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Virgil: The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight with Full Coverage

 
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Virgil: The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight with Full Coverage
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Sometimes the Deep State isn’t so deep. For something that’s supposed to be submerged, it doesn’t always hide very well.
For example, veteran journalist Nick Denton was unabashedly candid about Deep State doings when he spoke to the South by Southwest conference in Austin, TX, on March 12:

The fact is, most of the liberal media is working to halt Trump. They’re getting leaks from sympathetic bureaucrats in the federal bureaucracy, and they are acting as the opposition to Trump.

Denton, of course, is best known as the former owner of Gawker, the scandal-mongering site that was on the losing end of a lawsuit filed by Hulk Hogan. And yet before founding Gawker, Denton had worked at The Financial Times and dabbled in various digital-media enterprises; he knows his way around. So if he says that the Main Stream Media and the bureaucracy are “working to halt Trump,” why not believe him?

To be sure, plenty of MSM journalists still stick to their omertà code—or at least they try to. Once such is David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker. In a new piece, headlined, “There is No Deep State,” Remnick told readers that the issue is Trump, not his enemies. As Remnick put it, “The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow man.”

Okay, so that’s the official line: No Deep State here.

And yet then, in his very next sentences, Remnick, like his fellow journo Denton, spilled the beans. That is, he urged the Deep State to rise up against the Dreaded Trump: “Only if government officials take to heart their designation as ‘public servants’ will justice prevail.” Thus the unmistakable message to the “permanent government”: Get to work on getting rid of the 45th president.

So now we can see a paradox that would be amusing, if it weren’t so scary: The Deep State thrives on secrecy—most of its anti-Trump activities are, after all, unethical, if not illegal—and yet at the same time, journalists are a chatty bunch; they aren’t secretive, they’re talkative. They’re proud of what they’re doing, and, in the end, they don’t really care who knows it.

We should note that this paradoxical volubility is not just on the left. Some chatterers on the right—at least the Bush 43 alumni Establishment right—seem just as determined to deny the Deep State, even as they seek to summon it to action. One such is the fervently Never Trump Michael Gerson, who, after leaving the White House, became, interestingly enough, a columnist for The Washington Post. In his March 13 column, Gerson dismissed the Deep State—and then confirmed it. First, the dismissal:

Trump’s allies, with the White House’s blessing, have alleged the existence of a “deep state,” conducting what talk radio host Mark Levin calls a “silent coup.”

We can note, above, Gerson’s use of the word “alleged.” That is, the Deep State is only a figment of fevered imaginations. And yet then, Gerson went on to say that the Deep State was not only real but, also, that he himself endorsed it. As he wrote, if the Deep State refers to federal employees who are “unhappy” with Trump, “then many would gladly claim such citizenship.”

To which Virgil might interject: Yes, Mr. Gerson, that is the point, exactly. Many, perhaps most, federal employees actively dislike Trump, and, in their phobia, they have achieved a common consciousness.

Moreover, that common consciousness is often a predicate to action, mostly of the subterranean and stealthy kind. Yet for his part, having conceded that the Deep State is, in fact, a real thing, Gerson tries to spin it another way—it’s Trump’s fault. Quoth Gerson: “Trump does not face a coup, just a government he has attacked and refused to lead.”

Meanwhile, in the same Washington Post, every day, there appears a box, headlined “Share news tips with us confidentially”; the link takes the would-be leaker to a page offering a choice of six different secure apps. In other words, the Post is bidding a friendly welcome to sneaky federal employees who wish to dump on Trump. (It’s worth noting that The New Yorker, too, features such a clandestine link, as do many other publications.)
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The Consortium of agencies have been perfecting mind control technologies since the seventies. Congress is powerless to stop them. They have mind controlled plants in nearly every judicial position.





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