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Feds Indict Steve Bannon for Finessing Racists, and I Don’t Know How to Feel
Michael Harriot broaches the obvious at The Root:
If a white nationalist robs a racist in the woods, can you hear me not giving a fuck?
Should we applaud the fact that the bigoted propagandist who gave us Breitbart, Milo Yiannopoulos and Donald Trump has been indicted for fraud? Or should we be happy that a bunch of xenophobic nitwits had their disposable income stolen? If ever there was a perplexing philosophical quandary, it is this.Chronic greyscale disease sufferer Steve Bannon, the chief architect in charge of making America great again, has been indicted for defrauding a clusterfuck of Caucasians out of their border wall savings, according to federal prosecutors from the U.S. Justice Department’s Southern District of New York.
Particulars?
According to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, the SDNY Corruption Unit charged Bannon, along with co-conspirators Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. In a statement, SDNY’s Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss alleges that Bannon created a sham non-profit organization and shell companies that funneled over $1 million in donations from “We Build the Wall”—an online crowdfunding campaign that raised over $25 million to erect a privately funded version of Donald Trump’s border wall.
(Score: 5, Funny) by takyon on Friday August 21 2020, @07:15PM (3 children)
Do not pass go, do not donate $200.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @09:07PM (1 child)
Actually, I consider it a tax on (the little runaway's) stupidity. It's all good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @05:27AM
But $200 is a tithe for Runaway! He makes Arkansas non-union wages, which is why his plastic Nordic Corp landed there in the first place. This is like $2-3000 for the rest of us, normal, middle-class, Americans.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 21 2020, @10:01PM
A joke:
We Build the Wall, the Trump Foundation and the NRA walk into a bar.
The prison guard says "sorry about that."
See, he's being super polite because they're white!
(Score: 3, Touché) by fustakrakich on Friday August 21 2020, @07:15PM (6 children)
200 dollars [soylentnews.org] isn't that much, is it?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @07:20PM
Subscription on S/N for 10y!!!11!1one!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Friday August 21 2020, @07:20PM
~500 lbs of yummy rice during pandemic
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday August 21 2020, @07:31PM (1 child)
I was not going to mention any particular Soylentil who might have fallen for this right-wing racist scam, to save them embarrassment.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday August 21 2020, @07:36PM
Same here, he came to me... Guess he heard the whistle.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:24AM (1 child)
Could be worse wrt donation misuse, he could have donated to United Way.
Leave it to the demorats to make fun of fraud victims.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:45AM
Yeah, could be worse... Could be better too! Let's stay safe right in the middle
Fraud victim, please! Should I feel sorry for the guy who ruined his tuxedo when he dove into the pig slop?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 21 2020, @07:51PM (27 children)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/07/poll-majority-of-blacks-hispanics-support-anti-illegal-immigration-2020-candidates/ [breitbart.com]
https://noqreport.com/2018/09/02/opposition-illegal-immigration-not-condemnation-hispanic-community/ [noqreport.com]
https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2018/01/27/black-americans-racial-group-opposed-immigration-85-percent-want-less-immigration/ [nationaleconomicseditorial.com]
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/tucker-carlson-asks-univision-anchor-if-latinos-oppose-latino-illegal [cnsnews.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday August 21 2020, @08:17PM (20 children)
:-) Classic! Just as freaky as the people I see on the TeeVee!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 21 2020, @08:29PM (19 children)
So, is it your position that asking people to come here LEGALLY is somehow racist?
Funny that - we have a member who is trying to get into Canada. To all appearances, she is doing so LEGALLY, waiting for approval and all that crap. Is Canada racist, because she can't just walk in, and set up housekeeping?
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=39160 [soylentnews.org]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday August 21 2020, @08:35PM
No, man, you're just loony tunes! And you handle it like a real pro. Hats off!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:00AM (6 children)
You need to keep up. A Canadian Court has ruled that the USA is no longer a safe country for asylum seekers and refugees, so the whole reason for crossing illegally (that people seeking refuge in Canada would be automatically returned to the USA because it was considered a safe haven) no longer applies. So people seeking asylum at regular border crossings are no longer barred.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/safe-third-country-agreement-court-1.5658785 [www.cbc.ca]
Pretty damning indictment of the situation in the USA.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:21AM (3 children)
Cool - the US is not safe for immigrants and asylum seekers. Got it. Now start pushing the message to all the millions who are trying to come here.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:29AM (1 child)
Not safe for anyone, you moron! Not safe for academics. Not safe for journalists. Not safe for working people. Not safe for protesters. Not safe for children. Not safe for Moms.
Why? you ask? Border Patrol operating basically were ever they please, without usual safeguards against illegal search and seizure. Right-wing nut-jobs able to shoot the holey hell out of churches, school, or Walmarts. President wanting to mobilize the National guard against Americans, so he can come out of his bunker. Immigrants have it safer, because at least they have some place to go back to, even if it still has the problems that made them leave. No one wants to go back to Arkansas, seriously.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:43AM
You should just get your White Privilege card.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:52AM
Hey, man, just build an elevated pedestrian walkway from Brownsville to International Falls. And they'll *just, disappear* Please make them wide enough for them to put up some tortilla and juice carts
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 22 2020, @01:42AM (1 child)
This could actually be really good news for me. Might make it easier to immigrate if nothing else. And if Hair Fuhrer gets "elected" "again" I may very well need to go that route.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday August 22 2020, @04:24PM
I think that court ruling is still being disputed on appeal or something.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:28AM (10 children)
We have a long history of letting Americans walk in and set up house. This includes black people looking for freedom and natives looking to not be killed for their land. I've personally met quite a few Americans who illegally moved into the country looking for freedom.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:40AM (9 children)
Black folk first. The vast majority of them were dragged here against their will for at least 200 years. The country kinda sorta owes them citizenship, I think. Especially since the 14th was written for their express benefit.
Native people? Actually, we didn't just allow them to walk in and set up housekeeping. Quite the opposite. We actually fought some genocidal wars against several groups of them. Today, not so much, but they fought long and hard against an oppressive government to earn the rights that they exercise today.
So, I'm not sure what point you're making with those two examples.
The question is, whether a sovereign nation even has the right to establish, and to enforce it's borders. I say that it does have that right.
Respect the laws, enter lawfully, and obey the law while you are here - or don't come at all. It's really that simple.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:49AM (3 children)
The underground railway ran to Canada and when the natives (Sitting Bull) needed to retreat to somewhere safe, they crossed the border to the north.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:43AM (2 children)
Chief Joseph didn't make it, though. Americans are bastards with regard to primal nations, and Runaway is a major part of that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:45AM (1 child)
Don't get me started on the Maquis, the Métis, and Louie Riel. Canada hung him. He should've stayed in Montana.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:47AM
Runaway is in over his head, again. Strange, just heard this about some other Republican fuck-headed bastard! Runs in the party, as they say.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2020, @03:46AM (4 children)
You're not a sovereign. You're a fuckin' savage!
Your lust for power make your dick hard?
What an asshole!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 23 2020, @04:02AM (3 children)
The savages have been running amok in Portland for over two months now.
Setting aside your interest in dicks, no, I don't need or want power. Thanks for playing.
I realize that you ride the short bus. But, fuck, I've been telling you that for years!! I'm an asshole, and I just don't give a fuck what you think. I'm glad you finally caught on!
While you're here, I have a question. Is it true that the short bus driver stops to get you happy meals on the way home form school?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2020, @06:04AM (1 child)
Watching people suffer makes you horny
You're weird!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2020, @09:04AM
Runaway is not weird! He's sick, in the haid. And not too bright. Best not to engage him. Unless you are asking for money to build a wall to keep out Mexicans.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday August 23 2020, @11:27PM
Do keep up. The Governor told them to go home, so they're not kidnapping people off the street and locking them up illegally any more.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 21 2020, @09:18PM (3 children)
Hey Runaway, I'm in the market for a Golden Gate Bridge, you got any leads for me?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:43AM (1 child)
Actually, yes, I do. Drop your drawers, close your eyes, and hold out one hand, while wishing for the deed for the bridge to appear in that hand. Place your other hand below your anus. Wait, patiently, and see which hand fills up first. You may take the results of this little exercise as an omen from God.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:48AM
That's how they got you, eh? Thanks for the tip, I will keep an eye out from that from non-indicted yet Republican con artists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:21PM
Vote Democrat [sfgate.com] and when everyone leaves SF, you'll pick up the bridge for pennies on the dollar.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @06:30AM
Oh, can I downmod this stupid fucker who wasted his money on a Republican scam, and lost it all? Yes, I can, and so should we all. Downmod the stupid Runaway! Where ever he rears his ugly head, mod him down. He is a loser, a poser, and idiot, and a scammer. Or at least the victim of scammers. Same thing. Mod him down, with out mercy, with out reason, without lent (as in "unrelentant"), and respond to him in terms of his own stupidity, so he will be sure to understand. Poor Runaway. Must hurt to be so stupid, and have the world go whizzing by with no comprehension! Very Poor Runaway. I would, if I could, administer the coup de grace, if only he understood what that was.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @08:03AM
And here is the accused Soylentil, confessing his guilt, and stupidity, and really how much of a putsch he is. Poor Runaway, it must hurt to be so gullible, hurt at least a couple of hundred dollars worth. Hey, that's the price of a good sow, yeah? Squeal like a pig, Runaway! Go on! Let us know what it is like.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Friday August 21 2020, @08:43PM (18 children)
I am eagerly awaiting the fallout from persecutors getting Trump's tax returns in order to start another 'witch hunt'.
I hope they find something real interesting. Something that is a state crime. Something that Trump cannot pardon himself for (nor can his successors).
It's about time this clown started having some actual consequences for things he does in life. But he never has so far. So it seems to empower him to push boundaries ever further.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @08:52PM (17 children)
Hes been under audit for decades, why would there be anything there? Its just a nothingburger to drain resources.
This bannon thing is interesting tho, a fake charity used to scam people run by a triple amputee vet. Bannons gain was negligible relativevto his wealth. Remember when the ruling on DACA made executive orders hard to overturn. I sense another trick.
(Score: 5, Informative) by barbara hudson on Friday August 21 2020, @11:47PM (16 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:14AM
No.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Booga1 on Saturday August 22 2020, @08:51AM (10 children)
Don't forget that one of the loan execs involved already killed himself: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/former-deutsche-bank-executive-who-oversaw-trumps-loans-dies-by-suicide/ [lawandcrime.com]
(Score: 4, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 23 2020, @12:25AM (9 children)
"Killed himself." Right.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2020, @04:54PM (8 children)
Yeah, and Seth Rich "killed himself" too! Shall we compare conspiracy theories?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 23 2020, @08:54PM (7 children)
If you ask me, the Clintons and the Trumps are more alike than, say, the Clintons and the Sanderses or the Clintons and the Ocasio-Corteses. And this is a point I've made many, many times before.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @02:16AM
They all serve the DNC, which serves the institutions that finance them.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday August 24 2020, @06:34AM (5 children)
And your repulsive attitude only drives away the voters you need. You must be a double agent for Trump
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @04:48AM (4 children)
Hey, that line is for Republicans trying to troll liberals. You keep tipping your hand, I wonder if anyone around here actually buys your "both sides" shtick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @05:36AM
Fistulakrick is a well known Right-wing operative. Used to hang with Corey, before the punching incident. Then was the associate of the First, or Third, Lady, until the drinking just got out of hand. After that, he was a under-secretary to Hope Hicks, which she took too literally, and kept him under her desk, for, um, daily "duties". So you can see how Fustilakrack could end up on SoylentNews. He is not the first, nor the last, broken souls to wash up upon our shores. We have TMB, a Native American without a country, we have Runaway, a fake vet without a rig, we have VLM, whatever he is. And we have poor, fluffy khallow, to whom some really nasty shit must have been done to warp him so viciously bad. But we accept them all, here on the internet's Island of Misfit toys. Keep it up, FistulaKramitin. Someday you may see your way to freedom, and take wing, above the fray. Goodspeed, Fistulacrackinit!
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:01AM (2 children)
:-) What "both sides"?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:41AM (1 child)
You know, the Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, "taxes are theft" side, with no good people on it, and the "God-Emperator Trump" side, which is not so much a side as it is madness. No good people there, either, since there is Nothing But Trump. (Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy is starting to make more sense, of late.)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday August 25 2020, @03:06PM
There is no "both sides". It's one big mosh pit
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:52PM (3 children)
Because it lets people get worked up about nothing then when it comes out its another failed investigation the opponent has wasted energy and resources on.
I mean, I'm sure there is some kind of thing in there that will be spun but nothing real.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 22 2020, @05:28PM (2 children)
nothing real
Probably so, or the IRS would have nailed him already. But, if you wanna be prez, I wanna make sure you're squeaky clean. I mean, we have that right if you're going be locking people up for something you are guilty of.
So, papers please!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @06:12PM (1 child)
What if it has him donating billions per year to minority children charities?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 22 2020, @06:18PM
It would lit up in Times Square!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday August 22 2020, @05:22AM (3 children)
Years ago, I thought that Runaway1956 could be tamed, brought around to rational argument. But now, many years after the establishment of SoylentNews, and Runaway's banishment from the comment boards, well, everywhere, but most notably Fox News, how fucked right wing do you have to be to get banned from the comments at Fox News? Well, Runaway did, so we are the only outlet left to the poor bastard, who was gyped out of $200 by Bannon and his one (legged? Armed?) bandit of "We build the wall". So sad, stuck in Arkansas, with no future Clintons on the horizon. Hope has failed, in Arkansas, as it usually does.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:33PM
What's that thing where a guy says a word and the "victim" drops into a catatonic state? Every response is a WTF? moment. I still hope it's shtick.
I am beginning to wonder if mass hypnosis really works. They are all is such a powerful lockstep.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 23 2020, @12:26AM
There is no "taming" someone like that. He's made his choice. He sold his soul. Soon he'll feel it burning.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday August 23 2020, @11:35PM
That can't be true, surely? Runaway gave $200 to build the wall that Mexico was going to pay for?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Bot on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:22PM (4 children)
Same Bannon who broke up with and wrote a book against Trump turns out a fraudster? who would have guessed.
See how easy is to look at the other side of things. You should try it sometimes.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @10:32PM (3 children)
Everyone besides you idiots who only believe someone is bad once they've gone against Trump. #SaddestCult
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 24 2020, @08:43PM (2 children)
Luckily for you and for me, I don't have to vote either for the probable tool of israel drumpf or the mummy of tutanbiden. Of course rather than voting for toxic socialism I would support hitler. JK, he was a typical socialist too.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @09:19PM
Not to mention il Ducke, or Mouselini! Or that Salvini of the White Race who used to be Romans, before the Goths kicked butt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @03:31AM
Ah, so you're an anti-semitic piece of shit who has way too many opinions about a country you don't live in.
Glad you've outed your true fascist nature =) Thaaaanks