{"id":130147,"date":"2022-08-24T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=130147"},"modified":"2022-08-24T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:11:12","slug":"another-conspiracy-theory-vindicated-msnbc-tells-peasants-youll-miss-the-deep-state-when-its-gone-by-ben-bartee-august-23-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=130147","title":{"rendered":"Another Conspiracy Theory Vindicated: MSNBC Tells Peasants \u2018You\u2019ll Miss the Deep State When It\u2019s Gone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Ben Bartee<br \/>\nTHE DAILY BELL<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC and The Daily Beast recently made an amazing admission that the Deep State \u2013 the permanent DC bureaucracy that persists from administration to administration \u2013 is real.<\/p>\n<p>David Rothkopf \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/22\/msnbc-and-daily-beast-feature-uae-lobbyist-david-rothkopf-with-no-disclosure-a-scandalous-media-wide-practice\/\">an acolyte of war criminal Henry Kissinger<\/a> \u2014 said the quiet part out loud on national television and in a column he penned titled \u201cYou\u2019re Going to Miss the Deep State When It\u2019s Gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why We'll Miss The 'Deep State' When It's Gone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rpSv2DcaLFI?feature=oembed\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/youre-going-to-miss-the-deep-state-when-its-gone?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4\">The Daily Beast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c<strong><u>During his presidency<\/u><\/strong>, Trump was regularly frustrated by the fact that <strong><u>government officials<\/u><\/strong>\u2014appointees as well as career officials in the civil service, the military, the intelligence community and the foreign service\u2014<strong><u>were an impediment<\/u><\/strong> [to his agenda].\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0000000000000000-300x125.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0000000000000000-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0000000000000000.png 995w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the piece and in the interview, Rothkopf and the MSNBC news actor celebrate unelected technocrats working behind the scenes to thwart the will of the elected president.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a most peculiar development, given how the corporate media has, in very recent history, derided the concept of the Deep State as an outlandish Alex Jones-territory \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d As if they didn\u2019t spend years demonizing proponents of the Deep State theory as MAGA Q-tards lapping up Trump Kool-aid.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s MSNBC in 2018 claiming the Deep State doesn\u2019t exist and framing it as an attack on law enforcement:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump Lashes Out At \u201cDeep State\u201d Justice Department | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zvpVFnx3m4s?feature=oembed\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A hack wrote a whole book about the Deep State \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d and then earned himself a slobbering 2019 interview on MSNBC for his heroic journalism:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Book Debunks President Donald Trump's Deep State Conspiracy | The Last Word | MSNBC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8vEY4rbyNTo?feature=oembed\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On a dime, the corporate media seamlessly transitioned from dismissing the Deep State as a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d to lauding it as the savior of democracy or whatever \u2013 and hoped Netflix and social media had sufficiently murdered its viewers\u2019 attention spans so that they wouldn\u2019t notice or care.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Conventional mythology dictates that the American president is the \u201cmost powerful man in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One look at the limp sack of flesh currently occupying the Oval Office proves that\u2019s a false assumption \u2013 or, at least, an antiquated one. The claim may have been truer at some point in the distant past, but, if so, that\u2019s a thing of yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p>Biden needs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biden-flashes-extremely-simple-cue-card-instructions-at-meeting-2022-6\">cue cards to direct him when to sit in public appearances<\/a>. Handlers \u2013 usually his wife \u2013 hold his hand and direct him to and fro. No one seriously believes he dresses himself, much less presides over national governance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Biden struggles to get his jacket on before dropping his sunglasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87aPi_qwL1k?feature=oembed\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1559635564248301568&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybell.com%2Fall-articles%2Fnews-analysis%2Fanother-conspiracy-theory-vindicated-msnbc-tells-peasants-youll-miss-the-deep-state-when-its-gone%2F&amp;sessionId=b988be66bc1a694cc4c053d92ae4e4e7efb506d7&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=31f0cdc1eaa0f%3A1660602114609&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1559635564248301568\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every public appearance in which they wheel this demented carcass out to try, and fail, to read sentences off of the teleprompter is an assault on your common sense.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also further confirmation that the Deep State is alive and well. In fact, it\u2019s never enjoyed greater control over \u201cAmerican democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Biden\u2019s handlers instructed him to declare that the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/16\/politics\/vladimir-putin-joe-biden-summit\/index.html\">adults were back in charge<\/a>\u201d upon assuming office, what he was meant to convey was that the Deep State was back in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming he can still comprehend anything, career Swamp-dweller Biden understands the terms of \u201chis\u201d presidency: he gets to masquerade as the figurehead, playing his role (however poorly), while leaving the governing to the technocrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Suppose a competent, populist, Constitutionalist president were ever to somehow slip through the cracks. The Deep State, as Chuck Schumer declared on national television, has \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6OYyXv2l4-I\">Seven ways from Sunday to get back at [them].<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schumer Warns Trump: Intel Community Has Many Ways to 'Get Back at You' (FLASHBACK)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6OYyXv2l4-I?feature=oembed\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cheerleading the extrajudicial incapacitation of a popularly elected president is seditious, and Schumer should be tried for it \u2013 but it\u2019s also objectively true.<\/p>\n<p>In all likelihood, the CIA, probably in partnership with other non-governmental criminal elements, executed Kennedy in \u201963. The Deep State provably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/all-articles\/news-analysis\/june-2021-update-attempted-coups-corporate-media-gaslighting-and-the-fight-to-unrig\/\">manipulated and subverted Trump\u2019s publicly stated objective<\/a> to withdraw from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Time Magazine openly bragged about the <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5936036\/secret-2020-election-campaign\/\">corporate state\u2019s orchestrated campaign to manipulate the 2020 election<\/a> in favor of Biden, which featured a cabal of corporate interests and Deep State political actors united to thwart the democratic process:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cFor more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America\u2019s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President\u2026 Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding\u2026 <strong><u>This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election<\/u><\/strong>\u2026 a <strong><u>well-funded cabal of powerful people<\/u><\/strong>, ranging across industries and ideologies, <strong><u>working together behind the scenes<\/u><\/strong> to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Presidents maintain their nominal power as long as they stay in the good graces of the shadow power. Most, fortunately for their own sake, are corrupt and cowardly enough to never rock the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Since politics is \u201cshowbusiness for ugly people,\u201d as the expression goes, most presidents have had the requisite acting skills to play the part of an executive calling the shots. Biden is just too demented to even convincingly portray a competent commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>The fa\u00e7ade is collapsing in real-time. Everyone \u2013 even committed Democrat partisans \u2013 understand the president\u2019s not the president.<\/p>\n<p>Although the elected US president himself is impotent, the executive branch is more powerful than ever \u2013 with greater latitude to act independently of any political checks on power as intended in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>In a nation with self-respect, popular disgust at the anti-democratic spectacle would crescendo into a full-on revolt against the ruling technocrat class.<\/p>\n<p>The MSNBC hack\u2019s claim that normal people would miss the Deep State is dubious but he\u2019s definitely right that they\u2019re steering the ship\u2026 right into an iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>Will we miss the technocrats if and when we successfully flush them down the historical toilet like MSNBC seems to believe?<\/p>\n<p>Or will we dance on their graves?<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armageddonprose.com\/subscribe\/\">Armageddon Prose<\/a><\/strong> and\/or\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/armageddonprose.substack.com\/\">Substack<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/benbartee\">Patreon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gab.com\/benbartee\">Gab<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmageddonProse\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/all-articles\/news-analysis\/another-conspiracy-theory-vindicated-msnbc-tells-peasants-youll-miss-the-deep-state-when-its-gone\/\">https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/all-articles\/news-analysis\/another-conspiracy-theory-vindicated-msnbc-tells-peasants-youll-miss-the-deep-state-when-its-gone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}