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[I]n the two weeks since Bannon took the helm, Trump’s campaign has been rocked by a string of allegations against the media firebrand, including a decades-old domestic-abuse charge. And the bad press isn’t stopping.

The latest of Bannon’s past transgressions to come to light is a comment he made in a five-year-old interview, in which he calls progressive women “dykes.” In a 2011 radio interview with Political Vindication Radio, Bannon said that conservative women—such as Ann Coulter, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin—are an “existential threat to the progressive narrative” and as a result “there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement. That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children,” he said, as BuzzFeed News first reported. “They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women,” Bannon continued.

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As Bannon’s past has come back to haunt him, the Trump campaign has begun to distance itself from the chief executive. When asked about Bannon and his connections to the controversial “alt-right” movement in an interview on Fox News Sunday this past weekend, Conway remarked that Trump “chose me to manage his campaign, and I report directly to him.” Chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus evinced a similar ambivalence toward Bannon in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press. “I think Kellyanne is doing a phenomenal job. I don’t know Steve Bannon, to tell you the truth, very well."

On August 31 2016 23:04 Morfildur wrote:


I hate the left and right classification with a passion.

You can easily be pro-LGBT, anti-abortion, pro-guns, pro-marijuana and anti-immigration at the same time. On the left-right spectrum you'd be both left and right simultaneously. Political opinion is a 20-dimensional field and people are far too quick to flatten it to a single dimension, because it makes it much easier to hate on people with different opinions. "If you aren't on the same side as me, you're a bad person. You have a wrong opinion, so you are on the wrong side."

Left-right classification needs to be banned from all political discussions.

I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.

He’s been getting a lot of ink on the Muslims and other things...And I guess people look at that and they probably like it. Some people thought they wouldn’t like it, but they probably do.

[We need] a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.

On September 01 2016 03:04 Doodsmack wrote:

- B. Carson, 9/20/15


[Carson rises in the polls and a Fox News poll on 10/13/15 shows him virtually tied with Trump]



- D. Trump, 10/14/15


[San Bernardino shooting happens, 12/3/15]



- D. Trump, 12/7/15


So how often is Trump making policy proposals based on what he believes will get him press coverage? Consider that his position on the Muslim ban is hard to actually determine. What does he believe, and what would he do as president?

On September 01 2016 03:54 Doodsmack wrote:
"Trump obviously doesn't mean half the shit that he says because everything he says is just bullshit to get free ad space on television. Hes a legitimate danger to the country because hes never said anything of substance that he will do nor anything that hes for or against other then low level rabble rousing."

"So how often is Trump making policy proposals based on what he believes will get him press coverage? Consider that his position on the Muslim ban is hard to actually determine. What does he believe, and what would he do as president?"


I don't understand why you see those two quotes as profoundly different. Your quote that you suggest is actually pretty hyperbolic and opinionated. Mine asks questions. But you say yours is the better route to generating discussion and getting people to open their minds? Even if my questions were loaded and rhetorical, they would be expressing an opinion and therefore equal to your suggested statement of opinion.

On September 01 2016 04:29 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
The press Corp that usually follows Trump in a charter flight was "mistakenly" routed to Phoenix.

On September 01 2016 04:29 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
The press Corp that usually follows Trump in a charter flight was "mistakenly" routed to Phoenix.

After leaving an obscene voicemail for a state legislator, Maine Gov. Paul LePage has apologized to that lawmaker, waffled on whether he would consider resigning, and stood by his widely criticized comments characterizing drug dealers as overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.

LePage also has told reporters he will never again speak to the press.

You might remember that the Republican governor left a remarkably vulgar message for Democratic Maine Rep. Drew Gattine last week.

LePage has repeatedly characterized Maine's drug problem as being caused by people of color coming into the state to sell drugs — invoking offensive stereotypes and non sequitur references to "white girls" as he does so. Gattine had described these remarks as racially charged and unhelpful.

In response, LePage repeatedly deployed a vulgarity referencing fellatio, called the lawmaker a "little son-of-a-bitch socialist" and said, "I am after you." He instructed Gattine to record the voicemail and make it public. LePage also told reporters he wished it were 1825 so he could shoot Gattine in a duel...

LePage called Gattine and left his obscene voicemail after a TV reporter had asked the governor how he would respond to people who criticized his remarks...



Asked on Wednesday whether he would change any of his behavior moving forward, the governor said, "I will no longer speak to the press ever again after today. And I'm serious. Everything will be put in writing.

"I am tired of being caught — the gotcha moments," he said.