Tag: Bannon

Fascist spectacle on the American democratic stage

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Fascist spectacle on the American democratic stage

In 2017, Trump’s political strategist Steve Bannon called Robert Kuttner out of the blue about forming an “economic nationalist” alliance of the right and the left. Kuttner is a progressive journalist and editor of The American Prospect who has been highly critical of pro-corporate “free trade” agreements like NAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership. He is also fervently anti-Trump.

The phone call was shortly after the horror of Charlottesville and Trump’s unwillingness to denounce the fascists. Kuttner was “stunned” that Bannon thought that some shared opinions between them “might somehow paper over the political and moral chasm on white nationalism,” he wrote in a 2017 Prospect article. Bannon was the Darth Vader of white nationalism who used Breitbart to stir up racial bigotry, misogyny and Islamophobia. He helped create Trump’s far-right base.

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Allied?! 🤔💭

Senate Intel Committee Wants Justice Department to Investigate Steve Bannon

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Senate Intel Committee Wants Justice Department to Investigate Steve Bannon

The Senate Intelligence Committee sent a bipartisan letter to the Justice Department on July 19, 2019, seeking an investigation into former Trump ally Steve Bannon, according to the Los Angeles Times. The letter, which has not been made public but was viewed by the LA Times, was signed by the chairman at the time, Sen. Richard M. Burr (R-NC), as well as Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), and outlined accusations against Bannon of lying to lawmakers when he testified about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

LA Times article

According to the letter, the committee believed Bannon may have lied about his interactions with Erik Prince, a private security contractor; Rick Gerson, a hedge fund manager; and Kirill Dmitriev, the head of a Russian sovereign fund.

[2016] Steve Bannon’s Cure For Mental Illness? ‘Spank Your Children More’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Steve Bannon’s Cure For Mental Illness? ‘Spank Your Children More’

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Bannon’s Worldview: Dissecting the Message of ‘The Fourth Turning’

The following YT channel is my new guilty pleasure. Exposing Steve Bannon’s lies with titles dunking on him.

YouTube: It’s absurd Steve Bannon who calls for corporal punishment of daughters handles state relations.

Flooding the zone with shit

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Flooding the zone with shit

Observers of the current chaos in the US, UK, Brazil and elsewhere often ask why the populist leaders, Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro, behave so ineptly. Why do so many people follow leaders with no discernible plan or competence? The reason, as the journalist Jay Rosen has explained, is that the plan is to have no plan. Rather, the leaders promote massive confusion about who is responsible for Covid-19 and the economic and social situation, fixing blame on ‘leftists’, the press, China, or some other foreign element; imposing tariffs that will disadvantage their own populations; withdrawing from the World Health Organisation … and so on. The aim, in the words of Steve Bannon, is to ‘flood the zone with shit’, overwhelming the media and the population with disinformation, distraction, and denial. Out of this chaos will step the saviour strong man, as Trump stepped out of the clouds of tear gas released on his own people to hold up a bible in front of the White House church.