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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSTEVE BANNON READIES HIS REVENGE The war on Jared Kushner is about to go nuclear.
The chaotic, war-torn West Wing of the past six months will be prologue, but the coming struggles will be as personal as they are ideological, waged not with leaks but with slashing Breitbart banners. On Sunday, Breitbart took renewed aim at McMaster, with a headline claiming he advocated Quran Kissing. But most of all, theres a deep animosity between Bannon and Kushner, amplified by a lack of respect. Bannon finds Kushners political instincts highly questionable. He said Jared is a dope, one Bannon ally recalled. The two clashed fiercely on personnel decisions and policy debates, both domestic and international, many of which Bannon lost. But Bannon, who was the only West Wing advisor to publicly support the presidents response to the violence in Charlottesville, is especially galled at being scapegoated as an anti-Semite in its wake. Its one of the attacks he takes most personally because its not true, a Breitbart staffer told me. Bannons allies lay out a more complicated backstory. Bannon, they say, lobbied Trump aggressively to move Americas embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but was blocked by Kushner. And, according to three Bannon allies, Bannon pushed a tougher line against the Palestinians than Kushner did. In May, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House, Bannon stayed home. Im not going to breathe the same air as that terrorist, Bannon texted a friend.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/steve-bannon-readies-his-revenge
FarPoint
(12,400 posts)That is all Bannon needs to know...he hates him ....
TheBlackAdder
(28,203 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)obvious outrage he publicly demonstrated when his dear daddy-in-law sided with the Nazis.
FarPoint
(12,400 posts)Via the media...Ivanka has converted to Jewish....Jared is also a DEMOCRAT...pet Wiki.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)The same is true for a few others on his staff and cabinet...no comment from any of them. They are traitors to their faith and kiss the Donald's ass instead. The silence is deafening.
And he IS registered as a Dem but so was the Donald (he changed his party 5 times in 15 years).
FarPoint
(12,400 posts)They throw the reminder, he's a DEMOCRAT out there all the time....My head won't stop shaking...
Dulcinea
(6,631 posts)That means more to them than their faith, it seems. And yes, Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism when she married Jared.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Until then..
FarPoint
(12,400 posts)It's only been since May but each day feels like a year.
Squinch
(50,950 posts)less reach than he seems to think he does.
This splintering of the lunatic right that still supports Trump(R) can only be good for us.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)for some reason that just gives me the creeps
Squinch
(50,950 posts)How much worse could Bannon make it?
tblue37
(65,377 posts)the White House.
Dulcinea
(6,631 posts)He looks like an old drunk who sleeps in a dumpster.
Squinch
(50,950 posts)and animate it.
But that's me...
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Does he have any friends?
Well, the Breitbart cesspool's reaction to anything happening in Trumpanistan will be very interesting from here on out.
Let's see how Bannon does absent ninety percent of the advertisers he had before he jumped into Trump's bed.
Don't you just love internecine warfare on the right?
Squinch
(50,950 posts)Azathoth
(4,609 posts)This doesn't mean he's not an anti-Semite. It means he hates Muslims even more and finds Jews useful as long as they are killing and sticking fingers in the eyes of Muslims.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)He is already gone.
Jared isn't going anywhere.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)But I think Jared is safe in Trump-world.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)I could see him rolling in his own sons. But he's never stated proudly that he's sexually attracted to them.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)and he claimed he wanted chaos, thought it was good. Chilled me to the bone.
FarPoint
(12,400 posts)Petyer Balish/ Little Finger... from Game of Thrones...
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Steve Bannon' opinions on where the U.S. embassy should be located and on how Palestinians should be treated, combined with his far-right views on race and what makes a person a "Real American", remind us that hardline support for the most reactionary policy goals of the Israeli government, on the one hand and conspiratorial anti-Semitism on the other, can and very often do co-exist easily in the same mind, and therefore that "pro-Israel" public figures cannot be assumed to be opponents of anti-Semitism at all-just as those who question what the Israeli government does to Palestinians are often some of the most vocal opponents of anti-Semitism and the alt-right.
PatSeg
(47,468 posts)TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)Trumps = Lannisters
aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)I love watching RWers eat themselves.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I'm going to enjoy this...
eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)We'll have to call it the Bannon Movement -- or the Breitbart Movement -- either way, BM for short.
Talk about your Game of Thrones ...
(1 ... 2 ... Photoshop ! )
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)the sharks are circling
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Breitbarts defense of Trump has so far helped keep the Russia scandal from gaining traction on the right. But that could swiftly change if Trump, under the influence of Kushner and Cohn, deviates too far from the positions he ran on. If that happens, said one high-level Breitbart staffer, Were prepared to help Paul Ryan rally votes for impeachment.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)Sad things is, it will cause much confusion as many on our side will fall into using the same tactics or ignoring the ones Bannon and his fucking disciples use. Be prepared for use of Israeli terms (Likudnick, references to Netanyahu, and other "evil Jews" , the oft use "cover" of calling us "Zionists" and the ever present new one, "globalists."
Be interesting to see how many of the recent converts to fighting anti-Semitism will revert to their old ways of obscure or ignore, or even slip back into using the terms themselves.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)It seems to come so naturally. But, no antisemitism here. Nope, we're Democrats.
AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)and the American Left needs to understand better what is happening in Europe, for example, to counter Nationalism:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/globalism
Jonathan Stearns, Bloomberg.com, "As China Eyes Trade Growth, Europe Moves to Calm Wary Industries," 3 June 2017
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)Oh, no I didn't. What I did say (by implication) was it is one of their newest dog-whistles.
calimary
(81,281 posts)Bannon and Priebus in recent weeks (when Priebus was still chief of staff. So that's not a photo from the past few days. Look at the red nose! YIKES! Those are pretty bright red gin blossoms there, from the looks of it. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been hitting the bottle pretty hard over the last several months.
It appears the stress of the job was getting to him. I don't ever remember his nose looking that glaringly red before.
Things eating away at you, asshole?
dchill
(38,497 posts)Bowel?
trixie2
(905 posts)Bladewire
(381 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And after those folks marched around Charlottesville carrying swastikas, people accused Bannon of being Anti-Semitic?
Heavens, where could they have gotten such a silly notion!