Tuesday, January 11, 2022

If It Wasn't For Raw Story, I Wouldn't Know Steve Bannon Had A Podcast

Well, Raw Story and Twitter: I skimmed the Bulwark article. The bulk of it is indeed a listener's diary of a week in the life of Bannon's podcast.

*YAWN!* 😴

I skipped even skimming that. Based on the intro and the paragraphs before the diary entries, if there's any claim that "millions are listening," it comes from Bannon himself, a highly reliable source.  I'm sure people on Twitter are aware of this stuff, if only marginally (like yours truly).  To imagine Steve Bannon is the next Lenin is to forget the lesson of Father Coughlin (where'd he go?; and Bannon's no Father Coughlin) or of Lyndon LaRouche, perennial Presidential candidate and kook (he claimed the Queen of England sat at the center of an international drug smuggling ring. What, you thought Q-Anon was sui generis?).  I'm quite sure more people today are aware of Lyndon LaRouche than they are of Steve Bannon.  And if you don't remember/know of LaRouche, well: exactly. Sorry, but it is a laugh riot. Giuliani is funny because he was so famous, and now he's so fallen. (Is it something about NYC?) Navarro is scary only because of how close he was to the sitting POTUS, once upon a time. Today? Clowns are scarier; Navarro is marginally funnier. Well, and today he's taken on Michelle Obama, which might get him noticed on the evening news or NPR, or even "Press the Meat" this Sunday. Otherwise? Lenin in Switzerland probably had more influence. And since Biden is not the Tsar, I'm really not expecting that much of an uprising. Don't get me started on the silliness that Bannon is taking over school boards and election officials offices. A) school boards really have no power, just a lot of responsibility. Sure, they can ban mask mandates, but after that it's budget discussions and awards ceremonies for students. I've seen the crank "Bannonite" on our local school board. He's mostly bored with the job, because it's not a position of power, just one of dull civic duties. He may be joined by more of like mind soon, but at least in Texas, the school board has no authority over curriculum and no power to ban, or approve, the teaching of CRT in classrooms.  Approving budgets and making life hell for the Supervisor is about all school boards do.  They can’t even remove books from school libraries. BOOOORING!  B) As for election officials running elections to their own whim, you mean like this?
"Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office provided the U.S. House committee that's investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection a certificate, signed by 16 Republicans, falsely claiming Donald Trump won Michigan's electoral votes," The Detroit News reported Monday. "It remained unclear Monday whether the committee was specifically probing the GOP electors certificate. But the records indicate the panel is looking into the effort to overturn Michigan's 2020 presidential election, a battleground state Democrat Joe Biden won by 154,000 votes or 3 percentage points."

The newspaper obtained the documents in an open records request.

"According to a Dec. 14, 2020, memorandum, provided to the Jan. 6 committee, Kathy Berden, a Republican national committeewoman from Michigan, sent the GOP electors certificate to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. archivist, Benson's office and Robert Jonker, the chief judge of U.S. District Court for Michigan's Western District," the newspaper reported.

Bannon's got to get past the elected Democrats, and the court system.  Do they imagine the local officials will report results which will be reported by AP and the media at large, and yet state officials will announce it's Opposite Day and their guy won?  These guys all imagine it is a fascist system with one "strong man" in control, and they want to be that "strong man." How'd that work out for Trump last time?
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