Steve Bannon (1953- ), best known as the head of the far-right Breitbart News from 2012 to 2016, became the head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in August 2016 and will now be Trump’s top adviser when he becomes US president in 2017.
On Stormfront, the Klan website, user Phoenix1933 wrote:
“Stephen Bannon: racist, anti-homo, anti-immigrant, anti-jewish, anti-establishment. Declared war on (((Paul Ryan))) Sounds perfect. Muhahahaha. The man who will have Trump’s ear more than anyone else. Being anti-jewish is not illegal. Nothing you dirty stinking jews can do to keep him out.”
The spokesman for Harry Reid, the top Democrat in the Senate:
“It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide. Bannon was ‘the main driver behind Breitbart becoming a white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill,’ according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
Bannon himself said of Breitbart News:
“We’re the platform for the alt-right.”
The alt-right is made up of White nationalists who spread their ideas on the Internet.
Breitbart News under Bannon ran headlines like:
- Hoist it High and Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage
- 5 Devastating Facts About Black-on-Black Crime
- Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew
- There’s No Hiring Bias Against Women in Tech, They Just Suck at Interviews
- Lesbian Bridezillas Bully Bridal Shop Owner Over Religious Beliefs
- Donald Trump: Candidate for Our Age
It “100% vindicated” Trump’s lie that he saw thousands of people in New Jersey celebrating 9/11.
It favoured far-right parties in Europe like the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), the National Front in France, Alternative for Germany and Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom in the Netherlands. Bannon is friends with Nigel Farage of UKIP.
Breitbart News has been pretty much a Trump mouthpiece since late 2015.
Robert Mercer: Both Breitbart News and the Trump campaign have a common moneyman: Robert Mercer. So does neocon John “Bomb Iran” Bolton, who Trump has named as a possible Secretary of State.
Background: Bannon, who grew up in White working-class southern Virginia, served in the Navy, went to Harvard Business School, became an investment banker on Wall Street (Goldman Sachs), and then went to Hollywood to make right-wing documentaries. He has made a fortune by buying a share in the royalties from “Seinfeld” (1989-1998). He is a huge fan of Sarah Palin and, now, Donald Trump.
In the wake of Mitt Romney’s defeat in 2012, Republican leaders pushed for immigration reform so that they could get a bigger share of the Latino vote. Bannon used Breitbart News to oppose that. Immigration reform was killed. In 2015 he saw in Ted Cruz, and then in Donald Trump, a champion for the anti-immigration cause.
Julia Jones, who worked with Bannon in his Hollywood days, says he is not racist:
“I never knew the ‘racist Steve’ that’s being reported now. I never heard him make any racist jokes, and his best friend was an African-American who went to [college] with him. … I never saw even a hint of racism.”
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
- Donald Trump
- alt-right
- Sarah Palin
- Mitt Romney 2012
- Ted Cruz
- Southern Strategy
- “Some of my best friends are Black”
- Black-on-Black Crime argument
- Confederate flag
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Abagond 
Next, Donald Trump will bring aboard Jared Taylor of the American Renaissance. The Nazi America era has started.
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The perfect companion for this post is one of Peter Thiel.
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Brietbart racist piece of s**t.
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Abagond, have you read this? https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/my-conversation-with-peter-thiel-about-apartheid-and-its-aftermath-3fdf4249b08d#.gwpf52og1
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Trump is a racist who hired a racist, why is anybody surprised?
What I want to know is when and how he will purge the federal bureaucracy?
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Nazis died in the 40s folks. They had little to do with Black people, with the exception being the Black men who fought for the Waffen SS.
The Klan has about 10 guys in it, on the web. No need for all this hysteria.
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I have never seen black nazis mentioned in any history book, nor does the fact that a few black people fought for the SS mean that black people aren’t targets of nazis today. What is your argument Louis? That the ideas nazis had of black people almost 100 years ago (which was unfavorable) has somehow changed?
Shut the f*ck up. Your sort that downplays racism no matter what wants nothing more for victims of racism not to realize what’s happening to them before it’s too late. There is cause for alarm here. And we won’t settle down.
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“I never knew the ‘racist Steve’ that’s being reported now. I never heard him make any racist jokes, and his best friend was an African-American who went to [college] with him. … I never saw even a hint of racism.” – Julia Jones (Responding to a question as to whether or not Bannon is a racist)
No she didn’t, … she utilized the aged-old buffer of: “His best friend was an African American who went to [college] with him” response as a mere flimsy cover to supposedly prove that he’s not a racist. (smh)
Brace yourselves folks, as the beast now slouch and slither his way towards the White House with his slender tongue flailing away.
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@Louis, what’s your point?
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“So does neocon John “Bomb Iran” Bolton, who Trump has named as a possible Secretary of State.”
What Rand Paul thinks of Bolton being Secretary of State.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/rand-paul-no-john-bolton-trump-231406
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@Louis
Those Africans are not wearing SS uniforms.
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@Louis
Those are two photos of the same African soldier. The Germans had African troops in their East and South African colonies who remained stationed in those colonies throughout WWII.
The SS were primarily used in Europe. Only a few SS were stationed in North Africa, where the SS were used as political officers.
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http://inconvenienthistory.com/archive/2009/volume_1/number_3/adolf_hitlers_armed_forces.php
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Good catch. Same armband.
Likely serving in North Africa, not the European theater.
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Trump will have an administration full degenerates and I was about to scream when I saw a tweet from Oprah telling people to take a deep breath. WTF? It’s the wealthy like her who won’t be affected by this beast and these monsters who want to destroy black and brown poor people and others who don’t fit into their regime.
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@ Mary Burrell
Good point. Oprah and her ilk can use their wealth privilege to hop a jet to Bora Bora and sip wine on the beach while the rest of us suffer.
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Nearly all these politicians are extremely rich and powerful financially.
Proverbs 22:7: “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
The rich can be as rich as they want, but shouldn’t be allowed to take so much power and influence with their money. Government should be about justice and having a fair playing field for all families, not about economics, which these politicians brag about, that they can steer a nation’s economy. No!
It’s so easy how today’s system works. Because government is set up for the ability to invent new laws as they go, If you have lots of money, buy some candidates and make the system and laws work in your favor. It’s sick!
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@Blakksage
You got the point just fine, quit pretending.
@Jony
The point is that “nazis” don’t exist today, not in the 1930’s sense at least. The few that do are wither undercover agents, guys on forums, or at most; guys on a basic street gang level. We need to stop pretending to be afraid of people who are not a threat, either existential or otherwise. This is all superstition thus far.
And yes, there were Black, Arab, Asia, etc, nazis.
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@ Louis
Get real. The Nazi’s exterminated, Blacks, Gays, Gypsy’s, Poles…
Not just, they sterilised, performed ‘medical’ experiments on, tortured and imprisoned black people including BABIES AND CHILDREN. They banned ‘black music’ and punished Aryans who had black friends.
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@ Anne
I’m not surprised that Peter Thiel has all the empathy of a frozen lizard encased in permafrost, being the thoroughly clinical libertarian he is (except when someone makes the mistake of outing or mocking his personal life). The plight of the Negro or African means nothing to him, and why should it?
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And I wish people would stop responding to Louis, as he, like so many others, has successfully derailed the conversation in favor of him and his shenanigans.
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@ Mary Burrell
Good point. Oprah and her ilk can use their wealth privilege to hop a jet to Bora Bora and sip wine on the beach while the rest of us suffer.”
Not necessarily, lots of rich Jews perished during the Holocaust, hence all the hubbub about ownership of art treasures stolen by the Nazis. If Trump is a Nazi, Oprah is in for a rude awakening. Money alone doesn’t protect from huge social changes, it makes people like her a bigger, more tempting and lucrative target.
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@ gro jo
I wonder if those rich Jews had multiple homes in different countries and a private jet?
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In the ten years after Hitler rose to power, 811,000 Jews left continental Europe. It was generally those who had the money or connections to leave. Some number of those would have left anyway, like Zionists going to Palestine and those who thought they had a better shot in the US. I wonder how many stayed because they thought Hitler was not serious or never imagined he would try to kill them all.
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All this talk reminds me of the gut wrenching account given by Viktor Frankl in his book Man’s Search for Meaning. He relates how he and his family had clearly seen the writing on the wall. Frankl got to work to get his papers together and get out of Europe; if memory serves he was going to immigrate to America. His parents, decided to stay put because of their age (or their chances to immigrate were low because of their age). In the end Frankl decided that he couldn’t leave his parents to whatever fate was coming. He stayed in Austria, even though he was all legally set to go.
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“@ gro jo
I wonder if those rich Jews had multiple homes in different countries and a private jet?”
Some had yachts and multiple homes in different countries. Were these different countries rolling out the red carpet? Not the USA.
” One controversy involves the admission of immigrants from Nazi Germany into the United States. Influenced by the economic hardships of the Depression, which exacerbated popular antisemitism, isolationism, and xenophobia, the refugee policy of the US State Department and its stringent (and questionably legal) application of the 1924 Immigration Law made it difficult for refugees to obtain entry visas, despite the ongoing persecution of Jews in Germany. ”
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007652
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Anne Frank’s parents moved from Germany to the Netherlands after Hitler came to power. They didn’t expect that Hitler would invade and occupy the Netherlands. At that point, they tried to immigrate to the U.S. but couldn’t get approval. They probably weren’t the only German Jews in 1933 who thought they’d be safe from the Nazis in the Netherlands or Belgium or France.
It would be like one of us moving to Canada now, only for Trump’s armies overrun the border seven years later.
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* to overrun
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Power operates differently now than it did in the 30’s and further in to the past. Solitaire’s analogy is clear enough but one must understand that Washington often aims for its policies to overrun other nations. This is very much what so called Globalization has been about. Globalization is less expensive (for the aggressor nation), politically and monetarily, than outright large scale war.
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Julia Jones, who worked with Bannon in his Hollywood days, says he is not racist:
“I never knew the ‘racist Steve’ that’s being reported now. I never heard him make any racist jokes, and his best friend was an African-American who went to [college] with him. … I never saw even a hint of racism.”
So who is this guy and what is his name?
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Donald J. Hitler has got what he wanted. He’s got Pence as his Goehring and now it’s Bannon as Himmler.
The thing is Bannon is not a fringe element at all. He speaks for nearly half the country. Whether they openly agree with what he says, or (the more common response) passively accept it as a necessary evil to preserve the gains they enjoy under white privilege, he speaks for them
The idea that white supremacy was “fringe” in America is all shot to hell by this election. The truth is that this election wasn’t “anti-establishment.”
It revealed that white supremacy IS the establishment.
Whites of all classes, professions, religious persuasions, genders, ages all united to support Trump. Did the Mormons hate him for his impiety? Did white Catholics hate him for tangling with the pope? Did white women hate him for bragging about grabbing women’s genitals? Did white Millennials despise him for his outmoded views? No, no, no, and no
White unites. Tribal appeals are the strongest appeals. Blood is thicker than water. Race trumps class as the organising principle of American society.
They have been too careful, to show their true nature, before their base elected their Aryan warrior to be president.
But here’s the thing about Bannon. He’s going to be a “senior advisor”, not the WH chief of staff. Meaning that he’ll have Trump’s ear but not his head, which will be Priebus’, Ryan and McConnell’s. Bannon will be whispering one thing and they’ll be pushing him in another direction.
It’ll set up a conflict that will undermine the whole agenda. It will lead Trump to be indecisive, setting up battles in congress between the Ryan/McConnell wing and the Freedom Caucus wing—with the white supremacist wing feeling left out, and the “values” wing nowhere.
And as we know Trump like to fire people
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@ Anne
I had not read that about Thiel. Thanks. It does not surprise me he would feel that way.
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I think we need to stop calling them the alt-right and just call them what they really are: Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, racist misogynistic homophobic Islamophobic d-bags. They’re just sniveling cowards who’s scared to death of change and progress and yearn for pre-1950’s America where straight white males had virtually all the power. And Bannon, Trump and the rest of the white-men-are-so-oppressed brigade want to rewind the clock to make it happen.
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“I never knew the ‘racist Steve’ that’s being reported now. I never heard him make any racist jokes, and his best friend was an African-American who went to [college] with him. … I never saw even a hint of racism.”
Maybe when Fox News came around, he started watching that, and it turned him into what we see today.
I’m partly joking though. But it’s a plausible theory. There’s a documentary about a white male who was a Kennedy democrat, but when he started watching Fox News, he became the quintessential angry white male conservative.
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Remember folks, you cant make silk out of a pigs ear!
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Malloy: The Alt-Right Is Directed Strictly To Whites
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-uRbseKcck)
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Steve Bannon, the chief strategist of Trumps’s White House sees the alt-right Charlotteville’s warriors as “a collection of clowns” and the “fire and fury” nuclear showdown between the USA and North Korea as “just a sideshow”.
No. These are only peanuts.
The ultimate, decisive battle of our times will roar somewhere else, at any moment. And it will be an economic battle.
No. Not against the Asian tigers. Not against the samurais. This was decades ago. And these were small game compared with this one…
… the deadly battle against the Grand Dragon, China!
This battle is already in full swing and will require all focus and dedication from all true patriots!
In two or three decades the whole world will know who the winner is!
Grandiose plans!
See more in:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/steve-bannon-american-prospect-interview/index.html
http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant
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Annnd, he’s out!!!
Bye-bye, Steve! Good riddance!!
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I wonder will Bannon squeal on 45 he knows where all the bodies are buried so to speak?I am shocked he was let go or did he resign. Glad we don’t have to look at his ugly pus bag face. So I guess he will resume his deplorable duties at Breitbart as the chief demon in charge of the white nationalist.
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Bannon’s face looks like a rotting soul.
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Even though Bannon has been removed the heart of the monster is still alive. I won’t rejoice until all of them are in hand cuffs.
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@ Mary Burrell
It’s possible that Bannon will be more influential/dangerous being back to Breitbart. He said this week:
See more details at:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/18/media/steve-bannon-returns-breitbart/index.html
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@munubantu: I agree Bannon will still support 45 from the outside and he is still dangerous and he will keep his hate machine (Breitbart) running in full swing. There can be no rejoicing he’s a dangerous animal on the loose.
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There’s speculation that Bannon has turned against Trump and will use Breitbart to go after him.
Even if true, though, Bannon is still a dangerous white supremacist.
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@Solitare: I don’t know what 45 or Bannon have cooked up but you can best believe it’s something evil. I think we can agree that Bannon is bad news.
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@ Mary Burrell
Yep, Bannon’s pure evil. If he does go after Trump, it will be because Trump isn’t racist enough for him.
The only good thing that might result would be if Bannon persuades the alt-right to drop their support of Trump, because that could prevent his re-election. But definitely Bannon’s going to spew out evil ugly hatred wherever he is. He’s a cancer on the face of the earth.
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http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/04/media/bannon-chairman-breitbart/index.html
Oh, Jesus, oh, Jesus, how close friends we were!
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https://sputniknews.com/20220523/watch-osama-bin-ladens-niece-defends-thorn-of-ultra-maga-movement-on-steve-bannons-show-1095724137.html
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