Steve Bannon asks appeals court to keep him out of prison due to his importance in Trump’s campaign

I swear the US is fucked at this point. We're watching the collapse of the American empire in real-time. I expect a USSR style split in my lifetime, and a whole lot of upset rubes who thought that they could just pretend reality didn't exist and things would go well for them.

I just don't know which state(s) are going to split off first. Will it be the western states together, a handful of north eastern states, or will some bastard grouping of southern states decide they've had enough. Stay tuned!

We can't split up, all too interdependent. For example, I see people on here telling the red states to fuck off to themselves. Good luck eating food.
How about military presence? Trying to split down on that is a hard stop, not even thinkable. The federal government ain't going to allow it, no matter what.
Any Southerners wanting to try again are getting stomped far faster than last time. Even then, you got armed libs like me embedded in the countryside. And yes, it's worth my life to shoot "red shirts". (And that's easy for me to say. I'm older and understood my history classes.)
- A third of vegetables grown in the US come from California and an even higher percentage of fruits and nuts.
- You're assuming that if they break apart, they wouldn't trade with each other anymore. That's not what happened with the USSR, and it's not what happened with Brexit, and it's not what would happen if the US split apart.
  The federal government won't be able to do jack shit if California, Oregon(maybe not), and Washington decide to stop giving it money. Sending in the military wouldn't work, there's far too many conflicts of interest within the troops. People who were born there, or have family there, or friends.
- More than half of everything grown in this country goes to agriculture.
  Go fucking vegan!
One of the problems I see is that distilling it down more granularly at a state level is you have a huge urban/rural divide. That’s something you just can’t draw a clean line around. You would see a much messier civil war because it’d be “cities against farms”, not just state against state. That’s just one of the many, many issues that would arise.
The divide isn't between states, though. It's more rural vs urban, and that doesn't divide up well into individual countries. Illinois and New York, for example, will still be a core liberal city dominating their conservative rural areas. Likewise, Texas will still be a few core liberal cities dominated by conservative rural areas. There's not a good way to break any of those cases up.
I expect a USSR style split in my lifetime
"Balkanization" is the word, in case you're wondering
- I was aware, but most people are not familiar with it so I dumbed it down.
I've been thinking about this for a long time. I'm quite interested to see how the national debt gets divided up and how that influences things.
- When the USSR broke apart, the Russians made an international agreement to pay back some of the debt. Pretty much entirely so that at least some creditors would have confidence enough to put more money in.
  So probably something similar.

“The government seeks to imprison Mr Bannon for the four-month period leading up to the November election, when millions of Americans look to him for information on important campaign issues,” Bannon’s lawyer wrote.

Pretty sure that he can hire someone to post on Breitbart for him.

If Trump is on probation, can Bannon even associate with him? Typically, you can't associate with criminals while on probation right?

"We recognize that you need to be close to Trump, so we will allow you to be his bunkmate."

Imagine waking up to that turd every single day for years. Melania is an idiot to waste her life with him. But she deserves it.
- I almost felt sorry for her when I saw her facial expressions change the way they do when Donald looks at her then looks away and she looks so unhappy to put up with him... then I remembered that she knew what she signed up for and deserves all the misery she experiences being married to that bloviating fool.

"Keep me out of prison so I can be allowed the opportunity to do the same kinds of shit that got me in this pickle in the first place"

How hard did the judge have to try to hide their laughter?

"I'm guilty of things I did to help Trump last time he was in office, and I should be let off because I'm instrumental in helping Trump get into office again".

ROFL That is the point, failing to adhere to any court orders means there are consequences for that violation. These MAGA fools need to feel the consequences of their actions to understand they can't play stupid games, it results in stupid prizes.

Employment is not a preclusion to imprisonment. If he wanted to stay out of prison maybe he should think about that before breaking the law and ignoring a congressional subpoena. If he didn't want it to happen during an election why did he appeal for 2 years first?

Because he wanted it to happen during the campaign/election. They're doing this shit on purpose.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE FELONS?

I know! Good heavens!!

He should just do like that one lawyer just did and ask if he can share a cell with Trump to keep working on his campaign.

Hmmmmm no.

Lock him the FUCK UP.

That's why he needs to be in prison, in the cell right next to Trump.

Maybe he should have thought about that before committing crimes.

Oh, Stevie NO! You can't go to prison. You've got culture war to pedal. We need you spreading bullshit and getting people angry. How can you do that if you can't be on your stupid little podcast? STEVIE!

Schadenfreude has never really been my thing, but what do you know? Seeing traitors finding out is super fun.

What a sack of shit.

As a sack of shit, I find that offensive
- bannon is a sack of smashed asshole.

This is the equivalent of "I can do whatever I want!"

“I’m important!”

Stick that bastard down the deepest pit available so frump can go downwith him

Yet another lawsuit they're queuing up for why Trump lost again.

There's a weird part of me that wants this to work only if trump goes to prison anyway. I just want him in there fuming about his friend being out.

Gold farmer

Lmao what exactly does he bring to trump's campaign? The dude is a waste of space/time/life.

He seems to do a pretty good job creating rage media. Trump needs the hype and Bannon runs the shit shop.

Maybe it should be the opposite. The waitress at Denny's is not exactly in a position of power so keeping them out of jail is no great risk to the public. Someone working on a campaign for president, and presumably could hold a White House position, is far more dangerous. The degree of power is the degree it should be regulated.