Subjects/subject
Deep State
2016-08-30, 1 mention2017-03-28, 1 mention2017-06-06, 1 mention2018-07-19, 1 mention2020-11-08, 1 mention2021-07-04, 1 mention2022-08-07, 2 mentions2024-07-15, 1 mention2024-08-10, 1 mention2024-10-26, 1 mention2025-02-27, 3 mentions2025-07-19, 1 mention2025-07-22, 1 mention
Tim’s take
His working picture is a permanent, unelected network of intelligence agencies, defense contractors, and corporate boards that runs the country no matter who wins an election 16:34. He uses it to argue elections barely matter — no president, Trump included, actually steers anything, it's "country by committee" 1:04:47. He has even wondered whether fighting it is worth the effort, since Trump himself calls the swamp too big to drain 0:00.
When guests like Bannon, Vance, and Alex Jones lay out specific versions — generals lying about troop levels, USAID as a CIA front, a stand-down at the assassination attempt — he mostly lets the theory run rather than pushing back 47:17 37:05 48:07 0:00. His own version is smaller: he mocks whoever gets put in charge of fighting it, joking that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are being "shoveled shit on" because they can't deliver 26:47.
Every Reference (16)
"that I didn't know anything about something that I now call a deep state dynamics or deep politics, is an understanding of, let's say, the sort of configurations of power within a society that perpetuates certain policies and certain elites."
"terms like the shadow state or the whatever you wanna call it. Deep state, whatever. Deep state, yeah. This is the notion of constituencies"
Double, Triple, and Quadruple Agents: The January 2017 Ukraine Peace Plan Meeting — Boss of Bosses (with Russ Baker)+171s into the segment"and now it means a million different things But you know the deep states right or basically these unelected power brokers in Washington"
"It's always the juice. Did you just get here? Yeah, I mean like deep state is that what you're saying? There's a deep state then there's"
The Awan Brothers, Obama-Contra, and the Hidden Government — Tin Foil Hat and Tim at Skankfest+12s into the segment"you're doing this into the first place can't get anything done the deep state and everyone else is against it's like what what is the point"
Trump's Post-Election Death Rows and the Concession Question — #225 - Friendsgiving | The Tim Dillon Show+51s into the segment"these unelected power factions in Washington that are made up of this revolving door of corporatists and lobbyists and defense contractors"
Obama's Compliance vs. Trump's War with the CIA — #259 - Independence Day with Glenn Greenwald | The Tim Dillon Show+223s into the segment"to fdr and like this is sort of the birth of what we call the deep state right originally a turkish word i think first popular i was"
The 75-Year Regime Cycle: Lincoln, FDR, and the Birth of the Deep State — The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310+94s into the segment"he ensures that harry truman does not have the gravitas or power to actually command the deep state that's right and so he basically lets the deep state command him"
FDR Picks Harry Truman: Founding the Figurehead Presidency — The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310+164s into the segment"hell is gonna break loose so I want to be 100% clear now the Deep state set this up brought in the shooter protected him put him up"
Alex Jones: The Trump Assassination Attempt Was a Deep State Standdown — Trump Assassination Attempt Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #400+178s into the segment"you don't even have to use this term deep State you say anything you want but it is you know quite obvious that a woman who has not spoken for four years"
Country by Committee: Trump's Missing Message — Tim Walz The Funnel Cake Dad | The Tim Dillon Show #404+116s into the segment"they're working for the pyramid bureaucracy people call it the Deep State like what the Deep state is is just when you have an organization that becomes self-perpetuating"
The Trump Assassination Attempt Cover-Up and Deep State Generals — Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414+284s into the segment"that is the Deep State and what I say is it's like the ptan guard yeah in the Roman Empire they are actually so powerful now that they can decide"
The Deep State as the Praetorian Guard — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+41s into the segment"the neoliberal neocons have an apparatus that apparatus is the Deep State and this why I say if AOC or Bernie was there they'd be just"
The National Security Council 'Billets' and the Whistleblower Who Was Already Flagged — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+214s into the segment"Deep state is a real thing and this is why you see President Trump going"
USAID as a CIA Front and the Media's Silence on the Trump Assassination Attempt — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433"the [ __ ] factions of the deep state are are [ __ ] shoveling [ __ ] on these people at an amazing pace because they're incapable of delivering anything."
Podcasters Running the FBI — Epstein Updates & Dinner in DC | The Tim Dillon Show #453+11s into the segment"don't know this is true, but if Trump makes a deal with the deep state to leave him alone on the Epstein thing, it implicates intelligence"
RFK Jr., Vaccine Policy Being Overridden, and Trump's Deep State Deal — Emergency Podcast: The Epstein Cover-Up | The Tim Dillon Show #454+239s into the segment