Posted on 04/11/2024 9:21:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We’ve all wondered if the fix is already in. Given the irregularities of the last election, and the manner in which the whole of the U.S. establishment rallied around one side, maybe a Biden victory in November is a foregone conclusion.
I’m guilty of believing this. I’ve doubted every prediction that Donald Trump or RFK, Jr. can win. This is not because they won’t get votes. It’s because those votes might not matter enough.
The power of haters is awesome and ubiquitous. The whole of legacy media, government, corporate tech, pharma, and both the administrative state and the deep state are dedicated to keeping them and their supporters from power.
We don’t even know if elections really work anymore. It’s entirely possible, in this view, that millions will slog to the polls in November and do their duty in what will only end up as theater. The regime controls the ballots, surely, and nothing can overcome that. A second Biden term, the most unpopular president in my lifetime, is inevitable, in this view. The system is too broken to generate any other outcome.
Admit it: you have been tempted by this outlook too.
Well, I’m here to bring you some good news. The deep state has blinked. I will present evidence to you that the bad guys are actually preparing for a full-blown assault on administrative state hegemony. They are working to protect themselves against a victory by someone other than Joe Biden.
Will it work? I don’t know but what’s super critical is that they are preparing. If it were not possible to win, they wouldn’t bother. In other words, this is very good news!
The evidence comes from a largely unnoticed press release from the Office of Personnel Management. The legacy media did not report on this at all.
It reads as follows:
“The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) today announced a final rule that clarifies and reinforces long-standing protections and merit system principles for career civil servants,” says the press release.
It goes on to explain that this rule change makes it much more difficult or even impossible for any new president to reclassify “civil servants” as being under the control of the president. Instead, their jobs are permanent and thus protected against any efforts by a future president to reclassify anyone working for the federal government. None can be fired.
In particular, the press release explains, this is designed to thwart another attempt to change their employment status, as happened in November 2020.
“In the first week of the Biden-Harris Administration, President Biden revoked an Executive Order issued by the previous Administration that risked altering our country’s long-standing merit-based civil service system, by creating a new excepted service schedule, known as ‘Schedule F,’ and directing agencies to move potentially large swathes of career employees into this new excepted service status. This attempt would have stripped career civil servants of their civil service protections that ensure that decisions to hire and fire are based on merit, not political considerations.”
The “previous administration” means of course the Trump White House, which issued the greatest executive order in a hundred years.
After four years of being subverted and thwarted by the civil service bureaucracy, the White House finally figured out the core problem. There are more than 2 million permanent bureaucrats, ensconced in 430 agencies, who imagine themselves to live outside the democratic system and the U.S. Constitution itself. They believe they are the state and the elected leaders are mere decoration.
Trump’s executive order insisted that every agency do an internal audit and ferret out any employee who has something to do with making or interpreting policy; that is, anyone whose work impacts on whether the president actually has control of the executive department. All those employees would be reclassified as Schedule F, meaning that they could be replaced if need be.
That’s it. That’s the whole order. Maybe it doesn’t seem like much but it was actually brilliant. The Trump administration is the first to discover the great secret of American public life, which is that the administrative state has taken on a life of its own. After years of trying, the Trump White House finally happened upon a key lever to gain back control for the people. It’s as simple as that.
The Washington, D.C. political press freaked out. It was as if a president had found the engine room and the one switch that controls the whole thing. That was never supposed to happen. This produced mayhem inside the bureaucracy, and a doubling and tripling down on the conviction that he could never win a second term, lest this order be carried out.
That’s why one of the very first actions of the Biden administration was to repeal this executive order. That action made it very clear that Biden’s loyalties were with the deep state first and foremost. He would protect their jobs and power above all else. In fact, the OPM press release brags about this.
At issue here is a phrase from the initial Trump order. Any employee would be reclassified who deals with “confidential, policy determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating.” Notice this word confidential. This would apply to the whole of the intelligence community, perhaps. So wait, are we saying that the president should be in charge of the CIA, FBI, NSA, NSC, and the entire security apparatus, even to the point that he could fire anyone? Maybe so!
Such a situation would be intolerable to the bad guys. From their point of view, this would fundamentally upend the functioning of government in America.
Let’s face it. If the OPM and the whole of the bureaucracy believed there was no threat from Donald Trump or RFK, Jr., such a rule change would not be necessary. They believe it is necessary, which implies that the civil service thinks that the rising populist movement is a genuine threat that could succeed in taking back the country. Otherwise, they wouldn’t bother.
What is the OPM? It was founded out of the Pendleton Act of 1883, which started the permanent bureaucracy in the United States. With it came the Civil Service Commission, the first name of what later was called the OPM.
Until that time, and under the Constitution, the U.S. president had full control of the bureaucracy. The new president would typically replace a vast number of bureaucrats with loyalists. This was denounced as the “spoils system” but it could also be called simple democracy in which the people rule themselves through their elected representatives.
The permanent class of rules grew through wars and crises over a hundred years to become the government that cares not a whit for who is technically elected or otherwise appointed as agency heads. As a matter of habit, they have come to ignore all the comings and goings of the people elected by the population. Elections are just a distraction to them.
The essential point: Donald Trump and RFK, Jr. represent a genuine threat to the gang that has subverted and nearly wrecked this country. Now we know that this threat is real, else we would not see these efforts to entrench the bad guys and protect them against all conceivable threats.
As this proves again, the main struggle alive in this country and all over the world is the one between the people and the deep state consisting of a vast network of elites in government, media, the corporate world, banking and finance, private foundations, and global bureaucracies, all working for their own interests at the expense of everyone else.
It’s a battle for control, and it is the underlying dynamic that shapes our lives right now.
The bad guys are scared. Now we know this for sure, or they would not be trying to pre-rig the system against fundamental change. The elites believe based on long experience that they can always outwit the rest of the population. We shall see.
It’s going to be brutal before and after the election. There will be one or several October surprises. If Donald Trump wins, the onset of Winter will kick off propaganda like you have never seen. As the inauguration approaches, absolute hysteria will dawn. The COVID racket will seem like child’s play. Every day and every hour after will consist of wild attempts to stop the administration from functioning. What a time to be alive.
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I immediately thought the same thing, xiden revoked a Trump executive order, fine issue a new executive order repealing opm ruling.
Sadly not sure trump stands a chance against the “ doesn’t matter how people vote, but who counts the votes “
You can protect the workers all you want. All Trump has to do is create an executive order and announce that all federal employees need to have Obamacare. It saves the taxpayer billions and provides better care as well as the same access to your existing doctors.
Then sit back and watch the liberal heads explode.
It appears he has a “beard”
so...another scamdemic, then?
He might also mention that the damage already done is so severe that some damage may very well be permanent, and that America may need to "grow out of it over time".
Under promise and over deliver.
For one thing OPM doesn’t make law so the “rule change” point that civil servants are permanent and can’t be fired and have the job for life is pure BS.
Using that logic Merrick Garland, Mayorkas, Wray, etc would never leave they’d be the same as SCOTUS a lifetime appointment.
It exists to CONTROL US!!
He can replace the SES heads, re-rate all the upper level management as 2 and below for non-performance, which allows for removal (if…if the agency is on one of the newer performance pay systems).
at this point, I think Trump could only win if deep state wants him to win
This “rule” will never pass Constitutional muster. The President is the CEO of the Executive branch.
Period.
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“I’ll take “Communist infiltration of government at all levels” for $500, Alex!”
that’s right
I have said this before, and I will say it again.
On inauguration night, at his speech, he should state:
I hearby issue executive order #00001.
This order revokes every single executive order issued since the dawn of our nation. It’s too broken to fix. We are going to start over.
This will automatically eliminate any presidential cabinet positions not installed by congress. And the resulting offices, and all personnel associated with it. It’s kinda throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but this is where we are.
They not only stole it, but totally covered it up....
“There is zero evidence that the election was stolen.”
Times 10,000.
Ah, but this move by Biden’s Deep State Puppeteers isn’t an “Executive Order.” It’s a “Rule.” Something the Deep State has invented which can only be overturned by another “Rule.” Which takes months of process which they designed and over which their infrastructure has total control. Think of it as an Administrative Law Gordian Knot. Trump can put out all the EOs he wants and they’ll just claim it doesn’t follow all their procedural fine print and and block them in every administrative law ‘court’, backed up by all the Dem controlled Article I courts, while Roberts holds the Supremes out of the fray. The left thinks this stacks the deck enough that Trump can’t beat it in only four years. After all it took him nearly four years to come up with the Schedule F ‘sword’ to cut through their previous stalling. Trump will need to channel his inner Alexander the Great and find a ‘sword’ capable of cutting through all these deep state procedural knots.
Counting the chickens before they hatch. This race has a long time to go, giving the RATS plenty of time to work their phony vote machines.
Yep and cut half the taxes the middle income folks pay for these worthless enterprises.
The Deep State may have blinked, but they are not yet gone and they have ties to powerful leftist politicians and organizations including some funded by foreign governments with the intent to do harm to the US. Trump’s presidential campaign has become a juggernaut while Biden continues to drop in popularity even in what were considered unassailable Democrat voting blocks. While their lawfare crusade is crumbling and has little chance a putting Trump in jail before the election. Sadly there is one desperate means of stopping Trump, political assassination. There are certainly bad actors even in government employ who have the training and means to assassinate Trump. There are also many in the government, Congress and the media who would secretly rejoice were that to happen. Should a Trump landslide appear inevitable such a desperate move would not seem unthinkable.
President Regan set a president by firing air traffic controllers back in the 1980’s. It will be difficult for courts to overturn mass layoffs.
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