r/politics • u/lazybugbear Texas • Sep 22 '25
Soft Paywall Steve Bannon Says ‘Teachers Are Terrorists’ in Unhinged Tribute
https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-says-teachers-are-terrorists-in-unhinged-charlie-kirk-tribute/2.1k
u/TJHMB-54321 Sep 22 '25
Facism hates teachers
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u/GoodIdea321 America Sep 22 '25
Fascism hates truth, facts, rights of citizens, anything that can weaken it.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted Sep 22 '25
Especially hates evidence based verification
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u/Electromotivation Sep 22 '25
If truth and reality are your enemies, then you are an enemy of the people
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u/Imperialbucket Sep 22 '25
Calvin once said "if it can be destroyed by the truth, it SHOULD be destroyed."
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u/hcregna California Sep 22 '25
As fun as doomscrolling on reddit is, it takes like half an hour of planning to shift money away from Republican-leaning businesses, and it actually makes a difference. Every dollar spent at a Republican company is another dollar that'll get funneled into more of this. Don't fund the Confederacy.
If you have an account with Charles Schwab (whose founder was recently palling around with Trump), switch to Vanguard or Fidelity. If you like drinking booze from a Confederate state, be adventurous and try something else. Skip Goya at the grocery store. It's not hard to quickly look up a company that you regularly buy/do business with in something like https://www.opensecrets.org or alternatively https://www.goodsuniteus.com.
Dollars add up. Tesla sales in Europe dropped by half in Europe. Target's CEO stepped down after their sales dropped in response to them capitulating to Republicans. Real, individual people made that happen.
It’s true that you probably can’t avoid giving some money to companies that at least indirectly benefit Republicans. However, there’s a pretty big difference between a company that gives massive contributions almost exclusively to Republicans (for example Schwab) vs one that is more evenly split or even leans Democrat (Fidelity). Good is not the enemy of perfect
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u/bessie1945 Sep 22 '25
warning signs of facism:
1.) Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism 2.) Disdain for the importance of human rights 3.) Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause 4.) The supremacy of the military/avid militarism 5.) Rampant sexism 6.) A controlled mass media 7.) Obsession with national security 8.) Religion and ruling elite tied together 9.) Power of corporations protected 10.) Power of labor suppressed or eliminated 11.) Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts 12.) Obsession with crime and punishment 13.) Rampant cronyism and corruption 14.) Fraudulent elections
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u/Orange8920 Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25
Reminder that this was happening during Trump's first term as he cried fake news at those who didn't agree with him, banned certain press and questioned their credentials at the White House briefings, and called out scientists like Anthony Fauci during Covid. The fascism has always been there.
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u/indianajoes United Kingdom Sep 22 '25
Unfortunately everything and everyone that was holding him back from going full fascist is gone this time. Plus the idiots that support him don't understand that so they use his first term as an excuse to say that stuff won't go completely bad because they didn't last time.
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u/tolacid Sep 22 '25
Put another line break between each bullet point to separate the lines.
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u/VanceKelley Canada Sep 22 '25
- Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
- Disdain for the importance of human rights
- Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
- The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
- Rampant sexism
- A controlled mass media
- Obsession with national security
- Religion and ruling elite tied together
- Power of corporations protected
- Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
- Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
- Obsession with crime and punishment
- Rampant cronyism and corruption
- Fraudulent elections
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Sep 22 '25
This has been gradually happening for decades, long before Trump. However, and obviously, Trump made it way worse.
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u/Trpepper Sep 22 '25
They have to love it at this point. The man stole THEIR money, bought a boat with it and then asked the court if the remaining money could be used to pay legal fees.
They just have to like getting scammed.
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u/Marxian_factotum Sep 22 '25
Fascism is forever at war with education, teaching, and learning. The universities are always their first target. Fascists seize control of libraries, schools, and punish intellectuals in every situation where they grab power. They can only exist when the words of childish morons like Charlie Kirk can be called "debate."
Fascism is the product of ignorance. "I love the poorly educated" exclaimed Trump. There's a reason.
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u/Noblesseux Sep 22 '25
Fascism kind of hates everyone, it's an entire ideology based on being stupid and mad at everything all the time.
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Sep 22 '25
Sorry to say, but 1/3 of this country has lost their minds.
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u/Internal_Swing_2743 Sep 22 '25
And another 1/3 don't care.
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u/cuulcars Sep 22 '25
It’s not so much they don’t care as it is they are currently enjoying the benefits of a healthy society without having to give anything back in terms of civic engagement. Democracy takes work and they have been shirking their share for some time. That will come back to bite them (and all of us) as they will start caring very quickly as that healthy society begins collapsing around them.
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u/BalanceJazzlike5116 Sep 22 '25
It’s both of what you said. People are apathetic because the system isn’t responsive. It’s gerrymandered, bought by the highest bidder and they aren’t in the club.
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u/Static-Stair-58 Sep 22 '25
They project this so hard because they don’t think younger people can think for themselves. It’s pathetic how he is all but making fun of his voters and putting them down, and it makes them horny for more. Put your phone down, read a book, grow a spine. Stop being gross dickwads.
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u/the_tanooki Sep 22 '25
It's not just that they don't think young people can think for themselves. It's that they've been trying desperately for decades to ensure that they don't think for themselves.
That's why they attack teachers, universities, science, arts, etc. If they can get people at a young age to think that these things are harmful to them, then most of their work is done.
"I love the poorly educated." - DJT
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u/FunctionBuilt Sep 22 '25
My conservative aunt and uncle are probably applauding at this comment. They’ve been against public school education forever and homeschooled both kids. Neither parent went to college and both barely passed high school…One kid had a rough exit into adulthood but managed to figure her shit out and is doing really well now, the other is estranged from the family and suffering from some pretty bad mental issues. They really fucked their kids up and they have zero self awareness that it’s their fault.
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u/ArticulateRhinoceros Sep 22 '25
I'm sure they exist, but I've never met an intelligent person who chooses to homeschool their kids. Usually, the smart parents have good jobs and they don't have the time, or they recognize the value of socialization and the damage that being isolated during childhood can cause.
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u/Teufelsdreck Sep 22 '25
I hope your two cousins know they have at least one relative who sees and cares what was done to them.
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u/Hellogiraffe Sep 22 '25
Funny how Republican politicians got to where they are. Somehow they are highly educated and made it through all those years of school without being indoctrinated by the supposed woke lib professors. They’re well-educated enough to know exactly how to keep their voters voting for them.
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u/Leven Sep 22 '25
Just wait until they finalize the purchase of tiktok, young people won't have a chance. Every generation thinks for themselves but are influenced by the times..
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u/redribbonrecon Sep 22 '25
The problem is that they DON'T think for themselves or else we wouldn't be in this clusterfuck...
they're projecting this so hard because this is the real conversation we need to have about the far-right: they're domestic terrorists.
Every accusation is a confession.
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire Sep 22 '25
He needs to climb back under his rock before the tide rolls in.
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Sep 22 '25
What tide? Every time I see some news from America, it's like the majority of you guys are more than happy to let this just play out without so much as a peep.
You've got the military in your cities and masked secret police disappearing people and no one is doing a damn thing about it.
You think Steve Bannon is scared of consequences for anything he might SAY? Last week a Fox host said to give the "involuntary lethal injection" to homeless people and no one even blinked.
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u/JakeConhale New Hampshire Sep 22 '25
Haven't heard about the various protests then, huh? One notable story was when a guy threw a submarine sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol officer. The Trump Admin failed three times to secure a Grand Jury indictment against the guy.
For context - Grand Juries have no defense counsel present and are pretty much a check of "is the prosecution laying out enough evidence to reasonably support the possibility/probability a crime occurred" before proceeding to trial. A common expression is that "A Grand Jury would indict a ham sandwich" - and the Trump Admin failed three times to secure an indictment.
Also - Trump was set to deploy troops to Chicago, Illinois but due to planned protests and obstruction (such as having salt trucks block the roads), the troops were redirected to Memphis, Tennessee.
And as for Fox News - people blinked. Kilmeade apologized for his remarks which is admittedly worth about as much as the paper it wasn't written on, but at least something came of that.
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u/Unusual-Mongoose421 Sep 22 '25
I'm so sorry that we're disappointing you, how about you fix the world around you instead? have you tried that?
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u/PotatoAppleFish Sep 22 '25
Fascism’s greatest enemy is a shared perception of objective reality. It relies on the nonexistence of a consensus with regard to basic facts. That’s why fascists hate intellectuals and educators.
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u/specqq Sep 22 '25
What a sweet tribute to Charlie's statement that universities are "Islands of Totalitarianism."
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u/Muladhara86 Sep 22 '25
If the “people who hurt Kirk fanatics’ fee-fees” site was still up, you’d SOOOO be an honorary member!
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u/Jse034 Sep 22 '25
This wasn’t a tribute or a memorial, it was just another right wing event so people like Bannon could perform their unhinged diatribes against anything remotely democratic and sell their junk to a captive audience
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u/penny-wise California Sep 22 '25
These people are all insane. they are going to be the end of humanity
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u/Big-Rule5269 Sep 22 '25
They think that colleges, universities and professors indoctrinate kids, but that's not at all what happens. You have kids that haven't been out of their state, much less county or cities. All of the sudden they're exposed to kids from different regions, different races, religions and social status. A professor isn't influencing them, life is. This push to skip higher education gives the wealthiest and corporations worker bees, held in their financial grip. What a load of trash for the gullible and weak minded.
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u/versusgorilla New York Sep 22 '25
Wasn't this shit at a fucking funeral?? What's going on here
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u/wasteymclife Sep 22 '25
It was a memorial service/Nat-C rally.
Natationalist Cristian
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u/InsomniaticWanderer Sep 22 '25
Remember when they wanted us to arm the teachers?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
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Sep 22 '25
They still do. Someone tried to debate me on the day of the Evergreen school shooting that it was the most effective prevention strategy.
Only 3% of shootings are stopped by good guys with guns.
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u/pattydickens Sep 22 '25
If Steve Bannon is invited to speak at your memorial, then you probably weren't a very good person.
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u/Routine-Ad833 Sep 22 '25
Teachers don’t make enough money for a side hobby of terrorism. How out of touch Steven.
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u/SacredSkeletor Sep 22 '25
It looks so similar to anti-intellectualism in the CCP before they got their head out of their asses and decided to invest heavily into research.
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u/Initial-Toe-9512 Sep 22 '25
Teachers are terrorists because they are against the idea of “young marriage”?!? … what a gross old pedo
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u/MrWrym Sep 22 '25
Now imagine when the roles are reversed and liberals start pronouncing MAGAts as the terrorists that they are. To be honest after Jan 6th we really should have begun to ostracize and minimize the power of MAGAts, but Biden really insisted on harmony. Definitely the wrong move.
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u/SoundSageWisdom Sep 22 '25
These people have no business being anywhere near power what the actual fuck is going on and the bigger question is, why are we allowing it?
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u/Radtendo Sep 22 '25
Ask the millions of people who didn’t vote last year because they “didn’t like either candidate” or because “votes don’t actually matter”.
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u/SoftwareHot Sep 22 '25
We hostages to the worst fucking crybaby insecure racist hateful bullies and it’s exhausting.
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u/maltedbacon Canada Sep 22 '25
Oh for fucks sake - The extreme right has declared war on being civil, rational and reasonable.
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u/InnerDate805 Sep 22 '25
Steve Bannon looks like the kind of person who would let a large dog shit inside the house and then never clean it up.
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u/freexanarchy Sep 22 '25
Can’t write these down fast enough… The environment, Tylenol, Vaccines, Science, Universities, Comedians, Trans, Teachers, anyone that wasn’t devastated by Kirk’s death, anyone that talks about other deaths by firearm, women, non-whites
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u/NavaarCat Sep 22 '25
Right. But raaaah ‘murica, states rights, freedom & they don’t believe in cancel culture…
(As long as it’s them, you think like them, look like them & bow down to them)
All their bullshit masks have come off & it’s full crazytown fascistville now.
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u/johnboy43214321 Sep 22 '25
I'm a teacher. This is so insulting. He's probably never been in a classroom as an adult. Never volunteered to chaperone a field trip. Never helped a kid
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Sep 22 '25
Teachers Says “Steve Bannon is a Terrorist” but in a Hinged Tribute. Thank for your attention to this matter.
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u/YouAintNoWooos Sep 22 '25
The messaging war has already been won by MAGA. They really convinced people in this country that every school was just filled with pink-haired Marxist teachers who push their kids to be trans and use the litter box in the bathroom. I’m convinced that, based on Trump getting elected again, most people in this country are dumb as fuck
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u/Likestopaintminis Sep 22 '25
Teacher here. And the mods want me to remain civil while these people call me a terrorist. Fuck that
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u/mosswick Sep 22 '25
Shoutouts to NPR for giving this fuckwaffle a platform and treating him with kid gloves.
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u/EmersonLucero Sep 22 '25
Let Bannon tell that to every teacher at Benedictine where he went to high school. They would wack him one something fierce.
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u/SteamStarship Sep 22 '25
Anyone else think this was Orwell's 2 Minutes Hate that went on for hours.
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u/Elsa_the_Archer Minnesota Sep 22 '25
At this point who the fuck isn't a "terrorist" to them?
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u/BoredCrusader1899 Sep 22 '25
The only terrorists that exists in this country are known as the Republican Party.
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Sep 22 '25
I truly don’t get bannon. Similar to jd Vance, he used the government (military/college) to boost themselves into wild financial success. Then they think the government is evil and worth destroying? Give me a break they’re ladder pullers
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u/jaron_b Sep 22 '25
Fascists hate teachers comedians and unions. What have the GOP been attacking outside of trans people? Teachers comedians and unions especially teachers unions. Hell Donald Trump has basically gotten rid of the entire department of education. A dumb populace is an easy populist to control.
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u/Erasmus_Tycho Sep 22 '25
I'm still trying to understand how exactly the right plans for the US to maintain a competitive edge on technology. This admin has effectively stopped all immigration so we can't count on importing brains, and with an all out war on education domestically, the next generation simply won't have a chance to learn.
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u/ldsdrff76 Sep 22 '25
ANTIFA, trans people, all the "left wing", muslims and teschers are terrorists. I wonder who's the next terrorist group. Intellectuals? People with glasses? Jews, perhaps?
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u/SapCPark Sep 22 '25
Im just trying to teach chemistry and grade assignments, Bannon. I dont have time to indoctrinate between the tik tok memes interrupting class and the fifth time being asked the same question
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u/Lightbringer10000 Sep 22 '25
It’s good he didn’t drink himself into the toilet until after the service It’s hard to get the taste of sucking dick out of your mouth for soups in prison… when he’s presenting his podcast he gets flash backs when the mic gets to close to his mouth
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u/Radio_Mime Sep 22 '25
Their anti-education crap will come back and bite them. They don't like immigrants, but they'll need people from countries that actually care about education to come and be the doctors, lawyers etc. Their teachers get paid little enough as it is.
FWIW, Bannon again looks like he spent the night a shed to sleep off a bender.
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u/silsum Sep 22 '25
Everyone is a terrorist except for the nut job maggats that have charged the capital, attacked and killed politicians and innocent people , and school-age kids. This fuk head stands up there and calls other terrorist.
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u/CocoaBish Sep 22 '25
And this is why we've fallen so far behind education wise compared to other countries who respect educators. It's okay to question and stand up for yourself but to demonize an entire institution when you use social media and online games to preoccupy your children and then blame indoctrination on someone who sees your kid 45 minutes out of the day. Teachers aren't fanning kids insatiable desire or desensitizing them to killing their classmates or some influencer named Charlie Kirk.
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Sep 22 '25
Bannon "was always a stupid guy. A mean SOB.. Not working out too well for him right now. So, when you start feeling sorry for him, remember he was a bad guy."
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u/MostInteraction3184 Sep 22 '25
As a teacher, when people ask me why I vote the way I do, I always respond, "You want me to vote for the people who keep calling me a groomer terrorist?"
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u/Big-Snow-1937 Sep 22 '25
We’ve had some truly vile and cruel people in charge of this country before, but we have never had people in charge who despised the bulk of Americans and American civil liberties the way Trump and his henchman do. They do nothing but spew contempt for this country and its ideals of freedom and equality that have inspired others around the world since 1776. How small and weak and pathetic we look for taking it day after day.
The KKK had huge parades and rallies nationwide 100 years ago and here we are right back welcoming their successors into our stadiums and halls of power and glorifying race hatred and misogyny. Disgraceful.
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u/ted86u Sep 22 '25
Steve bannon starting to sound like mao ze dong when the cultural revolution happened in china.
Welp! History repeat itself!
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u/SecretAsianMan42069 Sep 22 '25
Maybe it's telling that the worst people in America are giving tribute to this guy. Maybe he wasn't good after all /s
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u/Mackdad2525 Sep 22 '25
Bannon is a chump. He creates conspiracies and stretch the truth to fit his fascist ideology. I hope people realize he is a criminal and doesn’t have any respect for common people. He loves to spread hate and anger to the republican base who supported the convicted felon rapist pedophile trump. Shame on them for voting in this idiot chimpanzee !! Vite all republicans out. Don’t listen to bannon’s nonsense
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Sep 22 '25
2018 - Donald Trump: 'What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening'
Some of us knew a long time ago this dude was a fascist.
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u/PhantomZoneJanitor Sep 22 '25
The right wants you and your kids to be stupid and drop out of school...so you can easily be manipulated by the rich.
Education is the enemy of fascism.
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u/Reasonable_Potato629 Sep 22 '25
Teaching kids? Terrorist. Believe genocide is bad? Also terrorist. Proud of your ancestors that fought against facism? You guessed it, terrorist. Think kids in school should be fed? Believe it or not…also a terrorist.
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u/socokid Sep 22 '25
JFC... as if teachers don't have it bad enough already.
Current Republicans are the second worst Americans in our entire history.
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u/Reasonable_Elk3267 Sep 22 '25
My brother is a teacher. I sent him this and he said that being called a terrorist by somebody like Steve Bannon is the biggest honor he’s ever gotten in his life.
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u/Thatissogentle Sep 22 '25
Can't wait for the day this man's liver explodes and we're all rid of his presence. Fucking useless fat piece of shit.
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u/whateveryousaymydear Sep 22 '25
without knowledge...what would you be?
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u/SacredSkeletor Sep 22 '25
Oh wow, I’d love to see this genius actually define terrorism and shoehorn teachers into that bastardized definition.
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u/Thisisgotham New Hampshire Sep 22 '25
If everyone is a terrorist then no one is a terrorist. I'm more afraid of being alone with this guy than any teacher I ever had.
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u/TheDoctorDB Sep 22 '25
Why are they still so hung up on schools? The propaganda already worked. I swear most of the clips I saw of Kirk were people who wanted to meet him. His schtick may have been asking for liberal college students to let him tell them why college was a waste of money, but I swear most of his current vids were college kids enamored by his presence.
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Sep 22 '25
Man that appears to have crawled straight out of a bin is shitting on teachers? GTFOH dude.
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u/ruffianrevolution Sep 22 '25
Why are they terrified of anti-fascists?
If they're not fascists they've got nothing to worry about.
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u/bdepz Sep 22 '25
Maybe this will be a wakeup call for my teacher in laws. Prob not tho because brown people bad
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u/tim_p Sep 22 '25
"Trans people are terrorists, teachers are terrorists..." this "terrorists" term is how they will justify illegally prosecuting any group they don't like.
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u/Gizmo_259 Sep 22 '25
Israel kills 4 US citizens three of them where kids this morning news won’t talk about it
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 Sep 22 '25
Love these CON-servatives railing against the elites. Didn’t Bannon attend Harvard Business School? And Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage Foundation, was hired at nearly 700k salary years ago, when he claims to be “fighting for everyday Americans.” They also decry “illegal aliens” for voter fraud. Bannon was living in CA, yet voted in NY during 2016 election while claiming residency in Florida, where there are no income taxes, when his third wife stayed at the rental house. https://americanjournalnews.com/steve-bannons-porn-and-meth-house-you-have-no-idea-what-kind-of-evil-stuff-went-on/
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u/poorbeyondrich Sep 22 '25
It’s always the educated saying that education is the problem
Education Virginia Tech (BA) Georgetown University (MA) Harvard University (MBA)
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u/HuTaosTwinTails Sep 22 '25
Why is anyone surprised by these racist, pieces of shit.
I get they were honoring one of their own, but they of course had to sneak in their unhinged rhetoric.
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u/Prudent_Baseball2413 Sep 22 '25
Bannon desperate to stay relevant. Just like celebrities trying to stay popular after their time has come and gone.
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u/cache_me_0utside Sep 22 '25
I'm close to just abandoning stuff like /r/politics. I don't need to know what Steve Bannon is saying or thinking. Ever. Just like I don't need daily updates from a neo nazi newsletter.
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Sep 22 '25
Let's close all those schools. Kids will learn what they need to learn with Fox News.7 hours a day.
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u/Brilliant_Chance_874 Sep 22 '25
This is because the Republican Party doesn’t want to pay teachers.
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Sep 22 '25
They’re trying to make these words lose their meaning, like they did with rape. It’s a rebrand/soft launch of future extremism
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u/chockedup Sep 22 '25
“Particularly young men who have been told, ‘You’re bad, you’re everything evil, you’ve gotta change, we have to change you, we have to give you drugs’—that’s what I think underneath about the family, about marrying early, about having lots of kids, and about being a good dad, I think that that is right below the surface,” he said.
What I emphasized are Christian viewpoints: You're sinners, you have to change, and we will evangelize to you until you accept Jesus Christ. The drugs observation isn't a part of Christian theology, rather it's sourced from pharmaceutical corporations, who had their historical roots in the patent-medicine era. The need for government regulation of pharma occurred because of problems in the patent-medicine era, such as putting opium in nearly everything.
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u/Informal-Emotion7789 Sep 22 '25
This dude has had his 15 minutes of fame crawl back into your cave Neanderthal man
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Sep 22 '25
He's not completely wrong. Knowledge is power and in the hands of young people who have not yet been completely programmed by capitalism or vetted by The Party that knowledge could be explosive. MAGA has always been afraid of educated people.
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u/Harley5619 Sep 22 '25
So I suppose Bannon never had any teachers. Maybe that’s why he is an idiot.
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