When Elon Musk swept in to wreck our democracy last year, he brought with him his own private security detail. Rather than tell Musk’s rent-a-cop randos to get gone or assign Musk security from actual trained federal personnel, this administration took a more novel approach: Just have the U.S. Marshals deputize Musk’s security team as federal agents. Problem solved!
Sure, Musk’s security personnel didn’t meet the requirements to be deputized as federal law enforcement, but in our brave new world of meritocracy, lol, so what.
Now, by “didn’t meet the requirements,” we’re not talking about how there was some hypertechnical federal employment requirement that these otherwise exceedingly well-trained and well-qualified people lacked. No, we’re talking about…
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