#I DONT KNOW IF I SUCCEEDED IN ARTICULATING WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY BUT GOD

[radioactive-mouse]

i keep thinking about like. how the brutality levels vary between seasons and how secret life is the natural culmination of everything these people have been through and the watchers pushing everything to extremes. i’m going to try to articulate how crazy this makes me

3rd Life: god. 3rd life was a clear cut war. we haven’t seen a season since where nearly everyone has such an intense devotion to their chosen faction. the fact that there’s no precedent that they’re coming back next season, the fact that as far as they know, dying means staying dead, makes just how much they’re willing to go down with the ship that much more heartbreaking. grian ended the season exactly how it was played by damn near everyone else— i love you, i would do anything for you, i would rather die than keep going without you. the season of widows.

Last Life: and then they come back. and then ending things isn’t an option. and all of a sudden it’s not a war, it’s a death match, and damn is the competition is vicious. deaths are more often than not a vague, impersonal thing— not get away from my king, my husband, my charge— just the flash of a knife and a quick sorry, just playing the game! if 3rd life told you to hold the ones you love close, defend them to your last breath, last life urges you to burn that love out of your chest entirely.

Double Life: but everything slows down eventually. no more dying for the one you love— just learning to live with them. double life is about knowing that when you die, you will go together, hand and hand into the dark. a soap opera, the players joke. a small kindness, the universe replies. again, pearl wins the same way everyone else lost— no, not yet, please, just give us a little longer together, i’m not ready, i’m so sorry—

Limited Life: but the clock, unyielding, ticks ever onward. and god, everyone is starting to feel it. that sick, nauseating feeling of dread creeping up on them: what if it never ends? what if this is it, this is all that’s left for us— tearing each other apart over and over and over again, and for what? for a show? to feed those hungry things lurking in the dark? we’ll give them a show. bombs rain from the sky, the world shaking under the weight of it. there isn’t a thing left by the end that’s not rubble. we’re all doomed! the players cry, laughing with nothing but nihilistic, unrestrained joy. none of it matters! we come back again, and again, and again, have a little fun with it! light the fuse, collateral be damned. when death means so little, what’s the point in pretending they don’t take a little joy in it? we settle this like grian and scar before us, scott jokes, armor and weapons tossed to the side. are you insane? martyn thinks, remembering the hollow look that would wash over grian’s face when he thought no one was watching. it ruined him. it will not ruin me. this is a death match for a reason.

Secret Life: and here it is. the natural conclusion. this season is candy colored, the map dotted with cute pink houses and silly builds, the players all running around doing these ridiculous tasks. it’s so easy to forget how bloody this season was. unclosing wounds, bruises that don’t fade, the sting of fire or falling from a simple misstep. the hurt never goes away, but it gets easier to ignore— distract yourself with something silly to pass the time: spyglasses and frogs and the ugliest house you’ve ever seen and matching leather jackets and the doghouse and the relationSHIP and a weird tunnel full of doors and secret soulmates and god it’s almost, almost, enough to forget how much it all aches, how much the grief weighs on you, how many times someone you love has died, sometimes to your own blade. almost none of the grudges you hold are real by now, not really. not when you’re going to live and die with these people for as long as the hungry, many-eyed things delight in your suffering. you love each other, in the strangest way— sure you’ve all killed and betrayed each other in a thousand different ways, but at the end of the day, they’re all you have. clinging to each other in the face of the vast, unknowable horrors that drive you to slash each other to pieces. it’s still a game, after all. they’ve gotta figure out how to be good sports about it eventually.

[zabala0z]

TMA S4 Finale (and the absolute rollercoaster of thoughts I now have)

Hi! WHAT. WHAT??? WHAT????

I’m not even gonna TALK about Mag 157 besides, I love Adelard Dekker, I’m very thankful Melanie is alive (also her and Georgie are dating??? Wow I’m dense) and I love Helen even more

I’m actually going insane over Daisy. Please. Girl. You still have so much to live for, you deserve to live a good life, everyone does. I’m actually going to rip out my TEETH.

Elias is Jonah. I unfortunately did know this. Can’t dodge spoilers that well but you know what, the build up was fucking awesome and I’m applauding the writers. ALSO NOT SASHA AND THE HUNTERS?? WELCOME BACK???

MAG 159: The Last

Martin getting stuck in The Lonely. I genuinely was distraught guys. Peter Lukas also giving his statement like, low key, I felt bad for him. Anyways then Jon ripped Peter Lukas apart. Can’t say I’m mad. It was rather scary. Like Jon full on was just 🤷🏻‍♀️. LIKE-

I did enjoy the brief moment of domestic life in MAG 160 which was soon interrupted by MOTHERFUCKING Elias Bouchard. Or Jonah Magnus. I DONT CARE.

MAG 160: The Eye Opens

“Hello Jon, apologies for the deception” HE SAID THE THING!!!!!

This episode answered the biggest question I’ve been having lately: hey, if these entities have existed for so long..why haven’t any succeeded??

I kinda want to unknow it now. Just- GOD. IM JUST UGJCLHCVPJH. I HATE THIS PODCAST. Elias is so calculating and articulate, you’d fucking think he’s an avatar of The Web. There’s something funny though that everyone is trying to bring all these rituals and it keeps failing and no one knows the true reason

Bring all the fears to the world. The worst idea ever and it worked. And I hate everything.

I don’t know what’s going to happen now. I don’t know what they’re going to do now. Jon does not sound very stable which is worrying but the world doesn’t sound very…good at the moment. I just feel very. Overwhelmed. Not overwhelmed. What’s a word where everything is crashing down and all you can do is watch??? Whatever.

I need to recover. For a bit before I start season 5. From what I hear, MAG 161 is rough. And I don’t think I can handle another thing that makes my brain fold in on itself.

Just. Jesus. God. Thank you again to everyone who is following me on this journey (???). I am tweaking out at the moment. But thank you. Expect a post on season 5…sometime???

God damn it, I need to recover

[youichi-kuramochi]

ok hi im back to inhibat ur inbox ur gonna have to get used to me sending something, liking ur response, n then not responding for three days cus my memorys shit n i get sidetracked but uh YEAH IM NOT LWAVING NOW GET USED TO SEEING ME HERE >:)

YES OK ALL OF THIS??? i literally dont think id ever be able to ship kuraharu... and yeah same like haruichi was rlly like the first daiya character i latched onto but i rlly dont think i could do it. AND NO??? I HAVENT READ IT?? i admittedly havent read ANY of the manga but just by the title it sounds heart-wrenching

and ryousuke watching them play after he’s graduated just AGHHH yeah so many feels,, every time i see him on screen rn im just- feels.

AND YEAH THE COVER THING?? WITH KURAMOCHI AND HARUICHI AND THE WAY IT WAS LITERALLY COPYING THE OLD KRRY COVER??? this was rlly the reason i started thinking about this whole thing was because i saw a post of somebody talking about the new cover and how they were basically upset about how much haruichi is taking his place. and i think thats the problem. hes replacing ryousuke. and what u said about “they both deserve a little more than just haruichi succeeding where ryousuke failed” LIKE??? YEAH??? i hate that haruichi is literally just replacing him,,,,, i think itd be good for him to like. oh, idk,, become his own person,,,, like,,, idk. I DUNNO THIS SHITS >{+<£|>|+]%}{*]£}€}* YKNOW???

anyways. ✨ stan amahisa for clear skin ✨

adflkgjlkfgjldf no please don’t apologize I welcome it!!! and don’t worry I’m honestly the same way w responding to messages n stuff I’m notorious for forgetting to reply to things for days at a time lmao (case in point I totally saw this last night and was oh I should respond and then just...... didn’t...... till now lmao)

you should absolutely read ‘face’ it’s so fucking good and while we’re on the topic kuramochi also has a sidestory titled ‘outrun’ about his delinquent days that’s also really really good and also contains one of my favorite ryou-san ‘you suck :D’ faces of all time aldfjlakjdflgkjf terajima was rly like I’m gonna give the people what they want w these extras :’)

and oh my god I think I saw that same post ur talking abt afgjkldjfg it’s how I saw the cover to begin with since I’m like. nowhere near caught up w the manga and I just. like I rly hope none of this comes off as me hating haruichi bc I truly truly ADORE him and tbh that’s half the reason I felt so conflicted over that cover like idk. on the one hand I guess it’s like a cool callback to act 1 and like in the abstract is kinda fun but on the other hand it’s just. yeah. I get u man I so do. I want haruichi’s story to not be abt chasing his brother still like we gotta let that go. like trying to be like your heroes is a thing that a lot of people do when they’re starting out but at some point you like move on from that right? and I think the story should reflect that rather than bringing us back to this same point over and over and idk. IDK. I don’t like being negative abt things but I just. ADFLKGJALFKGAJF IDK I CAN’T ARTICULATE THIS I’M ALSO NOT CAUGHT UP W ANYTHING SO DO I KNOW IF WHAT I’M SAYING IS ENTIRELY ACCURATE???? NO!!!!

also since we’ve been talking I was reminded of literally the most heartbreaking page of that game that ryousuke came to watch like afterwards when he’s like wow u guys are really good..... huh............... and I JUST CRY EVERY TIME (under the cut bc the image is huge and this post is long enough as it is and like spoilers ig but like. dude. DUDE. terajima-sensei you know exACTLY WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE WORDS WITH YOU)

and OMG my partner and I just got to s2 in our rewatch and both of us are already like SHOW ME ICHIDAISAN SHOW ME THE BEST BOY WHERE IS HE I love amahisa a Lot :’)

THAT SOUND YOU HEAR IN THE DISTANCE IS ME HAVING A FUCKING BREAKDOWN OVER THIS F U CK

[adambstingus]

Steve Bannon: Trump is ‘maniacally focused’ on executing promises

Chief White House strategist pushes economic nationalist agenda at CPAC and continues relentless attacks on media, vowing: Every day is going to be a fight

Steve Bannon, the man seen as the power behind Donald Trumps throne, has declared that the president will take the US back from a corporatist, globalist media that opposes his brand of economic nationalism.

Trump is maniacally focused on fulfilling his campaign pledges, Bannon warned, predicting a daily fight against the media he has branded as the opposition party.

The mainstream media ought to understand something: all those promises are going to be implemented, Bannon told a gathering of thousands of conservatives near Washington on Thursday, who feted him and White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

Bannon is a liberal bete noire whose confrontational, populist brand of Republican politics also upends decades of conservative orthodoxy. He has emerged as Trumps most powerful aide and been dubbed Trumps Rasputin or, in Twitter speak, #PresidentBannon. On Thursday, he stepped out of the shadows to make rare public remarks.

He painted a picture of the White House at war with vested interests in the media. The corporatist, globalist media are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda that Donald Trump has.

Hes going to continue to press his agenda and as economic conditions get better, as more jobs get better, theyre going to continue to fight..

Watch the full video of Steve Bannons appearance at CPAC 2017

Every day is going to be a fight. That is the promise of Donald Trump … All the people whove came in and said youve got to moderate. Every day in the Oval Office he tells Reince and I: I committed this to the American people, I promised this when I ran, and Im going to deliver on this. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) erupted in cheers and applause, with some delegates standing and punching the air.

Bannon, 63, cut a casual figure with a dark open-necked shirt and light beige trousers on stage alongside Priebus, in a more traditional suit and tie, as the pair made their latest attempt to bury reports of discord. Were basically together from 6.30 in the morning to 11 at night, Priebus said.

But Bannon, who described his own West Wing office as the war room, soon launched into his attacks on the media. If you look at the opposition party and how they portrayed the campaign, how they portrayed the transition, how they portrayed the administration, its always wrong.

Priebus, seeking to explain Trumps win, said: What we were starving for was somebody real, somebody genuine, somebody who actually was who he said he was.

Bannon gave a clear insight into the way the Trump team is approaching its rightwing agenda, setting out three verticals: national security and sovereignty; economic nationalism; and deconstruction of the administrative state.

He added: One of the most pivotal moments of modern American history was his immediate withdrawal from TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership].

Bannon is a near-constant presence every time cameras cover a Trump press conference or follow the president into the Oval Office. He has gained a place on the principals committee of the National Security Council, elevating him above the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the director of national intelligence.

Kellyanne Conway at CPAC: Women dont like women in power

Dan Cassino, a political scientist at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said: It seems like we are getting his ideas coming out of Donald Trumps mouth to a great extent.

Crucially, Cassino argues, Bannon determines what media Trump consumes and shapes his worldview. The information flow seems to be going through Breitbart and Fox News rather than through the national security apparatus. Thats troubling.

CPAC, which draws more than 10,000 conservative activists each year, has not traditionally been natural Trump turf. He was booed when he appeared in 2011.

On the equivalent opening morning last year, speaker after speaker studiously avoided mentioning Trump, who at that time was busy upending the Republican primary race. He was well behind Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in a straw poll of delegates and pulled out of his scheduled speech, anticipating a hostile crowd.

The president is due to address CPAC on Friday in wholly different circumstances. Well, I think by tomorrow this will be TPAC, said Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Trump.

A few Make America Great Again caps were visible among the attendees but establishment Republican senators, congressmen and governors were relatively scarce.

The pro-Trump Breitbart News was prominent. The tone was triumphant and aggressive, championing gun ownership rights and tough law enforcement while criticising and mocking liberals.

But tensions were clear as Dan Schneider, leader of the American Conservative Union, took the stage to denounce the alt-right, the rebranding of the far right that has been accused of racism, Islamophobia and neo-Nazism. There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks and we must not be duped, he told the audience.

That term alt-right it had been used for a long time in a very good and normal way, but this group has hijacked it.

A short distance away, outside the main hall, the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer, wearing a general admission badge, told reporters that he coined the term alt-right and rejected Schneiders criticism.

He didnt even do basic research on what the alt-right is and he denounced it, Spencer complained. Thats pretty pathetic. … He just called us names.

Asked if he feels he now has an ally in the White House, Spencer said: In terms of Donald Trump, I would say that its not so much that hes alt-right, its that hes a nationalist and a populist and so hes connected to us on that basic level. He doesnt articulate our ideas hes not an identarian but his arrow points in our direction.

Challenged about a salute he gave last November, he said: Heil Trump! was a moment of exuberance. It was an ironical statement.

As Spencer talked to a large group of reporters, a delegate who gave his name as Grizzly Joe, wearing a stars and stripes shirt, confronted him angrily: Get the fuck out of here. You dont represent us. Youre a piece of shit. I hope everybody got that. Youre a fucking piece of shit. Hes a fucking white supremacist piece of shit.

Spencer was escorted out by security soon after. He posted a video online saying he was politely asked to leave.

Vice-president Mike Pence closed out the first day of the conference on Thursday evening to a rapturous reception from the crowd, which often rose to its feet amid the former Indiana governors remarks.

Pences speech echoed the themes he took to the campaign trail sharing in his bosss pledge to Make America Great Again but offering little in the way of specifics. Pence, like Trump, also gloated about how their insurgent campaign had succeeded despite being written off by opponents.

President Trump turned the blue wall red, Pence said of Trumps success in the so-called Rust Belt states that were long a stronghold of Democrats.

You know what? The establishment never saw it coming.

His remarks were characteristic of the Trump administrations continuance of the campaign. Last week, Trump returned to the stump with a rally in Florida.

And on Thursday, Pence played the role of Trumps dutiful lieutenant, furthering the narrative that the president was already succeeding even as a new CBS poll found that six in 10 Americans did not feel Trump understood the complicated problems a president must face.

Thursdays speakers also included Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, Texas senator Ted Cruz, and education secretary Betsy DeVos. Breakout sessions included such topics as Fake climate news camouflaging an anti-capitalist agenda and what President Trump plans to do about it.

CPAC also means merchandise. This year the products include The Deporables Guide and Godless America, and T-shirts with slogans including Border wall construction and God is great, beer is good & liberals are crazy.

Meanwhile, Americas deep divisions were laid bare in a powerful article published by the Atlantic magazine under the headline I was a Muslim in Trumps White House. In it, Rumana Ahmed says she was the only hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the West Wing under the Obama administration and always felt welcome and included.

But when she continued to work for the national security council under Trump, the new staff looked at her with cold surprise, she recalls. The diverse White House I had worked in became a monochromatic and male bastion.

This was not typical Republican leadership, or even that of a businessman. It was a chaotic attempt at authoritarianism.

Ahmed quit after just eight days. When Trump issued a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and all Syrian refugees, I knew I could no longer stay and work for an administration that saw me and people like me not as fellow citizens, but as a threat.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/steve-bannon-trump-is-maniacally-focused-on-executing-promises/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/181369637022

[samanthasroberts]

Steve Bannon: Trump is ‘maniacally focused’ on executing promises

Chief White House strategist pushes economic nationalist agenda at CPAC and continues relentless attacks on media, vowing: Every day is going to be a fight

Steve Bannon, the man seen as the power behind Donald Trumps throne, has declared that the president will take the US back from a corporatist, globalist media that opposes his brand of economic nationalism.

Trump is maniacally focused on fulfilling his campaign pledges, Bannon warned, predicting a daily fight against the media he has branded as the opposition party.

The mainstream media ought to understand something: all those promises are going to be implemented, Bannon told a gathering of thousands of conservatives near Washington on Thursday, who feted him and White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

Bannon is a liberal bete noire whose confrontational, populist brand of Republican politics also upends decades of conservative orthodoxy. He has emerged as Trumps most powerful aide and been dubbed Trumps Rasputin or, in Twitter speak, #PresidentBannon. On Thursday, he stepped out of the shadows to make rare public remarks.

He painted a picture of the White House at war with vested interests in the media. The corporatist, globalist media are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda that Donald Trump has.

Hes going to continue to press his agenda and as economic conditions get better, as more jobs get better, theyre going to continue to fight..

Watch the full video of Steve Bannons appearance at CPAC 2017

Every day is going to be a fight. That is the promise of Donald Trump … All the people whove came in and said youve got to moderate. Every day in the Oval Office he tells Reince and I: I committed this to the American people, I promised this when I ran, and Im going to deliver on this. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) erupted in cheers and applause, with some delegates standing and punching the air.

Bannon, 63, cut a casual figure with a dark open-necked shirt and light beige trousers on stage alongside Priebus, in a more traditional suit and tie, as the pair made their latest attempt to bury reports of discord. Were basically together from 6.30 in the morning to 11 at night, Priebus said.

But Bannon, who described his own West Wing office as the war room, soon launched into his attacks on the media. If you look at the opposition party and how they portrayed the campaign, how they portrayed the transition, how they portrayed the administration, its always wrong.

Priebus, seeking to explain Trumps win, said: What we were starving for was somebody real, somebody genuine, somebody who actually was who he said he was.

Bannon gave a clear insight into the way the Trump team is approaching its rightwing agenda, setting out three verticals: national security and sovereignty; economic nationalism; and deconstruction of the administrative state.

He added: One of the most pivotal moments of modern American history was his immediate withdrawal from TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership].

Bannon is a near-constant presence every time cameras cover a Trump press conference or follow the president into the Oval Office. He has gained a place on the principals committee of the National Security Council, elevating him above the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the director of national intelligence.

Kellyanne Conway at CPAC: Women dont like women in power

Dan Cassino, a political scientist at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said: It seems like we are getting his ideas coming out of Donald Trumps mouth to a great extent.

Crucially, Cassino argues, Bannon determines what media Trump consumes and shapes his worldview. The information flow seems to be going through Breitbart and Fox News rather than through the national security apparatus. Thats troubling.

CPAC, which draws more than 10,000 conservative activists each year, has not traditionally been natural Trump turf. He was booed when he appeared in 2011.

On the equivalent opening morning last year, speaker after speaker studiously avoided mentioning Trump, who at that time was busy upending the Republican primary race. He was well behind Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in a straw poll of delegates and pulled out of his scheduled speech, anticipating a hostile crowd.

The president is due to address CPAC on Friday in wholly different circumstances. Well, I think by tomorrow this will be TPAC, said Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Trump.

A few Make America Great Again caps were visible among the attendees but establishment Republican senators, congressmen and governors were relatively scarce.

The pro-Trump Breitbart News was prominent. The tone was triumphant and aggressive, championing gun ownership rights and tough law enforcement while criticising and mocking liberals.

But tensions were clear as Dan Schneider, leader of the American Conservative Union, took the stage to denounce the alt-right, the rebranding of the far right that has been accused of racism, Islamophobia and neo-Nazism. There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks and we must not be duped, he told the audience.

That term alt-right it had been used for a long time in a very good and normal way, but this group has hijacked it.

A short distance away, outside the main hall, the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer, wearing a general admission badge, told reporters that he coined the term alt-right and rejected Schneiders criticism.

He didnt even do basic research on what the alt-right is and he denounced it, Spencer complained. Thats pretty pathetic. … He just called us names.

Asked if he feels he now has an ally in the White House, Spencer said: In terms of Donald Trump, I would say that its not so much that hes alt-right, its that hes a nationalist and a populist and so hes connected to us on that basic level. He doesnt articulate our ideas hes not an identarian but his arrow points in our direction.

Challenged about a salute he gave last November, he said: Heil Trump! was a moment of exuberance. It was an ironical statement.

As Spencer talked to a large group of reporters, a delegate who gave his name as Grizzly Joe, wearing a stars and stripes shirt, confronted him angrily: Get the fuck out of here. You dont represent us. Youre a piece of shit. I hope everybody got that. Youre a fucking piece of shit. Hes a fucking white supremacist piece of shit.

Spencer was escorted out by security soon after. He posted a video online saying he was politely asked to leave.

Vice-president Mike Pence closed out the first day of the conference on Thursday evening to a rapturous reception from the crowd, which often rose to its feet amid the former Indiana governors remarks.

Pences speech echoed the themes he took to the campaign trail sharing in his bosss pledge to Make America Great Again but offering little in the way of specifics. Pence, like Trump, also gloated about how their insurgent campaign had succeeded despite being written off by opponents.

President Trump turned the blue wall red, Pence said of Trumps success in the so-called Rust Belt states that were long a stronghold of Democrats.

You know what? The establishment never saw it coming.

His remarks were characteristic of the Trump administrations continuance of the campaign. Last week, Trump returned to the stump with a rally in Florida.

And on Thursday, Pence played the role of Trumps dutiful lieutenant, furthering the narrative that the president was already succeeding even as a new CBS poll found that six in 10 Americans did not feel Trump understood the complicated problems a president must face.

Thursdays speakers also included Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, Texas senator Ted Cruz, and education secretary Betsy DeVos. Breakout sessions included such topics as Fake climate news camouflaging an anti-capitalist agenda and what President Trump plans to do about it.

CPAC also means merchandise. This year the products include The Deporables Guide and Godless America, and T-shirts with slogans including Border wall construction and God is great, beer is good & liberals are crazy.

Meanwhile, Americas deep divisions were laid bare in a powerful article published by the Atlantic magazine under the headline I was a Muslim in Trumps White House. In it, Rumana Ahmed says she was the only hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the West Wing under the Obama administration and always felt welcome and included.

But when she continued to work for the national security council under Trump, the new staff looked at her with cold surprise, she recalls. The diverse White House I had worked in became a monochromatic and male bastion.

This was not typical Republican leadership, or even that of a businessman. It was a chaotic attempt at authoritarianism.

Ahmed quit after just eight days. When Trump issued a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and all Syrian refugees, I knew I could no longer stay and work for an administration that saw me and people like me not as fellow citizens, but as a threat.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/steve-bannon-trump-is-maniacally-focused-on-executing-promises/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/steve-bannon-trump-is-maniacally-focused-on-executing-promises/

[allofbeercom]

Steve Bannon: Trump is ‘maniacally focused’ on executing promises

Chief White House strategist pushes economic nationalist agenda at CPAC and continues relentless attacks on media, vowing: Every day is going to be a fight

Steve Bannon, the man seen as the power behind Donald Trumps throne, has declared that the president will take the US back from a corporatist, globalist media that opposes his brand of economic nationalism.

Trump is maniacally focused on fulfilling his campaign pledges, Bannon warned, predicting a daily fight against the media he has branded as the opposition party.

The mainstream media ought to understand something: all those promises are going to be implemented, Bannon told a gathering of thousands of conservatives near Washington on Thursday, who feted him and White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

Bannon is a liberal bete noire whose confrontational, populist brand of Republican politics also upends decades of conservative orthodoxy. He has emerged as Trumps most powerful aide and been dubbed Trumps Rasputin or, in Twitter speak, #PresidentBannon. On Thursday, he stepped out of the shadows to make rare public remarks.

He painted a picture of the White House at war with vested interests in the media. The corporatist, globalist media are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda that Donald Trump has.

Hes going to continue to press his agenda and as economic conditions get better, as more jobs get better, theyre going to continue to fight..

Watch the full video of Steve Bannons appearance at CPAC 2017

Every day is going to be a fight. That is the promise of Donald Trump … All the people whove came in and said youve got to moderate. Every day in the Oval Office he tells Reince and I: I committed this to the American people, I promised this when I ran, and Im going to deliver on this. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) erupted in cheers and applause, with some delegates standing and punching the air.

Bannon, 63, cut a casual figure with a dark open-necked shirt and light beige trousers on stage alongside Priebus, in a more traditional suit and tie, as the pair made their latest attempt to bury reports of discord. Were basically together from 6.30 in the morning to 11 at night, Priebus said.

But Bannon, who described his own West Wing office as the war room, soon launched into his attacks on the media. If you look at the opposition party and how they portrayed the campaign, how they portrayed the transition, how they portrayed the administration, its always wrong.

Priebus, seeking to explain Trumps win, said: What we were starving for was somebody real, somebody genuine, somebody who actually was who he said he was.

Bannon gave a clear insight into the way the Trump team is approaching its rightwing agenda, setting out three verticals: national security and sovereignty; economic nationalism; and deconstruction of the administrative state.

He added: One of the most pivotal moments of modern American history was his immediate withdrawal from TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership].

Bannon is a near-constant presence every time cameras cover a Trump press conference or follow the president into the Oval Office. He has gained a place on the principals committee of the National Security Council, elevating him above the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the director of national intelligence.

Kellyanne Conway at CPAC: Women dont like women in power

Dan Cassino, a political scientist at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said: It seems like we are getting his ideas coming out of Donald Trumps mouth to a great extent.

Crucially, Cassino argues, Bannon determines what media Trump consumes and shapes his worldview. The information flow seems to be going through Breitbart and Fox News rather than through the national security apparatus. Thats troubling.

CPAC, which draws more than 10,000 conservative activists each year, has not traditionally been natural Trump turf. He was booed when he appeared in 2011.

On the equivalent opening morning last year, speaker after speaker studiously avoided mentioning Trump, who at that time was busy upending the Republican primary race. He was well behind Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in a straw poll of delegates and pulled out of his scheduled speech, anticipating a hostile crowd.

The president is due to address CPAC on Friday in wholly different circumstances. Well, I think by tomorrow this will be TPAC, said Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Trump.

A few Make America Great Again caps were visible among the attendees but establishment Republican senators, congressmen and governors were relatively scarce.

The pro-Trump Breitbart News was prominent. The tone was triumphant and aggressive, championing gun ownership rights and tough law enforcement while criticising and mocking liberals.

But tensions were clear as Dan Schneider, leader of the American Conservative Union, took the stage to denounce the alt-right, the rebranding of the far right that has been accused of racism, Islamophobia and neo-Nazism. There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks and we must not be duped, he told the audience.

That term alt-right it had been used for a long time in a very good and normal way, but this group has hijacked it.

A short distance away, outside the main hall, the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer, wearing a general admission badge, told reporters that he coined the term alt-right and rejected Schneiders criticism.

He didnt even do basic research on what the alt-right is and he denounced it, Spencer complained. Thats pretty pathetic. … He just called us names.

Asked if he feels he now has an ally in the White House, Spencer said: In terms of Donald Trump, I would say that its not so much that hes alt-right, its that hes a nationalist and a populist and so hes connected to us on that basic level. He doesnt articulate our ideas hes not an identarian but his arrow points in our direction.

Challenged about a salute he gave last November, he said: Heil Trump! was a moment of exuberance. It was an ironical statement.

As Spencer talked to a large group of reporters, a delegate who gave his name as Grizzly Joe, wearing a stars and stripes shirt, confronted him angrily: Get the fuck out of here. You dont represent us. Youre a piece of shit. I hope everybody got that. Youre a fucking piece of shit. Hes a fucking white supremacist piece of shit.

Spencer was escorted out by security soon after. He posted a video online saying he was politely asked to leave.

Vice-president Mike Pence closed out the first day of the conference on Thursday evening to a rapturous reception from the crowd, which often rose to its feet amid the former Indiana governors remarks.

Pences speech echoed the themes he took to the campaign trail sharing in his bosss pledge to Make America Great Again but offering little in the way of specifics. Pence, like Trump, also gloated about how their insurgent campaign had succeeded despite being written off by opponents.

President Trump turned the blue wall red, Pence said of Trumps success in the so-called Rust Belt states that were long a stronghold of Democrats.

You know what? The establishment never saw it coming.

His remarks were characteristic of the Trump administrations continuance of the campaign. Last week, Trump returned to the stump with a rally in Florida.

And on Thursday, Pence played the role of Trumps dutiful lieutenant, furthering the narrative that the president was already succeeding even as a new CBS poll found that six in 10 Americans did not feel Trump understood the complicated problems a president must face.

Thursdays speakers also included Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, Texas senator Ted Cruz, and education secretary Betsy DeVos. Breakout sessions included such topics as Fake climate news camouflaging an anti-capitalist agenda and what President Trump plans to do about it.

CPAC also means merchandise. This year the products include The Deporables Guide and Godless America, and T-shirts with slogans including Border wall construction and God is great, beer is good & liberals are crazy.

Meanwhile, Americas deep divisions were laid bare in a powerful article published by the Atlantic magazine under the headline I was a Muslim in Trumps White House. In it, Rumana Ahmed says she was the only hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the West Wing under the Obama administration and always felt welcome and included.

But when she continued to work for the national security council under Trump, the new staff looked at her with cold surprise, she recalls. The diverse White House I had worked in became a monochromatic and male bastion.

This was not typical Republican leadership, or even that of a businessman. It was a chaotic attempt at authoritarianism.

Ahmed quit after just eight days. When Trump issued a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and all Syrian refugees, I knew I could no longer stay and work for an administration that saw me and people like me not as fellow citizens, but as a threat.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/steve-bannon-trump-is-maniacally-focused-on-executing-promises/