Steve Bannon to Step Down From Breitbart Post

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon is stepping down from his post as executive chairman of Breitbart News, the company will announce on Tuesday.

Mr. Bannon’s departure, which was forced by a onetime financial patron, Rebekah Mercer, comes as Mr. Bannon remained unable to quell the furor over remarks attributed to him in a new book in which he questions President Trump’s mental fitness and disparages his elder son, Donald Trump Jr.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/politics/steve-bannon-breitbart-trump.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[democratisphere]

1. The party is over..........

[lagomorph777]

12. The RePutin Party?

Please let it be so.

[democratisphere]

13. Agreed. Enough is enough!

[hlthe2b]

2. My disdain/dislike for Bannon knows no bounds, but I don't like that this is going to

further embolden Trump...

[iluvtennis]

7. Ditto

[fountainofyouth]

3. Master strategist!

[underpants]

11. Yeah he really considered all the angles and depths of the situation

[Ellipsis]

4. Huzzzahh!

[marble falls]

5. I can't wait until the mass feeding on each other really begins as Nov 6 starts looming over them.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. He'll probably create a new entity

I doubt he'll go quietly in the night.

[cstanleytech]

9. That or they plan to work with him in secret and claim innocence for whatever shit he spews.

[erronis]

19. Yep - easier for Sleaze Steve to do his mischief away from his patrons

Still, you have to wonder who would really want to have him as a source or a sewer of information. Both in and out holes would be vile cesspools.

[pecosbob]

8. Pretty bad

when even the feces flingers don't want you around.

[Kristofer Bry]

10. The Heart Truly Bleeds

[Mr. Sparkle]

14. lol it never ceases to amaze me how fast the right wing donors

throw their useful idiots overboard when the hit their sell by date. As soon as Bannon was disowned by Trump , his donors (lobbyists) dropped him like a bad habit.

[3catwoman3]

27. Bannon look like he reached his "sell by"...

...date a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long time ago - maybe decades. One FUGLy and unkempt dude.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

31. Authoritarians kill their wounded. NT

[Squinch]

15. He's such toast!

My prediction: he'll go from failure to failure from here on.

[Marie Marie]

16. Bannon is having a very bad month.

[lunasun]

41. Here's hoping for an entire bad year for Bannon

[magicarpet]

17. Hopefully Bannon pulls the pins.....

.... and then tosses a few hand grenades back in to the tr-dump White House as a parting of the ways gift.

[erronis]

20. Dump toast already. I'd like to see some grenades launched at Murdoch, Mercers, Kochs.

Mercers were big funders of Breitbart and supported Bannon's insertion into the Dump's inner circle.

And lurking in the mid-ground is a bear.

[pressbox69]

43. The Mercers kicked Bannon to the curb

like a smelly dead dog. Maybe Bannon will muster some support and go all Joe Stalin on Big Daddy Mercer and his dog ugly daughter. After that he can target Breitbart propaganda.

[laserhaas]

18. WOW

[Binkie The Clown]

21. Another step on the road to irrelevance. nt

[KWR65]

22. The alt-right nation it's exploding.

In the end Trump will be locked in a closet in the White House thinking about how Hitler escaped the mess that he created.

[Honeycombe8]

24. Unfortunately for Dems, this means Trump's power as President is more entrenched.

This will cause the Republicans to hang onto him even more tightly than before. If he could, and would, destroy Bannon, he could, and would, do that to THEM.

[Mc Mike]

45. If all of Bannon's froggie guys go over to dRumpf, all the better.

I'd hate to see frog on frog violence. And it will get all the creep nazis and official repugs in one basket. Easier to keep track of, denounce, indict, and target.

I'd still watch Bannon's failing endeavors. Not personally, just look out for news of what he's up to. Maybe there's no real fight between him, Mercers, and dRump. They might be play acting to attain their dream of a glorious reich.

Wonder if dRump can dump Flynn, and keep his bircher intel underlings? Can Mercer knock out bannon, and keep all bannon scumbags' loyalty? Can dRump and Mercer still play to the base while appearing to side with establishment g.o.p.?

[Honeycombe8]

50. No, not that.

What I believe I said was that seeing how Trump trounced and humiliated and destroyed a powerful foe (previously a bff), this may cause other Republicans to rally 'round Trump even more than they do now. Out of fear.

[Mc Mike]

52. Apologies, didn't mean to mischaracterize your statement.

I was just pointing out some other angles to it, not trying to wrench your viewpoint out of shape.

Those creeps could be 'fighting' like professional wrestlers, too. That kind of b.s. is right up their alley.

[Honeycombe8]

23. Whoa. The King is dethroned. Whoa. They fired his a__ for doing exactly why they had him there.

Spouting off extreme disparaging "truths" about other people.

But FIRST they let him humiliate himself by apologizing. (I'm not smiling. Really I'm not.....Okay, I am. )

[SummerSnow]

25. Trump is going to tweet something real nasty now

about Bannon. Trump is gloating at this.

[C Moon]

26. I still will see him in the WH as a bad dream. It's so hard for my brain to grasp.

Trump is a different nightmare, entirely.

[Hav]

28. I hope that means his loss of income

He might need to write a book to make some money...

[Puzzler]

29. Trump will say he never met Bannon ...

... or something ridiculous.


-Puzzler

[MrPurple]

37. I think he did already say that he only played a minor role

Trump is basically a dumber, less credible version of Jon Lovitz' compulsive liar character from SNL.

[True_Blue]

51. Trunp probably wouldn't even recognize him if they were in the same room.

[Gothmog]

30. The Deplorables belong to trump and not bannon

[Wounded Bear]

32. This is right up there with al Qaeda kicking ISIS out...

for being too crazy.

[janterry]

33. It would have been better for Bannon to stick with the treason statement

at least he could claim the 'higher' ground when more charges are brought.

Now he's left with nothing

[AlexSFCA]

34. its ironic that the book meant to destroy

trump is destroying bannon instead who contributed the most to its publication, lol

[FakeNoose]

47. Bannon should write his own book, and I bet he will

I mean, he knows where all the bodies are buried, right? Trouble is if he really told everything then he'd burn his bridges for good. It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

[Cheviteau]

35. Step Down? Really?

More like handed his hat with a quick swift in the ass out the door. Don't mess with Becky Mercer...she got the coins.

[MrPurple]

36. If Dotard and the Rethugs go down in flames, will Bannon then look shrewd for having called it?

There could possibly be more chapters for him down the road, though without Dump's cult of personality disorder, hopefully Bannon's brand of politics wouldn't play nationally again.

[FakeNoose]

48. The stuff Bannon said in that book was from last year

Some of it goes back to before Trump was inaugurated. The rest was from the early months of 2016.
I'm sure Bannon wishes he could take those words back - now. But it's too late, damage is done.

Now he has to write his own book and tell the rest of the story. He knows how crazy Trump REALLY is.

[MrPurple]

49. Yeah, that seems like his clearest career path

To continue what he's now started and write books and provide inside dirt on Trump and right wing politics, which would sell to people who hate his politics. It would be hilarious if he ended up as a commentator on MSNBC, like Pat Buchanan did.

[Maxheader]

38. Another genius

bites the dust.

[JDC]

39. F Bannon and all of his ilk

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. No more Mercer money for you

Reduced to begging for change on the street corner.

[DonCoquixote]

42. until this man is finally in his grave

We cannot count him out. The GOP, unlike us, will brign back and polish their worst.

[yuiyoshida]

44. Waiting for Brietbart to DIE on the vine

worse than Fox News..

[titaniumsalute]

46. So his radio show on Sirius...

Lasted about a week.