"Bannon whispered to colleagues, 'She's going to get us. Total assassin. She's an assassin.'"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Philip Rucker ✔ @PhilipRucker

“Watching Pelosi challenge Trump, Bannon whispered to col­leagues, ‘She’s going to get us. Total assassin. She’s an assassin.’”

A new scene from #AVeryStableGenius via @mikeallen @axios

https://www.axios.com/steve-bannon-nancy-pelosi-assassin-trump-book-f1ed1040-7479-4629-9b8d-c59bcb5a7f50.html?cf=sidedoor …
New book: Steve Bannon called Nancy Pelosi "an assassin"
Bannon watched Pelosi challenge Trump on the first Monday of his presidency.

6:19 AM - Jan 17, 2020

[NCLefty]

1. He's such a shit-stain.

“The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon reportedly said in 2018. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation

[empedocles]

7. 'The real opposition is the media'. trump understands this so well.

trump may seem so much more worried now, that even fox NOW has these damaging reports. Worse for trump is the fox chyrons, "IMPEACHMENT''!

[maxsolomon]

48. And that strategy is what we've been swimming in everyday. Shit.

It works well. It addles the brains of the gullible, and exhausts and depresses those paying attention.

[gab13by13]

2. Pretty hard to get "them"

since they have Barr and Senators who are complicit. I do have faith that because of Speaker Pelosi we will get them at the ballot box, and when we do, none of this mister nice guy stuff, people need to do jail time. Too bad they outlawed public flogging.

[KPN]

34. Not just jail time -- jail for long periods of, if

not, their life.

[lastlib]

39. Barr and the Senators and the judges....

an offensive line, in every sense of the words.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Bannon's view of politics driven by elite players

just doesn't jive with the polls supporting impeachment. He's a certified nutjob.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. More from Rucker & Leonnig's book:

Link to tweet

Greg Sargent ✔ @ThePlumLineGS

Trump to his generals: The Afghan war is a "loser war."

"You're all losers. You don't know how to win anymore."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/youre-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-inside-trumps-stunning-tirade-against-generals/2020/01/16/d6dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html …



6:48 AM - Jan 17, 2020

That's some mighty-fine C-in-Cing right there...

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. The U.S. was never going to win that war.

The British learned that the hard way during the 19th century.

[bigbrother05]

28. Afganistan has been a 'loser war' since Alexander the Great, if not longer

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. Very true.

[csziggy]

33. "Never get involved in a land war in Asia."

ETA - My husband contends that swords were invented to fight wars in Afghanistan.

[2naSalit]

30. And russia in the 20th. ...nt

[not fooled]

42. "The Graveyard of Empires"

That's what Afganistan has been called, for hundreds if not thousands of years...yet the neo cons thought they would do better and dragged the country into this unwinnable war.

Afghanistan is particularly hard to conquer primarily due to the intersection of three factors. First, because Afghanistan is located on the main land route between Iran, Central Asia, and India, it has been invaded many times and settled by a plethora of tribes, many mutually hostile to each other and outsiders. Second, because of the frequency of invasion and the prevalence of tribalism in the area, its lawlessness lead to a situation where almost every village or house was built like a fortress, or qalat. Third, the physical terrain of Afghanistan makes conquest and rule extremely difficult, exacerbating its tribal tendencies. Afghanistan is dominated by some of the highest and more jagged mountains in the world. These include the Hindu Kush, which dominates the country and run through the center and south of the country, as well as the Pamir mountains in the east. The Pamir Knot — where the Hindu Kush, Pamir, Tian Shan, Kunlun, and Himalayas all meet is situated in Badakhshan in northeast Afghanistan.

[link:https://thediplomat.com/2017/06/why-is-afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-empires/|]

And...

Trump operates by a policy of ‘confuse and move’. He makes a shocking statement or behaves in a shocking way, draws the world’s attention to himself, and then moves on to whatever is next on his agenda - a further shocking act or statement eclipsing what went before; the news agenda moving too fast for substantive analysis. But some behaviour is too shocking to be left undealt with - and some regions of the world have not been groomed to accept whatever the president does.

...

It’s an American election year - many believe the Soleimani attack was a convenient ‘confuse and move’ tactic to put the issue of impeachment on the back-burner, to focus American minds on wicked foreign enemies. Instead, a president who promised no more wars, looks on the brink of starting one.

[link:https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18146261.neil-mackay-iranian-assassination-crisis-spells-end-american-empire/|]

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I can't tell you how happy I am with Speaker Pelosi.

I can't think of anyone who could have done a better job.

[lostnfound]

19. Agreed. Dealt a lukewarm hand, she's playing the cards better than anyone

There are a ton of strong people throughout the country who we opposed to Trumpism, which helps.
But she has done a masterful job of optimizing the chances of defections in the Senate.

[empedocles]

6. 'She is going to get us', was so vividly reported by M. Wolfe in his book, 'Seige'.

' . . . Bannon felt a shiver go down his spine. He leaned close to priebus and whispered, " She so sees through us".

[Bannon was a major source for Wolfe. So many books, articles, reports, commentaries, since then. Might be starting to get through to the voting public consciousness].

[Dennis Donovan]

8. Perhaps, but this book is written by 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning WaPo reporters

Michael Wolfe isn't really in the same league.

[empedocles]

9. Good. The evidence keeps accumulating, and trickling down to trump's base.

The fox chyrons are LOUD.

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. "She so sees right through us"

Yeah, well...if you weren’t a group of utter incompetents, with no clue how to do the jobs you found yourselves falling ass-backward into, it wouldn’t be so damned obvious.

And it wasn’t just the Madam Speaker that saw right through them. It was every American with any brains who had been paying any attention at all that also saw right through them.

The fucking Keystone Kops come to Washington, try and run the Executive Branch, and utterly fail from the get go.

[Whiskeytide]

43. That's not what he was observing her ...

... “seeing through”. It’s easy to see that they were and are incompetent. We’ve all seen that from the beginning of trump’s campaign. What Pelosi saw was that the people actually making the decisions (the ones who are NOT incompetent) were using systemic incompetence as a tool to weaken the democracy. The Speaker saw through all the idiots running around chasing their tails - the headlines - and noted the grander scheme behind it all. She saw Bannon and knew what he was.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. She's a patriot.

A total patriot. Chasing traitors.

[la-trucker]

11. Speaker Pelosi has my utmost admiration and respect

I can't wait for the day she completes her 00 job (00 as in James Bond)

[Dennis Donovan]

15. Double-naught spy!

[catbyte]

12. ...

[llmart]

14. +1000

I absolutely love this pic!

[Dennis Donovan]

16. "The redcoats are coming" works on a few different levels in this pic

[OMGWTF]

35. Nancy's daughter was with her when she bought that coat and she said it's

not red, it's BURNT ORANGE.

[Dennis Donovan]

36. Yeah, I guess I can see that...

[Blaukraut]

38. Fitting. She burns Trump at every turn n/t

[PandoraAwakened]

17. OMG, I so want this as a screensaver!

[Wednesdays]

32. Somebody here with good Photoshop skills

should be able to create a good animated gif for a screensaver.

Meanwhile, you can simply copy & paste the picture for a kickass wallpaper!

[Arkansas Granny]

22. +1

[IronLionZion]

13. Their side has steaming piles of waste

while our side has a total assassin. Pelosi's got this!

[Kingofalldems]

18. "Do you paint houses?"---Nancy Pelosi

[Botany]

24. Or aka Nancy P is a house painter

She is going old school gangsta old Trump and company.

Bannon knows that Trump was put into power by Russia, Cambridge Analytica, the Mercers,
and the rat fucking of our elections and he is scared shitless of "it" all coming out. This "stuff"
with the Ukraine now is just an extension of 2016 because Russia has been paying for "the
Rudy and Levi show" all along.

[B Stieg]

20. Consciousness of Guilt

Bannon is scum.

[duforsure]

23. Bannon?

Oh the guy who was sent by trump to meet with hate groups around the world inciting them for their cause.

[Javaman]

25. no, she's not an assassin...

she's an American Patriot who stands behind law and order and the U.S. Constitution. And does it very well.

that's the kind of person crooks, thrives, thugs, money launderers, traitors and liars hate.

[2naSalit]

31. +1

[eppur_se_muova]

44. She's the law in these here parts. nt

[Paladin]

26. So glad they got rid of Bannon, early-on.

As sick and evil as he is, he's obviously a hell of a lot smarter than the rest of trump's ass-kissing staff. Better to have him outside the tent, pissing in...….

[ancianita]

37. If this vampire administration sees her driving a stake through its heart as "assassination,"

it totally works for me.

Constitutional assassins of corporate vampirism are what we need more of.

[coti]

40. This is just how right-wingers think and talk. Everything is conflict or killing. nt

[ancianita]

41. And ideological war language -- "battles" and "beach heads," "targets" and "fronts," --

to keep up that war image of conflict and killing.

[C Moon]

45. There's a weak link somewhere in that GOP front line, if anyone can dig it up, Pelosi can.

[Collimator]

46. Let's deconstruct this. . .

In terms of being a political functionary, Bannon is the assassin. It's his elemental goal and his M.O. confirms this.

In terms of methodology, Pelosi could be likened to an assassin. The difference is that she is supremely skilled.

Coming from Bannon in those circumstances, the label wasn't meant to be an insult. "Game recognize game"; Bannon was waking up to the fact that he was out-classed.

[lunatica]

47. Who thought he would give such high praise to a Democrat

He may think of himself as a kingmaker but he has to admit she’s a kingbreaker!

[FakeNoose]

49. Steve Bannon thinks highly of Rachel Maddow too

I think he gives credit where it's due, even when discussing liberals and especially Democratic women. I've read two books by Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury and Siege. In Fire and Fury Bannon is quoted as saying he would like to sponsor/produce Maddow in her own show on a new network if she should ever leave her current employer. (Whatever that means!) In both books, Wolff provides extensive (occasionally unflattering) quotes and background info from Bannon.

One has to wonder why Bannon would reveal so much to someone who's surely going to put it all in a book for major publication. It leads me to surmise that Mr. Bannon has no plans to ever write his own memoir.