America’s CEOs are fucking pumped they can act like dicks again

is this ‘masculine energy’?

imagine you’re a corporate CEO. you’re on top of the world. you’re swimming in money. you’re eating the finest food and drinking the finest wine. you’re flying around in your private jet, experiencing pleasures unavailable to mere mortals. you don’t even work all that hard — certainly not as hard as the Chinese factory workers who toil and sweat to make your products.

life should be good, right?

but life isn’t good, because something’s missing. there’s a word-shaped hole in your soul that’s preventing you from achieving total satisfaction.

you can’t call anyone a retard.

the corner office crowd is fucking pumped right now, because Donny Convict’s second term is going to usher in a new era of aggressively shitting on the peons below you.

Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing. Bankers and financiers say Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at “woke doctrine” and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people. “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”

life is just one grievance after another with these people. they can’t be happy unless they have something to whine about. we can’t say a word. how fucking small and petty.

I have a better idea. here’s a good rule for going through life: don’t be a dick.

be nice to people. be considerate. address them the way they want to be addressed. and if you fuck up, say you’re sorry and try to do better. it costs nothing.

CEOs, can we chat? instead of whinging that you can’t say a word, how about being thankful for a broken system that allowed you to rise to the top of the food chain on the backs of other people’s labor?

don’t be a dick. how hard is that?

and where do you even start with this nonsense?

“Masculine energy is good, and obviously, society has plenty of that, but I think corporate culture was really trying to get away from it,” Zuckerberg continued. “I think having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.”

what the fuck is Zuck gibbering about? apparently he’s confused, and is equating masculinity with aggression. it’s not. being an aggressive asshole is not ‘masculine energy.’ it’s called being a dick.

how much more aggressive do corporations need to be? they’re already throwing their weight around and making life shittier for the rest of us.

In the year preceding the devastating Los Angeles county wildfires, big oil fiercely lobbied to kill a “polluter pay” bill that moved through the California senate and would have forced major fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate disasters.

Fossil-fuel industry lobbying in California spiked to record levels during the 2023-24 legislative session, and the polluter pay bill was among the most targeted pieces of legislation, a Guardian review of state lobby filings found.

using outsized power to evade consequences isn’t masculine energy. it’s called being a dick.

remember when Zuck and the Space Nazi challenged each other to a fight?

the two of them made a lot of noise about this a couple of years ago, but then they chickened out. wouldn’t it have been nice if these two overgrown toddlers could have beaten the shit out of each other, gotten it out of their system, and left the rest of us alone?

is this masculine energy?

Donny Convict unveiled his “presidential portrait” yesterday, and misshapen garden gnome Charlie Kirk practically wet himself over the notion that “dad is home” to — what? administer the spanking that Charlie so desperately wants?

look at what Donny considers “presidential.” he’s glaring at the camera, ready to dole out retribution for what he considers a lifetime of grievances. he’s so in love with his scowly Atlanta mug shot that he’s trying to recreate it.

Donny is a weakling. he’s an insecure little boy who can’t go out in public without wrapping himself in a girdle, putting lifts in his shoes, slathering on a quart of makeup, and teasing his six remaining strands of hair into that weird cotton candy rat’s nest. yet somehow he’s managed to fool all the other weak and insecure little boys like Charlie Kirk into believing he’s the peak exemplar of masculinity.

the New York Times interviewed 12 bros who —

… all voted for Mr. Trump in November not only because they liked his views on the economy, crime and immigration but also because many of them believe he’s “a man’s man” whose government leadership and approach to American culture will help many men who feel devalued, overlooked, lost or isolated.

these deluded souls have been so thoroughly hoodwinked that they imagine the sniveling little toddler who throws a tantrum if he doesn’t get the most ice cream is somehow “a man’s man.”

According to an extensive interview with TIME Magazine, Trump’s White House staff has settled into Trump’s routine and know his desires, sometimes before he does.

For example: Trump takes two scoops of ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, TIME reported, while everyone else around the table gets just one.

demanding the biggest dessert isn’t masculine energy. it’s called being a dick.

remember back in 2017, when Donny Two Scoops was so hot to be front and center for a NATO photo op that he shoved the Prime Minister of Montenegro out of the way?

that’s not masculine energy. it’s called being a dick.

Donny is such a whiny little boy that the entire Republican establishment is bending over backwards to make sure he doesn’t get his fee-fees hurt by seeing half-staff flags at his inauguration.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

The Republican leader’s decision means that President-elect Donald Trump will not take the oath of office for his second term under a half-staff flag, a prospect that he had previously complained about.

bellyaching about the height of flags is not masculine energy. it’s called being a dick.

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