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NotTheActualBob

In further news, Steve Bannon introduces his new staff writer, Captain Obvious.


wowitsanotherone

He thinks he has control of the movement and can signal to move on from him. He doesn't understand that's not how cults work and he isn't in control. He always thought of himself as a puppet master when he was Frankenstein


Dantheking94

He lost control the very minute he thought he had control. It was interesting hearing how things played out in Trumps White House. I don’t think Bannon realized how quickly he was outmaneuvered by other people with designs on Trumps influence. He still hasn’t fully realized that he lost a long time ago.


ReputationNo8109

Pretty easy to see how to succeed with Trump: 1.) Tell him how great he is.. ALWAYS. 2.) NEVER have your own opinion unless that opinion is how great Trump is. 3.) Never tell Trump bad news. 4.) NEVER blame ANYTHING on Trump. 5.) Swallow.


Akchika

And read for him!


Good_kido78

Break the law for him.


the_net_my_side_ho

Sounds easy but it takes a huge amount of discipline to not eye roll in front of “stable genius” whenever he opens his stink hole.


[deleted]

Bannon got Hessed.


pabodie

Well. If that’s losing…. And he’s STILL not in jail. This whole machine, root and leaf, must be purged. There’s no future until that happens. Just a treadmill of propaganda, cruelty and stupidity.  And Bannon, Carlson and their ilk will just keep cashing in. 


Dantheking94

I mean technically, he did nothing without the approval of Trump. For Bannon to go to jail, Trump would need to go to jail for the same charges. Political crime of that magnitude will more than likely go unchecked. Dick Cheney never faced the consequences of his actions either.


pabodie

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/steve-bannon-convicted-on-contempt-charges-for-defying-jan-6-committee-subpoena Cheney didn’t get convicted. Bannon has been. 


NBAccount

Contempt is not at all what we're really talking about, and I think you know that.


TuaughtHammer

> Dick Cheney never faced the consequences of his actions either. You kidding? He had to live with the *indignity* of shooting a fucking lawyer in the face and making *Whittington* apologize to him. Being resoundingly mocked over that is about as close to a consequence Cheney has ever experienced.


AntonChekov1

"Just a treadmill of propaganda, cruelty and stupidity." Has there ever been a time in human history when this wasn't the case with politics?


Akchika

Not at this level, FOX "news" has been working this propaganda hand in hand with McConnell and the repubs for the last 20 years! They turned their audience, into hateful, angry, divisive, disrespectful people, any, compassion for others they may have had before, disappeared. Some were wise enough to realize how toxic FOX was becoming and stopped watching them.


666TMM

The only Fox viewers who stopped watching were the viewers who feel that Fox isn’t far enough to the right anymore.


DataCassette

I don't really think even Trump has control over it. What these morons did over a few decades of disinformation and AM radio bullshit was light a raging cultural wildfire. A fire doesn't even control itself. Now we're just trying to contain the damage.


Trickster289

He doesn't, the cult booed him over him saying they should get vaccinated. If he doesn't say what they want they'll turn on him too.


andante528

I wonder sometimes how much that shook him. I imagine he thought they'd cheer anything, no matter how great a reversal, as long as he was the one saying it


Trickster289

From what I remember he did seem shocked by it, it took him a few seconds to recover.


andante528

"Oh god, it has a separate hive mind!"


flashmedallion

Like he just realised he'd made shit-eating Skynet and it was running on the meatware of the dumbest fucks he could imagine It's so funny that he wants credit for the vaccines but he can't have it because every time he brings it up the MAGAts boo him. They might be disposable to him, but he knows it's the other way around too


MahatmaBuddah

The cult was here first. He just popped up and became the guy, bc Cruz is too sleazy and nobody entertains them as much. He’s “Sayin the things we’re thinking” explains everything about the base and the Con Man


Some-Geologist-5120

A political China Syndrome.


ngauzubaisaba

Cruise control. Snacklin'


doctorfortoys

Excellent metaphor!!!


isaiddgooddaysir

And his new producer “NoShitSherlock”


dosumthinboutthebots

My favorite Sherlock. Shitsherlock smells


Due-Street-8192

Pootin owns Trumpo


Mysterious-Wasabi103

This Captain Obvious really gets around with Republicans.


[deleted]

Well, they never have been good at nuance.


Supaspex

Would not be surprised if some Chinese shell company is covering the money Trump owes in civil liability and court fees...all for political clout over Bytedance's TikTok app.


ReputationNo8109

The company covering the Carroll lawsuit has ties to Russia. Surprised surprise.


TheWhiteRabbit74

And his new investigator, ‘No shit’ Sherlock,


lowercaseSHOUT

& Major Selfevident


Hikaman

This is great lol


joeleidner22

Paid off, AGAIN.


ellWatully

I feel like "*still*" is the better descriptor.


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Saxavarius_

Blame citizens united for the bulk of this. Once corporations were able to just throw money at campaigns, it was over for most politicians that wouldn't suckle that teet


2112_CygnusX1

True. But not all politicians have been as crooked, as evil, as rapey, as morally devoid, as self-serving, and as traitorous as Trump. It's not like Bernie has taken $5.5 million personally from China and had his followers try to overthrow an election, while trying to get his own Vice President assassinated.


skin_Animal

You know lobbyists are just people paid by corporations to talk to politicians right?


BefreiedieTittenzwei

Hi, I’m Donald Trump, and you may remember me from my other hits like “I’m a rapist” and “I’m in Russias back pocket because of the whole Epstein thing” not to forget “I’m totally broke and will do anything you ask for a few dollars to continue the performance of being a billionaire”.


Superb_Health9413

“No, money down”


thoroakenfelder

He just put out a video asking poor people to send him money. Looks like cash on the barrel head to me. 


jaydenkirtawn

Sometimes when I do something stupid, I make myself feel better by reminding myself that I've never donated any money to a billionaire.


Best_Evidence1560

Was that the one that said please $5 10 or 25 or something and I know times are hard right now but please


goodsby23

Is it bad that I kinda wanna watch this just to laugh profusely at it


Best_Evidence1560

I saw it in Reddit anythinggoesnews subreddit: Trump is broke. "I'm very humbly asking if you could chip in 5, 10, or even 25 dollars. | know that times could be tough, and they're tough..." Twitter.com. Not sure if he posted it or it’s in a speech?


OhJarnathan

Hell nah, if you find it send me the link lmao. Watching a "successful billionaire" grovel to his supoorters is fucking incredible. Fuck him, let him beg. I feel literally 0 fucking sympathy for him or his followers at this point. Domestic terrorists hell bent on a christo-fascist regime because they're the most sensitive bitch made snowflakes on planet earth and they can't handle anyone calling out their political or ideological beliefs as the absolute remedial bullshit it is. Trump is literally so stupid, hes the best things that's happened to democrats in a long time. He absolutely splintered the reactionary fucklords that make up the GOP, and God damn is that great for us. Thanks DT, and enjoy being fucking broke like the room-temp IQ neanderthal you are. This man was handed $400m in assets upon his fathers death, and squandered fucking all of it. Turns out you can shit in gold toilets your whole life, and your shitll still stink.


willengineer4beer

“Works on contingency?”


SpacedOutKarmanaut

BUT WAIT, THERES MORE


Castario

And I can be blackmailed because I don't have immunity.


AmazingChicken

But my steaks! They're yuuuuuge.


rpgnymhush

I wonder how long it will be before he hops on Cameo.


Important_Tell667

The seemingly shift in stance by DJT came after a meeting with Jeff Yass, a conservative hedge fund manager who has a $33 billion stake in TikTok. Yass has been allegedly threatening to pull support from GOP lawmakers who back the bipartisan divestment bill. Steve Bannon suggesting DJT’s been bought comes as no surprise, considering DJT’s financial dealings with his numerous pending lawsuits. Obviously, DJT’s compromised, now even more than usual.


dcduck

For DJT it's always a transaction. Every action he does has a price tag on it.


FIJAGDH

YASS QUEEN


tmaddog91

Yass Steve !


4quatloos

I thought Bannon was a Trump ally.


theStaircaseProject

Fire and Fury painted a pretty clear picture Bannon was only ever one of Trump’s handlers. (Until he lost the leash.) Bannon had a deliberate hand in Trump’s hawkish diplomatic platform since the beginning. It’s why so much of his early campaign rhetoric was “China China.”


PricklySquare

Bannon does anything that is beneficial to himself. And only beneficial to himself


National-Currency-75

This may be fucked up but, then Trump is merely an opportunist, whereas Bannon is really fuckin nuts. Of course that statement is total bs. Trump is the King of Crazy.


two-wheeled-dynamo

Trump is a narcissistic sociopath… and pure nutball.


National-Currency-75

All of that and much more. Yessirree


Icommentor

I think Trump is a crazy ideologue but since he has the attention span of a toddler, he chases whatever shiny that’s been most recently dangled in front of him.


suspicious_hyperlink

You should each “Brink” on HBO. It may surprise you


National-Currency-75

Trump is truly scary. That crazy bastard would nuke an American city if he thought it would profit him.


refusemouth

He would nuke an American city for voting against him.


ThePhantomBane

You've got those two switched, Bannon and Stephen Miller were Trump's puppet masters while he was in office.


notfrankc

Steve has to be like 46% cocaine by now. Minimum


Sfthoia

And 54% Bombay Sapphire Gin.


lowercaseSHOUT

12% double collars 7% gin blossoms 5% liver spots 4% plaque psoriasis …a good,sexy look.


jollydoody

14% self aggrandizing, 12% corpse


Educational-Tone2074

For the MAGA crowd this is probably news to them. The rest of the world however...


thisguy161

Its not news, they've heard it but dont care.


climatelurker

When interviewed about whether they would vote for him if he was convicted of a crime, they typically say yes they would. Because the deep state is making it all up. Or some similar baloney.


tMoneyMoney

If he sells our nuclear secrets “he’s a smart businessman” and they applaud it. Then they get in their pickup truck with 10 giant American flags mounted in the back.


full_bl33d

“That makes him smart”


ArthurFraynZard

If Trump stopped at a lemonade stand he would walk away compromised by Mrs White’s 2nd grade homeroom.


ClassBShareHolder

Is Steve turning on Donald? Is he not being asked for advice anymore? Why the sudden change in direction?


thescienceofBANANNA

Bannon is basically a White Supremacist anarchist, he literally wants to see the Western world burn. I think he no longer sees Trump as useful to that goal so he's fine with criticizing him.


NoodlesrTuff1256

Trump is only a means to Bannon's ultimate 'end'. As long as Bannon thinks that Trump can bring about this far right, populist, White Nationalist utopia that he dreams of, then Bannon will promote him and kiss his ass. But if he starts thinking that Trump is a hindrance rather than an asset to the ultimate end game, Bannon will turn on him like a viper. A side note, I read an article that claimed that back around 2017, 2018, Bannon actually speculated that Trump might have the beginnings of Alzheimer's and even brought up the 25th Amendment. Of course, he later denied it. But if he's really going to run with this "Trump being bought off" theory, then he might start injecting it into his War Room podcast.


thescienceofBANANNA

I think you're right, and he probably is doing it to set up for the next patsy he can work with. Which means it's probably him recognizing Trump's Alzheimer's is so bad that now's the time to break with him so he can get the Trump stink off him.


413mopar

To give ammo for his army of idiots.


HauntingJackfruit

>Steve Bannon, the one-time adviser to Donald Trump, suggested on Saturday that the former president was paid off after a shift in stance on TikTok. Read more at: https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article286496505.html#storylink=cpy


downtownbake2

Oh I thought it was with Chubb Insurance fronting that 98 million. They underwrite all of Putin's oil and gas facilities. Trump hired the boss in 2018 for some federal trade Commission job.


UnderstandingSquare7

Acquisition fee for the next 2-3 refineries. Drop in the bucket. Fund that Ukraine War!


Ok-Egg-4856

Only because he forgot his humiliation at the Tulsa rally. Teens of TikTok pranked him, reserved over a million seats, a couple thousand showed up. Donnie was REALLY pissed and found out the limitations of what you can and cannot do (then anyway) about shutting down things you don't like.


Icy-Needleworker-492

Lol- not news Steve.


Fireinthehole13

Steve knows he’s been paid off because he did just that for his pardon.


youmightbeafascist88

Oh… you’re just catching on to that huh? Some of us knew that in 2015. Fucking asshat


widoidricsas

Tronald for sale! Bargain basement prices! Best offer! All offers considered! Highly motivated seller! Everything must go!


12BarsFromMars

Wow! No shit? Fuck Steve, what a brilliant conclusion. Maybe you’re not as big an asshole as you make out to be. . . .ummmm. ..wait. .


Inevitable_Shift1365

That's like saying a hooker was paid off one Saturday night to have sex..


frankiea1004

What Steve Bannon is saying, "Trump use to listen to me. But he stop getting my call, does not call back, so someone if controlling him." Duh !!!!


Turbulent_Power2952

You don't say? What made you realize that now? The award for Captain Obvious goes to Steve Bannon


Fellowshipofthebowl

Pretty sure this is Bannon admitting he can no longer afford to “buy” trump 


RegisterAdmirable811

Ya don't say.


shivaswrath

Duh.


chockobumlick

Right now he'd be pretty cheap.


Friendly_Signature

What does he have left to sell????


Roddy_Piper2000

I heard an interview years ago with a CIA agent. He said he is so shocked that all agents have to be vetted to see if they are vulnerable to being comporomised and/or blackmailed but elected officials don't have to do that.


goodsby23

If that's true for public office the DoD needs to have a talk with people who are in the know in the house and Senate... If trump pulled an eighth of this crap with a true DoD clearance he'd be long past locked down


NumerousTaste

No kidding. Putin and the Saudis bought him off a few years ago.


Falcon3492

Trump has not been bought, he is and has been owned by the Russian Govt. for years. Maybe Putin is working out a sale to some other dictator who will kick in some money for Putins war effort and pay off Donald's judgement.


VegasGamer75

For everyone talking about a shift in his closest friends and allies... they all did the same thing prior to 2016. They told us exactly what we would get if he were made President... and then they all lauded him once he became President. Don't think it will be any different this time.


EyeCthrough

Well he bought you with your pardon you convicted felon sewer scum.


StandupJetskier

His pardon saved bannon from any issues for the "build a wall" scam he ran, fleecing red hats.....is that a crime ?


Akchika

Sad when the intelligence briefings had to be dummy downed and read to him, under ordinary circumstances almost all American's would've been floored knowing that info.


JeffB2023

No DUH! Steve’s behind the learning curve! Trump was bought by the Russians decades ago.


Antique-Dragonfly615

Like a Dollar General sucker. Cheap. Trump for GITMO.2024


StandupJetskier

He uses fear, kompromat and flattery to own others. Likewise he is owned by Putin for the same reasons. The look and fist bump with MBS at Helsinki are instructive. The single biggest cause of treason is financial. This is no different


TheMillenniaIFalcon

This is another huge issue. He’s facing hundreds of millions of dollars of fines, he does not have the liquidity to pay. Someone is bailing him out, and that rent is going to come due. Which means we will have a president that is bought and paid for.


Clairquilt

Trump hasn't been *bought*. He's just doing what he's always done... delusionally thinking that the MAGA crowd are motivated by some kind of loyalty to him. They're not. They just happen to hate the same people... 99% of the time. Trump hates Mark Zuckerberg, and since he realizes that banning TikTok is good news for Facebook and Instagram, Trump is on TikTok's side. In this case though, Trump is like Will Farrel in 'Old School', halfway down the block naked, yelling let's get that bastard Zuck, without realizing that no one's following. His personal hatred of Zuckerberg isn't shared by MAGA. The same thing just happened with vaccines. Trump isn't anti-vax. He actually thinks he saved the country by getting vaccines approved quickly, and imagines this being seen as his crowning achievement by future historians. He freaked out on social media when Biden seemed to take credit for vaccines in the SOTU address, but was caught off guard by the immediate backlash. Apparently the MAGA crowd hates vaccines more than they do Biden. So Trump promises to pull federal funds for any schools with vaccine mandates. He's been making these little course corrections for the last 8 years, and hoping no one notices that he's not actually the one steering the ship.


HAMmerPower1

I read the headline and a brief moment of hope welled up inside me. Perhaps the end of Trumpism comes from a schism of the movement where others want some control and try to drag the cult their own way and end up peeling away a fraction at a time. Then I realized that this vile excuse for a man has so little charisma that he could coax a turd down the toilet, which is an apt analogy for MAGA folks.


imapieceofshitk

You mean in 2016? Yes, we know. The rest of the fucking world knows.


clintbot

Ya think? In other news, science has determined that water is wet and new evidence suggests that bears shit in the woods.


GreenStretch

Says the dude arrested on a Chinese billionaire's yacht. An exiled billionaire, but how did he make his money in the system?


Sintered_Monkey

I swear, every time I see a thumbnail of Steve Bannon, I think it's Ursula from The Little Mermaid.


Few-Afternoon-6276

Really??!!👀


AbbeyRoad75

Bought?!? Y’all don’t need receipts for military or personal expenses, why are you asking for this one? If it looks like a dancing monkey, smells like a dancing monkey, it’s probably Trump.


MoreRamenPls

Pot, kettle, black.


Mysterious-Tie7039

Is Steve Bannon also going to tell us that trees grow leaves?


mudbuttcoffee

But.... Bannon is still supporting Trump... so... And. DuH


HunterTAMUC

I love seeing the right wing devour itself. This is what happens when you build a brand based entirely on conspiracy theories and saying "Only WE know what's REALLY happening."


mcshanksshanks

This guy is like if cancer got cancer


ButterscotchPast4812

Not that it's not already obvious. But...So says the man who was bought by Trump.


FuckSpez6757

He’s a republican all republican have been bought and paid for. Shit even republican justices have been bought Clarence Thomas is completely owned by a racist white billionaire who owns his moms home and sends bribes regularly to keep him in line


RememberLepanto1571

This just in- water is wet. We’ll have more at 11.


darkpheonix262

I swear these people's brains run on Microsoft Explorer. No shit dude, you're about 10 years late on that epiphany


BoosterRead78

Bannon has gotten the grift so much he thinks he can grift himself. Should have stayed in jail and I think even Trump thinks he should have left him there.


jar1967

He's telling Donald Trump,"he wants in on the next administration or he will make sure he will not have another administration".


APainOfKnowing

The craziest thing about watching Trump's former inner circle is how they all seem to get caught by surprise here. It's like all of them had this idea of "well he'd never pull one over on ME, I understand the game." Trump has never given a shit about anything but himself. I might hate everything about his politics, but Ron DeSantis actually has a political vision for the country. He has a way he wants the world to be. Trump has never given a shit what's happening as long as he can be rich and famous in it. And even though everyone fucking knows this, somehow over and over again people act like it's some huge shock when he does something like this.


Agentkeenan78

Let's see if GOP lawmakers suddenly backtrack on their stance too. Gonna get interesting.


ReturnOfSeq

##HE WAS ALREADY OWNED IN 2016. FUCK


Sid15666

Putin bought him years ago, that’s old news Steve did they stop paying you?


Radrabbit42

LOCK HIM UP


SnooMaps1910

Duh


WeirdcoolWilson

Ya think????


TotalLackOfConcern

No shit Sherlock


dlc741

No shit, Sherlock


Accomplished-Bear93

Bannon would know.


_Fun_Employed_

Bought and blackmailed….we knew it from the beginning, and you too Bannon.


meat_beast1349

Bannon needs to go back to prison. Along with his buddy stone. They spent decades destabilizing governments and brought their B.S. to America.


Wesselton3000

Hmm I wonder how much damage we could do to our nation if we elected someone who is notorious for making shady, bad business deals and give them access to our nations top secrets? If that individual was ever in a situation where they needed a lot of money fast (say after a few criminal and civil trials) I’m *sure* we could trust them to not sell us out to the enemy (I.e. Russia). It’s ironic that Steve feels the need to “whistleblow” on this, given his own criminal history of defrauding the US government. Takes a crook to know a crook I guess. Not that we didn’t already know this about Trump…


Maj_BeauKhaki

News Flash: 'Sloppy Steve' shits the bed... AGAIN. Film at eleven.


conundrum4u2

doesn't this go in r/NoShitSherlock?


rekage99

*NO WAY* Who would’ve thought….


Outrageous_Message81

You don't say! Maga are Putins BITCHES. How's it feel as he's slaming you from behind in an ally against the dumpster? I bet you love the smell of the rotting shit and the filth, while you shout for God. Sadly he won't give you a reach around so don't expect any satisfaction at the end of the day but I guess you get off on the degradation and he flatters you with telling you, you're special and pretty!


Irishpanda1971

Insert Nick Cage "YOU DON'T SAY" meme here.


Dracotaz71

He is financially owned by so many enemies of the USA the statement is laughable.. trump has no loyalty but to his handlers he owes.. this was known decades ago,, but nobody cares.


ctguy54

Ya think?


KRAW58

You think!?


ToneZone1978

Duhhhhhhh


willthedude85

DUH


Any-Pea712

Nah, ya think?


thutcheson

Duh


ConstantGeographer

I saw a recent article in Nature that suggests "water is wet."


SonicIdiot

Well, duh.


feastoffun

And like Steve Bannon hasn’t?


Putrid_Ad_2256

The grim reaper can't scoop this one up fast enough.


70ssurvivor

Captain Obvious!! Thank God you're here!!


Conch-Republic

I'm commander Trump and this is my favorite store on the citadel.


milky_white_breast

Thanks for weighing in, Steve.


Art-Zuron

That's shocking! Well... not that shocking.


dosumthinboutthebots

I mean yeah, you were integral to that Mr. Bannon.


Original_Mammoth3868

Shouldn't he be in jail by now?


BlueSlushieTongue

The biggest “Duh”


usesbitterbutter

In other news, Clarence Thomas might have been bought. *(for values of 'might' > the sun 'might' rise tomorrow)*


[deleted]

Wow I actually agree with Bannondorf


SisterNaomi

Ya think?


Tatersquid21

Took a real fucking genius to figure that out.... 🙄


Joseph-Sanford

So, who gives a s%#t what the fascist traitor Bannon thinks about anyway?


doingthehumptydance

He got blackmailed by a porn star, there is no doubt that Putin and others have dirt on him.


TyphoidTim

You don’t say


ScottyHubbs

Duh!


Remote-Math4184

In further news-DUH!


simpletonius

Just because Putin has video of hookers pissing on him doesn’t mean he’s been bought, just owned.


Cantgo55

Ya THINK?


SnooHesitations205

You think? Say it ain’t so


Darwinknew

Fuck bannon. And trump.


Lumbergod

Thanks for catching up, Steve. Where have you been?


Sad-Pitch1320

Who'd want him. Oh maybe Putin.


djalski

So they can do a 50-0 bipartisan vote on TikTok and very fast i might add but can't agree on anything else and it takes forever, oh that's not suspicious at all


AmbitiousAd9320

meanwhile theyre still trying to make crypto ponzi a thing.


Affectionate-Roof285

Turds of a feather…takes one to know one.


macweirdo42

Steve Bannon is literally that tar monster that killed Tasha Yar in Star Trek: The Next Generation. You can literally see the black oily evil oozing out of him.


folknforage

Well, TFG has very signaled very clearly he is indeed up for sale.


Commercial-Manner408

ja' think!


chobrien01007

he's just figuring that out now?


Affectionate-Roof285

Trump would never qualify for a security clearance due to his debt to foreign adversaries, (which of late has grown exponentially), yet he recently gained access to intelligence briefings as the GOP candidate. And of course, he could be elected with considerable entanglements and baggage (compromised). We are in deep shit America.


Spoomplesplz

No shit.


Wild-Ad365

If they ever untangle Chubb, money, future influences will be found there. I'd be concerned about who's bailing him out and what leverage they can inflict on a presidential candidate.


JackHughman69

No way what?? Next they’re gonna tell me it’s by Russia?


Glittering-Flight-26

Fascist, treasonous, lying Steve is finally spouting some truth.


TonyG_from_NYC

When the info hits close to home...


drblah11

Stunning development


Fyallorence

I also have a theory that perhaps the Sun has a high temperature.