More, Faster, Donald!

The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce. The ruling by the US district judge Christopher Cooper in Washington DC federal court is temporary while the litigation plays out.

But it is a win for the Trump administration as it seeks to purge the federal workforce and slash what it deems wasteful and fraudulent government spending.

Oh, how we so desperately need a UK version of DOGE...

In a statement released last Wednesday, NTEU president Doreen Greenwald said: “We will not stand idly by while this administration takes illegal actions that will harm citizens, federal employees and the economy.”

She went on to add: “All of these orders are further evidence that this administration is motivated not by efficiency, but by cruelty and a total disregard for the government services that will be lost.”

If they can be 'lost' so easily, they weren't worth having in the first place. That's rather the point. 

Meanwhile, while our fighting men are away …

There are, at 02:50 this morning, fourteen items I’ve prepared (redacted) to post.  The seemingly most throwaway, most lightweight, by a lightweight girl, doing exactly as she’s accusing the Uke flagwavers of doing … is actually the least answerable … in fact, is the core of our issue as a society in an immediate sense … plus it’s precisely the issue our enemy within is counting on, putting all its chips on to win.

Right off the bat, I can say that this girl is one of the last you’d draft to meet the deathcult army ready to slaughter the defenceless. However much gym she does, it would still be a knife through butter.  Ditto every Woke soyboy, almost all girls, certainly the elderly, of course we must add adolescent and younger children to that, plus any importees from other countries … any Woke left of fighting age, male or female … it goes on … almost no use in a real fight, in house to house combat.

It takes Alex from Oz, I think, to lay it out:

Who then would be of use, if trained? Well obviously our armed forces … what is it … ten thousand battle ready, to face their ten million or so?  But what has the Llama Harmer just announced?  The cream of our forces is to go off to a charnel house thousands of miles away … not to be here on our soil when the word goes out to the deathcult to attack.

Who’d be still here, of realistic fighting potential? Non forces men, e.g. football lads … some clerks and similar, some businessmen of the younger sort.  Doesn’t look good, does it?  America?  Don’t forget Bondi is trying to remove guns from people, quite contrary to 2A.  Plus the Donald has gone Monroe Doctrine.

We’re on our own, mateys … with a Dad’s Army and some planes.

Leilani’s not wrong about flagwaving, demonstrations, candles, kumbaya … what does it achieve? Even the powerful farmers … how have they changed the monster Starmer? Not in the bleedin’ least.  Agenda.

Why is the middle class and skilled working not removing Starmer?

No legal mechanism, is there? The moment they leave their jobs, the homes they’re trying to keep afloat, and try … ten years in the slammer or worse.

So, there must come a time, must there not?

No Doubt This Will Be Used As 'One Of The Perils Of WFH'..?

A crooked tax officer who embezzled thousands of pounds from HMRC to pay off her mortgage has been jailed for two years. Joanne Connell took advantage of her position in the bankruptcy team to swipe £193,000 between April and September 2022.

How was someone like this ever in a position where she could manage this? 

Connell had worked for HMRC for approximately 15 years in various roles. At the time of the offence, she was an administrative officer in the bankruptcy team. The court heard that Connell created fraudulent credits while working from home using her HMRC laptop.

And it'll be seized on as a reason to stop all WFH, despite the fact that she could have done the same from behind a desk in the office, if their security is that lax that a low grade such as this can bypass any checks on her work, both managerial and system-based.  

Connell was off work with ill health in June 2022 after having been admitted to hospital. She subsequently indicated to her managers that she had difficulty understanding and following instructions.

Isn't that a requirement in her job description? 

However, an HMRC investigation revealed Connell continued to embezzle money throughout her sick leave. She will now be subject to confiscation action under Proceeds of Crime legislation to recover monies illegally obtained.

I'm only surprised they didn't commend her on her work ethic! 

Norway and sanity

Let’s start with Norway itself:

All right … now to the incident, following Zelensky’s behaviour, where the Norwegian tanker refused to refuel the US warship-sub-whatever … Mike Benz:

Not running the clip, just a shot from it.

And another post I saw in passing:

The UK, of course, has no gas industry … it has thousands of bird choppers, solar farms and Psycho Miliband.

Oh and millions of invaders plus Starmer and Rachel from Accounts.

Aftermath of the White House Humiliation

The EU, of course, this giant globo-communo toad squatting over the nations of Europe ... rapacious, criminal, unelected in the seats of power ... how much longer till it implodes?  Will the Ukraine be its swansong?

And as for the treasonous cabinets of Europe's and Britain's faux "democracies" ... we can only hope they eventually get theirs.  Some fallout from the WH humilation:

Here's hoping and praying for the peoples of the various nations ... that the slaughter may soon stop and these warmongers get theirs.

Watch Those Goalposts Move!

Microscopic particles emitted from brake pads can be more toxic than those emitted in diesel vehicle exhaust, a study has found. This research shows that even with a move to electric vehicles, pollution from cars may not be able to be eradicated.

Because the real target wasn't diesel cars at all, it was private cars, full stop.

Exposure to pollution generated by cars, vans and lorries has been previously been linked to an increased risk of lung and heart disease. While past attention has mainly concentrated on exhaust emissions, particles are also released into the air from tyre, road and brake pad wear.These emissions are largely unregulated by legislation and the study found that these “non-exhaust” pollution sources are now responsible for the majority of vehicle particulate matter emissions in the UK and parts of Europe, with brake dust the main contributor among them.

Maybe the answer is, when that cyclist passes too close to you, or pedals out from a side road, don't brake? 

Go on, do it for the environment! 😂

Clearing the mind and preparation

A magazine called Evie ran a poll or whatever and discovered that leftist women led all other demographics across all ranges of mental illness … uh huh … as mentioned by Miles M …

… HERE. He continues:

Yep, I have a similar weakness for capable women with at least some sense of limits to their abilities, just as men are incapable in various ways … and this is very much the theme in my own latest post on Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, which included this comment:

Part of it, to my mind, is to not try to prove oneself in stoopid ways, showing off, being kick-butt gung-ho without backup, because ideology makes us do stoopid things, drives wedges between us … when the mind should be on the job in hand.

“Men and women are not interchangeable.” (Julia M, 1052 a.m., Thu Feb 27th)

“Vive la différence!“ (James Anatole France Higham, before turning commie)

The Progressives Fall Out Of Love With Youthful Activism

You would be forgiven for thinking we were back at the Bullingdon Club, in the company of Jonty, Munty, Stiffy, Kipper, Chugger and, to use the polite version, Pig Botherer – only in this case it’s Big Balls and a guy with a history of racist tweeting. This is the sudden, startling emergence into American political life of a type deeply recognisable to Brits: that is, jaunty young men with juvenile nicknames and a firm belief they should be running the world.

Well, this is Emma Brockes, after all, the 'Guardian' correspondent who was so dim she really thought Trump had lost the election and it was just the press were keeping it from the American people. 

And she wasn't so upset about 'young people' that she didn't fall into the climate hysteria predicted by the doom goblin.

Let’s look at the lineup. The youngest of Musk’s Doge hires, Edward Coristine – online username, Big Balls – is a 19-year-old former intern at Neuralink, Musk’s neurotechnology company, who until recently appeared to be a first-year student at Northeastern University in Boston. Luke Farritor is a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern. Marko Elez, 25, used to work for X and SpaceX, and was revealed by the Wall Street Journal to have authored several since-removed tweets asserting, among other things, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” (Elez briefly resigned before Musk announced he’d reinstate him.) And Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old who boosted a post on X by the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and whose newly launched Substack this week highlighted the perils of skipping freshman English 101 with a post entitled “Why DOGE: Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America.”

So, they have the wrong opinions and the wrong sense of humour for Emma, but what about their boss, who surely even she must admit is a success? 

Musk, a man with the emotional maturity of a cartoon bank robber, is leading a group of men most of whom have no government or management experience whatsoever, let alone expertise in fields governed by the agencies they have been tasked to reform.

And just perhaps, Emma, that's what's needed right now - someone who isn't steeped in the public sector ethos? Certainly seems so, anyway. 

Anyway, we know how this ends. In the largest sense, with the cancellation of programmes mandated democratically in Congress by a bunch of unelected goons in puffer vests. And in the smallest sense, with one of these 22-year-old jerks spilling his Big Gulp cup of Mountain Dew over a keyboard at the Treasury and wiping the social security data of 70 million Americans.

Maybe argue the actual dangers that could exist, rather than the ones in your head. 

Who’s controlling this global mendacity?

Slight quandary which to run with here:

* The joke of Merz in Germany riding a wave of stopping illegals at the border, being returned in a near landslide, then next day turning around and reversing the policy, a la Starmer…

* The joke of Bondi saying the Epstein files are on her desk, then she, Luna and Mace deciding instead to have a jolly in Dallas on a “fact finding tour”, asking old-timers if they remember JFK…

*. The joke conference with Zelensky demanding money, with Trudeau, Starmer and Macron suddenly finding billions whilst cost cutting the indigenous vulnerable in their countries…

* Merz saying the AfD has no voice, ditto Macron on Le Pen in France, ditto Starmer and Reform in the UK…

* The policy of raiding, imprisoning, firing from jobs any daring to criticise govt policy.

I’m thinking the clever ruse of reversing policy straight after election, a la Johnson, Starmer and now Merz is the one to look at here now … namely how on earth they have the temerity, brazenly, in front of the public which just elected them, to suddenly renege. 

Politicians are not known for courage, so someone or something has emboldened them to do this … the sheer gall of it is jawdropping. They’re vious quite convinced there’ll be no comeback on it … or maybe the comeback is factored in … maybe people like May and Johnson happily accepted they could do thisbe swept aside some yars later, their job for their masters done.

The question was, and still is… who exactly are their masters?

Well, They Would Say That, Wouldn’t They?

To the 'Guardian' letter pages!

Recent press comment about the role of the attorney general, Richard Hermer, referred to in your article (‘Deeply unfair’: how attorney general became lightning rod for criticism of Starmer, 13 February), overlooks the principle that those representing parties in contentious litigation have the right, and indeed the duty, to put forward the case for their clients without fear or favour, so that, as and when appropriate, the court or tribunal can itself independently decide whether such a case is or is not valid. As the great British advocate and judge Norman Birkett once pointed out in a radio talk about the art of advocacy, it is essential that a lawyer’s presentation of the case for a client is not perceived as an expression of the lawyer’s personal opinions.

With decisions as perverse as this one being made by them, that's going to be pretty difficulty to maintain, isn't it?  

Not only would this be incorrect as a matter of fact, but it would also undermine our system of justice, under which the case for each side is fully and objectively presented before a decision is made by an impartial and independent tribunal.

Stories like this one aren't really helping are they? 

Those who state or imply that, in doing this, the lawyers are advancing their own personal opinions, are doing immense and untold damage, not only to our legal system but to society as a whole. They are undermining the rule of law and opening a path towards a society in which the public no longer trust the legal system or the individuals who participate in it.

So, who is saying this?  

Stephen Hockman KC and Sam Townend KC

Former chairs, Bar Council Christina Blacklaws and I Stephanie Boyce Former presidents, Law Society

Ah.