It cannot be called “deep” once everyone knows that it exists; and the fact that it exists is obvious from the fact that Joe Biden couldn’t possibly have been in charge of much of anything, least of all his own brain, ever since being sort-of elected president. Just yesterday we found out that he thinks that he is a black woman and, as such, is proud to have served under a black president. Clearly, someone else is in charge, and this fact is floating right there on the surface, not someplace deep.
It’s not a state because states are run by public persons who are sometimes even chosen in a national election. That’s not the case in the US, where the decision is made by a tiny contingent within some “swing state” (but really by political machinations that happen behind the scenes). Nor is this the case in most of the EU, where leaders are chosen as a result of similarly opaque parliamentary machinations. But however these public officials are chosen (by the Deep State, no doubt!) they are public and their positions are official, and that is what makes a state a state and not some sort of shady mafia organization. “Take me to your leader!” arriving space aliens typically demand, and if the answer is, “Well, we could take you to Joe Biden, but his brain is on the blink, causing him to think that he is a black woman, and beyond that we really don’t know who our leader or leaders are” then the aliens would surely be miffed. As we should be.
Some people declare that they know exactly who comprises the Deep State: it is the CIA and the FBI, plus lots of other Washingtonian alphabet soup, or it is the Bilderberg Club, or the Elders of Zion, or Reptiloids from planet Nibiru. That sort of nonsense always draws an audience or idle gawkers. But it is an essential element of their genre that the people who secretly run the US, the EU and a longish list of other puppet states keep their identities secret. How would they be supposed to secretly run things if everyone knows who they are? Ergo, secret rulers are secret. I hope that this isn’t too huge a leap of logic for my readers to make.
There are, however, some facts we can deduce about the Unknown Grandfathers (let’s start calling them that, since, as we have already established, they are neither deep nor a state). And the most important of these facts is that they are old. That is why they cling onto similarly young and agile characters, such as Joe Biden (81), Mitch McConnell (also 81 and also suffering from brain crashes), Nancy Pelosi (83 and no longer in control of her false teeth), Dianne Feinstein (was 90 and, thank God, finally gone). There is an entire list of them, care of the NYT. It reads like a tale from the crypt.
Why do the Unknown Grandfathers cling to these obsolete characters whose last original thought occurred a couple of decades ago at least, if they ever had one? Because caution, laced with paranoia, is typical of old people. They simply can’t trust anyone much younger than they are. And so they continue to propel into office those whose minds are sufficiently ossified to be physically unable to produce any big surprises as far as great new ideas or sudden policy changes. They are threatened by the young and the intelligent and are comforted by those who are old and borderline senile — just like they are! It makes them tired and confused to listen to young, energetic, fast-talking characters such as Tulsi Gabbard or Vivek Ramaswamy. They prefer someone from their own cohort or perhaps just a bit younger to pretend to make policy decisions — someone who reads haltingly from a piece of paper or recites same old lines they memorized a long time ago.
This does not apply to those who have no authority whatsoever to make policy decisions — the various political stooges in the European Union, South Korea, Japan and a couple of remnants of the former British Empire. These stooges can be quite a bit younger; just look at Kaya Callous, the fresh new face of EU diplomacy now that Jopez Bordello is being put out to pasture.
The Euro-stooges have no choice but to repeat the same old anti-Russia, pro-war, pro-Israel, anti-China tropes. Those who get into office by some semblance of a democratic process, such as Giorgia Meloni of Italy, are quickly threatened into towing the party line — sending weapons to the Ukraine. Viktor Orbán is currently testing the limits of what is allowed by flying to Moscow, meeting with Putin and repeatedly using that streng verboten word — peace! As a final insult, they all have to speak English because the Unknown Grandfathers are all Anglos and they don’t do foreign languages. And so, in spite of the fact that the UK is no longer in the EU, just to soothe the spirits of the Unknown Grandfathers, most of the insipid blather coming out of Brussels happens to be in English.
Being old and senile, the Unknown Grandfathers are unable to accept certain facts: that the military means of maintaining dollar hegemony and robbing the rest of the world no longer work; that Russia, as a nuclear-armed superpower, cannot be defeated; that China, being the world’s most powerful economy, cannot be defeated either, and that the majority of the world has worked out ways to circumvent the authority of the Unknown Grandfathers, avoid their toxic currencies and to generally ignore them. Furthermore, the majority of the world knows that they are old and senile, that their power is inexorably slipping away and that the intelligent thing for everyone to do about them is to simply wait until most of them die.
Which they will. They may extend their lives in various expensive ways, be they regular transfusions with the blood of children or expensive, experimental animatronics, but they are mortal just like everyone else, while their Unknown Heirs are either too stupid and degenerate to take over the operation or smart enough (and degenerate) to jump clear of it ahead of time.
