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A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.

Quite right too, for being such a dangerous individual. What if one of those people she gave a kidney to became a rapist, or a murderer?

I bet she never even bothered to check if the person on her table was a God-fearing American and just attempted to save all their lives instead.

These woke doctors saving the lives of people God has made sick are interfering with God's plan and have to be stopped or deported.

Now please pray for my brother who is currently in hospital getting the best treatment money can buy. God bless those saving his life, they are truly doing God's work.

At the moment, yes, because Labour are doing quasi right-wing things like increasing defence spending and cutting back on welfare, that the Tories talked about a lot but never really managed to grasp properly.

So, the risk is, both on competence and policy they are outgunned.

The idea of any opposition losing out on perceived competence with Reeves as Chancellor is mildly mindboggling. Kemi announced some policy work recently which is long overdue and it will be interesting to see what they come up with. A coherent opposition is certainly required and I don't see Reform ever fulfilling that role.

How quickly Liz Truss is forgotten.

Rachel Reeves has inherited a dire economic situation, a lunatic in the Whitehouse intent on crashing the global economy and now a consensus that the UK needs to significantly increase defence spending.
I don't like many of the choices the govt is making, but she's been willing to make tough choices.

It’s pretty clear now that the biggest danger to democracy is not the so called left wokists on steroids but right wingers who support Trump ,who only want free speech which they agree with and happily ignore the trashing of the courts which might make decisions they disagree with . You’d think Musk saying judges should be impeached because basically they’re simply following the law would set alarm bells ringing .

I respectfully disagree.

There is only one thing that matters, and everything else is subservient to this:

The people need to be able to evict their rulers.

When that goes, everything goes to shit.

That is why Presidential systems are much worse than Parliamentary ones. Under the former, it is virtually impossible for a President to be evicted during his term. You basically elect an eighteenth century monarch for a few years and hope you haven't made a terrible mistake. Whereas under a Parliamentary system, the leader is kept constantly accountable to a majority in Parliament (as well as, in our case, to the Monarch). And the people also get their say every few years.

Our system of government, though flawed in many ways, is in this respect far superior to its French, American or Russian counterparts.

It’s pretty clear now that the biggest danger to democracy is not the so called left wokists on steroids but right wingers who support Trump ,who only want free speech which they agree with and happily ignore the trashing of the courts which might make decisions they disagree with . You’d think Musk saying judges should be impeached because basically they’re simply following the law would set alarm bells ringing .

I respectfully disagree.

There is only one thing that matters, and everything else is subservient to this:

The people need to be able to evict their rulers.

When that goes, everything goes to shit.

Woke is shit. But so long as you can evict the wokists... well, then the damage they can do will be pretty minimal.

98% taxes on "unearned income" are pretty dumb. But so long as you can throw out those that implement them, then it'll be OK.

And on. And on. And on.

Nothing matters more than a system which forces governments to be accountable to their citizens.

Never throw away the system of democratic checks and balances for a little temporary benefit for "your side".

Bill Kristol
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So we're hitting a crisis point, with the apparent evasion of court orders on deportations and immigration, plus shutting down agencies, canceling grants, and firing civil servants contrary to law. And claims from DOJ that Article II of the Constitution enables autocracy.

https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1901388655408890179

Trump has done some mad stupid shit these last weeks, but deporting violent Venezuelan gangsters to El Salvador is not one of them. It’s also bound to be popular. Are the Dems really gonna fight on THIS hill?

Putting aside who was being deported are you comfortable with governments ignoring the courts ? This time you agree with the decision because of who’s being deported . It doesn’t matter if the decision is popular or not . Next time it might be a decision you disagree with , what if Labour just ignored the courts here . Would you be okay with that ?

I’m not arguing the rights and wrongs, I’m just saying so much mad stuff is coming out of the White House the democrats need to pick and choose their fights, and this seems a really unwise choice. They might even boost Trump’s popularity

When marvelling at the horrors coming out of the Trump admin (and there are many) it’s important to remember that the American Left is deeply stupid, mendacious, greedy, narcissistic and hypocritical

It isn't important to remember that. It's a distraction from the point at issue.

Well, it kind of is because it's how we got here. Imagine Trump against Obama, or Bill Clinton (though come to think of it, beyond that, most of the Dem candidates of my lifetime have been rubbish).

It's an exercise in deflection. This horror is not one iota the responsibility of those who warned against it and fought for it not to happen.

Yes it is, a bit. Because if they'd put forward a decent candidate and/or tempered their own weirdness a bit and/or compromised with the American electorate, this wouldn't have happened. Trump is a direct consequence of Dem pigheadedness.

They did put forward a decent candidate but lost as incumbents everywhere were doing, mainly due to inflation. They bear zero responsibility for Trump. They fought a centre ground campaign (aka "compromising with the electorate") and bust a gut to stop him. This "oh but the Dems" thing is the purest hogwash. It's intellectually and morally sloppy.

Nah that's rubbish. We were all saying well before the election that if they didn't dump Biden they would lose. And then they managed to destroy any chance Harris might ever have had by messing up the handover.

Their choice of candidate was poor but survivable. The way they eventually got round to having her as the candidate handed the election to Trump.

Biden should have stuck to his promise to be a "bridge", yes I agree. He ought to have stood aside way earlier. That's part of a "reasons Trump won" analysis. There are loads of takes on this. Everybody has one. But the responsibility for Trump2 lies with those who campaigned and voted for it not with those who campaigned and voted against it.

Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
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So we're hitting a crisis point, with the apparent evasion of court orders on deportations and immigration, plus shutting down agencies, canceling grants, and firing civil servants contrary to law. And claims from DOJ that Article II of the Constitution enables autocracy.

https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1901388655408890179

Trump has done some mad stupid shit these last weeks, but deporting violent Venezuelan gangsters to El Salvador is not one of them. It’s also bound to be popular. Are the Dems really gonna fight on THIS hill?

Putting aside who was being deported are you comfortable with governments ignoring the courts ? This time you agree with the decision because of who’s being deported . It doesn’t matter if the decision is popular or not . Next time it might be a decision you disagree with , what if Labour just ignored the courts here . Would you be okay with that ?

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?

That speech is one of my favourite of all time. And I believe was also a favourite of the excellent Cyclefree, late of this parish.

It is a good speech, though of course the real Thomas More was happy with rigging the legal system to burn people who had slightly different views on trans issues.

(Transsubstantiation in this case).

Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
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So we're hitting a crisis point, with the apparent evasion of court orders on deportations and immigration, plus shutting down agencies, canceling grants, and firing civil servants contrary to law. And claims from DOJ that Article II of the Constitution enables autocracy.

https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1901388655408890179

Trump has done some mad stupid shit these last weeks, but deporting violent Venezuelan gangsters to El Salvador is not one of them. It’s also bound to be popular. Are the Dems really gonna fight on THIS hill?

Putting aside who was being deported are you comfortable with governments ignoring the courts ? This time you agree with the decision because of who’s being deported . It doesn’t matter if the decision is popular or not . Next time it might be a decision you disagree with , what if Labour just ignored the courts here . Would you be okay with that ?

I’m not arguing the rights and wrongs, I’m just saying so much mad stuff is coming out of the White House the democrats need to pick and choose their fights, and this seems a really unwise choice. They might even boost Trump’s popularity

When marvelling at the horrors coming out of the Trump admin (and there are many) it’s important to remember that the American Left is deeply stupid, mendacious, greedy, narcissistic and hypocritical

I think you miss how important this fight is. This is the President saying he can ignore both the constitution and all the other arms of Government because he is President. If they don't take a stand on this then nothing else really matters.

Shashank Joshi
@shashj

Being wounded in combat while black is now “DEI woke shit”.

https://x.com/shashj/status/1901175303851975016

When the pendulum inevitably swings back, it is going to be brutal about what Trump and his racist/misogynist ilk have been doing.

I think we are just about at the point where people lower down the chain need to start asking if 'I was only obeying orders' will be a sufficient defence to save their jobs.

I mean, would you want to be the person identified as actually doing the removing of MoH recipients from the Arlington Cemetery website?

Well, obviouly, I wouldn't!

I assume that like most other millitary associated organisations in the US, the people working there are likely to be Vets themselves. So to rephrase it, what Vet in their right ind would want to be the one identified as having removed MoH recipients based on their race?

I would definitely be looking for new job sooner rather than later.

There's probably an element of troublemaking. People against the reforms who decide to rub their hands and say 'right, getting rid of DEI are we?...' and look for the most damaging ways to do it. That's not an excuse for the actions - someone should be keeping a closer eye.

Much more likely, people petrified for their jobs if they don't follow the exact will of their glorious leader.

There are people out there going around *looking* for stuff to complain about, and trying to create a sh*tstorm over it. There've been a couple of them I've seen on Twix over the last few weeks.

And if you run the site/organisation that is targeted, then you'll probably be for the chop.

So no, no false flag operation. Just really nasty people ordering people to do nasty stuff or else.

A bit like your friend Putin.

MAGA are never acting in good faith. When they talk about getting rid of DEI, what they mean is white supremacism.

White male supremacism. Hegseth's other emerging obsession is getting rid of women from combat roles.

Russia seems to have discontinued the proud Soviet tradition of using women in front line roles (snipers, tankers, Night Witches etc). Where Putin goes, Trumpy follows..

America is different. The current leadership in America hold women in a type of awe: women are magical. They are magical mothers. They are magical home-makers. They are magical cooks.

So...they are witches?

Can we burn them then?

Or build a bridge out of them?

50 years old - and still as quotable as 1975.

Not any films you can say that of.

Is that the holy grail of filmmaking?