Holy shit holy shit the circus is already imploding and hes not even sworn in yet. Theres not enough of Trump to share I guess. Does Bannon get to keep him or has Musk dazzled the narcissist with his flashy rocket...the shitshow has just begun.
It's Steve Bannon; he ain't never done anything out of the kindness of his own heart. He's far too busy Steve Bannoning himself.
You're right about the ban, but also consider that SB always wants to be DT's guy-- he wants to knock Elon a peg so that he can get the boss's ear & his own ego stroked.
All of Australia got banned from 4chan for a while a decade ago because they would spam slurs all night while the mods were asleep. Too racist for 4chan!
See, in all the media of the bad future timeline everybody had Mullets, eye-patches and wore Canadian Tuxedos (when not wearing leather bomber jackets and leather pants)
This lacking is the most upsetting thing about the scenario, as far as I'm concerned
When I was younger a white South African kid who had just immigrated to NZ told me to go back to my country 🙃 which he also thought was China (I am not Chinese)
You're missing context. There is no world in which this is praise for Bannon. This comment means that even a horrific racist (Bannon) considers the South African fascists to be too racist.
His parents moved to several places when he was young, and they finally settled in the US when Thiel was 10 years old. I doubt there really is much SA in him.
There was a UK show in the 80’s and 90’s called Spitting Images. They dedicated a show to South Africa, the incarceration of Nelson Mandela the white supremacism of PW Botha and the entire city of Pretoria. The show concludes with a song called 🎵I never met a nice South African🎵
It’s like when Dick Cheney was the worst, and then Mitt Romney, and then Mike Pence and Trump. Now Cheney is upholding democracy, Romney voted to impeach Trump, and Pence stood his ground January 6th. Redefining the worst by degrees
I agree, but add..it feels purposeful....see if the most extreme keeps getting more extreme. Those that came before now look sensible and moderate..its an illusion
Don't be fooled, they just don't like people messing with their hold on power.
I know this is, ironically, racist of me, but maybe White South Africans should return to their home continent. I mean like, besides Neil Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley I feel like they are not sending their best.
Thiel isn’t South African. He’s German. His family briefly lived in South Africa when he was 10 bc his dad was in the mining business. He’s still a major a-hole. Just not a SA one.
His family was a German family that seized the opportunity to move to apartheid South Africa. That makes it worse, they are apartheid South African by choice
That anecdote by Elon’s dad from that podcast that Maye’s family moved to South Africa because they were huge fans of Hitler was like crazy and I don’t get how every news org didn’t run with it and ask him or her about it a lot.
I dunno. In this ‘fight’ maga loons might actually go all in. Thiel & like crowd are not only despised by all sides ,but they all have charisma of stunted snail. Wait till they start broadcasting stories of Thiels ‘gay orgies’ ( btw not secret at all in SF) and calling him degenerate etc….
Yeah but Trump isn’t Hitler. He’s a multibillionaire with no convictions, he cares way more about making money and consolidating power than he does about anything resembling Bannon’s ambitions to a modern ethnostate
I find the Musk-Bannon immigration fight enthralling, because it shows that even if there are only two available positions, each of them can still be taken in the worst way. “Well, one of them has to be right,” you think. And yet!
Musk, of course, seems to have no problem working with South Asian people.
This too has a long history in South Africa. A young Gandhi was upset not because white South Africans mistreated him as such, but because they saw him as equal to Black South Africans.
Thanks! It’s being reported by Breitbart so take it with a shaker of salt and all but it is fascinating to have Bannon pushing the white South African critique!
Yes, Steve, why do you have "the most racist people on earth" in some of the highest positions of influence in your country? Surely you aren't culpable here, no, it's those dirty foreigners bringing in their dirty foreign racism and threatening your pure American racism.
I don't like further crediting Bannon but the most xenophobic and racist people I've met outside of some Identity Evropa recruiters in Denver are South Africans and English descent Namibians. They really like throwing in the eugenic/subhuman stuff with the racism mixed in. It's like 1800s level.
I was once at an airport cafe when a WW2 era Luftwaffe adorned in Swastika livery descended from the heavens. The pilot is unsurprisingly a South African.
I don’t think he’s unhappy about their racism.
I think he realizes it’s too overt, so it might draw pushback, which could affect his “burn it all down” scheme.
Also, he’s very jealous that they have the felon’s ear and might not do just what he wants.
Petty infighting.
You know why he real despises him? Man only wears one shirt that rides up when he jumps around on stage like a dweeb. It’s abominable to a two collar shirts at once man.
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You're right about the ban, but also consider that SB always wants to be DT's guy-- he wants to knock Elon a peg so that he can get the boss's ear & his own ego stroked.
He may be a hateful drunk, but Musk underestimates him at his peril!
We only engage in casual racism, cops in the American south are professionals
This lacking is the most upsetting thing about the scenario, as far as I'm concerned
His problem is that Musk isn't racist *enough*.
That’s something right there.
Don't be fooled, they just don't like people messing with their hold on power.
Isn't Bannon himself a racist?
What the actual hell is going on here?
This timeline just doesn't seem real enough here.
That said, telling someone to go back home to their own country is a form of racism in itself, isn't it?
... Even if it's a Fascist immigrant.
This too has a long history in South Africa. A young Gandhi was upset not because white South Africans mistreated him as such, but because they saw him as equal to Black South Africans.
Call things what they are.
Bannon’s inherent xenophobia is kicking in here because an immigrant is climbing higher in the administration he shed blood to install.
Bannon is just as racist as they are.
I think he realizes it’s too overt, so it might draw pushback, which could affect his “burn it all down” scheme.
Also, he’s very jealous that they have the felon’s ear and might not do just what he wants.
Petty infighting.
Now imagine two of those men.
Now imagine one of those men is the richest man in the world.
Now imagine the other is the next US president.