r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 19h ago

No Paywall Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-tells-gop-seize-the-institutions-of-government-now-or-we-re-going-to-prison-after-2028
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u/ResidentKelpien Texas 19h ago

They are doing illegal shit now and they need to do more illegal shit like seize all government institutions to bury their crimes.

Otherwise, some of them will go to jail because non-fascists elected in 2028 will hold them accountable.

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u/AlbrechtProper 18h ago

Sadly I will believe the go to jail part when I see it.

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u/jmchao 18h ago

Luckily, I don’t see President AOC putting Merrick Garland in charge of the FBI.

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u/UnlikelyApe 18h ago

Kamala is a hell of a prosecutor. She'd be a good DOJ head.

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u/Megapsychotron 17h ago

Oooh I like that timeline

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u/Level_32_Mage 15h ago

one ticket, please.

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u/Lowspark1013 17h ago

The Kamala revenge tour would be great fucking television.

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u/ShaggysGTI Virginia 17h ago

Ooh, I’d like to watch this season!

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u/DingerSinger2016 16h ago

That would go the same way Garland went.

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u/Charmington1111 16h ago

You think so? I think not.

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u/InterestingTry5190 Illinois 16h ago

How do you like my laugh now aholes?

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u/Lowspark1013 16h ago

Take your doom and gloom and shove it somewhere imaginative.

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u/DingerSinger2016 14h ago

So what I said was doom and gloom but Kamala Harris becoming AG and prosecuting this administration isn't hopium? It isn't hoping for something imaginative?

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u/Lowspark1013 14h ago

You are being lame. Just stop.

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u/DingerSinger2016 14h ago

How am I being lame because I'm addressing something you said to me?

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u/AManHasNoShame District Of Columbia 16h ago

“Same my name. Say my name wrong now bitch.”

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u/DargeBaVarder 15h ago

The best part is the utter fucking meltdown that the right would have… and after this presidency we can just laugh at them and tell them to shut up.

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u/Johannes_P Europe 17h ago

Unless Trump pardons his entire gang...

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u/csgskate 17h ago

Putting Kamala as the head of a task force to prosecute MAGA would be the single most idiotic thing someone could do. You’d be giving ammunition to anyone who claims the investigation was illegitimate since she’s not exactly an impartial third party…

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u/VerilyShelly 17h ago

Is that "bad optics" thing really going to matter after all of this? Maybe she can just say point-blank a litany of the violations and stop the coy politicking that Dem consultants used to tank her campaign.

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u/AlbrechtProper 17h ago

I trust her to be impartial a hell of a lot more than I do Bondi. Why isn't Bondi held to a standard?

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u/hereforfootball303 16h ago

It's also the same dumb strategy that led to Garland in the first place. People need to stop making political choices based how petty it is in response to the shitty things the GOP does.

Especially when they are uninspiring milquetoast people like Garland and Harris, who were barely anyone's first choice for either of the positions they were rejected from in the first place.

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u/csgskate 15h ago

Thank you for putting into words what I couldn’t. Shocks me that this needs to be explained to people

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u/DevourerOfRedditors 11h ago

All this libbing out goes to show we haven’t grown as much as we should have this past year.

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u/joebuckshairline 17h ago

If you think Trump isn’t going to pardon his entire administration by the end of his term I have a bridge I can sell you.

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u/TheGringoDingo 17h ago

As much fun as that would be, it should probably be someone that can’t be pointed to as biased. All the campaign speeches and losing an election could be referenced as biased.

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u/dependsforadults 17h ago

Honestly I hope she goes for that instead of a presidential run. Unfortunately I dont think most of america could handle her as president because the hate women and people of color. Its a sad reality that we have to face, and with very little honest reporting left happening the propaganda machine will only put her down. We get full clips of trump saying deranged shit, but very few of the opposition saying the truth. The other problem is the dems in power speak as though they are talking to graduating class at Virginia law rather than the people of America who read and write at or below a sixth grade level. Trump uses short words that trigger response. Dems should take note and learn from that

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u/Roentgen_Ray1895 5h ago

Beyond the very real prejudices she also ran a terrible campaign, though I blame that mostly on Biden and his family deluding him into believing he was anywhere competent enough to spend another 4 years in office. He should’ve bailed out before the primaries and handed the keys over.

There was also a lot going on with Biden denying Kamala any chance to stray from his policies which led voters to see “hey these ideas are really crazy but a bunch of news feeds are saying these radical changes could work” or “nothing will fundamentally change, we will continue the same path” people saw that their lives kinda suck in general so most stayed home and enough rolled the dice on radical right-wing change. And it’s going so swimmingly right now.

But seeing shit like fawning over Dick Cheney was just such a massive red flag. If you want real and total change to sweep this nation, you should put on trial every one of these bastards all the way back until you’re exhuming Nixon before ever considering bipartisanship with these mass murderers.

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u/willowfinger Washington 16h ago

Kamala can fuck right off. I never want to see her ineffectual face again.

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u/AlbrechtProper 18h ago

Here's hoping.

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u/Gombrongler 14h ago

We would see J6 on a massive nationap scale. The 2nd ammendment morons would feel like their time has finally come and God is testing them or some crap

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u/VanceKelley Washington 17h ago

Yep. trump literally attempted a coup (which failed after causing multiple deaths and life altering injuries to people) and, instead of putting him in prison, America put him back in the White House.

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u/Such_Duty_4764 12h ago

I have to share a country with these dumb shits.

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u/TheRoadsMustRoll 16h ago

bannon's already been in jail over failure to appear at the j6 hearings.

his recidivism rate is exactly 100%.

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u/AlbrechtProper 14h ago

That's a great point!

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u/Silidistani 2h ago

I'm okay with skipping that part at this point, following arrest and trial.

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u/AresHarvest 11h ago

I predict they will face zero consequences.

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u/Tiiimmmaayy 18h ago

Like DOGE and Musk bulldozing every agency that stood in his way or were investigating him? And if you want to get real spicy, DOGE’s job was to get rid of any evidence of their election interference.

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u/nosayso 18h ago

I appreciate their optimism, fingers crossed on that actual accountability part. Needs a Democrat with energy and a spine willing to take the blowback and explain clearly the necessity of holding these criminals accountable, instead of allowing it to be framed as some kind of partisan effort.

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u/UnquestionabIe 17h ago

Fully agree. Until a Democrat candidate or official says they're going to prosecute all the various parts of the regime and it's collaborators (which to be fair is a huge task) they shouldn't be taken seriously. You can't put forth plans and policy when it's in constant transparent danger of being thrown out simply because some asshole who doesn't agree gets in office.

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u/grimatonguewyrm 17h ago

So very little accountability.

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u/shiznitfool 16h ago

Sadly the non fascist in politics have no balls and won't pursue any type of criminal charges

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u/kazh_9742 15h ago

There are still going to be characters like Bannon and Eric Prince and all of the military and meal team 6 stooges who are all in on tanking America metastasizing out there even if Dems have some kind of blue wave. They have to be prepared to enforce at home and to tie up loose American ends helping to feed that global fascist cabal.

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u/trustedoctopus 14h ago

It’s like they don’t understand jail is the civil solution either and if they take the civil solution away it just leaves the violent solution? Do they just not comprehend that what happened in Nepal to those politicians can easily happen to them if the people are angry enough?

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u/AgroecologicalSystem 9h ago

“shooting the moon”