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FakeNoose

(36,213 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:04 AM 21 hrs ago

Today's Tiedrich rant: America's CEOs are fucking pumped they can act like dicks again



Link: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/americas-ceos-are-fucking-pumped

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.

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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.
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I think Tiedrich is onto something BIG. The CEO's of this country have been totally envious of Chump because he can be as RUDE and INSULTING as he wants to be ... ALL the time! Now that they've helped to propel him back into the White House, the CEO's think they can be as rude as Chump is.

Zuckerberg is calling it "masculine energy" but maybe that simply translates into Chump-style rudeness. Please read the rest on "Everyone is entitled to my own opinion."

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Today's Tiedrich rant: America's CEOs are fucking pumped they can act like dicks again (Original Post) FakeNoose 21 hrs ago OP
And for THIS we lost our democracy... FalloutShelter 21 hrs ago #1
Yes they gave up our democracy so they can be nasty, mean D**Ks. Irish_Dem 20 hrs ago #3
What's good for the goose... 3825-87867 21 hrs ago #2
You've been here at DU for years. You're bound to know better. Paladin 20 hrs ago #4
Yeah, You're probably right. 3825-87867 19 hrs ago #5
Hang in there. I'll try to do the same. (nt) Paladin 17 hrs ago #6
Not acceptable. I remember we were told there would be weekend trips to the moon and cutting edge stuff. ck4829 14 hrs ago #7

FalloutShelter

(12,921 posts)
1. And for THIS we lost our democracy...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:32 AM
21 hrs ago

"I feel liberated.
" said a top banker. "We can
say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of
getting cancelled…. it's a new dawn."


Irish_Dem

(61,041 posts)
3. Yes they gave up our democracy so they can be nasty, mean D**Ks.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:51 AM
20 hrs ago

Last edited Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:03 PM - Edit history (1)

3825-87867

(1,175 posts)
2. What's good for the goose...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:36 AM
21 hrs ago

I guess this means WE can now use those same expressions to refer to CEOs, their wive(s), families, friends, businesses and anything else that might have in the past, pissed them off. And now we can even do it in public, too.
Plus, I'm not sure we're no longer limited (or should be) in ANYTHING we want to refer to them as or their companys, wives, families etc.
Can't wait for someone to say they want to grab Mrs. Zuck by her Angled P or that she's got some many R children.
And don't get me started on Mrs. Alito or Mrs. Thomas or the other 4 Ret...s on the Supine Court.

Classless? You bet.

...is good for the gander(s).

Paladin

(29,100 posts)
4. You've been here at DU for years. You're bound to know better.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:59 AM
20 hrs ago

You'll probably get a visit from a DU etiquette patrol, instructing you that (A.) We're infinitely better than our political enemies, and so (B.) Therefore we must adhere to a set of good-conduct rules our enemies walked away from decades ago, treating said enemies with the utmost respect and kindness, even if said respectful behavior contributes to our enemies' strength and influence.

Don't get me started...

3825-87867

(1,175 posts)
5. Yeah, You're probably right.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 01:14 PM
19 hrs ago

Chalk it up to not so temporary insanity.
Put my time in. Just sometimes you just gotta release things!
Sometimes this is what Real Life does to ya!
Thanx for the talk down.

ck4829

(36,238 posts)
7. Not acceptable. I remember we were told there would be weekend trips to the moon and cutting edge stuff.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:47 PM
14 hrs ago

What kind of fool is going to settle for "We get to say certain words"?

Look at the Jetsons. Look at Deus Ex. Look at Cyberpunk. This is all stuff we should be having.

You were told there would be so much more in the future.

That future is now. Don't settle for "We get to insult people", America.

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