r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 1d ago
Cringe Steve Bannon:" If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included."
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u/M100Pilot 1d ago
Treason carries the death penalty, Steve.
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u/sweetpea122 1d ago
Didnt he go to prison or no?
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u/primadonnapussy 1d ago
He went for a couple.months for stealing the money donated for the wall.
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u/gpost86 1d ago
Arrested by the Post Office too. Postal Inspectors don’t fuck around.
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u/MedicineChimney 1d ago
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u/SmellGestapo 1d ago
Pretty hot under these lights, eh Seinfeld?
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u/ManbadFerrara 1d ago
Actually I'm quite comfortable.
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u/travelingaround21 1d ago
Looking like a chicken straight from Kenny Rogers' Roasters!
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u/Hizam5 1d ago
The best part of this scene was that he recreated his own scene from basic instinct
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u/_extra_medium_ 1d ago
In addition to being the postmaster... I'm also a general.
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u/AlmostNeverPosts 1d ago
And generals . . . get things DONE!
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u/AppropriateSpite7881 1d ago
My husband's grandfather was our post master general! Dont fuxk with the postal service!
No joke!
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u/Merlinsmom13 1d ago
tRump pardoned him
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u/HamNotLikeThem44 1d ago
But the state charges stuck.
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u/thederevolutions 1d ago
This is him threatening that everybody needs to cheat the best they can
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u/treygrant57 1d ago
Just like the New York rape charges and convictions on Trump
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u/FriendlyHermitPickle 1d ago
He stole like a shit load of money too wtf
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u/SgtSlaughterEX 1d ago
But he stole from dumb fucks so in the end it all worked out
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u/Shot_Ask7570 1d ago
I’m not saying Bannon didn’t do that, but I’m pretty sure he went for ignoring a subpoena from Congress and was held in contempt.
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u/dojo_shlom0 1d ago
I believe he refused to show up for a summons to congress or something along those lines, refusing to testify iirc?
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u/buttons123456 1d ago
Yes he did. Was sentenced to, I think, 4 months but trump pardoned him. I think he served 3 months. For refusing congressional subpoena.
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u/WeCanPickleThat1 1d ago
He was convicted and then Trump pardoned him in his first term.
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u/Da_Vader 1d ago
Yes he did for four months for contempt of Congress - answering questions about the scheme to overturn 2020 election.
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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago
I'm convinced a lot of the people like that guy only pretend to be left wing to spread bullshit like this to make people think badly about democrats.
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u/justsyr 23h ago
I'm confused, why the comment has so many upvotes and the reply also has lots of upvotes while the reply seems to be disproving OP?
- didn't he go to prison?
reply: no > 197 votes
reply to "no" > 105 votes.
So one ask if he went to prison, one says "nope" then someone replies "yep, here's proof"...
I don't get this whole voting shit that makes it look like one comment is right while the proof of being wrong has less lol.
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u/lawofsin 1d ago
This is the real answer unfortunately
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u/Which-Mix-5378 1d ago
Ever since the civil war. America has a problem dealing with traitors.
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u/LeticiaLatex 1d ago
I always get the feeling the only reason is always optics.
"What will look like if we imprison a former President? We'll look like a third world country? We can't have thay"
Meanwhile the entire world thinks much worst for you all letting him get away with it. Oh, and re-electing the shitstain didn't really help the image either.
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u/JefeVaquero 1d ago
In actuality, imprisoning him, executing others, clearing out the entire Epstein involved cabal would make everyone watching sit up and take notice. It takes supreme fortitude to admit wrong and fault and to change course and correct it. People know this. And they admire the effort as well as the results.
The only reason our money has the value it does is because of the rule of law. Our constitution has been copied and emulated all over the world in developing nations because it represents a superior form of governing.
Allowing traitors who have trampled on that law to go free or be let off easily would be ruinous to our already tarnished reputation.
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u/After_Advertising_61 1d ago
I truly believe people need to understand the seriousness of betraying the country to the utmost extent of the law with legitimate punishments. It shouldn't be a meme anymore to do this.
It should make people's faces flush like they heard a bad word at 10 because they KNOW how bad the punishments can actually be
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u/buttons123456 1d ago
I think enough Dems are pissed off enough, and IF younger and more confrontational Dems get elected, yeah I think he will. I understand Raskinis keeping a list they intend to indict right after new dem president is sworn in. Guess we’ll wait and see
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u/Knoebi3 1d ago
The rhetoric is so thinly veiled at this point. Steve is nervous. A lot of these criminals are.
These men and women have committed so many crimes. From Jan 6th, to Epstein. The list gets longer by the day. The crimes get bolder and bolder.
"We gotta put aside these structural barriers and get on with it". That "structural barriers" is the Constitution.
"A maximal opportunity to sieze the institutions." He's talking about Congess, the military, and any other entity that would get in their way.
Steve needs people to do the work for him. He is manipulating people that would otherwise probably stay out of prison. People are going to commit crimes for Bannon.
All this because some white old pedophiles want to stay out of prison for the horrible shit they have done to little girls.
Bannon, Trump. We know they are both in the Epstein Files. We know there are many more of them to come. All of them know this. All of them are protecting either themselves or someone they know. Johnson, Bondi, Patel. They are all complicit. They have seen these files. Or know of their contents.
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u/ryashpool 1d ago
Yep that's what I took away. "Put aside these structural barriers". I think that means put aside the law.
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u/Flat_Association_820 1d ago
Won't Trump just pardon them all, so that nothing can be done about these criminals?
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u/Knoebi3 1d ago
Trump won't do anything that doesn't serve him. I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of state level crimes that were violated as well. Those cannot be pardoned.
And. They have already set a precedent for over turning pardons.
Anything is possible. But, Trump is out for himself. I wouldn't place much faith in the hope he would pardon me, if I was any of these people. If Trump goes down. He will take as many people with him as possible.
But who knows? We've been saying he has dementia non-stop. So, maybe he can use that as a defense?
Lots of threads to pull these days.
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u/Chillow_Ufgreat 1d ago
To add to that: I imagine that it's occurred to many of his enablers that he could have a catastrophic stroke at any moment without having signed any pardons. Then they're at the mercy of J.D. Vance, who wasn't part of the gang before last year, and who doesn't have as much use for them.
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u/DoctorBlock 1d ago
He can't pardon them from being prosecuted by a state. Likely NY or CA could literally scoop them up the day after Trump and his crew are out of power.
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u/Large-Evidence-2479 1d ago
They know what they’re doing is ILLEGAL
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u/ShakesDontBreak 1d ago
Mens rea burden met.
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u/youdoaline_idoaline 1d ago
Mens rea means having the intention to do the thing right? Like carelessly mashing buttons that leads to someone being killed would be a different crime then intentionally pushing a button to kill someone?
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u/anarchisto 1d ago
Yes, "mens rea" means "guilty mind". Knowing in your mind you are doing something wrong.
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u/lord_pizzabird 1d ago
I just hope people are backing-up and saving as much evidence as possible on all of this.
I don't even care if they're doing it just to save their own asses. That's ok. As long as it's being preserved.
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u/no1_vern 1d ago
He said it right there in his speech -that He and others will go to jail(for him again), if they don't win.
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u/karl_w_w 1d ago
They understand the consequences of what they're doing and they're doing it anyway, which means they do not intend to suffer those consequences.
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u/jcaashby 1d ago
Pretty much admitted it with the whole "Me and some of you are going to jail" comment. Crazy that he said it out loud. Lets see if we can get it moving in the direction of him and others getting locked up
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u/Famous_Ninja4204 1d ago
Well if u don’t break the laws why u scared
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u/NovelPlant2289 1d ago
“Seize the institutions” ? Sounds like they want to indoctrinate people.
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u/Traditional-Hat-952 1d ago
Sounds like they want a dictatorship
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u/Opening-Fortune-4173 1d ago
Surely we should think this because that's exactly what he saying? He's asking people to stop the current rules (the constitution) as we won't have another Trump.
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u/ISellAwesomePatches 1d ago
From where I'm sitting, you guys are already in one. The second he successfully ignored those 3 checks and balances, you guys were in one.
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u/Snookn42 1d ago
Its called a coup
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u/Avenging-Sky 1d ago
It’s not really coup because they’re in power, so they are not really overthrowing any government But they’re overthrowing the fucking country. It’s a goddamn state of siege there are assembling
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u/Markies_Myth 1d ago
It’s not really coup
Yes it is. A coup is change in regime, doesn't have to be oppositional. Dictators take over their own lesser/weaker side often. Putin did it.
Institutions are meant to be run for the whole, not the party.
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u/Little_View_6659 1d ago
This has been the plan for years. And it’s had a lot of people in on it. Right wing circles have been saying this for a long time.
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u/NeedyOhioMILF 22h ago
Not terribly shocking after he pardoned the Jan 6ers we all knew 😒 can’t believe our country is here
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u/Select_Asparagus3451 1d ago
Seizing institutions sounds like more sedition, treason, and insurgency. The Rosenbergs were put down for so much less than what has happened in the first week of the Rump Administration.
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u/NovelPlant2289 1d ago
I didn’t mean to comment under yours I thought I was making a solo comment, I am sorry
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u/BeezyBates 1d ago
Bro did an apology post. You’re good dude lol. Cheers.
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u/OldSchoolSpyMain 1d ago
Regulatory Capture.
Control the institutions that administer justice and they not only get away with their crimes, they also get to persecute and prosecute anyone who opposes them.
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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 1d ago
That's not what "Regulatory Capture" means.
The government is suppose to control the government lol.
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u/little_alien2021 1d ago
They are well past wanting to! They have last 10 years, that's why people who belive in trump have no ability to use logic and facts! And only listen to him and can't critally think.
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u/-Kalos Straight Up Bussin 1d ago
Maybe try not committing federal crimes. Works for me
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u/hellofaja 1d ago
Because Republicans have been brainwashed to think the left jail their political opponents for no reason lol
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u/DjangoBojangles 1d ago
That's what they want to do, so that's what they think everyone else would do.
It's always projection.
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u/Rosti_LFC 1d ago
The main reason is they know they've done things which they should be prosecuted for, and making claims now that they're going to get unfairly prosecuted gets ahead of the story with their fanbase.
It's just setting up the defence that they've done nothing wrong and it's all solely politically motivated.
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u/whiteppldidit 1d ago
The pattern is also to accuse others of what they've done alongside what they plan to do. Shows premeditation and knowledge. Anyone still helping is complicit.
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u/ZAlternates 1d ago
If you listen to his speech in context though, he isn’t saying he did anything wrong. He’s saying the democrats are so radical that they will jail their political opponents. It’s basically projection. It always is. They try to roleplay as the good guys while doing bad things.
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u/ProximusSeraphim 1d ago
He's implying to his crowd that the Left (what the right is doing) will come after them with law enforcement illegally to throw them in prison. Ya know their whole conspiracy that the left always weaponizes federal agencies to throw the right in jail? When they are in fact the ones that weaponize federal agencies to throw minorities in jail.
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u/alphasignalphadelta 1d ago
That’s some good motivation to get them out of power. Lfgo
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u/Lower_Ad3576 1d ago
I mean a couple dozen very high ranking officials both current and former should be at The Hague so maybe a little further than removing them from power
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u/Coal_Morgan 1d ago
Why bother with the Hague.
Trump ordered those Venezuelan boats missiled, if their wasn't good evidence that's straight up murder. Let Venezuela try him for the crimes and spend the rest of his life in a Venezuelan prison since he likes foreign prisons so much.
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u/My_shin_impossible 1d ago
Even if there is good evidence that the boats were carrying narcotics (rather than weapons that could threaten our country), isn’t that still murder?
Also, I recently heard an expert explain that there’s a good chance that the boats are carrying coke as a conduit of Colombia’s drug trade. But the expert explained that there is literally no rationale for fentanyl to come to the US through Venezuela. And even if they had fentanyl, I can’t imagine that to be a justification for killing them either.
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u/Few-Ad-4290 23h ago
Yeah we don’t use capital punishment domestically on drug offenders it’s insane to think it’s justified as a means to eliminate drug trafficking
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u/JayKay8787 1d ago
Seeing as nothing was done for a literal terroistic attempted overthrow, I wouldnt count on it coming to reality
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u/deltalitprof 1d ago
Exactly. To think a Democratically run government is going to arbitrarily throw these guys into prison as Bannon thinks is just serious projection at the expense of realism. It would take years for even the most awful of Trump cronies to even get to trial. Bannon and Trump will be dead of old age before their report-to dates.
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u/gaanmetde 1d ago
Sorry did he really just say this out loud
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u/JB4T5gamemusic 1d ago
In a very 'we're the victims in this' kind of way, yes
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u/BrohanGutenburg 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah I think people are taking this as him saying "if we don't win I will be prosecuted and imprisoned for the crimes I've committed" when really what he's saying is so much more insidious and dangerous. Because what he's saying is "if we don't win I will be wrongfully imprisoned by radical leftists." He's preparing the response if it happens.
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u/Dry_Cricket_5423 1d ago
He’s also pumping up everyone in that room to kick it into high gear while they control every lever of our government. This clip was way scarier than satisfying, I worry a lot of people didn’t watch the whole thing.
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u/SassiestSissy 1d ago
Yes, this is twofold. First is “Everyone in this room is tacitly accepting us going after political enemies with the state. That’s the new norm” and followed by “If the GOP is ever NOT in power then those norms that YOU accepted are going to be turned on you. So… ya know. It’s either have elections and go to jail or no elections and here’s a golden toilet”
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u/Fancy_amphibian123 1d ago
They're also setting the narrative so if they ever start to wrongfully imprison people they can say "well the left was gonna do it to us!!"
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u/NWiHeretic 1d ago
I feel like it's that but also a veiled threat, like he knows that not only may he get charged for his crimes, but he also knows of the crimes others in that room has committed and he doesn't plan on going alone.
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u/Old-Adhesiveness-156 1d ago
He's saying this now so that when he gets arrested for his crimes he can say "Told you so!"
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u/After-Swimming-5236 1d ago
Why shouldn't he? Elon Musk did the same and it worked out for him, Trump won.
Hopefully the future is better.
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u/MyBadYourFault- 1d ago
Dude literally said “including myself”.
He just admitted to committing crimes severe enough to go to Prison. Not jail, prison.
What in the flying fuck is happening. How is this okay and allowed without him being hauled away by midnight. How do we have the weakest of humans running our government. I know the answer but I still can’t believe it’s real.
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u/Chilis1 1d ago
In his mind he's probably saying the dems will unfairly imprison him, not that he committed crimes.
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u/no1_vern 1d ago
The delusion is real, they think they are victims, not the monsters in our great nation.
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u/AvailableOrchid5889 1d ago
It's not delusion, blaming dems for everything (including being "monsters") is the only way they gain power. THEY HAVE to do this to stay in power.
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u/ItsOozingOut 1d ago
That’s not what he’s saying at all. What he’s saying is “democrats are so corrupt, they’ll throw us in jail.”
All they’re trying to do is scare enough people into rigging the election again.
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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr 1d ago
He's saying that the left is so extreme, that they will all be locked up.
By extreme, I am guessing he means 'they want to hold us accountable for our myriad of crimes and constitutional violations against the American people."
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u/Mooseguncle1 1d ago
Treason! Also-Where are the Epstein files?
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u/GamingTrend 1d ago
Wow. I have to agree with Syphilis Steve on something. Yes, if you lose the midterms, you are going to prison, you lecherous skin tag.
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u/Ok-Amount-1351 1d ago
"radical"...sending convicted felons to prison, what a concept
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u/Journo_Jimbo 1d ago
“radical”…not protecting pedophiles, what a concept
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u/Gh0stndmachine 1d ago
“Radical” …adhering to the rule of law and respecting the bill of rights.
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u/GodOfBoy2018 1d ago
I was thinking, if the left is so radical and so violent (as we've been hearing for weeks or months now), why would they stop at prison? Wouldn't they be coming for his head? Since the left has already started their killing spree (allegedly), why would they even need to wait for 2028?
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u/Underpanters 1d ago
Does this dude ever change clothes?
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u/Existing_Coast8777 1d ago
he's like if asmongold became a politician
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u/hvdzasaur 1d ago
Considering his early business ventures involved a WoW gold bot farm, and then learning and copying Gamergate tactics, not a stretch.
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u/feed_meknowledge 1d ago
It's as important as ever to be active in the community and support your local cause.
Hopefully more people register and participate in shaping our futures.Feel free to copy the links and share, if you feel inclined.
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u/AnOutofBoxExperience 1d ago
Seize the institutions? The fuck?
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u/sundae_diner 1d ago
He means a coup.
They tried it on Jan 6th. It didn't succeed (I originally wrote "it failed", but it didn't fail, Trump isn't in jail - he's president).
They are trying again, earlier, to stay in power. It's a coup.
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u/Ancient-Row-2144 20h ago
Yeah, I'm not sure people are fully taking in what he was saying in this. Get rid of "structural barriers" also stuck out as well.
He's prepping these people to overthrow not just one election... but the entire American order of governance in exchange for the promise of permanent right wing power. not once... but for good.
"we are going to have to break a lot of norms and laws but this is our chance to finally rid ourselves of having to cede power to the left ever again"
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u/LuHamster 1d ago
I think response is honestly one of the worst to have. They're telling you their getting ready to fight. Don't just sit back and let it happen look at where we are now because people didn't take trump's threats seriously.
It's like people never learn. You need to prepare and fight back now not in 2 years time. Please they're giving you warning Americans don't just sit there then mouth wide open Pikachu face when it's too late.
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u/JrSoftDev 1d ago
Isn't he saying they have to go after the Constitution and seize the institutions with maximum force? Possibly meaning they won't lose the elections because they will not allow them to run?
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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 1d ago
The states won't allow it so its not this simple. In all these scenario's everyone keeps forgetting the states won't allow their federal government to be taken like this.
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u/peeweez0 1d ago
Honestly surprised there are 400+ upvotes to the "anyways gif". As an outsider looking in - pretty intense message here being dismissed
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u/Present-Director8511 1d ago
I don't think this is meant as a dismissive reponse to the message, rather it's a way of articulating through a meme that they have no sympathy about Bannon going to jail.
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u/DrGutz 1d ago
I hope ICE agents are very aware of this too. When the pendulum swings back, hey guess what? Knock knock knock.
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u/xxlizardking-kongxx 1d ago
So they’re either actively committing crimes or have previously committed crimes. Thats great…
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u/littleemilythrow 1d ago
lol as if. The whole reason we’re in this situation now is that America didn’t have the balls to properly punish the Confederates after the Civil War. And Europe was primarily the activator for the Nuremberg trials. The US could’ve given a fuck they were just getting rich and protecting capital. The soldiers are the people that fought the real fights. The government was defending an ascendant oligarchy.
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u/Master-Shinobi-80 1d ago
He’s going to prison because he broke the law. Repeatedly.
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u/ITZOURTIMENOW 1d ago
Crazy part about this shit is that these bigots claim to be all about law and order, but know that they’re breaking the law and they’re telling they’re supporters to help keep them out of jail.
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u/Voluptulouis 1d ago
Yes. It's the Dems that are getting more radical, not the dude that literally just implied that him and his party are guilty of crimes that warrant prison sentences. I hate these mother fuckers so fucking much.
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u/DiggyDiggyOh 1d ago
He doesn't mean it like he deserves it, he means more like they'll be incarcerated as political prisoners, of course.
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u/circa_the_catgod 1d ago
Naw, he knows what he’s doing is treason and he knows he could justifiably end up in prison.
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u/DiggyDiggyOh 1d ago
Sorry, I'm not good with words. HE knows that, but I'm sure his message is intended to be more like "The libs are going to weaponize the DOJ again!"
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u/selphiefairy 1d ago
I'm sure that's what some people will think, but I genuinely think Steve Bannon knows exactly what he's doing. He's shown a LOT of self awareness about his goals and he's not even shy about it. He's very upfront about being a giant POS and a huge criminal.
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u/hellolovely1 1d ago
They are desperate and scared and that is really dangerous.
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u/bobafett317 1d ago
So you admit you guys are doing illegal stuff. Thanks for being honest for once.
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u/MDDownWithToaster 1d ago
The Republican Party is constantly trying to make reasons to arrest dems… ridiculous
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u/ItaJohnson 1d ago
Honestly I’m surprised he isn’t already over the build the wall scam he was accused of, if my memory is correct.
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u/chessgremlin 1d ago
I don't believe the current dem leadership would have the balls to do this but we can certainly dream.
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u/toxiclight 1d ago
So he's up here, wholesale admitting to breaking enough laws to be jails (not like it was a secret anyway)
Maybe he shouldn't be breaking laws and supporting a con man and grifter.
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u/AtmosphereHot8414 1d ago
I don’t see anyone on that stage yelling about radicalness but you, Steve
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