Steve Bannon’s west wing departure is a punch in the gut to the true believers who are convinced that President Donald J. Trump leads a movement.
Bannon saw Trump’s election for what is was: a political revolution and a once in lifetime opportunity to completely transform of the loser do nothing- donor driven national Republican Party into a vehicle for real political change who champions the beleaguered American worker.
More than anyone, the former White House strategic advisor was dogged in seeing to it that Trump’s campaign promises were kept. He kept an infamous white board in his office with every Trump campaign promise written in bold. It was everyone’s reminder of why-and how- Trump won.
Bannon was the keeper of the Trump ideological flame.
Most importantly, the former Breitbart CEO was the first line of defense against a west wing that is now dominated by Wall Street titans, hedge fund paper pushers, Neo-Cons and warmongers who want the US to continue down the sixteen year old master of the universe path of military intervention, regime change and troop deployments.
Our kids come home in body bags and with missing limbs.
The military industrial complex continues to make money.
We have no objective in Afghanistan and no AUMF (Authorization of Military Force).
More pressure now falls on three key Trump advisors: Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller and Hope Hicks to fight for the policies that got Trump elected and to not sell out his base.
Absent these three and his kids, this White House senior staff is now looking like what you would see in a Mitt Romney or Marco Rubio Administration.
The Heist and The Purge
Across the swampland of Washington, enemies inside are hijacking the Trump revolution. Against all odds, Donald Trump won the presidency promising to clean the Augean stables of Washington and wash out the filth of corrupt insiders who betrayed the American people they were supposed to serve.
Now, the purge is underway in Washington. But it’s the Trump loyalists being purged.
Hundreds who worked to elect Donald J. Trump have been frozen out of permanent positions in his administration and are about to be kicked to the curb in mid-September now that Bannon is gone.
Meanwhile, Republican establishment apparatchiks who refused to work for candidate Trump (“he can’t win and it would look bad on my resume”), betrayed him or actively opposed him have landed permanent jobs.
Wherever you look in the Trump administration, you find GOP establishment swamp critters sidelining the loyalists who manned the barricades in the populist revolution that carried the day on November 7th.
How did this happen?
Consider the man in control of staffing the administration, Johnny DiStefano, who sprang from the loins of John Boehner, the incarnation of the hated establishment, and was put in this key position by Reince Preibus, the former chief of staff and RNC chair.
While princelings of the corrupt Washington establishment land plum jobs, Trump campaign soldiers have been left to die on so-called beachhead teams across the cabinet agencies.
The White House personnel office – controlled by RNC hacks and swamp creatures – has slow-walked Trump candidates for thousands of positions that could be filled by the stroke of the president’s pen.
Now these same hacks will use the excuse of “expiring temporary assignments” to purge the remnants of the Trump battalions in September.
Washington Republicans, who are an integral part of the Deep State, are complicit in sabotaging the Trump revolution.
High level administration appointees are careerists more committed to polishing their resumes for their next job, whether on K Street, the federal bench on in the Ivy league, than in advancing President Trump’s agenda. They mark Trump loyalists as poison, fearing anyone or anything that could taint their prospects for an establishment-approved sinecure.
The GOP establishment sees President Trump as a mortal threat, and it is collaborating with the media, Democrats and Deep State operatives to engineer his demise.
President Trump had best understand the long knives are out to get him and as often as not, Republicans are wielding the blades.
First, they come for the Trump loyalists.
Next, they will come for Donald Trump himself.
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Effing war pigs.
I as a Trump supporter it is not a Trump Revolution it was an American Revolution. Nice try John
The Republicans are just purging the American Heart. They will never miss it , they never had it.
Vote Northram this November so as to tax the Republicans illegal labor and Veto (grade school bill of Goverment growth) HB253
Republicans will NEVER build a wall , they will never take a Nobel lead on illegal immigration. Is it time to write the book titled; The book , the buck , the bomb a story on how Republicans sold America.
The problem John, is that Trump has and continues to lie to us. Just tonight he proved that he’d lied about Afghanistan. He lied about healthcare. The only, and the very only thing that keeps Trump going, is the absolute, totally stupid, double down on stupid by the Pelosi and Shumer crowd. When the Democrats decide to stop being the very definition of stupid, and dump the Californication freek show brigade in Washington, the Republican Party will be in big trouble. Don’t hold your breath.
Trump is incompetent. His Afgan policy is riduculouse. He has to listen to the generals because he himself is incompetent.
We have moved on from the N. Korean issue of just 2 weeks ago without any accomplishments, just as I told you we would. Yes, Trump went back and forth with a nut job 30 year old a banana republic dictator. Nothing but BS. Lucky for Trump the American people would rather talk about what is most important to them, where to pee, and antique statues.
Trump, Pence, Ryan, McConnell, all need to resign. Along with the Secretary of the Navy, Congressman Rob Wittman, and a few Admirals before the Navy doesn’t have any ships to sail, or planes to fly left.
Where ever your vote goes, it should not go to Northam if you care at all about your liberty.
Amy,
1) Please read McAuliffes Executive Order 24.
2)Then read the policy change of July 1, 2015 where DOLI/VOSHA
What the Dems are doing is collecting taxes and discovering how illegal aliens are employeed in Va’s Construction Industry.
As for liberty my liberty was squashed when Governor McDonnell had Commissioner Broadway of the VEC classify illegal aliens as bona fide independent contractors. Here is a story of the McDonnell/Cuccinelli failed leadership.
http://watchdog.org/202012/subcontractors-shadow-economy
200 violations issued , no investegations , yet DPOR ran a surplus that same year.
I am not a putz or chump I will stick with EO24 for now.
Sir…
McAuliffe is doing NOTHING to remove illegal aliens from this state or impede their ability to work (or illegally vote for that matter). Northam will not do any of those things either. The “misclassification” EO and task force has nothing to do with illegals and everything to do with independent contractors who the state feels should be listed as employees instead.
Amy,
I have been building in Va my whole adult life.
A residential contractor of 32 years this is my profession, my life .
I could care less about the Republican or Democrat illegal aliens.
This does not show of their removal bit who is exploiting them and that appears they are members of Home builder associations. How much has your Rep taken.
To be fair if you are against the illegal employment you should ask you rep.;
How many of the unlicensed contractors referred to DPOR had VEC accounts?
How many of the licensed contractors employing them had VEC Accounts?
Amy,
JLARC 427 has us writing Employee Misclassification legislation.
I expect by your response you would like the continued loopholes to be in place in future legislation.
Now for the *grade school bill* HB253 by A Republican Delegate mandates a purchase of workers comp insurance prior to application for Contractors License to be filed with DPOR.
1) Oh how come no VEC Account requirement also?
2) the Commonwealth of Va DOES NOT REQUIRE Workers Comp insurance with 2 or less employees
3) Will the mandate insurance purchase be FORCED on other employers / bussiness?
Please tell me why the Tidewater Builders Association Director Republican Senator Bill DeSteph is seeking to have notification of illegal Contracting to the proper State agency or courts.
How come Va. Republicans DO NOT DESIRE a level playing field as discussed in JLARC 427?
President Bush speach after 9/11 speaking of the Taliban; “we will draw no distinction between the terrorist themselves and those who harbor them”
To this issue of illegal Commerce one could say the Va Republicans are in effect Talibanesque.
A step further how effective or efficient would mandated E-Verify regulations be when they will not be applied to Contracting or the 1099?
When Trump came down the escalator and announced his Presidential
aspirations he was in full force against illegal immigration.
Would you like to protect those child molesters , drug dealers and murders by allowing illegal employment?
Umm no, but Northam does and will.
If you don’t want to have an underground labor market so child support dodgers, illegal
contracting ( state projects included), illegal employment, tax payroll and insurance fraud, child molesters , drug dealers, murders, and yes kidnappers ( attempted abduction at Va Tech. June, 2012) talk with your Senator or Senators on the Committee of Commerce and Labor to add a VEC Account Requirement to Delegate Minchews Bill HB253. Now that that is added amend The Va. Employment Compensation Act to have the 21 point IRS Checklist EXTENDED to *electronic verification* of DPOR Website for Contractors license.
***Look at Minchews impact statement on HB253.*** Ask yourself why is he a Republican growing the State Government for a mandated insurance purchase to cover employees injuries but not a tax account for the same employees in light of JLARC 427 ? Is he out of touch with Va.? Is he bought? Is he careless about fraud and employment or could care less?
Amy,
11 Republican Senators 2 years ago sent (R) Senator Bill DeSteph’s back in his face (rejected, a FAT A$$ NO).
It is time to rise to the occasion once again , this time with amendments to HB 253.
I will work with anyone R or D to get these loopholes closed , would you?
Comm. Of Commerce and Labor members;
R-Senator Wagner
R- Senator Black
And District 23 R – Senator Steve Newman , the epicenter of all this illegality.
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You are dead-on right, John! It was like an epiphany for me today. Yes, we know that the left and the media were/are gunning forTrump, but he is being subverted by those he thinks are in his camp on the right. You called this from the beginning. This is why everything looks so f’d up inside the White House. It’s Ezekiel and Pulp Fiction: “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.”
I completely agree RJ. We have seen the light, and John has explained it perfectly. Now we’ll never be able to unsee it and pretend is all is well among Republicans.
You seem happy to lead the opposition. There is no unity-building here, principally focused on division and your own private set of rumor-supported “fact” building. Your right, your choice.
Those who think antifa is somehow a noble organization, I repeat what I said earlier on another thread:
From #Boston Resist
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0480487b5469a23d23c3d7023416982bd745599603a88f8ac28ebdba0d70339e.jpg
There is no room for capitalists, conservatives, libertarians, “classical liberals” or supporters of the US constitution in our city. You MUST leave.
Actually, you were the first one to mention antifa with regards to this piece, which never mentions them at all. You have a problem with context and your thinking and reasoning lack maturity. You show the classic signs of being on the spectrum.
Yes I was. Now it is up to you to ponder why.
BTW, obviously a fake account, you foolishly fell for it:
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/08/how-to-spot-a-fake-antifa-account.html
Nope.
Go for it, Warmac. Double-down. Declare it the truth. You are wrong, it is fake, but I know you believe and want to make a difference. Unfortunately, you don’t know the difference you are making: You are undercutting the people who have a point to make and facts to support them. This is simply fake news, pure and simple.
Very tough situation. Fortunately, more and more plain folks are seeing the damage the swamp creatures are creating for the USA. It will take time and patience, but the citizenry has a way of taking charge. There is an old saying “when elephants stomp, pygmies hide in trees”. Winter is coming and the leaves will be on the ground. The political pygmies in the congress are going to be rather exposed.
It’s an opportunity, warmac9999 for whatever it is Steve Bannon did.
Problems are opportunities by another name.
Aren’t Bannon and Trump still in touch and on good terms? I kinda just figured that Bannon would be working for the same stuff just from outside the WH where he had more freedom.
Running a website is not the same as having an office next to the Oval.
But running a blockbuster tv and internet network that replaces failing Fox News will be very effective. O’Reilley, Hannity, Tucker, dobbs, etc will wipe the floor with the leftist networks.
Aren’t those so-called “leftist” networks public companies run by their shareholders?
Yes, and the board room on The Apprentice is not the same as the Oval office either.
Still lock step together
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/21/watch-donald-trump-stares-directly-into-the-sun-during-solar-eclipse/amp/
Read Brietbart today. You turn out to be wrong again. (No surprise there.) He savages DJT, refers to “President McMaster” and writes “I voted for Donald Trump because he promised change. I may have made a mistake.”
Go play with your rounds T, the adults are talking.
Cogent, reasoned argumentation from the ignorant Queen of Mean. What kept you from making a difference in the world, permanently bitter? Where did you acquire that SNORT?