Has everyone read the 2014 speech transcript from Bannon on Buzzfeed yet? This guy seems to think he is fighting some kind of holy war against secularists and Islam. Terrifying to have him with this much power.
Hereâs his discussion of WWI/WWII 20th century warsâa war against atheists that eventually results in beating back hordes from the far east. Heâs a nut.
That war triggered a century of barbaric â unparalleled in mankindâs
history â virtually 180 to 200 million people were killed in the 20th
century, and I believe that, you know, hundreds of years from now when
they look back, weâre children of that: Weâre children of that
barbarity. This will be looked at almost as a new Dark Age.But
the thing that got us out of it, the organizing principle that met this,
was not just the heroism of our people â whether it was French
resistance fighters, whether it was the Polish resistance fighters, or
itâs the young men from Kansas City or the Midwest who stormed the
beaches of Normandy, commandos in England that fought with the Royal Air
Force, that fought this great war, really the Judeo-Christian West
versus atheists, right? The underlying principle is an enlightened form
of capitalism, that capitalism really gave us the wherewithal. It kind
of organized and built the materials needed to support, whether itâs the
Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back
continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East.
âLeft unsaid: Cromwell ended up charged with treason and heresy, with his head displayed on a spike on London Bridge.â Works for me.
" Iâm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, itâs the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything."
Funny, he sounds just like Paul Krugman. For the past eight years.
Left unsaid: Cromwell was a the Puritan enforcer and posthumously executed. Yes, they dug him up from Westminster Abbey to do it.
âShip yards, iron works, get them all jacked upâŚIt will be as exciting as the 1930s.â
And, boy howdy, did the 1930âs turn out well for the world.
Maybe we could get the textile mills âjacked upâ again.
(âOur shirts come in two colors: brown and black!â)
And the footwear industry.
(âOur jack boots are made from the finest skins!â)
Maybe the munition works.
(âI havenât been this excited since the remilitarization of the Rhineland!â)
Gosh, I can tell already â this is all gonna work out swell!
I would think that would get the death penalty in Texas. No?
Heâs a zealot on a mission and we are all collateral damage on his holy crusade.
That is a speech transcript? What a mess.
Looky here we have our own London Bridge:
Iâm glad to learn that a crazy guy talks crazy but all day Iâve been seeing tweets and stuff about Trump settling the [edit: a] Trump U. lawsuit for 20 to 25 million dollars. That might be interesting to talk about too.
As far as that thing about the spike. Sooner is better than latter.
Youâre really optimistic if youâre expecting the cooperation of the GOP.
Although it is possible but only if they are able to grift and steal a ton of money for themselves.
And much sooner is even better.
I was about to write something very similar. Well done.
@wordsonfire and @gladysnite - See this is why I love populism sooooo much and why I was sooooo thrilled when Bernie decided to run on it too.
Shipyards and iron works. He wants to spend borrowed money building shipyards and âiron works.â Because clearly, the global shipping glut wonât matter. And clearly, spending public money building up 19th century industries, and industries that Americans traditionally consider private enterprise, makes sense. Kind of a socialist thing. Heâs a nationalist, but also, kind of, in some ways, a socialist.
Good god. Are we planning on invading Poland?
Well, Perry was all gung ho for HUGE infrastructure roads project. But taking land from Texans really really really pisses them off. Didnât happen. And all traces of itâs lavish proposal were deleted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/09/09/09greenwire-gov-perrys-proposed-road-in-texas-had-few-frien-4197.html?pagewanted=all
Wrong Cromwell.
Thatâs Oliver, heâs not even related to Thomas.
Yes, you are right, and he will get the cooperation of the Republican Congress and the Democrats. And because he will, he will put millions of people to work. Having done that, he will be pretty much unbeatable.
There is much to be said for bold plans, which the Democrats never seem to get right. One of the biggest mistakes that the Clinton campaign made was letting Trump get to the left of her on infrastructure. Yes, she mentioned it, but it was one of a whole lot of things on her to-do list.
You mention the Obama stimulus, which was to be in two parts. The first part, which ultimately passed during the financial collapse, did not have nearly enough infrastructure in it. And the second part, which neither Obama nor the Democrats, pushed hard enough, was too small in conception and too timid politically, and thereby failed to get anywhere until this past summer.
So, how should the Democrats respond now? I think the obvious answer is to preempt Trump by introducing on Day 1 an infrastructure bill that is bigger than Trump is talking about, with âpay forsâ that target modest tax increases on the wealthy. Remind Americans that this was Hillaryâs idea by calling it the âHillary Clinton Rebuild America Now Actâ, and denounce both Trump and the Republican Congress for breaking their word by not introducing anything. Is there any chance that the Democrats will do anything like this? Na. Not a chance in the world. It would require too much work to do. And it wouldnât be nice to the new President.