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After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve. Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:

wired.comDOGE Is the Deep StateA shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

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I have a new respect for Wired and will certainly keep up my annual subscription. Wired is doing some of the best journalism being done today. While Elon and crew besmudge techies, Wired makes us proud to be technophiles, and techno-optimists.

This is not insight, it’s tut-tutting. He wants to be monarch, he thinks being rich gives him carte-blanche break the law and destroy institutions, he’s willing to hurt countless people without a drop of empathy. He (and they) are amoral and don’t give a damn about intellectual consistency.

It’s always been the same with Trump and everyone in his circle, every accusation they throw at others is a confession, either of something they’ve done or deeply desire to do.

The “deep and unelected state” has been all the political action organizations that have popped up since SCOTUS decided $$ spent on politics by entities that can’t actual vote can’t be regulated - Citizens United. Federalist Society is the promoter of our current president is king clown fest. .

Musk-tRump is the Fifth column that our intelligence services have warned us about. They are destroying our system of government and building alliances with oligarchs, criminals despots, and dictators around the world. Who does that? Why damage our economy? Why destroy the checks and balances?

I read lots of talk and complaints but see little effective action. I am closing my stores on Pi day and giving staff a paid day off. All I ask is that they do not spend money and instead spend the day considering the meaning of honesty, integrity and justice.

I’m sure Peter Thiel acolytes have already locked in their deep state theories, but the rest of can continue updating ours with more and more information coming to light. #Epistemology matters