Armed white supremacists who stormed the Capitol Jan. 6 had wanted to assassinate politicians. Much of their hate and threats were directed at female politicians.
You have probably seen the picture of Richard “Bigo” Barnett, stretched out in the office of the most powerful woman in the country, his feet on a desk. He is now under arrest, but while he was still high on Big Dick Energy, Bigo was happy to boast to a New York Times reporter...
“I wrote her a nasty note, put my feet up on her desk and scratched my balls,” Bigo told Matthew Rosenberg. His note to Speaker Pelosi: “Nancy, Bigo was here you bitch,” Bigo said.
“Georgia dad” Cleveland Meredith Jr who sent the texts below about Speaker Nancy Pelosi and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, was arrested with a Glock 19 handgun, an assault rifle, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his possession. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
If Bigo the Ball Scratcher and Georgia Dad were the perfect avatar for Trump at the storming of the Capitol, then Bannon is the Chief of Staff for the White Supremacist Patriarchy that has become increasingly bold under Trump’s tutelage.
And it will not magically disappear.
Bannon, who was once charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness, knows well where the battle lines are drawn. He is enamoured of the word “war” so let’s be clear what he thinks that war is: it is feminism versus white supremacist patriarchy.
While watching the Golden Globes in 2018 with Bloomberg’s Josh Green, Bannon was enraged at the parade of actors & activists dressed in black for the TimesUp & MeToo movements. After Oprah Winfrey delivered a stirring speech about the importance of MeToo, Bannon was apoplectic.
“You watch. The time has come. Women are gonna take charge of society...And they couldn’t juxtapose a better villain than Trump. He is the patriarch. This is a definitional moment in the culture. It’ll never be the same going forward,” Bannon in 2018 google.com/amp/s/www.vani…
#Trump might have pardoned #Bannon, but we must never pardon white supremacist patriarchy.
Bannon was central to getting Trump into the White House and was working to keep him in there via the insurrection
Bannon wrote Trump’s America First Inauguration speech and Trump’s last words were “the movement we started is only just beginning.” abcnews.go.com/US/longtime-tr…
Trump was not an aberration. He was fruition of white supremacy, misogyny, Christian fundamentalism, militarism & authoritarianism.
Steve Bannon is the gardener tasked with pruning & cross-pollinating the poisonous blossoms.
Stay vigilant. Fuck the white supremacist patriarchy
I ask more questions in the Violence chapter in my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls- here’s an excerpt feministgiant.com/p/how-many-rap…
The TV episode ☝🏽 was banned in Australia - an ostensible democracy - in 2019. My IMAGINARY violence vs men so outraged viewers & network that the episode was banned from rebroadcast.
There are too many white men in US newsrooms for whom Trump and Bannon et al were ideas to be debated and never real life to be endured and survived
Remember how many platformed Steve Bannon, the Pied Piper of Global Fascism, for tickets and "debate': The Economist, FT, New Yorker (which disinvited him but we remember), etc feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
The “Admit it, you miss Trump’s tweets” crowd often dovetail with the “This isn’t my America” crowd who live in privileged denial, who refuse to see that 74mln people voted for white supremacist fascism and that that fascism still threatens so many of us.
"Suburban girls...grow up in fear...of their father or any other male figure in the family... men outside the house, classmates, the neighborhood...their husband, brother-in-law, father-in-law, of every patriarchal & authoritarian figure who robs them of their freedom & spirit"
"The biggest challenge is to overcome this fear in the family, in the first structure of oppression....Raising your voice, demanding your rights, rejecting violence becomes a philosophy and a practice of life. These are important because what does life in servitude mean?"
Soon after the pandemic started, I shaved off all my hair. And wrote this on the structures of patriarchy that ensure girls obey: religion, law, teachers, norms, beauty standards that sit atop the three-legged stool of capitalism and racism and misogyny. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ki…
To work on my draft for what is to come, I stood in the lightness and liberation of my scalp, running my hand across it, soft and tough at once, like the new skin after a scab peels away.
Where does power lie? With the eye of the beholder of ugly or with she/he/they who says FUCK YOUR EYE AND WHAT IT SEES?
Are you a boy? Are you a girl? Who the fuck cares.
Are you ugly? Fuck the beholder and the eye of the beholder.
Trump said out loud what so many whispered. He was never an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted rot. His next iteration will be cleaner, fitter, better dressed and politer. feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
Trump was the fruition of white supremacy, misogyny, Christian fundamentalism, militarism and authoritarianism.
And Steve Bannon is the gardener tasked with pruning and cross-pollinating the poisonous blossoms.
“I want you to know that “uniting” and “being civil” with white supremacist patriarchy makes you complicit in its crimes. We must never “get along” with fascists. We must never “unite” with white supremacists. We must always “argue” with patriarchy.”
New: “While I am glad to see Trump leave the White House, the white supremacist patriarchy he greenlit from the highest office in the land will not suddenly surrender and pack their Glocks, nor will they run out of “bitches” and “cunts” to target.” feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
The “bitches” and “cunts” are direct quotes from messages from the armed white supremacists who stormed the nation’s Capitol two weeks ago who had wanted to assassinate politicians. Much of their hate and threats were directed at female politicians.
Bannon is the chief-of-staff of white supremacist patriarchy. Trump’s pardon of was a thank you for his help in engineering the attempted coup to keep Trump in power.
And Bannon knows where the “war” is:
feminism versus white supremacist patriarchy. He has said so.