Showing posts with label Steve Bannon taking charge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Bannon taking charge. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

The Palace Knives Are Out


The hasty departure of wingnut conspiracy theorist and Russian mole Michael "Jack D. Ripper" Flynn is seen by some observers as an enhancement of right-wing white supremacist and derelict impersonator Steve "Loose Cannon" Bannon's power within the chaotic asylum that is the White (Supremacist) House. At the outset of this administration, three power centers coalesced around sociopathic incompetent Donald "Rump" Trump: the now-departed Flynn, chief "strategist" Bannon, and Chief of Staff and human/weasel hybrid Reince "Prepuce" Priebus. Now, the shifty-eyed Prepuce may be next in line:
"Bannon's next victim is likely to be White House chief-of-staff Reince Priebus. Last week, Bannon said of Priebus, “There’s no daylight between us.” In Washington, those are usually the last words a political innocent hears before a long knife is inserted into his or her back.

Priebus served as Trump’s tenuous link to the Republican power brokers who hoped, in vain, that he might establish a semblance of a normal White House for a disinterested president, like James Baker did for Ronald Reagan. Fat chance. Trump thinks Priebus is a loser and he is expected to be the next to go in what inside-the-Beltway types like to call a 'shakeup.'” (emphasis added)
You'll recall that during the Rethuglican primaries last year, Prepuce was in constant, flustered flop sweat damage control mode as candidate Rump generated one outrage after another. He joked then that he wasn't "pouring Baileys" on his cereal, but now he may want to reconsider (and have someone test the Baileys before drinking it) with the "Bannonization" of the White (Supremacist) House.

BONUS:  Meanwhile, the Twitterverse, remembering Flynn's role leading the "lock her up" chants at the Republican National Convention last summer, has a new hashtag: #lockhimup.

Monday, February 6, 2017

Tweets Of The Day: Trump's "I Call My Own Shots" Meme


Apparently after watching Morning Jo(k)e, where host Squint said white supremacist Steve "Loose Cannon" Bannon "may be calling all of the shots" in the White House, neo- fascist dimbulb Donald "Rump" Trump felt compelled to drop whatever he was doing (nothing) and head for his Twitter machine:


Of course, this has spawned a hilarious meme on Twitter.  Here are some of them (h/t The Daily Dot and The Hill):






Trump Unaware Of What He's Signing; New York Times Buries The Lede


You may have seen this editorial cartoon from the other day showing a distracted neo- fascist adolescent Donald "Rump" Trump (a.k.a., Lord Dampnut) signing Executive Orders, being guided by *President* Steve Bannon's hand:


(Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune, with apologies to M*A*S*H)

Well, as proof the cartoon image wasn't an exaggeration but is what anyone with brain function would have expected, we have this (buried 23 paragraphs deep!) in a February 5 article in the New York Times:
Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.  (our emphasis)
Others noticed the =ahem= minor detail that Lord Dampnut was signing orders without knowing what was in them, and how Times "reporters" Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman managed to bury the lede:






Clearly, the answer for some in the media to the question, "Is They Learning," is "No, we isn't."

Also, buried in the Times story is the risible nugget that our fearless leaders literally can't find the light switches in the White House Cabinet Room.  D'oh!

BONUS:  Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog covers more of the hidden nuggets in the Times story (in case you don't have time to discover them).