Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

babylonsister

(171,036 posts)
Tue May 17, 2022, 08:16 AM May 2022

'We Are Ascendant!' Defiant Steve Bannon Addresses Replacement Theory

Scary stuff right here...

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/05/we-are-ascendant-defiant-steve-bannon

'We Are Ascendant!' Defiant Steve Bannon Addresses Replacement Theory
Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon on Monday vowed not to back down in promoting a racist conspiracy theory that was allegedly cited by suspected Buffalo gunman Payton Gendron.
By David — May 16, 2022


Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon on Monday vowed not to back down in promoting a racist conspiracy theory that was allegedly cited by suspected Buffalo gunman Payton Gendron.

On his daily War Room: Pandemic podcast, Bannon insisted reports about the "replacement theory" were meant to distract the public. Bannon has previously promoted a French book that inspired the theory, which claims that white citizens are being replaced by immigrants.

"Of course, all of the morning shows are all over Tucker Carlson and a few others about the replacement theory," Bannon complained. "They seem to miss the point. And here's what we're not going to back off on. For people who have followed this show from day one, we are inclusive nationalists. Right?"

"OK? So, this is not about race," he continued. "This is about American citizenship! This is about the value of your citizens."


Bannon said that he was "not backing off one inch" despite the shooting.

"This is why we're going to take over every elections board in the nation," he remarked. "This is why we're going to take over every medical board in this nation. This is why we're going to take over state legislatures and D.A.s and attorney generals [sic] and secretaries of state and governors. And we're not going to stop. We are ascendant!"


Watch the video below via Real America's Voice:


29 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
'We Are Ascendant!' Defiant Steve Bannon Addresses Replacement Theory (Original Post) babylonsister May 2022 OP
'Ascendant'??? - magrat megalomaniac empedocles May 2022 #1
the gammon looks like he fell asleep on a beach again eShirl May 2022 #2
This is about racist Americans killing Americans. The Jungle 1 May 2022 #3
I doubt Bannon is a Christian by any stretch of the imagination. Captain Zero May 2022 #5
Look at all those pictures behind him. The Jungle 1 May 2022 #6
Bannon's little facade of piety Zambero May 2022 #9
Those are pictures of deities he has created in his own image. LastDemocratInSC May 2022 #10
Those are a signal to his groyper followers Rob H. May 2022 #14
Yep. The execrable Michael Voris and Church Militant, the Groypers,... keep_left May 2022 #27
Question 🙋‍♀️ Tickle May 2022 #4
Believe it or not, that dirtbag was a Naval officer EYESORE 9001 May 2022 #11
hard to believe but I do believe you nt Tickle May 2022 #12
Not really surprised. Shipwack May 2022 #15
It's not that the crazies are running the asylum. It's that Baitball Blogger May 2022 #7
Sounds like he doesn't think the people shot in Buffalo were American citizens at all Walleye May 2022 #8
They weren't in his mind. SoonerPride May 2022 #19
He frequently goes to white nationalist conferences in Europe too IronLionZion May 2022 #26
So far he has been right... orwell May 2022 #13
+1 n/t OneGrassRoot May 2022 #21
Keep on ascending, Stevie... kentuck May 2022 #16
True. Caliman73 May 2022 #17
I think more likely a short drop and a hard stop. harumph May 2022 #20
He said they would rule for 50 years in 2016 CrackityJones75 May 2022 #18
Republican message is not about serving the citizens or making life better in America or morality. Midnight Writer May 2022 #22
Never forget that Donald Trump gave this man a senior position in the White House. nt Bleacher Creature May 2022 #23
This isn't a "distraction". This should be shouted from the rooftops! Initech May 2022 #24
The people murdered in Buffalo are American citizens IronLionZion May 2022 #25
My favorite irony of all this is when people of color and "ethnics" like RooshV... keep_left May 2022 #28
The first person I'd replace is that abuser of women malaise May 2022 #29
 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
3. This is about racist Americans killing Americans.
Tue May 17, 2022, 08:33 AM
May 2022

Wonder why he does not talk about that terrorism.
Bannon is a Christian terrorist.

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
6. Look at all those pictures behind him.
Tue May 17, 2022, 08:45 AM
May 2022

He thinks he is a great Christian. But like all repukes he is a slave to the dollar.

Zambero

(8,962 posts)
9. Bannon's little facade of piety
Tue May 17, 2022, 09:22 AM
May 2022

Lookie lookie everyone, see how religious I am!
The shit I spew must be divinely inspired!
Oh, by the way, ignore that morally corrupt bigot behind the curtain!

Rob H.

(5,349 posts)
14. Those are a signal to his groyper followers
Tue May 17, 2022, 10:53 AM
May 2022

Full article here.

White nationalists get religion: On the far-right fringe, Catholics and racists forge a movement
Nick Fuentes' racist "groyper" movement is building a coalition with far-right Catholics. They have a plan

By Kathryn Joyce and Ben Lorber

(snip)

In today's groyper movement, classic white nationalist themes of "white genocide," white identity politics and conspiratorial antisemitism blend seamlessly with fervent appeals to Christian piety, slogans like "Christ is King" and militant calls to enshrine Christian fundamentalism as state policy. Most groypers are young and enthusiastic adherents of Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Latter-day Saints or other Christian faith traditions, and many are first drawn into the movement through its ubiquitous "trad" subculture — a largely online aesthetic celebrating a rejection of modernity and embrace of patriarchal, anti-LGBTQ values — and become "red-pilled" on the tenets of white nationalism along the way.

For the groypers, hard-edged, traditionalist opposition to LGBTQ rights, abortion and feminism is rooted in uncompromising misogyny and male supremacy, a worldview in which straight, white, Christian Gen-Z men are valorized as the rightful heirs to and guardians of the American nation. Today, the groypers' strategic blend of white and Christian nationalism has arrived right on time, helping the movement find natural allies among hard-right Christian groups — particularly Catholic right groups like Church Militant — and, from there, to build new pathways towards mainstream acceptance.

(snip)

Last November, (Church Militant) hosted a noisy, daylong rally on the Baltimore waterfront to protest the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops next door. Church Militant's emcee for the event, fallen "alt-lite" star turned groyper leader Yiannopoulos — who joined Church Militant as a regular contributor in 2021 after declaring himself "ex-gay" — directed the roughly 1,200-person audience to chant "Lock them up" at the bishops gathered nearby. It was he, in fact, who reportedly arranged for Marjorie Taylor Greene to speak at Fuentes' AFPAC III in February.

Another groyper leader speaking at Church Militant's Baltimore rally was anti-immigrant pundit Michelle Malkin. The day after speaking at the white nationalist American Renaissance conference, Malkin told the Church Militant crowd that USCCB aid to immigrants and refugees had the "ultimate goal of fundamentally transforming the United States of America and destroying the historic American nation" — white nationalist language that echoes the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, according to which whites in the U.S. are being "replaced" by non-white immigration.

keep_left

(1,780 posts)
27. Yep. The execrable Michael Voris and Church Militant, the Groypers,...
Tue May 17, 2022, 03:03 PM
May 2022

...Nick Fuentes, and Michelle Malkin, who calls herself "Groyper Mommy"; Bannon and "Real America's Voice"--among others--are mainstreaming this crap. I first heard about the moronic Groypers on a Chapo Trap House episode. The Chapo guys were accosted at a CPAC conference by Fuentes and his "Groyper Army".

Tickle

(2,488 posts)
4. Question 🙋‍♀️
Tue May 17, 2022, 08:33 AM
May 2022

I’m sorry if I come off mean but how in the hell did this guy get a job? Any job. He looks like he needs a shave and shower and I think his skin is full of cradle cap.

Remember when you had a baby and their scalp developed that crust? He has it through out his body

There I said it

Shipwack

(2,158 posts)
15. Not really surprised.
Tue May 17, 2022, 11:29 AM
May 2022

After spending 20 years in the navy I have no trouble believing that.

The officer corps is filled with idiots and dirtbags who cover for and help each other. The higher you go, the greater the percentage. I have seen a few exceptions to the rule (the head of the nuclear power program was surprisingly one), but they are rare.

Baitball Blogger

(46,684 posts)
7. It's not that the crazies are running the asylum. It's that
Tue May 17, 2022, 08:50 AM
May 2022

we can't put the crazies in the asylum so they're allowed to run their podcasts.

orwell

(7,769 posts)
13. So far he has been right...
Tue May 17, 2022, 10:17 AM
May 2022

...while we keep laughing at these clowns they are achieving their goals.

A rabid theocratic minority has merged with rapacious capitalists to effectively hijack the democracy.

Caliman73

(11,726 posts)
17. True.
Tue May 17, 2022, 12:17 PM
May 2022

Fascist movements tend to end in destruction and disgrace. The problem is that usually a lot of people are hurt and killed in the process.

 

CrackityJones75

(2,403 posts)
18. He said they would rule for 50 years in 2016
Tue May 17, 2022, 12:20 PM
May 2022

They lost the house in 2018. Then the senate and WH in 2020.

This guy doesn’t know his ass from his mouth. Frankly neither do I.

Midnight Writer

(21,719 posts)
22. Republican message is not about serving the citizens or making life better in America or morality.
Tue May 17, 2022, 12:38 PM
May 2022

It is about ruling, taking over, taking names and kicking ass.

Initech

(100,043 posts)
24. This isn't a "distraction". This should be shouted from the rooftops!
Tue May 17, 2022, 01:35 PM
May 2022

That this is who we are dealing with - we're dealing with out of control racist conspiracy theory fuckheads who don't take responsibility for anything they do and any major disaster / catastrophe either didn't happen or it was not their fault. Fuck these people.

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
25. The people murdered in Buffalo are American citizens
Tue May 17, 2022, 02:05 PM
May 2022

Job stealers like me are American citizens.

Who is replacing who in replacement theory?

These racists think brown/black/Jews/whatever are replacing European Americans like what happened to Native Americans.

keep_left

(1,780 posts)
28. My favorite irony of all this is when people of color and "ethnics" like RooshV...
Tue May 17, 2022, 03:23 PM
May 2022

...and Nick Fuentes jump onboard these movements, somehow thinking they're going to ride the tiger, and then get a bitter taste of reality. Roosh already tangled with the Stormfront thugs who threatened to kill him. Apparently, Nazis think that when you LARP as an Iranian MRA/PUA, that's "degeneracy" punishable by a lynching. Who knew?!

As for Nick, "fuck around and find out": Nazis don't care that you "look white" when your name is "Fuentes".

He will discover sooner than he thinks that those trains are coming for him, too...and believe me, those trains run on time.

malaise

(268,724 posts)
29. The first person I'd replace is that abuser of women
Tue May 17, 2022, 03:41 PM
May 2022

The first thing I see is a man who needs a bath from head to toe - disgusting piece of racist shit,

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»'We Are Ascendant!' Defia...