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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 10:04 PM Aug 2017

STEVE BANNON READIES HIS REVENGE The war on Jared Kushner is about to go nuclear.




On the morning he was being ousted as Donald Trump’s chief strategist last Friday, Steve Bannon had already turned the page. “Why do you sound unfazed?” a friend asked Bannon as news of his demise ricocheted across the web. “Because,” Bannon replied, “we’re going to war.” Hours later, Bannon was calling into the editorial meeting at Breitbart News, rallying his troops to continue the battles he waged inside the White House. “We have a duty to the country to be the vanguard of ‘The Movement,’” he told his staff, according to one person on the call. Bannon’s main targets are the West Wing’s coterie of New York Democrat “globalists”—Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn—as well as the “hawks,” comprised of National Security Adviser H.R McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell. “He wants to beat their ideas into submission,” Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow told me. “Steve has a lot of things up his sleeve.



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, there’s a deep animosity between Bannon and Kushner, amplified by a lack of respect. Bannon finds Kushner’s 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 president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, is especially galled at being scapegoated as an anti-Semite in its wake. “It’s one of the attacks he takes most personally because it’s not true,” a Breitbart staffer told me. Bannon’s allies lay out a more complicated backstory. Bannon, they say, lobbied Trump aggressively to move America’s 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. “I’m 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

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STEVE BANNON READIES HIS REVENGE The war on Jared Kushner is about to go nuclear. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 OP
Jared is Jewish... FarPoint Aug 2017 #1
So is Stephen Miller and a few others in Trump's inner circle. TheBlackAdder Aug 2017 #8
He is? You could've fooled me by the BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #19
That's what I have heard... FarPoint Aug 2017 #32
I know he is but I was being sarcastic since he should be irate. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #34
The right wing hatemongers... FarPoint Aug 2017 #36
Money and power. Dulcinea Aug 2017 #39
The sooner these fuckers are behind bars and this whole thing is over, the better. Initech Aug 2017 #2
I am exhausted waiting for Mueller Time. FarPoint Aug 2017 #40
Bannon is back in the Nazi swamp of news publishing that is Breitbart. He has a lot Squinch Aug 2017 #3
...and back after 7 mos of WH security clearance leftstreet Aug 2017 #4
Yeah, me too. But the Russians and god knows who else already have the key to the secrets box. Squinch Aug 2017 #6
He even commented on how much he could do now with what he knows from being in tblue37 Aug 2017 #18
Maybe he'll drink himself to death. Dulcinea Aug 2017 #37
I believe he died a few years ago and Satan sent imps who inflated his body and now live in it Squinch Aug 2017 #38
So Bannon is a Likudnik hawk who likes to equate the KKK with anti-racists MrScorpio Aug 2017 #5
Yes. Thunderdome for Repubicans and Nazis. What could be more fun? Squinch Aug 2017 #7
Bannon is an anti-Semite, end of line Azathoth Aug 2017 #9
I feel like he knows Trump will dump Jared and Manafort and is acting accordingly bettyellen Aug 2017 #10
Manafort? oberliner Aug 2017 #11
Oh I know, I mean that Bannon will go after the weak ones... bettyellen Aug 2017 #12
Gotcha oberliner Aug 2017 #14
I don't think anyone is safe except Ivanka.... bettyellen Aug 2017 #17
Wouldn't it be great if Trump got confused and announced he was firing Manafort anyway? Ken Burch Aug 2017 #16
I read several articles about Bannon and one was about the time demonstrations at UCBerkley Jim Beard Aug 2017 #13
Chaos is a Ladder... FarPoint Aug 2017 #41
There's an interesting point to be taken from the last part of that excerpt. Ken Burch Aug 2017 #15
What a terrifying creep PatSeg Aug 2017 #20
Game of Thrones IRL TalenaGor Aug 2017 #21
I hope he does his evil best. aikoaiko Aug 2017 #22
I'll have butter with my popcorn... Barack_America Aug 2017 #23
"Movement" ? Wow, there's a delusion for you. eppur_se_muova Aug 2017 #24
Oh, my... Blue_Roses Aug 2017 #25
The article ends on a surprising note marylandblue Aug 2017 #26
Gonna get to see some good, ole time anti-Semitism in action. Behind the Aegis Aug 2017 #27
Post #5 already tossed out the "Likudnick" epithet grossproffit Aug 2017 #35
'Globalism' is not a new term invented or controlled by the Right... AntiFascist Aug 2017 #42
Did I say it was? Behind the Aegis Aug 2017 #43
Whoa - before I even started reading, I couldn't help noticing the photo at the top. calimary Aug 2017 #28
"The Movement" ... dchill Aug 2017 #29
hmmm trixie2 Aug 2017 #30
The drunk obese geriatric Bannon will lose Bladewire Aug 2017 #31
Really? Bannon and Breitbart dredged the scum off the bottom of the American political lake Warren DeMontague Aug 2017 #33

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
19. He is? You could've fooled me by the
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 11:57 PM
Aug 2017

obvious outrage he publicly demonstrated when his dear daddy-in-law sided with the Nazis.

FarPoint

(12,400 posts)
32. That's what I have heard...
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 03:16 AM
Aug 2017

Via the media...Ivanka has converted to Jewish....Jared is also a DEMOCRAT...pet Wiki.

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
34. I know he is but I was being sarcastic since he should be irate.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 03:50 AM
Aug 2017

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)
36. The right wing hatemongers...
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 07:28 AM
Aug 2017

They throw the reminder, he's a DEMOCRAT out there all the time....My head won't stop shaking...

Dulcinea

(6,631 posts)
39. Money and power.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 09:10 AM
Aug 2017

That means more to them than their faith, it seems. And yes, Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism when she married Jared.

FarPoint

(12,400 posts)
40. I am exhausted waiting for Mueller Time.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 05:09 PM
Aug 2017

It's only been since May but each day feels like a year.

Squinch

(50,950 posts)
3. Bannon is back in the Nazi swamp of news publishing that is Breitbart. He has a lot
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 10:14 PM
Aug 2017

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.

Squinch

(50,950 posts)
6. Yeah, me too. But the Russians and god knows who else already have the key to the secrets box.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 10:18 PM
Aug 2017

How much worse could Bannon make it?

Squinch

(50,950 posts)
38. I believe he died a few years ago and Satan sent imps who inflated his body and now live in it
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 07:36 AM
Aug 2017

and animate it.

But that's me...

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
5. So Bannon is a Likudnik hawk who likes to equate the KKK with anti-racists
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 10:17 PM
Aug 2017

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?

Azathoth

(4,609 posts)
9. Bannon is an anti-Semite, end of line
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 10:41 PM
Aug 2017
Bannon, they say, lobbied Trump aggressively to move America’s 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. “I’m not going to breathe the same air as that terrorist,” Bannon texted a friend.

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)
17. I don't think anyone is safe except Ivanka....
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 11:23 PM
Aug 2017

I could see him rolling in his own sons. But he's never stated proudly that he's sexually attracted to them.

 

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)
13. I read several articles about Bannon and one was about the time demonstrations at UCBerkley
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 11:05 PM
Aug 2017

and he claimed he wanted chaos, thought it was good. Chilled me to the bone.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
15. There's an interesting point to be taken from the last part of that excerpt.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 11:16 PM
Aug 2017

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.





eppur_se_muova

(36,263 posts)
24. "Movement" ? Wow, there's a delusion for you.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 12:27 AM
Aug 2017

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 ! )

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
26. The article ends on a surprising note
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 12:35 AM
Aug 2017

Breitbart’s 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, “We’re prepared to help Paul Ryan rally votes for impeachment.”

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
27. Gonna get to see some good, ole time anti-Semitism in action.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 12:43 AM
Aug 2017

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&quot , 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)
35. Post #5 already tossed out the "Likudnick" epithet
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 05:46 AM
Aug 2017

It seems to come so naturally. But, no antisemitism here. Nope, we're Democrats.

AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
42. 'Globalism' is not a new term invented or controlled by the Right...
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 05:33 PM
Aug 2017

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
The EU is seeking to create stronger international bonds without reigniting a populist wave in Europe that rallied against globalism’s negative effects on domestic industries and workers.

Jonathan Stearns, Bloomberg.com, "As China Eyes Trade Growth, Europe Moves to Calm Wary Industries," 3 June 2017

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
43. Did I say it was?
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 08:33 PM
Aug 2017

Oh, no I didn't. What I did say (by implication) was it is one of their newest dog-whistles.

calimary

(81,281 posts)
28. Whoa - before I even started reading, I couldn't help noticing the photo at the top.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 12:55 AM
Aug 2017

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?

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
33. Really? Bannon and Breitbart dredged the scum off the bottom of the American political lake
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 03:23 AM
Aug 2017

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!

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