I could believe it, but Obama is a huge part of the reason he's even in the position to whine about Obama undermining his presidency lmao
The Deep State is a real thing. There's a lot of nonsense talked about it, but it's a real thing. There are career intelligence professionals who outlast politicians and pull strings in Washington.
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/06/intercepted-podcast-whos-afraid-of-the-alt-deep-state/
J. Edgar Hoover was head of America's secret police for FORTY EIGHT YEARS
The American "deep state" is fundamentally transparent in some aspects:
- NOT CHINESE
- NOT RUSSIAN
- NOT OTHER FOREIGNERS
Holy shit this just “our deep state isn’t a deep state because it’s american”, especally that last point about how in america it’s ok because the constitution. The only attempt to explain how the american deep state actually behaves and functions differently than others is the 4th point which is just factually untrue
Like, I can see the argument that a lot beurocratic institutions in the us, particularly regulatory agencies, are more beholden to private or “surface-state” interest than they would be in a country like say turkey (maybe, I don’t actually know much about turkey) but the national security, diplomatic, law-enforcement and other “non-political” apparatii definitely have their own political power
The US alphabet agencies, famous for being highly transparent, ONLY acting in defense, and ONLY acting in accordance with the Constitution
Maybe we had it wrong all along; Obama didn’t sink Bernie in the 2020 primary because he’s a neoliberal, he sunk Bernie because he’s a
that just likes to sow chaos within the democrats.
How about a magic trick? Uhhhh, let me make the ambassador disappear
have we looked into hussein obama's Qatar-backed donors??
ofc I thought it was known that Obama played kingmaker?