Oops! Now I have a text from the Wizard of Woke: "Pay no attention to the male-identifying person behind the curtain."

Look, never mind that Joe Biden was basically incapable of performing the office of President of the United States, probably from the moment they fixed the South Carolina primary for him in 2020 to keep Bernie Sanders off the Democrat ticket.

And forget that it wasn't until well into 2024 that the lapdog media was almost ready to yap in annoying chorus — as annoying lapdogs will do — that Houston We Have a Problem.

But who is kidding whom? The whole point of the administrative state is that the President doesn't really have executive power. The educated administrative bureaucracy wisely develops policy according to expert-agreed science, and the President signs off on it.

Only, of course, the science on administrative bureaucracy is, per Hayek, that administrative hierarchy cannot work, because it lacks bandwidth, big time. Only a market economy with prices, per Mises, has the bandwidth for that.

The Germans were first to recognize the problem after World War I, when their all-hands review of the war conducted by General Hans von Seeckt determined that war could only work if responsibility were pushed down the military hierarchy as far as possible. Generals and colonels were specifically ordered to issue general orders so that the subordinates could fill in the details. The idea, wrote Seeckt, was

to make of each individual member of the army a soldier who, in character, capability, and knowledge, is self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful in taking responsibility [verantwortungsfreudig] as a man and a soldier.

Yes, I am sure you have noticed that today's educated, evolved bureaucracy is full of "self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful" responsible men and soldiers. Not.

But there's more.

It's George Stigler's science about "regulatory capture." The science states that government regulation inevitably fails because its regulatory activity gets captured by the special interests.

And all the world knows that the Biden administration was a double-blind social science experiment — conducted by Ivy League academics on their off days between training pro-Palestine mostly peaceful protesters — to confirm Hayek's science about bureaucracy and Stigler's science about "regulatory capture." That's what the flap about Biden and the Autopen is about. Anyone except a media lapdog could see with their scientific eyes that Joseph Robinette Biden, born into the working class of Scranton, PA, was not physically fit enough to sign executive orders, let alone mentally fit enough to understand what he was signing.