WTF - In an executive order, Trump reorganized the National Security Council to, along with other changes, gives Bannon a regular seat on the principals committee - the meetings of the most senior national security officials, including the secretaries of Defense and State.
Of course, we’ve put a prominent white supremacist on the security council. I think it’s pretty clear that Trump is letting Bannon run much of our domestic and foreign policy while Trump raves like a mad man. What I find even more alarming is how many of the GOP are going along with this either because they don’t care about anything except staying in power, or because the GOP has become so extreme that their views pretty much align with the neo-Nazi movement.
Someone will come along shortly to explain that Breitbart News isn’t a white supremacist outlet and even if it is, that doesn’t mean the person who ran it is a white supremacist for some reason or other that they’ll never really make clear, but will succeed in derailing the fact that Bannon is now on the NSC.
Only Hitler is Hitler. Bannon is an all American white supremacist on the NSC while the actual Director of National Intelligence no longer has a permanent seat on the NSC.Trump gives Stephen Bannon National Security Council role
…with 18 film credits on IMDB!
(every single one sucks donkey nads.)
[spoiler] I especially appreciate the one about the ‘mad scientist’ who is going to murder people in a steam room unless his “crack-pot theory” ***** on Global Warming is broadcast.
*Oh wait. Its working again. Test ( :rolleyes: ).
For a minute my eye-roll smilie over loaded and stopped working. It was like Aubrey Plaza needing the Heimlich Maneuver…
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I am always hesitant to go with Hitler comparisons but there are some frightening parallels between what’s happening now and the rise of the Nazis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The conservatives in the Reichstag thought Hitler was a joke and believed that he and his fledgling party could be controlled to get what they wanted, only to be proven wrong at every turn, which resulted in ever-weakening opposition.
Obviously the values of liberalism are probably stronger and more widespread in the United States in 2017 than they were in 1930s Germany. And unlike Hitler, who assumed control amid the post-WWI political and economic chaos, Trump takes over an economy that is expanding. The baseline is that Trump is taking control of a country that is doing fairly well, even if a number of his supporters feel otherwise. But at the same time, there is the same distrust of institutions and the sentiment that globalism is injurious to the people within their borders. Nationalism is on the rise.
Other options: lack of principles, afwaid of The Trumpster, afwaid of their constituents, hiding under their desks, no balls, all of the above, and then some.
Bannon has the classic look of an alcoholic: pasty, doughy complexion; dull, rheumy eyes; overweight and unshaven. Not just my opinion, but that of medical professionals. We really don’t need a drunkard heading up this group.
Don’t praise McCain too hard, he still put party before country when he endorsed Trump (later recinded but it never should have been done) and he’s still an idiot.
Also, I think Palin paved the way for Trump, but McCain is with us today and when a jackass flies you don’t blame it for not staying up there very long.
Oh, he’s a piece of work alright. But he must also be the very best advisor there is, since Mr. Trump told us he would have the very best people in his cabinet… right?
I’m not canonizing him, just giving credit to him for speaking up. He should have ditched Trump back when Trump insulted him during the campaign. But I’m still glad he’s finally saying something about Bannon.
Bannon is now, apparently, senior to the Joint Chief of Staff in Trump’s administration. He is qualified because he is a former naval officer. Anybody know what his retired rank was? Anybody? Bueller???
I dont see the big deal. The NSC will have 3 former generals on it so its not as though it will be berift of military advice. This just seems to be hating on Trump and Bannon. Not that theres anything wrong with that. I just think its best to limit it to situations where its obviously bad.
Why would you remove the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs from their permanent seats? Room too small? The USA can’t afford the cash for extra office chairs? Or something else?
He didn’t retire, as he only served seven years. He was on a destroyer and had a gig at the Pentagon. He probably made it to Lieutenant grade in that amount of time, and may have been eligible for Lieutenant Commander when he got out. I doubt that he made it past the O-4 grade, as time in grade would have precluded it.