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Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com)
President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon left his position on Friday (alternative source) as the newly minted chief of staff John Kelly sought to bring order to a White House riven by infighting and power struggles, more than a dozen news outlets report. Maggie Haberman, reporting for The New York Times: The president and senior White House officials were debating when and how to dismiss Mr. Bannon. The two administration officials cautioned that Mr. Trump is known to be averse to confrontation within his inner circle, and could decide to keep on Mr. Bannon for some time. As of Friday morning, the two men were still discussing Mr. Bannon's future, the officials said. A person close to Mr. Bannon insisted the parting of ways was his idea, and that he had submitted his resignation to the president on Aug. 7, to be announced at the start of this week, but the move was delayed after the racial unrest in Charlottesville, Va.
Will work full time as a monument bulldozer
Give alternative facts instead.
And nothing of value was lost
One Nazi gone, one to go.
... as the newly minted chief of staff John Kelly sought to bring order to a White House riven by infighting and power struggles ...
As we saw on Tuesday - there's only so much discipline and order General Kelly can impose because the biggest problem in that regard is actually Trump being Trump.
#DeleteChrome
The CNBC article says both that Bannon resigned and that Trump fired him.
Looks like Time's puppet master attack worked.
Bannon represented Trump's base far better than any other person in his inner circle. Without Bannon Trump will have a far harder time keeping in sync with the people responsible for putting him in office. It wasn't the globalists like McMaster that got him elected, it was people like Bannon who helped him connect with people from the lay person to the disenfranchised (both Dem and Rep).
MAGA (for Nazis)!
Just a reminder. Rumor is that Bannon was fired not because of his whack-job views on race or economics but rather because he's not sufficiently bellicose toward North Korea for Trump's liking.
That is, he may have fired a snake but he did it on account of one of the snake's few redeeming qualities.
By the end of his term it will be clear that Trump is the biggest mistake America has ever made.
Trumpers keep giving interviews to news outlets known to be opposed to them down to the quarks in their component atoms, and then are astonished that the resulting stories don't cast them in a favorable light. There's naive and then there's downright stupid and incompetent.
I think this is the best comment on the situation:
https://www.arcamax.com/thefun...
How is this article the least bit relevant on a site about technology?
Granted the guy's a dipshit (unlike slashdot's honored and revered posters) but we've got 4chan for those kinds of subjects.
And there was much rejoicing.
I've been very lucky boss-wise, and only worked for one manager/group of managers in my career that bothered me enough to quit. However, I have many co-workers who have "escaped" from toxic environments run by terrible bosses. Some weren't exactly low-paying jobs either -- think investment banks, elite law firms, and consulting companies. Almost every one has told me that leaving and taking a pay cut was better than dreading going to work every day and dealing with their bosses screaming at them, throwing them to the wolves, or just being a total jerk. Say what you will about Bannon, but I think he's just making a rational decision and answering questions like "Can I control this guy? Is he hurting my long term aspirations? Is the access and influence I have and future untold billions I will have because of it balanced with the probability of everything going sideways?" The problem is always cost/benefit - I know some people who've worked in investment banking as devs or very high-end IT pros, and they say the bonuses are massive and salaries are great, but you have to deal with a company that's basically 100% bro-culture assholes every day in exchange for it.
My dislike of the current administration mostly stems from its apparently inability to control its emotions. I think Trump is not used to being questioned on _anything_ and people in his inner circle have given him a pass on his behavior forever because they want to keep getting paid. I obviously don't know what he's thinking, but I think he feels that international conflicts and political compromise is just like strong-arming some union boss on one of his construction sites or bribing some city official to get one of his properties expedited through the system.
One of my favorite political cartoons of late (sorry about the ) came out when Trump started signing his first executive orders and shows him sitting on Bannon's lap saying, "I'm a big boy!" I think that it's pretty obvious that no one can control him at this point, so we'll see what happens.
Between msmash and Beau this site is a shell of what it used to be. Just another regurgitating rag. Why not just link WaPo, NYT, WSJ, et al to the front page feed and call it a day?
Anyone want to start a betting pool as to how long it'll be before Trumps daughter 'comes out' to the media about how he sexually molested her for years?
Seriously, his alt-right voter base will hate this. Not sure who is left actually liking this prez still.
Ding dong, the shit is fired!
Which old shit?
The racist shit!
Ding dong, the racist shit is fired!!!!
C'mon Slashdot. We can get this from other websites.
No need to waste green header space and text on this one.
If the reason was becasue Bannon wanted to use Window touchsscreens in the warroom instead of Macs, ok.
Trump is just a symptom and so are all these protests - for whatever reason. People are looking for the one reason for their declining standard of living, healthcare costs going out of control, food prices increasing, housing costs, and just finding it harder to live better than their parents (the American dream) - let alone as well as them.
People are pissed but unfortunately, they are blaming the wrong people.
My meds are artificially high priced. Can I go and get them from another country? Nope - it's illegal. Why? For my own safety - because I may get counterfeit drugs from a foreign pharmacy. Amazing, I don't see many deaths from counterfeit drugs in Canada.
But why are our prices so high here in the USA? Because they can, that's why. And I know who is to blame and they are ALL members of the Republican party. Free markets my ass!
And when someone is making over $15 and hour - 40 hours a week - and STILL can't afford a place to live in some southeast sub-urban town, there is something really fucked up. We're not talking about the SF Bay area - but nowhere.
The wealth and income disparity is what is causing all this and it is because the system is rigged against us peons.
Apparently this is because he called the alt-right "clowns," and said there was no military solution in Korea. All you gloaters, think about it: he is out for being too liberal!
A person close to Mr. Bannon insisted the parting of ways was his idea, and that he had submitted his resignation to the president on Aug. 7, to be announced at the start of this week, but the move was delayed after the racial unrest in Charlottesville, Va.
Now, why would that matter?
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rediculous.
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hey hey hey,
goodbye.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
In a statement, Bannon said he wanted to spend more time with Anthony Saramucci's family.
I know, I know, but I didn't see anyone else saying it!
Russian translate SMI say, American on the threshold new civil war https://russian.rt.com/inotv/2017-08-17/Obozrevatel-HuffPost-rasskazal-kak-Putin
This is getting better by the day watching Trump's circus slowly implode!
Hope he doesn't channel his anguish by drinking.
In many ways Trump is in a toxic environment. It's got to suck for him. I don't like the guy at all but sometimes I feel sorry for him. He's in way over his head, he not getting the adulation that he craves, and he clearly was having a lot more fun when he was outside government grandstanding, lobbing grenades, chasing women, nettling Obama, etc. I don't think Trump thought he'd be elected: it was just a game to win. All he needs is an excuse like "my family needs me" or a health problem to bail out and leave the country with Pence.
The parallels with early Nazi Germany these last few days is striking. Rallies, innocent people being beaten up, double speak, appologies and excuses for abhorrent behavior by right-winger fascists...
The impotent responses from most Republicans and Trump ...
Please. This is out of hand.
And the Confederate Flag is the flag of traitors and American neo-Nazis. All Confederate monuments should be torn down including the Stone Mountain Confederate monument in Stone Mountain Georgia.
There are no two sides - one side is clearly and 100% in the wrong here.
...is staggering. So much winning.
Have a look at his original staff and check who is left: http://time.com/4658499/donald... Of those who sometimes communicated their own opinions rather than simply defending Trump, there is only Kushner (family) and Pence (elected VP). Those that left include Bannon, Priebus, Flynn, McFarland, Walsh, Dubke, Spicer, Scaramucci, and more. https://www.bustle.com/p/all-t... We are looking at 3.5 more years of a delusional President who chooses divisive people for his staff and then fires anyone who gets under his thin skin. I can't see how competent people would agree to work there given what we know thus far.
... and that's when the commodes start to flush properly!!
This is entirely consistent with Trump running first his campaign, then the White House, as a reality TV show, a business he understands well.
He started off, when he had so many Republican rivals, playing the Bad Boy That Everybody Loves To Hate, which was an excellent choice, because it is dramatically necessary to have the Bad Boy That Everybody Loves To Hate around for the finals so that the winner can finally defeat them. This guaranteed him the nomination.
But once he had the nomination sewed up, he had to switch characters, because the Bad Boy That Everybody Loves To Hate cannot win (ratings, you know). So he switched to The Lone Wolf Who Is Right When Everybody Else Is Wrong, which is certainly a character that can win - Americans love underdogs. But his real genius, at that point, was to force Hillary Clinton to become the Bad Boy That Everybody Loves To Hate. In other words, he painted his opponent as the character that simply cannot ever win. That won him the election.
Once he was in the White House, he was in a job he didn't know much about, so he went with what he knows. He continued to play The Lone Wolf Who Is Right When Everybody Else Is Wrong. But in order to be The Lone Wolf Who Is Right When Everybody Else Is Wrong, you have to surround yourself with people who are wrong all the time. So any job that was advisory, and very publicly visible, was filled with someone chosen specifically to be wrong, so that Trump could be right when they were wrong. Bannon was "chief stategist," which is an advisory position, and Bannon himself was so controversial that he couldn't possibly avoid the public's eye if he tried (and he never tried). But we got Mad Dog Mattis as Defense Secretary, a job that is not purely advisory, and has considerable authority in its own right. It's not a 100% correlation, but it's pretty consistent. Those who advise are idiots, chosen to be wrong and thus ignored. Those who do things are not.
And now that Trump is settling into the job of President, he's slowly working away from being The Lone Wolf Who Is Right When Everybody Else Is Wrong, and getting rid of the advisory positions that were filled with people chosen to be wrong all the time. He's learned what areas he really needs advisors in, and is replacing them with people who can tell him what he wants to hear.
He may well be Satan incarnate, hell bent on the destruction of humanity, but he's increasingly competent at what he's doing, and what he's doing is, for the most part, what he promised to do during the campaign.
I'm not a fan of Trump or Bannon on in the slightest. That said, I'm concerned that Bannon actually pushed Trump in the right direction on certain issues - namely, the US involvement in the rest of the world. From what I can tell, Bannon pushed Trump against war and military intervention in other countries, which is a good thing because in most cases US involvement is neither beneficial to the US, nor the country/people on whose behalf we're allegedly acting. Similarly, I understand that he pushed Trump to oppose free trade with other countries. Given that many of the countries with whom we engage in free trade have much lower environmental and labor standards than us, we are at a large disadvantage. Companies will naturally produce goods for less elsewhere if they can, and such agreements facilitate them doing that, thus hurting our economy. On the other hand, Bannon is known as no friend of minorities or disadvantaged peoples. Most people here probably know he used to be in leadership at Breitbart, which courts the alt-right and bigots of many kinds with ridiculous and derogatory headlines, among other things. I'm just curious to see if Trump engages in more saber-rattling and military intervention with Bannon gone. I certainly hope not.
Bannon, Spicer, Preibus, Flynn, Scaramucci...Trump wasn't kidding when he said he was going to "drain the swamp".
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Now Bannon can go back to cooking meth in his bathtub (not making that up).
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You are welcome on my lawn.
I already read this on fake news site. Seriously though
A) is anyone surprised?
B) Is this news that nerds care about?
Who's going to replace him as the national WC Fields impersonator?
CNN headline reads: TRUMP FIRES BANNON! Another #FakeNews headline from CNN
#RealNews = Bannon resigns
And liberal gender benders wonder why CNN is the laughing stock of news media.
See Subject: They are still better than the cuck antifa left in this country
They want to get rid of the Soros funded Luser puppets like yourself
How much is Soros paying you to paint those patriots in a bad light when he is the destroying America
APK
P.S. => If the media were to dig into the story they might find out that one of the leaders of the violence was involved with Occupy, probably gettign the big Soros bucks... apk
These kinds of stories just draw out the alt-right nutcases into the comments section. I was thinking we ought to have Captcha questions that only a nerd would know the answer to. Star Trek trivia or some such.
Donald Trump is a democrat. Always has been, always will be.
If you're not those three, you are unamerican (according to certain parties.)
The ProCapitalism one pretty much crosses the political boundaries. The only exception is some pandering to social services by the left, but that is mostly to differentiate themselves from the right, rather than any true desire at public service, equality, etc.
but at this point if you're id'ing Alt-Right you're marching with Nazis.
Here's the thing. You can't be a good Nazi, because their 'brand' is already so thoroughly tainted. The Alt-Right has become the same. You're going to have about as much luck recovering 'Alt-Right' as a brand as that 'Porch-Monkey' guy did with his t-shirt. Come up with a new name. That one's taken.
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say no more, my friend
Nazi's stand, above all, for solving their problems with violence. That's what make them frightening. If you're calling yourself a Nazi (like those folks in Charlottesville) you're very clearly letting everyone know that as soon as you've got some real power you will be bringing violence to bear against anyone and anything you percieve an enemy.
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like "Only when an arrogant woman with 20 years of bad press and only one real skill (keeping her rivals at bay for 8 years) is the opponent.".
Seriously, they were both running against the only person they could lose to.
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he hasn't decreased it in the slightest. For every person that thought "I shouldn't move to American" a dozen more think "now's my chance". Unless he actually passes laws curtailing work visa programs and immigration then he's not having the slightest effect.
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There were too many bed sheets with holes in them on the clothes line in back yard. Became noticeable............
Good riddance.
Next is the rest, including Herr Trump, and for Herr Gorsuch to recuse himself from everything more serious than a parking violation.
Steve Bannon is leaving the Whitehouse job go to #WAR not against Donald Trump but to better fight for POTUS, relieved of the constraints of public office.
From the perspective of the extreme left this makes him more dangerous. Rejoicing is therefore premature. Moderates may briefly enjoy eating their popcorn as more flags banners and slogans are deployed and the likes mount up, but only bag or two since both ideological extremes consider moderates enemies by default.
Right and left in this case are being played. We all are. If you would google "thomas reflexive control theory" you can read about it. There are some other sources on RCT, would also recommend Keir Giles' "Handbook of Russian Information War," available online in pdf from the NATO Defense College and "Cyber Enabled Economic Warfare" by Samantha Ravich and Juan Zarate.
An anonymous, inherently insecure network like the internet can not support advanced computation dependent civilization.
but none of them passed the Sheldon Primary
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Okay ... So every pro-american state leaders are keen on the DSM 5 now ?
Nervermind ? A friend in need is a friend indeed ?
After all curing one unwitted ill person is the least they can do after having been saved from nazism and supremacism.
Only the strong should view this photograph: Trump.