Learnt a lovely new word today: mimophant
It was applied to J D Vance and explained by Helen Lewis talking to Armando Iannucci.
“Someone who has the hide of an elephant when trampling over others, but the delicate, fragile, skin of a mimosa when they are being criticised themselves.”
I recommend the whole podcast, but the bit above is about 5 minutes in.
It seems to apply to others as well as Vance
Yeah well we ALL know how you find it hard to accept a democratic vote when you don’t agree with it, and take the whole world on your shoulders instead of just getting on with it like the rest of us do and making the best of it as you can…for a LONG time.
Is it anything like someone who is Mr Bigman saying whatever they think, but Mr Insignificant who does not say ‘boo’ to wildfowl in reality?
Just wondered
Precisely.
I thought that was against the rules here, where are all the mods nowadays? Way back in the mists of time when I was a mod that sort of personal attack was always stamped on. The worst offender was called RobK…hang on a minute Rob? 
I remember the acidic tone of Rob K, and LimeyPhill must be out of the big boys mansion by now.
@realDonaldTrump
The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.
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The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying. They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of “screwing” the United States of America. Their (WSJ!) thinking is antiquated and weak, and very bad for the USA. But have no fear, we will WIN on everything!!! Egg prices are down, oil is down, interest rates are down, and TARIFF RELATED MONEY IS POURING INTO THE UNITED STATES. “The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself!”
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Really?
How is that supposed to work?
Tariffs a re paid by clients inside the importing country.
US companies are paying tariffs on their imports, and US citizens are covering those costs.
MAGA, and all others, are paying an extra tax to the Trump government.
If they realised that, they might not so happy.
But, Hey Ho! They voted for it.
there be an estimated 11 million “illegals” in the US.
there is an estimated 340 million people in the US.
77,302,416 people voted for the orange suit.
lets assume it’s actually 20 million ‘illegals’ cos some of them are hecklers or don’t like trumpian politics.
And lets assume because half of trump supporters have below average intelligence, that maybe around 2.7 million accidentally voted for the Democrats.
SO. 80 million out of 320 million people expressed a preference for being screwed by the maga capitalists.
That’s 3/4 or 75% of people in the US who didn’t vote for the moronic turd.
That isn’t a real mandate to fundamentally change American society, plunge the economy into chaos, and thoroughly ■■■■ off america’s allies worldwide, except for Russia of course who I still believe is pulling trump’s strings via muskrat.
It’s a general, not absolute, convention that to make lasting changes to the constitution of a country, you need a two thirds majority. He hasn’t got that but he is absolutely wrecking that country from top to bottom. And as always it’s the poorest, the least healthy, least connected, least privileged who will suffer the most by far.
In fact in the 2024 election under 50% of voters were for Trump.
Often overlooked it was not just a 2 horse race.
Trump had most votes but not even half of them.
As another aside, Hilary Clinton had more votes than Trump in 2016. But Trump carried the Electoral College and so was elected.
The self proclaimed democracy still has a way to go! (As does the UK of course)
Oh dear are some offended by my direct ‘say exactly what I mean’ approach.
I thought we were all butch hairy arsed truckers here.
I must be on the wrong forum I do apologise.
How does it go…
Infamy infamy…etc😂
There is only Franglais I have ‘ag’ with on here mate, put it down to retaliation rather than attack.
Cheers
Here is what I referred to earlier.
The Whitehouse either misunderstanding, or deliberately lying about, how tariffs work. And getting ■■■■■ about it when questioned/corrected.
No real need to go beyond 2min30 if you don’t want to.
I thought we were all butch hairy arsed truckers here.
exactly why I object to having in cab cameras.
My arse is my business. And the missus. Admittedly she prefer if it was slightly less hairy. Then nuzzles into my hairy chest which just goes to prove, women can’t make their mind up
No comment.
I have no desire to discuss your arse…but thanks for the opportunity.
Politicians lying? 
…never.
Who’d have thought it eh?
It’s a start, but no doubt the ‘experts’ will have their views.
Just btings us back to the ’ Wait and See’ thing.
The Russian President said supported the US 30-day ceasefire proposal, but warned: ‘There are issues that we need to discuss’
Well…yes…
“many details needed to be sorted out, including dealing with the root causes of the conflict”
If the ceasefire comes about and if it leads to a lasting peace, I am all for it.
However when Putain talks about “the underlying causes” it is not like he is talking about the neighbours being a bit noisy.
He wants Ukraine as part of Russia, or a puppet government in Kyiv.
If he gets away with that he will be happy.
Until he wants the next country of course.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said he does not want the G7 to use “antagonistic” language toward Russia.
Fact check: Was Donald Trump recruited by the KGB under code name ‘Krasnov’?
When former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev claimed that US President Donald Trump was recruited as an asset for Moscow in the 1980s, it set off a storm on social media.
In a Facebook post on 20 February, Mussayev said that Trump was enlisted by the KGB in 1987 while on a trip to Moscow, then aged 40, and assigned the code name “Krasnov”.
Trump has not directly responded to Mussayev’s claims. The US president has repeatedly denied having ever worked for Russia.
One thread on X, which has amassed more than 1 million views, refers to Trump as “Krasnov” and brands the US president as a Russian asset. The post goes on to list a series of claims which it presents as purported evidence for this declaration.
Meanwhile, other social media users turned to mockery, with one account posting a photo montage of Trump in a KGB outfit, with the political slogan and acronym MAGA (“Make America Great Again”) altered to read “Moscow Agent Governing America”.
Krasnov is a common surname in Russia, derived from the word “krasniy”, which means red.
A flurry of speculative media reports followed, and politicians, including British conservative MP Graham Stuart, repeated his claim, writing in X: “We have to consider the possibility that President Trump is a Russian asset”.
Does the claim carry any weight?
Mussayev did not provide any proof to back up claims that Trump was recruited by the KGB during his visit to Moscow.
Doubts have also been cast over the position Mussayev says he held within the KGB.
In the Facebook post, Kazakhstan’s former spy chief says he worked for the KGB’s 6th Directorate. However, sources including the Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency, state that this department did not focus on “recruiting foreign intelligence”, but instead on “guarding against economic espionage”.
Euroverify cannot verify claims that Trump is a Russian asset.
The amplification of the claims on social media has likely been intensified by the US president’s foreign policy stance, which has been viewed as favourable to Russia.
Moving away from the Biden administration’s support of Ukraine, the Trump administration has halted military support and intelligence sharing with Kyiv.
That followed a public spat between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a highly contentious meeting in the Oval Office last month.
Trump’s 1987 trip to Moscow
Similar allegations about Trump being a Russian asset have surfaced repeatedly in the past. In 2021, American journalist and author Craig Unger published his book American Kompromat, in which he claims that Trump was recruited by Moscow.
Former KGB agent Yuri Shvets — who had a cover job as a correspondent for the Russian state-owned news agency TASS in Washington during the 1980s — was one of Unger’s key sources for the book. Shvets told Unger that Trump was tapped up in 1987.
Unger told Euronews there is a clear distinction between an agent and an asset.
“While an agent is employed by and intelligence agency and paid, an asset is a reliable friend who will do favours,” he said.
In Unger’s book, Shvets alleged that when Trump opened his first major property development, the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel, in 1980, he purchased 200 television sets from the Joy-Lud electronics store, which was owned by a Soviet emigré.
Shvets claimed the shop was a KGB front and that Trump had already been identified as a potential asset by that point.
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In 1987, Trump travelled to Moscow, where Shvets claims that Trump was tapped up by the KGB.
Upon his return, Trump bought three full-page adverts criticising US foreign policy in three major American newspapers at a total cost of $94,801 (€87,150 at time of writing).
In his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, Trump also mentioned the prospect of inaugurating a Trump building in Moscow.
“Trump had previously provided tabloid-fodder for the American press, but when he returned from Russia, he began portraying himself as a savvy foreign policy analyst,” Unger told Euronews.
The 2019 Mueller report: A dig into Trump’s Russia ties
Trump’s ties with Russia were investigated in the 2019 Mueller report, which was commissioned by the US Justice Department and examined Russian interference in the 2016 US elections.
While “links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” were identified, the report did not “establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
“I never worked for Russia,” said Trump when questioned about his ties to the country by a reporter in 2019.
“It’s a disgrace that you even ask that question. It’s all a big fat hoax”, he added.
