Bannon, backed by billionaire, prepares to go to war

[highplainsdem]

Source: Axios

Steve Bannon's next moves will be all about the billionaire Mercer family. I'm told Bannon, who visited New York this week, met with Bob Mercer and together they will be a well-funded force on the outside.

Bannon has felt liberated since it became clear he was being pushed out, according to friends. He's told associates he has a "killing machine" in Breitbart News, and it's possible he returns to lead their editorial operation.

A source familiar with Breitbart's operations told me they would go "thermonuclear" against "globalists" that Bannon and his friends believe are ruining the Trump administration, and by extension, America.

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Read more: https://www.axios.com/bannons-next-move-2474479917.html

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The article goes on to say that Breitbart's Washington editor, Matt Boyle, will likely be attacking Bannon's enemies within the White House -- McMaster, Cohn, and Jared and Ivanka.

[LakeArenal]

1. Funny, I thought he was running things...

Well, not funny.....

[Chrysanthemum]

56. If Bannon is truly seething with rage,

I wonder if he would feel at all inclined to talk with Mueller.

[sandensea]

2. The question is:

Butter or cheddar?

[Hokie]

4. Make mine butter

I am a traditionalist when it comes to popcorn.

[sandensea]

7. All right! Try a little oregano, too.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. Gotta try smoked salt on popcorn....

Butter, corn, hickory smoked salt.
Sex couldn't get any better... Lol

[renate]

16. this is totally OT, but thank you for that idea!

I got some smoked salt last week to try to make vegany things taste bacony... never occurred to me to try it on popcorn! Thank you!

[FailureToCommunicate]

44. Never heard of smoked salt...till now. Happens a lot here on DU.

Thanks. I **may** try it.

[Warpy]

37. Same here, but I'll use Red Star yeast if I'm out of butter

nutritional yeast gives it a nice cheesy flavor and adds loads of B vitamins so I can justify eating more calories to get them.

[sandensea]

47. Sounds good. I'm not too particular myself,

except that it should be air-popped.

Microwave popcorn tastes plasticky.

[Smickey]

14. Definately not cheddar. It's too.....orange. ha

[sandensea]

24. Ha!

I'm surprised King Con never tried to market Trump cheese.

"It's the cheesiest - believe me!"

[TNNurse]

28. The picture makes me really pretty sick to my stomach.

I think every woman in this country who voted for him should be required to dress like that, pose like that and have it published everywhere. Maybe they could make it their church photo for their book they make.

I do not care how old, how fat or what, they should be required to say that this fits their image of good Christian people.

[sandensea]

34. Amazing, isn't it.

Republicans wanted someone who'd run the White House like a business.

They just never realized it would be a bordello.

[TNNurse]

35. I worked hard to not describe her as anything.

I just wanted them to admit they were good with that look.

[sandensea]

38. Oh, yes. To them, Trump's aspirational.

A poor man's idea of a rich man; a dimwit's idea of a genius.

[Rainngirl]

48. GACK!

Their taste in furnishings is GAWD-AWFUL! I know he thinks that stupid expression makes him look tough. It just makes him look like a douchebag tool. She looks like she's been dragged backwards through a mud pit.

[sandensea]

49. They're worse than the Saudis.

"Eees not too flashy, no?"

[janx]

60. What is that?

?

[sandensea]

61. That would be Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal's private plane.

"No. My name eees not Borat. Why you ask?"

[janx]

67. . . .

[BeyondGeography]

51. Winners of the "evangelical" vote, 81-19

God Bless America.

[sandensea]

52. Sure.

Cheeto's an aspirational figure to most of them.

A poor man's idea of a rich man; a dimwit's idea of a genius.

[BeyondGeography]

53. And don't forget those traditional gender norms

Family values and all.

[sandensea]

54. Right.

A man's home is his castle; a woman should be like an odalisque - seen, but definitely not heard.

[syringis]

64. Is he as rich as he claims??

Did he put so much money in his interior decor that he can't afford decent clothes to dress his wife?

The thing she is wearing can hardly be called a dress...it is more like a sort of stretchable belt. Its covers either breasts or butt. No way to cover both with that half yard fabric.

On the bright side (if is there any - unless the tacky gold paint pot explosion), for once there some coherency : vulgar people in a vulgar decor.

[spiderpig]

19. May I substitute garlic mashed potatoes?

This ought to be worth sacrificing a few arteries.

[sandensea]

25. Mamma mia!

[spiderpig]

30. Do you deliver?

[sandensea]

31. Grazie!

I am part Italian (northwest) - but can barely cook, alas!

[spiderpig]

33. Don't worry -

that's why they invented take-out!

[mwooldri]

45. Caramel.

My first exposure to popcorn ... Caramel flavoured.

[syringis]

62. I'm off topic

I would like to have some pop corn recipes and some tips to have nice popped corn.

I'll return the favor with some belgian recipes if you are interested

Here, it is served sprinkled with salt or for the sweet version, with sugar. Sometimes caramelised.

I would like to try something else.

[sandensea]

63. Ah.

For starters, I always air-pop mine. Microwaving it gives it a funky, plasticky taste.

For flavor, I usually drizzle mine with olive oil and sprinkle Italian seasonings, grana padano, and hot pepper flakes (just a little!). Mix together with two wooden spoons for best results.

Buon appetito!

[syringis]

65. Thank you

[sandensea]

66. Prego!

[Fritz Walter]

71. Tabasco sauce!

Adds a nice heat to the starchy snack.

Not to be confused with the thermal heat that these miscreants are about to endure on their pudgy, lily-white posteriors.

[sandensea]

72. Mercy!

[defacto7]

3. Planned. Smoke and mirrors. The game to save the

extremist base.

[not fooled]

41. Who's gonna listen?

The lice magnet is only powerful if enough idiots choose to clog their minds with breitfart. A much smaller platform than he had in the WH. We can only hope that fewer and fewer people go to that dumphole.

One Nazi down, three to go (fake Ph.D. Seb, cadaverous Miller, and of course the orange anus himself).

[defacto7]

58. I'll never swallow anything they try to feed us.

Ugh... nasty analogy...

[StepnKretchit]

43. I Totally Agree.

It seems like they are trying to keep the game going. People are hip to their game now. And the investigations are not yet complete.

[defacto7]

57. It's like some cheep cable tv show.

I wonder if either Trump or Bannon know how transparent they are.

[Initech]

5. His next move should be figuring out what size orange jumpsuit he's going to be wearing.

Along with the Mercers and Kochs and everyone else who helped create this abomination in the White House.

[TeapotInATempest]

6. Bannon likely knows where (some of) the bodies are buried

The Mercers almost certainly do.

What's their end game, though? What do they want that they can't get with Trump in the WH and Republican majorities in the House and Senate? Do they think they'll have a better chance with Pence as President? (I do think so.)

[DonCoquixote]

42. you might as well ask

what do you need to buy that needs an extra million? These people are ADDICTS, just that their drug is money and power. They will not stop until America is some thing that combines the theocracy of the Puritans and the naked greed of the gilded age. Pence is also a sweet confection, as he would offer them everythign they want on a platinum platter, which has been shined with blood from our necks.

[jalan48]

8. Oh yeah! Oligarch's at war!

[obamanut2012]

10. Just ran to Costco and bought popcorn in bulk

[LudwigPastorius]

11. So, Trump's not racist or fascist enough for Bannon?

He needs to just quit dicking around and throw his support to David Duke.

[bigbrother05]

12. Probably pick up one of the clowns from Storage Wars

Some knuckle head that can make a profit off of crap no one wanted to claim. Has real populist appeal, don't ya think?

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Yeah, he's a regular kingmaker, I tells ya.

Bannon would consider running himself, but that would mean staying sober for more than 2 hours a day.

[caraher]

68. It seem's like Bannon's line will be that Dear Leader was betrayed

The "globalists" prodded Trump to depose Bannon, according to Bannon. Trump was not acting out of his own convictions but was bamboozled by those not racist or fascist enough...

At least that's basically what I think Bannon's stance will ne.

[Mme. Defarge]

13. I say

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

[skip fox]

15. Just because he'll be opposed to my enemy,

that will never make him a friend.

[xor]

26. It's like ISIS and Al-Qaeda fighting each other.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. The Irony of it all

I've felt since last year some irony in Trump's association with Bannon, considering Trump is quite the typical globalist himself. Not unusual though, for billionaires to put on a nationalistic face in public, but all the while operating their business interests in the invisible globalist plane.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Bannon wanted to burn it down. Turns out to be Republicon Party rather than US gubmnt. nt

[lark]

21. Why aren't they attacking the man who fired their God?

They are attacking his staff but leaving him alone? Are they saying that Drumpf doesn't have any brains so isn't responsible for personally firing Bannon? Oh, orange assface isn't going to be happy about that. I bet he doesn't say a thing however, not wanting a war on his right flank. He'll say what a great human being and mind Bannon is, and will be missed so much. He's a total chickenshit.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Mr Scorpio explains it well:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029484277

[Binkie The Clown]

23. I heard Kim Jong Un offered him a job as chief advisor. n/t

[trof]

27. So...the Mercers turn against tRump?

[Renaissance Man]

32. No, I don't think that's what this implies.

The Mercers are billionaires that are the financial backing for Brietbart. However insidious, I think that they really wholesale believe in the tripe sold on Brietbart and want a more hard right Republican Party.

Bannon is just more useful to them because he worked at Goldman Sachs, and with this "insider knowledge," having previously served on the Security Council and having knowledge of back and forth fighting between Wall Street (that owns U.S. government) and the anti-globalist far right, he becomes useful in destroying the "kindler, gentler" Republican Party (if you can call it), and turning it into the Ayn Rand meets Adolf Hitler contingent that the Mercers likely want.

Just thinking out loud, here. Seems like they wanted insider knowledge of just how entrenched financial interests are in U.S. government, and they wanted to use subversive means (Trump and Bannon) to accomplish it.

[trof]

36. Hunh. Thanks.

[DeminPennswoods]

69. Mercer's a libertarian

Link to New Yorker Mag profile: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency

During the past decade, Mercer, who is seventy, has funded an array of political projects that helped pave the way for Trump’s rise. Among these efforts was public-opinion research, conducted by Caddell, showing that political conditions in America were increasingly ripe for an outsider candidate to take the White House. Caddell told me that Mercer “is a libertarian—he despises the Republican establishment,” and added, “He thinks that the leaders are corrupt crooks, and that they’ve ruined the country.”

[red dog 1]

29. Kick for exposure!

[Tarc]

39. Sounds good

[BobTheSubgenius]

40. For that last paragraph to be true...

....would be the best thing in years. In cases like this, I love blood sports. Don't you?

[Roy Rolling]

46. Anybody see NYPD Blue?

Steve Bannon is the David Caruso of the Trump Show. Bannon will go back to being one of many propaganda websites that cater to those who don't fact-check. And he will be a bit-player grifting people out of their hard-earned money.

[pansypoo53219]

50. for reals or is this all for the sheeple & the teevee gnewz, meanwhile he can fuck things up outside

the WH + coordinate w/ gorka.

[milestogo]

55. If he is going to attack Jared and Ivanka, he'd better be prepared for fire and fury.

[DeminPennswoods]

70. Wouldn't be surprised if Trump sic'd Sessions and

DoJ and/or IRS on Bannon/Mercers if they start attacking his family.

[Warpy]

59. Why, you go right ahead, Slick

Your sugar daddy is a fringe lunatic and so are you.