Steve Bannon is fomenting a far-right power grab

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You mean fomenting a far-right power grab

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Scores of former Trump political appointees gathered at a GOP social club Wednesday night to hear Steve Bannon detail how they could help the next Republican president reconfigure government.

"I gave 'em fire and brimstone," he tells @NBCNews. https://nbcnews.to/2WzwYi1
6:56 PM · Oct 2, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bannon-fires-shock-troops-next-gop-white-house-n1280591?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

WASHINGTON — Scores of former Trump political appointees gathered at a GOP social club Wednesday night to hear Steve Bannon detail how they could help the next Republican president reconfigure government.

"If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Bannon said in a telephone interview with NBC News. "I gave 'em fire and brimstone."

Bannon, who ran former President Donald Trump's first campaign and later worked as a top adviser in the White House, said that Trump's agenda was delayed by the challenges of quickly filling roughly 4,000 slots for presidential appointees at federal agencies and the steep learning curve for political officials who were new to Washington.

He is not alone in that view. His appearance at the Capitol Hill Club came at the invitation of a new organization called the Association of Republican Presidential Appointees, which was formed to create a resource for future GOP officials tapped to fill federal jobs.

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You mean fomenting a far-right power grab

He's literally saying it. Why are you letting him do this.

""If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Bannon said in a telephone interview with NBC News."

Like, what the fuck. It's not 2016 any more. There is no more plausible deniability.

He is not a clever man speaking metaphorically, he's a stupid bully speaking aspirationally. Everything else is bullshit.

Also this is a great example of why you DO NOT repeat what disinformation purveyors say without paraphrasing or at the very least adding context. He's signaling.

Huge frustration here: I hear colleagues bloviating all day long about the need for "media literacy," but God forbid I try to educate them about (extremely well-documented) tactics like signaling. Too many would much rather gaslight me than admit they don't know something
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[Boydog]

1. How is his big fat smelly butt not in jail

I thought he was indicted for fraud. Don’t these morons ever get convicted

[Thomas Hurt]

3. The Pig pardoned him.

[Boydog]

9. Forgot about that

[Grasswire2]

2. and nobody has audio of this to leak?

Cough it up, someone.

[JHB]

4. Right-Wing Saboteur Academy, government level.

Trump's agenda wasn't delayed. He had no agenda beyond having his name praised and stuffing his pockets.

On the other hand, Bannon's destructive agenda was delayed because Trump only delegates to loyal toadies. There were far too many positions to fill and Trump was too lazy to work hard at it to find people.

Bannon's trying to prepackage a grab-and-go band of saboteurs for the next Republican to squeeze himself into the Oval Office (who, considering all the potentials, is guaranteed to be feckless). It's the Federalist Society's program for grooming judges applied to appointees.

And, of course, those mercenaries will carry out his agenda, not their nominal boss', if there's so much as a paper-thin difference between them.

[hatrack]

5. Yes, the "challenges" of filling 4,000 presidential nominations . . . .

Nominations that El Jefe de Merde aLago didn't even know he was required to fill.

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In the meeting with Obama, the Journal reports, Trump seemed surprised by how much the president has to do: “Mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr. Trump seemed surprised by the scope.”

He wants to continue holding large rallies — “he likes the instant gratification and adulation that the cheering crowds provide” — and perhaps running his own Twitter account, according to the New York Times.

Nor did Trump realize he had to hire a staff. The Wall Street Journal wrote that Trump aides “were … as unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama’s term.”

And, the Times reported, he “might spend most of the week in Washington, much like members of Congress,” and spend the weekends on his various properties around the country, including Trump Tower in New York and Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13624858/donald-trump-transition-presidency

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6. "Deconstruct" -- I don't think that word means what you think it means. (xp)

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2808024

[Baked Potato]

7. He's really pushing the limits of a free society. Nt

[spanone]

8. the ongoing slow-motion coup d'etat

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. If this was a cartoon, someone would have dropped a piano on him already

Right after slapping his nose around the back of his head