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[Funky Papa]

Going after Kushner sounds... unwise.

 

[Wet Bloodfart]

I think people are kidding themselves if they think Bannon is going to bash Trump. Bannon is more useful to their agenda outside of the whitehouse.

Yep.

 

[Boke1879]

Robert Costa @costareports
One theme I'm picking up: Bannon believes next battle is *not* w/ Trump but w/ Kushner/Cohn/Dina/HR McMaster. "Save Trump," as one R put it.
1:32 PM · Aug 18, 2017

Yea this is what I pretty much expected. He'll paint Trump and some hapless idiot that is influenced by GLOBALISTS!!

Bannon wants chaos.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Bannon probably had to go because he said that the Nazis are losers and clowns.
Trump can't have his supporters get insulted.

 

[Blueblur1]

Clicks on link.
Sees 4,650 comments.

WTF?????????? How are there this many people?

I opened the page five minutes ago and the comments ticker was/is FLYING. Its already accumulated another 2,000 comments in the last 5 minutes!!

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Just wondering because I realized I don't know the answer but I would assume yes.

Trump is fully capable of firing Pence, correct?

No, Pence would need to be impeached much like Trump. He could decide not to run with him in 2020 (Ivanka as VP?)

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Olivia Nuzzi @Olivianuzzi
"I don't see any senior decision makers around the president besides the Vice President who are real conservatives." - source close to WH

No shit, they ran on a platform that was extreme right instead of traditional right.

Eli Stokols @EliStokols
Bannon ally: "I look at the WH and see New York Democrats and generals in ascendancy and that is not what we ran on in 2016."

Because Trump has fired damn near every one of the starting ones. I know it's just a talking point but suggesting there's any democrats in the WH right now is killing me.

 

[pulsemyne]

God this is funny. Get fucked Bannon. You're next Trump.

 

[daxy]

What is it with these losers pretending to play army all the time? #WAR, marching in fuckin molle vests, that crying titbaby from the Vice doc laying like 8 guns on his hotel bed, etc etc.

They're all such fucking DORKS. They just want to play "army" so bad. How pathetic.

Maybe because policy makers and the news spoon feed people with rhetoric coated in such terms. It's always the war on drugs, terror, poverty, religion, and so forth.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

So the right really is going to try and get out from under Trump and say he is a democrat? they did it during the election too.

 

[captjohnboyd]

Robert Costa @costareports
One theme I'm picking up: Bannon believes next battle is *not* w/ Trump but w/ Kushner/Cohn/Dina/HR McMaster. "Save Trump," as one R put it.

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Annie Karni @anniekarni
GOP operatives have told me they worry Bannon's departure means no Republicans left in the West Wing.

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Olivia Nuzzi @Olivianuzzi
"I don't see any senior decision makers around the president besides the Vice President who are real conservatives." - source close to WH

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Eli Stokols @EliStokols
Bannon ally: "I look at the WH and see New York Democrats and generals in ascendancy and that is not what we ran on in 2016."

I would bet what the sources mean by that is there are no alt right, bannonites left and the rest of the administration is just "regular" old rich white conservatives that still hate minorities they're just better at staying on message

 

[Green Yoshi]

Who will replace him? Ann Coulter, Alex Jones or David Duke?

 

[Saganator]

Oh man, oh man, Breitbart comments section is so salty lol

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-out-white-house/

They're going crazy. It's fun to watch the Comment count go up in real time. Went from 350 to 450 in the time to type this message.

 

[Jerm411]

Pop that corn boys

@gabrielsherman: Bannon friend says Breitbart ramping up for war against Trump. "It's now a Democrat White House," source says.

 

[TheCochese]

https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/898594013409882112

If anyone was still in doubt that it's all or nothing with these people, this is it.

 

[Ithil]

I think there's some confusion regarding Bannon. I don't think he's that concerned about petty notions such as race. He's a neoreactionary, an economic nationalist. The unholy marriage of libertarianism and fascism. He has used the alt-right the same way the brownshirts were used, but he's not an alt-righter himself. He probably loathes them.

The person who wrote the recent book about him also concluded he doesn't actually give a shit about race, he just plays it for the far right crowd to get their support. However, the author also said he does believe Bannon is legitimately an extreme Islamophobic, so the anti-Muslim stuff is all real, and apparently seems to stem from his upbringing going to some kind of nutty private Catholic school.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Who will replace him? Ann Coulter, Alex Jones or David Duke?

Kid rock

 

[SliceSabre]

I would love to see Fox News trying to defend the president while BB is tearing him down. Conservatives in full panic and not sure who to take walking orders from.

 

[theechrisfox]

Who will replace him? Ann Coulter, Alex Jones or David Duke?

Stephen Miller is probably pushing for Dylan Roof.

 

[IaN_GAF]

I will wait to see where Bannon shows up next, before I cheer.

 

[BadWolf]

They're going crazy. It's fun to watch the Comment count go up in real time. Went from 350 to 450 in the time to type this message.

Approaching 7K comments now lol.

 

[daveo42]

So basically #itsthejews?

I mean, did you hear what those Brietbarters were saying at the rally in Charlottesville?

 

[RedSparrows]

dead

 

[Creamium]

https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/898594013409882112

It's like we're entering phase 2

 

[VendettaRed07]

I want Kelly to fire Bannon then resign the day after.

Should be a phrase for this

"The mooch maneuver"

 

[JettDash]

So how is Bannon going to battle Trump's daughter and son and law without battling Trump?

Who knows.

I look forward to the next episode of the best reality tv show ever.

 

[TheCochese]

I would love to see Fox News trying to defend the president while BB is tearing him down. Conservatives in full panic and not sure who to take walking orders from.

Some people said we were headed for a Civil War, there's just the word conservative in front of it.

 

[TheOMan]

Yup - I'm wondering if the Mercers will now give up on Trump?

I really hope Mueller is looking into them as well.

 

[Kensation]

Is this the season 2 finale?

 

[HylianTom]

Who will replace him? Ann Coulter, Alex Jones or David Duke?

That guy who shit on the floor that one time..

 

[123rl]

I will wait to see where Bannon shows up next, before I cheer.

Hopefully face-down in a river, being eaten by rats and covered in manure

 

[GoldenEye 007]

lol at anyone acting like there is any real strategy here. They're all incompetent and it will continually to be a shitshow. Bannon is not "more useful" anywhere. There is no way to spin this as a positive for them.

 

[John Rabbit]

I will wait to see where Bannon shows up next, before I cheer.

Back to Breitbart.

 

[btrboyev]

Confirmed?

 

[KernelPanic]

Back to Breitbart.

Don't think he really left.

 

[The Illiterati]

I can't believe that a Trump presidency has ended up being a cleansing fire. Its just brought these deplorables out of their holes and then destroyed career after career.

 

[Stead Fast]

The person who wrote the recent book about him also concluded he doesn't actually give a shit about race, he just plays it for the far right crowd to get their support. However, the author also said he does believe Bannon is legitimately an extreme Islamophobic, so the anti-Muslim stuff is all real, and apparently seems to stem from his upbringing going to some kind of nutty private Catholic school.

Haven't heard of the book (title?), but based on what you said that sounds plausible. Race isn't what motivates him, he doesn't have a compulsion to fight other races, he just sees race as easily exploitable for his own profit, and it comes second nature as he happens to agree with a lot of the Right's prejudices on a casual level.

 

[Ethical Hedonism]

bannon can go right back to sucking his own cock, asshole piece of shit

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Pop that corn boys

@gabrielsherman: Bannon friend says Breitbart ramping up for war against Trump. "It's now a Democrat White House," source says.

Oh shit, it's gonna get good real soon!! Hahahahaahahhahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

 

[carlsojo]

Is this the season 2 finale?

I was hoping it's like the midseason break before Mueller comes in for the last run of episodes.

 

[spindashing]

Vince fucking McMahon lmaooooooo

 

[Snwaters]

Robert Costa @costareports
One theme I'm picking up: Bannon believes next battle is *not* w/ Trump but w/ Kushner/Cohn/Dina/HR McMaster. "Save Trump," as one R put it.

&&

Annie Karni @anniekarni
GOP operatives have told me they worry Bannon's departure means no Republicans left in the West Wing.

&&

Olivia Nuzzi @Olivianuzzi
"I don't see any senior decision makers around the president besides the Vice President who are real conservatives." - source close to WH

&&

Eli Stokols @EliStokols
Bannon ally: "I look at the WH and see New York Democrats and generals in ascendancy and that is not what we ran on in 2016."

If nothing else, take away this:

Attacking the people around Trump like this is the same as attacking Trump himself. Bannon dosen't want to piss off all the folks who still love Trump. So he'll attack the people around him. But his argument implies that Trump is either one of two things:
1) Weak and easily manipulated
2) A traitor to the cause

Either way, this is a way to attack Trump, just not directly.

 

[MechaX]

Breitbart will attack everyone in the White House but Trump. Bannon will protect his future online Breitbart TV host.

Oh man this is the most likely scenario isn't it; and Trump won't give a shit because he's not being attacked personally.

 

[Hellers]

First letter of each paragraph

 

[beacon 0f light]

Fully expecting bannon to get the michael flynn treatment. "He's fired, but he did nothing wrong/is a great person/fake news media is the real problem"

 

[Wolfgunblood Garopa]

Annie Karni @anniekarni
"GOP operatives have told me they worry Bannon's departure means no Republicans left in the West Wing. "

Bannon is no Republican, what dumbass GOP operative would think that? He hates Republicans and uses them for his own agenda. He wants to destroy and then rebuild the Republican Party just like he does with the entire government.

 

[tbm24]

Going after Kushner sounds... unwise.

What with him saving the Middle East and revamping the federal government. Last thing he needs is a another villain to fight.

 

[Ravensmash]

ha

Oh Nigel.

 

[Beefy]

Who will replace him? Ann Coulter, Alex Jones or David Duke?

Reanimated Hitler

 

[skullmuffins]

No shit, they ran on a platform that was extreme right instead of traditional right.



Because Trump has fired damn near every one of the starting ones. I know it's just a talking point but suggesting there's any democrats in the WH right now is killing me.

By "democrats" they mean people like Dina Powell and Gary Cohn. If you've been slavishly following the palace intrigue squabbling stories over the past 8 months, you'll understand.