Jamie Bachelor

[JeSuisCH🏒BleuBlancRouge @HabsHappy]

@RpsAgainstTrump Great video worth enjoying. Credit to @Michaelkryton

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

Last year the United States managed to align itself with Russia and North Korea in voting against a UN motion supporting Ukraine. This year the US merely abstained. I suppose it’s progress. But it’s still truly shameful.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This is my quote.
This is what it comes down to.
He hates who they hate.
And that’s all they think they need.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Repost this Led @ByDonkeys film about Rees Mogg as often as you can 👌

Particularly my friends in
"North East Somerset and Hanham" new constituency

Get Jacob Rees Mogg out in 4 weeks time

I might get down there myself to see what's going on 😉

[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

@JoJoFromJerz I think that is an excellent summation. God help humanity if that’s the best the USA can offer.

[Ukrainska Pravda in English @pravda_eng]

Pepsi Co is arming Russia:
- Pepsi Co is doing business as usual in Russia, and increased revenue in 2022. They even launched a new product during the war and currently have hundreds of job vacancies there.
- Pepsi Co has paid $115M in taxes to Russia last year.
- The most modern Russian tank, the T-14, costs $7M, so that's 16 new tanks thanks to Pepsi Co. Taxes are absolutely going to war efforts.
- Pepsi Co is now listed as an International War Sponsor by Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency (Sept. 1)
- The airline SAS has just banned Pepsi Co products, so has the Finnish parliament naming it "Blood Pepsi" (Sept. 5, more bans coming)
- Please stop using any of their brands, which include Lay's Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, SodaStream, and others. Lay's chips were reportedly found in Russian soldiers' food rations.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

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[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

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[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

Very Proud of my daughter Megan Bachelor for her award #cisiawards

[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

@HackedOffHugh Yep. Just having to keep the lies going as too deep in their own shit that they cannot back out. Struggle to put this in the same sentence as journalism as it disrespects the rest of the industry which does care about the truth

[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

@LeInfant @pow_rebecca Agree with you on this Jonny

[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

Any thoughts!

[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

@VirginAtlantic I am standing waiting at Hong Kong check in wondering when it will open for your 23.55 flight VS207? Know one seems to know and your contact phone number does not work! Please confirm

[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

@VirginAtlantic Sitting in Heathrow lounge, or should I say trying to find a seat. The place is now no different to any one else. Been coming here for 15 years. Staff doing their best but it just don’t fit. Anymore. Richard needs to visit himself it seems to understand.

[Jamie Bachelor @JamieBachelor]

@jondrori Hi Jonathan. My wife and I were first in the Queue yesterday for the book signing after your inspirational talk on Trees at the Destination Show. Heading back to Somerset today very inspired and looking to buy a small piece of Woodland to protect. Thxs