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01/13/2017 09:37 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Greenwald: Dems hoping unelected DEEP STATE will purge Trump, subvert democratic process [ link to www.foxnews.com]
Greenwald said Democrats and liberals are "hoping ... that this unelected faction in Washington will undermine and subvert and destroy the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency before he’s even inaugurated and I think what you’re seeing is actually quite dangerous."
The Intercept writer told Carlson that he believed the Central Intelligence Agency supported Democrat Hillary Clinton during the recent presidentil election because Trump "was a threat to the CIA’s primary institutional priority of regime change in Syria.
"Beyond that," Greenwald added, "Clinton wanted a much more confrontational and belligerent posture toward Moscow, which the CIA has been acrimonious with for decades, whereas Trump wanted better relations. I think they viewed Trump as a threat to their institutional preeminence, to their ability to get their agenda imposed on Washington."
Greenwald also said that most of the mainstream media is unduly deferential toward the U.S. intelligence community, despite their reputation for skepticism of such institutions.
"Whenever it comes to national security issues, especially in the post-9/11 era ... you see this incredibly close relationship between the media and the intelligence agencies," he said. "When [the media] serve their agenda, they get scoops, they get secret documents, they get access, and I think a lot of that is what you’re seeing on top of the fact that the media has been aligned against Trump and will side with anybody who wants to subvert him, including the CIA. His article: [ link to theintercept.com (secure)] In January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower delivered his farewell address after serving two terms as U.S. president; the five-star general chose to warn Americans of this specific threat to democracy: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” That warning was issued prior to the decadelong escalation of the Vietnam War, three more decades of Cold War mania, and the post-9/11 era, all of which radically expanded that unelected faction’s power even further.
This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare against the duly elected and already widely disliked president-elect, Donald Trump. They are using classic Cold War dirty tactics and the defining ingredients of what has until recently been denounced as “Fake News.”
Their most valuable instrument is the U.S. media, much of which reflexively reveres, serves, believes, and sides with hidden intelligence officials. And Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss, as well as a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing — eager — to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry, and damaging those behaviors might be.
The serious dangers posed by a Trump presidency are numerous and manifest. There is a wide array of legitimate and effective tactics for combating those threats: from bipartisan congressional coalitions and constitutional legal challenges to citizen uprisings and sustained and aggressive civil disobedience. All of those strategies have periodically proven themselves effective in times of political crisis or authoritarian overreach.
But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.He's right. So all you whiny bitch libs better sit up and listen! All your "lifestyle" choices will be in jeopardy if you support subverting democracy and the Constitution simply to get your way. FREEDOM ISN'T FREE!!! There is always a toll to be paid and this year's toll is Trump. So quit your bitching and demand that the peaceful transition of power be allowed to play out. |
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01/13/2017 09:52 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Greenwald: Dems hoping unelected DEEP STATE will purge Trump, subvert democratic process crickets? |
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01/13/2017 10:11 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Greenwald: Dems hoping unelected DEEP STATE will purge Trump, subvert democratic process You sound like you're the one whining like a bitch.
This is America. Go fuck yourself with your peaceful transition!
Quit being a douche bag. |
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You sound like you're the one whining like a bitch.
This is America. Go fuck yourself with your peaceful transition!
Quit being a douche bag.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69461972 You poor millennial lib douchebag, you gonna riot? Be sure to let your mommy and daddy know so they can leave the light on and a plate of tendies. |
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01/13/2017 10:18 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Greenwald: Dems hoping unelected DEEP STATE will purge Trump, subvert democratic process It's like with the election, in the end despite all the
Wikileaks only about 10% of the left was able to see the
greater truths and reject Hillary as more or less a
Stalinist.
What Greenwald is saying does help incrementally, hopefully
gets us closer to 11%.
But only REAL BIG disclosure, by the Trump administration,
about Clinton and Bush and CIA crimes, is going to make
any significant difference, and bring us together.
Let's hope. |
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01/13/2017 10:23 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Greenwald: Dems hoping unelected DEEP STATE will purge Trump, subvert democratic process they tried, they failed, Trump was anointed by God
for this moment in time to help defeat the antichrist |
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01/13/2017 10:25 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Greenwald: Dems hoping unelected DEEP STATE will purge Trump, subvert democratic process Waaaahhhh!!!!
Leave poor Donald alone!!! |
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01/13/2017 12:47 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Greenwald: Dems hoping unelected DEEP STATE will purge Trump, subvert democratic process Dayum.
It truly IS a war between good and evil, isn't it? And it all has a sort of "final battle field" feel about it. |
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01/13/2017 08:24 PM
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Dayum.
It truly IS a war between good and evil, isn't it? And it all has a sort of "final battle field" feel about it.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73736967 Yes. |
