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Career State Department Bureaucrats Triggered By Audacity of Trump and Tillerson Executing Foreign P
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | October 26, 2017 | sundance

Posted on 10/26/2017 8:10:40 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

The U.S. State Department consists of the most entrenched group of life-long professional political bureaucrats in any sector of the government.  The scope of the mindset really comes to the surface within leaks from inside the Deep State machine that became the basis for a Politico article today.   You really have to read it to fathom the scope of elitism.

The article, and the sentiment carried from within the bureaucracy which frames the construct, highlights the level of indignation within the agency toward President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as they carry out foreign policy objectives. The article contains a State Dept. quote which thoroughly encapsulates the mindset therein:

“We are implementers of policy decided by Tillerson and his team,” one veteran State Department official concluded.

Oh, the horror.  The career officials within the State Department are reduced to being “implementers” of foreign policy instead of being able to construct the policy on their own.

Yes, in essence, they are complaining about having bosses.

(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bureaucrats; foreign; policy; tillerson
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To: RitaOK

Managers in large grocery stores are very sharp people.

I spent 35 years in wholesale distribution, not grocery, there are some solid people there.


21 posted on 10/26/2017 10:18:07 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Vince Ferrer

They will eventually probably get the boot somewhere else.

Disloyalty is a career shortener. Has a lasting effect.


22 posted on 10/26/2017 10:19:50 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

I agree and know that is very true of market managers. But Sundance’s gifts as we know them today, of writing and intellect and political acumen are not congruent with the picture Levin painted of him, as a grocery store clerk, leveled against him as an insult.

I know several young men and women as well, who worked during college years at grocery stores.


23 posted on 10/26/2017 10:35:31 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Don’t drain the swamp. Disperse it.

With modern communications it is no longer necessary to have all those people with their ares hugging chairs in buildings in DC.

Sent them into the locations where they should be, homeland to the borders, energy to shale, coal, nuclear areas, etc. There should be no more than 40 people and the department head in DC.

This would spread the wealth, increase efficency, and reduce the high cost of supporting people to live in DC


24 posted on 10/26/2017 10:40:56 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is a globalist scam for power!)
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To: Texas Fossil

1/3 of the state department budget goes to the basement shredding and redacting division.


25 posted on 10/27/2017 12:13:20 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Texas Fossil; MV=PY

>>Long before Trump’s election, I was beating the drum saying it is TIME to DownSize DC!

On a similar note, I’ve been saying since the election that one measure of the success of the Trump Presidency would be if DC residential real estate values level off. Big success would be indicated if they actually reduced slightly.


26 posted on 10/27/2017 1:01:17 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Signalman

The basic issue is that over time a Mandarin Class has developed in government. State is the worst but not alone.


27 posted on 10/27/2017 3:46:25 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: FreedomPoster

From what I have heard it has not.

I’m also aware of the potential for that. Have family near there.


28 posted on 10/27/2017 3:52:55 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: blackdog

Smile. Almost True with Obama. (especially if you include legal fees)


29 posted on 10/27/2017 3:53:56 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Herakles

That is absolutely the right approach.

Don’t think I will live to see it.


30 posted on 10/27/2017 3:55:13 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Prelude, Feud and RIFs...


31 posted on 10/27/2017 3:57:41 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: RitaOK

I spent 35 years of my life in the wholesale hardware distribution business. With 2 family owned businesses.

The people who survive in that business are some of the most reasonable, honest people in the world.

My interests outside that were technical. My ham operator friends were some of the best. And some of the best informed.


32 posted on 10/27/2017 3:59:37 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Sirius Lee

Let it happen.


33 posted on 10/27/2017 4:00:28 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: RitaOK; Texas Fossil

My current model says that “Sundance” is a composite character with very good editing. Also, I do not believe there is only on “Tyler Durden”.


34 posted on 10/27/2017 4:01:46 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Texas Fossil

“’We are implementers of policy decided by Tillerson and his team,’ one veteran State Department official concluded.”

OMG! How can this be? Employees being expected to do what their superiors tell them to do... it jist ain’t right, I tell ya.

But... IIRC, I did this every single work day for about 40 years. Do they think they’re special?


35 posted on 10/27/2017 4:10:30 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: Rusty0604
I think the best thing we could do is eliminate public unions...

Look for that to happen in Trump's second term.

36 posted on 10/27/2017 4:10:53 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: hal ogen

“RIF these useless sots.”

Definitely. Maybe they technically can’t be fired, but their jobs can be eliminated. It’s win-win. A more lean workforce, and the troublemakers are gone.


37 posted on 10/27/2017 4:13:21 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Move the State Department headquarters to Tonopah, Nevada.

Make the govies stay at the Clown Motel; I hear it's haunted.


38 posted on 10/27/2017 4:37:31 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: COBOL2Java

Nope too good for them. Tonopah has a great brew pub.

http://www.tonopahbrewing.com/

I have stayed at the motel many times. Ghosts only bother you if you believe in them.


39 posted on 10/27/2017 4:41:10 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: COBOL2Java

Did you ever hear the prank phone call about “pumping iron” at the Clown motel?


40 posted on 10/27/2017 4:44:08 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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