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Robot Bender's avatar

I can't look at Bannon without a barf bag.

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tecolote42's avatar

There's a rock that is enormously relieved Bannon no longer uses it as a hiding place.

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Martha Menard, PhD's avatar

Nazis--I hate these guys...

https://youtu.be/bOYY-wrDa_o

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Renee Diamond's avatar

You had me at "ouroboros"! Wow, what a piece! Your words, flying so fast and furiously off the page, I felt the need to duck at times.

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W. Kamau Bell's avatar

😂 THANK YOU!

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Melissa Thompson's avatar

So needed you and this today! Delighted you’re coming to Chi-town. Bought our tickets !

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Roslyn Reid's avatar

I demand an apology on behalf of us pants pee-ers! I laffed so hard at this Substack, that's just what I did! And they were my last clean pair, so now I hafta go commando for the rest of the nite!

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Lynne Hollingsworth's avatar

There are a bunch of dickwad white tech-NO, billionaire, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic trash types running this country…we should be running them OUT…and today? Vance and Trump macho dissing Zelenskyy!? WTF…Dear, dear Gil Scott-Heron, we need ‘the revolution will not be televised’ to become more than a song…

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Lynne Hollingsworth's avatar

Dang… I got so incensed I left out my nazibannonrage… mea culpa

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Nicole Bertucci's avatar

2 minutes in and I’m rolling 🤣 Also I’m ’reading’ this using the AI recorder where it reads the article to you, so the extra dry tone of the woman’s voice reading makes this all the better. W. Kamau Bell, please write Bannon’s biography, thank you.

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W. Kamau Bell's avatar

😂

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Nicole Bertucci's avatar

“It’s like an ouroborous of hypocrisy.” My one and only tattoo is of an ouroborous, this hit hard. 👌🏼

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Nicole Bertucci's avatar

Holy shit, I elicited a 😂 from YOU, the guy who makes me 🤣🤣🤣 on the reg?! I won at life today, thank you for that boost 🤍

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KC's avatar

Thank you for making me laugh! All of this was excellent! Also “The person who is the [McDonald’s] apple [pie] of Trump’s eye is Elon Musk.” 💀

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W. Kamau Bell's avatar

❤️

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Morris Code's avatar

You always make life more bearable, thank you for this one, ribs still sore 😹😹😹 Signed up on Substack 9 months ago & finally been able to post 3 days ago - & really wish that by now people would stop insisting Musk didn’t do 2 nazi salutes on Jan 20 - big part of why I wrote the piece was to prove it,

Thank you again WKB!!!🗽

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Joanne's avatar

How anyone looks at Bannon and thinks, "That's the guy whose advice I want to take," is beyond me.

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Ray Zielinski's avatar

I would have found this hilarious, ok I DID find it hilarious, if it weren’t so true. This whole bunch is sickening and a sad statement about America. I’m sure Lester Maddox and George Wallace are leering (did they ever actually smile) up at us from below.

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Luna Lacey's avatar

Not sure how many people know about Bannon's involvement in comedy and climate change... But Bannon still receives royalties from Seinfeld reruns for being involved in the shows production... grrr....

And Bannon helped crash and burn the Biosphere2 project in the 90's and supposedly retained a bunch of the research from the scientific simulations run by the group - 2x grrr (btw. that group built a huge concrete barge in Berkeley in the 70's and went around the world... so cool!)"Spaceship Earth" is a great documentary by Matt Wolf...

PS. thoroughly appreciated the talk with Kahlil 💐

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W. Kamau Bell's avatar

I just looked it up. Apparently he owned an investment company that owned a piece of the company that produced Seinfeld.

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Luna Lacey's avatar

Sounds like they got a stake in 5 shows in the deal - Seinfeld was considered the "runt of the litter"... grrrr

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

Bannon has adopted a style that he thinks looks like MAGAts but shirts are a Ralph Lauren ad. Including the one or a few Jewish people in the Cabinet, no one’s complaining about the Nazi salute. What do people who had real job and joined this sick group get if not harming others to feel superior.

Thanks for humor always. And did all dads have the same saying? Generational?

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Susan's avatar

Where is your Hawaii Tour Date?

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W. Kamau Bell's avatar

Ask Hawaii.😁

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Helen W. Mallon's avatar

My good friend’s father was a Jewish refugee from Europe who escaped before WWII & served in the US army. He was in a German POW camp during WWII. His favorite TV show later in life was Hogan’s heroes …Because, he said, it was totally spot on. (I was admittedly a tad surprised to hear this.) Apparently, actually ridiculously laughable Nazis were in charge. So Colonel Klink was kinda a real guy - and Sergeant “I see nothing, I hear nothing” Schulz wasn’t a total fiction. —The only good Nazi is a TV sitcom Nazi.

Now that was one man’s experience, and undoubtedly some of these camps were hell holes.

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

Smiling at your “Hogan’s Heroes” comments: my dad (z”l), a Jewish WWII European Theater veteran, loved that show for similar reasons that he & I love Mel Brooks’ humor: making fun of those who cause(d) you pain is the way to get back. Remember when Pres Obama said something to/about Trump at the Gridiron or like dinner? Today, Trump perceived someone stronger than him so he berated and had the usually invisible veep jump in. (Seriously, “have you thanked Pres Trump?” When it’s OUR money going.

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Helen W. Mallon's avatar

I have never appreciated humor so much as now. It’s not entertainment—it’s resistance! Thank you, W Kamau Bell!

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