A lot of ink has already been spilt about Donald Trump’s landslide victory, so I won’t detain you very long. I also won’t bore you by trotting out all the obvious reasons to celebrate: he’s anti-woke, pro-free speech, wants to cut taxes, supports Israel, thinks Net Zero is bunkum and will stand up to China. True, he’s not as hawkish as I’d like on Ukraine and has protectionist tendencies. But you can’t have everything.
As for the hysterical claim that he’s a ‘fascist’, I’m with John Tierney, who wrote a good piece for City Journal a few days ago pointing out that the Biden-Harris administration has engaged in far more authoritarian behaviour than Trump did in 2016-20, prosecuting political opponents, strong-arming social media platforms to silence critics (under the guise of combatting mis- and disinformation) and imposing the greatest restrictions on liberty in America’s history (during the pandemic).
Some people in the Westminster bubble think Trump’s victory is bad news for Britain because he’ll impose tariffs on British imports, but I think that’s unlikely and, in any event, Kamala Harris, like her boss, is no friend of Britain’s. As Pimlico Journal pointed out:
[T]here is little sign that Kamala Harris would be much warmer to Britain. The more fundamental problem is that the Democratic Party, having desecrated much of what remains of ‘WASP’ America, are now turning to attacking Britain itself. Many politically moderate Britons, whether on the centre-left or the centre-right, were taken aback by the apparent hostility of the New York Times to the monarchy – and Britain more generally – after the death of Elizabeth II. They should get used to it, because there is no doubt that, for the Democratic Party, Britain is a symbol of the old, racist, imperialist America, without rather than within. I’m sure you’ve seen the anti-Britain (and often also anti-France) memes on X. These don’t come from nowhere: they are, by now, symbols of something that Britain will not be able to escape in its relations with any Democratic administration. Actual national self-interest on the part of the Americans will increasingly be ignored, as Britain has become part of the broader American culture war. For this reason alone, no intelligent Briton should ever support the Democrats, no matter how boorish they think Donald Trump is.
But to my mind, the biggest reason to celebrate is that Trump wants to take on America’s vast federal bureaucracy – what he calls ‘the Deep State’ and which we call ‘the Blob’. During the campaign, he distanced himself from Project 25, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for wresting control of the administrative state, but J.D. Vance has said he thinks Trump should make it a priority to replace 5,000 civil servants with MAGA loyalists and Trump intends to hire Elon Musk as his ‘efficiency tsar’, tasking him with ruthlessly cutting waste in government agencies in much the same way he fired 80% of Twitter’s workforce without damaging the product.
There’s a good economic argument for doing this since it’s these bureaucrats who are stifling innovation and putting insurmountable obstacles in the path of new businesses. The regulators, as is well documented, are captured by the sectors they’re supposed to be regulating, helping giant corporations preserve their monopolies and who are often rewarded with well-paying jobs by those same corporations when they leave office.
But the best argument for dismantling the Blob is that it has become the main instrument for enforcing woke ideology. The federal bureaucracy is marinated in equity, diversity and inclusion, climate alarmism, LGBTQ+ rights, Critical Race Theory, Gender Identity Theory… all the sacred cows of radical progressive ideology. These civil servants, along with their allies in the academy and the media, are responsible for imposing what is, in effect, a new public morality on American society – a belief system that a majority of Americans have little sympathy for, as the election results made clear. It’s this ideology that’s responsible for the erosion of their freedoms in every aspect of their lives, whether it’s workplace speech codes or restrictions on their use of fossil fuels. Trump rightly understands that if you want to vanquish these torquemadas it’s not enough to defeat your political enemies at the ballot box; you need to defeat the vast army of unelected officials as well. This is the real battle.
If he succeeds – and it’s a big if – he will be an inspiration for rebel leaders all over the world, including the United Kingdom.
Stopping the imposition of this new secular religion by stealth is the most important political battle of our time.
In Trump, we may have found our General Patton.
Darn Right, We Are Going to GLOAT For The GOAT! “God Saved His Life For A Reason.”
— Dustie (@DustieDahl) November 6, 2024pic.twitter.com/5JhjB4Zn0Z
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It’s beyond unethical. It’s demonic.
Damn right, Stewart!
Fantastic article… but utterly unconscionable behaviour.
People are avoiding these ‘therapies’ on a large scale, so one can only assume this is only about money.
And if it’s not, let them have a full and frank debate, with all the up to date evidence and REAL informed consent.
So evil
This has reached a new level of twisted now. What I would like to know is whether this type of aggressive, false, and immature marketing stunt has any impact on vaccine uptake in children? Are people still so uninformed that they’ll take Peppa Pig’s word for it if she tells parents their children will benefit?
To any rational mind, surely such events would give pause for thought as to the real motivations behind “vaccine” campaigns?
If these jabs were provably beneficial, the sober evidence would be there, freely available with links to the relevant peer-reviewed studies that demonstrated unequivocally that the benefits outweigh the risks for all age groups. But it isn’t, so they need to bring in Peppa Pig to blag about it and brainwash young minds, and appeal to the “Superhero” aspirations of children so they can experimentally alter their genes.
It breaches laws, medical ethics, and the basic morals common to all humanity!
When they come for our children…. Its a hill I’m prepared to die on.
And the response from the GP practice is…….?
Ultimately Fishy and the rest of his government are responsible for this. They know damn well that a phone call to the appropriate earhole could stop this immediately but they have done nothing. Guilty.
A more aggressive response would be to list all the doctors and nurses working at this Practice along with their mugshots. Let’s see the cowardly response to that.
Name and shame.
huxley, re “…list all the doctors and nurses working at this Practice along with their mugshots…”
The question is – how are these doctors and nurses obtaining informed consent for administering this vaccine product?
What information are they giving to parents to justify their children being subjected to this medical intervention?
See my previous comments which indicate children don’t need this medical interference.
What on earth is going on in the medical ‘profession’ that these people are being recruited to foist upon the population unnecessary medical interventions?
This is a scandal of ginormous proportions which is coming to a head now with the Covid and flu vaccination scams.
How do we obtain accountability, particularly against rogue governments which are operating as handmaidens to the pharmaceutical industry, along with the medical profession?
A fine post.
The notorious Anthony Fauci co-authored an article published in January this year, admitting: “As of 2022, after more than 60 years of experience with influenza vaccines, very little improvement in vaccine prevention of infection has been noted. As pointed out decades ago, and still true today, the rates of effectiveness of our best approved influenza vaccines would be inadequate for licensure for most other vaccine-preventable diseases.” (My emphasis.)
So how are these flu vaccine products still being approved today?!?!
It’s mind-boggling how people have been exploited for years with rubbish flu vaccine products – how much has this racket cost taxpayers I wonder? How much damage to health is being done with these repeated medical interventions that are of little or no benefit re flu?
It seems to me this is out and out fraud…
And consider how children are the target for this scam, apparently tying them into the flu vaccine market for life, with vaccine products they don’t need.
This was admitted during a Lords committee meeting in the UK in June 2020, by Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London (also home of the notorious ‘modeller’ Neil Ferguson).
Peter Openshaw was present at the meeting as one of the members of the UK’s Sage scientific advisory group Nervtag, advising on the Covid-19 response. According to a report in the Guardian, Openshaw was advising the Lords committee that “A vaccine against Covid-19 may not work well in older people who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the disease…which may mean immunising others around them, such as children.” (My emphasis.)
Openshaw said: “Sometimes it is possible to protect a vulnerable group by targeting another group and this, for example, is being done with influenza. In the past few years the UK has been at the forefront of rolling out the live attenuated vaccine for children.” (My emphasis.)
According to the Guardian, Openshaw said “giving the nasal spray flu vaccine to children who do not often get severe flu protects their grandparents”. (My emphasis.) Openshaw was using this example to justify giving Covid-19 vaccine products to children and health and care workers, to “also help protect older people who have the most contact with them”.
What do you think about this? About children and others such as health and care workers being given flu and covid vaccines to protect the elderly? That is, adults and children who aren’t at serious risk of either flu or ‘Covid’ being pressed to sacrifice their own naturally effective immune response, and being vaccinated, repeatedly, to purportedly protect elderly people – is this ethical?
How do we effectively take this on, challenge unnecessary vaccinations being pressed upon people who do not need this medical interference?
How is informed consent being obtained for this racket?
Further to my comment above, I was so shocked after reading the report in the Guardian I referred to, I raised this matter in August 2020, in a BMJ (aka The British Medical Journal) rapid response, please see:
Is it ethical to vaccinate children to protect the elderly?
Again, what do people think about this?
Is it ethical to vaccinate people who aren’t at serious risk of disease to purportedly protect another group – e.g. vaccinating children to purportedly protect the elderly against flu or covid?
We have to demand accountability for this gross exploitation of people, including children, with unnecessary medical interventions such as vaccines.
Further to my comments please have a look at the email I sent to Peter Openshaw and Arne Akbar in September last year – Is it ethical to vaccinate the young to purportedly protect the old?
We have to address this now – they are brazenly jabbing children to purportedly protect old people – this is unethical!
It is in fact literally criminal.
Jabbing without informed consent is a criminal offence.
Terrific.
See also this article re flu vaccination of children in France – they’re coordinating a campaign to exploit children with these products, this must be challenged now.
Why Vaccinate Healthy 2- to 17-Year-Olds Against Influenza? Medscape, 17 October 2023
Ha! I bet the manufacturers aren’t ‘fazed’ at all! Rather rubbing their hands with glee at children being roped into this racket…
How is this happening, this gross exploitation? How can the medical profession be going along with this? Have they no idea at all of their legal and ethical obligation to obtain informed consent for vaccination?!
The medical profession carrying out this cannot be considered as professional.
Its not just children [NB. MPs are crap – they are the ones letting this go on day-after-day year-after-year and say and do nothing – total corruption at every turn – with honourable exceptions like Bridgen and Chope – and dishonourable ones IMHO like Penny Mordant].
This official misinformation [lies IMHO] specifically about ‘flu and covid injections is from an email sent recently to all 65s and over [see also post in these comments by Elizabeth Hart]:
“More information
Seasonal vaccinations have proven safety records. They give you better protection than any immunity gained from previous infections.
………
Kind regards,
Dr Nikita Kanani MBE
GP and Deputy Lead
NHS Seasonal Vaccination Programmes
NHS England
Have they no shame? GMC referral is indicated as a mater of urgency! The doctors involved should e struck off!
Crazy, evil world.
TPTB and their ‘followers’ are happy to manipulate children, by lying, to get highly questionable substances into their bodies…but children and younger persons must not be subjected to the perils of ‘betting / gambling’ involving well-known characters who may influence them.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/sky-bet-tweet-featuring-manchester-27925824
Gambling with their health and life with ‘health’ products is ok, then?
EVIL
Very very well said this diabolical practice has got to stop and those promoting it held to account.
Unbelievable the medical professionals have failed us – period.
Is there a Cos Play freedom fighter outfit, just for Mark Dolan.