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I love this line in the NYT's video: "Trump's teaching us to expect the worst from people in government."

No, sweet cheeks, the people in government are teaching us to expect the worst from the people in government. They need no help from Trump.

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22

OMG just watched the NYT video -- while not funny, indeed unintentionally hilario. Also, NOT the Deep State. (Which they would be killed if they actually filmed.) At least Ali Velshi brings the Kenyan-Canadian narrative perspective. #TGIF

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I fucking love this community 😂♥️

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I came to the conclusion during Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction that the NY Times was a piece of shit, and this doesn't do anything to dispel that conviction.

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It ain't mine but this "deepstate" workplace comedy is hilarious. Funny/sad that the folks in the show may be more human and moral than in our "reality"😜

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"Inside Job" (netflix) takes place in the super top-secret and ultra-elusive shadow government [deepstate] organization Cognito Inc. Their mission? Hide some of the universe’s biggest conspiracies and keep the world intact.

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I want to think that the "elites" are desperate, but I fear that is just wishful thinking. Well, I can just laugh on the way to the gulag.

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22

The NYT video is a great example of the cherry picking fallacy. Hey, I found a few examples of Federal employees doing good stuff, so we can assume the majority do good stuff and therefore it would be folly to fire 50% of the federal work force. This is what passes for logic among those crazy dumb stupid bastards. Of course the NYT people have no bloody clue what proportion of the federal work force is worth their salt, or worth anything at all.

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Of course, the NYT self-own video starts with Trump 🙄 And saying Trump is obsessed with the deep state is all they need to do to deploy the turnkey mass consensus I described back in October 2021:

"An unwitting Goldstein, Trump played right into BigPharma’s strategy to discredit hydroxychloroquine by praising it—giving Trump Derangement Syndrome (a psychological disorder manufactured by and spread to tremendous monetary benefit and turnkey mass control by the media) sufferers the best and only reason they needed to dismiss it. They have been trained to plug their ears, cover their eyes, scream at the top of their lungs, and stamp their feet the instant any one of the Deplorables opens his mouth. One of the most effective instruments in the plutocracy’s toolkit, TDS has been brandished to misdirect the public for years, and it continues to work its magic despite Trump’s declining relevance, the embers of which the media will continue to fan as long as it pays dividends—just as Goldstein’s detested image is deployed in culturally unifying activities such as Two Minutes Hate." (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-scientifically-minded)

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I feel like I just watched an episode of The Office. Mindy Kaling as Radhika for sure 😀

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HOLY. SHIT. Does the NYT REALLY think we're THAT STUPID? It insults our intelligence. Cause, ya know, when I think "Deep State," the first agencies that come to mind are EPA, NASA and Department of Labor. What the everlasting FUCK???? Notice they avoided the NSA, DHS, FBI, Pentagon, CIA, and cast of thousands alphabet- soup agencies (spending the REAL money, dictating our policies and crushing our democratic republic.) Why does anyone with three or four operating braincells give a nickle to subscribe to that birdcage liner?

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We want to see the top runner ups too.

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There is a VERY dangerous and malevolent deep security state:FBI/CIA/NSA that must be disbanded

There is a second much larger bureaucratic deep state which encompasses the left liberal world view which promotes left wing goals and obstructs conservative policies. Power must be devolved from DC to disempower this group

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My 4 adult children and 2 grandchildren are angry which masks their fear. Hard to have a conversation that doesn't deteriorate into canceling hearing any alternative perspectives. Those of my boomer generation in power have really "gotten us in a fine kettle of fish" to quote Oliver & Hardy.

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It’s the banality of evil…

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I am only half way into this, the asteroid guy is not "deep state" and the second person, the lady, I am pretty sure she doesn't do pilates or eat salads.

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There's a rather large portion of NYT reporting that is simply a superficial attempt to placate folks in their echo chamber.

You may have heard of this deep state thingy - don't worry it's just those dumb right wing mouth breathers being dumb again. Feel free to dismiss their concerns and we encourage you to laugh or pity them as your muse dictates. Be sure to tune into SNL this weekend where they'll take an 80 IQ stab at skewering these deep state concerns!

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