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originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: Harpua
a reply to: DJW001
Possibly true, I just want to hear why the deep state wouldn't embrace trump or why he would try to take them down. He's supposed to be good for business and the deep state wants to support big business.
There is no "deep state." That is a paranoid delusion. There are career civil servants. Some of them are genuinely dedicated to the country, but all of them are dedicated to keeping their jobs. Any politician who threatens to trim the bureaucracy is not going to be popular with them.
...there is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete,
so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their
breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
originally posted by: vinifalou
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: Harpua
a reply to: DJW001
Possibly true, I just want to hear why the deep state wouldn't embrace trump or why he would try to take them down. He's supposed to be good for business and the deep state wants to support big business.
There is no "deep state." That is a paranoid delusion. There are career civil servants. Some of them are genuinely dedicated to the country, but all of them are dedicated to keeping their jobs. Any politician who threatens to trim the bureaucracy is not going to be popular with them.
..there is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete,
so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their
breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
They know that America is not a place of which it can be said, as it used to be, that a man may choose his own calling and pursue it just as far as his abilities enable him to pursue it; because to-day, if he enters certain fields, there are organizations which will use means against him that will prevent his building up a business which they do not want to have built up; organizations that will see to it that the ground is cut from under him and the markets shut against him. For if he begins to sell to certain retail dealers, to any retail dealers, the monopoly will refuse to sell to those dealers, and those dealers, afraid, will not buy the new man's wares.
—The New Freedom, Chapter I: The Old Order Changeth
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
originally posted by: Harpua
Watch this video, you'll enjoy it: www.youtube.com...
Obama and Clinton are just as guilty as Nixon, Reagan, Bush etc
I'm sorry, no video guy. Text only.
What if "traditional" deep state was screwed in Obama's years? We are far behind "Yes, Prime Minister" here.
originally posted by: AgarthaSeed
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
Senior Executive Service ... how many of them were appointed by Obama admin.?
The SES exists to give long term government employees a place to wait until they reach full retirement benefits.
Can you elaborate on this? What are they exactly doing? Waiting?
They are dispatching memos, attending inter-departmental meetings, drafting "white papers" and performing other random tasks vital to the survival of the bureaucracy.
Vital to the survival of the "bureaucracy?"
You spelled "deep state" wrong.
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: AgarthaSeed
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
Senior Executive Service ... how many of them were appointed by Obama admin.?
The SES exists to give long term government employees a place to wait until they reach full retirement benefits.
Can you elaborate on this? What are they exactly doing? Waiting?
They are dispatching memos, attending inter-departmental meetings, drafting "white papers" and performing other random tasks vital to the survival of the bureaucracy.
Vital to the survival of the "bureaucracy?"
You spelled "deep state" wrong.
"The deep state" was first coined to describe the organs of government that survive coups in countries like Egypt and Pakistan. Are you implying there has been a coup in the United States?
Sounds like he is talking about big business, not government.
originally posted by: Harpua
Sounds like he is talking about big business, not government.
They are so interconnected it becomes the deep state you are in denial of.
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
Senior Executive Service ... how many of them were appointed by Obama admin.?
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: vinifalou
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: Harpua
a reply to: DJW001
Possibly true, I just want to hear why the deep state wouldn't embrace trump or why he would try to take them down. He's supposed to be good for business and the deep state wants to support big business.
There is no "deep state." That is a paranoid delusion. There are career civil servants. Some of them are genuinely dedicated to the country, but all of them are dedicated to keeping their jobs. Any politician who threatens to trim the bureaucracy is not going to be popular with them.
..there is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete,
so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their
breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
Let me finish that quote for you:
They know that America is not a place of which it can be said, as it used to be, that a man may choose his own calling and pursue it just as far as his abilities enable him to pursue it; because to-day, if he enters certain fields, there are organizations which will use means against him that will prevent his building up a business which they do not want to have built up; organizations that will see to it that the ground is cut from under him and the markets shut against him. For if he begins to sell to certain retail dealers, to any retail dealers, the monopoly will refuse to sell to those dealers, and those dealers, afraid, will not buy the new man's wares.
—The New Freedom, Chapter I: The Old Order Changeth
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Sounds like he is talking about big business, not government.