas casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson, Chicago Cubs owner,Todd Ricketts, Home Depot founder, Bernard Marcus, and Texas real estate kingpin Doug Deason, and Arizona oil investor Dan K. Eberhart. The world they inhabit doesn't look healthy.
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What does it say about President Trump that he would have anything to do with Bannon -- ever -- in the first place?
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What does it say about Steve Bannon that he would have anything to do with Trump -- ever -- in the first place? I think it's pretty safe to say that they're equally despicable, racist and disruptive.
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This is a sad day for fascists everywhere.
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You are correct...they are sliding off the hills in CA
Bannon is kicked off “The Apprentice”.
The Fake Radical Intellectual is not a winner.
Next...
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Apparently, you were fooled well. Bannon is Millions richer and he served his "masters" well. Bannon and his masters both got what they were after. Mission accomplished. All YOU have is an "illusion" of winning or losing which is where your attention was directed in pulling off the "slight of hand".
I support Bannon. He makes a lot of sense in a world of disinformation and fact news from the liberal opposition, His stand for "traditionalism" is important. Upholding traditionalism is essentially to the survival of America as we know it, or as we once knew it. We must infuse the nation with traditionalism so that it will be the nation for which the patriots fought and died. President Trump is working toward that goal, and he is making much progress in reaching it it, but if he had Bannon, we would be there by now. The only traditionalism intellectual in the White House now is Stephen Miller. Miller will lead the intellectual movement forward; when he speaks, I can't believe what I am hearing because his ideas are so refreshing. I wish Bannon the best of luck in his next steps; he will be successful. Thank you.
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Whose tradition?
Coming originally from the North, my traditionalism is bound to be different than yours.
What binds us is the Constitution and our faith that we are a nation of laws not of personality cults.
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Traditionalism is a fleeting, loosing cause. If it were valid, we would still be walking around in Roman togas, drinking Mediterranean wine.l
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With total respect to your viewpoint, I might challenge it. Weren’t the idealistic men who gave birth to our country, “Patriots”, were very progressive in their thoughts? They abandoned the “traditionalist” of the time and resisted the British Monarchy. I’m not a history buff, so I acknowledge I don’t know it all. However, when I think of Thomas Jefferson, Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Franklin, etc., I think of people with very progressive ideas. Those ideas are now perhaps traditional, but at the time they were progressive. I respect that Bannon has such deep convictions and the liberal left, which I’m part of I guess, seem obliged to cast the worse possible light on him. I acknowledge that’s wrong, but it doesn’t make me agree with him.
Nothing personal and wish you the best.
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Bannon is a loathsome, nihilistic nutcase, a danger to humanity when in the White House and a raging supporter of anti-Semites, neo-Nazis and white supremacists when at Breitbart. But it seems his firing offense here was telling the truth about Trump and his family, something no one in any wing of the GOP - from the far right-wing Mercer family to mainstream lackeys like McConnell and Graham - can bear to hear.
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Well, in the Trump administration, telling the truth is by nature a firing offense. It logically could not be otherwise.
Bannon is not a journalist. He is simply a guy who used to work in the White House and was fired because he had no experience. Please stop covering him. He is a nobody.
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Paul,
Most of those in this administration have no experience and are nobodies, yet they have an impact on our future. He may be a currently unemployed racist but he still has a following. As the expression goes, sunshine is the best disinfectant.
On the other hand, it would be a fantasy to wake up to news absent of these snakes and their selfish maneuvers... maybe this lesson in why political experience counts will carry future elections.
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Bannon may not be a journalist, nor a brick layer nor anything other than a clever fellow who managed to help elect the nightmare that is now in the White House.
He will not go quietly. I am curious to see who he will take with him.
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I agree the media should stop giving Bannon attention and that he has zero experience and was not only unqualified, but unfit for the White House. However, if you are asserting that he was fired because he has no experience then why hasn’t Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and a host of other grifters been fired? And while we are at it, the least qualified of anyone currently squatting in the White House, at a significant cost to taxpayers is Con Don himself. Maybe he should draw up his own pink slip and marching papers.
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Who cares about Bannon? Good riddance. Can we talk about climate change?
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He is now the most recent, famous alcoholic to crash and burn. End of a "high functioning" alcoholism phase?
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I almost feel sad for him.
What is to come of the man who defenestrated himself?
Don't all rodents eat their own?
Let us all hope he gets every single thing he deserves.
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Oh, gee, boo hoo.
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Let me get this straight. The GOP will deny all bad qualities of anyone with an R next to their name, but when a fellow R is willing to call a spade a spade, that's where the line is drawn? They can't even handle honest criticism from within? It is unfortunate that this is what 63 million voters value.
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It's more than unfortunate. It's a tragedy.
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Yea, that's about right.
Drain (ing) the Swamp. Yea, buddy.
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Kicked out for telling the truth about Trump. Go figure.
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It is the republican M.O.
“Some men just want to watch the world burn.” Bannon is one of them, and he has no personal or professional relationship or resource he won’t use to fan the flames.
Also coming to mind: “someone didn’t love you enough when you were little, did they?” His insides are even uglier than his outside, and that’s saying something.
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Shades of the French Revolution! Robespierre goes to the guillotine
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John,
Not really, Robespierre was a champion of the underserved and an abolitionist, neither of which describe Bannon.
2
But,
The Terror only occurs, revolutionarily, after the revolution.
Was Bannon trying to skip a step?
Bannon the idiot still thinks US isolationism can keep US strong. But he apparently cannot add. Another $1.5 trillion in debt will only weaken the US.
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"The Mercers giveth and the Mercers taketh away”
Bannon has never been more than a proxy for these racist billionaires
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The Mercer's are anti-American destructive forces.
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So the Mercers pulled the plug, eh, Stevie?
This must be very tough for you. I think you might be happier in another country, what do you say?
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So now Trump thinks Bannon is crazy. What a joke!
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Yet Trump remains.
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Most likely not for long...
Only for now.
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Bannon's ego, and big mouth, was his undoing, as will Trump's.
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He returns to the alt-right shadows from where he should have never emerged. Good riddance.
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Wait - I thought that Wolff's book was a pack of lies. Or so sayeth the stable genius. Why are they attacking Bannon, if nothing in the book is to be believed?.....
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It is but a book.
We all know the end of that story. Of a Book, that is.
As usual, Trump and supporters think they can have it both ways.
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Good point.
Too bad Bannon didn't realize that cleaning out corruption stops when it comes to Trump's family.
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Is Bannon now applying for Unemployment Benefits, Food Stamps, and Medicaid??
Well deserved, Mr. Bannon.
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Was this written by Jared and Ivanka to ingratiate themselves with Rebekah? It will be good riddance to bad rubbish when the whole gang are swept into the dustbin of history.
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“I don’t believe that there’s any way back for Mr. Bannon at this point .” While I would have preferred that he remained influential so that he could fracture the Republican Party, I won’t miss him, that’s for ceertain.
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He can still fracture the Republicans, the Democrats hire him, then point and shoot.
Any bets Steve shows up in Arizona to help Joe Arpaio lose the senate seat?
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Right wing populists are completely financed by some 15% taxed Hedge Fund guys in order to pay less taxes, just to keep the trailer park at least mostly Republican. What's a believer to do?
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elmueador,
They're also funded by right wing "religious" zealots and corporate lobbies.
Bannon was a remindeto Trump of all of the campaign promises he has been breaking. For the tax deal Bannon wanted to raise taxes on the wealthy and cut them for the working people who needed it. George Borjas, Harvards leading labor economist, has shown that five hundred billion annually is transferred from working Americans to their employers and Wall Street as a result of the lower wages caused by immigration. Bannon wanted the working people to be able to keep that and have better lives for their families. The same as FDR and Eisenhower, two Presidents who helped to build up the middle class as opposed to the last corrupt ones who have done all they can to impoverish it by making sure their donors get what they are paying for. Wait until you get a load of Trump without someone to remind him of the working citizens in our country. Trump is out to rape the world for him and his cronies and there will not be a unifying voice to rein him in. The worst is yet to come from Trump and Ryan.
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John,
Your flattering description fails to note Bannon's definition of "working people" translates to "white people". Noticeably absent from his vision are legal citizens of all races and ethnicities.
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Trump and Ryan are obviously no friends of the working class (or even the middle class, but Bannon is no Bernie Sanders, either. His friends were the Mercers, and now he's left with the neo-fascists of the alt-right.
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Honestly...how can one possibly step down from Breitbart when they are already at the bottom. Alt-right "news" is little more than twisted fables for the dim-witted. That said... there will be another ding-bat to fill Bannon's shoes.
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!
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Wouldn't it be better to tax the Mercers of the world to the point where they can't fund the Breitbarts/Bannons of the world? Let's go back to the days when the top tax rate was 90%.
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@historyprof: Yes, yes, yes! Too much money in the hands of too few people results in those few wielding far too much power. The Mercers, Murdochs, and their ilk are few in number, but their use their billions like a club to beat everyone else into submission to their will. Down with all billionaires! Nobody needs to be a billionaire.
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Ivanka strikes again! Janet Reno would be proud.
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"Mr. Bannon’s departure, which was forced by a onetime financial patron, Rebekah Mercer. . . "
I hardly think Mr. Bannon "stepped down" from his Breitbart post. It's more like he was pushed or shown the cliff from which he will dangle for an unspecified period of time. This is what happens when one is so dang arrogant and smug and actually believes and thinks he is smarter than the boss or the boss' family members.
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This administration is appalling. It appears to be rotten at its core.
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Wasn't Bannon's one time goal to deconstruct the Administrative State? How far did he get with that goal? It is impossible to know, because staff leave the WH every day and disappear into the lobbying firms et al in D.C. Do we have an "administrative State"? We have an unqualified President with no interest in the office he holds; he prefers to spend his time at private golf courses. His Cabinet is replete with individuals who have connections to various industries with an agenda to get what they can from Trump and a worthless Congress. The current tax heist will lull the working class into thinking they will benefit; they will, until 2027. Then they will be hit with a bill for the huge deficit caused by a gift to the richest Americans. Jobs? Infrastructure? Education? Health care? Environmental protection? Worker's safety? Not so much.
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Mental health issues clearly. Sad (not that I was a fan)
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I give it 2 months. He'll be back in charge at the Nut House on Penn. Avenue.
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Trump, Bannon, Koch, Mercer. Adelson- these folks are about money. Russia is pure gold to this crowd- or is it oil?
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Some voters wanted a reality TV show and Trump delivered. Sex, back-stabbing, criminal activity, dirty money, brutality and a new twist with each daily episode. Most though wanted sound policy.
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The mercers are very very selfish, need more money, cut taxes to rich and cut support to working class. The constitution says "promote the general welfare" and there are a heck of a lot more working class than there are billionaires. just simple selfish rich people same as throughout the ages. Fulltime workers should always have health benefits and they do most everywhere but the US. Elected officials should not finance their campaigns off of unlimited contributions from rich people and companies, so there goes democracy. But rich tyrants often get their come-uppance, just sayin.
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As our deeply compassionate Republican politicians might say, "thoughts and prayers".
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Seems a shame, really. Steve always seemed like such a sweetheart.
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This is what happens when a worker bee turns on the queen of the hive.
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Particularly rich that he calls Breitbart a "world class news platform." I've not seen Breitbart as offering any fact based news, only lies and right wing spin. Quite a distorted take on what journalism really should be, from Bannon. With luck, we're rid of him at last.
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Too bad...
I will forever miss this ultimate "Odd Couple".
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The Fall of The House of Bannon is not a good thing. It is marker of how powerful the Trump Thing is. Teflon Don. This act is not nearly over.
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Yes, power and money make you Teflon. That's the attraction of power and money, you can say and do exactly what you want and get away with it.
If I hadn’t read about Bannon in the NYT, I might never have heard of him. Bannon and Trump are both legends in their own minds.
Nothing Teflon about Donny boy. Rather, his sticky, taffy, indulged fingers get everything dirty.
I'd like to know who's voice that is doing the voice-over for the Bannon video. He sounds like a twelve year old and he speaks in really short (like three word) phrases which lilt up with a question mark at end end. Over and over in every sentence. He also says "did-dent" instead of "didn't". I understand that all the media outlets are trying to attract young people but, honestly, anyone who feels like this guy sounds like a figure of authority is probably not ready for newspapers anyway. I miss the days of professional broadcasters -- with beautiful voices, excellent diction and large native vocabularies. Or at least someone who's voice doesn't make itself the center of attention. This sounds like some kid reading a tweet on a lunch bench.
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So now we know there are shadows from more powerful and sinister holding the strings.
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Who would ever consider, even so much as the possibility, that some very wealthy and notably well educated among us appear to need let alone want to play this sort of game?
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Steve Bannon is proof that if you alienate the president, you will suffer the consequences. No one will be able to criticize Mr. Trump and not feel the heat.
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It wouldn't surprise me if the GOP soon turn on Mr. Trump. They got the tax cuts their owners wanted, the Russia investigation is heating up with potential for lasting damage, incumbent GOPers are dropping out, Bannon is gone. Trump is becoming less of an asset and more of a liability for the 2018 elections, it may be the right time for a President Pence.
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"It may be the right time for a President Pence."
How about never? Is never good for you?
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The problem is truth. What it is,what it does and when is it lying. Propaganda has replaced truth as an excuse for knowing ,but remains not true. Why is lying
accepted when something is not true?
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I would not be surprised to see Bannon make a comeback, as long as he continues his apology tour and bows down to the president and his family. How many times have we seen the president excuse past indiscretions when he is the recipient of more recent servile flattery?
And I'm not so sure it's a good thing that Bannon is on the outs. His comeuppance seems to have galvanized the Republican party in a way that was not possible when Bannon was in full force. Now the party is more likely to succeed in promoting and electing more moderate candidates as opposed to the right-wing, likely losing candidates, supported by Bannon.
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Donald doesn't permit those who grovel, lick the floor and crawl to ever come back.
America's right wing doesn't exactly seem like the haven of free speech it says it is.
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Steve Bannon once said, "I want to bring everything crashing down." I'm looking forward to reading his book on the Trump presidency.
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Well it looks like the far right is eating its own, but not to worry we have a stable genius in the white house to look after us
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I'm no fan of Steve Bannon - conspiracy promoter and congenital liar. That said, Steve Bannon punched the GOP establishment in the mouth and the establishment fought back and won. He is ruined.
What is interesting is who Trump is hugging now - he has moved on. Bannon was his one night stand. Now Bannon is out on the street.
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince ... and may flights of sensible citizens render thee forever mute and invisible.
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Re: "....Ms. Mercer, whose family finances conservative causes with their hedge fund wealth, became concerned that she could face legal exposure. She feared that some of the website’s cheerleading coverage of populist conservative campaigns — like the Senate race in Alabama — could be construed as corporate contributions to those candidates, which are barred under federal election law."
Play close attention to this passage. Breitbart was never profitable. It's sole purpose was as a propaganda for the entrenched idle-rich (the Mercers, etc.) interests. This is not a new phenomenon. William F. Buckley's National Review, for example, was never profitable either. It was also merely a propaganda conduit financed by the idle rich--which, of course, is not to suggest that Buckley didn't draw a large salary from it. The National Review just happened to have been much more sophisticated than Breitbart. Anyone, there's no question that these ARE, in fact, de facto corporate contributions to political candidates, not just in violation of federal campaign laws but also in violation of every rational principle of democracy.
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Try as I do,
I fail to understand
what the Bannons and
Mercers mean
about populism
and nationalism.
What is their appeal
to the hard strapped
working class and
middle class when
it seems, at their core,
they are all about themselves...
cutting taxes for the very,
very rich and keeping
more for themselves.
Is the message obtuse or
am I missing something?
I listened so carefully to
Bannon's interview with
Charlie Rose. Is it racism,
xenophobia, fear of governmental
authority? Seriously, look at
faculties of hospitals and
universities...many "foreign"
names of people doing major
research. We want to cut
off their opportunities?
Businesses rely on the work
of immigrants for jobs that
are hard to fill. Where are they
going to find workers? I don't know...
nothing makes sense.
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These guys always end up crashing and burning. They are all just like those little inflatable ghosts and goblins on people's lawns at Halloween. Stick one pin in it, and the entire thing collapses.
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Everything and everyone near Trump eventually turns to dross or stone.
Bannon is yet the latest stone.
5
what is dross?
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So let me get this straight, when Mr. Bannon reveals that the emperor has no clothes, he gets shunned by right wing conservatives. What happened to the right's outrage when free speech is stifled? Who is the snowflake now? Seems like this can give it but not take it...
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The Mercers are enemies of American democracy. If they had a sense of decency they should feel remorse for the hate and racial resentment spewed by Breitbart and for empowering Bannon to fasten a demented con man on America as its president. The sharp decline of the American right into vicious greed and incoherent treasonous schemes is the result of manipulation by a few billionaires. White Trump and his allies attack a "deep state" as though he were Erdogan inveighing against generals and civil servants, the real coup has been carried out by the Koch brothers, the Mercers, and a few other mean-spirited and very rich political string-pullers. They won control of both houses of Congress and the presidency in 2016. Unfortunately for them, the president is psychologically and mentally challenged, not to speak of his multiple links to organized crime and shady Russian money. Their joy at the success of the tax heist approved by Congress will be short-lived as the economy falls into the next severe recession and few tools are available to fight it - least of all stimulus, with the deficits being piled up.
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I do believe WE THE PEOPLE are going to get rid of fake hate-anger-fear-LIES, LIES, LIES propaganda tools.
Good Job, Good People of America! This is a test of OUR democracy and we are passing with flying colors!!!
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Settle down. No we are not passing with flying colors! and we do NOT get a participation trophy so early in the process of attempting to save our Republic. IF we can prevail past gerrymandering and dirty tricks and apathy on Voting Day 2018, and at least stop the momentum of the Sacking Of America, then remove this interloper in the White House and elect a true statesman (not a celebrity!) with real experience, well, then maybe we can celebrate. Who knew Democracy was such hard work?
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Um you may be confused. Mr Bannon has destroyed himself by revealing his true thoughts indiscreetly. This removal comes after Ms Mercer withdrew his financial backing and I am sure she also got the board of Breitbart to remove him as well. She is a board member.
The people had nothing to do with it and he is still a very dangerous and crazy person so I caution everyone to pay attention and keep an eye out for him. He will find something nasty to get up to soon enough.
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"Donald Trump Steps Down From Accidental Posting at White House"
Counting the minutes until that headline!
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Icarus.
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Bannon-I think I can suggest on behalf of millions of patriotic Americans that you and your family consider giving up your U.S. citizenship and move to Russia with Putin and Ambassador Kislyak--they can use another schemer. After the investigation is finished, there could be a few more Republicans ready to join you.
We not telling you to move alone because we hate just you, take your admirer Stephen Miller, Sanders, Sessions, Flynn, Murdoch and Trump with you--oh yea, Roy Moore, too.
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And Me Mercer too.
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Like down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
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Apparently Steve Bannon never figured out that there is only room for one guy at the White House who believes he is a Legend In His Own Mind. Good riddance to him.
However, it pains me to think of Mitch McConnell enjoying the removal of "the thorn in his side" with a big smirk on his face, and Lindsey Graham changing his tune by saying that the media "should stop their endless attacks on Trump to label him as some kind of kook who is unfit for office," while just last year Graham himself called Trump "... a kook, crazy, and unfit for office." It seems that they feel very empowered by Bannon's removal from the scene.
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I guess the line "They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV," was also about Paul Manafort, right?
How did Michael Wolff get that so wrong?
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Can you just stop covering him? He is not news.
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What's next for Bannon? I see one of two things: 1. drink himself to oblivion (he has the look of an alcoholic) or 2. rises again to create more vile and lies to draw division within the country. Sadly, I hope number 1 occurs, although I really don't want to wish that on anyone.
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Lyndon Johnson drank himself to death in a state of depression over allowing JFK to be shot, and then allowing 50,000 of our young men to die for nothing in Vietnam. It was a good thing.
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There is absolutely no reason why he could not do both,,,,and most likely, will.
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I think you should be more concerned about wishing the second on anyone.
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Think he'll shave and wear one shirt when he's applying for jobs?
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It takes a pedophile to know one.
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Unlike Trump he did not lie...He is not calling the book Fake News. The book outed his comments and he did not deny their veracity. This to me proves without a doubt that it is Trump who is the purveyor of "fake news." That he lies as a normal course. Hope Mueller uncovers something he cannot lie out of.
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Truth be told, Bannon's ego just cost him for exposing the fact that: the Emperor Has No Clothes. Most normal people and the world already knew that reality.
Trump's base is scrambling to save their boy from himself. Republicans need Trump to push through their social agenda.
Each group is holding their breath with Trump – their mentally challenged president.
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Hubris thy name is Bannon.
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Aristocracy won.
Attack the courtiers, the privy councelors, the hangers on, the jesters, the plotters, planners and tax collectors and even the king himself, if you must. But touch not a hair on the heads of the royal heirs. Because the entire aristocracy, every last baron and duke of earl among them, depends for its very existence on a system of family relation. Attack the children of the aristocracy and you are attacking the future of the aristocracy itself.
Bannon, Mr. #strategygenius, apparently had no inkling that he was flacking for a newly resurgent American aristocracy. Don Jr. and Ivanka are blood kin, born to the purple. Bannon was never more than a jumped up stable boy.
Will Bannon come out of his Achillean funk long enough to deliver a wounding blow to his formerly beloved king, and in that way avenging his own tarnished honor, in this darkly Shakespearean tragicomedy that serves up a stew of ancient heros and villians? Et tu, Stevé?
Stay tuned.
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Pick your poison: aristocracy or alt-right Nazis.
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Where can slime possibly go after being squeezed out of both the White House and Breitbart.
Maybe Fox News. It will be a smooth transition.
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Fox tends to like telegenic. Bannon doesn't qualify.
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And yet the Mercers and others who, through their economic power, are in control of their right-wing mouthpieces will continue to berate the Left for a lack of tolerance for diverse opinions. How quaint! You don't have to like your opponents to tolerate them, and recognize they have a right to be there, and you can have people who agree with you whom you don't like. The president needs to learn this; Mr. Bannon needs to learn this; we all need to learn this.
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Bannon, who described himself at one time as the Thomas Cromwell of the Trump Administration has now been banned and executed. Unlike Cromwell, few will miss him,
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He'd have done well to remember what happened to Cromwell in the end. Although I wonder if he even knew?
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And so it begins. This year will bring much enjoyment in watching all the rats tear each other apart as they try to jump off the flaming Trump ship ahead of each other. Can't wait for the next round.
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He’ll now just write a book and option it for a movie deal
2
This leaves him more time for gardening -- just watch those gin blossoms bloom.
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Yiannopoulos, Moore, Bannon, the alt-right... All arrogant provocateurs who thought they could swim faster than the swirling water around them... all while failing to notice they were in a toilet.
It's not even fun to watch because the fact that these corrupt cartoons are now imploding and attacking each other is predictable to the point of being boring. No honor among arrogant would-be fascists.
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Brilliantly put. Thank you.
2
Poor Bannon! Have you had time to discover the self-proclaimed "Genius?"( Who has more than once also proclaimed that his Groping Hands helped him to sexually attack numerous women). Let's see what the "MeToo" movement of the Big stars could do any thing against The Stable Genius" and his "revolutionary movement" which has, among the otherthing, declared its love of about 750,000 DACA by sending them back to their parents'home lands.
4
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Let's edit that comment:
Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
2
Everything trump touches dies.
So strong is the death-field around the president* that even a toxic creature like Steve Bannon could not withstand it for very long.
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Even without Bannon Breitbart will continue to spew right wing conspiracy theories. Bannon is being punished for being indiscreet and not because his views are being rejected. While I'm not sad to see him go I recognize that we can't afford to become complacent. There are others out there who are just as vile and they still have the presidents ear and support from 1/3 of the American people.
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Worse, they have the Mercers' support.
Now that's a strange brood.......
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There is something about reaching for the brass ring, it can be grasped and with effort held onto, but it definitely takes attention to do so.
1
From presidential aspirations to no love from anyone. Well, he does deserve credit for telling the truth, and for his America First positions on trade. Nuff said.
2
Where in hades are you going to go now Steve now that you've been fired by Putin. All the groveling and knee bending won't help you now. How does it feel to be willing to commit treason for your overlords and then thrown away like a peice of trash? Enjoy Steve, you truly desserve it.
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I don't think Trump is going to forgive and forget. It's too little, too late. I'm just waiting for Trump to change his nickname from Sloppy Steve to Spineless Steve after his sudden 180 from "treasonous" to "patriot."
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Interesting how the usually unkempt Bannon seems to be trying to look more mainstream in his suit and clean shirt.
4
One down, several dozen others to go.
12
Bannon's first mistake was in thinking that DJT *ever* had an agenda besides winning. Good riddance. Today...with Bannon (and please...take Ann Coulter with you) out of the picture...is the day I become a Trump supporter!
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if steve and roy can find a country ok with pedophiles, a reboot could be soon.
1
It reads as an obituary. Well done NYT
2
F Scott was so great as an American author - but so lousy as an American prognosticator
To wit - and one more example, AG, of why I continue to subscribe
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/08/opinion/topics-of-the-times-second-act...
For all the feminists who think they've discovered how to leverage sexual harassment to further their Congressional careers (Kirsten/Kamala, lookin' in your directions...) - grok this:
"...Politics put Millicent Fenwick in the spotlight - but one doubts she'd ever have been lost in the crowd...Lacey Davenport, her simulacrum in ''Doonesbury,'' has never equaled Mrs. Fenwick's own response to an anti-E.R.A. legislator who said ''I always thought women were meant to be kissable, cuddly and sweet-smelling.'' She replied, ''That's what I thought of men, and I hope you haven't been disappointed as many times as I have...
..........
Steve, Harvey
(not to be confused with the very-successful in-more-TV-slots-than-Regis-ever-was Steve Harvey...)
...your "Second Act" - it's just jumping off the stage at me
A production company doing for sexual and political harassment what Glenn Simpson did for Russian supermodels - who "leaked" on Trump, in multiple senses of the word
Wein-Non [pronounced "whine on"] - Vol 2
Your firm would underwrite indie dossiers and screenplays that were once thought too repugnant to journalize or cinematize
Some would only ever see the light of day, if Feinstein blabbed them into the Congressional Record
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The Bannon Story won't be told until we know the reason why he said what he did. Either he spoke openly to Wolff because he tired of being the man behind the man. Or he knew something about the president that told him the guy didn't have long to last. Wouldn't we like to know.
Bannon was too smart to unintentionally speak out of turn, too calculating to think he wouldn't be quoted, too knowledgeable about the boss's temperament to think his itchiness would be tolerated.
Bannon had calculated for a long time. Well before the Trump campaign, the Breitbart chief formulated the ideas. He found the backers in the monied Mercers. Finally, he found the perfect fool with the perfect tools -- the Trumpian set of lungs, elephantine ego, vacant head for filling and the willingness to do the most outlandish things to get noticed. You just had to step lively or Trump would swallow you in his tantrums.
So where did Bannon go wrong -- did his power go to his noggin or or his revolutionary fervor outweigh his patience?
One thing we do know: Bannon deserves his comeuppance. He was always threatening to wield his power like a club. I'm sure the GOP leaders have finally pinpointed Trump's true usefulness. As much as they must have chuckled over Wolff's book, I'll bet they are delighting equally in Bannon's b banishment.
So will the tactician somehow regain his power? Will he find another vessel?
Will he himself run? Stay tuned for the book....
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Watch him run for President.
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In an ocean of compelling and largely correct consensus about the delicious and Schadenfrauden-esque nature of this latest instalment of the soapy drama otherwise known as the Executive Branch of the US Government, your prescient perspective is especially one to savour!
You give the toad far to much credit.
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Bannon banned himself. A wanderer between loyalty and rebellion, between paying lip service (to Trump whom he wanted to use for his destructive designs) and his desire to be the American Mephisto (the force that always wants evil). He was more destructive in the WH and will now have less platforms to continue his creating havoc.
One last thing: Bannon spoke truths abt the bad, bad DT, his treasonous son & some other bad stuff (WH, Jarvanka etc.)
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Just proves the mighty can fall.
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He wanted to be important, so he blabbed to a reporter--love it! And he ran a "news" service. Doesn't know much about the way real journalism works, I guess. Now he's not important. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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My new year's wish for you Steve- to be alone, destitute, and unheard. Believe me you've earned it.
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I liken this to a rectum expelling excrement.
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Bummer, Steve. Have you checked out the cost of health insurance on the exchanges yet? It's steep. Best of luck!
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Don't know why this genius thought picking fights with the Trump's kids was the way to go.
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"Once, off the hump of Brazil I saw the ocean so darkened with blood it was black and the sun fainting away over the lip of the sky.We'd put in at Fortaleza, and a few of us had lines out for a bit of idle fishing. It was me had the first strike. A shark it was. Then there was another, and another shark again, 'till all about, the sea was made of sharks and more sharks still, and no water at all. My shark had torn himself from the hook, and the scent, or maybe the stain it was, and him bleeding his life away drove the rest of them mad. Then the beasts took to eating each other. In their frenzy, they ate at themselves.You could feel the lust of murder like a wind stinging your eyes, and you could smell the death, reeking up out of the sea. I never saw anything worse... until this little picnic tonight. And you know, there wasn't one of them sharks in the whole crazy pack that survived." Orson Welles said it all. I hope the next shark to go is Miller (he even looks like a shark).
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Not sure a more appropriate passage from literature could have been chose not. Well done!
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Irony in the fact that Trump claims the book to be all lies - yet believes the Bannon quotes it contains?
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His influence was always exaggerated by the beltway media. The loss of one financial supporter sinks him? Doesn't matter how large that person's contribution was. The so called genius relies on one person?
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This is wonderful news. The scorpions are beginning to turn on and eat each other. Bannon is simply not able to keep his mouth closed when he gets the urge to hold forth, so I remain hopeful that more inconvenient truths will slip out soon.
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I'm looking already forward to Bannon's book...."My Days & Nights in the Trump White House". You can bet a book deal is in the works...to be published in late-Spring 2018 (just in time for the heating up of the mid-term elections)!
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What will Trump think (apart from what he says)?
Bannon now has time to run Joe Arpaio's run for the Senate in AZ.
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Bannon is probably on his way to Arizona to help out Sheriff Apaio in his bid for the Senate. They are made for each other.
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Trump seems to never lose at anything, how in the world is this possible?
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Bizarro world here.
Trump, rabble rousing, bigot, pathological liar, admitted sexual predator, ego maniac demagogue without a moral compass is now our president.
Bannon, an alt. right, closet bigot, troubled man, although believes in fair trade practices and reining in Wall Street is out of a job.
Almost seems unfair.
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Now that he is out of the news - please keep him out of the news. We don't have to hear anything else about Mr. Bannon. No one cares about this private citizen, bigot any more.
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Name recognition is the essence of the website. With that SteveBannon dot com can start running as long as he has his follower's list, connecting his twitter account to Facebook and hire an inexpensive hosting company for the site, he is ready to go.
Bannon has become a laughing stock. The Mercer family jettisoned him to stop the bleeding at Breitbart. The question remains, how will they deal with Trumps' own downward spiral toward "global laughing stock."
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Poor Stevey. Poor Trumpy.
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Is it time to remember Ernst Röhm and the night of long knives?
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Steve Bannon can redeem himself, possibly, by telling all.
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You know what they say — live as a Republican, die by the sword. Or something like that.
These guys are like the Old Sith Empire from the Star Wars "Old Republic" games - nothing but a bunch of backstabbing, conniving nasty types, always scheming against one another. I guess that's how Trump supporters thought he would MAGA: by turning America into a high-school clique.
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This could not have happened to a nicer guy! Good riddance to bad baggage.
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Pennsylvania is not a "midwestern state", Mr. Peters.
It's a big state, Lil. Some folks in Western Pa. feel 'midwestern' whereas folks in Philly definitely don't.
Telling the truth is waaaaaay overrated. It'll get you demoted, fired or ostracized every time.
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Bannon's cratering is a harbinger of things to come. His credibility after the Roy Moore defeat is only slightly greater than the man who supported Moore's incumbent primary opponent - Mr. Trump. Recent special elections have all gone the Democrats' way, even in Alabama. Now, with Wolff's book, Ms. Mercer has pulled the rug out from under the bomb-tosser-in-chief. And Joe Arpaio is running for Flake's open Senate seat. (Good luck with that one!) I think it's time to pop some corn, open a craft beer, and enjoy the denouement.
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There is nothing good about a rightwing fanatic who is 85 years old running for a seat in the US government.
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The article sounds like a (mediocre) obituary of Mr. Bannon.
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Bluff, bully, boast.....bluff, bully, boast.....bluff bully boast......and he looked oh so strong and invincible........until it all blew up and all that's left is a pile of nothingness. And that's when we realize, it was nothingness the whole time. Hopefully his erstwhile boss has the same outcome...........
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It was not nothingness...it was true, and that is why he has lost everything. Trump on the other hand lies through his teeth as a matter of course and AJ cannot see that "what he says is the nothingness." For once in fact Bannon said the truth, and he has paid. When is it Trump's turn?
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So Mr Bannon speaks his mind with a reporter and the WH and conservatives dont like it. Aren’t these the same guys pushing free speech in campus based on their vocal conservative views. And aren’t they driving the belief of a strong tough nationalistic agenda? Yet here is one of their own, speaking his mind, and he is getting shut down. And he does not even have the guts to stand up for what he said.
I have never seen a weaker, morally bankrupt group of lying partisans than the current alt-right. Stand up for what you believe in Mr Bannon. Be a man. And stand up to the hypocracy that is your cause and own what you say. Maybe hen Americans will finally respect you.
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This confirms the veracity of most everything in the Wolff book.
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What kind of crazy country are we living in where a guy who lies almost every day gets fired for...TELLING THE TRUTH!
He was absolutely right the Don, Jr. was engaging and conspiring with our enemy and giving them aid and comfort, the Constitutional definition of treason. So was Manafort, and everyone who knew of and didn't act to prevent that meeting. And, of course, Trump himself engaged in obstruction by personally crafting that nonsense story about it being about adoptions, when it was obvious:
Russia would give the Trumps lots of dirt on Clinton in exchange for repealing the Magnitsky Act--a Quid Pro Quo, also the definition of bribery.
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It appears Bannon now has nothing to lose by coming clean. Perhaps Mueller has a subpoena ready.
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"Doesn't play well with others."
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George Orwell, Animal Farm
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Good one, Sheldon!
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See what happens when a conservative tells the truth for once in his life.
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Bannon, the self-style revolutionary genius, turns out to be just another employee (of the Mercers) after all.
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How ironic the self proclaimed champion of the angry and frustrated grass rooters finds himself on the outs because his billionaire backers, the Mercers, cut off his funding. Maybe Steve and his best buddy, Roy Moore, can spend their free times roaming the malls of Alabama.
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How about some more info on Rebekah Mercer? She is called "the first lady of the alt-right" and bankrolled a lot of sleazy stuff for Bannon and his Roy Moore campaign. I read that the super secretive Mercers had some kind of organization to educate citizens to force transparency on government. How about some light shining under the rock these folks are living under??
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(From The Atlantic:) Apparently Rebekah Mercer co-owns a cookie store in NYC, is married to a French guy who is a Morgan Stanley executive, and has four kids.
The organization that you might be referring to (Rebekah Mercer is Chairman, Director, and Treasurer of) is called Reclaim New York. Steve Bannon was also involved with this. They have the nerve to run a 501c3 non-profit watchdog group that they actually call "non-partisan", which they claim "empowers New Yorkers through education and civic engagement to reclaim ownership of their local government." They offer "civic training to report corruption." They would love for the average guy to donate $$$ "to the cause." Their press releases are quite biased, particularly against the Governor (who is a Democrat). These people are a total joke --- I would love if the NYT did an in-depth story on how they are able to get away with doing this.
Here's some more info. for anyone interested:
https://theberkshireedge.com/reclaim-new-york-mercer-funded-bannon-guide...
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NYReader: Thanks
Along with Donald Trump, Mr. Bannon is the major character in Michael Wolff’s remarkable “Fire and Fury.” As I finished the book, I was reminded of the line in Eliot’s”The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker and in short, I was afraid.”
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Well, Steve Bannon, don't get too down about your rapid fall from grace, Joe Arpaio now needs a good campaign manager for his Senate run. You two should hook up!
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Sure everyone likes to see this guy under the bus.....but something tells me we're gonna need him.....
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Hmm... maybe to help the bus get traction in heavy snowfall?
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Bannon of all people should had known better than to bite the hand that fed him. One's worth in D.C. is measured by one's proximity to the Oval Office. Now that his access to the president is cut off, he is no longer needed by the shadowy billionaires to shape and influence policy among the hard Right base. Even a puppet like Trump doesn't want to be made self aware that his strings are pulled by others and thought a fool.
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steve bannon got used by the mercer's who now have their billionaire tax cut. the timing is telling.
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Something smells wrong here; so, I'm withholding judgment. Let's see Bannon's severance settlement. Let's see Bannon's book on the Trump campaign and administration. And let's see the next chapter in the Bannon Saga. If Bannon were an honest threat, why would Trump and Mercer provoke him? Who's got the most dirt on whom?
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Bannon's quest for inciting revolution and "civil war" has been foiled by the depletion of his war chest by his wealthy donors.
Don't get me wrong, I loathe and despise Bannon, but there is something very wrong with the speed and vehemence that his downfall has come about.
It has Soviet-style purge written all over it. Our dictator-in-training has sent the message loud and clear. No wonder the entire republican party is cowering and kissing trump's ring.
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Breitbart only covers political news with an eye to fomenting controversy. Never anything positive to say about anybody but Trump. Kind of weird. If a person paid only attention to them they would be the among the least informed people on the planet. Bannon is a political fool.
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that's not what will happen, his 'wilderness' is a regular polical park
The only surprise here is that it happened today, instead of yesterday.
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Bannon took himself too seriously. The Mercers and Breitbart probably agree with everything he ever said but it's Trump in the White House and that is their only avenue to upend the country for the benefit of billionaires.
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What information does Bannon have on Trump and the Mercer’s and when did he know it? Sometimes cleaning out the garbage can cause stuff to fly back.
Doubtful that it was Steve Bannon who was the "human source" that informed the FBI about Trump's connection to Russia, but it's interesting that he called Jr's meeting "treasonous."
The questions are:
1. Who is the"human source" (AKA patriot) in Trump's circle that contacted FBI about their involvement with Russia?
2. Is that person still in the 'circle'?
3. Is that person helping Mueller now?
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Can we all please stop calling these people conservatives?
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So many are celebrating Bannon's fall, and it deserves such a reception. However:
It might have been to our country's benefit if Bannon had remained in a position of influence at Breitbart, and continued to toast Trump. We all knew that Trump doesn't read, doesn't listen, and has a vocabulary that wouldn't get him a passing grade in middle school English. But to have a former confidant confirm that . . . priceless.
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Saruman's wizard staff is broken and he is cast out. Yet in Tolkien's world, these evil ones still retain their cunning and and are consumed by revenge fantasies. They are capable of doing great damage. Bannon is not totally defanged. The Shire beware!
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I never thought I'd ever feel sorry for Steve Bannon!
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Okay, maybe we don't need to hear any more about this particular individual?
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The Mercers had two pet projects: Bannon and Trump. When the pets couldn't get along, one of them had to go. That was Bannon, since President Trump is more important.
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This is music to my ears. How Bannon got into the White House is as mind boggling as how the pResident got elected. How the American public could be so duped is beyond me.
So happy that Bannon and the alt-right paranoid types are falling like flies.
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Excuse me for being cynical, but is this a "look what happens if you talk out of turn" set-up?
See how much good just a little bit of honesty can achieve?
Good job Steve!
You really helped We The People with your candor.
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As it was in the beginning, so it is now: It's all about the money, and will continue to be. Thanks again to Justice Scalia and his oddball ideas even my dog now sees that the republican party is being pimped by the big money folks. Thus and therefore, anyone with net assets of less than a billion is a rube if he/she votes for any republican candidate.
I guess their "righteous indignation" has gone the way of their worries about the deficit. How many of us remember "the deficit, the deficit, the deficit mantra" of Paul Ryan and the Mitch? So last administration, I guess. Sad
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"And he helped instill the discipline and focus that allowed Mr. Trump to narrowly prevail in the three Midwestern states that gave him victory in the Electoral College."
Wisconsin, Michigan, and...? Can't be Ohio because, IIRC, Trump's margin of victory was comfortable there. I'm guessing Mr. Peters is referring to Pennsylvania, but Pennsylvania is an East Coast state. The East Coast doesn't get to wash its hands of it when it doesn't vote the way it's supposed to.
Watching Trump and his picks turn on each other is like a cheap reality TV show. Trump has no true friends. Seems he has surrounded himself with yes men whom he bullies until they break. You can judge a man by the company he keeps but with Trump he doesn’t seem to keep anyone around for long. No loyalty outside of his family and even they seem to keep their distance.
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What’s remarkable is Bannon’s astonishingly quick and complete defrocking plainly reveals the puppet nature of even prominent Republican national political figures. They can seem so powerful and influential, swaying the votes and forming the opinions of 100 million Americans - yet it is a single wealthy billionaire person, with only one vote herself, who dictates the puppet’s behavior. Before Bannon’s firing, one might think that it was his ideas and persuasive arguments that made him the political leader he was. Now, it’s all exposed: do the bidding of the Mercers, and take their direction, or be dethroned. This is stark evidence of the existence of the American Oligarchy our former democracy has become.
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Maybe we've seen the political end of Steve Brannon; we can only hope.
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At the height of his career, Mr Bannon was noticeably disheveled. Now that he has lost his job and has been humiliated by Mr Trump and abandoned by his patrons, we should all expect Mr Bannon to look like a homeless man, which he has become.
More seriously, if the book Fire and Fury was "fake" as Mr Trump and the WH are suggesting, why would they go after Bannon? If anything, this proves that the book portrayal of the Trump White House is mostly truthful.
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Don't underestimate the right-wing billionaires backing Bannon as well as Trump. They pretend to reject him now, but if he proves useful, he could be running for President soon enough.
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Gee, guess Bannon will have to use his own money to fund his quests for whatever.
Since neither he nor Trump has beliefs that are heart felt, what difference would it make whether he lands somewhere else, goes into another business for himself or decides to throw over leadership of a small country and then install himself.
It's all about headlines, self aggrandizement and self importance.
My guess is the mea culpas will begin in earnest and he will be taken back into the populist con machine soon enough. I'm not convinced he needs Trump more than Trump needs him but it's easy to see who is betting on the Trump horse race since he's the one who signs things.
The donors will always follow the guy who can enact their agenda. That's why he's there.
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Sloppy Steve loses another couple gigs. He is probably on the phone with commander chaotic right now. Billionaire populism will prevail. Dizzy with winning.
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Trust vs. Ideology. Trust (family members) wins!
Ideology vs. Self preservation. It is a no brainer!
No surprises here!!
Let's forget about Bannon for a moment and focus on Donald J. Trump.
Where are those eyewitnesses Sarah H. Sanders said he'd produce who would vouch that Trump never met the dozen of so women who claim that they were abused by him?
Where is that great Trumpcare which would cover more people and be better than Obamacare?
When Is Mexico going to pay for the wall?
When Is Trump going to make his tax returns public?
So far, Trump has been a failure.
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The teflon president continues to amaze. At one point, wasn't Trump afraid of igniting a war with Bannon & Breitbart? Probably the best outcome Trump could have imagined, assuming he thinks that abstractly.
Eventually the house of cards has to fall, right?
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Guess Bannon's button just wasn't as big as the stable genius's.
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What goes around comes around. Always. Can not wait for Trump’s comeuppance.
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From fire-eater to adorable little lap dog. How cute.
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You guys laugh, but I'm worried Steve is going to start drinking, smoking, overeating, and not taking care of himself. Oh ... wait ...
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Steve's always taken terrific care of himself, Jim.
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Bannon's mistake was to tell the truth for once. That he is not welcome at Breitbart should tell you all you need to know about it as a legitimate source of information
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Yes, but it also indicates that Bannon might have some integrity. I am guessing that he saw Breitbart as a strategic weapon to aim at ossified power, and not a purveyor of truth. Strategic lies weaponize media which is how the alt-media is used.
Few with brains or actual Christian views will miss him.
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I looked at the comments on this news on Breitbart. The most popular comments use an awful lot of ALL CAPS, making me certain that these Trump-Bannon followers are the most annoying people in the world.
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One correction...Moore preyed on girls as young as 14 (not women as young as 14).
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A Jewish folk story speaks of a person who transgressed and as punishment was told either to eat a spoiled fish, or get flogged or get kicked out of town. He chooses the first (have the Mercers pull back their funding) and then half way through says that he actually prefers the second choice (writing this humiliating apology to Trump and the JR ) and when he cannot bear the flogging he begs for the third punishment (getting kicked out of Breibart). Bannon ended eating the stinking fish, get publicly flogged and kicked out of town.
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You're a scruffy, sleazy alt-right wacko, Steve, but thanks for opening up a gaping wound on the Trump Thing that's shredding the institutions and ethos of this country. The wound was inadvertent and not mortal, looks like the Thing will stagger on, but it is staggering. Looks like your wounds are much worse; can't say I'm sorry, but thanks again.
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Donald says he's not sure who that Bannon guy is. Certainly, if he bumped into him on the street he wouldn't recognize him. Donald says the stories about Bannon working in his campaign and the White House are lies, besides, he was just a low-level covfve boy.
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Mr. Bannon need not worry. With his credentials the Devil surely has his number.
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Amusing.
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More unprincipled expediency from the right wing brain trust.
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Fox, RT or KKK? Where next?
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Time for Bannon to brush up on his Trotsky and the trash heap of history.
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Trashing the Trump kids in interviews was dumb but it was when Bannon left Trump no alternative but to support Moore or lose credibility with his alt right base that the die was cast. The same high stakes gambling that initially got Steve into the game came up craps. Bye bye! as McLaughlin used to say.
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Could not happen to a nicer guy, for a fact. Now all he has to do is follow Andrew into Hell.
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Andrew? Andrew who?
Andrew Breitbart...
I had been comparing trump and bannon to Hitler and his propaganda minister Goebbels. Who in the Reich's House will replace him?
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Miller.
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There are still Kellyanne "The Way of the Con" Conway and Stephen "Failed Cloning of Dracula" Miller.
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Steve Bannon is as coreless as Donald Trump, hot air wrapped in a puffy bun.
Words mean nothing, they are simply various partisan blabberings to get what you want from whoever got hooked that day.
"Donald Trump Jr. is a traitor", 5 minutes later he is a "great patriot", interchangeably. "Whatever" seems to be their motto. The suckers in their minds are the people who believe in words or who believe that these two mean anything by what they say.
Whatever circle of Hell Bannon is off to, Donald Trump will join him there some day.
Why wouldn't Bannon just write his own best-selling book tomorrow? What could he possible have to lose?
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Follow the money. Mr. Bannon ran afoul of a major donor. He lost. Just as the tax bill was passed after donor threats to stop sending money. They expect to be reimbursed for their donations. Deductions for charitable donations was removed but lower taxes for major political donors was mandatory.
Republicans know their place.
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So much for era of saying what they really think out loud. So-called authenticity from the bunch was always going to be short-lived. Now if only he'd keep it to himself as well.
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It was ok when Breitbart was a renegade website steeped in populist angles appealing basically to the far-right, but he strayed too far from conservative sensibilities when he engaged in lose-lose situations like the full-out support of Roy Moore and conflicts with the Trump family. History will confine him to the growing list of losers that the White house is shedding more rapidly nowadays.
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This isn't about Roy Moore. This is about telling the truth. That is his sin. That's what he's being punished for.
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Just remember, there are many second and third acts in American politics.
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But, there are a lot of first acts that die fiery deaths like this and never resume after the intermission.
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A not altogether unpredictable lesson on disloyalty to the pretender, whose enablers and protectors want to set an example for anyone one else entertaining fantasies of jumping ship.
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I am becoming less confident that things will turn out okay.
(1) Trump finally got a media head fired. Something tells me that this is just the beginning.
(2) The FBI is giving up its emails to rabid Trump supporters in Congress.
(3) There are rumors that Trump is negotiating to be interviewed by Mueller, which wouldn't happen unless the investigation was getting ready to wrap up.
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Would they not want to interview him if he is becoming the major focus of the investigation?
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Trump said Bannon had nothing to do with his presidency, yet he was installed as a civilian amid a cadre of generals on the National Security Council, a unique event causing much controversy at the time. That was a short lived presence, and, while not yet a year past, it seems like ancient history in this disaster of an administration. The defrocking of the man as Trump's Svengali intimates at a higher danger: the administration is finding its feet, functioning without Trump as its overseer and without Bannon's toxic presence. The country is being led by a cabal of ideologues that use Trump as a smokescreen and are competent enough not to need Bannon's sloppy spectre to provide a doctrine. Watch now as gauche reality TV converts into mainstream politics. We shouldn't worry about how it ends though; apparently Oprah is on her way....
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Bring her on.. That shows how far the Democrats are from putting up a reliable candidate. Oops, on second thought, bring back Hillary. Hilarious.
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Or... "Listen to me Don Don! Stevie's got your back once again, with respect to the minions. I'll step up, then retract, then repent. You slap me down so hard sir... they will not question your strength!"
The Donald may be the most stable genius ever to occupy the White House, but his memory is a bit....selective. Especially about remembering people he owes something to.
Soon to be "living in a van down by the river".
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reply to Dr. Spock, CT
"living in a van down by the river..."
Hardly likely, based on what I've read in MM about his former endeavors (hedge fund, Goldman Sachs, Hollywood etc). If he does end up in a van, I for one would have little sympathy.
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Classic!
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He is a millionaire in his own right. Apparently he owns the SEINFELD residuals from his failed career as a Hollywood screenwriter. Also he will just start another website...BANNONOSKI.
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Of course we already knew this, but some populist insurgency. At Breitbart, as soon as you run afoul of one sinister and reclusive billionaire, you're done.
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"has lost support among conservative backers"
Aren't these actually people from the extreme right that are being labeled "conservative?" Has that word been redefined already?
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"[Bannon]...helped instill the discipline and focus that allowed Mr. Trump to narrowly prevail in the three Midwestern states that gave him victory in the Electoral College." Funny, I thought the unlikely electoral victory was orchestrated by Putin et al.
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No. Putin et al. waged a campaign of disinformation and propaganda to sway feeble minded voters, possibly in collaboration with the Trump campaign. They did NOT manipulate the electoral college, unless you consider systematic voter suppression orchestration.
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The flagellation and total humiliation of Bannon is merely the necessary precursor to his resurrection. An abject confession of heresy will be required but, once he surrenders to its necessity, it will trip lightly off his lips. Spectacles come easy to Bannon.
You see, neither Trump nor Bannon have any other choice. Bannon has no power without Trump; Trump has no ideas without Bannon. This deeper symbiosis will triumph over insubstantial appearances of incompatibility.
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I think you are right on this. In a few months he will start edging back in just like the other arch conservative did. Published a lot of book damning everyone only to get beaten down, and now he is "reborn" and making a slow comeback. Besides, everyone knows he was right--treasonous behaviour by Jr. and trump IS a moron among other things.
Charley Rose is gone and nobody CAN replace him--someone will take his chair, but only CR can be CR. Same with Bannon. His voice was unique among that crowd and they will soon miss it.
Oh yes, Trump does have a choice: the even more vile Bannon acolyte, Steven Miller. Miller has now officially thrown his former master, Bannon, under the bus, and will continue to underwrite all of Trump's speeches and policies while Trump watches TV.
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I despise Trump and almost all of those around him because they have collectively degraded American politics far further than previously. That said, Trump had plenty of crackpot ideas before Bannon. Making a claim like yours is what much of the left has done: Embrace a view of Trump that is both unnecessary and likely wrong. To succeed, you have to really understand your enemy: We need more fact-based comments about Trump and fewer Wolff-like claims (Trump is a babbling insane wombat) that are easily dispelled by just watching Trump speak in public, for instance. ...just saying.
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Don't see that getting rid of any of these characters has made anything better because they are not the problem - Trump isn't even the problem. The problem is our fellow citizens that keep electing clowns.
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An equally daunting contribution to the problem: the huge percentage of registered voters who don't bother to vote.
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Don’t forget the real problem, which is the group of cowards and greedy members of Congress. They get to do their dirty business while we focus on the Stable Genius.
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The problem is a populace that believes U.S. elections are secure and their votes count. Damning reports issued by experts at Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Rice and Stanford, the Brennan Center, and the GAO describe appalling security flaws from the potential for system-wide vote-rigging viruses to the use of cheap, easily replicated keys—the same kind used on jukeboxes and hotel minibars—to open (voting) machines. "The DOE’s Argonne National Lab hacked into a Diebold touchscreen system [and a Sequoia machine]. Their report asserted that anyone with $26 in parts and an eighth-grade science education would be able to manipulate the outcome of an election." InfoWorld reported, “Every independently audited voting computer has been shown to contain numerous, basic, easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities." The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology puts it succinctly: “Voter machines, technically, are so riddled with vulnerabilities that even an upstart script kiddie could wreak havoc." A national security crisis still unaddressed by the Republican leadership even after Russian hackers proved they could breach systems used in 21 states and the vote tabulation software.
https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election
http://fortune.com/2017/07/31/defcon-hackers-us-voting-machines
"Can U.S. Elections Really Be Stolen? Yes."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NxXKr2hKCz0
And another one bites the dust! How long will it take for these 'smart' people to realize hanging out with Trump is very, very risky business.
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Bannon isn't dumb and neither are the Breitbart backers...Bannon isn't going away, he will continue to attack any reasonable Republican and will create his own fake news explanations for the toxic quotes regarding Trump & his family.
Bannon has financial assets to continue to do lots of harm in the future...some of it will be behind the scenes...he is a pretty good puppet master...look how he manipulated ignorant voters in those 3 midwestern states, including Wisconsin.
I fear Bannon will continue his insidious work...he can get other conservative mouthpieces to do some of his dirty work. Bannon got too big for his britches, but he ain't going away...kind of like Voldemort.
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He's got at best $20million, which will just cover the bar bill.
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I am curious. Who will take over Breitbart? Will the Mercers keep throwing money at a website whose readership is slacking off and who at last count only had 26 advertisers? What built them up was outrageous employees like Milo and Bannon who brought publicity. Good articles do not get as much attention in this country as do outrageous ones.
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Who hears about Howard Stern now that he is a pussycat?
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“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
― H.L. Mencken
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A wounded animal is a dangerous animal. Sloppy Steve will be back, bigger and badder than ever. Just a matter of time.
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Bannon will turn on the Mercers, illuminate the instrument for interference in both Brexit and 2016 elections. Cambridge Analytica run by Bannon and financed by the Mercers.
Bannon's quick exit from relevance is a tell on whether or not the alt-right was a mirage, or just a Putin lead active measures campaign. In which case, I suppose those right-wing nuts that we thought existed are just virtual tigers.
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The only positive thing about the extreme-right in politics is that is far less disciplined than the mere right. The emotional warping that makes a person go to the extreme-right will make that person simultaneous scream and bay for discipline, outwardly, and rage furiously against it inwardly.
The boring right, alas, toes the line.
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If everything in the book is fiction then why is everyone around Trump so upset with what was attributed to Bannon?
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Bannon is Rasputin to Rebekah's Tsarina Romanov, and the Trump's Tsar. The mad monk rose from the dead more than once, as will Bannon.
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Looks like Mr. Bannon, whose goal was to burn it all down, succeeded but quite not in the way he intended - "Bonfire of the Vanities" comes to mind.
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Reading this one sided assault of comments i cant believe the sore losers of the 2016 election are still crying. You secretly wish the govt and markets ill will because of trump is disgusting. Yes lets get back to 1% growth, 20 trillion debt, a war on police and a free for all on immigration! Give me a break.
W: I don't honestly believe people who find Trump dangerous wish ill upon the government, Wall Street/Markets or hard working people in this Country. I seriously wonder if you and other Trump supporters read the educated analysis of what is propelling the markets...Trump is a very small part of it. Have you totally ignored the fact that the Republican budget also increases the deficit?
As a tough prosecutor, I don't believe Trump has done anything to make police or the public safer, in fact his rhetoric is inflammatory and makes people less safe.
Lastly, I live in an area where immigrants are essential to the agricultural industry and tourism...many of the immigrants are undocumented...but the business owners love them because they can pay them less and hold their status over their heads if they "get uppity."
You don't deserve a break...you deserve to be sent back for remedial education.
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You sound like a sore winner. When did the 1% growth happen? Do you really believe that the improving economy is all because of Trump? The jobs market, Wall Street and the GDP was improving before Trump got into office. I wonder who could have caused the turn around from the recession to happen before the election of 2016. Hmmm?
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Fortunately or unfortunately, all of what you wrote is FAR better than the America Trump through Bannon wants. It's also telling that even though most of us have moved on a long time ago, your side keeps bringing up the election and what sore losers we all are. Please tell us what you would have been doing now had Clinton won.
The only thing that keeps Breitbart afloat is money from rich conservative donors. Breitbart is their mouthpiece.
Breitbart is certainly not a news outlet.
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People like Bannon are never done. As with Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Think, too, of Nixon after his 1962 defeat: "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more." If only. So watch for Bannon and his reinvention.
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The only problem with that is relevance. Too many people have seen through the wool Bannon helped put over the eyes of decent Americans and failed. He will quickly pass into irrelevance. At best, in 100 years, he'll be a short sentence in history books.
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As for relevance, in a hundred years, Bannon won't be known at all. Consider this, a hundred years ago Woodrow Wilson was president. We still know his name, or some of us do. I defy anyone to name the guy who was briefly his campaign manager and then had a poorly defined cabinet post for almost a year, accomplishing nothing of importance.
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Good bye and good riddance. Now, Mr. Miller is next to find the door (maybe a back door that he can slink out of)
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reply Jonathon Spokane
Oh, we can only hope! He even looks like a rodent, and as he's peering at the camera from under his eyebrows, he looks like he's rehearsing a Putinesque look.
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The days of wine and roses...
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Well, Trump never promised him a rose garden.
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Well, I guess he can tell the truth about Trump et al again.
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So The Mercers took away Bannon's allowance then permanently grounded him from playing in their sandbox.
Many gave him way too much credit.
The perfect example of someone who could be ended in a week, and he has been ended - he's through.
Bannon was, is, and always will be a phony populist like Trump. Two bums who never worked a hard day of work in their lives or a job that was neatly assigned and laid out for them. Bannon's daddy was the Navy while Trump's daddy was Monster Fred.
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If I'm Steve Bannon, I'm thinking my next phone call is to Robert Mueller.
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I'm preferring the Voldemort angle as above. But can you post it for steevie if he changes his mind ?
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If only ... sure he has plenty to tell ...
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What was that about, don't you want to know? Its not like Bannon hated Trump or wanted him brought down...was his dislike of Kushner so great that he somehow thought talking to Wolff would take HIM out of the picture?
Its hard to imagine what is going on in the minds of these people. They are all so full of hatred for each other they keep shooting themselves. This is the "Mooch's" downfall writ large.
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My take is though he can see 19 steps down the chess game ( a recent ditty I read in the comment section ) he also has that narcissistic wound from his lack of maternal quality bonding. It had to feel so good for him to exhale all his "feelings " out loud and imagine just how powerful he had become. He is the puppet master and let no one forget...oh oh me think that Shakespeare et Al had explored this odd combination of human "shortcomings"?
Your take on Bannon vs Kushner rings true. It also reminds me of Trump himself, just with other people.
I don't know whether to laugh or laugh.
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The GOP agenda and propaganda will continued unabated by what happens to Bannon. The nation is too polarized to even care about one...slightly bizarre...personality.
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I can hear Sophocles screaming "plagiarism!"
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Servants of the ruling class had better know their place.
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Dr. Jekyll is gone and Mr. Hyde remains! C'mon Special Counsel Robert Mueller, let's move on quickly and clean out the remaining snakes!
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The Mercers will not tolerate anyone besmirching their property.
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Mercer's hedge fund taking a hit? Can't wait to seethe new right wing, off shore money, pay less taxes Mercer crowd reorganize the next mass brain washing their Cambridge Analytics can dream up. Yawn, Yawn.
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Sigh......
a sad day.
At least we still have Stephen Miller....
on the inside!!!
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Remember when Hillary Clinton referred to Trump supporters as Deplorables? Well, she certainly was correct, wasn't she? This whole Bannon/Trump/Mercer/Breitbart scandal consists of Deplorales. What were the Mercers thinking when they financially back Breitbart and Bannon? So sickening when you realize what damage is done to our country by some of the billionaires - Adelsons, Mercers, Kochs, Murdoch & Co.
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"World class news platform." Steve still spins.
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What is his next move? 2020 presidential candidate? He can defeat Donald Trump if he is 'the brain of Trump" but our president claims he is a very stable genius, who is telling the truth?
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It is odd (not really) that Trump would claim that Fire and Fury is fiction, and then disown Bannon for quotes of his in the book. Are only Bannon's quotes accurate and the rest of the book is fiction? Is the entire book true? Is half of it true? A third? I'm confused (not really).
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He will be back. For better or worse (the latter in this case), I learned a long time ago never to underestimate people like him.
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Well, a wiser fella than myself once said "sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar, well, he eats you."
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The very good news that can be inferred from this as well as from the other sudden losses of power that have happened during the Trump administration is that the attitude and actions that the Trump administration and its members exercise are completely unsustainable. One slogan that will have no power in 2020 is “four more years.”
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These people kick him out when he has an opinion they don't want to hear. Expressing an opinion should not result in being fired; this is just another sign of the "we are more divided than ever " sentiment. What is the country going to do about it?
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I think we'll find out what the country is going to do about it in November and in 2020. Hopefully, these REALLY un-American people will be swept to the dustbin of history where they belong.
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no, it's only the clown car called The Republican Party.
They are anti- facts, education, science, etc.
From this side of the Atlantic, this is staggering news. Bannon always seemed to be (the gods help us) the 'brains' in the Trump manifesto. How are the mighty fallen.
In other news, what about North and South Korea seeming to reach some kind of rapprochement tonight? Is this Trump diplomacy working, or Kim Jong Un being smart?
The world is a baffling place these days. It's fun to observe, but slightly scary to be living in it!
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its kim jong un bring smart and out maneuvering trump. south korea has been anxious to start a decant with the north. kim can reach a mutual non aggression treaty tell the south in exchange they need to move the americans out ; giving a time table in exchange for more commercial cooperation. kim needs the money (manufacturing etc,) to keep his shop open. the south is now in a state where they will be very responsive. kim reaches out, the south wants reconcilliation and trump will have to stomach that. no war unless trump starts it.
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Perhaps Mr Bannon will present a third-party challenge to Republicans later this year or in 2020, just to mess with Donald's mind even more. Of course by then the President will have forgotten the details of their association, if he hasn't already. Breaking up is hard to do when you can't remember who your friends are.
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I watched his interview on Charly Rose, deeply disturbed individual. It seems when people accumulate a lot of money they can get visions of grandeur. Ultimately more people will despise him and Trump than ever love him.
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Mr. Bannon’s departure was forced by onetime financial patron, Rebekah Mercer. One can only dream of reading in the near future, "Mr. Trump departure was forced by onetime supporters in Congress."
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From your mouth to God's ear, as they say.
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No tears shred here over Mr. Bannon. it is important to note that Trump is doing what he has always done, burn down everything and everyone around him. He demands absolute loyalty but has none to give in return.
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Bannon, an alt-right bag of roasted garlic fending off Nosferatu, didn’t just “disagree” with Trump. In Wolff’s book he fed him to the public hoof by hoof, along with his fraudulent con artist kids. What a carnival of viviousness. I hope they eat each other alive. They all make me nauseated.
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Bannon is leaving Breitbart after his mea culpa satisfied no one, especially the Mercers, Adelson et al who support the "news" service. I predict that he will go out and get new backers, start up his own alt-right network, and feel even less constrained to rant and rave against Trump.If so, let's see what whistles he blows on the whole Trump clan.
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So I guess the only job where you cant be fired for being toxic is President?
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In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
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Bannon is free to support republicans in the midterm election campaign season if they need him, give democrats hard time , he can build his own Breitbart now.
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No, he's just free to go live in the political wilderness where he belongs.
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Dumbbart?
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Bannon's mea culpa was too little, too late. I knew his comments from the book, Fire and Fury, would cause him to have a fall from grace. I do agree we haven't heard the last of Steve Bannon.
For whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. It took 'em long enough!
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Trump is Bannon's Frankenstein. The monster consumed his creator.
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No knife blade has the power to impale its owner like point of an arogant mouth.
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"...judge preyed on women as young as 14, ended in an embarrassing setback: Democrats took the Senate seat for the first time in a generation."
Change "women" to "children".
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Breitbart is “a world-class news platform”!? More like a no-class, fake-news website.
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Bannon is as dangerous as Trump to the country. If this is the begining of the end of Bannon, I am glad. Now Bannon has to distroy Trump to complete the circle.
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Steve Bannon, the great strategic thinker, the Machiavellian extraordinaire, reduced to Sloppy Steve, cut down by the mighty Trump!
What yo-yos these are. Did Bannon forget that he blabber mouthed to a Wolff in sheep's clothing?
Did he know the book's release date? Did he insist on reading the book before he gave acquiescence to his quotes and eventual publication?
These people, aside from their general low ethical qualities, are also inept dunder heads.
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It is an old story: Bannon flew too close to the sun & his wings melted.
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So much for the preeminent thought leader of the Alt Right.
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One down; dozens to go....
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Those dozens to go are the ones who pulled the plug on Bannon. Remember that Bannon's primary project was to pull down the Republicans.
He also spoke truth to Republican power and got smacked. That tells me he deserves a second look.
Bannon's career was built on lies and shattered the one time he was honest.
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Did the truth set him free?
Or have we been lied to about that dynamic all these millennia?
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OK, but why did he do it?
Had he forgotten he spoke so honestly to Wolff?
Was he caught off guard by the book and it's disclosures?
Did he plan for and was knowingly prepared for the book's release?
Did he perceive that this moment was the appropriate time to stage a coup for the whack-o wing of the GOP?
Was this a power play that went bad?
These questions must be answered to really know the intent and the eventual fall of Bannon. The moment the book began to be quoted, I wondered how the Mercers and other Oligarchs would react. Bannon boxed these people in a corner.
Didn't he recognize this? The whole story is strange and may just be the outcome of all these people's stupidity and self involved-ness.
They are no match for the Russians.
Bannon may have some integrity. It takes integrity to tell truth to power because the cost is high.
Good, now Bannon can go get a real job and actually work for a living like the rest of us. Stocking shelves at Walmart or flipping a few burgers at McD's would do him some good. He'd learn what real people do to make ends meet.
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While this is welcome news, the Mercers, Koch's and other plutocrats are the true lever pushers of public opinion.
Rebekah Mercer will just insert another rabid anti-Semitic racist to replace Bannon at Breitbart and it will be business as usual.
Until we find a way to shine a light on these behind-the-scenes manipulators of the alt-right it will be business as usual, because the GOP is in bed with them.
That's why this November is so important.
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Quite right!
Wow ! This is what conservatives will do when someone tells it like it is ? Unbelievable!
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From my understanding, there are no conservatives mentioned in this story.
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Wow, it IS just like a reality TV show.
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Sloppy Steve was just voted off the Island.
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It would be interesting, for about 10 seconds, to know how many people care what Bannon does.
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Ah, yes! But, the Mercers, - Dad and daughter, Rebeka - who put their money in the campaign as well as Bannon and Conway at a crucial time will continue to exert their influence. Bannon, the loose cannon, developed loose lips. Rebeka's interest lie with the President and Breitbart. They sunk his ship!
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Expect an announcement shortly that Mr. Bannon is seeking treatment for exhaustion or some unspecified medical condition: politico babble for him having little choice but to crawl back under the rock from whence he came.
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Can you imagine a reputed mainstrem news organization dropping the Executive Chairman over the heat coming from the Whitehouse? No matter how much I disliked Bannon, but Breitbart News has proved they can't handle the heat even from their donors.
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Either a Wolff in sheep’s clothing or a sheep in Wolff’s clothing. The dawn of a Breiter day.
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McConnell - 1 , Bannon - 0
Establishment - 1, Bannon - 0.
Trump has now become establishment.
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