Should have all of their federal aid halted. That's what they voted for. Give it to them, and give it to them hard. And as far as meat axes go, there are millions that would love use one on Bannon and his ilk.

There are plenty of Democrats living in red states, trying our best to change things. I did not vote for this and have objected, since grade school, to punishing everyone for the actions of others.

I certainly don’t have an answer to this horrifying mess, but cutting off everyone based on where they live is not the answer.

for saying so eloquently what I want to say.

Musk declares everything is waste and fraud. Then they gut everything.

I noticed with the Jan 6th pardons; tRump gets up and flat out lies to the media, saying they “carefully reviewed all the cases”, when in fact all he did was issue a mass pardon to virtually ALL the rioters, even those who violently assaulted capital hill police.

Now they will tell us they are “carefully reviewing” Medicaid and Medicare, before making sweeping across the board cuts. And the media will faithfully transcribe and repeat their lies, and then convene a panel to lament the Democrats lack of an organized and coordinated response to the dismantling of America democracy, a dismantling that THEY help facilitate.

They're just going to fuck things up and break things.

Yes he wanted to tear down government but he was a populist, American first, isolationism. Bannon was kicked out by Musk who brought imperialism to replace populism.

This is really the fight I wanted to see since Bannon more represents unwashed Magats than Musk does.

Bannon is true populist and is tune with how non cult Trump voters think.

Musk and Trump are grifters.

Bannon just pled guilty to grifting.

but of the trio, he is the only one truly on the same page with the non-cultist Trumpers.

He was the a paleo-con.

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You want a riot? Mess with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Batshit Bannon seems surprised that they fucked around and are in the find out phase.

Too. Goddamned. Bad. Asshole. You brought this down on yourselves, screwing the rest of us in the process.

end up on Medicaid when they are in nursing homes/assisted living facilities and their money runs out. So are they just going to kick them out? trump and musk do not research what their cuts would mean to real people. Same with Social Security. Folks will take to the streets if they cut benefits.

Do not care. There is a difference. Bannon doesn’t care, but he knows this will cost trump a lot of support. He knows trumps base is a violent group. There is always the chance of retaliation from the base. He wants to avoid that.

who voted for Trump and who voted for Biden so that they can take away the Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security benefits of Democratic voters only.

The plan all along is to go after Dems/Libruhls.

They are awakening a sleeping giant.

There is no way to know definitively who voted for Trump and who voted for Biden. Political contribution records are public and would be an indication of how a person might have voted, and voter registration records are also public - although in some states, like mine (MN) you don't register as a member of a political party. Party affiliation is too fluid for a scheme that punishes certain voters.

No surprise, really, but it is unusual to have it stated so directly.

And the MAGA will eat it up becuase the media is owned by the billionaire class.

Town halls begging the Dems to save them.

Moses Mike and his church will take care of the needy. And the rest of the Evangelicals will line up to help.

… that a political filter be used to determine eligibility for government assistance?

He stinks and no one wants him around.

A lot of MAGAs are on MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY TOO!!!

Maybe you guys should take a pause . . . . .

Steve Bannon, sounding intelligent and reasonable---compared to the goons occupying the White House. Mull that over for a moment---then, if you haven't already, start planning your own form of resistance...

The fact that they know they may very well be on the street and are beginning to beg the Dems to stop this.

I give you the power bills in Alabama

How does that go again? I need to take a shower

Drive someone/some group to respond violently to their cruel and insane policies so they can initiate martial law and use the military against any protests.

Doesn't matter if it's armed MAGAts that spark the conflict.

Care about that MAGA base. He stole millions from them for the Wall scam, is walking away with it, and has railed about pulling every agency out by the roots that supports that idiot base?
He is as responsible for all the shit as Trump and McConnell.
When will the infection of this rotting flesh of a pig take him out? STFU! You did this. I hope the well armed militia idiots come for the Wall scam cash for a little justice, so they can buy an egg and bullets.

people keep on saying that none of these young whippersnappers eager to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, anything they're decades away from, don't know and don't care that these things matter. But most, maybe all of them, have elderly mothers who use it. And DON'T just say that the young whippersnappers don't know anyone on those. In reality they do, and will find out quite quickly if that money goes away.

Hell, I'm the only person I know whose Social Security amount is the one third of my income that it's supposed to be. Over the decades the message that you still need to save, has gone away.

I guess it's hard to face facts at his age.

-- Mal

Going to bury musk?

So I guess he doesn't have the chops he thought he had.

I'm thinking musk rigged the election and threatened to say so (telling the FBI that trump forced him to do it )if trump doesn't let him be president.

But he's not stupid. Trump's base, the real believers, are working class white folks. Many of them live in the poorer states. A lot of them are older too. They rely on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP to survive. Bannon knows that if these programs are cut, these folks will turn on Trump and the GOP.

Screw them. The MAGA among them voted for this and would gladly give up their doctors and meds- for America!!!

As a famous American once put it, “Please proceed…”

...Musk will have his trolls search through party registrations to match people on Medicaid with members of the Democratic Party.

especially in states that allow "unaffiliated" for party as apparently a lot of Democrats don't register as "Democrats" but as some kind of independent or unaffiliated or even as Republican (so they can vote for the "lesser of two loons" in GOP primaries). There is a prevailing "narrative" about how the GOP registrations continue to increase and I think a lot of it is due exactly to the scenario I mentioned (and I have seen a number of DUers who say that this is what they do in their red hell counties).

So except for maybe urban areas, filtering by party ain't gonna work. Which is probably why Bannon is sounding the alarm.

It seems that his status is no longer relevant since he is not a billionaire.

Why should he care if parasites suffer?

Besides, their votes won't matter anyway - we will have an all-powerful leader answerable only to himself.

They aren't. He served their purposes long ago and is now obsolete.