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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExactly what the shit is this shit?
Like I said, this is why you *don't* normalize Nazis and pretend they're just misguided everyday people
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)volstork
(5,402 posts)No way that dude lives another 20 years.
triron
(22,007 posts)malaise
(269,068 posts)Get thee to the greatest page -fascists
snort
(2,334 posts)Always look on the bright side of death.
FakeNoose
(32,656 posts)His start-off story was about Steve Bannon's new crusade against Pope Francis and the Catholic Church. Engel was in Rome and showed scenes of Bannon's new digs at a rehabbed 18th Century monastery. Bannon is putting $1 million of his own money (yeah right!) into fixing up the monastery so he can recruit people to help him bring down the Pope.
It really sounds flaky and crazy, except we know he's hooking up with some very wealthy and secretive people in Europe, just like he did with Robert and Rebekkah Mercer. Bannon seems to know how to say just the right things to get these wealthy right-wing nuts to part with their cash. What a world!
Edit to add: here's a link to the story & video https://www.msnbc.com/onassignment
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,744 posts)This sounds too extreme to be truly Christian.
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)mopinko
(70,140 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Excommunicado with extreme prejudice.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Given what he has managed in the past here, its important to keep tabs on his continuing attempts to impose right wing systems globally.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)he continues to wield, that he will stoop to any level (and all manner of trickery, hacking and cheating) to achieve his goals and that his current agenda of pushing EUs elections and political leadership to the right and shaping a younger far-right movement there is very dangerous.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,905 posts)He can also be done for inciting hate speech within the EU.
Just think, extradition is only a tweet away...
KG
(28,751 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,024 posts)Trump surrounded himself with anti-Islam zealots who believe that the only way to force Christianity on the rest of the world is to replay the Crusades and obliterate every Muslim from the face of the Earth. Heres a New Yorker article that described these views.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-trump-teams-holy-war-and-the-remaking-of-the-world-order
The first Crusade was initiated by the Catholic church with a religious purpose, which was to regain control of Jerusalem and the holy lands. Later Crusades focused as much on plundering and greed as on taking control of the holy lands from Muslims. I dont know Bannons purpose in calling for a holy war, but you can bet it involves the plundering of resources in Muslim lands. Hes an idiot, but unfortunately some powerful peoplelike Trumphave bought into his world view that all Muslims are bad and want to eliminate all Christians.
Blue Owl
(50,443 posts)The slovenly man in the low castle...
Initech
(100,083 posts)CTAtheist
(88 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,921 posts)Don't publish a news release telling the world where your secret training fortress is located. It kinda attracts your sworn enemies.
JDC
(10,129 posts)Gumboot
(531 posts)What could possibly go wrong...?