(Former CIA director John Brennan, a key conspirator in the Russian Collusion Hoax, a coup attempt)
An infuriating part of the whole 2020 Presidential Election fraud business was that bureaucrats would screw over Donald Trump and his supporters at every turn.
National Intelligence—knowing full well about the serious of the situation—didn’t release its report on foreign interference in the election by its original deadline. CIA leadership suppressed intelligence about foreign interference. The FBI refused to investigate credible evidence of fraud or protect witnesses from intimidation.
It gets worse. The FBI had been investigating Joe Biden’s son since 2018 for money laundering but hadn’t made it public even as Biden ran for president—something the American people should have known before the Democratic primaries.
In an interview, Trump advisor Patrick Byrne spoke on why the CIA and FBI meandered or refused to help Trump and his team investigate election fraud. He attributed it to corrupt entrenched bureaucrats.
At the agent level, they’re all good Americans who got out of college [and] want to get in and contribute to the country. The farther you work up, the higher concentration of swamp creatures …. The point is the people who got there through political appointments found a way to borrow through the agencies. …Up until 40 years ago, there was a real taboo against going from a position like that to taking a job down in the bureaucracy. That taboo broke 30 or 40 years ago. Our government at the top levels have become stuffed with political appointees who turned into civil servants. Once they become civil servants, they get all the union protections and they can’t be fired and so they are political activists from both parties…That’s who we got to get out of government.
These corrupt swamp rats get promoted or kept on. Trump-appointed FBI director Christopher Wray is keeping his top dog role in the Biden Regime.
It’s not only the FBI and CIA; other agencies are swarming with rats. During this pandemic, bureaucrats refused to do what was in the best interest of the American people. The FDA, CDC, and Anthony Fauci all made the Covid-19 “crisis” worse by lying, misleading, fear-mongering, inflating covid case numbers and failing to speed up their testing operations—all done to hurt Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election.
The corruption can’t be overstated. Take for example the drug treatment hydroxychloroquine. Governments in Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany and other countries allowed its medical establishment to use HCQ to treat the symptoms of Covid-19. Only in the U.S. was it discouraged by bureauRATS. Once Biden was inaugurated, the bureauRATS admitted it was an effective treatment for Covid-19. Thousands were allowed to die for political purposes.
That’s just the most recent evil. Throughout Trump’s presidency, federal and state bureaucrats have worked at every turn to drag their feet or sabotage anything that significantly altered their preferred policies. Whether it’s withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan, immigration reform or whatever policy the American people voted for, the bureauRATS have worked to prevent their enactment.
Echoing Patrick Byrne, in a 2019 lecture at NYU entitled “Localism and its Application to Lebanon", Nassim Taleb explained how administrative agencies are a bigger source of corruption than the national leader and his ministers:
The agencies are the worst. …Someone who spends 20 to 30 years inside of an administration, it’s like Kafka’s castle, they own it. The ministers come and go but the deep corruption and patronage are entrenched in these large administrative units. Same in America, same in the UK and you don’t see it. In Lebanon, people start to see it but it took a long time. They keep blaming the minister and not the administration where the corruption, deeply entrenched.
Trump’s challenges revealed to us that bureaucrats are the class of people who really run things in America. If you are not convinced, take a look at these never ending lockdowns. State and local bureaucrats suspended your constitutional rights. You’ve been placed you under house arrest, muzzled with masks, had your job terminated and forced to shutdown your business.
The Satans of the modern minds, the Nazis, never went to these lengths. The change in life now that is being affected by this technocracy is beyond anything the Nazis would have tried. I mean the lockdowns.
— Bronze Age Pervert in Caribbean Rhythms episode 59
State and local officials allowed the summer riots and looting—knowing full they can stop them—in cities to hurt Trump politically. On top of that, in several states, they looked the other way when Democrat operatives forced out Republican observers or stuffed the ballot box with fraudulent mail-in votes during the vote counting process in the presidential election.
And it’s not just the state and local ones; bureauRATS in the big corporations are trying to impose their will on the public. Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Google, for example, colluded to censor information and deplatform those who defied what their government counterparts say about Covid-19 or the 2020 Presidential Election.
It can’t be overstated how members of the bureaucratic class are one group. Doesn’t matter if they work in a private or public sector or their party affiliation. They attend the same universities, conferences and parties; hire each other for jobs in their bureaucracies; and aligned on expanding and projecting their power domestically and internationally.
Under chairman Eric Schimdt, Google, for example, manipulated the American public to support wars in the Middle East and provided technology to support the Deep State’s nefarious activities, including surveillance, according to WikiLeaks. (Big Tech is an arm of the Intelligence Community.)
Major lesson of 2020: You can vote for whomever you want for governor, congress or president, but the people in the agencies and big corporations are the ones who decide what actually gets done or who can serve as an elected official.
Why Are There So Many Rats in Our Homes?
This bureaucratic class has run the United States for almost a century. America being a capitalist society is bullshit. It hasn’t been one for decades. It’s been an economy largely managed by private sector and public sector bureaucrats; the remaining capitalist segments are the small and midsize businesses. What we are seeing is that the Covid-19 response is another phase of a century-old process of bureaucrats consolidating their power over America.
Since the first half of the twentieth century, America has been under the rule of bureaucrats, according to political theorist James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (1941).
Every society has a ruling class, the group that controls the distribution of and access to resources, according to Burnham. In Middle Ages, feudal lords ruled. From the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, capitalists gradually displaced them.
In the first half of the twentieth century, a revolution was under way. Government bureaucrats displaced capitalists as the ruling class in unprecedented numbers. In America, the revolution commenced in the 1930s under the New Deal reforms enacted in response to the economic crisis of the Great Depression.
The New Deal regime, led by Frank Delano Roosevelt, introduced agencies like the Civil Aeronautics Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Labor Relations Board and the Federal Communications Commission to “guide” and “manage” economic relationships.
Ignoring the U.S. Constitution, these agencies confiscated property, subsidized farmers, redirected tax revenue toward whatever they wanted, racked up the national deficit and debt, manipulated currencies, put limits on financial transactions and provided make-work jobs and relief to millions of Americans.
“In general, measure after measure curtailed capitalist private property rights and thereby weakened the relative social power of the capitalists,” Burnham wrote. “The percentage of the economy subject to capitalist relations, whether measured in terms of outright ownership and operation or of degree of control, began to decrease t an ever more rapid rate.”
Agencies ran the country, Burnham wrote in 1941:
In the United States, sovereignty may still be chiefly located in Congress (together with the Supreme Court), it may still be the principal “lawmaking” body; but no one with eyes open during the past generation and especially the past decade will believe that its claims are today undisputed.
“Laws” today in the United States, in fact most laws, are not being made any longer by Congress, but by the NLRB, SEC, ICC, AAA, TVA, FTC, FCC, the Office of Production Management (what a revealing title!), and the other leading “executive agencies.” How well lawyers know this to be the case! To keep up with contemporary law, it is the rulings and records of these agencies that they have chiefly to study. How plainly it is reflected in the enormous growth of the “executive branch” of the government—which is no longer simply executive but legislative and judicial as well—in comparison with that of the other two branches.
Indeed, most of the important laws passed by Congress in recent years have been laws to give up some more of its sovereign powers to one or another agency largely outside of its control. The process is, naturally, not yet completed in the United States. Congress is not yet the same as Hitler’s Reichstag or Stalin’s Soviet Congress. But it has gone much further than Congress itself would be willing to realize. Congress still occasionally “revolts,” still now and then “disciplines” an administrative agency or even abolishes it; but these acts are like the petty tyrannies of an already close-to-powerless old man. Very little control over the state is actually, today, possessed by Congress. The last year has shown that even the question of making war, most crucial of all the attributes of sovereignty, is, in spite of the Constitution, in reality beyond the power of Congress. Wars, also, are no longer conducted according to the parliamentary code.
Fast forward to today, bureaucracies still make up laws and selectively enforce them. What’s different now is that bureaucracies regulate economic as well as social and security aspects of our lives. Look at The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Education, etc. List goes on.
The crisis of the Great Depression was the beginning. The Covid-19 pandemic is another pivotal moment. When examining Burham’s analysis of the 1930s, the parallels to our time are striking.
Small and midsize businesses — the remaining capitalists — are having their property rights violated and waved away by lockdowns enforced by bureauRATS. Millions of Americans are dependent on the government for income. All of this has been conducted under the “health” crisis of Covid-19.
Good Thing The Rats Are Dumb
However, a big difference between the past revolution and our current one is that the bureaucrats running America are too dumb to successfully accomplish their power grab. Th current stock is arrogant, corrupt, short-term minded, psychotic and incompetent.
(a transgender woman is Biden’s assistant health secretary)
In contrast, the bureaucrats that seized control of society in the 1930s were brilliant and made America an impressive nation in World War II and two decades after.
Here’s how the fantastic blogger Scott Locklin summarized this group's decline:
This social class of bureaucrats has had some mild successes; the creation of the American highway system, public health initiatives against trichinosis, US WW-2 production. But they have mostly discredited themselves for decades: aka the shitty roads in America, the unaffordable housing in major urban centers, a hundred million fat diabetics, deindustrialization because muh free market reasons, the covidiocy and most recently, the failure of every noteworthy technocrat in the world’s superpower to predict election outcomes and even its ability to honestly count its votes.
Let’s hope their idiocy will be their undoing.