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Trump says latest Russian attack on Ukraine ‘what anybody else would do’
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If the "deep state" even existed like the teabaggers imagined, Bronzo the Clown would not even be a thing.
I love how they screeched about deep state shit for years and now that we have a shadow government operating in plain sight, they're completely fine with it.
They were little children. They ran to the deep state and asked it to help protect them from the deep state (and people of color, and women, and transgender people, and gays...)
Agreed. I think "deep state", to the teabagger nutjobs, meant something like the way they talk about "DEI". They were butthurt that government appeared to support some nefarious liberal conspiracy or something - like recognizing that gays exist or that trans exist, or that POC exist, etc.
They just lazily appropriated the accurate use of the phrase from the left (just like they did for "fake news" - they've been hearing that about their outlets since the 90s, and much like that dipshit that wrote that dumb book entitled, no joke, "Liberal Fascism", they just did a "no, you" on it. The right is nothing if not intellectually lazy, even if we are talking about their elitist thought leaders.) and perverted it.
The left was rightly talking about things like COINTELPRO, MKULTRA, Operation Ajax, five eyes, Iran/Contra and CIA plots to run crack cocaine into our cities. The right appropriated that, and entirely w/o any evidence, turned it into complete crazypants bullshit. It turns out that there really ARE conspiracies and you don't have to just concoct bullshit. It turns out that the "deep state" was always aligned with the right - small wonder; why the dipsticks on the right cannot see that is probably because they always, always, always have to live in a fictional universe where they are the aggrieved victim of some leftist globalist plot.
yes, exactly! i have the misfortune of knowing some of these types. when they get started, I laugh and tell them that they are just regurgitating (poorly) stuff that was largely debunked 30+ years ago when i was a teenager on the internet. But, me warning them 2 years ago that companies were going to start pushing people to return to the office because they realize we were starting to claw too much power back for ourselves? Nooooo, that’s fucking crazy talk.
Not sure 'love' is the right word here.
Also, if the "deep state" existed like they imagined it does, Bronzo would be sidelined one way or another by now.