I’m happy to jump on the Bannon is stupid train, but to be fair, he thought he could win out over his SIL. Which is not outside the realm of crazy IMO.
I imagine it goes like this…
Ivanka: “Daddy, that smelly, ugly man is being mean to my husband… <pout>”
Other hand, this could be the chance Trump has been waiting for to get back at Kushner for stealing his girlfriend.
(Stolen from Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, of all places)
disapproving Donald Trump thought-cloud: “not much of a pussy-grabber like he brags about, either.”
Two antagonists, no protagonist, makes for a morally ambiguous Steel Cage Deathmatch. I’m leaning Team Jared!, but won’t wear the t-shirt.
Correct me if I’m mistaken here, but Flynn held the rank of Lieutenent General in the Army, is that right? And Trump has a right wing website running fake news dude with security clearance there to “keep an eye on him”? Are you fucking shitting me???
Since Trump has been elected, I think I’ve asked that question more times than I had previously asked in all my years combined.
He wouldn’t be doing it to keep an eye on him because he doesn’t know what he’s doing. It would be to keep him toeing the line. Trump basically is admitting he was trying to assert a sort of dictatorial control.
Remember, Trump only actually trusts people who kiss his ass. Well, and his family’s ass.
Note all the anti Jared Kushner stories in Breitbart. Bannon may have no financial stake now but he sure as hell still has influence. I don’t think he’s a happy camper and he definitely blames Kushner for his degrading. Probably rightly, Kushner loathes him.
NYT says that Jared Kushner neglected to mention his meetings with Russian government officials on his security clearance application.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/politics/jared-kushner-russians-security-clearance.html
Why am I posting this in the thread about Bannon’s degradation?
Draw your own conclusions.
(Note: I don’t actually expect anything to come of this instance of a Trump supporter lying about his contacts with the Russians.)
Bannon is the one who set up Trump’s meeting with Tulsi Gabbard. He’s much too anti-interventionist for Trump’s recent hard turn to the right in foreign policy. Yes, the generals Mad Dog and McMaster probably had him ousted. They are paid killers after all. Funny how this is “normalizing” things. Says a lot about the state of US politics.
Note: I don’t support Bannon in any way, spare me.
I think most of us can agree that Bannon is a cockroach that needs to be stomped (Miller along with him). But characterizing McMaster and Mattis as killers is hyperbolic. I think any military leader who’s made it this far up the command chain knows very well that military solutions are not a substitute for political solutions. So I doubt very much they are whispering in Trump’s ear that the US can kill it’s way to a solution in Syria (or anywhere else).
I think that Bannon was one of the guys that convinced Trump to override McMaster when he advised that Cohen-Watnick (who is the most likely guy that leaked the unmasking or did the unmasking of the non targeted people under surveillance) should be out.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-timeline-speaks-clearly
IMHO Trump is beginning to realize what a mistake he did by appointing Bannon. At least the “end of times followers -with a bigoted cherry on top of that shit sundae-” group and their talking points are being discredited in the eyes of Trump, but then the swamp people will take over (The Wall Street and Goldman and Sacks group)
Make no mistake. By the end of this administration you will see plainly that these guys are plain killers. Indeed that’s the only tool they have besides cyber attacks. The idea that political and military solutions are not synonymous is cute.
Ah yes, Tulsi Gabbard. I’d Pit her if I had the energy. Yeah, every now and then an elected Dem is a genuine idiot.
The thing about Trump is, he’s never been anti-interventionist. He’s more the ‘do nothing, or bomb the shit out of them’ type.
Even for a lefty like me, calling our military “paid killers” is really a pretty appalling thing to say.
I don’t like it when far-left kooks say that sorta crap - while I understand where they’re coming from, it’s still wrong. But what are you doing, saying shit like this?
Accuracy. It’s important that ideological camouflage does not prevent someone from seeing the government for what it is. If someone studies killing through the centuries, is highly knowledgeable about the assorted ways to kill, and is paid to kill in the most effective way possible, I consider that person a paid killer. That person has made a career from killing.
Doesn’t make them wrong or evil. There are times when some people need killing.
Ok then why get bent out of shape about calling someone a paid killer?
Has he been degraded, again? This whole thing makes me so happy.
Oddly enough, some of us (even on this board) actually wanted to serve our country and are proud of it. You clearly haven’t. You have not the slightest clue what you’re talking about, just the judgmental and prejudiced opinion of an outsider.
Believe it or not, I managed to get through my entire military service without killing a single person.
What a difference a few days makes.