Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 6hjonelkon.com/what-would-h...jonelkon.comWhat would have happened in South Africa if Mandela had died in 1990? - Jon ElkonI am delighted to inform you that my latest novel AZANIA FAREWELL is (likely to be) published before the end of the year. This is big stuff. You may have read two thirds of this book already if you’ve... 000
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 6h#Conservatives your ideology has failed. Small government low regulation leads to exploitation of consumers by greedy corporations. ‘Trickle down’ is a fantasy. You want to save money by destroying nature and the environment. You are toxic and must go away now. Your time is over. 010
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The flaw in democracy is the majority always want lower taxes and better services ie more expenditure. Those with wealth and power exploit the people and export their wealth. We need a Universal Wealth Tax! 120
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026America’s Official Idiot spends time on renaming things which time should be used to stop the wars he started. We in UK are about to have a 16% rise in energy prices. We hate him. 010
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The greatest threat to life on Earth is Mind Pollution 010
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Trump will go down in history as the idiot-in chief who wrecked world economies with his stupid war and moronic tariffs. The people who voted for him will all deny they ever gave him their trust and adulation. Just like post Nazi Germans. 020
Reposted by Jon Elkon𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/09/2026Happy Labor Day! “The upper class keeps all the money and pays no taxes. The middle class pays all the taxes and does all the work. The poor are just there to scare the shit out of the middle class.” - George Carlin 19782412606
Reposted by Jon ElkonSeima Lieb Ernett @ernettlieb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The average price for one gallon of diesel in the US has hit $5.85, compared to an average of $3.71 a year ago and above the previous high. 293
Reposted by Jon ElkonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed. 514147755240
Reposted by Jon ElkonTheresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 31/08/2026So much truth here! 😢 973188365848
Reposted by Jon ElkonJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026'Congratulations, MAGAs, You Really Won With “Lake America” ' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/congratula... 721287
Reposted by Jon ElkonPatrick Lovell The Producer @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com · 27/08/2026Can anyone tell me why the American people are so paralyzed, impotent, or just stupid? Who doesn't understand our government is a crime syndicate? Who doesn't understand the law is dead? Who doesn't understand fascism is here and it's going to get worse? The American people are flaccid. Why? 6963808971
Reposted by Jon ElkonM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026NO 👇 LIES DETECTED, DIPSHIT.... 15364132
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tax the hell out of gambling. That’ll fix it. (While we’re at it tax millionaires and billionaires. Tax huge profits of banks, fossil fuel producers and the other baddies.) 000
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026How the Roman emperors kept the population in check? ‘Bread and Circuses’ bud! (Juvenal c 100AD). Trump’s MMA fest (gladiatorial games), the Washington Formula 1 circus etc.what about bread? The a-hole fails to notice that Climate Change caused the greatest drought for years. 020
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Reform lie when they say crime has increased. It has decreased since the 90s by around 80%. Listen to this morning’s episode of The Great Crime Mystery on BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds or Bbc Radio 4 website 100
Reposted by Jon ElkonRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974. 2252170226016
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Americans! Get RID of him by any and all legal methods before it’s too late!!! 000
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Dad joke of the day: what do you call the chief moron of the USA (apart from ‘The Chief moron of the USA’)? Chief Fatshit. And his ideology? Fatshitism! Pathetic but true 110
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The Rs are such holes! The Cons are such cons. Hurrah for Nominal Determinism! 000
Reposted by Jon ElkonDutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026No President pre-Trump was ever this low…. 36561202
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Be sure that the rise in racist, homophonic, Islamophobic and antisemitic abuse correlates with the rise of the Rabid Rs 000
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026America’s Official Moron has offered the Saudis nuclear weapons. The Saudis! Religious extremists (Wahhabi) as crazy as the Iranians, as harsh against human rights, who have murdered at least one foreign journalist. The Official Moron is the most dangerous idiot in the world. 000
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Hey sillybilly #Trump the foul pollution in your cities is not from #Canada it’s from you. Your absurd climate-change denialism is choking your country 000
Reposted by Jon ElkonChris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 28/06/2026In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop. 489150264227
Reposted by Jon Elkon#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 25/06/2026OMG! Trump gets BRUTAL RESPONSE from WORLD CUP CROWD!! #MeidasTouchtwp.aiwww.youtube.comOMG! Trump gets BRUTAL RESPONSE from WORLD CUP CROWD!! 25320
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026#Brentford nudges and winks. The thoughts of Councillor Lambert #Brentford unravelled www.guylambert.blog/post/blog-53...guylambert.blogBlog 532 11 June 2026I did go in search of heavy horses but they hid from me. Well, technically the person who invited me was not around so I had a luxury sausage sandwich in the Tesco cafe, perused a copy of Practical Cl... 000
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Thank goodness for this platform. It makes me suspect mankind may be worth saving. 000
Reposted by Jon ElkonMarko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 12/06/2026. THIS is Elon Musk . . . ... post by his daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson 💠 🧐 💠 25526
Reposted by Jon ElkonMarko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 12/06/2026. THIS is Elon Musk . . . 💠 🧐 💠 66936
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Cheer up your week with Guy Lambert www.guylambert.blog/post/blog-53...guylambert.blogBlog 531 4th June 2026On Friday morning I was up in the Potting Shed having a coffee and the evilly irresistible bacon brioche (wrongly described IMO as a bap) with a friend of mine. We discuss matters of Brentford and (le... 000
Reposted by Jon ElkonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Just finished Any Questions, up against Richard Tice. I knew there would be plenty of BS on climate, but he spouted rubbish on *every* subject. Even claimed that the EU is not our biggest trading partner, but the US. In fact, we have 3x more trade with the EU. He believes whatever he wants to. 1912843758
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Party parties Tories: I’m the original discriminating buffalo man And I’ll do what’s wrong as long as I can’ Incredible Stringband LibDems Ridi Pagliacci’ from i Pagliacci by Leoncavallo Labour: ‘Dream a little dream of me Greens: Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong Reform: Hans Wessel 000
Reposted by Jon ElkonChris Berez @chrisberez.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If Biden had said this we’d be in for two years of nonstop coverage on every cable news channel and in every paper of how the president is clearly senile and we’re all going to die. 24922
Reposted by Jon Elkon@sandypalma.bskysocial @sandypalma.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I can think of at least "5 milllion" reasons why they shouldn't 413944
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 16/05/2026X is redolent with hypocrites and liars, right wing misinformation, conspiracy theories, fake news, hatred and propaganda. If you allow all the beasts in the swamp to come out, that’s what you get. X has become the Swamp. Occasionally the Dead Bird will sing. 000
Reposted by Jon ElkonChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/04/2026THEN: the people’s house. NOW: casino penthouse. 41767232183
Jon Elkon @jonelkon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Liar liar pants on fire Nose is as long as a telephone wire Is he from Heaven or is he from Hell My, oh my, you can tell from the smell! Brimstone and ashes and very stale fart Donald J. Trump is state of the art! 000