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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 07:44 PM Feb 2017

Scary word - Scary man

Bannon, who’s now ensconced in the West Wing as President Donald Trump’s closest adviser, has been portrayed as Trump’s main ideas guy. But in interviews, speeches and writing — and especially in his embrace of Strauss and Howe — he has made clear that he is, first and foremost, an apocalypticist.



"In Bannon’s view, we are in the midst of an existential war, and everything is a part of that conflict. Treaties must be torn up, enemies named, culture changed. Global conflagration, should it occur, would only prove the theory correct. For Bannon, the Fourth Turning has arrived. The Grey Champion, a messianic strongman figure, may have already emerged. The apocalypse is now.


“What we are witnessing,” Bannon told The Washington Post last month, “is the birth of a new political order.”


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_us_5898f02ee4b040613138a951?

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Scary word - Scary man (Original Post) packman Feb 2017 OP
He is just as bat-shit crazy as Trump! smirkymonkey Feb 2017 #1
Scary indeed madokie Feb 2017 #2
Amazing is it not. Wellstone ruled Feb 2017 #3
Terrifying that this lunatic is at the heart of power. milestogo Feb 2017 #4
The Grey Champion ?..Is he color-blind?...Twitler is Orange nt pkdu Feb 2017 #5
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
1. He is just as bat-shit crazy as Trump!
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 07:50 PM
Feb 2017

Possibly even worse! How the f**k did we end up with all these psychos? I knew that half the people in this country were idiots, but I never thought that they would go along with this madness.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
2. Scary indeed
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 07:52 PM
Feb 2017

I just wish religious people would leave me the fuck out of their view of how things are.

I don't for a second believe in a higher power and if I did it wouldn't be the one the Christians believe in. In my 68 years I've seen so much strife, heartache and outright badness due to some of the believers that I want nothing to do with any of them. I say if anyone wants to believe in that 'stuff' fine just leave me the fuck out of it.



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