Welp. The Breakdown of the American Government Cinches it. The Deep State Isn't Real. (Are Vampires?)
Friends, like anyone with eyes and two brain cells to rub together, I have been, well, horrified? Gobsmacked? Chagrined? at the complete and utter breakdown of the American Government in the past month due to the bunch of born-on-thirds who managed to take over the Executive Branch through means my little left-leaning heart cannot begin to come to terms with. The Checks and Balances are broken, man!
Now, look– people with a firmer grasp on the nuances of everything than me have written far more eloquently than I ever could on the subject. (Many people who think the height of political discourse is sharing poorly-constructed memes, effectively shrieking 'the sky is burning, and all you love will soon turn to ash' while simultaneously begging for likes and a follow back have also taken a crack at assessing the dumpster fire, as well. Your mileage will vary on whether you will deem their approach a success, though. Their engagement on social media, however? No one can argue it with. Sublime. Hell hath no fury like a middle class liberal made more than slightly uncomfortable, but I digress.)
The fact we are up shit creek without a paddle if you like not living in a fascist hellscape is pretty well-worn territory at this point, so we don't really need to get into that. What we're here to talk about today is something that occurred to me over the weekend and what I've been texting various friends over to the point where they're sick of hearing about it, so it's time to scream it into this void: the takeover of the government is proof that the Deep State does not exist.
Think about it--if the Deep State existed, its number one goal would be self-preservation. Of keeping America at the top. How does a desperate-for-his-witholding-fathers-love drugged out gormless billionaire effectively going into the hulking machine that is the American Federal government and just ripping out parts like it's copper wire and he needs to pay for his next fix get us there? It doesn't!
So the logical conclusion is, the Deep State doesn't exist. Which means all those fun conspiracies you used to hear from people shouting at you in between the slurs that bummed you out while you were walking your dog at night (no? just me?) weren't real. Moon landing? Yup, real. Not faked. Those people got punched by Buzz Aldrin for NOTHING except their own stupidity and possibly humilitation kink. JFK assassination? Just a goof from the Secret Service (probably), nothing more sinister than that. Simple incompetence, and as we know, that is most likely a time-honored tradition for the organization at this point. This also means that there isn't a secret cabal of vampires who are fighting climate change as part of a government initiative to maintain American supremacy despite a changing, unyielding world. Booooooo!!!!
If you want to debate with me whether vampires are real, you are simply in the wrong place. Take that PhIlOsOpHy to Fox News, bud. You're playing with the big dogs here. I do not debate whether climate change is real, just I like do not debate the existence of ghosts, ghouls, vampires, the fae, and other things that go bump in the night. They simply are. That is why it frankly is devastating to come to terms with the mundane reality that the Deep State isn't. Because life is more interesting when you think there's a possibility of a cigarette-smoking man tormenting the believers amongst us, running the government behind the scenes, and secretly counting down the minutes until aliens come back and take what's rightfully theirs. I WANT TO BELIEVE.
Obviously, the reality of the Deep State is terrifying. So play this out--if America, the dominant world power, doesn't have a Deep State, then no one else does either. Which means 8 billion people are at the whim and mercy of a handful of shitty men with no checks and balances to keep them in line, and no structure in place to keep them from dragging us all to hell based on their own vibes of the moment. If this were a sci-fi movie, this is the point in the entire narrative where we realize that maybe, perhaps the Deep State did once exist, but those who controlled it died out long ago and all that's left now is a self-propelling machine that kept things in check, up until the tech-bros decided to OpTiMiZe.
Which brings us back to the vampires. Where the f-k are they? I have always suspected that their numbers are few, they stick to the shadows, and a societal collapse would help them because we are their food. If society breaks down, then there are less bonds that keep us all together. However, I have long held that vampires are decidedly anti-climate change because if we ALL die out, then what do they eat? And these mother f-ers are gonna kill us all. So perhaps if there was no Deep State before, it's time to get one now, and have it be a vampiric one. It couldn't possibly be worse than what's going on now, right?! (I reserve the right to change my mind if our new vampiric overlords do, in fact, turn out to be worse. I will issue an apology if that is the case....from hell, obviously.)
