Bannon Gone !

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Stokely

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We all knew Bannon was a vile schmuck, but seems stupid as hell too. I mean its just unbelievable that he would give out the U.S. position on NK in a recent interview:

From the article... Bannon mockingly played down the American military threat to North Korea as nonsensical: “Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us.” ... Basically signalling NK that its in the clear no matter what the prez says is borderline treasonous, and practically confirms the Trump teams incompetence.

Although not sure if thats the sole reason for his dismissal, but it is convenient. What a disaster this prick has turned out to be, on all levels basically, incl the perceived racist or white supremacist influence on the Trump presidency.

To be fair, nobody reasonable thinks anything different, this isn't some state secret. Which is why I hope plenty of reasonable people are around Trump, because he's possibly stupid and vindictive enough to launch a nuclear attack over an insult IMO.
 
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hal2kilo

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Reportedly there was outright cheering on the NYSE floor at this news.
That's correct. Heard it in the car on my mail run, some guy was reporting on MSNBC from the floor of the NYSE about Bannon's departure, and all this clapping and happy screaming erupted in the background.
Bu, bye Mr. Bannon, go out and create your perfect alt right world without interference from someone you obviously had no respect for in the first place. Just a tool to advance you extremist cause.
 
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That's correct. Heard it in the car on my mail run, some guy was reporting on MSNBC from the floor of the NYSE about Bannon's departure, and all this clapping and happy screaming erupted in the background.
Bu, bye Mr. Bannon, go out and create your perfect alt right world without interference from someone you obviously had no respect for in the first place. Just a tool to advance you extremist cause.
Same thing happened here on our trading floor. Alerts were flying everywhere with excess amounts of exclamation points.
 

m8d

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Bannon knows where the bodies are buried. Get your popcorn ready folks this is getting interesting.
 

amenx

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To be fair, nobody reasonable thinks anything different, this isn't some state secret. Which is why I hope plenty of reasonable people are around Trump, because he's possibly stupid and vindictive enough to launch a nuclear attack over an insult IMO.
Probably, only I wouldnt bet on it with other crazy actors on the scene (Kim Jong un) and how far or less they may take from Bannons words vs whatever the U.S. position may be.
 

soundforbjt

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Bannon is leaving just before the midterm election season starts, which to me signals that he'll return to Breitbart and trash mainstream repubs who spoke out against trump and try to get more white nationalists elected to further the cause and trump..
 

Stokely

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That makes as much sense as anything else, actually. Hard to figure any of this.
 

Thump553

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Bannon is leaving just before the midterm election season starts, which to me signals that he'll return to Breitbart and trash mainstream repubs who spoke out against trump and try to get more white nationalists elected to further the cause and trump..

Could be, but my impression of Bannon is that he is just as petty and vindictive as Trump. He's a viper, and he's gonna bite-but it is just as likely to be Trump that gets bitten as anyone else. Bannon will probably start off backing Trump but some Trump action in the future could set Bannon off as he would see it as Trump straying from the true path.

Even if Bannon doesn't turn on Trump, the Breitbart readers already get a full dose of Trump is God messaging. Bannon will add very little to that.

As someone who opposes Trump I see this as a win-win situation.
 
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wow, the comments on that site are just...
well here, I'll let it speak for itself
"President Donald Trump’s decision to part ways with Steve Bannon can be understood as an effort to save his presidency after Charlottesville."

Oh, Jesus Christ!

Charlottesville is one of the biggest NOTHINGburgers CREATED by the left and the media since the "muh Russia" STORY. They couldn't get him on Russia so the came back AGAIN with Racism.

Another False Flag, meant to undermine Trump's "presidency"!

Here's my take, Trump is NOT Leading his own presidency so "his" Presidency is a Misnomer!

If Trump is falling for these lines of attack, it's because HE WANTS TO! NO WAY he doesn't see what they're doing!

STOP Taking away my UP-votes Breitbart!!!
 
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Thebobo

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Thank you oh great and powerful Shadow.

Oh and R'amen to just in case you're not real.

Either way one asshole down many more to come.
 
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agent00f

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To be fair, nobody reasonable thinks anything different, this isn't some state secret. Which is why I hope plenty of reasonable people are around Trump, because he's possibly stupid and vindictive enough to launch a nuclear attack over an insult IMO.

Sure everyone knows, but you don't go around undermining your boss and still expect to keep your job, and nobody's accusing him of doing it out of principle.
 

J.Wilkins

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Nothing will change because of this.

Sure, it's nice to see an arsehole kicked to the curb but the things, Trump is the one that needs to go for anything to change.
 

Sunburn74

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I don't normally pay this much attention to white house staff, but have we ever had this much turnover of said staff among administrations from the past few decades?
No. The firing alone of a fbi director is a rare event. Talk less 2 communication directors in <6 months, one chief of staff, etc etc..people are dropping out of advisory panels to Trump left and right. 16 people resigned from the arts panel today apparently. A few weeks ago a bunch of EPA scientists resigned as well.

After a while, it really is quite clear the common thread is DJT
 
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UNCjigga

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So apparently Bannon typed up his resignation August 7, and met with billionaire Robert Mercer earlier this week. My biggest fear is Bannon starts a PAC to support Trump-like morons at the state and local level, all in the name of "economic nationalism".
 

Sunburn74

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This definitely isn't the end to bigotry running amok in the White House, but it's an important step.

And I have to admit, there's a certain schadenfreude to watching Breitbart readers et. al. realizing what non-Trump voters have known all along: Trump is only in it for Trump, and he will gladly hurt everyone else to get what he wants.
All of this was predicted. He ran a chaos campaign with multiple firings and constant turmoil and his administration has been no different
 

JMC2000

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So apparently Bannon typed up his resignation August 7, and met with billionaire Robert Mercer earlier this week. My biggest fear is Bannon starts a PAC to support Trump-like morons at the state and local level, all in the name of "economic nationalism".

This is actually a terrifying prospect.
 

NAC4EV

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Twelve departures in 6 months!!!!!
Move along folks, no chaos to be seen here.
 

Engineer

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Time to update the list!

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Yep.

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It wouldn't surprise me to see Rex Tillerson go at some point. Not sure if Jeff Sessions would leave or not but as for Tillerson, he has reported to be at odds with T-Rump for some time now.