Guest post by Dr. Robert Malone
How Trump’s “Schedule F” could have drained the swamp.
I have written extensively on inverted totalitarianism, that being the once nascent, now entrenched form of government that truly controls the levers of federal power in the United States. This behemoth has turned the USA into a “managed democracy”; a bureaucracy which cannot be held accountable by the elected representatives of the people. Sometimes called the 4th estate, this monster is also referred to as the “deep state” the civil service, or the administrative state.
Inverted totalitarianism does not have an authoritarian leader, but instead is run by a non-transparent group of bureaucrats. This unelected, invisible ruling class runs the country from within. They are easily influenced by corporate interests due to both the lure of powerful jobs after federal employment and the capture of our legislative bodies by the lobbyists serving concealed corporate interests.
One element of inverted totalitarianism is that the administrative state typically inserts stricter and stricter rules and regulations to control the populace. Not at the behest of Congress or the President, but rather by and for the interests of the administrative state itself. Power begets power. We the people are forced into compliance by an unknown and unknowable invisible ruling class, with no way to even understand who, what, or how they are forcing this compliance upon us. As if that is not bad enough, in these modern times, the globalist corporations and financial groups have come to play a larger and larger role in controlling this administrative state.
The Brownstone Institute’s Jeffery Tucker recently wrote an article about an executive order passed by Trump shortly before his departure, which would have enabled huge progress towards reigning in the power of the administrative state. This executive order would have created a federal employee category referred to as “Schedule F”.
This new employee classification system would have included federal workers in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character,” which are “not normally subject to change as the result of a presidential transition.”
The executive order would have allowed agencies to reclassify policy jobs under a new schedule, and had proposed to give senior managers greater flexibility in hiring candidates and firing employees.
Significantly, this new executive order was one of the first to go when President Biden began his presidency.
From Brownstone:
The administrative state for the better part of a century, and really dating back to the Pendleton Act of 1883, has designed policy, made policy, structured policy, implemented policy, and interpreted policy while operating outside the control of Congress, the president, and the judiciary.
The gradual rise of this 4th branch of government – which is very much the most powerful branch – has reduced the American political process to mere theater as compared with the real activity of government, which rests with the permanent bureaucracy…
From 2020 and onward, the American people got to know this administrative state well. They ordered us to wear masks. They deployed their influence to close small businesses and churches. They limited how many people we could have in our homes. They festooned our businesses with plexiglass and told everyone to stay six-feet apart. They demanded two weeks of quarantine when crossing state borders. They decided which medical procedures were elective and non-elective. And they finally demanded compliance with vaccine mandates at the penalty of job loss.
None of this was ordered by legislation. It was all invented on the spot by the permanent staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We had no idea they had such power. But they do. And that same power which allowed those egregious attacks on rights and liberties also belongs to the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Homeland Security, and all the rest.
With luck, both the House and Senate will have significant turn-over in the 2022 election. This may pave the way for legislative action. It is a nice to imagine that, by 2024, Congress could pass and implement a bill that includes a provision such as “Schedule F.” This should be a permanent addition to our code of federal regulations. Of course, the uni-party, with its reliance on corporate dollars to finance their election campaigns, will be loath to pass such sweeping legislation.
If they can not pass such legislation, an executive order similar to Trump’s should be enacted as soon as a new President is inaugurated. If we wish to preserve our democracy, the administrative state cannot be allowed to continue to operate unchecked. The bureaucratic swamp is dark, deep and wide. Someone needs to drain it.
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Even a newbie like me has been at the Platform long enough to know what “F” stands for.
Bindy- Wonder why Trump waited til he was leaving to come up with this EO that WOULD HAVE facilitated cleaning the swamp. He had 4 years……. 4 years.
He also had a full 4+ years of stonewalling from all branches of government, push back at every turn and lack of support from the republican party in general.
What a great day, I read that Trump is going to run in 2024. Sad that Ivana trump died today, wonder if she had recently had a vax shot?
Trump 2024, the gift that keeps on giving. /s
I found that interesting, too.
Yo, Flea,
This is a good read. James Webb can write.
Long story but Webb and I had two mutual friends who were Nam Vets…through them he called me in 84…we talked a bit over a couple of short stories I had had published as we were in the same area at the same time in Nam, he liked them and I was flatered.
‘Fields of Fire’ was a well done novel.
This is a definitive work on the Scots Irish.
I call myself a Mick/Wop…but there is some Scots mixed in there too…I think its my trigger finger.
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.
Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soldiers), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.
Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music.
Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.
Was that part of the brownestone link?
To the point. No. I’m 1/4 Scottish. Scots/Irish is a disgusting new trend of the last 30 years. Who ever heard of Scots pudding?
My Irish lineage comes from the northwest coast of Ireland and were Catholic. Mom was Scottish Catholic/Irish. All Scottish and Irish are like the description though. That love of war allowed the Limy’s to defeat both countries. We just would not quit infighting long enough to drive them out.
These Scotch/Irish he refers to were lowland Scots(That’s the proper use). The Brits got tired of fighting them and made them an offer.They would subsidize them to go to Ulster and drive out or kill the Irish Catholics and they would be allowed to keep the spoils and land. After a bit they subsidised them yet again to go to the colonies and do likewise to the redskins occupying central Appalachia. S. Penna., Ky, Tn area which they also did. By that time my own relatives were there in small numbers and took part in the Indian wars. From there they went to NE Tx and on out to west Tx to deal with the Commanche when the war of northern aggression was over. Also up into Montana.
The northern Scottish have quite a bit of Viking genes as do the Irish but prior to that the Irish migrated from NE Irelan to NW scotland and spread out from there. The original Irish were Sethites and later Israelites who left from Egypt prior to the Exodus and went from Spain to Ireland. The genes and fables and biblical evidence all line up but heavens forbid you should suggest the Hebrews were Lily white instead of gros hook nosed mulattos as if God almighty would make junk like that from already pure races of Whites, Asians, and Negros. The Basque gene has been deliberately diluted in N. Africa to prevent any identification without going to great lengths. True Basques from N. Africa and The Pyranees mts of Spain are not Arabs. Berbers were quite white and fair haired.
You got me started and I turned it into a rant but I’m not here much longer and I’ve changed my name the Chuck who doesn’t give a Fukk. It’s about time someone starts exposing the fraud and fairy tales surrounding the true white Hebrews and Other Adamites who Ranged from N. Africa, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and up into Tibet. The fable that Ham got turned into a nigger overnight and started the black race is so disgusting I’m not going to be silent about it.
The admini-me state.
Gulliver Gomer Gilligan Gump, Jr., jackblack style
fading one to black leaves a mark, but it doesn’t even make a dent
Two of my ancestors were part of the Over the Mountaiun Men. Crabtrees from SW Virginia. They were ‘boarderers’ from the Scots-English border.
There are enough bullets and enough rope to address the problem if there is a will.