Saturday, September 21, 2024

Meet Trump sycophant and Teamsters paper tiger Sean O'Brien


Photo creditWhy Labor Today, 1/12/2024
Headline:  New York Times, 9/18/2024
Endorsements:  Black CaucusIowaMichiganNevada

Appanrlty, O'Brien told Trump some of his deepst, darkest secrts during that Mara-a-Lago tête-à-tête.  
But the former president worked hard to curry Mr. O’Brien’s favor, inviting him to his private club and residence, Mar-a-Lago, this summer and then granting him his wish for a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in July. The Democratic convention rebuffed him. 
Mr. O’Brien’s openness to Mr. Trump — who angered other unions by appointing anti-labor members to the National Labor Relations Board and praising Elon Musk recently for a willingness to fire striking workers — has badly divided the union.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'paper tiger', as in one that is outwardly powerful or dangerous but inwardly weak or ineffectual, occurred in 1836,

Other coinages from the same year include:
  1. beaten biscuit
  2. chuckhole
  3. creepy
  4. impressionable
  5. polarizable
  6. snake charme
  7. wandering albatross

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