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‘Can’t Be Trusted, At All!’ Steve Bannon Slams Mark Zuckerberg After Pivot Toward MAGA
Mediaite ^ | 1/13/2024 | Alex Griffing

Posted on 01/13/2025 4:42:03 PM PST by Miami Rebel

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The notion that the tech oligarchs are "bending the knee" with an iota of commitment to policy is a joke. As Bannon asserts, it's self-interest. And their loyalty is to wherever the greatest payoff is.
1 posted on 01/13/2025 4:42:03 PM PST by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel
Techie guys aside, Bannon is going to have an aneurysm if he doesn't calm down.
2 posted on 01/13/2025 4:45:09 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: Miami Rebel

Better on the inside of the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.


3 posted on 01/13/2025 4:45:11 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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Zuckerbuck is just cozying up to PDJT to hopefully avoid being arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to a VERY long prison term for rigging the 2020 election.


4 posted on 01/13/2025 4:45:50 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Miami Rebel

The tech oligarchs want Indian indentured servants. Will they get them? I think probably not.


5 posted on 01/13/2025 4:46:23 PM PST by cdcdawg (Is Trump a dictator or a puppet this week? )
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To: SaxxonWoods

“Techie guys aside”??

Why should techie guys dodge scrutiny? For years they were a corrupt, malignant force in American society, but now all is sweetness and light since they’re writing checks to the Inauguration?


6 posted on 01/13/2025 4:48:22 PM PST by Miami Rebel (pro-)
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Zuckerberg spent $300 million stealing the last election. Did we forget that? He belongs hanging from a noose for sedition.


7 posted on 01/13/2025 4:50:26 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: Miami Rebel

Yep don’t trust them. They are all Trojan horses.


8 posted on 01/13/2025 4:51:09 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Miami Rebel

elon musk has hired and employs more people than steve bannon...


9 posted on 01/13/2025 4:55:01 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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(Zuckerberg spent $300 million stealing the last election.)

It was actually $400 million for ballot harvesting and drop boxes.


10 posted on 01/13/2025 4:57:23 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: Miami Rebel

I meant I wasn’t arguing about techies, just noting Bannon’s ongoing nervous breakdown, which has gotten tiresome. I think he’s jealous of Musk, who has taken his spot as court jester.


11 posted on 01/13/2025 4:58:02 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: Miami Rebel

Duh.
Almost everyone is like that. That is politics since there was politics. This is transactional business and politics that Trump knows extremely well. The odd part was the situation pre-2024, where there was a system to place a thumb on the scales to prevent the resolution of ordinary transactional politics, through a regime of systematic government threats.

I’m not clear what Bannon wants - an altruistic commitment? Somehow?


12 posted on 01/13/2025 5:02:20 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: heavy metal

So does George Soros. So what?


13 posted on 01/13/2025 5:02:53 PM PST by Miami Rebel (pro-)
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To: AbolishCSEU

They are powerful men with their own interests and agendas.
The rulers job is to make deals with them, and enforce them.

Absolutely no different from the case of a medieval monarch and his barons. Total “Game of Thrones”. This is normal, no matter what silly civics textbooks say.


14 posted on 01/13/2025 5:07:43 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

This is why Bannon is where he is.


15 posted on 01/13/2025 5:07:50 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Miami Rebel

I don’t see how we were better off with the previous status quo than we are with the new pretenses (if that’s what they are).


16 posted on 01/13/2025 5:09:35 PM PST by Migraine
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This Game of Thrones imagery is, pardon me, the stuff of fantasy.

The might of a unified Presidency and Congress is sufficient to rein in the oligarchs. These tech billionaires can provide President Trump with nothing he cannot accomplish without them.

Meanwhile, the idea of “partnership” means that they get to exploit the American people for another four years. And that is what their empires are built on: exploitation. I don’t want them as partners, barons, or vassals.


17 posted on 01/13/2025 5:12:43 PM PST by Miami Rebel (pro-)
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“This is why Bannon is where he is.”

Yup. He’s heading for his 19th nervous breakdown...or a stroke.


18 posted on 01/13/2025 5:18:38 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Migraine

Everything is pretense, always has been, always will be. We are humans and we suck. The trick is to manage this mess of power games such that things continue to run and things get better.


19 posted on 01/13/2025 5:19:13 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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“These tech billionaires can provide President Trump with nothing he cannot accomplish without them.”

But they can give him something very important. They can refrain from financing his enemies.


20 posted on 01/13/2025 5:21:00 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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