Saturday, July 13, 2019

Open Thread Saturday

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The DIL and two of the grandkids are in town for a cuppla, so my time is rather booked for now. I'll be around and while I may have much to say, I won't have much time to write it down and share it with you. So...

I'll throw a topic out there and let y'all chew the fat on it while I entertain the progeny of my progeny.
In the United States, the term "deep state" is used to describe a conspiracy theory which suggests that collusion and cronyism exists within the US political system and constitutes a hidden government within the legitimately elected government. Some people believe that there is "a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process", whereas others consider the deep state to encompass corruption that is particularly prevalent amongst career politicians and civil servants. Wikipedia
A "conspiracy theory"?

I say nonsense, it's real.

What say you?




36 comments:

  1. Lois Lerner et al. with the IRS targeting controversy. Peter Strzok and Lisa Page at the FBI. ATF gunwalking scandal. Clinton e-mail server and Mueller investigation. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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    1. Now they don't even try very hard to hide it.

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    2. Because we don't have an independent media which roots out corruption.

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  2. Nylon12 hit all my salient points.

    Epstein investigation seems to be soft-pedaled... Is it because 99% of those who moved in his circle were major Demo operatives (Hey, Bill, looking at you, man)? (Hey, Bill, where DID all that Haitian relief money go???) How about a Texas rep that is sending staff (at my expense) into Mexico to advise invaders on how to game the immigration system? Why wasn't she arrested the second that was revealed?

    Clapper, Comey, Brennan, Meuller.... all of them ran some part of the "insurance policy". And they are still getting pay from major media for their take on events. Or their retirement from .gov

    Gotta go do some yard work to relax now....

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    1. There are a lot of progressives abrogating their duties AND violating their oath of office.

      Why are there no bills of indictment being handed down?

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  3. It exists in Government, it exists in corporations...it is hard to root out some bureaucrats and they take on a shadow power.

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    1. Agreed. See it in the corporate world nearly every day.

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  4. Just finished a re-read of Stephen Coonts "Liberty's Last Stand", a plausible accounting of the ills that plague our beautiful country even today. Yep, I'm thinking not a theory but status quo.

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    1. Loved that book, Mr. Coonts is a patriot and one of my heroes.

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  5. I’m not sure if it’s a “conspiracy” or just that a subset of our political class and bureaucracy share the same set of assumptions and values, and act accordingly, independently.

    Which sure looks like a conspiracy from the outside, even though the “members” of the conspiracy aren’t talking to each other about it (i.e. “conspiring).

    I guess my interpetation is that it follows the terrorist cell model, where small, independent groups are animated by the same core beliefs, but are separated from each other, just waiting for the go signal from on high. Like a constant barrage of “orangemanbad” news stories.

    You do pretty quickly wind up thinking that half the country, including vast swaths of certain industries (“news”), is part of the conspiracy, though.

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    1. I do like the comparison to terrorist cells. Apt in more ways than one.

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    2. Please don't think that they are not talking to each other. There are all kinds of meetings all over the world where industry/political leaders get together. Bretton Woods - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/brettonwoodsagreement.asp

      That is just one of the more important ones. One last one - Davos - https://www.weforum.org/focus/davos-2019

      Check six everyone, they're out there and they want your children's money.

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    3. They want it all, they are the forces of Mordor.

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  6. Yes. Real. And has been allowed to run rampant in past administrations. Because "FEEEELINGS!" sells it to the useful idiots. We are slouching towards Lord Of The Flies and King Rat at the speed of Facebook and Twitter.

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  7. Hey Old AFSarge;

    Yes I believe that it is real, when you have career bureaucrats that believe that they can govern better than the people they are suppose to serve, this shows arrogance on a grand scale. They believe that they working with certain people in the private sector provide stability and guidance to the "Great unwashed". They hate Trump because he represents chaos and that goes against the stability that the bureaucrats like and that they can predict.

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    1. One of the reasons I like the President is that they hate him so much.

      He must be doing something right. I do believe demons scream when driven into the light.

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    2. Right on Sarge! He's doing exactly what I voted for him to do.

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    3. I like that the people that have gotten us into this sordid state of affairs hate him. It means he is doing his job.

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    4. He's doing his job, but I'm starting to think that other than the economy and some attempts at diplomacy, he isn't really able to do much more. I haven't seen any swamp draining and there haven't been any serious investigations into the Clinton Foundation, the State Dept., the IRS, etc. I'm also not enamored over his budget- zero cutting, no pushing congress (under the GOP or DNC) to reduce the size of the deficit, make corrections to Social Security, etc. I'd give him a B minus so far, but even with the economy, I expect more. I don't know if it's because the deepstaters won't let him, or if he isn't willing to try.

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    5. Yeah, his record isn't perfect but I wonder just how much he can do without help. The RINOs and Dems block him at every turn it seems.

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  8. Anybody see the Justice Democrats webpage with the head-shots of Cortez, Pressley, Tlaid, and Omar all side-by-side, all staring off into the distance and remember the portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin looking off into the distance also in the same direction? Democratic Socialists gonna Communist.

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  9. Concur with y'all, as usual - I'm just hoping that this can be resolved by peaceful means - and by "resolved", I mean the leaders put in prison, losing their pensions and getting heavy fines - all as a warning to others that are lower in the ranks that this sort of crap won't be tolerated and has real consequences. This would include the violent thugs on the left like Antifa. If that doesn't happen, I am concerned it may be resolved thru ballistic means, which would be really ugly.

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    1. We're on the same page, Tom, as to preferred outcomes.

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  10. Real, and Ike warned us about it.

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  11. The photo is well captioned I'd have to say, but when did you take up the corn-cob pipe? You look a little like T.R. by the way.

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    1. I actually did do the pipe thing briefly on Okinawa. It was a corn cob too.

      T.R.? I look more like Ben Franklin. 😉

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    2. Older GMC (1st enlistment 1959)- You appear to think more like Ben Franklin.

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