Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saw this on Facebook, spreading the word

Here's a concrete action a friend of a friend proposed: Friends, let's seek a tactical victory this week. Let's try to stop the Bannon appointment. Presidents have had to back down before, for comparatively minor reasons. (Some of us are old enough to remember Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, Bill Clinton's two AG appointments, who had to withdraw for failing to pay Social Security taxes.) Let's not assume this is a done deal.
Let's do what we can to stop this. I have enclosed a list of actions below. Please feel free to add to this, especially those of you with organizing experience (some of whom I've tagged).

1) If you live in the US, call your Representatives and Senators and tell them this is unacceptable.
2) Paul Ryan is feigning ignorance again. Call his office at (202) 225-3031 and let him know that this is not ok. Same with Majority Leader McConnell, (202) 224-2541.
3) Call out the media when they report the Bannon appointment as a straight news story or refer to him as a "Breitbart executive" or a "provocateur," but don't call him what he is: a white supremacist, anti-semite, misogynist. Don't let them normalize.
4) Where protests are ongoing, make this the focus, with signs, chants, etc. Next week we can turn out attention to other things. But for now let's focus like a laser on this.
5) Let's get religious groups on board; maybe even mainstream business groups, like the Chamber of Commerce (202-659-6000).
6) Contact other people of influence--College presidents, high-profile coaches and anyone else who has a public megaphone.
We can do this. #stopbannon

Bump! Call your congressmen!

#keep23yearoldinternsbusy

Do you think congressmen ignore their constituents? They do not, it's their actual job not to

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saw this on Facebook, spreading the word

Here's a concrete action a friend of a friend proposed: Friends, let's seek a tactical victory this week. Let's try to stop the Bannon appointment. Presidents have had to back down before, for comparatively minor reasons. (Some of us are old enough to remember Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, Bill Clinton's two AG appointments, who had to withdraw for failing to pay Social Security taxes.) Let's not assume this is a done deal.
Let's do what we can to stop this. I have enclosed a list of actions below. Please feel free to add to this, especially those of you with organizing experience (some of whom I've tagged).

1) If you live in the US, call your Representatives and Senators and tell them this is unacceptable.
2) Paul Ryan is feigning ignorance again. Call his office at (202) 225-3031 and let him know that this is not ok. Same with Majority Leader McConnell, (202) 224-2541.
3) Call out the media when they report the Bannon appointment as a straight news story or refer to him as a "Breitbart executive" or a "provocateur," but don't call him what he is: a white supremacist, anti-semite, misogynist. Don't let them normalize.
4) Where protests are ongoing, make this the focus, with signs, chants, etc. Next week we can turn out attention to other things. But for now let's focus like a laser on this.
5) Let's get religious groups on board; maybe even mainstream business groups, like the Chamber of Commerce (202-659-6000).
6) Contact other people of influence--College presidents, high-profile coaches and anyone else who has a public megaphone.
We can do this. #stopbannon

Bump! Call your congressmen!

#keep23yearoldinternsbusy

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

+1,000,000

For the record,and I was no fan, but Andrew brietbart would be completely disgusted by brietbart today. He abhorred racism

Anonymous wrote:Saw this on Facebook, spreading the word

Here's a concrete action a friend of a friend proposed: Friends, let's seek a tactical victory this week. Let's try to stop the Bannon appointment. Presidents have had to back down before, for comparatively minor reasons. (Some of us are old enough to remember Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, Bill Clinton's two AG appointments, who had to withdraw for failing to pay Social Security taxes.) Let's not assume this is a done deal.
Let's do what we can to stop this. I have enclosed a list of actions below. Please feel free to add to this, especially those of you with organizing experience (some of whom I've tagged).

1) If you live in the US, call your Representatives and Senators and tell them this is unacceptable.
2) Paul Ryan is feigning ignorance again. Call his office at (202) 225-3031 and let him know that this is not ok. Same with Majority Leader McConnell, (202) 224-2541.
3) Call out the media when they report the Bannon appointment as a straight news story or refer to him as a "Breitbart executive" or a "provocateur," but don't call him what he is: a white supremacist, anti-semite, misogynist. Don't let them normalize.
4) Where protests are ongoing, make this the focus, with signs, chants, etc. Next week we can turn out attention to other things. But for now let's focus like a laser on this.
5) Let's get religious groups on board; maybe even mainstream business groups, like the Chamber of Commerce (202-659-6000).
6) Contact other people of influence--College presidents, high-profile coaches and anyone else who has a public megaphone.
We can do this. #stopbannon

Bump! Call your congressmen!

Replacing Hitler with Trump via the ******


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“In a sense,” he says in an introduction, “****** will be ‘normalized’ — although this will not make him seem more ‘normal.’ If anything, he will emerge as even more horrific.”
This is the first of two volumes (it ends in *** with the ********** ***** birthday) and there is little here that is substantially new. However, Mr. ****** offers a fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstance, chance, a ruthless individual and the willful blindness of others can transform a country — and, in ******’s case, lead to an unimaginable nightmare for the world.

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• ****** was often described as an egomaniac who “only loved himself” — a narcissist with a taste for self-dramatization and what Mr. ****** calls a “characteristic fondness for superlatives.” His manic speeches and penchant for taking all-or-nothing risks raised questions about his capacity for self-control, even his sanity. But Mr. ****** underscores ******’s shrewdness as a politician — with a “keen eye for the strengths and weaknesses of other people” and an ability to “instantaneously analyze and exploit situations.”

• ****** was known, among colleagues, for a “bottomless mendacity” that would later be magnified by a slick propaganda machine that used the latest technology (radio, gramophone records, film) to spread his message. A former finance minister wrote that ****** “was so thoroughly untruthful that he could no longer recognize the difference between lies and truth” and editors of one edition of “**** ****” described it as a “swamp of lies, distortions, innuendoes, half-truths and real facts.”

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• ****** increasingly presented himself in messianic terms, promising “to lead ******* to a new era of national greatness,” though he was typically vague about his actual plans. He often harked back to a golden age for the country, Mr. ****** says, the better “to paint the present day in hues that were all the darker. Everywhere you looked now, there was only decline and decay.”

• ******’s repertoire of topics, Mr. ****** notes, was limited, and reading his speeches in retrospect, “it seems amazing that he attracted larger and larger audiences” with “repeated mantralike phrases” consisting largely of “accusations, vows of revenge and promises for the future.” But ****** virtually wrote the modern playbook on demagoguery, arguing in “**** ****” that propaganda must appeal to the emotions — not the reasoning powers — of the crowd. Its “purely intellectual level,” ****** said, “will have to be that of the lowest mental common denominator among the public it is desired to reach.” Because the understanding of the masses “is feeble,” he went on, effective propaganda needed to be boiled down to a few slogans that should be “persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward.”

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• ******’s ascension was aided and abetted by the naïveté of domestic adversaries who failed to appreciate his ruthlessness and tenacity, and by foreign statesmen who believed they could control his aggression. Early on, revulsion at ******’s style and appearance, Mr. ****** writes, led some critics to underestimate the man and his popularity, while others dismissed him as a celebrity, a repellent but fascinating “evening’s entertainment.” Politicians, for their part, suffered from the delusion that the dominance of traditional conservatives in the cabinet would neutralize the threat of **** abuse of power and “fence ****** in.” “As far as ******’s long-term wishes were concerned,” Mr. ****** observes, “his conservative coalition partners believed either that he was not serious or that they could exert a moderating influence on him. In any case, they were severely mistaken.”

• ******, it became obvious, could not be tamed — he needed only five months to consolidate absolute power after becoming *********************** ****** states” were brought into line, Mr. ****** writes, “with pressure from the party grass roots combining effectively with pseudo-legal measures ordered by the ***** government.” Many ******s jumped on the **** bandwagon not out of political conviction but in hopes of improving their career opportunities, he argues, while fear kept others from speaking out against the persecution of the *****. The independent press was banned or suppressed and books deemed “un-******” were burned. By March *****, ****** had made it clear, Mr. ****** says, “that his government was going to do away with all norms of separation of powers and the rule of law.”
• ****** had a dark, Darwinian view of the world. And he would not only become, in Mr. ******’s words, “a mouthpiece of the cultural pessimism” growing in right-wing circles in the ***** ******, but also the avatar of what Thomas Mann identified as a turning away from reason and the fundamental principles of a civil society — namely, “liberty, equality, education, optimism and belief in progress.”

Anonymous wrote:
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.

This is not true. Why do you think Priebus got the chief of staff gig and not Bannon?
Bannon is a complete slime bucket whom white nationalists see as their advocate.

White nationalist leaders are praising Donald Trump's decision to name former Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as his chief strategist, telling CNN in interviews they view Bannon as an advocate in the White House for policies they favor. Bannon's hiring, they say, is a signal that Trump will follow through on some of his more controversial policy positions.

"I think that's excellent," former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke told CNN's KFile. "I think that anyone that helps complete the program and the policies that President-elect Trump has developed during the campaign is a very good thing, obviously. So it's good to see that he's sticking to the issues and the ideas that he proposed as a candidate. Now he's president-elect and he's sticking to it and he's reaffirming those issues."

Peter Brimelow, who runs the white nationalist site VDARE, praised Bannon's hiring, saying it gives Trump a connection to the alt-right movement online.
"I think it's amazing," Brimelow said of Trump's decision to tap Bannon. "Can you imagine Mitt Romney doing this? It's almost like Trump cares about ideas! Especially amazing because I would bet Trump doesn't read online. Few plutocrats do, they have efficient secretaries."

Chairman of the American Nazi Party, Rocky J. Suhayda, who wrote a post after Trump's election night victory celebrating it as a call to action, said he was surprised at the pick of Bannon, but said it showed him Trump could follow through on his campaign promises.
"I must admit that I was a wee bit surprised that Mr. Trump finally chose Mr. Bannon, I thought that his stable of Washington insiders would have objected too vociferously," Suhayda wrote in an email. "Perhaps The Donald IS for 'REAL' and is not going to be another controlled puppet directed by the usual 'Wire Pullers,' and does indeed intend to ROCK the BOAT? Time will tell."

Richard B. Spencer, the president of the white nationalist National Policy Institute, wrote a series of tweets on Sunday evening saying Bannon had the best position as chief strategist, ... and could help Trump focus on the big picture of setting up his agenda.
"Steve Bannon might even push Trump in the right direction. So that would be a wonderful thing," he told CNN on Sunday before the announcement, adding that he hopes to push Trump in an increasingly radical direction."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/white-nationalists-on-bannon/

Domestic violence notwithstanding .... A creep and cretin, who panders to the KKK and Neo-Nazis and looks like a bum. What on earth could be wrong with having the White House associated with such a person?

Anonymous wrote:
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.

+1,000,000

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

Exactly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

Anonymous wrote:
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.

Anonymous wrote:Agains a different poster, but you are the one who claimed that the parallels to Hitler's rise were not apt.

I personally think they are eerily similar, so ya, your turn.

And I personally think that your ears are eerily similar to Stalin's, not to talk about your brain.

Prove otherwise.

You truely don't see how stupid your approach is?

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.