Steve Bannon Calls For 'Shock Troops' To 'Deconstruct' State As GOP Takes Oval Office

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Source: huff post


10/02/2021 08:52 pm ET

Bannon told NBC that he wants to see “pre-trained teams ready to jump into federal agencies” as soon as the next Republican president takes power.





Donald Trump’s former White House strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday evoked a dystopian future when he called for “shock troops” to quickly “deconstruct” the state as soon as a Republican takes the Oval Office again.

Bannon made the chilling comments in a phone interview on NBC News after it reported that he had met Wednesday with the party faithful to urge them to be prepared to “reconfigure the government” with a Republican leader.


Bannon, who ran Trump’s 2016 campaign, said the former president’s agenda packing the government with loyalists was delayed because he couldn’t move quickly enough to fill some 4,000 posts.

Bannon spoke at the Capitol Hill Club Wednesday at the invitation of a new organization called the Association of Republican Presidential Appointees, according to NBC. The group was formed as a resource for future GOP officials to tap into to quickly fill federal jobs..........................................



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People like Bannon scare me.

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“If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,” Bannon told NBC. “I gave ’em fire and brimstone.”

[padah513]

1. Sedition in plain slight

Why isn't this clown in jail?

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Plus the Publicity

Gotta recruit the saps.

[LenaBaby61]

22. Why isn't this clown in jail?

I can only speak for myself, but it's SO disheartening to see these GQP/US Taliban racists, and artists of treason, hatred and malfeasance getting away with saying whatever they want to with absolutely NO consequences. And you best believe he's not one bit scared to say all of the insane shit he's saying. They have taken politics to a place where it isn't going to recover, because you're always now going to have people who are unhinged questioning everything when a Dem wins the White House, a US Senate Seat or anything else they may have 'questions' about that they want to steal from Dems because they can't win whatever presidency, US senate seat etc., outright.

Then, I think of African-Americans who are still being murdered by police just "because," and we know what that because is. Yet this thing, along with tRump along with MOST of the GQP/US Taliban Party can say what they want ans when they want to with NO fear of anything happening to them.

White Privilege. Must be nice.

At 60, I can't imagine how it would feel to be able to roam freely about your business--across this country (and even world)--without a care in the world having to not always 'fear' something.

[Evolve Dammit]

48. We have gone down a rabbit hole. Hope we emerge intact. Arrest these fuckers for sedition.

[LenaBaby61]

64. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Kid Berwyn]

23. How to make the trains run on time.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

41. How so? NT

[padah513]

45. By definition sedition is

conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. Isn't that what he's calling for?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

53. No.

He's saying that Republicans should have a list of people they want to install in agencies and departments ready to go as soon after a (supposed) Republican presidential inauguration as possible, preferably the afternoon of January 20, 2025.

Democrats have a similar list, or they should, if they can handle that much organization at one time.

This is not sedition.

Thanks for writing.

[StClone]

63. Deconstructing?

When Bannon speaks of "deconstructing" to me this is taking apart what is interpreted as a Constitutionally supported Governmental framework. I guess it is all in the interpretations of past actions by Bannon et al and the word deconstructing. I see it as "dismantling a functioning government" so to install a Trumpatorship.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Bannon is dangerous because he feeds people like Trump visions of glory and power.

He has also called for a new, worldwide version of the Crusades to eliminate Islam, most likely to establish permanent war and further enrich the military industrial complex beyond belief. It’s all about the money with people like Bannon—and many of the billionaires who own the MIL companies only care about their personal wealth and power, not the country. They’re fine with sacrificing the lives of our young men and women to their greed.

Unfortunately, I believe Republicans are preparing to do exactly what he is recommending for 2022 and 2024. And the Republican sheep who think wearing a mask and getting vaccinated are more dangerous than anything on Earth will go right along.

[cstanleytech]

66. Something similar in the early 20th century happened in Germany and millions died because of it.

[twodogsbarking]

3. He has to smell very bad. Like a bunch of stinky things at once.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

4. I was going to post that if

his ass gets thrown in the slammer, he'll FINALLY get that much needed shower and haircut.

[SKKY]

59. Doesn't he look like he smells like pee? I have always thought that.

[texasfiddler]

5. Bannon is a domestic terrorist and needs to be treated as such.

He called for the beheading of Dr. Fauci and nothing was done. He is planning violent insurrection and nothing is being done. Their goal is to take over the next election, even if they have fewer votes. They are planning to "deconstruct" our Democracy. This group (Flynn, etc.) has to be dealt with harshly. Hopefully it can be done through legal channels and soon. Otherwise the alternative is going to be destructive and fatal to all parties.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. THIS

A State must deal effectively and efficiently with terrorists.

[wnylib]

38. Absolutely. Deconstruct is just another word for overthrow.

He is a domestic terrorist planning the destruction of our government.

[Duppers]

15. Hell YES he is!

He's insane and so is anyone respecting him.
He's a temporary anarchist who wants to replace democracy with some hierarchical dictatorship.

[luv2fly]

6. Dems ought to think more like this

Unpleasant as it is, eat or be eaten.

[LenaBaby61]

25. "Dems ought to think more like this--Unpleasant as it is, eat or be eaten."

That won't ever happen on the scale it needs to.

I tell you one thing, if Dems don't start thinking some other type of WAY to beat them and get 2 more senate seats to give them a more solid majority we will be eaten alive. The greedy thing from WV and the greedy thingette from AZ. are eating our lunch, Biden's agenda's lunch, and this country's lunch, as a $1.5 TRILLION dollar infrastructure bill won't accomplish SHIT. Not SHIT. It's not nearly enough money.

Yesterday's Woman's Marches across the country were fantastic, and showed that there are a lot of people out there with passion who will fight. But Dems have to get down into the weeds of legislation, and use the law to stop those people, and I use the term people loosely. Unfortunately, we have women-hating Federalists up there who HATE women, and a Stepford woman Judge up there also who hates women TOO. I believe that Pres. Biden will have a few openings to fill, but what if the man from WV doesn't like the person Pres. Biden wants to place on the High Court or says that the person is too liberal for HIS taste? See how horrible this is?

MOST in that GQP/US Taliban Party are treasonous, secessionist, racists, sociopaths and even worse than that. Human life, unless it's their lives or their families lives or people who agree with them and their lives, as nothing else matters to them except the lives of a few of the privileged, rich and white.

[Lonestarblue]

31. Exactly! And Texas is well along the road to gerrymandering the state for more 2022 wins.

Texas is consolidating blue districts and expanding red, rural districts with vastly different total numbers per district, thus minimizing minority votes and forcing more Democrats into one district. Manchin and Sinema could have prevented this, but it is most likely too late now. Texas gained two House seats from the 2020 census, so even if a lawsuit eventually forced changes, this new map will likely be used for the 2022 election because the current map does not work for two new seats—thus giving Republicans more seats and most likely the House majority. Other red states are doing the same, so the Biden presidency effectively ends in early January 2023 when the new Congress is sworn in.

We still need to get out the vote, but gerrymandered districts that no longer have to be approved at the federal level after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act will make it difficult for voters to elect Democrats in this state. It’s already hard to get more minorities to vote, and now with gerrymandered districts and new voter restrictions, we may see a decline in voter participation.

It is enormously depressing that Democrats have the power to stop this and refuse to use it! What the hell are we saving the filibuster for when we risk losing power for decades! Republicans will ditch the filibuster the instant they regain power.

[Crowman2009]

8. Let's hope his liver gives up on him.

[Farmer-Rick]

18. I know, he looks sick. And those pics are the better ones

That's a man one step away from a heart attack or kidney failure. He has that same weird gray look to him my uncle did when his kidneys failed.

[PatSeg]

24. I was thinking along the same lines

Some of these people probably aren't going to survive much longer and meanwhile, they are killing off a lot of their rabid base with all the COVID nonsense. Kind of a morbid "bright side" to a horrifying situation.

[Crowman2009]

35. My grandparents when they were in their 70's looked healthier than him.

And one of them smoked cigars on occasion.

[Roy Rolling]

9. The Fall of 45ii

The administration was unable to find qualified people to fill all the jobs, there aren’t enough right-wing nutjobs appointees to work in Washington.

Recruiting people ahead of time makes them think they’re part of the sedition army, a member of the deplorables regiment.

Bannon recognizes they didn’t plumb the depths deep enough to find enough miscreants to staff their coup. So they appoint any moron to a position formerly held by a responsible and sober nonpartisan person.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, death by a thousand cuts.

[myohmy2]

10. "If you're going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it..."

...very undemocratic, unAmerican and evil...this is what we're living with in this country...

...they won't give up, folks...they're hell-bent on destroying us...

...they will ultimately lead us to a confrontation for which we must be prepared, deal with and win...

...we've been warned, they're coming...

...

[NoMoreRepugs]

11. Bannon had considerable influence with the SlobFather, to dismiss

what he’s saying out loud would be a grave mistake IMO. The old white establishment is making their last stand, if they take control of all branches by 2024 this country will become unrecognizable.

When your well armed enemy is massed across the field hurling insults about how they smell probably doesn’t have much effect on the outcome of the fight.

[Tommymac]

12. The 21st Century American version of Hermann Goering

He looks like TFG's depends smell.

Stinks, looks like a homeless drug addled person, but could be extremely dangerous if he ever gets near any hint of power.

Let's keep him crawling in the gutter with the other slimy vermin.

[John Ludi]

13. How does

he think he'll get a reliable supply of whatever it is he is on once the "state" is deconstructed, the banking system collapses, the credit system freezes up, no one is getting paid, and the trucks stop delivering?

I don't think Steve Bannon is in any shape to hide in the woods in the middle of winter, trapping squirrels and peeling inner bark off of trees to survive.

[bluestarone]

14. 100% proof positive that there should NEVER EVER

Be another TFG (or anybody like him) anywhere near the white House! Heaven help us if we lose the control of this great country!

[The Blue Flower]

16. Sounds like what Pol Pot did in Cambodia

I heard Hang Ngor (who was a surgeon) speak in the 80s about the Khmer Rouge driving every educated person out of the cities and into the countryside, putting their own brainwashed people in their place. He was in the middle of a surgery when they invaded his office, forced him outside, and ordered a 12-year-old to finish the surgery.

[UCmeNdc]

17. Danger! Danger! Trumpism never quits!

[paleotn]

19. It's time for Dems to be just as ruthless.

or we end up in scuz boy's dystopia, or several separate nations. Dems were once feared. Haven't been in nearly 50 years.

[Beastly Boy]

21. Bannon is the most dangerous man in the United States today.

He is a fascist by conviction, not out of convenience. He had studied the vulnerabilities of representative democracies worldwide (one of them being the protections his speech enjoys under the system) and knows how to exploit them to the maximum. He is expert at exploiting opportunists like Trump, clueless ideologues like Rand Paul and and uneducated posers like Marjory Taylor Greene. He is a populist who is expert at arousing and steering the mobs. He is very methodical in his approach. And he is not shy about openly advocating for totalitarianism.

[DBoon]

43. agree 100%

He provides the intellectual basis for fascism. Without him, we would just have a bunch of corrupt politicians.

He is also responsible for internationalizing Trumpism.

[TheProle]

60. Excellent analysis.

Well said.

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. We must remind voters Trump headed a kleptocracy, and Bannon was a fraudster

whom Trump had to pardon, for stealing from "MAGA" types who thought they were donating to a wall-building project. When Bannon wants the state dismantled, it's so that he and his conspirators can steal money with impunity.

And the idea of appointing more Trumpists faster is a recipe for corruption - look at the number of high-level Trump appointees who had to go because of their dishonesty. The criminality of those at the top of Trumpism should be something that can be used to turn away teh base.

[W T F]

27. Maybe we should send our own "Shock Troops" to pay a visit to Mr. Bannon first.

[Champp]

28. Did the Republicans cook this up at their Swingers Club?

That seems to be where most of their Ideology originates.

[Mr. Ected]

29. MAGA policies, not Republican policies?

You'd think the GOP would want to fight back. Instead, it cowers and whimpers. It's ceding authority to its craziest crazies. The Republican party is no more. It has been replaced by a pseudo political party which is essentially neo-fascist. Because it assumed the Republican banner, though, it is treated by the media as the GOP and given appropriate cover. The media's cowardice (and complicity) has allowed this to fester. Misinformation is the norm now. "It's just politics" when it isn't. It's now or never, do or die. No sense of urgency. in retrospect, pundits will question how we let this arise in plain sight. We went high when they went low, but they cut us off at the ankles.

[Beachnutt]

30. He better answer his subpoena or

his dirty ass will be in the slammer soon...

[bluestarone]

46. If a subpoena ever NEEDED to be ENFORCED it's

THIS ONE FOR SURE. This crazy SOB needs to be in PRISON for sure.

[Botany]

32. 100% gas lighting ... do not fall for it

Bannon is scared out of his mind like Trump & Associates that his crimes are gonna catch up with him
this is all smoke and mirrors bluster.

[JudyM]

37. Wish I saw it like you do, Botany. It strikes me as deeply chilling.

[Wuddles440]

47. Agree!!!

Bannon and his ilk are extremely dangerous and a clear and present danger to society. These terrorists must be aggressively prosecuted and removed from our midst immediately because failure to do so only emboldens them. Complacency, indifference, and apathy are not an option. Our democracy is in serious peril and we need both proactive and preventative action now!

[DinahMoeHum]

33. A quote allegedly said by that old commie Trotsky. . .

. . .sums up my attitude about folks like Bannon. . .

"If you cannot convince a fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement"

[Paladin]

34. How fucked up does a political movement have to be...

...to have somebody who looks and sounds like Bannon at its forefront? And a popular, wildly dangerous political movement, at that?

And people wonder why liberals are depressed, these days. (And yes, that's directed at you, snotty right-wing dipshit NYT columnist Ross Douthat.)

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

36. Most American conservatives are less blatant in expressing

Their desire for a fascist state.

[Mr. Sparkle]

39. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,"

The Democrats in power need to act now to protect Democracy. The Nazis are at the door!
As crass as that sounds imho the danger is real. They are advertising their anarchy while before they used to hide it.

[Justice matters.]

40. That criminal is in urgent need of psychiatric help

in prison, if any.

[DBoon]

42. Shock troops like these?

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[BlueIdaho]

44. I wish he would go back to Europe

And try to start the 4th Reich over there - they know how to handle scum like this.

[milestogo]

49. Somebody please, push him off a high cliff.

[Bayard]

50. This active sedition cannot go on

Maliciousness personified, and dangerous as hell. Who can do something about it? The Justice Dept.?

Plans are already being made to overthrow the government. As Bannon himself said--kill it in the cradle.

[eppur_se_muova]

51. "Deconstruct" -- I don't think that word means what you think it means.

de·con·struct
/ˌdēkənˈstrəkt/

verb: deconstruct; 3rd person present: deconstructs; past tense: deconstructed; past participle: deconstructed; gerund or present participle: deconstructing

analyze (a text or a linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction, typically in order to expose its hidden internal assumptions and contradictions and subvert its apparent significance or unity.
"she likes to deconstruct the texts, to uncover what they are not saying"
reduce (something) to its constituent parts in order to reinterpret it.
"do we need to deconstruct all the institutions that we've created in order to improve them?"

Even the second definition seems to imply a metaphorical disassembly -- i.e. an analysis -- not an actual teardown. Bannon seems to think it is meant literally, to disassemble or destroy. He should just say "destroy", since that is actually what he means.

Bannon styles himself an intellectual, but keeps revealing himself to be a pseudo-intellectual who doesn't even understand the language he uses. Which is why he called himself a "church militant", not realizing that he was saying he is a church ...

the Church Militant (Latin: Ecclesia militans), which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin, the devil, and "the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places";[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches_Militant,_Penitent,_and_Triumphant

[Alexander Of Assyria]

52. Fascists intend to scare you. NBC carrying free publicity water for fascists is interesting.

Who needs FB and Twitter to spread the borrowed thoughts straight from Goebbel’s brain when you have the likes of NBC willing and able?

To flush all and remaining resistance within the Party into the open.

[KPN]

54. Sounds like good stuff for Democratic campaign advertisements. This should help scare the hell out

of some of those voters who tend to just vote for "change". By 2024, they will probably need a graphic reminder about the 4 year nightmare administration we just moved away from. Hearing Bannon say these words -- "shock troops to deconstruct the State" -- lought to help do that job.

[secondwind]

55. Ugh, he's painful to look at...

What garbage!!!!!!!!!!

[hadEnuf]

56. Bannon is a Nazi and here is part of the blueprint to turn the US into a Fourth Reich.

THIS is what we are dealing with. They are bragging about it.

There is no reasoning with this. Their agenda needs to be destroyed and they need to be rendered incapable of carrying it out.

[Martin68]

57. Dropping all pretense, the fascist right openly discusses plans to take over the government.

Meanwhile, not enough people re paying attention.

[SKKY]

58. And the scary thing about this is, right at this moment, I can guarantee...

...at least half of the current sitting Republicans in Congress are down to clown with this idiot.

[DallasNE]

61. Sounds Like Sedition n/t

[Hortensis]

62. Actually, Bannon's had some enormous failures in European

nations to inflame RW populist revolutions and authoritarian takeovers. Like in Italy, where a populist movement he helped push to the abyss instead itself crashed and burned; Italy instead has done much to stabilize its democracy. Also similar failures in France, Germany and the UK.

His world revolution and dreams of multi-continental racial and ethic segregation aren't doing well.

On a more petty note, we know it's his nature to take risks and operate on the edge, and he's all out of pardons. Socio/psychopaths often self destruct, and we've watched a long list now of pathological RW political types do just that over the past several decades. I wish him all the ill he'd wish on the world.

[monkeyman1]

67. ITALIAN people made him leave because would not take a bath ?

[Hortensis]

68. Lol. Well, Italy did just finally kick his group out of a 13th century

monastery because their plans for its use smelled so bad.

[lees1975]

65. Here's more motivation to make sure Democrats don't lose elections.

This guy would be in prison for defrauding contributors to the border wall in order to put the money in his own pocket if not for a Trump pardon. But he is a criminal and it wouldn't take much to find a crime and arrest and jail him for it.

[kimbutgar]

69. Why isn't he getting a visit from the homeland security?

If a left leaning person said that they get a visit!

[Red Mountain]

70. This is just a preemptive effort because he's been subpoenaed

by Congress. He doesn't have any shock troops.

He's scared of going to jail.