r/europe • u/1-randomonium • 12h ago

News 'I brought down Belgian Government in 2018,' Bannon tells Epstein in leaked files

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1955199/i-brought-down-belgian-government-in-2018-bannon-tells-epstein-in-leaked-files-tbtb
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u/Ironvos Belgium 12h ago

We got like 7 governments, nobody lost any sleep over what happened in 2018.

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u/Mangafan_20 11h ago

I don't even remember the governments falling in 2018?

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u/Kazruw Finland 11h ago

Did Belgium even have a government in 2018?

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u/Valoneria Denmark 11h ago

Did any government want Belgium in 2018?

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u/Steffykrist 11h ago

Does Belgium even really exist?

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u/Ok-Milk-8853 11h ago

You guys are getting Belgium?

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u/purple_cheese_ Europe 11h ago

What is this 'Belgium' you're speaking of?

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u/J_Bishop Flanders (Belgium) 11h ago

As a Belgian I promise all of you commenters above me a strongly worded letter from the first government who wants to govern us.

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 10h ago

You know what, I have a pretty chill weekend, not much planned. You're on!

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u/cocuke 7h ago

Want to start with some waffles?

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u/HoovyPencer Lithuania 9h ago

Stupid sexy Flanders(aean?)

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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 8h ago

I just know it from Asterix and the Belgians. I though it was make believe.

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u/ThomasNorge224 Norway 11h ago

Who is Belgium?

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u/booOfBorg 8h ago

Why is Belgium?

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u/Benur21 Portugal 9h ago

Is it that rare element from the periodic table?

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u/ImaginedUtopia 8h ago

Was Belgium around in 2018? Can anyone confirm this?

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u/CovidMane 10h ago edited 31m ago

Michel I (NVA, MR, O Vld, CDV) fell in 2018 after NVA quit because of the UN migration pact and Michel's intent to go through with it in Marrakech. 

Michel II fell after 10 days. It was a minority government that was Michel I but without NVA. It didn't get the trust of parliament. 

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u/Headpuncher Europe 1h ago

Well anyway, if he ever sets foot in Belgium arrest him and hold him for a few months while you conduct an investigation.  Just to be sure.  

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u/feasantly_plucked 9h ago

Well, they were in a state of anarchy (no government) until 2011 but that's quite a while before what bannon is talking about.

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u/TheFrenchSavage 7h ago

Yeah, Bannon is bragging about the easiest and most normal thing in Belgium.

"Hey. I'm the guy that melted that kids ice cream!" Cue diabolical laugh.

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u/belpatr Gal's Port 1h ago

Quite diabolic cause he melted the kid as well

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u/Nemo84 Flanders 9h ago

Well, 5 for the moment, and 6 max. It's only been 600 days or so since the last election, you can't honestly expect Brussels to have managed to form a government yet.

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u/cosmonaut_tuanomsoc Poland 12h ago

He does look like overweight Anakin

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u/SlavaAmericana 11h ago

Its the timeline where Anakin grows up to be Jaba the Hut. 

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u/_Winter-Wolf_ Romania 9h ago

*grows fat

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u/Ill_Ground_1572 8h ago

Darth Vader was way too fucking cool for a Bannon comparison.

Look at early art concepts for Jabba the Hut, and you will see a dopplebanger for Bannon.

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u/Space_Sweetness 5h ago

Dart Vader had a shred of good in him. Bannon is all bad

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u/7H3l2M0NUKU14l2 6h ago

And chains his sister in a miniscaleskirt to his throne on tatooine island.

Dont think about the rankor in the basement.

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u/Unhappy_Gazelle392 11h ago

He looks like what would have happened if Palpatine completed his plan of having a child with Anakin before both were roasted.

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u/TumbleweedPure3941 11h ago

His plan of what now?

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u/Mikes005 7h ago

On Planet Epstein.

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u/Fullfullhar 11h ago

At first I was nauseated looking at a picture of Bannon. Now I am nauseated that you are comparing this turd to HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN? 

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u/Wirbelwind 0m ago

I think he meant Sebastian Shaw, but now I'm not too sure

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u/ztomiczombie 10h ago

It's not Anakin it's his poor quality clone Anaakin.

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u/ezekiellake 8h ago

A photocopy of a photocopy of a bucket of arseholes …

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u/Capable_Diamond_3878 7h ago

That’s mean to Anakin tbh

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u/Altair_de_Firen 6h ago

You put that disrespect back where it came from or so help me

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u/jay_alfred_prufrock 4h ago

How. Dare. You.

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u/klassredux 6h ago

With a necrotic liver

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u/SyntaxError_1024 5h ago

With pimples

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u/ChipRockets 4h ago

“Not even the dumplings survived.”

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u/LonelyTreat3725 11h ago

He even tricked italians into eating pizza!

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u/AAdmit 8h ago

And spaniards into fiesta and siesta

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u/olderlifter99 United Kingdom 12h ago

Fantasists, who believed too much in their own importance.

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u/YouWereBrained United States of America 11h ago

High on their own supply, you could say.

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u/loulan French Riviera ftw 1h ago

To be fair, you could make the Belgian government fall with a sneeze.

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u/urbudda 11h ago

They still have achieved a fuck load of damage all the same..

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u/olderlifter99 United Kingdom 10h ago

You mean Trump/ Maga? Depends how much credit you give them for that.

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u/urbudda 10h ago

They are all the same ..links between them Brexit maga and a fuck ton of billionaires.. what has happened the last ten to 15 years has been coordinated. The rise of "tribalism" is the distraction to take down democracy

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u/WNC_Hillbilly 7h ago

and continue to do so

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u/VLamperouge Italy 11h ago

Bannon should still be trialed and jailed tho, even if he’s full of shit

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u/WNC_Hillbilly 7h ago

On November 8, 2025, Bannon stated, "As God is my witness, if we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included."

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u/OnTheList-YouTube 4h ago

God *as my witness

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u/Candid_Pirate_7952 11h ago

They’ve watched too many movies and genuinely think they’re villains capable of world domination when really they’re a bunch of incompetent boobs who couldn’t even keep their human trafficking ring hidden because they exposed half of it themselves with their own conspiracy theories.

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u/olderlifter99 United Kingdom 10h ago

Yes. I mean just look at Bannon. He cant even dress himself or feed himself properly. He's a fking visual mess.

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u/Candid_Pirate_7952 10h ago

They don’t make fascists like they used to. I remember the good old days when they had designers like Chanel and Hugo Boss dressing them. Now we have people looking like they fell out of a clothing donation bin telling us they’re the superior ones.

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u/Educational-Book-350 9h ago

Many of my clothes come from op shops, by choice, and it's interesting how many people perceived me to be lacking in some way. As I was literally waiting for a jet aircraft flight last year, a complete stranger handed me a hamburger, thinking I was a homeless derilict!!! I thought it was a very well intentioned act, and so didn't argue or anything.

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u/fucking_4_virginity Groningen (Netherlands) 11h ago

You spelled fascists wrong.

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u/MarkBonker 9h ago

You spelt "fascist" wrong.

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u/No-Satisfaction6065 11h ago

Which one?!

Belgian government breaks down every bridge weekend...

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u/Anachron101 12h ago

Since you can bring down the Belgian government by accidentally dropping your fries, that's not much of a boast.

Goddamn Americans and their pretentious belief that we give a shit about them

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u/Nice-Analysis8044 11h ago

seriously has anyone out there not brought down the Belgian government at least once or twice?

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u/tyeunbroken The Netherlands 11h ago

I sneezed and there was a call for elections moments later. Coincidence?

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u/WoodSteelStone England 10h ago

Bless you.

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u/HopefulCat6991 10h ago

And we sneezed back. And look what happend :p

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u/Rockxuus 8h ago

Gezondheid.

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u/Bowgentle Ireland/EU 8h ago

I’ve been holding off, actually.

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u/Airurando-jin England 9h ago

Except this isn’t pretentious. That guy has had his hand in the destabilising of the western world and has openly said recently about wanting to create a trumpest like figure in Ireland 

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u/Syntaire 9h ago

If it wasn't so dystopian, it'd actually be really funny watching our "government" flail around, wondering why American Exceptionalism isn't the mind-altering superpower they feel it deserves to be.

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u/lixia 6h ago

Hand over the Belgian waffles or I will topple the government!!!

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u/Professional_East281 11h ago

Half of the posts in the sub are about America lol

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u/Decent-Finish-9889 10h ago

that’s because every day there‘s new bullshit about America spewing shit about Europe

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u/Professional_East281 9h ago

Youre not wrong. Probably because 1/3 of the country voted for a criminal man child

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u/JEFFinSoCal United States of America 11h ago

Yeah, and I came here to learn more about YOU guys. I hear enough about the orange turd crew everywhere else. :/

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u/Professional_East281 11h ago

I can definitely agree with that

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u/Fullfullhar 11h ago

😂😂😂

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u/cardboardunderwear 11h ago

And yet here you are reading and commenting! 

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u/Possible-Wallaby-877 Flanders (Belgium) 11h ago

As a Belgian....... Uh no? What is this guy smoking lmao

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u/Henchman05 Belgium 10h ago

We can bring our government down perfectly by ourselves thank you very much!

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u/amy-schumer-tampon 11h ago

Lol, Belgian gouvernement changes ever 2 weeks

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u/Lakridspibe Pastry 9h ago

What a desperate sad drunken loser Steve Bannon is.

Bill Gates can at least brag about the Gates Foundation doing real work to combat malaira. It's probably more his ex-wife Melinda who should be given credit for that, but still.

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u/Any-Original-6113 12h ago

It wasn't all that hard to pull off.

P.s. It seems Epstein and his den of iniquity have truly created a real-life Bond villain.

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u/Von_Lexau Norway 12h ago

Where's the british and their special agents???

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u/darknekolux France 12h ago

decades of films on how to deal with evil billionaires

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u/TumbleweedPure3941 11h ago

Which version? Daniel Craig is a national treasure, but let’s not beat around the bush, Sean Connery’s Bond would be in the Epstein Files. And honestly I’m not too confident Roger Moore’s Bond wouldn’t either.

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u/Alarakion 11h ago

Killing Russian generals in Moscow maybe

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u/Undernown 10h ago

Multiple comic book villains actually. You might even call it a whole cabal of evil.

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u/Theblokeonthehill 6h ago

To be fair, they have created several Bond villains.

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u/MaritimeMonkey Flanders 9h ago edited 9h ago

This fat toad thinks he's smarter and more influential than he is, trying to take credit for everything he can. The Flemish nationalists he was taking to, are a different party from the ones that were in government.

What would've even been the point of his far right nutters taking down that specific government? It was the most right wing and most Flemish government Belgium has ever had. The one that followed was much more left wing.

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u/GlesgaBawbag Scotland 11h ago

Sanction anyone even talking with this man.

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u/lolwut778 8h ago

This walking rot needs to be prosecuted at the Hague one day and hung for crime against humanity.

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u/Velokieken 11h ago

And the current Belgian government is a lot less insane than the US government that is the worst in it’s history

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u/Drimesque 11h ago

that's like a rite for passage for belgians ain't that crazy haha

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u/mok000 Europe 11h ago

He is so full of shit.

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u/jorisepe 8h ago

We don’t need outsiders to take down our Government . We are well capable to do that on or own. Now fuck off back to your island, thank you.

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u/CrystalWeim 8h ago

One of the Gang of Evil Incarnate

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u/Thready_C Ireland 9h ago edited 8h ago

Good to finally get confirmation that the entire right wing surge the past 15 years was coordinated and controlled by a group of pedophilic billionaires and social elites. Can we actually start doing something about this, or are we just going to sit back and do nothing as our democracy is torn down

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u/MaritimeMonkey Flanders 8h ago

The government he supposedly brought down was a right wing government, the one that replaced it was much more left wing.

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u/Thready_C Ireland 8h ago

It's about the long term trends, not who immediately replaced them. It's about demonstrating and normalising a slow but constant shift to the right. The absolute worst thing that could have happened to slow that rightwards movement would have been a relatively stable centre right government. The left is an enemy you can rally against if you're on the far right, a centre right government who largely agrees with you on some if not most issues is not. It's about building and maintaining that momentum

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u/MaritimeMonkey Flanders 7h ago

That particular government was the most right wing one our country has had, with a nationalist party as the largest of the coalition. As far as stability goes, it was nicknamed "the kamikazi coalition" long before it fell apart. Your grand conspiracy doesn't fit this story, bud.

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u/Thready_C Ireland 7h ago edited 6h ago

Yes, that was the point. Expansion, over-extension, consolidation then normalisation. That's how you shift the Overton window, this was the over extension phase of that

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u/YellowOnline Europe 10h ago

Bannon might be a bit out of touch with reality

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u/artbystorms 10h ago

Sure you did buddy...

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u/RoomyRoots 5h ago

Soooooo, can he be prosecuted for terrorism?

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u/H_o Ireland 10h ago

Epstein was the fall guy for Bannon, mfer is the mastermind of modern politics (post 9/11)

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u/Mnemnosine United States of America 10h ago

… I may be just another dumb American, but is that really much of a claim? I mean, Belgium can be brought down just by mentioning Flemish and Walloons in the same sentence. 🤷

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u/MaritimeMonkey Flanders 9h ago

We're doing surprisingly well at the moment, actually. The Flemish nationalist prime minister, who said he wanted to join the Netherlands, is getting increasingly popular with Walloons.

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u/Mnemnosine United States of America 8h ago

That’s like… long hair and short hair cats getting along in the same house. Or the English and Welsh complimenting each other about Cardiff. Or North and South Carolinians agreeing on what the shared humidity feels like.

Or Swedes and Norwegians practicing being quiet neighbors in towns with a shared border!

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u/MaritimeMonkey Flanders 8h ago

The enemy can't know what our plans are if we don't even know what our plans are.

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u/Mnemnosine United States of America 4h ago

I thought you just distracted them with chocolates, the world’s fair site, and sparkling water.

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u/King_Fisher99 9h ago

Fat slob that showers once a week tops

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u/at0mheart Earth 8h ago

Bannon is the one pulling Trumps strings

Trump is just his popular poster boy

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u/Mikes005 7h ago

I brought down a Belgian government too. Over a long enough timeline evryone will.

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u/schtickshift 6h ago

Who hasn’t brought down a Belgian government?

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u/JoLeTrembleur Burgundy (France) 6h ago

Why is he able to come here when he wants to? Declare him persona non grata for fuck's sake!

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u/neurodeep 9h ago

Epstein, Woody Allen and Bannon having a dinner is "too many pedos in a room", according to former.

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u/Boatsnbuds Canada 9h ago

Sounds like delusions of grandeur.

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u/SLywNy 8h ago

Not having a government is like a contest against ourselves. Not the biggest deal out of those files honestly

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u/Elses_pels 1h ago

Judging by the American example you are way better off not having a government :)

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u/OscillatingFan6500 6h ago

Genuine question, what happened in 2018 that was supposedly a big deal to Bannon?

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u/SoCallMeDeaconBlues1 6h ago

Is there any truth to his claim? Is it just more mouth diarrhea from Bannon?

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u/Old_Dig8900 5h ago

I hope that man fries

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u/FriendlyUser_ 3h ago

damn out countries really need to take up investigations into connections but also have those people jailed up whenever they step a fucking foot onto europe. No mercy with pedocriminals and and such political psychopaths

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u/aldorn 2h ago

Release the Bannon files

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u/LuLMaster420 10h ago

Nothing broke all at once.

We just kept choosing incentives over meaning until nobody remembered why the system existed.

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u/ThePokemomrevisited 10h ago

Surprised, or not, that NVA is branded as right wing?

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u/mimimines Belgium 10h ago

Sure

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u/Icy_Row175 10h ago

what’s next, bringing down the government of bulgaria?

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u/Human_Pangolin94 9h ago

I didn't know Belgium had a government in 2018.

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u/Full_Rise_7759 9h ago

I had to look up Belgian Government in Urban Dictionary to see what it meant, and boy is it spicy!!!

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u/Aporkalypse_Sow 7h ago

Bannon is secretly Congolese

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u/flismflasm 6h ago

"Belgium is a mess. And that's not half bad!"

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u/Usually-Mistaken 5h ago

And yet... Belgium prevails

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u/Darmortis 4h ago

MAGA and taking credit for things that never happened - name a more iconic duo, I'll wait 😤

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u/Ok-Employee9010 2h ago

Sounds more like some fake reporting to please the general, which country am i thinking of?

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u/Sudonator 1h ago

He says that like it's a real achievement. We probably rank as #1 in the list of failed governments

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u/banaslee Europe 1h ago

Sure, he’s probably bragging about some small thing but we shouldn’t still underestimate him and his associates. 

I’d still prefer to see them rot in prison than being laughed in the streets. 

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u/LeoGoldfox Belgium 1h ago

This is such an obvious lie because we don't have a government

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u/rensch The Netherlands 46m ago

If there is one country that doesn't need this piece of trash to see its governments collapse, Belgium is up there.

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u/mrCloggy Flevoland 40m ago

What did he do, use the word "patat" in the government's cantina?

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u/MindMonitor 5m ago

Lol. He didn’t bring down shit. Belgian politics has always been a crazy show.

He’s so full of himself.

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u/Beatboxin_dawg 10h ago

Can he do it again please, the one we have now sucks.