Did the US secret police fail in its duty of maintaining regime stability during the 2016 election?

Sort of like the interrupting cow.

Keep a bottle by the bed, it’s easier.

You really are kookoo for cocoa puffs.

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Silly! Secret policemen don’t have balls!

Serious(ish) question: for people that believe in secret, behind the scenes organizations, that secretly run the world, why are these secretive forces always portrayed as perfect? That every little move is the one and only correct move to achieve their secret goals? That not only do they never make mistakes, but that there isn’t even dissension within the ranks as to the best solution?

(answer I guess: if they were the least bit fallible, they wouldn’t be secretly running the world. Duh!)

No, I laugh because I sometimes imagine you writing screeds about the tyranny of stoplights.

Then it always takes a dark turn when you accuse highway workers of being just like Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust, and they should get what they have coming.

The best evidence against sooperseekrit groups running things?
The quality of bozoes that supposedly “expose” them.

“It looks like we’re doomed, boss. Klyde Kadiddlehopper from Norfuck, Nebraska found out about our plans and is telling everyone about them, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it!!” :rolleyes:

You may not have been a Trump supporter, but you certainly have been bending over backwards to be a Trump defender, and with this latest thread seem to be falling into his mindset regarding the existence of the deep state conspiracy. Gustaf Johansen , wasn’t actually a C’thulhu supporter, but merely sailed too close to the edge.

You understand hyperbole. Humor, not so much.

Hmm, gonna have to try that sometime. Sounds awesome.

Y’really think he deserves Ginsberg?

Can you get me a backstage pass to meet the Dream Police?

Apparently I live in the firemen’s neighborhood. All the lights are red.

That one’s going in the cookbook. Thanks!

Have you tried the new strawberries and cream Bailey’s? Now there’s a breakfast treat.

Not so much. It just helps remove any doubt who needs closer monitoring while suppressing any violent tendencies they might have. After all, it’s the drunks who run stop signs and wind up killing people. Potheads just sit there waiting for it to turn green.

45 MERCY STREET BY ANNE SEXTON

In my dream,
drilling into the marrow
of my entire bone,
my real dream,
I’m walking up and down Beacon Hill
searching for a street sign –
namely MERCY STREET.
Not there.

*Anne, with her father is out in the boat
Riding the water
Riding the waves
on the sea*
Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel, dedicated to Anne Sexton

Try Godiva Chocolate Liquor over Cocoa Pebbles.

Doesn’t make you any less susceptible to mental illness or conspiracy theories.

And here I was expecting a thorough mockery of the Deep State conspiracy theorists, since most of them are Trump supporters. Why would the secret police let Trump win? How could they have been doing so well and then totally fuck up?

In other words, your post is itself a refutation of the idea that there is a secret police controlling things in the US. If they were, it would have been easy to have Trump die under “natural causes” or come up with some other way to keep him away.

The answer to the OP is that there is no secret police. No shadowy cabal running things. That idea may comfort you that there are people secrectly in control of this world, but there aren’t. The only people who can keep our country (or our world) great are we the people. And when we screwed the pooch in electing Trump (or letting Russian influence elect Trump), there was no one there to catch us and make things right.

Elections do have consequences.

Well, to actually step aside from the issue of the OP, let’s just remember that the Gummint seemed to have pretty good awareness of what the Russians were doing, but there appears to have been paralysis at the very top, because Obama didn’t want to appear to be tilting the election toward his candidate.

Hey, Will? “Scandal” was fiction. There is no B-613, there is no Rowan or Jake, and the operation was exposed in the final season anyway.

Of course, that’s what they’d *want *you to think.

“Deep State”

  1. A stupid conspiracy theory by low intelligent people.
  2. The millions of people who are employed by the United States of America to perform the work of said government. See Also: Government workers.

“Take Trump out” how exactly? Are you referring to Second Amendment remedies?

Just stay right there while we make a little phone call …

“I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why.”

As a general comment, include me among those who often wish the Secret Deep State were competent enough to do what the wingbats attribute to it.

One has to marvel at your worldview! You really owe it to us to publish a coherent manifesto. The one hint you’ve given is that you’re a disciple of Murray Rothbard, who supports parents starving their children and police torturing suspects. Are these examples of sanitized violence?

I’d like you to expound on the emotional basis for your
"Has laissez-faire capitalism knee-capped the political establishment?
My impression is that you are a fan of laissez-faire capitalism. Are you also a fan of knee-capping?

Anyway, let me see if I grasp your key concern here. Two (2) former CIA employees are running for political office! Rational thinkers might be surprised and concerned that there are so few running: CIA employees, after all, are people who know about and care about important aspects of public policy.

And of the two (2) ex-CIA employees who are running for office, both are Democrats! The Horror! The Horror!

Much clutching of pearls over the use of the term “secret police”. Of course I never suggested some type of shadowy organization that runs anything, much less the world. I named the names of the stooges who haphazardly, perhaps over one too many cocktails, attempted to take Trump out of the running. Brennan is especially pathetic now, consigned to blabbering drunkenly on social media. Compare these guys to the war-hardened veterans who ran Operation Mockingbird for example. Take J. Edgar Hoover who would have had Trump shitting himself at first mention of his candidacy. Indeed, much is made over how ridiculous Trump is. And he is. More telling of the condition of the state is how ridiculous they all are. The so-called elder statesman is John Mccain, of “Bomb Iran” fame. Some real lightweights in politics today. Has capitalism outcompeted the government for the best and brightest, or is this just the Boomer generation in its death throes?

Just face it. Your beloved state is in big trouble.

That was a throwaway line. You should be familiar with the sort.

Rothbard never supported police torturing suspects. My guess is you read some think piece with 6 degrees of separation between the words of Rothbard and the clickbait Salon article.