You cannot jail Bannon. That violates the “cruel and unusual punishment” clause. Other prisoners would be exposed to his vile stench. And that’s after they’d have to disinfect Bannon by force and make him bathe.
No amount of soap and water can clear the stench from Bannon, that completely hatefilled, racist, traitorous waste of flesh.
Bannon is delusional besides being a career criminal, though he did play nearly the part of kingmaker that Vlad Putin did. Later, of course, he was fired from the White House after pointing out that Don Jr.‘s Trump Tower meeting with representatives of the dictator Putin was “treasonous.” Later yet, he was brought back yet again. The funny thing is that Bannon himself is already thinking about “Trumpism without Trump”—which is really what he wanted from the beginning. (The nicest thing that any intelligent, honest, and sane person ever said about Bannon was when conservative pundit David Brooks called him a “psuedo-intellectual.” You can’t get nicer about Bannon than that, while still existing in objective reality!)
Several Democratic House members have seized on the new Rolling Stone magazine article on the Capitol insurrection to call for the expulsion of the pro-Trump hardliners in Congress who were allegedly involved in planning the rallies on Jan. 6 that preceded the deadly attack. The calls came after two unnamed organizers of the pro-Trump rallies on Jan. 6 told the Rolling Stone that they had had “dozens” of meetings with multiple members of Congress or their staffers to plan the events.
Those lawmakers were Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX), the organizers said. What are the odds that Bannon was involved in this? 99.9%?
Reminds me of a shyster whom I worked for (new to the area, I did not realize that he was a shyster until I’d worked for him for a few months) – he was periodically getting sued by customers for failing to provide equipment and/or failing to install it correctly… it got so bad that he was averaging a new lawsuit every week, and we would overhear him telling his lawyer “just throw it on the pile”… I was out of there soon after, but he managed to stay in business for about a year longer by moving his office and reestablishing his business in new territories (outrunning his reputation), but once lawsuits started hitting the courts he didn’t last much longer…
Chair speaks after House votes to hold Bannon in contempt
Speaking with Margaret Brennan on CBS’s Face the Nation, Rep Bennie Thompson reacted to unearthed footage of Mr Bannon predicting chaos and “all hell” breaking loose at the event on a podcast just a day before 6 January.
Ms Brennan then asked the chairman: “How premeditated was this attack?”
“Well, there’s no question,” said the committee’s leading Democrat, who added: “[T]he worst kept secret in America is that [former President] Donald Trump invited individuals to come to Washington on 6 January.”
“Steve Bannon was part of the conversation and the promotion of 6 January, the very podcast we just listened to talks about it,” said Mr Thompson.
“Steve Bannon was in the war room, and he was in the Willard Hotel, doing a lot of things, so that’s why we subpoenaed him, that’s why we felt it was important for the committee and staff to depose him,” he said.
Reminds me of that movie about vicious rats, Willard.
Willard: Directed by Daniel Mann. With Bruce Davison, Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine. A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
Rolling Stone: Members of Congress Helped Plan Jan. 6 Rallies
The two sources, both of whom have been granted anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, describe participating in “dozens” of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as his election loss to President Joe Biden was being certified.
“I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically,” the organizer says. “I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs.”
While there have been prior indications that members of Congress were involved, this is also the first account detailing their purported role and its scope. The two sources also claim they interacted with members of Trump’s team, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who they describe as having had an opportunity to prevent the violence.
Greene was far from the only Congresshacker taking part:
Along with Greene, the conspiratorial pro-Trump Republican from Georgia who took office earlier this year, the pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).
“We would talk to Boebert’s team, Cawthorn’s team, Gosar’s team like back to back to back to back,” says the organizer.
The House select committee investigating the attack also has interest in Gosar’s office. Gosar’s chief of staff, Thomas Van Flein, was among the people who were named in the committee’s “sweeping” requests to executive-branch agencies seeking documents and communications from within the Trump administration.
One of those “communications” was the possibility of a “blanket pardon” from Trump for sedition.
Cowboys For Trump Founder Cuoy Griffin Turns on Trump. Griffin Is Mad He Was Arrested For Jan 6th.
“We supported President Trump because of his fight for justice as well. And for four years we cried, ‘Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up.’ We know she’s a criminal. What did the president tell us? ‘If I was in charge of the law, you’d be in jail,’” Griffin said Sunday at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Mr. President, you’ve been in charge of the law for four years,” he added. “At the end of your four year time, the only ones locked up were men like me, and others like me, that have stood by the president the strongest.”
Several House Republicans—exactly the ones you would guess—were involved in planning meetings for protests on Jan. 6 as Trump supporters tried to block the certification of the 2020 election and with it, Donald Trump’s loss, two sources have detailed to Rolling Stone. Both sources are in contact with the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and both, let’s be clear, are motivated to paint their own involvement in the most innocent and patriotic light possible. But they can still have valuable testimony, whatever the motivations.
The sources, identified as an organizer and a planner, say they participated in “dozens” of planning meetings, including some with the personal participation of or top staffers from the offices of Reps. Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Mo Brooks, and Louie Gohmert. (See, I told you you could guess.) “We would talk to Boebert’s team, Cawthorn’s team, Gosar’s team like back to back to back to back,” the organizer told Rolling Stone. Both were in contact with Boebert and Gosar on Jan. 6 itself.
The meetings weren’t purely informational: At least one member of Congress was urging them to put on a protest. The two sources are subjects of an unrelated investigation that Gosar used as incentive to get them to plan the Ellipse protest, telling them that Trump would give them “blanket pardons.”
“Our impression was that it was a done deal,” the organizer said, “that he’d spoken to the president about it in the Oval … in a meeting about pardons and that our names came up. They were working on submitting the paperwork and getting members of the House Freedom Caucus to sign on as a show of support.”
Charlottesville’s reckoning: Unite the Right organizers go on trial
A civil trial against organizers of the deadly August 2017 Unite the Right rally gets underway in Charlottesville, Va. today, the culmination of more than four years of litigation.
The plaintiffs, who were injured in the explosion of violence that culminated when James Alex Fields Jr. accelerated his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of antiracist marchers killing Heather Heyer, seek to prove that the white nationalist organizers of the Unite the Right engaged in a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The plaintiffs have already proven their case against two defendants, Elliot Kline and Robert “Azzmador” Ray, through adverse inference findings by a magistrate judge.
The defendants, including Richard Spencer, were the leading figures of the alt-right movement, a rebranding of white supremacy that took a precipitous tumble in the months following Unite the Right. The alt-right collapsed, in part, because the public, with the notable exception of President Trump, recoiled in horror at the events in Charlottesville, and its numbers dwindled in the face of street opposition and doxing by antifascists while litigation depleted the movement’s resources. But while the alt-right and its leaders foundered in early 2018 and its desperate remnants embraced domestic terrorism, the next four years have seen the unfurling of a broader far-right movement rooted in Americanist nationalism, conspiracy thinking, gun fanaticism and eagerness for civil war.
Steve Bannon praises ‘genius’ Mike Lindell for plan to ruin Thanksgiving
Bannon praised this as a brilliant maneuver — because it could lead to discord on the holidays.
“What I love about this — they said, hey, if you just get Trump out, Orange Man Bad, and you get Biden, you can start having holidays again without arguing at the table and at each other’s throats,” said Bannon. “But Mike Lindell comes in, and he’s going to go the Wednesday, the eve of Thanksgiving, on a marathon, so you can go back and have fistfights. The family squabbles. Lindell, you’re a genius!”
Daeder over 2 years ago
Does one of those flies belong to Mike Pence?
Concretionist over 2 years ago
Steve Bannon’s spirit animal is an an anal wart.
rekam Premium Member over 2 years ago
Patjade over 2 years ago
Bannon; Proof that evolution works in reverse sometimes.
Dani Rice over 2 years ago
Over on Shoe, the comment is made that “he never lets success go to his clothes”. Describes Bannon exactly.
PraiseofFolly over 2 years ago
As pictured, literally as well as figuratively — a rat’s nest.
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
L. O. C. K. H. I. M. U. P. !!!
The scumbag!
He’s the one who directed rump to " deconstruct" America! A blackboard, with a list was in the office…..pre-meditated treason
mrwiskers over 2 years ago
I laughed so hard I started a coughing fit!
Display over 2 years ago
You cannot jail Bannon. That violates the “cruel and unusual punishment” clause. Other prisoners would be exposed to his vile stench. And that’s after they’d have to disinfect Bannon by force and make him bathe.
No amount of soap and water can clear the stench from Bannon, that completely hatefilled, racist, traitorous waste of flesh.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 2 years ago
He’s drunk again…
The Love of Money is . . . over 2 years ago
“How can I be ‘ass-sured’ those aren’t printed on bamboo paper from China ?” . . . . /S
rossevrymn over 2 years ago
But what a porn stash he probably has…………….sticky, sticky porn magazines…………….pages all stuck together.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 2 years ago
With the right friends you can ignore whatever you want.
hfelder7219 over 2 years ago
You left one out- contempt of reality!
Squoop over 2 years ago
And…. contempt of soap.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 2 years ago
^ Sun: Contempt of reality.
Ally2005 over 2 years ago
Bannon’s appearance matches his GQP politics.
Godfreydaniel over 2 years ago
Bannon is delusional besides being a career criminal, though he did play nearly the part of kingmaker that Vlad Putin did. Later, of course, he was fired from the White House after pointing out that Don Jr.‘s Trump Tower meeting with representatives of the dictator Putin was “treasonous.” Later yet, he was brought back yet again. The funny thing is that Bannon himself is already thinking about “Trumpism without Trump”—which is really what he wanted from the beginning. (The nicest thing that any intelligent, honest, and sane person ever said about Bannon was when conservative pundit David Brooks called him a “psuedo-intellectual.” You can’t get nicer about Bannon than that, while still existing in objective reality!)
ncorgbl over 2 years ago
Bannon is an enemy of the U.S.A.
Valiant1943 Premium Member over 2 years ago
I believe you just offended anal warts
Packratjohn Premium Member over 2 years ago
“Just throw it on the pile”, then toss in a lit match or two…
Ally2005 over 2 years ago
Several Democratic House members have seized on the new Rolling Stone magazine article on the Capitol insurrection to call for the expulsion of the pro-Trump hardliners in Congress who were allegedly involved in planning the rallies on Jan. 6 that preceded the deadly attack. The calls came after two unnamed organizers of the pro-Trump rallies on Jan. 6 told the Rolling Stone that they had had “dozens” of meetings with multiple members of Congress or their staffers to plan the events.
Those lawmakers were Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX), the organizers said. What are the odds that Bannon was involved in this? 99.9%?
tung cha cha cha over 2 years ago
LOL—Contempt of combs—LOL. He looks like a scarecrow.
tung cha cha cha over 2 years ago
CJ: Luved your Trumpenweenie last year and again this year!
ferddo over 2 years ago
Reminds me of a shyster whom I worked for (new to the area, I did not realize that he was a shyster until I’d worked for him for a few months) – he was periodically getting sued by customers for failing to provide equipment and/or failing to install it correctly… it got so bad that he was averaging a new lawsuit every week, and we would overhear him telling his lawyer “just throw it on the pile”… I was out of there soon after, but he managed to stay in business for about a year longer by moving his office and reestablishing his business in new territories (outrunning his reputation), but once lawsuits started hitting the courts he didn’t last much longer…
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Bannon is the leader of the republican civil war against American Democracy.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Steve Bannon claims Merrick Garland helped plot ‘coup’ against Trump after the 2020 election
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-coup/
’He’s at the center of this riot’: MSNBC’s Morning Joe nails Steve Bannon for trying to ‘overthrow the US government’
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-willard-hotel/
Trump called Willard Hotel ‘war room’ as allies plotted coup on ‘eerie’ night before Capitol riot: author
https://www.rawstory.com/willard-hotel-war-room/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Capitol riot commission chair says ‘no question’ Trump allies planned 6 January attack beforehand
Chair speaks after House votes to hold Bannon in contempt
Speaking with Margaret Brennan on CBS’s Face the Nation, Rep Bennie Thompson reacted to unearthed footage of Mr Bannon predicting chaos and “all hell” breaking loose at the event on a podcast just a day before 6 January.
Ms Brennan then asked the chairman: “How premeditated was this attack?”
“Well, there’s no question,” said the committee’s leading Democrat, who added: “[T]he worst kept secret in America is that [former President] Donald Trump invited individuals to come to Washington on 6 January.”
“Steve Bannon was part of the conversation and the promotion of 6 January, the very podcast we just listened to talks about it,” said Mr Thompson.
“Steve Bannon was in the war room, and he was in the Willard Hotel, doing a lot of things, so that’s why we subpoenaed him, that’s why we felt it was important for the committee and staff to depose him,” he said.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bennie-thompson-bannon-trump-riot-b1944487.html
Reminds me of that movie about vicious rats, Willard.
Willard: Directed by Daniel Mann. With Bruce Davison, Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine. A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Rolling Stone: Members of Congress Helped Plan Jan. 6 Rallies
The two sources, both of whom have been granted anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, describe participating in “dozens” of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as his election loss to President Joe Biden was being certified.
“I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically,” the organizer says. “I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs.”
While there have been prior indications that members of Congress were involved, this is also the first account detailing their purported role and its scope. The two sources also claim they interacted with members of Trump’s team, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who they describe as having had an opportunity to prevent the violence.
Greene was far from the only Congresshacker taking part:
Along with Greene, the conspiratorial pro-Trump Republican from Georgia who took office earlier this year, the pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).
“We would talk to Boebert’s team, Cawthorn’s team, Gosar’s team like back to back to back to back,” says the organizer.
The House select committee investigating the attack also has interest in Gosar’s office. Gosar’s chief of staff, Thomas Van Flein, was among the people who were named in the committee’s “sweeping” requests to executive-branch agencies seeking documents and communications from within the Trump administration.
One of those “communications” was the possibility of a “blanket pardon” from Trump for sedition.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/24/2060051/-Rolling-Stone-Members-of-Congress-Helped-Plan-Jan-6-Attack?utm_campaign=trending
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Cowboys For Trump Founder Cuoy Griffin Turns on Trump. Griffin Is Mad He Was Arrested For Jan 6th.
“We supported President Trump because of his fight for justice as well. And for four years we cried, ‘Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up.’ We know she’s a criminal. What did the president tell us? ‘If I was in charge of the law, you’d be in jail,’” Griffin said Sunday at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Mr. President, you’ve been in charge of the law for four years,” he added. “At the end of your four year time, the only ones locked up were men like me, and others like me, that have stood by the president the strongest.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/25/2060107/-Cowboy-For-Trump-Founder-Cuoy-Griffin-Turns-on-Trump-Griffin-Is-Mad-He-Was-Arrested-For-Jan-6th?utm_campaign=trending
Insurrectionist Trump didn’t give a crap about the Magas who attacked our Capitol because they lost the battle.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Several House Republicans—exactly the ones you would guess—were involved in planning meetings for protests on Jan. 6 as Trump supporters tried to block the certification of the 2020 election and with it, Donald Trump’s loss, two sources have detailed to Rolling Stone. Both sources are in contact with the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and both, let’s be clear, are motivated to paint their own involvement in the most innocent and patriotic light possible. But they can still have valuable testimony, whatever the motivations.
The sources, identified as an organizer and a planner, say they participated in “dozens” of planning meetings, including some with the personal participation of or top staffers from the offices of Reps. Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Mo Brooks, and Louie Gohmert. (See, I told you you could guess.) “We would talk to Boebert’s team, Cawthorn’s team, Gosar’s team like back to back to back to back,” the organizer told Rolling Stone. Both were in contact with Boebert and Gosar on Jan. 6 itself.
The meetings weren’t purely informational: At least one member of Congress was urging them to put on a protest. The two sources are subjects of an unrelated investigation that Gosar used as incentive to get them to plan the Ellipse protest, telling them that Trump would give them “blanket pardons.”
“Our impression was that it was a done deal,” the organizer said, “that he’d spoken to the president about it in the Oval … in a meeting about pardons and that our names came up. They were working on submitting the paperwork and getting members of the House Freedom Caucus to sign on as a show of support.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/25/2060096/-Jan-6-planners-had-dozens-of-meetings-with-congressional-Republicans-they-say
If incompetent Trump the traitor had stolen the election he would have pardoned all of his henchmen.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Charlottesville’s reckoning: Unite the Right organizers go on trial
A civil trial against organizers of the deadly August 2017 Unite the Right rally gets underway in Charlottesville, Va. today, the culmination of more than four years of litigation.
The plaintiffs, who were injured in the explosion of violence that culminated when James Alex Fields Jr. accelerated his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of antiracist marchers killing Heather Heyer, seek to prove that the white nationalist organizers of the Unite the Right engaged in a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The plaintiffs have already proven their case against two defendants, Elliot Kline and Robert “Azzmador” Ray, through adverse inference findings by a magistrate judge.
The defendants, including Richard Spencer, were the leading figures of the alt-right movement, a rebranding of white supremacy that took a precipitous tumble in the months following Unite the Right. The alt-right collapsed, in part, because the public, with the notable exception of President Trump, recoiled in horror at the events in Charlottesville, and its numbers dwindled in the face of street opposition and doxing by antifascists while litigation depleted the movement’s resources. But while the alt-right and its leaders foundered in early 2018 and its desperate remnants embraced domestic terrorism, the next four years have seen the unfurling of a broader far-right movement rooted in Americanist nationalism, conspiracy thinking, gun fanaticism and eagerness for civil war.
https://www.rawstory.com/charlottesvilles-reckoning-unite-the-right-organizers-go-on-trial/
smartman over 2 years ago
I loved Samantha Bee’s FB post. “It’s the first time anyone voted to hold Steve Bannon in his life.”
randybrewer Premium Member over 2 years ago
Contempt of hygiene?
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Steve Bannon praises ‘genius’ Mike Lindell for plan to ruin Thanksgiving
Bannon praised this as a brilliant maneuver — because it could lead to discord on the holidays.
“What I love about this — they said, hey, if you just get Trump out, Orange Man Bad, and you get Biden, you can start having holidays again without arguing at the table and at each other’s throats,” said Bannon. “But Mike Lindell comes in, and he’s going to go the Wednesday, the eve of Thanksgiving, on a marathon, so you can go back and have fistfights. The family squabbles. Lindell, you’re a genius!”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-genius/