Steve Bannon.

[Dill]

(02-10-2017, 10:48 PM)hollodero Wrote: Here I am, coming home pretty drunk, and what do I have to see, there is not a single thread on Bannon. Although that times story is one of the more interesting aspects.

Is Bannon the chief manipulator, the one holding the strings?
It kind of makes sense. Trump, by all means, doesn't seem to be very inteligent. I'm sorry, not that I intend to offend those I dislike, it's honestly how I feel about him. He looks like what indeed was in plain sight all the time, he's a egocentrical, vain person, definitely not without talents, but nothing implies that he is actually smart. Just full of self-confidence.
Just look at these tweets and tell me honestly they seem like smart words from a smart person. I say they really don't. I use said tweets as all the proof I need.
Bannon, as much as I despise him, seems like a very smart person, though. The story makes sense. Trump had the ambition, the money, the independence and the incredible vanity. Bannon has the insight about right-wing potential, the manipulative skills. And probably the mind of a Joker. Getting off on the thought of creating mayhem, causing it, forcing it at will. I mean, he got voted on your security council, Trump signed the order he "wasn't briefed on"... that alone tells a lot, I'd think.

So well yeah, I think he created that alt-fact environment, he calls the shots, that's my best guess by now. What do you think.


(Oh and I do not need one more day, stay on the fence for technical reasons for another 80 days or so, I've seen enough and already call Trump an awful president and this period a full-blown disaster. Don't mind you disagreeing, and reason of course still prevails, but I do not intend to even pretend any forced impartiality on that one.)

I see the recent Der Spiegel has an article on Bannon--"Mephistos Plan."  You European types get all worked up just because the commander in chief of the world's most powerful military chose a Brownshirt for his closest advisor.

Hollo you need to relax and look upon this as a grand experiment.

We are about to find out if ignorance of how government actually works, stacked upon a lifetime of disinterest in books (history, politics, science), tempered by absence of empathy for victims of war and poverty, fueled by need for adulation, and propelled by a keen sense of how to channel racial anger into authoritarian policy, will make America Great Again.

Even if all this goes downhill and drags the rest of the world along, you have to admit that--for some Americans at least--there will be a few months of feeling gloriously empowered as poor illegals are expelled from the country, Hollywood elites and virtually all world leaders not named "Putin" are kicked in the teeth, and billionaire cabinet members and advisors roll up their sleeves and--once their taxes are cut--get to work defending interests of working class white Americans.