These 6 quotes about how Bannon is going to get his revenge have zero chill

Chief strategist Stephen Bannon is out at the White House, but in the words of The New York Times' Maggie Haberman, "Bannon is much more of a problem for the White House staff from the outside than inside it."

That's putting it mildly, at least if you ask people in the orbit of Bannon and Breitbart, the far-right publication Bannon might soon be returning to lead. In the words of Breitbart editor Joel Pollak, after all, this means #WAR.

Here are six dramatic quotes about the coming storm. Jeva Lange

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2. Bannon "has a 'killing machine' in Breitbart News." [Axios]

3. Breitbart and Bannon will go "thermonuclear" against the "globalists." [Axios]

4. "Get ready for Bannon the barbarian." [Axios]

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6. "If they get rid of Bannon, you know what's gonna happen? The motherlode. If Bannon is removed, there are gonna be divorces, because I know about the mistresses, the sugar babies, the drugs, the pill popping, the orgies. I know everything. If they go after Bannon, the mother of all stories is gonna drop, and we're just gonna destroy marriages, relationships — it's gonna get personal." [Alt-right leader Mike Cernovich via The Daily Beast]