Steve Bannon: ‘I will do anything’ to keep Elon Musk out of the White House
Steve Bannon: ‘I will do anything’ to keep Elon Musk out of the White House
Former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, vowing to have the tech billionaire kicked out of the White House by the time Trump is inaugurated.
“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon added. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”
At the heart of the recent clash between Elon Musk and Steve Bannon is the immigration question, and specifically the H-1B visas for skilled immigrants working in “specialty occupations,” which Musk has said he supports. But for Bannon, the issue is emblematic of a bigger problem in Musk’s thinking.
“This thing of the H-1B visas, it’s about the entire immigration system is gamed by the tech overlords, they use it to their advantage, the people are furious,” Bannon said, noting that “76 percent of engineers working in Silicon Valley are non-Americans.”
“No blacks or Hispanics have any of these jobs or any access to these jobs,” Bannon said.
“Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans,” Bannon observed. “He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”
Breitbart has zero credibility. I thought we'd all knew better than to share Breitbart links.
For news perhaps but it is a great front row seat to watch the right tear into each other.
Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a really great point.
Mmm. It's more like how during the American Civil War some people sided with the Union because they didn't want black people in the country at all and that couldn't happen with slavery.
His point and motivations are Nazi shit and never anything else.
Oh I know, that's why he's "Worst Person You Know" and not "cool guy Steve Bannon". Dude can eat shit and die about it.
It's hilarious to see people on the far right using leftist talking points to discredit the new techbrocratic right.
But holy fuck the Overton window in the US is so fucked we're running out of ways to describe the right side.
Keep the stooge he can control in office vs the one he can’t.
That’s all it is.
Better watch out Elon, it looks like Steve is ready to play some Mario Bros.
It truly is weird timeline where I'd share any of his statements in a positive light.
Bannon went on to accuse Musk of being self-serving, insisting that his “sole objective is to become a trillionaire.”
“What’s not positive,” he added, “is when all of a sudden he tries to put his half-baked ideas which are really about the implementation of techno-feudalism on a global scale. I don’t support that and we’ll fight it.”
this could be the most insane path to class consciousness imaginable. it would be incredible if all of elon musks political projects end up culminating in the working class developing class solidarity and mobilizing against the ruling class. especially when he could have just done nothing and still been a hundred billionaire.
I hope they don't manage to build killer robot police before the class emancipation starts. They need us, we don't need them... never forget this fact!
Anything? Call me, I have a couple ideas
What is this timeline where I'm rooting for Steve Bannon?
Don't. He's just mad he got replaced by Musk.
Correct as you are, I'd be
more happyless upset to see a Bannon-Trump WH than a Musk-Trump one. Even Bernie agrees with Steve Bannon on H-1B visas.
They're hyaenas at each others' throats. The only thing to root for is that they tear each other to pieces.
We're living in the Weaselverse. Nothing makes sense any more.
Weaselverse?!
I blame GMan.
Finally a sensible explanation
What is this timeline where I’m rooting for Steve Bannon?
Bannon just has his own brand of hate. We do not with with either a President Musk or Bannon victory. We, Americans, lose with either controlling vice president trump's strings.
The correct answer when you find one of these dickheads making a good point is "fuck off to hell"
The MAGAsphere truly is, as British comedian Paul Merton called it, a cavalcade of bozos.
Bruh going full 1950s women’s hairdo
Also we’ve reached multi-tiered nazi levels in the GOP. The bar keeps getting lower and lower
fight assholes, fight!
It's a funny old world where that elderly bag lady is actually making any sense.
See also: Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows:
Steve Bannon, one of the architects of Trumpism, is one the most influential voices on the right. Bernie Sanders, the veteran US senator from Vermont, is among the leading figures on the progressive left. In these divided times, they have found common ground.
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Bannon, who still holds significant sway over Trump’s Make America Great Again (Maga) movement, has received support – albeit indirectly – from Sanders, who issued a lengthy critique of the H-1B status quo last week.
“Elon Musk is wrong,” the senator wrote. “The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest’, but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.”
Can we build a Coliseum like Rome has for events like this fight?
Thunderdome
It would see the return of a particularly cruel sport, so yes.
I think everyone wants Elon Musk to stfu. Someone should start a petition “stfu Elon” and see how many signatures it gets. I’m willing to bet it would be in the hundreds of millions.
He needs to go to Mars already. And it's a one-way trip, thank god.
With an oxygen tank running on empty.
Be the someone yourself, do not wait for someone else.
The question is: "How many millions would Bannon be willing and able to pay to Trump?".
Bro looks like one of the old babies from Akira
He's the super child. All three in one.
