Short Stack: Prediction Regarding The Secret Service
Other than possibly the Director, who is a political appointee, not one unionized, tenured civil servant bureaucrat will be fired from the Secret Service. Watch and see.
As the author of a book about the modern administrative state (Save The Swamp: Career Guidebook for Budding Bureaucrats), I'm making a prediction—
The Secret Service employs approximately 8,000 bureaucrats. The agency spends more than $3 billion of your money each year.
Recently, the Secret Service has adjusted its primary missions from protection and financial investigations to serving as a social experiment in diversity, equity, and inclusion, hiring and promoting people based on their skin color, gender, and sexual peccadilloes.
If seeing a man wearing a dress sexually excites you, or you are a woman who gets turned on by other women, or you have politically-preferred skin color, then you likely qualify for a position and promotion within the Secret Service! Bureaucratic elites actually brag about this on the Secret Service website.
Unionized DEI bureaucrats employed by the Secret Service this past weekend—presumably proud of their own sexual preferences, skin color, and gender—watched a young killer climb atop a building near a rally featuring a former President of the United States, position himself as a sniper, take aim, and fire multiple rounds, striking the former President and murdering a bystander in the audience.
As this happened, numerous Secret Service agents cowered in confusion—not covering the former President—while others bumbled around as they struggled to extract their service weapon from a holster and then later re-holster those same weapons.
To suggest that these agents reminded observers of Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show is not far off the mark.
Prediction
My prediction: Other than possibly the Director, who is a political appointee, not one unionized, tenured civil servant bureaucrat will be fired from the Secret Service.
Moreover, not one bureaucrat will be demoted, nor will any employee suffer a pay cut. Rather, within a year, the current or a future Director will demand from Congress a budget increase in order to increase pay for Secret Service bureaucrats.
The pitch will be the same that it always is: “We will do a better job if we have more funding, more resources, more power.” That is what bureaucrats say every time they fail. It’s a sure as night following day.
Surrounding all this incompetence and rewarding of failure, some elected politicians in Congress, both Democrat and Republicans, will hold hearings and boast in public how they are “getting to the bottom” of the problems plaguing the Secret Service, while in reality nothing within the Secret Service will change, other than incompetent bureaucrats will be paid more in the future than they are paid now.
Watch and see.
This is the modern progressive administrative state in action (or inaction, to be more accurate) right in front of your own eyes. I don’t expect I will ever be a candidate for President of the United States, but if I was, I would trust personally-selected private security forces more than bureaucrats within the Biden Administration’s Secret Service.
And that raises important zetetic questions: Do Americans trust that President Biden’s Secret Service will actually protect President Biden’s political opponents? Should Americans have that trust? Are we wise or foolish to offer that trust?
What say you, my fellow citizens?