Fun fact: the entire idea of "conspiracy theories" was invented by the CIA in order to discredit people who were getting close to the truth.

Sound like a conspiracy theory? Nope, it really happened.

How about those other crazy conspiracy theories? That the Democrats colluded with the media to promote Trump? Nope, it really happened. They called it the "Pied Piper strategy". That the media knew about Epstein's pedo empire and deliberately covered it up, allowing child rapes to continue for years? Nope, it really happened. We have direct video evidence which the whole world saw. How about that crazy deep state conspiracy theory?

Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden https://youtu.be/efs3QRr8LWw?t=7227

EDWARD SNOWDEN: People talk about the deep state, right. They talk about it like some conspiracy of lizard people, it’s not that, it’s something much simpler. The deep state is simply the career government. It’s the people who are in the same offices, who outlive and outlast presidencies, right. They’ve seen Republicans, they’ve seen Democrats, they don’t really care, and they give that same briefing again and again and they get good at it.

They know what they want, they know what this person is saying, where as the president, they don’t know who these people are. These people have been there before the president, they’re going to be there after the president, and so they give this very effective, very fear inducing speech, and then they follow it up with their asks, which are really demands just politely provided. And anyone in that position who is not an expert on this stuff, who is not ready for this trade off, and who you have to understand is a career politician is entirely used to the horse trading game, right. And go, I’ll deal with this later, or not now, or what is the cost benefit here.

And the intelligence community goes, if you give us what we want, no one will ever know about it because it’s classified, it’s obviously the easy answer.