Slicing The Baloney

But it still has two sides:

In the clip [OMB Director Russell Vought] can be heard stating, "“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.”

"Is that your goal as OMB director?" Bash asked.

"Look, I love how you jerry, jerry-picked (sic)the quote on trauma," he parried. "What I was referring to there was the bureaucracy. We do believe there is weaponized bureaucracy. We do believe that there are people who have been part of administrations that are fundamentally woke and weaponized against the American people."

"I have great people at OMB. There are great people at the FAA. There are great people a the NIH who are doing hard work and important public service activities and I think it's important to provide the full context of what people like me have said in the past," he pushed back. "But we're not going to be pushed, receive push-back, from the notion that we're going to dramatically change the deep woke and weaponized administrative state. "

Yeah, leopards eating faces, “good” immigrants v “bad.”  This takes me back to an old and racist joke from my childhood, when the favored football team would be losing, and it was because “their n—-ers are beatin’ up on our black boys.” The joke was at least self-aware. 

Vought is not. He’s all but claiming the “Deep State” lives, even as he declares “his” bureaucrats aren’t as bad as “those” bureaucrats, and therefor defended from his calumny.

It’s not as shameful as racism, but the ignorance makes racism and Vought’s attitude kissing cousins.