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So much winning covfefe!!!!!!!1

You can't be serious.

Wonder who the Bannon guys are that are left and will soon be shown the door. Miller? Conway? Read the article on Breitbart and it talked about how important Bannon and Conway were to Trump which might signal that they're connected. Personally i don't give a crap about Conway but I'd love to see Miller get the boot.

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I just finished Joshua Green's Devil's Bargain book. It's a really good read on the Bannon and Trump relationship. It also show how wrong @ben4titans is regarding Bannon and the alt-right.

 

A good summary and quotes: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/books/review/devils-bargain-steve-bannon-donald-trump-joshua-green.html?mcubz=0

 

“Darkness is good,” was Bannon’s advice for dealing with criticism from groups such as the Anti-Defamation League. “Don’t let up.” At another moment, when the campaign feared House Speaker Paul Ryan would try to steal the G.O.P. nomination from Trump, Bannon threatened to rally Breitbart’s army. “Pepe’s gonna stomp their ass,” he said — “Pepe the Frog” being the alt-right’s white-supremacist cartoon mascot on Twitter.

 

Later, while running an Internet business in Hong Kong, Bannon discovered the underworld of online gamers; “intense young men” who “disappeared for days or even weeks at a time in alternate realities.” One of those alternate realities was “World of Warcraft,” in which millions of people were digitally transformed into secret soldiers waging titanic battles in unseen worlds against mythical enemies.

 

Bannon seemed to intuit that this digital world could be recreated for his political purposes, by designing an apocalyptic narrative of righteous warriors waging an end-of-days battle by all necessary means against assorted enemies: jihadists, progressives, Acela-corridor Republicans, the Clintons. Republican political operatives had spent the Obama years wondering about the “missing” white voters who had failed to show up for John McCain and Mitt Romney. Turns out, they (or others like them) were online, and Bannon — whose own fantasies were suggested by a portrait he had of himself in his office, dressed as Napoleon — was proposing to supply this army with the necessary ammunition.

Much of it would come from the bile factory at Breitbart News. Another part would be supplied by the Government Accountability Institute, a Tallahassee, Fla.-based nonprofit that mined the “deep Web” and dug up the dirt on the Clinton Foundation for Peter Schweizer’s 2015 blockbuster “Clinton Cash.” There was also a data-analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, an offshoot of a British company “that advised foreign governments and militaries on influencing elections and public opinion using the tools of psychological warfare.”

 

What all of this added up to was a kind of alt-G.O.P. — agile and indifferent to norms and boundaries — that could supply the Trump campaign with everything it needed to win. Bannon has described himself as a “Leninist” for wanting to “destroy the state.” Whether he will achieve that is doubtful, but he seems to share Lenin’s genius for building a secret party with radical designs, ready to pounce at the historically opportune time.

 

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6 minutes ago, Btowner said:

I just finished Joshua Green's Devil's Bargain book. It's a really good read on the Bannon and Trump relationship. It also show how wrong @ben4titans is regarding Bannon and the alt-right.

 

A good summary and quotes: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/books/review/devils-bargain-steve-bannon-donald-trump-joshua-green.html?mcubz=0

 

“Darkness is good,” was Bannon’s advice for dealing with criticism from groups such as the Anti-Defamation League. “Don’t let up.” At another moment, when the campaign feared House Speaker Paul Ryan would try to steal the G.O.P. nomination from Trump, Bannon threatened to rally Breitbart’s army. “Pepe’s gonna stomp their ass,” he said — “Pepe the Frog” being the alt-right’s white-supremacist cartoon mascot on Twitter.

 

Later, while running an Internet business in Hong Kong, Bannon discovered the underworld of online gamers; “intense young men” who “disappeared for days or even weeks at a time in alternate realities.” One of those alternate realities was “World of Warcraft,” in which millions of people were digitally transformed into secret soldiers waging titanic battles in unseen worlds against mythical enemies.

 

Bannon seemed to intuit that this digital world could be recreated for his political purposes, by designing an apocalyptic narrative of righteous warriors waging an end-of-days battle by all necessary means against assorted enemies: jihadists, progressives, Acela-corridor Republicans, the Clintons. Republican political operatives had spent the Obama years wondering about the “missing” white voters who had failed to show up for John McCain and Mitt Romney. Turns out, they (or others like them) were online, and Bannon — whose own fantasies were suggested by a portrait he had of himself in his office, dressed as Napoleon — was proposing to supply this army with the necessary ammunition.

Much of it would come from the bile factory at Breitbart News. Another part would be supplied by the Government Accountability Institute, a Tallahassee, Fla.-based nonprofit that mined the “deep Web” and dug up the dirt on the Clinton Foundation for Peter Schweizer’s 2015 blockbuster “Clinton Cash.” There was also a data-analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, an offshoot of a British company “that advised foreign governments and militaries on influencing elections and public opinion using the tools of psychological warfare.”

 

What all of this added up to was a kind of alt-G.O.P. — agile and indifferent to norms and boundaries — that could supply the Trump campaign with everything it needed to win. Bannon has described himself as a “Leninist” for wanting to “destroy the state.” Whether he will achieve that is doubtful, but he seems to share Lenin’s genius for building a secret party with radical designs, ready to pounce at the historically opportune time.

 

Fascinating. Dude was just lying in wait ready to rope in disaffected dopes like the ones at TR. 

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It took 45 two months to condemn Duke ... and even then he dog whistled his way through the condemnation.

 

Bannon, like Karl Rove before him, evil genius. The man fully understands the fears of aging white population in urban areas and general white population in rural areas. He fully understands that Democrats lose these groups by pushing inclusion, equality, understanding. He knows how to make the argument about statues taking the target off of the support of Alt-Hate groups. Bannon is a brilliant nationalist strategist and Trump owes him and Kellyann Conartist an unrepayable debt for making him President.  

 

That being said, I don't believe that Bannon or Trump are racists. They are opportunists that played the race card to win an election. #MAGA, barely code words. 

 

Very curious to see who Trump becomes next since he is reported to have no true personal policy other than self-aggrandizement. Personally, I hope it's Paul Ryan. Not holding my breathe.

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1 hour ago, ben4titans said:

Are the many videos of Trump condemning and denouncing Duke/white supremacists over the years fake? Are you guys now just openly denying reality to fit your agenda the MSM gives you?

Kellyanne Conway is on record telling CNN, “You always want to go by what’s come out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart.”

 

Are you just listening to what he says, without looking at his actions? Trump supporters cannot have it both ways. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, ben4titans said:

 

Just stop with your stupid bullshit. It sounds lame coming from CNN and even worse when you regurgitate it.

I think he's right.  Bannon is smarter than most, and he knows how to reach those with weaker minds and fear.  Look at you.  He wrapped you up like a Christmas present.  

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