Or worse yet he could use his power to prop up some wealthy demagogue to lie his way to the presidency, where this unprincipled and corrupt president would attack the country’s laws and institutions, make common cause with racists, bigots, fascists and authoritarians in the U.S. and abroad (even with anti-democratic…

Someone needs to tell the New Yorker that you can’t wear white supremacy after Labor Day.

Yeah, Bannon must have been quaking in his boots at the thought of a potentially “combative conversation”. Is it possible Remnick is the only person in the world who isn’t acquainted with Steve Bannon’s publicly stated goals and methods?

No one will convince me that Trump doesn’t have the early stages of some kind of dementia. Also he’s a racist, egomaniacal, misogynistic asshole. Still got to be president. There have to be a few of these neo-Nazi dudes trying to figure out how much lower they can push the bar.

Also can you all stop giving these fucks a gig and THEN cancelling when people freak out. They win either way. They get attention either way. Stop feeding these giant, sloppy ass trolls. Damn.

The “Resistance” can be very unfocused. Media houses treat this like a spectacle. The public can’t get on it’s high horse too much, especially if Omarosa debuted on top of the best sellers list just two weeks ago. We don’t need anymore inside dirt, we are well aware of the dysfunction. They could tell us he throws…

This. The New Yorker just gave those professional victims fresh ammunition. Jesus fuck how stupid are these people?

This will soon be updated to say that he has been disinvited as of about 7:00 EST.

its true, trump may not be learning anything from this, but i have learned a ton. its like those zombie movies where a schlub learns all kind of specialized skills to survive in the zombie overrun world. 5 years ago i did not know what the telecommunications act of 1934 was, now i can go into detail how the law has…

To me, this is just more evidence that editors and the like see this kind of thing as a sort of interesting exercise. It just shows me they have no real skin in the game. These ideas are more than well-known. In fact, they’re nigh foundational in America. To present it as if it’s a curiosity, and not just a retread of…

Also: Even if you put aside for a moment that these fuckers have enough platforms from where they spout their hatred, be it their website, facebook, meetings, music festivals and what have you.

I think of “collusion” as being in the same class of general crime words as “corruption,” “conspiracy,” “extortion,” “racketeering,” “fraud,” etc., but the Emoluments Clause was definitely one of those concepts that only a total wonk could identify by name. It’s interesting how certain specialized terminology can…

Unless he recants his evil ways and confesses to all of his terrible suspected crimes, nothing he says will shed any light on anything we know he already is, a hateful, racist monster.

yah, this is the problem. a guy like bannon has spent the better part of 50 years honing various ways to “pwn the libs” and preparing for a race war. David Remnick has spent the better part of his adult life surrounded by genteel people making witty repartee at cocktail parties. Bannon already has a reply for anything…

But that’s the thing - it’s not like his opinions are a secret or there’s some deep nuance that needs to be unpacked.

Man, remember when Obama was president and everyone was just vaguely annoyed that it seemed like nothing was happening? Those were the days. The sheer stability of it all... Gee whiz, remember how he would pop by Fallon to Slow Jam the News sometimes? Because he was just a casual, friendly, likeable dude and the mere…

Bannon has received dozens of interviews over the years, massively gotten more media attention than almost anyone other media person, and has been written about countless times.

i was reading something recently where a Brazilian journalist was quoted as saying that he knew it was a bad political situation in Brazil because everybody was talking about politics. in a country that’s running well, no one gives a shit about politics.

Three years ago I didn’t know what “collusion” or the “emoluments (clause)” were. Trump is turning me into a legal scholar.

America should be verrrrrrrry careful about giving this white supremacist a platform from which to spew.  It’s easy to imagine Bannon making a bid for President, and winning.