Call to Action: Stop Bannon Appointment

[Anonymous]

I called Kaine and Warner this morning to insist they oppose and denounce Bannon. I'm prepared to do it again if need be, and I'm prepared to be a pain in their ass right on up until something gets done about this shit. I have to accept Trump as president; I don't have to blithely accept any halfwit he intends to put in his administration. It is my right AND YOURS to voice this to the people who are beholden to us as their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I called Kaine and Warner this morning to insist they oppose and denounce Bannon. I'm prepared to do it again if need be, and I'm prepared to be a pain in their ass right on up until something gets done about this shit. I have to accept Trump as president; I don't have to blithely accept any halfwit he intends to put in his administration. It is my right AND YOURS to voice this to the people who are beholden to us as their jobs.

Good for you. I intend to keep calling as well, and many, many people in my networks are doing the same. This is not about winning/losing the election, it's about what's right for our country. Hate helps no one.

[Anonymous]

From scarymommy.com: "The Hill got ahold of an email exchange between Bannon and Breitbart’s Washington editor, Matt Boyle from December 1 of last year. Boyle suggested supporting Paul Ryan’s planned overhaul of the mental health system. “I’ve got a cure for the mental health issue,” Bannon replied. “Spank your children more.”

Spank. Your. Children. More. Let’s take a moment to let that sink in.

The more you spank your children, parents, the less likely they are to be mentally ill. This from a man who will be safely ensconced in the White House, influencing policy on everything from the Keystone Pipeline to, you know, coverage of mental health care. Are you freaking out yet? You should be."

[Anonymous]

‘Breitbart Embassy’ on Capitol Hill suddenly has more cachet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/11/16/breitbart-embassy-on-capitol-hill-suddenly-has-more-cache/
The stately mansion located near the Supreme Court holds offices sometimes used by the right-wing media organization — which was (is? the ties are still unclear) led by Stephen K. Bannon, the top campaign aide to President-elect Donald Trump who was named the incoming president’s chief strategist and senior counselor.

Work aside, the brick dwelling also functions as a party house for the city’s conservative class.

Annual soirees include those timed near the Conservative Political Action Committee’s conference and the White House Correspondents’ Association’s glitzy dinner, plus the odd book party celebrating a conservative author. Many of the festivities at the formally decorated (think ornate chandeliers, swag curtains and oil paintings) venue are extravagant affairs: the 2014 CPAC party featured “speakeasy” theme, along with a 17-piece swing band, free-flowing champagne and cigar rollers.

In addition to offices in the carriage house and the basement, there are living quarters there, and Bannon reportedly uses the upper levels of the four-bedroom residence as his Washington crash pad. According to D.C. property records, the house is owned by Moustafa el Gindy, a former member of the Egyptian parliament who is now a member of the country’s opposition party. It has long been unclear what, if any, his relationship is with the Breitbart crew, other than that of landlord.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:‘Breitbart Embassy’ on Capitol Hill suddenly has more cachet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/11/16/breitbart-embassy-on-capitol-hill-suddenly-has-more-cache/
The stately mansion located near the Supreme Court holds offices sometimes used by the right-wing media organization — which was (is? the ties are still unclear) led by Stephen K. Bannon, the top campaign aide to President-elect Donald Trump who was named the incoming president’s chief strategist and senior counselor.

Work aside, the brick dwelling also functions as a party house for the city’s conservative class.

Annual soirees include those timed near the Conservative Political Action Committee’s conference and the White House Correspondents’ Association’s glitzy dinner, plus the odd book party celebrating a conservative author. Many of the festivities at the formally decorated (think ornate chandeliers, swag curtains and oil paintings) venue are extravagant affairs: the 2014 CPAC party featured “speakeasy” theme, along with a 17-piece swing band, free-flowing champagne and cigar rollers.

In addition to offices in the carriage house and the basement, there are living quarters there, and Bannon reportedly uses the upper levels of the four-bedroom residence as his Washington crash pad. According to D.C. property records, the house is owned by Moustafa el Gindy, a former member of the Egyptian parliament who is now a member of the country’s opposition party. It has long been unclear what, if any, his relationship is with the Breitbart crew, other than that of landlord.

Egyptian Agitator Hosts Breitbart News CPAC Party At His House
http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/2014/03/13/egyptian-agitator-hosts-breitbart-news-cpac-party-at-his-house/

So what could unite an iconoclastic Egyptian liberal with the right wing Breitbart News? The answer is simple: they both despise the Muslim Brotherhood.

Even as he hailed their union with other opposition parties at the beginning of the revolution, Elgindy minimized the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Tahrir Square protests. After the January 2012 elections, he objected to Islamist control of the People’s Assembly, and by the Summer of that year he was voicing opposition to US support of the FJP government. When Egypt’s army swept the FJP from office in 2013, Elgindy told Breitbart.com Washington editor Mike Flynn that the Muslim Brotherhood was “finished” — and in the process, he endorsed a conspiracy theory that happens to be very popular with tea parties.

This notion of the Muslim Brotherhood as the bogeyman behind everything that goes wrong in the Middle East happens to fit very well with the paranoia-addled politics of the American right wing fringe, which sees “creeping Sharia law” at work in the region and has found new allies in Egypt. It is a favorite theme at The New American website of the John Birch Society, for instance, and a constant refrain on Glenn Beck’s webcast. As the foremost congressional advocate of this conspiracy theory, Michele Bachmann accused State Department employees of being sleeper agents of the Muslim Brotherhood and has repeatedly suggested that the organization was behind the 9/11 attacks. All of this might seem like the ravings of drunken lunatics, but at CPAC that is in fact the case.

Will the news that Elgindy hosts decadent American parties damage his image within the pious world of Egyptian politics? Will content at the planned “Breitbart Cairo” vertical reflect the staff’s relationship to Elgindy? Is the wealthy tourism magnate responsible not just for hosting their party, but financing their website alongside Israel-booster and Islamophobe Aubrey Chernick? Rest assured that we will stay on top of this story until we have answers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘Breitbart Embassy’ on Capitol Hill suddenly has more cachet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/11/16/breitbart-embassy-on-capitol-hill-suddenly-has-more-cache/
The stately mansion located near the Supreme Court holds offices sometimes used by the right-wing media organization — which was (is? the ties are still unclear) led by Stephen K. Bannon, the top campaign aide to President-elect Donald Trump who was named the incoming president’s chief strategist and senior counselor.

Work aside, the brick dwelling also functions as a party house for the city’s conservative class.

Annual soirees include those timed near the Conservative Political Action Committee’s conference and the White House Correspondents’ Association’s glitzy dinner, plus the odd book party celebrating a conservative author. Many of the festivities at the formally decorated (think ornate chandeliers, swag curtains and oil paintings) venue are extravagant affairs: the 2014 CPAC party featured “speakeasy” theme, along with a 17-piece swing band, free-flowing champagne and cigar rollers.

In addition to offices in the carriage house and the basement, there are living quarters there, and Bannon reportedly uses the upper levels of the four-bedroom residence as his Washington crash pad. According to D.C. property records, the house is owned by Moustafa el Gindy, a former member of the Egyptian parliament who is now a member of the country’s opposition party. It has long been unclear what, if any, his relationship is with the Breitbart crew, other than that of landlord.

Egyptian Agitator Hosts Breitbart News CPAC Party At His House
http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/2014/03/13/egyptian-agitator-hosts-breitbart-news-cpac-party-at-his-house/

So what could unite an iconoclastic Egyptian liberal with the right wing Breitbart News? The answer is simple: they both despise the Muslim Brotherhood.

Even as he hailed their union with other opposition parties at the beginning of the revolution, Elgindy minimized the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Tahrir Square protests. After the January 2012 elections, he objected to Islamist control of the People’s Assembly, and by the Summer of that year he was voicing opposition to US support of the FJP government. When Egypt’s army swept the FJP from office in 2013, Elgindy told Breitbart.com Washington editor Mike Flynn that the Muslim Brotherhood was “finished” — and in the process, he endorsed a conspiracy theory that happens to be very popular with tea parties.

This notion of the Muslim Brotherhood as the bogeyman behind everything that goes wrong in the Middle East happens to fit very well with the paranoia-addled politics of the American right wing fringe, which sees “creeping Sharia law” at work in the region and has found new allies in Egypt. It is a favorite theme at The New American website of the John Birch Society, for instance, and a constant refrain on Glenn Beck’s webcast. As the foremost congressional advocate of this conspiracy theory, Michele Bachmann accused State Department employees of being sleeper agents of the Muslim Brotherhood and has repeatedly suggested that the organization was behind the 9/11 attacks. All of this might seem like the ravings of drunken lunatics, but at CPAC that is in fact the case.

Will the news that Elgindy hosts decadent American parties damage his image within the pious world of Egyptian politics? Will content at the planned “Breitbart Cairo” vertical reflect the staff’s relationship to Elgindy? Is the wealthy tourism magnate responsible not just for hosting their party, but financing their website alongside Israel-booster and Islamophobe Aubrey Chernick? Rest assured that we will stay on top of this story until we have answers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/steve-bannon-florida-registered-vote-donald-trump
"A Bloomberg profile of Bannon published last October, with which he cooperated, stated that Bannon “occupies” the townhouse and described it as being “his”.

But according to records at the DC office of tax and revenue, the Breitbart house is actually owned by Mostafa El-Gindy, an Egyptian businessman and former member of parliament. Gindy has received favorable coverage from Breitbart News, which styles him as a “senior statesman”, without an accompanying disclosure that he is the website’s landlord.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I called Kaine and Warner this morning to insist they oppose and denounce Bannon. I'm prepared to do it again if need be, and I'm prepared to be a pain in their ass right on up until something gets done about this shit. I have to accept Trump as president; I don't have to blithely accept any halfwit he intends to put in his administration. It is my right AND YOURS to voice this to the people who are beholden to us as their jobs.

Oh, wow. You actually CALLED Kaine and Warner this very morning, PP?

And you're prepared to do it again?

Clap Clap Clap

Do you want a cookie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I called Kaine and Warner this morning to insist they oppose and denounce Bannon. I'm prepared to do it again if need be, and I'm prepared to be a pain in their ass right on up until something gets done about this shit. I have to accept Trump as president; I don't have to blithely accept any halfwit he intends to put in his administration. It is my right AND YOURS to voice this to the people who are beholden to us as their jobs.

Oh, wow. You actually CALLED Kaine and Warner this very morning, PP?

And you're prepared to do it again?

Clap Clap Clap

Do you want a cookie?

Thanks for bumping the thread pp! Glad you care! Everyone keep calling!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I called Kaine and Warner this morning to insist they oppose and denounce Bannon. I'm prepared to do it again if need be, and I'm prepared to be a pain in their ass right on up until something gets done about this shit. I have to accept Trump as president; I don't have to blithely accept any halfwit he intends to put in his administration. It is my right AND YOURS to voice this to the people who are beholden to us as their jobs.

Oh, wow. You actually CALLED Kaine and Warner this very morning, PP?

And you're prepared to do it again?

Clap Clap Clap

Do you want a cookie?

Thanks for bumping the thread pp! Glad you care! Everyone keep calling!!

Will do, and many people i know! We must be in the same networks.

[Anonymous]

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Andrew Breitbart was Jewish. Jared Kushner appeared to be fine with Bannon. The guy worked in Asia and in Hollywood. He was a Navy officer. He was a MD for goldman sachs, one of the biggest supporters for Hillary Clinton.

This whole fuss about Bannon is ridiculous.

No, even the National Review acknowledges he is unfit due to his gleeful association with the alt right.

National Review is in the anti trump camp. They are one of the losers in this election.

we are going to be hearing the squealing of the pigs for a long time as they get pushed aside.

+1

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Liberals do not seem to understand Trump won. He can pick whomever he chooses for whatever position he wants. He could put the racist, anti-white Al Sharpton as head of a new dept. called Buffoon Union Outreach and all people can do about it is cry and moan.

Trump can pick whomever he wants for whatever office he wants and the media and everyone else will have to stand aside and accept the inevitable.

Again: TRUMP WON. He chooses the people for positions, not the media, not Obama, Nobody but Trump and his cabinet, but it is mostly Pence who will be doing the picking as we have seen so far with the EPA pick --great pick by the way: Climate Change nonsense is going away and Senator Inhofe's great speech concerning that issue will be trumpeted throughout the nation.

AGW funding? GONE. No more wasting taxpayer dollars to gin up big boogey-man stories the sky is falling if we do not stop carbon output which is changing the climate, like we have the power to change the climate. So stupid, and Americans are tired of it.

Trump won. But that doesn't mean I died. I'm here I'm am American. This is a democracy and I'm standing up for what I believe in which is Bannon should not be in the white house.

But it's not your choice, cupcake. You don't get a say. This is NOT a democracy; it's a Republic. We elect the leaders we want and they make the decisions.

They make the decisions but the people are entitled to express how we feel about those decisions and attempt to use political power to push them away from unpopular decisions.

Let me tell you he won't get reelected if Bannon is whispering in his ear for the next four years.[b]

I think it's cute you assume there will be free election in four years. I can't take anything for granted anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I called Kaine and Warner this morning to insist they oppose and denounce Bannon. I'm prepared to do it again if need be, and I'm prepared to be a pain in their ass right on up until something gets done about this shit. I have to accept Trump as president; I don't have to blithely accept any halfwit he intends to put in his administration. It is my right AND YOURS to voice this to the people who are beholden to us as their jobs.

Good for you. I intend to keep calling as well, and many, many people in my networks are doing the same. This is not about winning/losing the election, it's about what's right for our country. Hate helps no one.

+1

[INoble]

Where was the "Stop Sharpton" crowd when BO made him the race relations czar? How'd that work out?
I keep seeing and hearing from people that have known Bannon for decades, and all say he's nothing like what people keep accusing him of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:‘Breitbart Embassy’ on Capitol Hill suddenly has more cachet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/11/16/breitbart-embassy-on-capitol-hill-suddenly-has-more-cache/
The stately mansion located near the Supreme Court holds offices sometimes used by the right-wing media organization — which was (is? the ties are still unclear) led by Stephen K. Bannon, the top campaign aide to President-elect Donald Trump who was named the incoming president’s chief strategist and senior counselor.

Work aside, the brick dwelling also functions as a party house for the city’s conservative class.

Annual soirees include those timed near the Conservative Political Action Committee’s conference and the White House Correspondents’ Association’s glitzy dinner, plus the odd book party celebrating a conservative author. Many of the festivities at the formally decorated (think ornate chandeliers, swag curtains and oil paintings) venue are extravagant affairs: the 2014 CPAC party featured “speakeasy” theme, along with a 17-piece swing band, free-flowing champagne and cigar rollers.

In addition to offices in the carriage house and the basement, there are living quarters there, and Bannon reportedly uses the upper levels of the four-bedroom residence as his Washington crash pad. According to D.C. property records, the house is owned by Moustafa el Gindy, a former member of the Egyptian parliament who is now a member of the country’s opposition party. It has long been unclear what, if any, his relationship is with the Breitbart crew, other than that of landlord.

Egyptian Agitator Hosts Breitbart News CPAC Party At His House
http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/2014/03/13/egyptian-agitator-hosts-breitbart-news-cpac-party-at-his-house/

So what could unite an iconoclastic Egyptian liberal with the right wing Breitbart News? The answer is simple: they both despise the Muslim Brotherhood.

Even as he hailed their union with other opposition parties at the beginning of the revolution, Elgindy minimized the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Tahrir Square protests. After the January 2012 elections, he objected to Islamist control of the People’s Assembly, and by the Summer of that year he was voicing opposition to US support of the FJP government. When Egypt’s army swept the FJP from office in 2013, Elgindy told Breitbart.com Washington editor Mike Flynn that the Muslim Brotherhood was “finished” — and in the process, he endorsed a conspiracy theory that happens to be very popular with tea parties.

This notion of the Muslim Brotherhood as the bogeyman behind everything that goes wrong in the Middle East happens to fit very well with the paranoia-addled politics of the American right wing fringe, which sees “creeping Sharia law” at work in the region and has found new allies in Egypt. It is a favorite theme at The New American website of the John Birch Society, for instance, and a constant refrain on Glenn Beck’s webcast. As the foremost congressional advocate of this conspiracy theory, Michele Bachmann accused State Department employees of being sleeper agents of the Muslim Brotherhood and has repeatedly suggested that the organization was behind the 9/11 attacks. All of this might seem like the ravings of drunken lunatics, but at CPAC that is in fact the case.

Will the news that Elgindy hosts decadent American parties damage his image within the pious world of Egyptian politics? Will content at the planned “Breitbart Cairo” vertical reflect the staff’s relationship to Elgindy? Is the wealthy tourism magnate responsible not just for hosting their party, but financing their website alongside Israel-booster and Islamophobe Aubrey Chernick? Rest assured that we will stay on top of this story until we have answers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/steve-bannon-florida-registered-vote-donald-trump
"A Bloomberg profile of Bannon published last October, with which he cooperated, stated that Bannon “occupies” the townhouse and described it as being “his”.

But according to records at the DC office of tax and revenue, the Breitbart house is actually owned by Mostafa El-Gindy, an Egyptian businessman and former member of parliament. Gindy has received favorable coverage from Breitbart News, which styles him as a “senior statesman”, without an accompanying disclosure that he is the website’s landlord.

Operating Breitbart from the property is a violation of DC Zoning Laws. And I doubt it's even registered to do business in DC.

[Anonymous]

More ideas

1. Get a postcard from your state - any picture that represents your state.
2. In the message section, write this simple message: NOT BANNON!
3. Sign your name if you wish
4. Address it as follows:
Donald Trump
c/o The Trump Organization
725 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022
5. Affix a stamp - you can use a 35 cent postcard stamp, or a normal letter stamp.
6. Take a picture of your postcard that you can share on social media on Nov. 26-28th
7. Drop it in the mail between Saturday, Nov 26th and Monday, Nov. 28th to create a concentrated avalanche of postcards.
8. On Nov. 26-28th, Tweet and share the heck out of your photo using the hashtags #postcardavalanche #stopbannon



More info here:http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/postcard-avalanche-oppose-stephen-bannon

[Anonymous]

INoble wrote:Where was the "Stop Sharpton" crowd when BO made him the race relations czar? How'd that work out?
I keep seeing and hearing from people that have known Bannon for decades, and all say he's nothing like what people keep accusing him of.

+1.

For all we've seen, Sharpton is a million time worse than Bannon. And I don't recall any Dem backlash against him, even when his financial irregularities and cheating came to light.