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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 11:13 AM Oct 2017

Bannon rips Bush, Silicon Valley 'lords of technology'

In a defiant speech to California Republicans, the Breitbart chief cast the state as a linchpin in the fight to halt the globalist agenda.

By CARLA MARINUCCI and DAVID SIDERS 10/21/2017 08:30 AM EDT

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Issuing a defiant call to arms to grassroots Republicans, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon railed Friday against dangerous “global elites” and the Silicon Valley “lords of technology” whom he said are robbing U.S. citizens of jobs, wealth and opportunity.

“They want all the benefits of a free society...all the benefits of this rules-based international order,’’ including lucrative trade deals and capital markets, he said, while “we the citizens of the United States...underwrite the whole thing.”

Bannon also launched a blistering attack on a former President George W. Bush — who this week delivered a rebuke of President Donald Trump — casting him as a tool of those globalists. “President Bush embarrassed himself,’’ Bannon said, referring to him as “a piece of work.” “It is clear he didn’t understanding anything he was talking about...he had no idea whether he was coming or going — just like when he was president of the United States.’’

“There has not been a more destructive presidency than George Bush’s,’’ he said to applause.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/21/steve-bannon-california-gop-george-bush-silicon-valley-244015?lo=ap_b1

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Bannon rips Bush, Silicon Valley 'lords of technology' (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
Trump couldn't have been elected without Twitter and Facebook dalton99a Oct 2017 #1
Brannon is an up and coming MontanaMama Oct 2017 #2
The "global elites"? Bannon's net worth is $48 Million TexasBushwhacker Oct 2017 #3

dalton99a

(81,466 posts)
1. Trump couldn't have been elected without Twitter and Facebook
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 11:16 AM
Oct 2017

specifically the Russian propaganda machine on those platforms

MontanaMama

(23,313 posts)
2. Brannon is an up and coming
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 11:31 AM
Oct 2017

fascist wannabe leader. I am not sure we should turn a blind eye to him. He might be getting more crowds that Dotard these days.

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