my father used to take me to watch the crusades (12. 209)

Whilst Musk is in “demon mode” along with his minions (someone said “traitor tots”) frenetically working to dismantle the administrative state—there have been less than convincing assurances that their access to government pay systems at the Treasury are limited to read only, and reporting suggests that at the Office for Personnel Management they have full editing privileges with the possibly to scrub for forgotten recriminations, delete, alter or insert documents into the permanent records (eOPF, electronic personnel files) of federal workers, harassing into quitting en masse, Trump for the National Prayer Breakfast (previously) hosted in the Capitol’s statuary hall reverted to his weird and off-putting “pious mode,” preaching unity to the gathered group. The conciliatory tone is in jarring, urging the shift away from partisan divides to a more collegial congress, returning to a time when members from across the aisle would socialise, and unsettling given the scorching rhetoric spewed just moments prior, rubbishing Democrats and the bureaucratic state as the enemy of the people, and what followed after this brief respite, calling for a task force, under the leadership of his newly appointed attorney general, Pam Bondi, to investigate and root out “anti-Christian bias” across the executive branch and establish a commission promoting religious liberty. This subversion of civil right and the principle of separation of church and state does not end with government policies or postures, but as with private sector businesses who uphold diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, they would be barred from funding or bidding for federal contracts.