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On WaPo Bannon’s reckless pursuit of ethno-nationalist greatness
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For Bannon, it has something to do with “the fourth turning,” or maybe the fifth progression, or the third cataclysm. At any rate, it apparently involves cycles of discontent and disruption. Lots of disruption. Across the West, as he sees it, the victims of globalization — the victims of immigration, free trade and internationalism in general — are rising against their cosmopolitan oppressors. Institutions will crash and rise in new forms. And this restless world spirit takes human form in . . . Nigel Farage and Donald Trump.

Like many philosophies that can be derived entirely from an airport bookstore, this one has an element of truth. The beneficiaries of the liberal international order have not paid sufficient attention to the human costs of rapid economic change. (Just as the critics of internationalism have not paid sufficient attention to the nearly 1 billion people who have left extreme poverty during the past two decades.)

But there is a problem with the response of economic nationalism and ethno-nationalism. It is morally degraded and dangerous to the country.
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I do love folk backed by the vulture capitalist Mercer clan and rubbing shoulders in cabinet with a bunch of heavyweight Goldman profiteers going on about sinister global elites. It's so deliriously inauthentic it's almost intoxicating.
 
On HuffPo This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World
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The white Christian world is on the brink of destruction, the novel suggests, because these black and brown people are more fertile and more numerous, while the West has lost that necessary belief in its own cultural and racial superiority. As he talks to the hippie he will soon kill, Calgues explains how the youth went so wrong: “That scorn of a people for other races, the knowledge that one’s own is best, the triumphant joy at feeling oneself to be part of humanity’s finest — none of that had ever filled these youngsters’ addled brains.”

The Camp of the Saints — which draws its title from Revelation 20:9"}}" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">Revelation 20:9 — is nothing less than a call to arms for the white Christian West, to revive the spirit of the Crusades and steel itself for bloody conflict against the poor black and brown world without and the traitors within. The novel’s last line links past humiliations tightly to its own grim parable about modern migration. “The Fall of Constantinople,” Raspail’s unnamed narrator says, “is a personal misfortune that happened to all of us only last week.”

Raspail wrote The Camp of the Saints in 1972 and 1973, after a stay at his aunt’s house near Cannes on the southern coast of France. Looking out across the Mediterranean, he had an epiphany: “And what if they came?” he thought to himself. “This ‘they’ was not clearly defined at first,” he told the conservative publication Le Point"}}" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">told the conservative publication Le Point in 2015. “Then I imagined that the Third World would rush into this blessed country that is France.”

Raspail’s novel has been published in the U.S. several times, each time with the backing of the anti-immigration movement.

The U.S. publishing house Scribner was the first to translate the book into English in 1975, but it failed to reach a wide audience amid withering reviews by critics. A rare favorable take appeared in National Review. “Raspail brings his reader to the surprising conclusion that killing a million or so starving refugees from India would be a supreme act of individual sanity and cultural health,” then-Dartmouth professor Jeffrey Hart wrote in 1975"}}" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">wrote in 1975. “Raspail is to genocide what [D.H. Lawrence] was to sex.” Hart added that “a great fuss” was being made over “Raspail’s supposed racism,” but that the “liberal rote anathema on ‘racism’ is in effect a poisonous assault upon Western self-preference.”
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CrabbedOne said:
On HuffPo This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World
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Having read the book it makes me wonder whether it isn't part of the cause of Bannon's specific animosity towards H1B Indian immigrants...

I don't really see how Bannon can recommend the book to others and yet claim not to be an ethnonationalist. It's not, to use the parlance that Bannon uses to differentiate himself from most of his Breitbart readers, an 'economic nationalist' or 'civic nationalist' book.
 
J Ed said:
Having read the book it makes me wonder whether it isn't part of the cause of Bannon's specific animosity towards H1B Indian immigrants...

I don't really see how Bannon can recommend the book to others and yet claim not to be an ethnonationalist. It's not, to use the parlance that Bannon uses to differentiate himself from most of his Breitbart readers, an 'economic nationalist' or 'civic nationalist' book.
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Well yes; I think they are particularly problematic as it's hard to find much wrong with importing highly educated Hindu math nerds from any practical stand point beyond really hating the smell of curry.

As that article says in the US The Camp Of Saints has a history of being promoted by anti-immigration activists. Actually starting out with John Tanton who has misanthropic eco warrior roots in advocating for Zero Population Growth. An oddly alien parasite on the American body politic. The tree hugging, Malthusian far right nativist is usually more of a Germanic disease. Hysterical variations on "the lifeboat is full" is something I've been hearing from right wing Central Europeans for decades despite them giving up on breeding and the youth demographics being in free fall.

It's a typical slightly pretentious reference. Looking at the content Bannon might as well be citing a better known White Supremacist work advocating for race war the The Turner Diaries but that's probably still too edgy. Give him time.
 
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Well yes; I think they are particularly problematic as it's hard to find much wrong with importing highly educated Hindu math nerds from any practical stand point beyond really hating the smell of curry.

As that article says in the US The Camp Of Saints has a history of being promoted by anti-immigration activists. Actually starting out with John Tanton who has misanthropic eco warrior roots in advocating for Zero Population Growth. An oddly alien parasite on the American body politic. The tree hugging, Malthusian far right nativist is usually more of a Germanic disease. Hysterical variations on "the lifeboat is full" is something I've been hearing from right wing Central Europeans for decades despite them giving up on breeding and the youth demographics being in free fall.

It's a typical slightly pretentious reference. Looking at the content Bannon might as well be citing a better known White Supremacist work advocating for race war the The Turner Diaries but that's probably still too edgy. Give him time.
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The Camp of the Saints is a lot better written than The Turner Diaries, also the fact that it is French, more obscure and a bit more sophisticated means that it flies under the radar. I would guess that also means that if you're on Breitbart radio then it also allows you to signal your beliefs to some groups while not spooking others who are only just coming into your orbit. I mean, the HuffPo had to explain a bit about what The Camp of the Saints is and why it is indicative of a worrying wider worldview whereas with the Turner Diaries it's more straight forward.
 
J Ed said:
The Camp of the Saints is a lot better written than The Turner Diaries, also the fact that it is French, more obscure and a bit more sophisticated means that it flies under the radar. I would guess that also means that if you're on Breitbart radio then it also allows you to signal your beliefs to some groups while not spooking others who are only just coming into your orbit. I mean, the HuffPo had to explain a bit about what The Camp of the Saints is and why it is indicative of a worrying wider worldview whereas with the Turner Diaries it's more straight forward.
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Yes, Bannon is essentially playing it safe for what's often a rather bourgeois audience enjoying a frisson of Frenchfied far right radicalism.

There's a continuum in these things. It's necessary to indoctrinate by stages. That may not be Bannon's intent. He's an opportunistic operative who has been been all over the map politically in that he may not be that different a critter from Trump. What he's working at is probably grubbier and more mundane business of mobilising a dwindling pool of white voters rigging the vote however he can. However he's shifting the discourse into really dangerous far right territory. You always have to consider what comes next.

Take an amusement much liked by Preppers World War Z that has a world flooded by a plague of undead subhumans but humanity unites to overcome it. The Camp of the Saints has something darker: an End Times of mass migration of inferior races destroying white civilisation. The Turner Diaries wears the disguise of a potboiler but is really a straight up how too manual for insurrection by American race warriors set on cleansing genocide. At that point you've really taken the training wheels off.
 
I've got his deathly pallor down to extended stim wankathons in a darkened room - or soemthing along those lines. A demonic Richard Quest as it were - with doughnuts.
 
Must It Be the Rest Against the West? - 94.12


he may have read this article...

December 1994
Must It Be the Rest Against the West?

Absent major changes in North-South relations, the wretched should inherit the earth by about 2025

by Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy


aaaand - yet another of these :

The one book to understand Steve Bannon

In the press' mad scramble to understand Steve Bannon, much has been made of the books he reads, which are wildly atypical for a chief strategist to a Republican President.

Nobody's mentioned one book that's been seminal to Bannon's thinking. It's called 'The Revolt of the Elites' and in it, the author Christopher Lasch argues that the "chief threat" to American democracy and Western culture comes not from the masses, but "from those at the top of the social hierarchy."

Bannon tells me the book, published in 1995, is one of his favorites explaining the current moment. He says the 2016 election is a testament to Lasch's predictive powers.
 
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In The WSJ Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
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While bills to address these issues have been introduced – most recently in the form of the EB-JOBS Act of 2015 which was introduced in July – they have failed to gain traction due to the overall standstill on immigration policy. The EB-JOBS Act of 2015 would provide entrepreneurs with a two-year green card that would be revoked if certain financial and job-creation requirements aren’t met.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which funded the study, estimated the EB-JOBS Act provision would create 1 million to 3.2 million jobs over 10 years.

According to the study, founders of billion-dollar startups most often hail from India (14), followed by Canada and the U.K., with eight each, then Israel (7) and Germany (4). Two originated from France and the Collison brothers, the co-founders of payments startup Stripe, make up the pair from Ireland.
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“A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.” Steve Bannon.
 
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On Bloomberg Steve Bannon's Preposterous 'Rosebud' Moment
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Imagine, for a moment, a Hollywood producer -- I once saw a yacht-sized Mercedes on Wilshire Boulevard with the license plate "IDEAMAN," so let's make it that guy -- taking this feeble, generic script and offering Bannon's real-life trajectory as the conclusion.

Here's how our story ends.

To avenge his middle-class father, Bannon goes to work for the heir of a real-estate fortune whose standard operating practice over decades has been to cheat people -- tradesmen, contractors -- who aren't rich or powerful enough to be able to afford to sue him. People, in other words, like Marty Bannon.

When the heir wins the presidency, Bannon follows him to the White House where they promptly propose to relieve 24 million regular Joes and Josephines of their health insurance while giving the very wealthiest people in the country giant tax cuts. Oh, and the administration turns out to be chock full of Goldman Sachs alumni, including a Treasury secretary who made a fortune as the "foreclosure king," destroying the households (and wealth) of lots and lots of Marty Bannons.

So if you want to know why Steve Bannon ran a website that became a digital drag bar for neo-Nazis and racists, or why he is determined to ban desperate, war-ravaged Muslim refugees from reaching American shores, or to deport mothers of American children to nations they haven't seen in years, or to stop subsidizing health insurance for the poor and middle class, or to eliminate environmental safeguards, or to deregulate Wall Street so that it has fewer constraints in exploiting vulnerable investors, or to deliver vast tax cuts to extremely wealthy people like Steve Bannon -- all while the president of the United States conceals his tax returns and sells the presidency for profit, well, it all comes down to what the elites did to poor Marty Bannon.

“Everything since then has come from there,” Bannon said. “All of it.”

Please.
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On Steve's one multi-millionaire crusade against The Man as embodied by a Wall St that lost his dear old dad $100K on AT&T stock.
 
On VICE Steve Bannon's Sad, Desperate Crusade
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Even pieces of ostensible criticism reach, almost unfailingly, a passage of barely hidden astonishment, writers gazing at his references to the ancient Roman working class or Thomas Cromwell like they just peeked inside the Matrix. He is, in a way, a journalist's dream prompt: His mysterious biography invites investigation; his mongrel-like appearance is a paradise for vivid similes; his appetite for literature is just like theirs. So what should be an attack on an irredeemable charlatan instead becomes something closer to fascination. Writing about Bannon tends to be studiously impartial, analytical, even as his worldview is dismissed as an absurdity.

This is wrong. Bannon can be a disheveled maniac and only that—there doesn't need to be a revelation or nuance or anything beyond a bloodshot sack of demented ambition, no matter how high he ascends. He is not a Svengali; he's a shipwrecked banker who washed ashore and wound up the president's ventriloquist. Hate is still just hate, no matter how intricately ornamented it is with Ronald Reagan idolatry. Bannon is like if the tire mud flap with the giant-breasted silhouette got a library card.
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Steve Bannon: crap Rasputin.
 
On TDB Populist Rage Made Steve Bannon Filthy Rich
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In documents filed with the Office of Government Ethics and made public by the White House, Bannon disclosed a net worth of between $9.5 million and $52.7 million. His income last year was between $1.4 million and $2.5 million.

The disclosure form provides a comprehensive look at Bannon’s network of political, media, and entertainment entities amassed during a career spanning Wall Street, Hollywood, and the nation’s capital.

The lion’s share of Bannon’s 2016 income, nearly half a million dollars, came from his consulting company, Bannon Strategic Advisors. Prominent political entities with which Bannon is associated routed their payments to him through the consulting firm, the disclosure form shows.

Pro-Trump news website Breitbart News, data firm Cambridge Analytica, and advertising vendor Glittering Steel all paid Bannon through BSA last year. All three are supported financially by Republican mega-donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer, wealthy Trump backers and close Bannon allies who have bankrolled many of his private endeavors.

Glittering Steel, a low-profile film production company, served as “a front for Bannon,” The Daily Beast reported in early November.

Glittering Steel was paid by pro-Trump and pro-Ted Cruz super PACs in the past presidential election cycle. Furthermore, Bannon and GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer were both producers on the documentary film Clinton Cash, which dramatizes the Peter Schweizer book of the same title. The film’s closing credits describe it as a Glittering Steel presentation.
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Well that's a nice screw but you do have to bear in mind "The median reported compensation for CEOs of the largest 500 companies in the U.S. is $10.3 million." By that standard Bannon who failed to make partner at Goldman just before the golden years of deregulated banking is practically a pauper. A poorly paid servant of various shady billionaires demanding kick down hard kiss ass policies that really don't match with his post-hippie posturing against The Man. No wonder he appears to be so bitter.
 
Cambridge Analytica - what did they pay Bannon for ??

$125,333 last year in 'consulting fees'.
(The same people who were hired to help the Leave.EU campaign).
 
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On TDB Steve Bannon Calls Jared Kushner a ‘Cuck’ and ‘Globalist’ Behind His Back
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“[Steve] recently vented to us about Jared being a ‘globalist’ and a ‘cuck’…He actually said ‘cuck,’ as in “cuckservative,’” the administration official told The Daily Beast.

“Cuckservative,” a portmanteau of “cuckold” and “conservative,” has become a favorite slur on the right, used like a sexually and racially charged version of “RINO,” a Republican In Name Only. “Globalist” is a term typically used by nationalist, pro-Trump right-wingers against political opponents; however, the term has also come under fire for at times carrying anti-Semitic tones. (Kushner is Jewish.)

Bannon is a self-described “nationalist” and long-time Republican, while Kushner was, until his father-in-law ran for president, a lifelong liberal and a Democratic donor.

“There’s a big fight [going on],” one senior official said. “It’s all about policy. There’s tension [between them] on trade, health care, immigration, taxes, [terrorism]—you name it.”
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Well at least he didn't call Jared a безродный космополит (rootless cosmopolitan) or worse a liberal.
 
He might tie women to chairs and beat and torture them for a whole day, including going out to buy beer, if he carries on like this.
 
butchersapron said:
He might tie women to chairs and beat and torture them for a whole day, including going out to buy beer, if he carries on like this.
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Err. He did get charged with domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery years ago, against his ex wife. Violence against women perhaps not the best choice for Bannon humour.
 
Hang on, you thought I just posted that out of the blue as I thought it was funny? That i'm the type of person to do that?
 
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butchersapron said:
There was no humour. There was anger directed at the pompous Penn.
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Ah I see it was Penn you were directing that at. I thought it might be but had to google to find out. Turns out that she dropped the assault claim, but well there's quite often no smoke without fire... anyway i just liked the 'conniving hateful bloated punk' epithet and also:

...Penn’s comments come as unconfirmed reports say Mr Bannon could be about to lose his job at the White House entirely.

Donald Trump is considering sacking Mr Bannon and White House chief of staff in a major administration shakeup, the reports allege.

A senior aide to the President was quoted by a US news outlet as saying: “Things are happening, but it’s very unclear the President’s willing to pull that trigger.”
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