While much of the media has spent the past few years denying the existence of a “Deep State,” The New York Times has released a piece admitting that it’s REAL. However, the piece also DEFENDS the Deep State as helpful and “actually kind of awesome.” Glenn and Stu tear apart this argument and explains to the Times what the Deep State really is.
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GLENN: The New York Times has come out with a great editorial. It's about the Deep State. Now, Stu, what's the New York Times' opinion of the Deep State.
What has it been?
STU: Not even real. What are you talking about? It's fake.
GLENN: It's not real.
STU: It's a creation of conspiracy theorists like you. Who just -- start a fever dream to explain all the problems that you have created yourself.
GLENN: Right. Correct. Amen.
Well, here's the New York Times opinion of the Deep State.
It turns out, the Deep State is, actually, kind of awesome.
As America closes in on a major election, mistrust is brewing around the mysterious government entity, that's now denounced in scary-sounding terms. The Deep State. The swamp.
But what do those words even mean? Who exactly do they describe? What we went on a road trip to find out. And as we met with the Americans who are being dismissed as public enemies, we discovered, that they are us!
They like Taylor Swift. They dance Bachada. I guess. I don't know.
So I don't dance that. They go to bed at night, watching Star Trek reruns. They go to work and they do their jobs. Saving us from Armageddon.
Sure, our tax -- can you imagine if we said, Donald Trump will save us from Armageddon. What they will say. Sure, our tax dollars pay them. But as you see on the video. What a return on investment we get.
When we hear Deep State, instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think of the workers otherwise known as our public servants. The everyday superheroes, who wake up every day, ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us.
Are these the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible. No, it's not. That's why we know they're existing. It makes our lives better.
No, it's not. Because we usually don't notice when things are better. We only notice them when they're bad.
If Donald Trump is reelected and enacts schedule F, that could change. Oh, yes, please.
He would have the power to eviscerate the so-called Deep State. Are they calling for evisceration of people?
Did you hear that, Stu?
Let me read that again. I don't think there's any way to read that, other than they're encouraging him, and their people are cheering it on.
That he would take a knife, stick it in somebody's the guts. Pull out all of their organs and entrails. Eviscerating how many thousands and millions now of people. Is the New York Times saying they want to eviscerate. I don't -- I don't wow.
Well, he would have the power to eviscerate the so-called Deep State. And replace our public servants with people that work for him, not us. In the video above, you'll see a few of our hard-working American servants. We hope you'll agree that they're not scary at all.
In fact, they're kind of awesome. That's the New York Times.
Now, I just want to point out, that they have said forever, the Deep State doesn't exist.
Now, it does exist. But it's kind of awesome.
Kind of like, hmm. I don't know. CRT.
It doesn't exist in your school. Oh, well, it does. But it's not what it you say it is.
It's, actually, awesome. DEI. It doesn't exist. What are you talking about. It's a conspiracy theory.
Okay. It does exist. But it's kind of awesome.
ESG. That's not real. That doesn't exist. Okay. It's real. And it might be bad. Okay. It's bad.
Well, that's what we're saying is bad. So we're going to say we're stopping it.
But we're not, actually, stopping it.
Because it's kind of awesome. How about -- how about the cries for 25-dollar an hour minimum wage 25 bucks. Remember when we all said, that was crazy. And everybody said, well, that's just Bernie Sanders. Really?
You know, health workers in California, yeah. How much are they getting?
Twenty-five bucks, aren't they?
STU: Yeah. Twenty-five bucks an hour.
GLENN: Twenty-five bucks an hour. Yeah, so health care workers now have it in California.
Seattle is paying $26 for a sandwich if it's delivered to your house by Uber, because of what the state has done. And Barbara Lee now is not saying, $25. Because that was crazy.
Now in her Senate campaign. She's calling for $55 minimum wage. It's kind of awesome.
Gender mutilation of our children. You know, that's not happening. Okay. It is.
But it's really good for kids. Oh. There's no pornography in our public school libraries.
Well, there is. Because madam, madam, madam. We are in a city council meeting.
You cannot read that. Because it's kind of awesome. Government censorship. That is not happening. That's just a right-wing conspiracy theory.
We're not censoring social media or shutting people down. We're not involved in that.
Okay. Yes, we are.
And now that you're on to us, we think you're violating our First Amendment right to speak.
Oh, my gosh. How about inflation is transitory.
You're too stupid to understand, that you're not really paying, higher inflation. To now, what the -- what's happening this week.
The fed has now said, yeah. 2 percent inflation. That's not really a target we can hit. Maybe three. Three and a half percent inflation every year.
Oh. Okay. I thought you had that under control. Oh, abortion.
That nobody is saying abortion all the way up to birth. And then some. Oh, yes. We are.
Because it's neat. It's awesome. We should shout our abortion. And one of my personal favorites. We are not banning gas stoves. Okay. Yes, we are.
But it's awesome. Look at their pattern. So now, they know, that everyone knows, the Deep State. What is the Deep State.
It's not awesome. And it's not just your neighbor. Okay?
The Deep State is a -- is a blob that you don't elect. You don't know who they are.
That will make new regulations. Without going to you, or Congress.
They will make regulations. For instance, you now have to register with the Treasury, if you're a small business owner. You have under 20 employees.
You now have to fill out ail kinds of forms. And file it with their criminal division of the Treasury. Making small business owners, feel like a criminal, and if we miss anything, or we don't do it right. Or anything changes like our address. And we don't notify the Treasury, we could go to jail for ten years.
That kind of stuff. Or here's one.
We're all going to be driving electric cars by 2035. That didn't go through Congress. That didn't go through Congress.
That was just pencil pushers and the president.
Hey. You know what, you can find that regulation. Go ahead and, yeah. Find that regulation.
I know we can -- I know we can. You know what, let's tell people, that we're not debanking people.
And then we'll debank them.
And then when we find out, that we are debanking people. We'll just say, yeah. But we're doing that to protect the country.
Because there's these extremists.
No. The extremists are the ones, that are pointing out, the Constitution doesn't give you the right to do these things.
The Deep State is a group of people that do not care about the election, because they're not elected. They just do whatever it is, they want to do, in their agency, no matter who the president is.
Remember, last time, the State Department fought against Donald Trump, all the way.
They were sabotaging him, and almost every agency. The agencies work for the president.
They're part of his cabinet. He oversees the administrative arm. So if you're not working for the president, who are you working for?
Well, I'm working for the American people. No. Constitutionally, that doesn't work.
Constitutionally, you're supposed to be protecting and defending the Constitution. Which means you should read it. And in that, you would see that the CEO of our country, that runs the administrative state. Is the president.
Ask there are checks and balances with Congress. You don't work for Congress.
You work for the president. And he hopefully, is working for the American people. Not some, I don't know. Energy company, in China. Let's say. Just off the top of my head, nobody in particular springs to mind.