St. Donald and Melania's Christmas message 12 sec LoL.

background Deconstructing the Deep State mid-2017 | govxc (long read, told by insider publication with sympathy for it [DS])

My dealings with the bureaucracy showed me their first priorities were maintaining the status quo in their agencies, and they were certainly not Republicans. — Donald Devine, former head of the office of personnel management

Congress to send defense bill to Trump with veto-proof majorities Dec.11.2020 (echo of WSJ article, which is subscriber only)

A nuclear 'Pearl Harbor' in our future? OpEd Dec.7 | hl

hype alert: "Hypersonic warheads.. could destroy America’s intercontinental ballistic missiles" No, their range is much too short at present. (average range about 400–450 km))

In spite of propaganda to the contrary, US military is not much on readiness for "national security" in the kinetic sense. They are mostly concerned with their own financial security enabled by a generous military budget and the industrial complex on which it's spent. The show ("low intensity conflict" must go on.)

If Electoral College opts for Biden today, we'll be seeing Trump's "hard way" out, because "America will never be a socialist country" and a fake election will not be enough to reverse that deal

Ho Ho Ho, Merry XDNCs Trump and the "hard way" plans to recover from election fraud and judicial perversions Dec.14

one notable in this EO is that the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs, General Mark Milley, is not on the list (not a friend of Trump, he's Swamp Staff; ergo not reliable in a stress situation)

update Dec.19.2020 Trump's 2018 EO stymied by [DS] operatives Trump's most crucial report delayed due to internal conflict; etc. 13.7 min

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study notes

civil service was created under the 1883 Pendleton Act

Birth of the Deep State Nov.2019 | AIER