More truth bombs from Taibbi
Yes, Virginia, There is a Deep State
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“If you donāt think modern America is funny, you must not have a sense of humor:
Tonight on MSNBC: debunking ādeep stateā talking points, the new book that debunks Trumpās deep state conspiracy, and Trumpās bizarre new deep state conspiracy theory. For more, letās go to our in-house national security analysts John Brennan, Clint Watts, Frank Figliuzzi, and Jeremy Bashā¦
An even funnier symbol of the media reversal on intelligence involves the onetime Pentagon Papers publisher, the Washington Post, which of course is now owned by one of the CIAās biggest contractors. The Post recently held an āAre you an insane conspiracy theorist?ā-type quiz that flatly graded you incorrect if you thought a ādeep stateā that āoperates in secrecy and without oversightā existed:

…During the Trump years you could wake up on any given day and see the former head of the CIAās drone program or the architect of the NSA surveillance program ā literally those people ā reading the news on commercial television about anything from the pee tape to the Ukrainegate impeachment (started by anonymous intel officials) to the letter signed by 50 of the countryās leading spooksdenouncing (falsely, we now know) the Hunter Biden laptop tale as having the āclassic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation.ā
The overtness of the intelligence communityās interference in domestic politics, combined with its astonishing record of unpunished, systematic lying to everyone ā congress, judges, the United Nations, the International Court in the Hague, and especially the American public via the media ā is driving people to real insanity. As podcaster Darrell Cooper put it earlier this year, in an essayattempting to explain the thought process underlying āStop the Stealā:
Many Trump supporters donāt know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know with apodictic certainty that the press, the FBI, and even the courts would lie to them if they were.
Read the whole thingā¦Matt is on a roll right now.








