I agree that Bannon wants to centralize power around the president. Unfortunately our system is really not set up that way; the balance of power tilts to Congress and Congress knows it. Bannon is really in experienced on the Hill and it shows. Obama was able to succeed because he knew how the sausage was made and when and how to circumvent Congress. Neither Trump nor Bannon understands the fine points of the law they need to get policy implemented.
If his goal is authoritarian rule, loyalty of the Trumpers to the president alone, I can see that he has tested out where the loyalties lay in the military, in the Congress, etc., but I’m not really seeing a real game plan here…but I am wary and have the same concerns you are expressing.
Might work nicely - depends on how much exposure they have had to DOS “pretty important files”.
Crepe leopard may even be a bit too generous.
How about “cheap TP domestic kitten”?
Yeah, @jhbadger, I’m with @Melizmatic. You’re giving Bannon too much credit with the Otto comp. 
Sure, he was sadistic,moronic and arrogant as all fuck; but at least Otto didn’t look like a walking pile of pallid, festering excrement.
I literally have email asking me to explain crepe leopard
Learns. Good one.
Yeah, yeah, it’s overhyped flimflam, but in a decade or more, the kids will be wondering why Curtis’s wardrobe doesn’t actually do anything, beside clothe.
#O_O
What happens if it rains?
depends which sort of dystopia you wish to inhabit.
will it be
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.”
or will the dress survive, knowing that it has been designed to protect the wearer from from some ecological disaster beyond your experience and beyond your imagination?
…When he had tightened the chest to gain maximum pumping action from the motion of breathing, he had known what he did and why. When he had fitted the neck and forehead tabs tightly, he had known it was to prevent friction blisters…
…He found his stillsuit’s watertube in its clip at his neck, drew a warm swallow into his mouth, and he thought that here he truly began an Arrakeen existence–living on reclaimed moisture from his own breath and body. It was flat and tasteless water, but it soothed his throat…
…Paul crouched at the sphincter, his stillsuit hood adjusted for the open desert–forehead capped, mouth filter in place, nose plugs adjusted. Only his dark eyes were visible: a narrow band of face that turned once toward her and away…
…I must remember to fasten the boots slip-fashion to help my stillsuit’s pumping action, she though
The IBM dress probably wouldn’t last 30 seconds in a heavy downpour, but I doubt that was in the design spec.
Hmm… Neither.
… There’s a strange similarity to the idea that that you can easily create a sustainable micro ecology and the idea that the simple “supply and demand” curve loved by extreme free market proponents is sufficient to explain and manage a complex economy.
The only remaining restrictions on Trump’s power are the judiciary and the GOP legislature.
Targets #1 & #2.
I suppose some poeple don’t appreciate creative writing.
It ended up dominated by ants and cockroaches, sucking the oxygen out of the air. Sounds right.
One of the members replied: “You know, the last time someone ordered me to something, I was 18 years old. And it was my daddy. And I didn’t listen to him, either.”
…Spoken like a true privileged white man who avoided military service, and believes he’s entitled to order everybody else around.
I can’t wait until their next defeat when crepe leopard gets demoted to tissue kitty!
I wish that they did laugh at him, but no where in the source article does it say that they literally laughed, just that they refused to obey. Rob’s headline for this post is mischaracterizing what actually happened.
