@The Aspie Corner

Here is a very relevant aricle posted today at Consortium News:

In a 2015 article at The Nation titled “How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA,” Tim Shorrock describes what he calls “the cyberintelligence ruling class.”

“Over the last 15 years, thousands of former high-ranking intelligence officials and operatives have left their government posts and taken up senior positions at military contractors, consultancies, law firms, and private-equity firms. In their new jobs, they replicate what they did in government—often for the same agencies they left. But this time, their mission is strictly for-profit,” Shorrock wrote.

Many of the principal figures come from America’s wealthiest families. Although the wealthiest have always had a lead in filling policy and cabinet positions, this time the public service aspect is missing.

Shorrock goes on to detail how the same 1% Americans claim to be fighting is the cyberintelligence elite that controls the media. Mathew Olsen is an example as the former National Counterterrorism Center director and current IronNet Corp. president. He joined ABC as a commentator. He goes further and shows how this is the rule and not the exception.

U.S. Intelligence Crisis Poses a Threat to the World

The 1% has successfully hijacked the entire government. They own the corporate media. They have effectively privatized the military. We, the little people, are dead men walking when it comes to self-government.

As I said in my reply to Alligator Ed, this Q stuff is too vague to be anything more than a distraction. But, contra you, I think getting people to understand that capitalism has bought out the government via the Deep State is necessary. People already despise the spooks and their drug running, crooked banking, and coups. One must first connect capital-C capitalism with the inevitable hijacking of democracy by a Deep State. If you attack Capitalism direcly, you can be branded a Marxist and dismissed. If you attack the DS, you will at least get an audience, because just about everyone believes there is some bad shit going on behind the scenes of our so-called democracy.

#3 But since 'Murica can never, ever question it, this will never, ever happen. And all this shit people call the 'Deep State' is just a god damned bunch of porkies protecting their capitalist interests.

Hell, we can barely even question capitalism here. Let's face facts: The capitalists have been doing this kind of shit for centuries, and Drumpf is just another capitalist looking after his own ass while the world burns. He never intended to do anything other than make himself and his porky buddies richer at the expense of the planet. His supporters are too stupid to figure it out and his 'detractors' are pretending to hate everything he does while sucking his dick behind closed doors.

Instead of this reactionary bullshit with the 'Deep State', why is it we can't question capitalism itself?

@The Aspie Corner

by Peter Dale Scott, who has been documenting the Deep State since the days of the Kennedy assassinations.

This development of a two-level or dual state has been paralleled by two other dualities: the increasing resolution of American society into two classes – the “one percent” and the “ninety-nine percent” – and the bifurcation of the U.S. economy into two aspects: the domestic, still subject to some governmental regulation and taxation, and the international, relatively free from governmental controls. All three developments have affected and intensified each other – particularly since the Reagan Revolution of 1980, which saw American inequality of wealth cease to diminish and begin to increase. Thus for example we shall see how Wall Street – the incarnation of the “one percent” – played a significant role in increasing the deep state after World War Two, and how three decades later the deep state played a significant role in realigning America for the Reagan Revolution....

It is not too much to say that Wall Street may be the ultimate owner of the Deep State and its strategies, if for no other reason than that it has the money to reward government operatives with a second career that is lucrative beyond the dreams of avarice – certainly beyond the dreams of a salaried government employee.

I shall argue that in the 1950s Wall Street was a dominating complex. It included not just banks and oil firms but also the oil majors whose cartel arrangements were successfully defended against the U.S. Government by the Wall Street law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, home to the Dulles brothers. This larger complex is what I mean by the Wall Street overworld.

The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld

#3 But since 'Murica can never, ever question it, this will never, ever happen. And all this shit people call the 'Deep State' is just a god damned bunch of porkies protecting their capitalist interests.

Hell, we can barely even question capitalism here. Let's face facts: The capitalists have been doing this kind of shit for centuries, and Drumpf is just another capitalist looking after his own ass while the world burns. He never intended to do anything other than make himself and his porky buddies richer at the expense of the planet. His supporters are too stupid to figure it out and his 'detractors' are pretending to hate everything he does while sucking his dick behind closed doors.

Instead of this reactionary bullshit with the 'Deep State', why is it we can't question capitalism itself?

@The Aspie Corner

Weird. I thought that's what we have been doing. I've seen quite a few people saying that it's the root of all the evil in not only this country but it's everywhere.

The other thing is conspiracy theories. I don't believe that 19 men flew planes into the towers and two of them brought down 3 buildings, two that were built to withstand exactly that scenario. This is treated as a CT when it should be questioned.

I also think that the Deep State is much more than just capitalists protecting their profits. They are the ones who go around the world killing people, overthrowing governments and all kinds of nasty stuff. Your view might vary though.

Please remember that this site was created so that people can feel free to voice their opinions without being attacked because of it. We're all entitled to our opinions here, not just be an echo chamber.

#3 But since 'Murica can never, ever question it, this will never, ever happen. And all this shit people call the 'Deep State' is just a god damned bunch of porkies protecting their capitalist interests.

Hell, we can barely even question capitalism here. Let's face facts: The capitalists have been doing this kind of shit for centuries, and Drumpf is just another capitalist looking after his own ass while the world burns. He never intended to do anything other than make himself and his porky buddies richer at the expense of the planet. His supporters are too stupid to figure it out and his 'detractors' are pretending to hate everything he does while sucking his dick behind closed doors.

Instead of this reactionary bullshit with the 'Deep State', why is it we can't question capitalism itself?

@The Aspie Corner

The point is that more and more people are waking up to the tearaway scenario. Both the left (Bill Clinton, Obama) and the right (DimSon, Trump) have charged the cape and been left goring thin air. They are beginning to recognize that all of politics is a farce that distracts from the last forty years of looting by the 1%.

I say to keep exposing the fact that all the rancid hacks and "malignant zealots" (Pankaj Mishra's excellent description) are funded by and work for the 1%. Keep banging away about not just the Deep State, but who owns the Deep State (Wall St). The 1% is deeply entrenched. They control just about every technical means of surveillance and propaganda. Disorganized individuals like us cannot successfully attack them head on. We can only find a parade that is attacking them (e.g., the anti-DS crowd) and get in front of it. The fact that Millenials are negative about capitalism is something to take comfort from. It is only by the slow work of changing the public perception that social change occurs. Right now, it is mostly the 1% tghat is working slowly, and quite successfully, and turning America into a high-tech Pottersville.

#4

My personal opinion is that Trump is a chump, a distraction, an eventual scapegoat. He may have made a deal with "true patriots", but he doesn't have the brains, the talent, or the troops to keep his silent partners honest. Trump is there to be the "warm body who can hold a pen" that Grover Norquist wanted. Trump is there to further destroy the govenment so the corporations can privatize everything. He is alsol there to take the fall when all our imperialist ventures and economic looting come crashing down. He is there to be the tearaway jersey for the far right to say "it wasn't us".

And in a way, all presidents since Nixon have served said purpose no matter which faction of the Capitalist Party USA they happen to belong to. Guys like Ron Paul were the ones tearing away the jerseys and saying "it wasn't us" even though he went along with it the entire time while putting on a false honest front. I also think it's safe to say Sanders did the same given that he's obfuscating from the election fraud with the Russophobia narrative currently being plugged by the Porky Dem wing of the Capitalist Party.

@Alligator Ed
and dance a little to that song ...

#5 While one videographer (YouTuber) said we are all Q, I think that is clearly hyperbole. Rather than trying to explain what I think that blogger was saying, I will leave you with this message, and may it cheer you!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mxaA-bJ35s]