Interesting how all the chickens eventually come home to roost, isn’t it? Particularly in politics. Trumpty Dumpty is headed for yet another great fall in the weeks and months to come as the January 6 Committee uncovers all the dirt on his seditious actions leading up to and on the day of the Capitol riot. He knows that. Nevertheless, here’s his usual idiotic and impotent lashing out at reality.
Now here is Harry Reid spelling out for Trump exactly why he shouldn’t have Steve Bannon in the White House.
No person is more vindicated by the news of Bannon’s indictment than former senate leader Harry Reid, who in this video, urges President-elect Trump to rescind his appointment of Bannon as his top strategist. Watch this video you won’t be disappointed ? pic.twitter.com/lPANVcdvOZ
— Michael Leone✍️ ?????? (@MichaelFromIL) November 12, 2021
“Rise to the dignity of the office, instead of hiding behind your Twitter account.” The Senator was spot on. This is terrific, not to mention well sourced and well argued, advice for Trump. But of course he couldn’t hear a word of it.
It’s true that everything Trump touches dies and a corollary to that is that anybody in the vicinity of Steve Bannon tends to find themselves wading in the sewer sooner or later.
Stay tuned tomorrow morning for Steve Bannon Perp Walk 2.0. We went through this last year, and we’re going to go through it again. He won’t get hauled off of an 150 foot yacht, he’s supposed to turn himself in.
And take a look at this. Eric Greitens is the new Roy Moore. We can only hope that Bannon’s endorsement of Greitens does for him what Bannon’s endorsement of Roy Moore did back in the day in Alabama. As you may recall, the comment was made that the “state is so red that you could open the phone book and point at a name and get the person elected on the Republican ticket” but somehow Bannon effed it up. Those were the days.
Steve Bannon is an America First Warrior and an American Patriot. pic.twitter.com/IY4CwIuiQX
— Eric Greitens (@EricGreitens) November 12, 2021
From Charlie Sykes’ newsletter this morning:
In the months since, his podcast has continued to be a vector of disinformation about the podcast. As Thomas Lecaque and J.L. Tomlin wrote in the Bulwark:
Bannon’s podcast, “War Room,” continues to promote conspiracy theories about the 2020 election—the day after his subpoena running a segment titled “50k Illegal Ballots in One County Alone.” His guests have included Trumpist members of Congress, like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene; conspiracy theorists Jack Posobiec and Mike Lindell; anti-vaxers; and other subpoenaed Trump administration figures. Topics run the gamut from the border to the debt ceiling to “how schools are indoctrinating kids” to “the battle of Lepanto” (sure to appeal to far-right Crusade-cosplaying insurrectionists and mass murderers alike). Perhaps most provokingly given his subpoena defiance, an episode on October 13 was entitled “The Continued Search for the Truth of January 6th.”
He’s also got plans for the Trumpist Restoration/Revenge Tour.
On September 29, Bannon appeared at the Capitol Hill Club—a Republican club on the House side of the Capitol—for the launch of a new organization, the Association of Republican Presidential Appointees, founded to prepare future appointees “to optimize their tenure and ability to advance public policy goals.” In an interview afterwards with NBC, Bannon described his comments as, “If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately.” He would double down on that sentiment on his podcast on October 4, saying “We control the country. We’ve got to start acting like it. And one way we’re going to act like it, we’re not going to have 4,000 [shock troops] ready to go, we’re going to have 20,000 ready to go.”
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The latest indictment hasn’t slowed him down. This is from Friday’s episode of Bannon’s podcast:
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We’re taking action and that action is we’re taking over school boards, we’re taking over the Republican Party through the precinct committee strategy. We’re taking over all the elections. Suck on this. Ninety-five percent of the billets in Virginia were occupied of election officials and poll watchers and that is a principal reason that we secured the election of Youngkin. OK?
And they know it, and that’s all it is — getting all these, you know, anti-democratic –no, they’re there to have a free and fair count. And we’re going to continue that and we’re going to get to the bottom of three November and we’re going to decertify the electors. OK? And you’re going to have a constitutional crisis. But you know what? We’re a big and tough country, and we can handle that, we’ll be able to handle that.
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David Frum reminds us that Bannon knows exactly what he is doing. Thanks to the right-wing media ecosystem, Bannon and other Trump partisans” don’t need to convince much of anybody of much of anything.”
It won’t bother the Trump partisans that their excuses are a mess of contradictions. They say that nothing happened, and that it was totally justified; that Trump did nothing, and that Trump was totally entitled to do it. Their argument doesn’t have to make sense, because their constituency doesn’t care about it making sense. Their constituency cares about being given permission to disregard and despise the legal rules that once bound U.S. society. That’s the game, and that’s how Bannon & Co. will play the game.
The key themes that Bannon and the right-wing media sphere play on are theocratic takeover, burning books, taking over school boards and wrecking public education as it presently exists and the Big Lie. What a world.
Bannon wasn’t the only racist in scumbag’s white house. Steven Miller is just as bad. Since Miller is Jewish by birth, I wonder how he and Bannon got along.
I think also, a goal of his is dismantling the government as it currently exists.
He said so himself.
The joke is that the former guy only listens to people who tell him what he wants to hear.
So, did Bannon effectively claim that his side committed fraud by “securing” an election? He actually says, “We’re taking over all the elections.” That sounds like somebody was doing something a little bit shady.