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ok. I don't know how political importance is measured, if he and his website have been of no import thus far then he's unlikely to be in the future I guess.

And Breitbart has suffered a serious slump in traffic lately according to this.
 
bimble said:
ok. I don't know how political importance is measured, if he and his website have been of no import thus far then he's unlikely to be in the future I guess.
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It wasn't his website - it was breibarts. Do you really think Trump even knew who he was?

Breitbart's influence - well, they didn't make these people. It's just some thing on the internet that people who are already really right wing go to.
 
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I don't think Trump knew who he was, I don't think trump goes on the internet, it was my impression that Bannon recognised an opportunity in Trump.
 
Excellent stuff as ever from Sam Kriss.

He does not look well, but did he ever? Steve Bannon’s eyes seep, weep, and rheum between their heavy folding triple-parenthesis bags, blinking labiae, lonely dunes of flaking skin. His nose dimples out like some peak of rubble in the crags of a bomb-blasted city. His lips vanish into the puffy slit-scar of his mouth. His cheeks blotch and billow; you could pinch one of them out, mold it like plasticine between your fingertips, and when you let go it would take half a day for his flesh to squelch back to its ordinary shape. His forehead is unspeakable. His hair flops like dead reeds after an oil spill. His neck is like a frog’s. His breasts pucker. His pale belly aches. His hams scrawn, greased pistons, spiky with little hairs they shiver. His feet are bleeding. He has come to this hilltop. Around him the scraggly grass, and the senseless tinfoil trees, and the darkening sky. Like everyone else, he has come to watch the eclipse.
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https://thebaffler.com/the-horrordome/the-eclipsing-of-steve-bannon
 
Sad part is, although Bannon's downfall and humiliation is hilarious, this is just going to strengthen Trump - Breitbart is now going to be totally on his side, and the crushing of a disloyal former staffer is the kind of thing Trump loves to boast about.

And while the headlines have been full of Bannon and Wolff and Miller and Tapper, the US has told 200,000 El Salvador citizens who have been building lives in the US since 2001 or earlier, and have around 250,000 US-born children, that they're no longer covered by Temporary Protected Status and have to get out of the country by September next year - exactly the kind of policy that Bannon pushed hard for.
 
Ming said:
He probably will. The Republicans have gerrymandered the voting districts so well they only only need 30 odd percent of the deplorables to vote for them to win. Democracy isn’t something they like much (same as the Tories).
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Given that the electoral college was established before the Republican party was founded, that is one thing they can't be blamed for.
 
Ming said:
But it’s not relevant to the modern day. They’re just taking advantage of it.
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The point is that the "voting districts" for the presidency are the states themselves, and so the structural advantage the modern day Republicans have in presidential elections is not due to their gerrymandering.
 
Combustible said:
The point is that the "voting districts" for the presidency are the states themselves, and so the structural advantage the modern day Republicans have in presidential elections is not due to their gerrymandering.
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Fair enough now i think about it (blush).
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