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It Turns Out the Deep State is Actually Kind of Awesome
New York Times ^ | March 19, 2024 | Adam Westbrook and Lindsey Crouse

Posted on 03/19/2024 5:23:09 AM PDT by Jim Noble

As America closes in on a major election, mistrust is brewing around the mysterious government entity that’s now denounced in scary-sounding terms — “the deep state” and “the swamp.” What do those words even mean? Who exactly do they describe?

We went on a road trip to find out. As we met the Americans who are being dismissed as public enemies, we discovered that they are … us. They like Taylor Swift. They dance bachata. They go to bed at night watching “Star Trek” reruns. They go to work and do their jobs: saving us from Armageddon.

Sure, our tax dollars pay them, but as you’ll see in the video above, what a return on our investment we get!

When we hear “deep state,” instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us. These are the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better...

But if Donald Trump is re-elected and enacts Schedule F, that could change. He would have the power to eviscerate the so-called deep state and replace our public servants with people who work for him, not us.

In the video above, you’ll meet a few of our hard-working American public servants, and we hope you’ll agree that they’re not scary at all. In fact, they’re kind of awesome.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Flavious_Maximus
I second you comment with a Levi Garrett spit.



41 posted on 03/19/2024 6:33:42 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Jim Noble

“It’s Afraid”

This is the sort of thing big utility companies used put out when they knew they were going to face public hearing over an unpopular rate increase. “Teach the people how good we are and how much we do for them.”

I think they have being seeing what Javier Milei has been doing in Argentina and are getting worried Trump might be President and do the same.


42 posted on 03/19/2024 6:37:33 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Jim Noble
They go to bed at night watching “Star Trek” reruns.

Hey, wait! I do that!

43 posted on 03/19/2024 6:41:15 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: uranium penguin
You have no option to complain, or have any sort of elected representative alter, change, or cancel this decision.

You only have to find out where "Bob" lives...

And also, identify the ONES WHO GIVE THE ORDERS to Bob for attention. Them first, then Bob.

44 posted on 03/19/2024 6:47:20 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: Jim Noble

The old “they’re all public servants” lie.


45 posted on 03/19/2024 6:48:11 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Tench_Coxe
"Even the authors can't believe this pap."

They absolutely believe it, 100%. For progressives, bureaucracy is the final stage. They have achieved the pinnacle of existence.

What the Slimes is doing here is trotting out one or a few people from some bureaucracy and using them as a prop. But the real target of protection is the agency behind it and they're all the same, be it the EPA, FDA, FBI, don't matter. All agencies must continue to exist, progressivism requires it.

46 posted on 03/19/2024 6:52:54 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: PGR88
The old “they’re all public servants” lie.

They are happily morphing into masters.

47 posted on 03/19/2024 6:53:20 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: Jim Noble

I think the authors are deliberately missing the point. No one has a problem with public servants working for us on our behalf. The problem is that they are working for themselves and see Trump as a threat to their livelihood and power and during his term did everything possible to thwart the man that we the people elected.

When the President’s values align with the ‘deep state’ bureaucracy, they are more than willing to do his bidding. It has nothing to do with working ‘on the peoples’ behalf.


48 posted on 03/19/2024 6:55:00 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: lefty-lie-spy
"Most people in government service don’t give a damn about some perception by idiots that they are doing the work of martyrs or something, they just want that cushy job at the DMV that only really stupid people can get, that also comes with a lifetime pension."

It's not like that at all.

I've worked with these people. These are people who come fresh out of indoctrination camps(sometimes called "universites" and "college") and they are HARDCORE believers. They are going to force you, they're going to force me, they're going to force anybody.

And they get to force for life. Nothing makes them happier. Force is bliss.

Nothing is more offensive than these people than the idea that they could have some corporate job than a government job. So the pay is probably higher, so what? It doesn't come with any power at all.

They seek the power, screw the money. It's so seductive to have power, that much power, and they cannot get it any other way.

49 posted on 03/19/2024 6:59:29 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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Mistyped:

"Nothing is more offensive to these people than the idea that they could have some corporate job than a government job."

50 posted on 03/19/2024 7:03:11 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: Jim Noble

It sounds like these two “Deep State” NYT twerking pixies “got outta the boat”.


51 posted on 03/19/2024 7:12:28 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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To: Candor7

Thanks for posting that.

I never heard that perspective before.

Sadly, it makes a LOT of sense.


52 posted on 03/19/2024 7:12:43 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Jim Noble

Fat, stupid, drunk, horny bureaucrats trying to convince us they’re not fat, stupid, drunk and horny.


53 posted on 03/19/2024 7:30:28 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
"Nothing is more offensive than these people than the idea that they could have some corporate job than a government job. So the pay is probably higher, so what? It doesn't come with any power at all."

I'm sure they love the power, but don't forget the lifetime pensions. You don't get those in the private sector anymore.

54 posted on 03/19/2024 7:31:47 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Jim Noble

Maybe NYT published this a bit early. April 1st is only 12 days away.

Yes they are scared. They are terrified of a President who represents ordinary people, rather than elites.


55 posted on 03/19/2024 7:37:42 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: Jim Noble

It seems that the times is not big on constitutional republics. I wonder how they would like a conservative deep state.


56 posted on 03/19/2024 7:40:35 AM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Colorado Doug
I wonder how they would like a conservative deep state.

I mean it should be okay as long as they watch Star Trek and Taylor Swift, right?

57 posted on 03/19/2024 7:42:21 AM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Jim Noble

in an individualist society they are public servants

in collectivism

the state is primary

the “public servants” serve the state


58 posted on 03/19/2024 7:43:15 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Jim Noble

The Deep State does not think they work for the people of the United States. Contrary to the Constitution and in spite of us having an elected government in the President and Congress, as well as a judiciary appointed by them, the Deep State thinks and acts as if THEY - not our elected officials - are the government, and quite factually the majority of them have greater length in office than any elected official.


59 posted on 03/19/2024 7:45:52 AM PDT by Wuli (ena)
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To: JimRed

They are still primarily henchmen to the deep elite swamp rulers - the sick, (x)illionaire pedophiles, warmongers, sadistic chessplayers who think they can manipulate everyone from Mount Olympus.


60 posted on 03/19/2024 7:45:55 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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