Writing From Exile

Donny Lil’ Hands (aka Dear Leader, aka Genocidal Don) signed another executive fiat on Thursday. This one creates a new class of federal workers called “Schedule G.” It allows Supreme Leader to hire/fire loyalists at will to do his bidding. The president can now hire henchmen (and they must be called henchmen, even when they’re ladies, because to do otherwise would be “PC/woke/DEI/gender ideology/communist/Marxist/radical leftism”).

As has always been the case with the Orange Menace and his organized crime outfit/cult project, every accusation was always a projection or admission of guilt. This executive order fiat, like his continuous appointment of people who are incompetent but fiercely loyal only to him, seeks to create the very “deep state” Trump ran against in all three of the last presidential elections. Like always, it was never that he had a problem with there being a “swamp” or a “deep state,” it was that such things didn’t exist to serve only his interests. And it wasn’t so much that there ever really was a “deep state” anyway, but that there was a political elite world, a class of people, that Dear Leader always felt excluded from and wanted to be a part of.  Like a child throwing a temper tantrum, now he’s creating his own club, and none of you are invited!

To be sure, this goes far beyond McCarthyism (or Hooverism, if we’re being more accurate), because even McCarthy was only a Senator and didn’t seek to explicitly create—nor did he have the power to create—a new classification of federal employee that is partisan and loyal only to a specific president, subject to the hiring and firing whims of that president, with their employment set to end if/when that president leaves office.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone in the Tech Right world (maybe Thiel or one of his cronies) developed an app for this—like Uber, but for the Deep State. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they even tried to troll “the left” by calling it Deep Stater, or maybe Deep Statr, a subtle trolling admission that conservative/Republican/MAGA world types keep getting caught using Grindr or hooking up with other men, despite consistently opposing LGBTQ+ rights. And the app would be replete with all the concerning privacy violations and data tracking elements that have become characteristic of the “tech industry.” “Know where all your henchmen are at any given time with our real-time geo-location tracking feature!” “Hire and fire automatically with our performance and loyalty analyzing metrics-based algorithm!” “[Insert meaningless techno babble jargon here] will disrupt the industry!”