Descriptions of Steve Bannon

However much a marginal, invisible, small-time hustler Bannon had been — something of an Elmore Leonard character — he was suddenly transformed inside Trump Tower, an office he entered on August 15, and for practical purposes, did not exit, save for a few hours a night (and not every night) in his temporary midtown Manhattan accommodations, until January 17, when the transition team moved to Washington. There was no competition in Trump Tower for being the brains of the operation. Of the dominant figures in the transition, neither Kushner, Priebus, nor Conway, and certainly not the president-elect, had the ability to express any kind of coherent perception or narrative. By default, everybody had to look to the voluble, aphoristic, shambolic, witty, off-the-cuff figure who was both ever present on the premises and who had, in an unlikely attribute, read a book or two.

Is this Wolff

yes

Bannon didn’t promote internal debate, provide policy rationale, or deliver Power-Point presentations; instead, he was the equivalent of Trump’s personal talk radio. Trump could turn him on at any moment, and it pleased him that Bannon’s pronouncements and views would consistently be fully formed and ever available, a bracing, unified-field narrative. As well, he could turn him off, and Bannon would be tactically quiet until turned on again.

By ten weeks in, Steve Bannon’s mastery of the Trump agenda, or at least of Trump himself, appeared to have crumbled. His current misery was both Catholic in nature — the self-flagellation of a man who believed he lived on a higher moral plane than all others — and fundamentally misanthropic. As an antisocial, maladjusted, post-middle-aged man, he had to make a supreme effort to get along with others, an effort that often did not go well. Most especially, he was miserable because of Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.

funemployed

Steve Bannon is like a collage of every gross closeup on Ren & Stimpy.

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) January 9, 2018

Steve Bannon is one of those weird '50s recipes where you stitch slices of olive loaf into the rough shape of a human and fill it with cottage cheese and aspic.

a sentient shitpost that magically inhabited a biohazard disposal facility so as to teach the world about alcoholism

https://www.avclub.com/lets-check-in-on-the-breitbart-comments-section-which-1821948032

finally getting the robert redford role he was born to play

https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-lawyers-up-russia-investigators-ready-to-pounce

Trey Gowdy, who led the Republican questioning, pressed Bannon hard on his description of Don Junior's Trump Tower meeting as "treasonous." Gowdy asked Bannon whether he would consider it treason for somebody close to him to approach Wikileaks' Julian Assange to get opposition research on Hillary Clinton. Bannon replied that such a scenario would be bad judgment. Then Gowdy produced emails from a Cambridge Analytica employee — the Trump campaign data firm closely affiliated with Bannon — boasting of just such contacts with Assange. Bannon claimed this was the first time he'd seen these emails (though they've been in the news).

https://www.axios.com/steve-bannon-congress-testimony-inside-room-e30bd797-3720-44f0-bf32-5760cb6882e9.html

non-denialist

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/378569-bannon-i-dont-deny-anything-in-fire-and-fury-book

voter suppression middle manager

https://shareblue.com/cambridge-analytica-christopher-wylie-voter-suppression-testimony-steve-bannon/

sexist vote suppressor

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/inside-the-trump-2020-campaigns-disorganized-attempt-to-keep-america-great

face of Trump-era populism

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/steve-bannon-on-how-2008-planted-the-seed-for-the-trump-presidency.html

Hobo LARPer

Just saw Errol Morris has a doc on him at TIFF.

Yeah, IIRC it's another high-concept one where he just interviews a stained mattress draped with multiple shirts.

Capitalism started in 1983 at HBS, says Steven Bannon

comeback kid

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/steve-bannon-launches-pro-trump-effort-to-hold-the-house

Hanging out with Clinton's old traveling companion Jeffrey Epstein of late. Because of course he is.

A colleague of mine has a very unhealthy relationship with lunch at work and often eats stuff past its 'best before' date. No big deal, most food is OK, except that I once caught him microwaving a block of mince lamb that was past its 'use by', a different deal. He ate it wrapped in an out-of-date flour tortilla, with a smear of out-of-date mayo. It looked like Steve Bannon.

You hurt me in my heart.

you hurt me in my digestive system

"and as I parted the President's ass-cheeks..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/K5EoXiIiUiAeRyUokMxm-NU2Y0A=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/ATGH2JVQIYI6RIQLL5HYIQUWMY.jpg

Bannon setting up his own scam university, the last resort of the truly worthless shitbag

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/with-support-from-steve-bannon-a-medieval-monastery-could-become-a-populist-training-ground/2018/12/25/86dac38a-d3c4-11e8-a4db-184311d27129_story.html?utm_term=.19746434663f

Bannon is racist?

ha ha

pom I'm sorry, kind of, but the analogy was delicious, and dafter people than you have pursued the same line of concerned inquiry

I forgive you Christianly.

Having just read the article, I await Bannon's upcoming monograph on Ezra Pound with bated breath.

The irony is that I love The Cantos as much as almost any written work and still hate Pound's moronic antisemitism (and anti-Taoism tho that's orders of magnitude less repulsive obv)

Pretty sure Bannon isn't much of a reader really

In his later years he disavowed his anti-Semitism, describing it as a 'suburban prejudice'. Because that was clearly the most abhorrent thing about it… But The Cantos themselves are still classic and subsequent generations of American poets did a marvellous job of separating the poetic craft from the hateful lunacy without exonerating him in the process.

I do wonder what a bona fide alt-right literary scene would look like in 2019. Outside of France, which already has its Houllebecqs and its (Renaud) Camus. On second thought, I'd rather not know.

is houllebecq alt-right? i always had the impression he was a fancy french chuck palahniuk, which i immediately realize is exactly alt-right.

He had a recent piece in the NYT about how Trump is actually a great president so

Houellebecq is a full-time troll, I don't know if even he "believes" most of what he says but it doesn't really matter at this point, talk like a fascist, you are a fascist.

I think the character who at one point becomes a visceral racist because he's not getting any love in Atomised was definitely him writing himself into the book.

Houellebecq looks like a lotr goblin giving an interview half way through makeup pic.twitter.com/Xv5eQopkaK

— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) January 5, 2019

lol, he is literally turning into an actual troll orc.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through their campaign “We Build the Wall.”

Stoked for the mugshots.

Caged Garfield

Missing the forest for the trees here — one of his indicted co-conspirators is the current acting head of the DEA!

https://www.dea.gov/divisions/dea-leadership

what lol. is this the work of Q? or something?

Yep—it was me who arrested him.

Need to correct the previous post; there is unsurprisingly more than just one Timothy Shea in the world. A couple of early news reports had said it was him but since updated. Still, I wasn’t surprised at the idea at all!

Do they let you wear 2 shirts in prison, or is there a concern that you might be able to hang yourself or fashion an escape rope with them?

Steve Bannon is a good man. He is being treated unfairly. Steve doesn’t belong in jail. #SetSteveFree #MAGA #KAG pic.twitter.com/aByyB9fOd4

— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) August 20, 2020

Fox News' Judge Nap: Bannon Facing 20 Years and 'It Doesn't Look Good'

Frankly, I don't see how your feelings about its appearance have any bearing upon its criminal case, Judge Nap.

lmao at the shitty taped swastika on the headset xp

Reuters sketch of Steve Bannon appearing handcuffed in court in Manhattan today. pic.twitter.com/H8KKrxTJuM

— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) August 20, 2020

Mandible Vector

👍 https://t.co/6CIyH0OXHu pic.twitter.com/yueH9qzvn3

— actually it’s good (@yungchomsky) August 20, 2020