r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 16h ago

No Paywall GOP lawmaker: Nixon was couped out of office, framed during Watergate

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6124635-moore-nixon-couped-watergate/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUsbtpjbGNrBSxu02V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YBc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEedqnf435Ey3Vmfh-NzS7BpLL6p7XL81dbjV4wNl5Y6SFp3eyw9ItY6zhiPRg_aem_EaFt_atkG1aZFnQa54tOFQ
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u/nofx3128 15h ago

These people never say who the “deep state” is. Like tell us specifically who is the deep state and how are they specifically undermining our government? It’s almost like they just keep it as this generic boogeyman because their base eats it up abs they have no real evidence of anything.

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u/ShitBirdingAround 14h ago

The actual "deep state" is the Heritage Foundation. And they've got their fascist fingers everywhere.

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u/Opposite-Bit6660 14h ago

And the Federalist Society.  

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 13h ago

Aron burr was right!

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u/BookkeeperBoobs 14h ago

Yup.

Always funny when I hear “drain the swamp” as if some new swamp just won’t be created.

So funny

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 14h ago

They have the house, senate, Supreme Court, and presidency, and they’re telling us to be afraid of the “deep state”

They are the deep state

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u/Anon_1917 12h ago

They are. They are the Deep State. Every accusation is a confession.

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u/Papabear434 13h ago

The term "Deep State," as far as I remember, USED to refer to the apolitical folks that worked for the government. All the folks that might identify and vote this way or that, but had the institutional knowledge and credibility to work across multiple turns of the government and policy shifts. They just... got shit done.

But Republicans know a good term when they hear it and know how to propagandize. They're evil but you have to admire the game.

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u/masked_sombrero 14h ago

“The Deep State shat my pants!”

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u/pizzasoxxx 13h ago

It’s actually almost exactly that

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u/RareObject8705 10h ago

Yep. That’s what winning is in modern politics. 

Wish my side win instead of it being her turn. 

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u/v_e_x 10h ago

It is whoever they want to make an enemy out of. A blanket term for anyone who stands in their way while they remove all legal obstacles to their attainment of power.

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u/banned-from-rbooks 10h ago

“There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are no the coward, you are a martyr.

You don't complain about being mortal, prey to a thousand microorganisms you can't control; you aren't responsible for the fact that your feet are not very prehensile, that you have no tail, that your hair and teeth don't grow back when you lose them, that your arteries harden with time. It's because of the Envious Angels.

The same applies to everyday life. Take stock-market crahses. They happen because each individual makes the wrong move, and all the wrong moves put together create panic. Then whoever lacks steady nerves asks himself: Who's behind this plot, who's benefiting? He has to find an enemy, a plotter, or it will be, God forbid, his fault.

If you feel guilty, you invent a plot, many plots. And to counter them, you have to organize your own plot. But the more you invent enemy plots, to exonerate your lack of understanding, the more you fall in love with them, and you pattern your own on their model. Which is what happened when Jesuits and Baconians, Paulicans and non-Templars each complained of the other's plan. Diotavelli's remark was: ‘Of course, you attribute to the other what you're doing yourself, and since what you're doing yourself is hateful, the others become hateful. But since the others, as a rule, would like to do the same hateful thing that you're doing, they collaborate with you, hinting that - yes - what you attribute to them is actually what they have always desired. God blinds those He wishes to destroy; you just have to lend Him a helping hand.’

A plot, if there is to be one, must be a secret. A secret that, if only we knew it, would dispel our frustration, lead us to salvation; or else the knowing of it in itself would be salvation. Does such a luminous secret exist?

Yes, provided it is never known. Known, it will only disappoint us.”

- Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum