Bannon and Priebus at CPAC

I am forcing myself to watch this.

Watching it now. Anyone else?

NRA, Heritage Foundation, Breitbart sponsor advertising in the background. My muscles are in knots already.

Do Democrats have a thing like this?

Just made a sarcastic comment about transgender bathroom decision. ********.

Bannon making a point of calling the mainstream media the Opposition Party.

Smart to mention that this is really about Supreme Court.

terp -- I'm alarmed.

Loosing the thread of Priebus' reasoning.

Nobody in the audience has any idea about what Bannon is saying.... or do they? I have no idea.

Deconstruction of the Administrative State. terp -- he's refined his language.

I *cannot wait* to read all the analyses of Bannon's description of his philosophy tomorrow. Wow.

Trump is the showman. Bannon is the President. I don't know what Priebus is.

Priebus describing what was happening during the election. Sounds like he is being completely sincere.

Ok. Bannon scares the **** out of me.

Hmmmm... well. These guys are good. Gotta give them that. I hope someone else watched this and might want to comment.

It's funny to see someone live tweet a pre-recorded event.

It was just more rhetoric for their base. I'm surprised Reince jumped on the Bannon train as much as his has lately.

Here's some of the scary quotes:

"They're corporatist, globalist media, they're adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like Donald Trump has."

"deconstruction of the administrative state"

"If you look at these Cabinet nominees, they were selected for a reason, and that is deconstruction"

Time will tell - we're a month in and I doubt everything is running like a well oiled machine like they're trying to project. Facts will be their enemy eventually, just give it another month.

jamie said:

It's funny to see someone live tweet a pre-recorded event.

Watching bits of Trump's speech. I guess chants of USA are the new Sieg Heil.

I can't watch djt. It's too soon after Bannon/Priebus.

I believe that in previous years the favorites at CPAC were Ron and Rand Paul. They believe in free trade. When did these people abandon that for "Economic Nationalism".

What is wrong with Bannon (I mean physically)? He looks like sh#t.

The stress of being President is probably weighing on him.

yahooyahoo said:

What is wrong with Bannon (I mean physically)? He looks like sh#t.

It's his inner evil leaking out.

Also, probably very bad diet, no exercise and too much alcohol.

jimmurphy said:

The stress of being President is probably weighing on him.

That made me do one of those laugh/choke things. It was funny for that millisecond before the sense of terror took over.

No. The stress is on the liberals on this forum. They can't seem to get past the regular person, the regular folks living from day to day are stressed about day to day stuff (no matter what doctrine). No doubt - the same affliction effects the conservatives too.

lp -- I have no problem admitting that the way this Administration is handling things is causing me a great deal of stress, in addition to my day-to-day stress. I'm not sure what your beef is.

No beef Angela. Just the vapidness of the libs, with their politics of identity rather than the politics of ideas.

Identity counts. I know many who are especially stressed because they are Jewish.

I am sure that others are stressed because they are Gay or transgender. Or "undocumented" or related to people who are "undocumented". Or perhaps because they are dependent on "Obamacare".

It must be nice to have an identity which allows you to suffer only the normal stress of living.

Both parties engage in identity politics. One side says there are welfare queens living on the dole and the other side says "huh?"