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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a14538853/what-bannon-has-over-trump/What Bannon Has Over the Trumps
He's smarter, and he wants to burn it all down even more than they do.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 3, 2018
It should be clear by now that the only real political talent possessed by Steve Bannon is his ability to take the usual political norms, shred them into slivers, and throw the whole mess up in front of an electric fan. He did that by helping elect the current president*, who has that same talent by the bucketful. He did that by promoting the Gadsden Mall Creeper in Alabama right up until the night before Roy Moore got pounded by Doug Jones, who was sworn in on Wednesday as the Democratic junior senator from Alabama. And now, according to a new book by Michael Wolff, Bannon apparently has decided that its time to bring the temple down on his own head, just for laughs. From The Guardian:
It has been clear for a while that the Trump spalpeens, and Jared Kushner, the golden-child spalpeen-in-law, had no use for Bannon and that they probably are more than partly responsible for shoving the master strategist off the Truman Balcony. Bannon also apparently was quite plain about the peril presented by Robert Mueller to the president* as well.
(Speaking of Jared, he brought the whole stupid sampler tray out the other day while talking about his bungled attempts at foreign policy. From Politico:
Yeah, hes such a businessman that hes stuck with one of the biggest white elephants in the history of Manhattan real-estate. Id certainly hand him the keys to NATO.)
The problem Bannons newfound candor presents to this White House is a simple one. Hes smarter than most of them are, including the president*. He is better at burning things down than they are because he does very little of it by accident. His talent for destruction is more finely honed and he is a man of no political conscience whatsoever, and now he has very little to lose. He also is someone who prospered in both high finance and in Hollywood, two places where having the essential humanity of a wolverine is a positive advantage.
The Trumps et. al., including the president*, were raised in an atmosphere in which nobody was around to tell them that they couldnt do X, or that they shouldnt do Y. This left them unprepared for someone like Bannon who, for all his faults, truly and deeply appears not to give a green shit about anything or anybody. And now, alas for the administration, the piper has shown up at the door, demanding payment.
Scorning apparent White House insouciance, Bannon reaches for a hurricane metaphor: Theyre sitting on a beach trying to stop a Category Five.
He also has a gift for metaphor. Here, from New York, is the entire excerpt. Read in awe and wonder.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Takket
(21,640 posts)And I think bannon wants to run for president himself on the platform of "I'll give you everything drumpf promised, but in not a Russian agent. "
Cha
(297,774 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)get swept up by Mueller as well.
Cha
(297,774 posts)calimary
(81,523 posts)One of my favorite political commentmeisters.
malaise
(269,206 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)House of Roberts
(5,188 posts)I believe Charlie could beat George Will in a contest of fifty cent words!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)From the Irish "spailpin"
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)trail???
FUCK YOU TRASHBAG TRUMPS.
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)This could get interesting on a larger scale quickly. Messing with the moron's family is a declaration of war as far as he is concerned.
Maeve
(42,292 posts)Sitting with a fire extinguisher, trying to keep them from destroying the country (think babysitter Kari trying to keep Jack-Jack Incredible from igniting)
Go to about 2:45 for the scene I mean
Paladin
(28,276 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,741 posts)hiding under the covers and pretending they don't have to remove these fools.
If the dems are serious about saving the country, they'll pose repeated public demands that the gop impeach him and his whole cancerous family.
They cannot actually think they can pretend everything's fine at penn. ave.
mobeau69
(11,159 posts)Zorro
(15,749 posts)I really do despair for our country.
gademocrat7
(10,675 posts)Juliusseizure
(562 posts)That's my first question.
This could be a very rare time Trump was out-Trumped.
He's so used to using/manipulating people with his celebrity, and then kicking them to the curb when they're not useful. Bannon telling him to f*** off, calling him an idiot, calling them traitors as the ship is sinking (and giving the ship a nice shove forward), and doing it FIRST...seems to have come as a real unpleasant surprise.
Juliusseizure
(562 posts)That's my first question.
This could be a very rare time Trump was out-Trumped.
He's so used to using/manipulating people with his celebrity, and then kicking them to the curb when they're not useful. Bannon telling him to f*** off, calling him an idiot, calling them traitors as the ship is sinking (and giving the ship a nice shove forward), and doing it FIRST...seems to have come as a real unpleasant surprise.
BadGimp
(4,019 posts)spalpeens
2. Irish A good-for-nothing person, often used so-named during a good humored ridicule.
I love DU!!