Michel Jones

Latin + Celtic in equal measure, husband, brother, father. Rugby, art, classical music lover, oenophile . Early convert to the green revolution. EV driver.

[Michel Jones @mamba_007]

2/2 It also implies that the Opel Corsa I drove had a 138.88l tank when the literature states 40 to 60l depending on model. So who is kidding whom? Chances of telling family and friends: 100%. Chances of repeat business for @SixtLeasing from me : <1% #caveatemptor

[Michel Jones @mamba_007]

Returned my lease car to @SixtFR at Lyon airport this Monday. The agent advised that 1/8th of the tank needed topping up; estimated cost €39.85. Actually charged €115.28 for 17.36 litres, including taxes. That's €6.64/l when pump prices in France hover around €2.60/l. 1/2

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Ancient Roman shipwreck discovered off Sicily coast"
https://t.co/2zFoHhDe0P

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

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 or female – 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 most 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.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The House voted to end the war in Iran, as four Republicans sided with Democrats in a striking rebuke to President Trump. https://t.co/Oeeox0iq9q

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: YES! A federal judge blocks Trump from gutting a crucial climate and weather research lab in Colorado in a major blow to the MAGA agenda.

The courts are once again holding this country together by a thread...

“Any degradation in forecasting, modeling, or related scientific capabilities carries real-world consequences, including potential harm to property and human life,” stated Judge R. Brooke Jackson in his ruling to temporarily halt the White House's efforts.

The administration has been trying to confiscate a powerful supercomputer from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder as part of their scheme to "break up" NCAR because it feeds into "climate alarmism."

The real goal here is obvious. Trump is bought and paid for by fossil fuel companies. He and his minions are working tirelessly to discredit climate science itself so that oil and gas companies can keep raking in profits as the world burns. It's one of the most sinister components of his thoroughly corrupt tenure.

NCAR is an invaluable resource for the American people. It conducts groundbreaking climate research but also helps predict major weather events and flooding — calamities that will only increase in frequency and intensity as climate change accelerates. The Center also monitors air quality.

Jackson's ruling comes after the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which is composed of 129 renowned schools, filed a lawsuit to stop the dismantling of NCAR. They alleged that the Trump administration is seeking to punish the state of Colorado for refusing to hand over control of its elections and for taking legal action against MAGA election interferer Tina Peters.

“Our work supports national security, public safety, and economic prosperity, and any steps made toward divesting NCAR of its high-performance computing facilities would risk disrupting the country’s extraordinary advances in weather and space weather modeling and forecasting, as well as related programs spanning agriculture, water resources, wildfire risk, military support, power grid interruption, and aviation safety,” stated UCAR Interim President Eric Barron.

Jackson said that the Trump-controlled National Science Foundation's “offered no explanation for its decision” and “failed to abide its own process to consider public feedback before proceeding with the transfer" in its efforts to remove the supercomputer in question from NCAR.

More infuriating still for the administration, the judge wrote that allowing the lab to keep the computer "supports the efficient and uninterrupted data collection that supports more accurate climate-prediction modeling, which in turn is used to mitigate harmful extreme weather events that are a feature of our world.”

This is a ruling truly worth celebrating.

Please ❤️ and share to thank the judge!

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Outrageous

[Michel Jones @mamba_007]

I completed the March challenge faster than 90.9% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump attacks Texas Democrat James Talarico — and gets a FIERY sermon in response that he won’t forget

Donald Trump thought he could score cheap political points by calling James Talarico an “insult to Jesus” because the Texas Democratic Senate candidate is “beyond woke” and believes that God does not discriminate on the basis of gender.

Unfortunately for Dementia Don, he picked the wrong person. Standing in a Black church in Texas, Talarico didn’t just clap back — he delivered a moral reckoning.

“The president of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus,” Talarico began. “You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their health care while cutting taxes for billionaires.”

And that was only just the start.

“You know what insults Jesus?” he continued. “Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers.”

Then he went even further — taking aim at war, corruption, and hypocrisy.

“You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent school children in Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war… Covering up the Epstein files and then refusing to prosecute a single person in them.”

This wasn’t politics as usual. This was a full-on moral indictment.

Talarico — who has been attacked by Trump for supporting transgender Americans and saying “trans children are God’s children” — flipped the script entirely. Instead of backing down, he grounded his message in the very teachings Trump tried to weaponize.

“I am not a perfect Christian,” he said. “There’s only been one perfect Christian and he was crucified on a cross 2,000 years ago.”

And then came the line that hit hardest: “Jesus told us to love our neighbors as ourselves… Can we imagine war in heaven? Can we imagine bigotry in heaven? Can we imagine poverty in heaven? Then why do we tolerate these things on earth?”

That’s how you respond. Not with insults. Not with fear. But with clarity — and conviction.

Trump tried to smear him. Instead, Talarico delivered a sermon that’s now echoing far beyond that church.

Please like and share James Talarico’s inspiring words!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: WOW! A reporter bravely calls Trump out to his face after he falsely accused Iran of bombing the Iranian school that he destroyed: "Why are you the only person saying this?"

This is EXACTLY what we need from White House journalists!

"Footage shows that a Tomahawk missile likely destroyed that Iranian girls' school. So will the US accept any responsibility?" the first reporter asked.

"Well, I haven't seen it and I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is used by, you know is sold and used by other countries, you know that. And whether it's Iran, who also has some Tomahawks, they wish they had more, but uh... Whether it's Iran or somebody else. The fact that a Tomahawk— A Tomahawk is very generic. It's sold to other countries. But, uh, that's being investigated right now," Trump said.

In reality, the export of Tomahawk missiles is tightly controlled by the United States. Only America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Netherlands currently use the weapon. The suggestion that Iran has access to them is patently absurd.

The blatant falsehood from the president set up a knockout punch from another reporter—

"Mr. President, you just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war, but you're the only person in your government saying this," said the reporter. "Even your Defense Secretary wouldn't say that when he was asked, standing over your shoulder on your plane on Saturday. Why are you the only person saying this?"

"Because I just don't know enough about it," said Trump. "I think it's something that I was told is under investigation, but Tomahawks are used by others, as you know... Numerous other nations have Tomahawks. They buy them from us, but I will certainly, whatever the report shows, I'm willing to live with that report."

Trump is lying because he doesn't want to own up to the fact that he murdered at least 165 people when a U.S. missile struck a school in Minab, Iran as part of a war of choice that he launched on behalf of Israel. The administration scrambled to claim that the horrific incident was caused by an Iranian rocket or missile misfiring, but new footage has emerged proving that it was an American Tomahawk.

It's now irrefutable that the United States killed those schoolchildren. This is the kind of evil that never washes out and no matter how much Trump lies about it, this will be a defining pillar of a legacy. He's the president who killed children in a pointless and illegal war and then refused to even admit to it.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that the United States take accountability!

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Dear Ukraine,

I apologize. I’m sorry my country elected someone who works for Putin. Someone who’s on Putin’s side. As long as he is President, America won’t stand with you. Just know tho, that most Americans DO stand with you.

Best,

A Ukraine-Supporting American Citizen
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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Protesters in Hungary have flooded the streets in open defiance of Viktor Orbán and his ally Vladimir Putin demanding an end to creeping authoritarianism.

Mainstream media is barely touching it. Let’s make sure the world sees it.

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Utterly grotesque tweet - this is not a war.

[Michel Jones @mamba_007]

@Hertz Hello Tosh, the reservation number was L2472148OA9 . Full name is Michel JONES. I was the primary renter. Thank you.

[Michel Jones @mamba_007]

Sharp practice by @Hertz to charge me for a damaged #alloy wheel within 20 minutes of dropping off the keys (I was still in the airport departure lounge). Don't recall causing the damage, but neither can I disprove it. This was my first, and now last, rental from @Hertz

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Russia delivered a warning to the United States, urging it to stay out of Israel’s offensive against Iran and not even entertain the idea of offering support.

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

YUP

[Michel Jones @mamba_007]

British Airways and Standard Chartered unveil new financing model for carbon removal projects https://t.co/aWb5pWOS5p

[Michel Jones @mamba_007]

BMW adds innovative onsite wind turbine to Oxford manufacturing plant https://t.co/PGcdrQvtvX

[Alberto Bettiol @AlbertoBettiol]

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