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I mean, one of the things that's been consistent about Trump is that anyone trying to use him needs to be at it constantly, whispering into their ear over and over and fighting against everyone else trying to do the same thing. Without his physical presence, Bannon's lost the advantage of physical presence. And if you're trying to use Donald Trump, you need absolutely every advantage you can get because he is incredibly unreliable. Having Trump's ear doesn't mean a whole lot when the man melts down over a million things per day that don't soothe his fragile ego and goes off-script practically whenever he feels like it.
I don't believe for a second that this is some real plan here. Trump doesn't have discernible plans, he just flails about wildly while demanding his subordinates do things. And then contradicting them the next day.
I sometimes entertain the notion that Trump is proof that we are actually living inside a simulation and that the programmers are having a lark on how stupid shit can get before we wake up Matrix style.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
If the real world is besieged by killer robots, I think I'd rather be out of the simulation.
Yeah, Kelly can be a horrible person without being the kind of problem Bannon is. Bannon strikes me as one of those shits they will try to get away with whatever he thinks he can get away with (aka if you play chess against him, if he thinks he can bullshit his way into move one victory, where he declares his pawn can remove your king before your move any pieces, he'll fucking doing). Kelly seems to be in the orbit of McCain, he might have some really shitty beliefs, but he'll follow the established rules and might not act on some of his shitty beliefs because doing so would break the rules (going back to the analogy, if you played chess against him, he wouldn't try making up bullshit rules even if he thought that judge or an angry mob of supporters would let him get away with it).
Picking a fight with the GOP establishment and the Zionist lobby?
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Yeah, seems like he's just a moron.[/quote]
I had a feeling McMaster was going to be the first one he went after because that guy was the least tolerant of his brand of bullshit. From what we know, McMaster is 2/2 for getting unqualified right wing assholes off of something they had no business being involved in. One of them was Bannon, but there was also some little shit that came in with Flynn (I think he was one Flynn recommended) that he got booted after the guy said something really fucking stupid and used Bannon's shitty propaganda outfit as his source.
If we're living in a simulation, then we are simulated too and there will be no "waking up." The best you could hope for would be to have your file eventually imported into another universe.
(twitter rando)
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
But will I keep my Galactic Readiness?
Also if that's the sort of useless trash we can expect from Bannon here on out, I doubt he'll manage to do anything of noteworthiness.
It is absolutely harder to get the President on the phone compared to working in the White House. And if Kelly really puts his foot down, he could probably limit even that.
Bannon isn't ruined or anything, but this is absolutely a blow to his agenda.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Has anyone linked Bannon's interview in the Weekly Standard yet? (If so, I didn't see it.) Here's the pertinent bit:
I'm still not sure how to parse that statement actually.
I suppose if we consider his worldview and ranting against 'globalists', he thinks his dream of an ethnostate is dead?
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
From what I remember reading a while back, in order to get Trump to read anything, someone in the Whitehorse has to print it out and highlight the relevant bits. Who's going to do that for Breitbart now that Bannon is going?
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Don Jr.
He's saying he helped get Trump elected to push his populist ethno-nationalist agenda. And that the Trump Presidency that would have done that is dead. It lost to the establishment and the other forces in the WH working for Trump's attention.
So now he's going to leverage his "movement" to do the best they can with the situation. Trump is still a sympathetic voice and ear within the WH but he's not the Fuhrer they had hoped for.
But then Charlottesville happened and Bannon was the one staffer pushing Trump to double down rather than apologize, and he looked like he might survive for at least another month or more, with the planned resignation pushed back past Labor Day. But the phone call to the American Prospect infuriated Kelly and brought about a return to the swift exit plan.
The whole thing is here: https://nyti.ms/2vQxx6R
All I see from that story is the White House is still infested with people who leak information to reporters constantly.
Tweet is from a random Twitter person, but I'm seeing it pop up on a few accounts.
Speaking of which...
A Sinclair Broadcast 'reporter', and a Lawfare editor's response.
It's interesting that this shows some of the strings here. The Sinclair woman's been reporting some really shady/nonsense stuff that nobody else was willing to publish, particularly trying to push shit like the unmasking 'conspiracy' and smearing the FBI. She's had multiple 'scoops' that are basically all DEEP STATE OUT TO GET TRUMP that got no traction at all. And here, she basically outted herself as Bannon's personal pet reporter. Which means that Bannon was grasping at anything and either 'leaking' it to nobody but her, or she was the only one who bit on his 'leaks.' Either way, it could definitely speak to Bannon's frustration that he had faux stories, but couldn't get them out there or eyes on them.
That looks pretty photoshopped. Funny though.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Not really
The eyes look like they were cut out with scissors. It's just a plain white vinyl decal otherwise
Yeah, I had debated whether or not to add it here given that it could be fake, but then it hit me that even if it is fake it still makes the same point - a significant number of people aren't seeing the white supremacists getting kicked out of the White House, they're seeing it as coming straight from the top.
The press needs to remember Trump's Mein Compf book and his racist past, too much time has passed for them to overlook that him choosing Bannon is a pattern, not a coincidence.
I think he meant "Mein Kampf"
Bannon being gone changes little, but I'll take every tiny victory I can get until 2018 when hopefully we kick the rest of these shitheels to the curb
It's covered with dog shit most days
Did Trump literally have a copy of it in his nightstand or something?
or did he write something Mein Kampf-ish?
Yes.
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8
Well, not EXACTLY Mein Kampf, but Trump thought it was.
Art of the Deal is insightful for what the author took from his meetings with Trump, as well as solidifying Trump's reputation as a businessman. The author feels really guilty about this now.
Mein Covfefe
Wait didn't it get smashed a while back, is it replaced yet?
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.