Steve Bannon and Stuff
Steve Bannon turned his butt in today, looking like he spent the night in an electric dishwasher running on Buffalo Bayou water. He will have a hearing this afternoon in front of a judge appointed by Trump. No report on whether he will be given the Medal of Honor at this hearing or they’ll wait until the whole mess is finished.
Bannon arrived at the FBI Washington field office in a black SUV shortly before 9:40 a.m. He was met by a swarm of media and was defiant when addressing TV cameras outside the building, saying, “We’re taking down the Biden regime.”
Dude, you gave that your best shot on January 6th and you lost. But, I admit, it takes some balls to serve in the Trump administration and then refer to someone else as a regime.
In other news, the Sandy Hook parents in Connecticut federal court were given the same verdict that the other parents were given in Texas six weeks ago, guilty by default. Now they just await a trial on what his punishment should be.
And lastly, damn Michael Flynn says …
At a rally staged in San Antonio on Saturday by the Christian “nonprofit news media network” American Faith, Flynn said: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God.”
I suppose he means the Christian religion but there’s no such thing. Everyone from fundamentalists to the United Church of Christ to Jehovah’s Witnesses to Baptists all consider themselves to be Christians. Look, the only reason there’s a Second Baptist Church in any town is because they couldn’t get along in the First Baptist Church. Out in West Texas, I’ve seen them two blocks apart. So, good luck with that, Fynn.
No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.
Just in case anyone here has not heard it, the Guardian named this as the best joke about religon. But I must point out that JJ’s is far more succint:
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: “Stop. Don’t do it.”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he asked.
“Well, there’s so much to live for!”
“Like what?”
“Are you religious?”
He said: “Yes.”
I said: “Me too. Are you Christian or Buddhist?”
“Christian.”
“Me too. Are you Catholic or Protestant?”
“Protestant.”
“Me too. Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?”
“Baptist.”
“Wow. Me too. Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?”
“Baptist Church of God.”
“Me too. Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?”
“Reformed Baptist Church of God.”
“Me too. Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?”
He said: “Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915.”
I said: “Die, heretic scum,” and pushed him off.
1Thinking of my Mom’s old saying…..He makes my skin crawl
2Three words for Bannon:
Lock him up.
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Give him time to plan his regime taking down scenarios. While the other guy works out the details on a golf course occasionally announcing “we have big plans, big, big plans and you’ll hear all about it, in the next two weeks. For sure.”
I just can’t get over the fact that a colossal ignoramus like Flynn was a general. How did that happen?
4Seems like Surly’s story about Baptists can also be applied to the Democrats the way we savage each other for not marching lockstep to my beat.
5Steve Bannon turned himself in today, and the judge let him go without bail, with only general supervision by pre-trial services. He also had to turn in his passport. I wonder what they plan to do if he doesn’t show up?
What, exactly, does he have to do to be forced to stay in custody? Apparently fomenting insurrection isn’t enough.
6If Flynn insists, I could support Pastafarianism as the state religion.
7I’m confused by the idea of a Biden “regime”. Similar to when Rude G says Biden needs to be jailed — no one ever gives specifics. Not that a GOP run House would not fall over themselves making up charges for impeachment or fail to issue subpoenas to Biden aides in a bizarre game of tit-for-tat.
8It’s bad enough that the people who write the headlines have to add “imperiling Biden’s agenda” to every one that they write in both the NYTimes and the WaPost but at least they ought to report the good as well as the less-than-perfect.
@1 The Surly Professor: YouTube has the long version, as told by Emo Phillips- the Golden Gate Bridge Joke
9Fran seyer, your mom’s saying was right on except for me, it’s “they” make my skin crawl. A trifecta of evil dudes- bannon, alex jones and flimflam flynn. How do kids grow up to be like them?
10Steve…….yes, they……but there are so many of them……ignorance and follow the money…..scary.
11the other jean … “fomenting insurrection isn’t enough.”
Bannon isn’t charged with fomenting insurrection. The current two charges focus on his contempt of Congress, one for testimony, one for documents.
it is entirely possible Bannon may also be charged later with his role in Jan 6 activities. His Jan 5 podcast certainly made it SOUND like he knew what was going to happen, and that could well mean he was part of the conspiracy. We simply don’t know yet.
12BarbinDC, you can be a perfectly competent general, even a great one, and still be a garbage human being. Look up the things George Patton said about Jews in 1945, even before all the corpses were buried.
Congratulations (again) to Bubba, Jr. It’s important to celebrate justice because it’s so rare.
13Paywall on the Sandy Hook article.
14” looking like he spent the night in an electric dishwasher running on Buffalo Bayou water.”
JJ, you are too wonderful for words !!
15Steve@11: You ask “How do kids grow up to be like them?”
16I answer “Give them a religious education.”
Faith as the answer to any complicated question.
In our little town there are two magnificent Catholic churches- less than one block apart. The older one was French Canadian, and they really didn’t like all those Irish polluting their parish. So the Irish build their own church three lots away.
Oh- and then the Puerto Ricans who came to work in the mill didn’t feel welcome in either church, so they built their own on the edge of town. Three Catholic churches all trying to stay afloat in a town of 25000.
17This whole multi-day event described, with many of the most well-known RWNJs, took place in a ‘church’ run by a Talibangelical pastor whom I’ve remarked on many times, San Antonio’s Cornerstone Church with Rev John Hagee [and his nepotistic clan].
Flynn’s saying: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God.” —came straight out of the preaching of Hagee!
Which I have been trying to warn people about for decades, since I had a corp. apartment overlooking one of Hagee’s earlier churches and began noticing the talibangelicals.
John Hagee not only controls tens of thousands of delusional local ‘believers’, —he has tremendous influence over many of the US’s political and military leaders—.
His RW Christian-Zionist “Christians United for Israel, CUFI” organization strongly influences both US and Israeli foreign policies.
Something that should worry the livin’ shit outta every one of y’all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christians_United_for_Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/15/2064430/-When-Let-s-Go-Brandon-is-chanted-from-pews-at-Texas-megachurch-tax-exempt-status-is-questioned
18My question about is this: What happened to the oil fashioned perp walk? Back in more quaint times like the Enron collapse, every executive who was remotely involved (and even not), were surprised at their home by a whole pack of federal agents, roughed up, handcuffed and then perp walked into the courthouse in front of dozens of reporters and cameras who had been tipped off by said feds that “so and so is being arrested, come on down”. Now ACTUAL criminals are allowed to take the weekend off, then turn themselves in but only after they shoot off their mouths to television reporters before strutting into the courthouse to be arraigned.
19El Jefe: the way to avoid a perp walk is to have a high priced lawyer negotiating for you. Not a trial lawyer, but a “fixer” lawyer – the kind that rarely files anything, never appears in court, but charges 500k to “smooth things over”. How do you think Paxton has managed to avoid trial for six years after being indicted?
My regret is that Bannon won’t be held in the Manhatten federal jail. It’s the modern equivalent of a dungeon with dripping walls and rats that gnaw on you at night – literally.
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