Meet Steve Bannon - Trump's Alt-Right Brain

Now that Trump has named Bannon as his White House Chief Strategist (same position held by Karl Rove during the W Bush Error, Bush's Brain), I think it's safe to say the Shitnado is looming on the horizon about 70 days out. Bannon metastasized the Alt-Right at Breitbart Media. The Alt-Right ideology is Racist, White Supremacist, Anti-Muslim and Anti-Immigrant.

And Trump was on 60 minutes last night reassuring Blacks, Latinos, Muslims and undocumented Immigrants, "Don't worry. It will all be Terrific. I'm gonna Make America Great Again" (paraphrased). Perhaps it depends on your definition of "Great".

Any progressive who started believing Conman Trump's common-man shtick had better prepare yourselves for an ugly awaking.

From a Democracy Now interview in August...

And in our interview, Bannon told me that Breitbart is the platform for the alt-right, but he denied that the alt-right is an inherently racist or anti-Semitic movement that embraces white nationalism. He said that Breitbart is a nationalistic site; he denied that it’s a white nationalistic site. And he said that while there are elements of anti-Semitism or some people who might be racist in the alt-right, as a whole, the movement is not a racist or anti-Semitic movement.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/24/trump_purports_to_reach_black_voters

Steve Bannon on left.

I'm going to start compiling a list of the parallels between the rise of Trump and the rise of Hitler: the nationalist fever; the blaming of a race(s) for your own poor financial situation; rhetoric of hate and violence ("Rough 'em up. I'll pay your legal bills, believe me"). All the signs of Fascism are there in full view.

Trump may be the lesser evil, but he is still one hell of an evil.

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He has never had the opportunity to run break shit like Hillary has. I get why so many here at C99 dislike Hillary but I still maintain voting for Trump is indefensible - period.

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Citizen Of Earth's picture

No matter who won. I doubt that many C99ers voted for him anyway.

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

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Most of us voted for the "Only Sane Choice Available Twice."

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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry?
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,

Bannon is a wretched choice; Rahm was a wretched choice.

We can only hope Trump will wear thin quickly and some sort of muddling can exist for 4 years. I think that Pence is every bit as bad as Trump, or Clinton, so impeachment and removal could be a net loss.

In his first 6 years in office, Obama deported over 1.5 million people. If Trump deports as many as quickly as he says, concentration camps will be needed.

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

In spite of all of all the appeals Trump has made to racists, there is a zero percent chance that he's going to be able to turn it into people-harming legislation. This isn't Germany in the 1930's. America is indisputably a multi-ethnic nation that has experienced many decades now of increasing ethnic tolerance since the 1960's.

At any time that Trump tries to make explicit racist appeals from the White House, it will be met by an avalanche of public criticism, from not only Democrats, but also main-stream media and segments of the Republican Party. This will actually serve to help silence the voices of racists, who will be subjected to such criticism that they will be rendered mute.

It is already foreseeable that if Trump decides to take it in that direction, and I doubt he does, it will simply set up the great 'final victory' for the forces for justice and tolerance over racist hatred and bigotry.

Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, would not have had to answer to anyone when she decided to order a muscular response to some provocation, or order a No Fly Zone against Russia, directly inviting a nuclear show down for no good reason.

This is why it IS defensible to have voted for Trump over Clinton, to avoid the near certainty that we would have been in a war within the next six months if she had been elected.

We can handle Trump's brand of sociopathy, but there would have been nothing we could do to stop Hillary from one of her reckless gambles with the lives of other people.

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Citizen Of Earth's picture

So Leslie Stahl says something like "But you are filling your team with lobbyists." To which he had no answer except, "That's all I had to choose from. Everyone is a lobbyist in Washington." Smile

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

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"Police have taken shocking and inhumane measures against Indigenous protectors in Standing Rock as they peacefully defend their land and water. They’ve used tear gas, sound cannons, concussion grenades, armored vehicles, and rubber bullets. They’ve shot horses. They’ve detained people in dog kennels and marked them with numbers on their bodies."

Who has done the above?
Who has allowed this?

Obama and his so called progressive legacy.

I know longer know which politician to despise more. I'll just work against them all from now on.

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"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison

more often than it will make you incorrect, in my view. What a crop of money grubbers and power junkies!

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

Citizen Of Earth's picture

DAPL is one of Obama greatest shames. And he's got a lot of bad ones.

Chris Hedges said a while back, there will be little difference between a Hillary or Trump presidency.

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

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Decreeing that Bannon was an anti-Semite.

Once they figured out that he's Jewish, they changed it to "white nationalist". The trouble is, HuffPo has lost all credibility with some of the crazy nonsense they've been peddling.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

a "white" nationalist when the Jews are Semites? Or, has the ADL gotten in wrong all these years?

I think HuffPo did a thorough job of soiling itself this recent election season.

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

Bisbonian's picture

Arabs are also Semites, and that the government of Israel is therefore anti-Semitic.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

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is Jewish.
From : http://forward.com/news/354329/will-steve-bannon-be-the-anti-semitic-fir...

The reaction was quick and furious from Jews and anti-hate groups. The Anti-Defamation League, which stays out of partisan politics and vowed to seek to work with Trump after his election, denounced Bannon as “hostile to American values.”

His ex-wife, Mary Louise Piccard, reportedly claimed during their divorce that Bannon did not want their daughters to attend private schools in Los Angeles because there were too many Jewish students there.

According the court documents, Piccard stated: “He said he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats.’”

He also asked why there were “so many Chanukkah books” in the library of another school.

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Don't believe everything you think.

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

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from his wife.

I had heard that he was Jewish, but can't find a source. No matter, these anti-Semitic tropes won't stick, considering Trump's relationships. It's just more blatant hysterical screaming of the type the Dems have engaged in too much of lately.

There are better ways to oppose and fight Trump.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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No matter, these anti-Semitic tropes won't stick, considering Trump's relationships. It's just more blatant hysterical screaming of the type the Dems have engaged in too much of lately.

There are better ways to oppose and fight Trump.

They are not mutually exclusive ways to fight him. This for starters is fine way. If his first hires is an anti-semitic, white supremacist, it's a good way to start.

I know that the democratic party has played identity politics for too long. Problem is, that's all they played. Steven Bannon is a toxic POS

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Don't believe everything you think.

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but it'll be hard to accuse Trump of being an anti-Semite when he's only going to trot Jared Kushner and his daughter out to deny it.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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All week I (and we) have been so happy to have missed the Clinton bullet. Well, it looks like it is time to face what amerika has wrot. I expect bad news will pile on bad news. We had no choice! It was either warmonger or this. Now we have this....

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that's what we'll do to the best of our abilities.

If Trump turns on the dispossessed workers, like Obama turned on his progressive supporters, then a leftist opportunity may well arise. (A far right opportunity is also a distinct possibility.) There will be special editions of bad news.

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

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comparing parallels to the Weimar Republic and the USA going to include demographics, per capita deaths, suicides, livelihoods ruined, nutritional diet of the average child from birth to school age, along with weighting measures to record the collective despair felt at the close of WWI?

Because if it doesn't, as the granddaughter of German ancestors who survived both WWI & WWII, I find the suggestion that a "like" by "like" list could accurately capture the zeitgeist that led to the Nazi regime short of contributing anything valuable to the discussion of the state of our polity.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier