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Trump Names Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff, Steve Bannon as Senior Adviser

One thing is sure, it will be an interesting exercise in governance to observe as they go about standing up this untried group of people at the very top (Trump/Priebus/Bannon).

Bannon and Trump have supported intentionally conducting war crimes around the world, and Bannon is a neoconservative who was basically too crazy Georgey Porge 16 years ago. Priebus is just a jackass, but everyone in congress are all massive neoliberals who want to cut taxes and induce austerity measures (cutting SS, medicare/medicaid, and Obamacare) and deregulation.

But seriously, everyone who voted for Trump are the biggest suckers in the world. I can see not voting for Hillary, but damn, Trump is going to make a complete sucker out of all of these people. Massive tax cuts, austerity measures, and poor white communities? You're about to get a lot poorer.
 
Why? Advisors don't make decisions. Trump trusts him. That is all that matters. If your concern is that he might advise Trump to make some serious changes in government then that sounds pretty positive.

It matters to some people Breitbart is a sewer of anti-Semitic white nationalism, and Bannon headed that place until just recently.
 
Attempting to understand the inner workings of an appointee's mind isn't ridiculous. Thinking you DO after 12 hours IS. Calling him anti-Semite because an ex-wife says he's said some anti-Semite things during a contentious divorce IS ridiculous. And proves to me that, even on this website, people are determined to read the worst possible interpretation into every single thing DT does.

I don't throw "fits."

If you've never done so, you might go to the Breitbart article linked earlier that was about Bill Kristol.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/redir...bill-kristol-republican-spoiler-renegade-jew/

And then read the comments. If you do, you'll understand why people aren't calling him a voice of the alt-right or a white nationalist or anti-Semite just because of what might have been said in a divorce. It's clear Breitbart welcomes anti-Semites and white nationalists. People who worked there for Bannon make similar claims about Bannon. He's never denied being a voice for the alt-right, and has in fact claimed proudly he's a voice of the alt-right. All he does is deny that the movement itself is anti-Semitic, or racist, or white nationalist, but obviously embraces the 'nationalist' part. So then go read a few alt-right outlets and judge for yourself whether the movement is white nationalist or not.

Who knows whether or not Bannon is personally anti-Semitic, or whether he just hates all liberals, and there are lots of Jewish liberals. The problem is he's never given any indication that he cares whether the alt-right movement is 'shot through' with white nationalists.
 
Don't even go there, Hillary supporter. She hates Israel, just like Obama. They never got along. Don't even start that antisemitic ****. The Obama administration virtually abandoned Netanyahu.

What does that mean? Didn't always agree him? Didn't always adopt the Netanyahu's policy preferences as its own?
 
If you've never done so, you might go to the Breitbart article linked earlier that was about Bill Kristol.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/redir...bill-kristol-republican-spoiler-renegade-jew/

And then read the comments. If you do, you'll understand why people aren't calling him a voice of the alt-right or a white nationalist or anti-Semite just because of what might have been said in a divorce. It's clear Breitbart welcomes anti-Semites and white nationalists. People who worked there for Bannon make similar claims about Bannon. He's never denied being a voice for the alt-right, and has in fact claimed proudly he's a voice of the alt-right. All he does is deny that the movement itself is anti-Semitic, or racist, or white nationalist, but obviously embraces the 'nationalist' part. So then go read a few alt-right outlets and judge for yourself whether the movement is white nationalist or not.

Who knows whether or not Bannon is personally anti-Semitic, or whether he just hates all liberals, and there are lots of Jewish liberals. The problem is he's never given any indication that he cares whether the alt-right movement is 'shot through' with white nationalists.

The comment section of Brietbart is essentially Stormfront. It's been that way for years.
 
What does that mean? Didn't always agree him? Didn't always adopt the Netanyahu's policy preferences as its own?

He totally disrespected Netanyahu. He was critical of Israel, while walking softly around the Muslims. The Democratic have not been very supportive of Israel.
 
The comment section of Brietbart is essentially Stormfront. It's been that way for years.

Right and that's with moderation. It makes you wonder what comments they delete.
 
Trump Names Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff, Steve Bannon as Senior Adviser | ABC NEWS

Donald Trump has named Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as chief of staff to his new administration and former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor to the president.

This weekend Priebus and Bannon emerged as the top contenders for the chief of staff position, with the two seen as offering two sharply different paths for Trump to take in his first major hire as president-elect.

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To me, they both make sense. Your thoughts?

What happened to "anti-establishment"?

What happened to "hope and change"?
 
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Maybe I just can't see it, but Bannon's name is not anywhere on that.
 
It matters to some people Breitbart is a sewer of anti-Semitic white nationalism, and Bannon headed that place until just recently.

So if he had been head of one of the left wing sewers all would be good? To each his own sewer. The people wanted this one.
 
Bannon advising Trump:

Jews are always a problem. Don't trust them.

Muslims have no right to be in America. Kick them out and deny entrance to Muslims. Long standing Muslim Americans must be registered with their local police department and also have their information logged into an FBI data base.

Women outside the home are a pain in the ass. They cause nothing but problems in the workplace. It's time to end all the equality bull****. As planned, once we ban birth control and abortions most women will have to stay home. That will solve the women issue.

Blacks have been given everything and still they have the balls to try and take white jobs from white Americans. Mr. President your emphasis on law and order will help control black people. A hardening of drug policy and a heightening of the war on drugs will put more blacks behind bars. In addition it will immediately help to grow the private prison industry.

We need to maintain a certain amount of Mexicans to pick fruit and do other jobs that white Americans won't do. Beyond that the 40 billion dollar wall across the length of the border should help solve the issue. After we deport current illegals we must incarcerate any illegals found in America. Long prison sentences will be a deterrent and will also be good for the private prison industry.

LBGT should be denied most rights. Their agenda is clearly to make everyone like them. They are working hard to recruit our children. LBGT should be banned from working in any position that brings them into contact with children.

Climate change is a liberal joke. Liberals created climate change in an attempt to control Big Energy.

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For everyone except uneducated white males in the flyover states Bannon will be a freaking train wreck in the Trump administration.
 
So if he had been head of one of the left wing sewers all would be good? To each his own sewer. The people wanted this one.

And those that didn't are free to point out problems with Bannon.
 
Maybe I just can't see it, but Bannon's name is not anywhere on that.

It's just his site it all, and his editors picked the headline, and the people he hires to moderate the comments section allow all kind of white nationalist and anti-semitic comments to stand as written, deleting only the most obviously offensive I assume.
 
I don't know that he was instrumental in getting any of that done. He's an establishment Republican all the way, and I don't see him doing much for conservatives.

He's not entirely an Establishment Republican. And it's actually a smart move by Trump because he can use Priebus to bridge the gap between Trump and Establishment GOPers in Congress, making relations a little smoother.
 
Attempting to understand the inner workings of an appointee's mind isn't ridiculous. Thinking you DO after 12 hours IS. Calling him anti-Semite because an ex-wife says he's said some anti-Semite things during a contentious divorce IS ridiculous. And proves to me that, even on this website, people are determined to read the worst possible interpretation into every single thing DT does.

I don't throw "fits."

So you don't think the experiential and ideological record of an appointee is relevant to his office? Maggie, plz, this is just weak sauce at best, and quite inept at worst.

As for Bannon's alleged antisemitism, I never made that accusation; so not guilty.
 
If trump is sincere abour wanting to be a sucessfull potus he is going have to rise above the partisan hyperbole on both sides and build coalitions between establishement types (right and left) and private sector leaders.

Powerbrokers like ryan, Mitchell, Pelosi, and Reid are going to need to be usurped.

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And those that didn't are free to point out problems with Bannon.

Yes but you pointed out your problems with Breitbart, not Bannon.
 
Yes but you pointed out your problems with Breitbart, not Bannon.

Bannon ran Breitbart, so that's a distinction without any real difference. It's like saying, "but you pointed out problems with the White House under Obama, not Obama."
 
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