More to the point, I understand that the “boat” that Bannon was apprehended on was owned by a Chinese national.
Whether we want it or not, what with Bannon’ cohorts, Moscow Mitch’s wife’s family ties, Trump’s and Manafort’s obvious predilection for Russian associates, we’ve become quite the little “United Nations” here, haven’t we?
Pundit Michelle Goldberg: In the most recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian campaign interference, a footnote quotes Steve Bannon, the former chief executive of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, disparaging Trump’s oldest son. Bannon said he thought “very highly” of Donald Trump Jr., but also called him “a guy who believes everything on Breitbart is true.”Bannon, of course, ran Breitbart, the far-right media outlet, before joining the Trump campaign, and then for several months after leaving the White House. Yet he seemed to want the senators to know that he was never enough of a rube to take his own propaganda seriously.Shaggy, pretentious and endlessly cynical, Bannon presented himself as a man with a limbic connection to Trump’s base. But few people had more disdain for the members of the right-wing grassroots — whom Bannon sometimes referred to as “hobbits.”In “The Brink,” a 2019 documentary about Bannon, there’s a scene in which he speaks to supporters in a modest living room stuffed with furniture and bedecked with crosses. As his small audience sits rapt, he lauds the room’s similarity to one in his grandmother’s house and pays homage to the “working class, middle class” people who make up nationalist movements everywhere.Then he and a young man traveling with him walk out and step into their chauffeured car. “You couldn’t pay me a million dollars a year to live in that house,” sneers Bannon’s associate. They head to a private airport. Bannon starts to make a crack about the luxurious locale: “This is the populist …” Then he thinks better of it and shoves some popcorn into his mouth.
COL Crash over 3 years ago
Okay, just how is some silly parade of fools in their boats supposed to “Own” the Liberals anyway?
All it really does is piss off the masses you’ve been screwing over to make the money to afford one.
wellis1947 Premium Member over 3 years ago
More to the point, I understand that the “boat” that Bannon was apprehended on was owned by a Chinese national.
Whether we want it or not, what with Bannon’ cohorts, Moscow Mitch’s wife’s family ties, Trump’s and Manafort’s obvious predilection for Russian associates, we’ve become quite the little “United Nations” here, haven’t we?
Godfreydaniel over 3 years ago
Pundit Michelle Goldberg: In the most recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian campaign interference, a footnote quotes Steve Bannon, the former chief executive of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, disparaging Trump’s oldest son. Bannon said he thought “very highly” of Donald Trump Jr., but also called him “a guy who believes everything on Breitbart is true.”Bannon, of course, ran Breitbart, the far-right media outlet, before joining the Trump campaign, and then for several months after leaving the White House. Yet he seemed to want the senators to know that he was never enough of a rube to take his own propaganda seriously.Shaggy, pretentious and endlessly cynical, Bannon presented himself as a man with a limbic connection to Trump’s base. But few people had more disdain for the members of the right-wing grassroots — whom Bannon sometimes referred to as “hobbits.”In “The Brink,” a 2019 documentary about Bannon, there’s a scene in which he speaks to supporters in a modest living room stuffed with furniture and bedecked with crosses. As his small audience sits rapt, he lauds the room’s similarity to one in his grandmother’s house and pays homage to the “working class, middle class” people who make up nationalist movements everywhere.Then he and a young man traveling with him walk out and step into their chauffeured car. “You couldn’t pay me a million dollars a year to live in that house,” sneers Bannon’s associate. They head to a private airport. Bannon starts to make a crack about the luxurious locale: “This is the populist …” Then he thinks better of it and shoves some popcorn into his mouth.
bakana over 3 years ago
Wallet?
She’s lucky they didn’t take the whole Purse and offer to sell it back to her later as a MAGA Purse.
wrd2255 over 3 years ago
Rob me blind! Please! MAGA!
Imagine over 3 years ago
The GOP: party of the scammers and the scammed. Especially the evangelicals are easy to scam. You can get them to believe almost anything.
wellis1947 Premium Member over 3 years ago
By the way, Trump, too used to have a boat – with gold-plated fixtures in the bathrooms. He bought it of a Saudi Prince.
But he had to sell it – couldn’t afford the upkeep – boats are expensive to maintain, it turns out.