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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 22h

To Be clear - if the congress retroactively appropriates the funds to fill the gap after they return, it doesn't make the SECDEF following this order any less illegal.

DEM need to get their shit together and win the midterms.

Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 1d

That's not how US congressional appropriations work - you can't just re-allocate funds willy-nilly. What would help is if the government wasn't shut down.

WHY aren't the media stating clearly that the president is ordering shit that isn't fucking allowed.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 2d

He was never eligible this year. IF gaza peace holds he'll get it next year.

BIG if.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 7d

Most likely, wouldn't surprise me.

I should have been clear though I meant the NHS UK wide can fix this issue as the article says the backlog is UK wide.

Trans healthcare should be treated like all gender affirming care simple. I hate this is a 'wedge issue' imported from the yanks.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 8d

100% but I think Russia pushed disinfo, and US libertarian networks like the Mercers and Cambridge Analytica ran data ops.

Big US banks backed Remain, but so timidly and quietly it left the active foreign push for Leave from Russia/US right to shape the result.

Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 8d

And being clear Sam 100% deserves jail time - he was doing illegal shit.

but everything about this screams 'we want to show we can control this' market.

They let investment banks fuck over people for FAR more money and don't lift a finger.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 8d

Feels like Scotland could fix the gender care crisis fast: treat trans healthcare like all gender-related care.

GPs already prescribe HRT, contraception, and ED meds safely. With clear national standards and informed consent, they can do the same here.

The barrier is bureaucracy, not medicine.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 8d

FTX was absolutely doing illegal shit, no doubt. But let’s not kid ourselves, the US saw a chance to seize assets and tighten grip on crypto. No bankers jailed for 2008, yet SBF gets the hammer. This was less about justice, more about consolidating control.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 8d

So glad those checks and balances are keeping things in check.

Shame all it's taken is a single autocratic leader to completely disprove American democracy exceptionalism.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 10d

Trump is a fantasist who mistakes attention for respect. He did not stop any wars. He did not sign a single trade deal. World leaders humour him to avoid confrontation, then work around him as they would a disruptive child. His bluster is not strategy, and his ego is not leadership.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 10d

Um frankly this is inline with every other modern nation - cheques are archaic and it's kinda embarrassing how behind the US banking and government is on this.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 11d

Trump’s own speech has made his intent clear. By framing a “war from within”, naming only D cities, he signalling that any order would be to suppress rivals and intimidate voters.

Any general should be safe to refuse such an order, and Congress would need to grow a spine and back them if they did.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 11d

Remaining watchpoints: legal bypass, election interference, defiance of courts, crisis exploitation. With purges, politicised deployments and press control already real, the “land of the free” is in full slide toward authoritarian rule.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 11d

It was a trump rally - he spent 40min whining about his political enemy 'joe biden'.

Meanwhile a alcoholic national guardsman and former fox news host ranted at life long military brass about being fat an woke.

Utterly embarrassed for the US that this is the state of your government.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 12d

to add - we get back easy access to 400+mil consumers, and the block as a whole gets stronger again.

There isn't a downside. I don't understand why labour is pretending BREXIT needs to be honored - it was fucked from day 1.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 12d

A strong, aligned trade deal with the EU. We're still 99% aligned, most businesses haven't shifted quality of products and most still meet all EU standards.

We could do a compressive TA, make a small payment each year and reopen FOM (with border checks/passports) and skip this 90 days bullshit.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 13d

Dear leader watching over the loyalty test.

A washed up fox news host ranting about 'warrior ethos' to men and women who had dedicated their lives to the military.

Expensive stunts to make the tiny-handed orange dipshit feel like a big strong boi.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 13d

A “board of peace” chaired by Trump and fronted by Tony Blair.

Nothing says self-determination like foreigners deciding Gaza’s future. let ignore Britain’s history in the region, carving borders without local consent

This is just a reminder of why no one trusts us.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 16d

Nope dead on arrival. They look like any other ego driven part. Zara or of JC both didn't spend enough time actually talking to each other - then they gathered a bunch of frankly questionable MPs.

I think if the greens keep stepping up that's where I'll head in 2029.

Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 19d

I feel like if ABC were looking to really win this then they pull all programing from Sinclair and Nexstar and offer it out to the free market for syndication.

I'm sure someone like Netflix or Amazon might take this opportunity, esp with the world wide promo the 'canceling' got.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 21d

More like GROKs everything.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 21d

John, you are sharing AI-assisted sales funnel slop and treating White House spin as fact.

Courts have only upheld executive power to suspend entry for limited periods on security grounds, never to rewrite visa law. Accepting bad-faith WH spin without pushback is why the left keeps losing.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 21d

Sales AI writen slop with Midjourney Thumbs, not a credible source.

212(f) cases it cites only upheld narrow entry suspensions on security grounds. None gave authority to rewrite legislated visa processes or add a fee.

Visa fees remain under direct responsibility of Congress not the executive.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 21d

The New Yorker is selling Farage fan fiction. “PM Nigel” is fantasy. We’re 4 years from an election, Reform has 5 MPs, and can barely run councils. Farage barely turns up to work. Polls aren’t power, hype isn’t seats. Treating them as a viable party is wishful thinking.

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Glenn Kelly @glennkellyvfx.bsky.social · 21d

EOs aren’t laws and cannot rewrite legislation. A £100k H-1B “fee” is fantasy. INA only lets DHS set admin costs. Anything else is a tax, and taxes need Congress. White House spin doesn’t change that.

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