#steve bannon
Trump didn’t realize what he was signing when he gave Steve Bannon unprecedented power
- Trump raised a lot of eyebrows by elevating his chief strategist Stephen Bannon to a permanent seat on the National Security Council.
- Democrats, though, apparently weren’t the only ones stunned by the move. Among the people caught unaware was one Donald J. Trump.
- The New York Times reported on Sunday that Trump hadn’t realized what he did when he signed the 2,100-word executive memorandum that elevated Bannon to the NSC.
- “Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council.”
- Read that again: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was “not fully briefed” on a document he signed, a document that carries the force of law. Read more
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Listen to the audio version of Frum’s cover story here: https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/how-to-build-an-autocracy-david-frum-the-atlantic-march-2017
Trying to wrap my head around how people couldn’t get over that Hillary Clinton was paid to give speeches from Goldman Sachs and Bernie Sanders calls him self a “democratic socialist” … yet they don’t bat an eye about how Donald J. Trump’s senior counsel is a former Goldman Sachs executive, who is a NOTORIOUS anti-Semite and has compared his self to Vladimir Lenin (a Russian communist who founded the USSR)
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People were led to believe that Trump wrote his eerily nationalistic Inaugural speech after posting this photo on Twitter a few days before the Inauguration:
Butaccording to The Wall Street Journal, Trump’s speech was written by his two aids: Steve Bannon (executive chairman of the extremely right-wing “news” page Breitbart) and Stephen Miller (infamously worked for racist Jeff Sessions who may be appointed for Attorney General).
We can’t trust a word Trump (or his wife) says to the public.
(Reuters - Munich) American Vice-President Mike Pence laid a wreath at the memorial for the Dachau concentration camp as he toured Europe to solicit support for recognizing the unfair deal the world had imposed on the United States following the Cold War, leaning heavily on American leadership and economics to sustain the post-Cold War peace.
Taking questions, Pence was asked about the use of the term Holocaust yet not making reference to Jews, to which Pence offered an expansion of previous statements by the administration.
“The president has made his position clear,” said the vice-president, “The Jews are not the only victims of the Holocaust. There were Lutherans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics… the Holocaust affected many other faiths and creeds, and Hitler’s persecution of Christians is well-established fact. As NAZI Party Secretary Martin Bohrmann said, 'National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.’”
“But isn’t the popular use of the term, Holocaust, usually used in reference to the genocide of the Jews?” asked Glen Thrush of the New York Times.
“Typical mainstream journalism,” replied Pence, shaking his head, “The term comes from the Greek, not the Jewish language, and its first usage in the post-medieval era was by Leitch Ritchie in reference to the genocide of Christians in France, possibly as a sacrifice to mollify Islamic Terrorists who had recently attacked Tours in Southern France.” He went on to stare at Thrush, who, at a loss for words, sat back down.
[TNFN Note: The Battle of Tours occurred more than 1000 years before Leitch Ritchie was born.]
“There were, of course, some non-Christian victims of Hitler, as some men suspected of crimes against nature were, in fact, merely political opponents,” the vice-president added.
“Wasn’t the LGBT community victimized as well?” asked Jeff Gannon.
“No,” said Pence, “If that was the case, they would have been liberated with the camps. Instead, they were moved to other prisons. Hitler didn’t treat the LGBT community any worse than anyone else.”
No more questions were taken and Pence headed to his next tour stop, described on the itinerary distributed by White House Chief Advisor Steve Bannon, as the Warsaw low-income housing projects built by the Germans during WWII to provide shelter to over 400,000 Jews.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled White House Chief Advisor’s name as ‘Steve Bunyon’.
Wouldn’t it be great if the committee investigating Russian influence on the campaign could offer Roger Stone immunity from prosecution if he testifies to everything he knows? Including naming names: Bannon, Sessions, Manafort, Christie, Pence, Assange, Kislyak, Putin, Trump …
Stone is such a douchebag he’d have zero qualms about turning on his “friends” to get out of hot water. Anyway Ollie North proved that it can help you avoid conviction by a real court. The only downside is Stone wouldn’t get his richly deserved deserts, but I’m willing to pay the price.
Carter Page too, while we’re at it, though it wouldn’t be as mich fun.
Flee, the People Dept.
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Steve Bannon Allegedly Called Paul Ryan A “Limp Di*k Motherf*ker” During Election
It appears that White House Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon, is not a fan of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). It’s been reported in a new book that the close friend of President Trump referred to Ryan as “a limp-dick motherfucker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation,”. According to HuffPost, details of the encounter come from Devil’s Bargain, a new book on White House chief…
via @vox: “I was a prominent Neo-Nazi; ignoring White Extremists is a MISTAKE”
Here’s the full transcript of Picciolini’s words in the above video (bold emphasis mine):
“In prior administrations, the [US] government has supported the fight against White extremism. They’ve recognized the threat within our own borders, but some of those policies might change.
Maybe we hear things about White extremism being removed from the Countering Violent Extremism focus, and I think that that’s a mistake.
From dozens of Jewish community centers receiving bomb threatstocemeteries and synagogues being desecrated to police officers in Las Vegas being targeted - specifically because they are law enforcement - by militiamen; we have a domestic terrorism issue that we hardly talk about because we’re so focused on the threat coming from overseas.
When Dylann Roof writes a manifesto proclaiming his hate for people and saying that he wants to murder people to progress his agenda - that, to me, is terrorism. That’s no different than an ISIS propaganda video.
The imagery of White Supremacy has changed over the last three decades. It’s gone from what-you-would-consider-your-normal-racist to something that’s more mainstream: suits and ties; fashionable haircuts; and clothes that would never identify them as Neo-Nazis until they open their mouths. And that was a concerted effort because we knew that we were turning more people away that we could eventually have on our side, if we just softened the message.
These days, with our political climate, we see a lot of coded language or dog whistles: the use of the Star of David when talking about politicians. We used to say that ‘The Jews control the media,’ and now they’ve just massaged the phrase to call it ‘Liberal Media’.
And ‘Make America Great Again’? Well, to them, that means ‘Make America WHITE Again’.
White nationalists, just like any other extremist group, promise paradise. They promise that the problems of crime and the problems of ‘White genocide’ are gonna go away. And that ‘You come from a very White, noble cause’. And that ‘your culture is worth protecting’. The problem is that nobody is trying to take that away from you.
The only problems that they have are the ones that they inflate with propaganda - with fake news - where they teach you that ‘Blacks commit more crimes against White people’ or that ‘the Jews control the media and finance system’. These are all conspiracy theories; there’s no basis in truth.
And I know this because I helped create those lies from the very beginning, and I helped spread them, and ultimately I believed them myself. And I infected that lie into other people that were innocent.
And even 20 years later, after I left the movement, I’m still pulling up the weeds from all those seeds of hate that I planted. Which is why I’ve dedicated the last 20 years of my life to help eradicate racism.”
–Christian Picciolini, former White Supremacist-turned-founder of the anti-discrimination group Life After Hate
I wish I was artistic. ‘cause then I’d make a mashup of Ganon and Steve Bannon.
Steve Ganon or Bannondorf undecided on which.
