The Friday Brief: Oct 24, 2025
Bannon's 3rd Term Coup, WH Trauma, and Elon's Robots
Inside:
Bannon’s 3rd Term Coup
The East Wing Obscenity: More Notes
The Joint Chiefs Fail The Test/
DOD To Congress: Drop Dead
Bulldoze Congress Next
Elon’s Robot What?
Dirty GPT
Nazi Streak, Broken
A House of Dynamite
Bannon’s 3rd Trump Coup
Steve Bannon has a new prophecy, delivered with that familiar, scabrous mix of menace and mysticism: Donald Trump will be president again in 2028. He said it straight to The Economist, with the added flourish that there’s a “plan”…one so secret and brilliant it apparently outruns the plain text of the Twenty-Second Amendment and the limits of reality itself.
In his telling, Trump is not merely a politician but a vessel of “divine providence,” destined to take a third bite out of the apple because the people (well, his people) demand it.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t strategic noise, it’s a stress test on the constitutional guardrails.
Try it, motherfucker.
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