This about sums it up.

[ripper76]

...our discourse manically shifts from claim that only maniacal and conspiratorial losers believe that there is such a thing as a “Deep State” in the glorious democracy of the United States, to prayers that the Deep State save us from Trump, and then back again. The core attribute of a Deep State is, to use Goldsmith’s words for what may have happened here, an “unelected domestic intelligence bureaucracy holds itself as the ultimate arbiter—over and above the elected president who is the constitutional face of U.S. intelligence and national security authority—about what actions do and don’t serve the national security interests of the United States.” Such a state of affairs is at least as dangerous for U.S. democracy as anything Trump is doing with Russia.



https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/the ... he-tactic/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


It's literally sedition.

[elartman1973]

Triggered
Delusional
Brainwashed
Obsessed
Dangerous to others
Seek help
Get a life

[ripper76]

[ripper76]

Actually, the article really doesn't go far enough since it doesn't get into the fact that the FBI and Brennan/the goon squad at the CIA (along with the State Dept, British and Australian intelligenece, Five Eyes, et al.) were making up "evidence," running human intelligence assets at the Trump campaign right and left, and leaking innuendo all over the place to the corrupt media in order to paint a narrative, but you get the basics.

Meanwhile...

[Shill Jackson]

192 criminal counts, 36 people and entities charges, seven people who have pleaded guilty, four people sentenced to prison and one person convicted at trial.

[ripper76]

[lettherebehouse]

I feel real sorrow for people who not only can't acknowledge a deep state exists, but to go as far as to dismiss it as conspiratorial without diving beyond the initial cover story themself, insulting others who actually did the legwork to pull down this not so elusive knowledge from their smug, elite, penthouse office chair (the kind with a swivel base and wheels for maneuverability).

[lettherebehouse]

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.

It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.

Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.

In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.

Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.

But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.

From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.

Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.

“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.

The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful.

It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.

The result is a two-track presidency.

Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.

Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.

On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.

This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.

Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.

The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.

Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation.

Senator John McCain put it best



This is where I stopped reading this post

[ripper76]

McCain was actually personally involved in disseminating the fake dossier. He was one of the most corrupt people to ever be a senator, and that’s saying something.

[lettherebehouse]

If the deep state had a figurehead, it would've been the two headed monster of McCain & Brennan. However as the American Hero Ed Snowden once said,

Snowden added that the deep state doesn’t end with the government, either.

“These people are from private war-making industries... defense contractors, intelligence contractors... these are people at think tanks,” he said. “It raises the question of who really has the most power in our society.”

Snowden suggests it’s not the voters or the politicians tasked to carry out their will, rather it’s “this larger constellation of influential groups and actors who are able to subvert and shape the decisions of these congressmen... or presidents.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ed-sn ... 2017-06-21" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


I don't know about y'all. But here's a man who has no reason to lie about this. He's lost everything, with nothing left to lose. I'd listen to the man if I were you.

[LookAway]

...our discourse manically shifts from claim that only maniacal and conspiratorial losers believe that there is such a thing as a “Deep State” in the glorious democracy of the United States, to prayers that the Deep State save us from Trump, and then back again. The core attribute of a Deep State is, to use Goldsmith’s words for what may have happened here, an “unelected domestic intelligence bureaucracy holds itself as the ultimate arbiter—over and above the elected president who is the constitutional face of U.S. intelligence and national security authority—about what actions do and don’t serve the national security interests of the United States.” Such a state of affairs is at least as dangerous for U.S. democracy as anything Trump is doing with Russia.



https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/the ... he-tactic/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


It's literally sedition.

True, the key word is publicly. Good try though