The Leaked Playbook for Silencing America | Mike Benz Impact Theory w/ Tom Bilyeu

Mike Benz’s use of “the blob” specifically targets the U.S. foreign policy establishment, while “the deep state” is a broader, more conspiratorial term used by some to describe a hidden government structure manipulating policy across many domains.

The Blob (Mike Benz’s usage)

As framed by Benz, the term “the blob” refers to the network of foreign policy elites in Washington, D.C., that is committed to an interventionist, internationalist agenda.

Focus: Narrowly focused on the U.S. foreign policy and national security establishment. The term was popularized by former Obama aide Ben Rhodes, who used it to criticize the bipartisan consensus for interventionism that he felt was resistant to change.

Composition: Composed of diplomats, government officials, military leaders, think tank analysts, and journalists who share a similar worldview. These individuals often rotate between government and private sector jobs, creating a self-perpetuating network.

Motivation: Driven by a set of shared beliefs, including a commitment to American global leadership and the use of military force to manage world affairs. Critics of the blob argue this mindset persists regardless of political affiliation.

The Deep State

“The deep state” is a more expansive and often conspiratorial term that suggests a hidden or unaccountable government exists, which manipulates the public and obstructs the policies of elected officials.

Focus: Broad in scope, encompassing various government agencies, intelligence services, and career civil servants. Those who use the term often claim this network operates outside of democratic oversight.

Composition: Implies a clandestine network of actors manipulating power for their own purposes, often portrayed as being hostile to populist or anti-establishment figures.

Motivation: Said to be motivated by self-preservation, a specific political ideology, or a desire for power. Unlike the blob’s focus on foreign policy, deep state allegations can apply to domestic issues as well, including technology and censorship.

Key differences summarized

Feature: The Blob (Mike Benz) The Deep State

Scope: U.S. foreign policy and national security establishment. Broader, encompassing various parts of the government bureaucracy.

Origin of Term: Popularized by Ben Rhodes in 2016 to criticize the bipartisan foreign policy consensus. Has historical roots but gained significant traction in contemporary U.S. politics.

Nature: A shared mindset or worldview among a specific professional class. Often framed as a secret, malicious, or conspiratorial network.

Primary Arena: International relations and military intervention. Can include both foreign policy and domestic affairs, such as censorship and intelligence.

Learn about the origins and operations of the National Security State (the deep state) established in 1947 during the Truman regime.

The deep state is beyond the Constitution. It is separate from the American government which we all learned about in school, composed of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The deep state has no restrictions on its extra-constitutional actions, no separation of powers, no checks and balances, no transparency or open accounting for its egregious and invasive behavior.

The deep state is made up of the military-industrial complex comprised of pentagon profiteers, the intelligence community and corporate surveillance contractors of the imperial National Security State it sustains, with seemingly endless no win wars which have murdered millions of hapless victims across the planet, generating terrorism as blowback from its decades of unconstitutional covert actions and preemptive wars of aggression.

The American Deep State
Along with the multinational petroleum and weapons/intelligence industries of the military-industrial complex, the global narcotics trade is one the biggest businesses in the world. It is fueled and enabled by the intersection of drug money, intelligence and money laundering on a vast scale by banks and financial institutions. Researchers have connected the dots linking the underworld of organized crime (narcotics) to the upperworld of the Establishment (Wall Street banks and CFR-connected corporations/foundations/media). Interwoven within the nexus are the covert intelligence agencies.

For well over one hundred years U. S. government authorities have imported draconian police state techniques and technology developed overseas back to the American homeland, whether involving torture, surveillance, and suspension of human rights and liberties, using the overseas country as a laboratory for counterinsurgency and rearming local security forces for repression.

I witnessed Professor Alfred W. McCoy deliver these same illuminating remarks below at the University of Tulsa and afterwards had an opportunity to briefly discuss aspects of his internationally recognized research on CIA covert operations, the global narcotics trade, and the origins of the National Security State with him.

From suppressing the Filipino Insurrection following the Spanish-American War to the destructive counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, these martial exercises in unlawful, extra-constitutional behavior have continued unabated. And like the prodigal son of New Testament scriptures, they have come home.

11:29 am on October 28, 2025

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