Steve Bannon has been fired

[doppelgängerr]

The truth is that Trump is an absolute nobody in the political field. He has no political affiliation. He is not a Democrat nor a Republican. He is a racist, an Islamophobe, Mexican hater, misogynist and above all a NARCISSIST.

You grabbed him by @ussy lolsss

You write too much, Instead you can use single word Modi for him.

 

[maximuswarrior]

LOL Look at them bunch of clowns. Half of them aren't even part of the make America great again team anymore LOLZ

You grabbed him by @ussy lolsss

You write too much, Instead you can use single word Modi for him.

How can I forget? He loves "Hindu" and Modi's 56" chest as well.

 

[T-72M1]

LOL Enough said.

LMAO at unshackled and resetting the news cycle. Buddy, Bannon is not as useful when being in the White House as opposed to being outside of it. Secondly, with Trump there is no ending of the news cycle. He is a narcissist and it is always about him. Bannon or no Bannon for that matter.

LOL at the philosophical one liner. Who is the enemy anyway? The "alt-left"? The Muslims? The Mexicans? First define who the enemy is...

I'm sure you roam around all day long on Breitart and other KKK sites to gather this "useful" info LOL

Trump's a master strategist. With this move he's not only reset the news cycle but also managed to placate the establishment, on both sides of the isle. Notice how no one in the msm is faulting Trump for letting Bannon go.

That quote is from Sun Tzu.

 

[maximuswarrior]

Trump's a master strategist. With this move he's not only reset the news cycle but also managed to placate the establishment, on both sides of the isle. Notice how no one in the msm is faulting Trump for letting Bannon go.

That quote is from Sun Tzu.

LOL Stop fabricating stuff and stop acting like a Trump professor.

Trump is a disgrace and you bloody know it. He gets disgraced on an hourly basis. What kind of a master strategist would divide his nation along political and moral lines? You are in essence acknowledging that Trump created the entire mess. He had to recitify it by firing one of his main political allies LOL

LOL you think that folks at the main stream media are toddlers? You think they don't know why Trump fired Bannon? If anything, the main stream media is criticizing Trump because his ego is even more dangerous than we assumed. This guy can go to extreme lengths to please his ego.

You think that by firing Bannon Trump has reset the news cycle? LOL you are so naive.

Don't disgrace Sun Tzu's words by quoting them for Trump.

 

[Path-Finder]

A lot of right wing including far right were drooling when bannon entered the white house! He was considered the crusader of the time. Now he is gone how strange.

 

[maximuswarrior]

A lot of right wing including far right were drooling when bannon entered the white house! He was considered the crusader of the time. Now he is gone how strange.

Exactly. This is a tremendous defeat for Indians cheering on this forum for Trump. This is a massive defeat for right wing Nazis in the US. The far right doesn't exist anymore.

 

[T-72M1]

LOL Stop fabricating stuff and stop acting like a Trump professor.

Trump is a disgrace and you bloody know it. He gets disgraced on an hourly basis. What kind of a master strategist would divide his nation on political and moral lines? You are in essence acknowledging that Trump created the entire mess and has to recitify it by firing one of his main political allies LOL

You think that by firing Bannon Trump has reset the news cycle? LOL ou are so naive.

Don't disgrace Sun Tzu's words by quoting them for Trump.

Just a keen Trump watcher and was one of 4? people here who got his election win right.

Disagree, the US media and msm in general are a disgrace. He didn't create any mess, he spoke facts about the incident and he has reset the news cycle, now when they talk about alt-right and white nationalists, it is in context of Bannon and his departure from the administration. The mainstream is happy with this move by Trump.

 

[maximuswarrior]

Just a keen Trump watcher and was one of 4? people here who got his election win right.

Disagree, the US media and msm in general are a disgrace. He didn't create any mess, he spoke facts about the incident and he has reset the news cycle, now when they talk about alt-right and white nationalists, it is in context of Bannon and his departure from the administration. The mainstream is happy with this move by Trump.

Well you got your wish and must be enjoying his downfall. Not a single election promise met. American image in the whole world tainted. American people divided. What a successful presidency.

Partially agreed, but there is no bigger disgrace than Trump. The American mass media is of course not a saint. Of course the main stream media is happy with the departure of Bannon, but that doesn't absolve Trump LOL If anything, this was a success by the main stream media's witch hunt against Trump and Bannon. Trump must be worried because if this is how he capitulated under pressure...

 

[T-72M1]

tremendous defeat for Indians cheering on this forum for Trump.

Being from India has nothing to do with watching the Trump show. He has fans all over the world, I'll bet there's people even in Pakistan or Saudi etc who like him.

 

[maximuswarrior]

Being from India has nothing to do with watching the Trump show. He has fans all over the world, I'll bet there's people even in Pakistan or Saudi etc who like him.

LOL It has everything to do with Indian cheerleading for Trump. You thought that he was going to be your man against Pakistan. He can't even devise an Afghan strategy LOL No to mention, he can't even get his domestic act together. How is this fool going to address Indian "concerns" LOL

 

[Path-Finder]

Exactly. This is a tremendous defeat for Indians cheering on this forum for Trump. This is a massive defeat for right wing Nazis in the US. The far right doesn't exist anymore.

The far right and the right have merged! anyone with a right mindset will have the option of going Nazi or changing their political beliefs. This is the beginning, I am looking forward to showdown between various groups once again. Ultimately with so much chaos being caused by the yanks globally it is now stated in their home as well.

 

[T-72M1]

LOL It has everything to do with Indian cheerleading for Trump. You thought that he was going to be your man against Pakistan. He can't even devise an Afghan strategy LOL No to mention, he can't even get his domestic act together. How is this fool going to address Indian "concerns" LOL

Some others might have been, not me personally. I liked him because he was anti-war, and so far it's not looking like he'll get the US in another mess like Obama and Bush did, besides, he's just fun to watch on a global stage, dancing in saudia to scolding his NATO allies over non payment of bills to his epic Putin meeting, he's made geopolitics great again.

Think he'll go into Libya at some stage, but that's another discussion.

 

[Gufi]

Please don't be sad. That is just the US political system at work as designed.

Yes the racist resigned so the President does not have to be called a racist as much. The American people elected Trump, and that is what democracy is. Nothing to be proud of, rather be ashamed of it...

 

[StraightShooter]

With the White House in chaos, the generals are gaining power. Donald Trump’s new chief of staff, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, is attempting to impose military discipline on the president’s shambolic reality show of an administration. National security adviser H.R. McMaster, a three-star Army general, has cleaned house at the National Security Council, ousting conspiratorial hard-right nationalists Rich Higgins and Ezra Cohen-Watnick. McMaster also replaced Trump’s top Middle East adviser, the ultra-hawkish Derek Harvey, with Mike Bell, a retired Army colonel. According to the Associated Press, Kelly and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, also a retired Marine Corps general, have a pact not to be out of the country at the same time so that one of them is always here “to keep tabs on the orders rapidly emerging from the White House.” Suddenly, America has become a place where a general needs to be on hand at all times to babysit the president.



It’s a sign of how thoroughly Trump has corrupted our democracy that this interlude of quasi-military rule comes as a relief to many Democrats as well as establishment Republicans. If we saw this scenario in another country—a populist demagogue of dubious legitimacy slowly being hemmed in by a clique of military men—we would easily recognize it as a sign of democratic backsliding. Indeed, the phenomenon of liberals looking to the military to protect them from fanatical bumpkins is a familiar one in Egypt, Thailand, and Turkey. The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk captured it in his surreal satirical novel Snow. “No one who’s even slightly westernized can breathe free in this country unless they have a secular army protecting them, and no one needs that protection more than intellectuals who think they’re better than everyone else and look down on other people,” says one of his characters, a theater impresario and partisan of the deep state. “If it weren’t for the army, the fanatics would be turning their rusty knives on the lot of them.”

Yet it’s entirely possible to be aghast at the growing political influence of America’s military and intelligence communities and still see it as preferable to an untrammeled Trump administration. Writing in the Intercept, Glenn Greenwald stakes out a left-wing anti–anti-Trump posture, sneering at liberals who welcome the rise of the generals: “As usually happens these days, these Democrats are in lockstep with their new neocon partners, led by Bill Kristol, who far prefer the unelected agenda of McMaster and Kelly to the one that Trump used to get elected.” But Greenwald’s argument is premised on Trump’s democratic legitimacy, which he assumes rather than argues. If you reject that premise, the rest of Greenwald’s argument collapses.

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In office against the will of the American people, enabled by a Congress indifferent to the desires of the majority, Trump has set about using the government to enrich himself. He has demonized large swaths of the public, created unprecedented systems of domestic propaganda, rewarded Russia for its interference on his behalf, nearly dismantled the State Department, and is preparing the ground for large-scale voter suppression to perpetuate his power. It is a sign of deep civic rot that the only people with the institutional authority to constrain Trump are generals. But their growing power is a symptom rather than a cause of democratic crisis.

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[Gomig-21]

Trump’s new chief of staff, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, is attempting to impose military discipline on the president’s shambolic reality show of an administration.

"Shambolic reality show of an administration" that's putting it mildly! What an embarrassment. This government is the laughing stock of the world.

According to the Associated Press, Kelly and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, also a retired Marine Corps general, have a pact not to be out of the country at the same time so that one of them is always here “to keep tabs on the orders rapidly emerging from the White House.”

Imagine that?! They actually got together and made a pact to control the old freak! This is unprecedented.

Suddenly, America has become a place where a general needs to be on hand at all times to babysit the president.

Thank goodness there's some form of assurance the black hole might be avoided as it's come down to these three powerful men who'll each have to carry pacifiers at all time. Unbelievable!

It’s a sign of how thoroughly Trump has corrupted our democracy that this interlude of quasi-military rule comes as a relief to many Democrats as well as establishment Republicans.

That is incredible when you really think about it. You know there is big trouble when both parties are on the same page and worried about this crazy and his lunacy.