Whenever people, such as Hannity, start blathering about “deep state”, I realize that I’m the fool. I’m the fool for paying attention to them in the first place.
Well that’s very normal and democratic.
This is a serious question, how is the “deep state” different from the longstanding institutional bureaucracy of the federal government?
It’s an imaginary enemy, as opposed to a real enemy?
I get the feeling “deep state” has as sort of evocative quality, wafting a scent of something like “trilateral commission” type thing. Alex-Jonesy-types respond emotionally to that kind of language.
In less contentious times, I think the same people were referred to as “career diplomats”. Or at worst, “bureaucrats”. But now they’re something much more sinister, like the Martians planted underground in War of the Worlds.
It’s essentially that, coupled with the notion that the bureaucrats are also sufficiently evil/partisan/brainwashed that they’ll risk torpedoing their own careers (and maybe ending up in prison) in order to make Trump look bad.
There are four distinct groups of Federal employees:
[ul][li] The lazy incompetent “Teat Sucklers.” These people live in the hope that a cure for cancer or fusion-power patent will cross their desk, so they can stamp “Application Denied” with one hand while yanking their ding-dong with the other.[/li][li] The new-order “Enlightened Ones.” These are the people who have been replacing Fort Knox’s gold with tungsten, shipping the real stuff to the Rothschild Zionists. They’ve also been selectively poisoning water supplies throughout the country to affect racial balances. (I think they’re the ones who planted explosives in the WTC on September 10, though some say this was a Deep-Fucker operation.)[/li][li] The pro-Drumpf “Ass Lickers”, largely found in the military and police forces. These were biding their time until 2017 but are now fantasizing about working in the torture dungeons of the many new private prisons that will soon be built.[/li][li] The ones Trump is concerned about are the “Deep Fuckers.” They are desperately trying to brainwash our children into becoming homosexuals, Muslims or both. With The Wall going up, they have a plan to bring terrorists by submarine straight from Kenya to Berkeley, California.[/li][/ul]
The nicknames I’ve shown for the four groups are not my invention. These are the team names they use for their week-end intramural softball matches.
I’m guessing the bids will come in high. Remember, in addition to the materials and labor, they have to condemn a whole lot of property. Some owners won’t be happy and will take them to court which, by my guess, will last until after the 2020 election.
Trump just needs to declare those property owners “deep state traitors” and have them shipped off to Guantanamo. Problem solved.
Well, if I lived in, say, Columbus NM, and my annoying next-door neighbor put up a fight, I would just say, hey, build it on my property, so that he is on the Mexico side.
All that, just to satisfy some people’s racism.
It’s not anything else–as we know, net immigration from Mexico is about zero, and all illegal immigration has been dropping:
More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S. | Pew Research Center
So ‘the Wall’ isn’t about protecting the US economy; it’s about expressing hatred, fear, and revulsion against the Trump regime’s second (or third, if you count “the Media” and “Muslims” as tied for first) favorite scapegoat: Latino people.
And on top of that, they have to build in a “Trump is going to fuck the contractors, as usual” percentage in order to remain profitable.
I watch that sociopath from time to time, mostly for amusement but occassionally to confirm that I’m not fucking nutz.
Don’t forget building a series of roads to get the workers and material to the wall-building sites. Unless they plan to use sky-hooks.
(These roads will also make it much easier for illegals going over or under the wall to reach urban centers!)
Don’t forget sanitary facilities, housing, food, laundry, etc. Some areas are too far for the workers to be commuting.
The bids/proposals are due March 29th. Nine days to bid on what would be one of the biggest construction projects ever (Panama canal has it beat, but what else? The Chunnel perhaps, Hoover dam, Three Gorges dam).
Nine.
Days.
Hahaahahhahahahahah.
Bolding mine. Car jack? BWWWaAAhhahaahahah.
Chisel, battery operated cutting tools? Was the RFP written by a 10 year old?
The old saying goes “Show me a thirty foot wall and I’ll show you a thirty five foot ladder.”
Or a shovel.
That part can be contracted out to Sheriff Joe Arpaio — I’d imagine he’d be willing to supply tents, rotten bologna sandwiches and pink underwear at only a slight markup.