longweekend58 wrote on Jan 11
th, 2018 at 10:10pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Jan 11
th, 2018 at 7:47pm:
So what's your definition of the Deep State, Longy?
Would you care to post a response?
Point of Order. How exactly does one define something that does not exist?? The Deep State is a fantasy and conspiracy theory that exists only in the minds of demented and cognitively-challenged simpletons. The only definition even remotely possible is 'artifacts of deep-seated paranoia with elements of schizoid affection'
Or more simply... THEY ARE NUTS
So Dead End thinks he knows more than the former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich: 'The deep state exists’
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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) says there is a “deep state” of entrenched federal government employees undermining President Trump.
“Of course, the deep state exists,” Gingrich told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "There’s a permanent state of massive bureaucracies that do whatever they want and set up deliberate leaks to attack the president.
“They are fighting to keep hold of their power. This is what the deep state does: They create a lie, spread a lie, fail to check the lie and then deny they were behind the lie.”White House press secretary Sean Spicer last week said there may be “a deep state” working against Trump and his administration.
“I think there’s no question when you have eight years of one party in office that stays in government [they’re] affiliated with, joined [to] and continue to espouse the agenda of the previous administration,” Spicer said.
He characterized the “deep state” opposing Trump as former President Obama loyalists throughout the federal government.
“I don’t think it should come as a surprise that there are people burrowed into government during eight years of the last administration and may have believed in that agenda and want to continue to seek it,” he said. "I don’t think that should come as surprise to anyone.”
Trump campaigned as a political outsider during the 2016 presidential election, repeatedly vowing to “drain the swamp” in Washington and end government corruption.
The president has since frequently decried leaks from inside his administration to the press, leading some conservative figures to blame Obama-administration holdovers.
Right-leaning media figures have increasingly cited the “deep state” for damaging revelations about some of Trump’s associates and their ties with Russia.
Conspiracy nutjobs like Gingrich making statements of their beliefs is NOT proof or even evidence. Once again, if the Deep State is so pervasive and so powerful then its actual existence should be extremely easy to prove.