Steve Bannon Rushes to Support Italy's Collapsing F***-You Coalition

[DonViejo]

When Bannon made his plans to come to Rome, he thought it would be to celebrate Italy’s populist government. No such luck, so he railed against the global establishment.

BARBIE LATZA NADEAU
05.28.18 5:02 PM ET

ROME—Steve Bannon, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former advisor, stood in front of a lush red velvet curtain wearing an ill-fitting black suit to tell Italians something they already knew. “Italy is in crisis,” he said to an audience of about 50 business men and women and about twice as many members of the press, who had come to hear what the self-styled great disruptor said about the populist movement he so strongly supports.

Bannon’s talk was meant to be one of celebration. After all, Italy experienced an astonishing populist victory in parliamentary elections last March. But the failure since then to form a government is no credit to components of Italy’s legislature, with one part, the League, built on blatant racism and xenophobia, and the other, the Five Star Movement, founded on the phrase “vaffanculo,” meaning “fuck you.”

So Bannon resorted to name calling and blame gaming of his own.

Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella had just vetoed the populists’ choice for economy minister, an 80-year-old eurosceptic by the name of Paolo Savona who had campaigned for Brexit and had theorized more than once that Italy might be better off outside the eurozone.

Bannon wanted people to know he was indignant. How could Italy’s president defy the will of the people that Bannon wants to take over the country and destroy the European Union?

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[dameatball]

1. I often wonder how a two bit punk like Steve Bannon ever commanded anyone's attention.

it baffles me. It is like this bottom dwelling Hollywood wannabee with degree from Virginia Tech and a few years in the navy has somehow emerged on a global stage. WTF??

Okay. Nevermind. Breitbart.....Fox...…..Infowars...….I get it. Sad.

[Fred Sanders]

4. You forgot Cambridge Analytica. That beast roamed the planet for years, Italy also.

[SunSeeker]

5. He's a Goldman Sachs alumnus and headed Breitbart, thus getting the billionaire Mercers' patronage

The right wing megadonor Mercer family first met Andrew Breitbart, the founder of what is now Breitbart News Network in 2011. Through him, they met Bannon, who took over the reins after Breitbart died of a heart attack in 2012. Bannon served as the Mercers' de facto political adviser until his mouth cost him their patronage. But as a former top White House advisor, he will always get attention, particularly since he is still advising Trump, at least when it comes to dealing with Mueller. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/bannon-is-still-advising-trump-allies-on-battling-mueller.html

[smirkymonkey]

6. He is the most unlikely candidate.

He looks like something the cat dragged in. I expect his liver to explode any day now. I honestly don't understand how anyone could look at that guy and be inspired by him.

Someone used this to describe Harvey Weinstien, but it would apply to Bannon as well: "He looks like a wad of chewed up gum rolled in cat hair."

[Initech]

2. Glad that Italians were able to outsmart Putin.

Now if we could do the same here.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. I'm not sure how you see this as "outsmarting Putin"

If Putin and Bannon are on the same side, then their favoured parties got the most seats, have had their preferred finance minister blocked, and will now force new elections. Their combined vote (especially the racist Lega Nord) has gone up in polls since the general election earlier this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Italian_general_election

If you're not putting Putin in with Bannon, then what role did you think he played?

[OnDoutside]

3. Biggus Diccus goes to Rome....