He's still incredibly rich and he can still say slurs.
Probably up for more of this type of trade off.
Losing relative wealth would be a tragedy, but trillions of taxes mostly paid by poors means relative wealth is climbing.
They're now free to say "Arrgghhh! We're so fucked. These fucking tariffs are killing us. The fucking president is a retard. I can't fucking believe I voted for him. What the fuck was I thinking?"
It’s going to take a critical mass of people to avert catastrophe - but they are doing a fantastic job of getting everyone on the same side, we just need a clear message, clear agenda, and to take action 👇
I wonder if they are feeling so great after all these tariffs. I am glad my world does not include men like these. Not that I have not had some minor involvement - but no more thankfully except for you know...those guys in the news.
I've myself said several times already the one thing I like is been being able to say something is retarded again. Language policing is actually felt every day whereas authoritarianism had to be imagined. It's not that people don't value freedom, it's that the left was taking it away tangibly. ..
The left didn’t take anything away. People with DS asked not to be referred to that way. This whole language police stuff is bullshit made up by the right. Like the “the left is killing Christmas” rhetoric that is equally false and stupid.
Sure, but no one calls someone with DS retarded. They call their friends who do something stupid retarded. They call a social movement that can't tell the difference retarded. You can say retarded without having any lack of compassion towards someone with DS. Gay used to mean light-hearted, ..
then homosexuals adopted the word and changed it's main meaning. Meanings change. Words have multiple meanings as well. Even the derogatory use of gay has by now really been decoupled from relationship to homosexuality even though it probably did start as a version of calling something "sissified."
It’s cool that these people expect me to hide that I’m trans and disabled until I’m around people I could trust with that info or else risk being hate crimed. Meanwhile we’re all going to die because it should be their god given right to hate crime me while at work, and then get a promotion for it
trick question, straight white people don't actually get "cancelled" they just bury their heads in the sand until people stop paying attention to them, and then they go right on being assholes. or they start a grifter podcast to capitalize on it.
These are for sure the same bros from The Big Short bragging about ripping off immigrants and poor people and then at a job fair once the economy tanks.
You could always say retard and pussy. The fact that you didn't have the balls to do it just means you're a big fat pussy, you bunch of fucking Wall Street retards.
Interesting how happy these guys are with tariffs? I don't have illusions about bankers being too clever, but they cannot be as stupid as the orange creature in the white house.
For so many Trumpers and Brexiters this is what it was all about. Their pathetic petulance about "political correctness". They are literally prepared to burn the world down, just to be able to freely intimidate and insult minorities.
It’s amazing how barely tying someone’s wealth to their ability to follow the societial rules of their elevated class is just too much of an ask for these pussies (See how liberating being poor & irrelevant can be boys? Don’t worry, you will)
Brings to mind the scene in The Big Short where Max Greenfield and Billy Magnussen playing mortgage brokers tell Steve Carrel how they're getting rich off of selling Floridians adjustable rate mortgages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfu_iFS-UY8&t=41s
Were they not making money openly before?
Seems like there were few concerns about broader issues as the sold mbs to pension funds & small towns when anyone who thought about it for 30 secs knew they would fail
And yet none of these psychopaths feel *liberated* enough to allow their names to be published.
I get why.
Historically, people (I use the term advisedly) like this were conveniently easy to identify when the pendulum swung, and the *real* liberation did its work.
Please do not feel sorry for any of these guys. They would just as soon fleece a 90 year old woman as the next company that they can kill. Unfortunately, in the end they will come out on top.
The quote refers to an FT article from January 14, 2025. Not in response to Wall Street today. This macho bravado is often a defensive front common with the not very intelligent on Wall St. But useful fantasy figures.
They'll find a way to excuse all of this as they watch their net worth decline because it was never about capitalism or $$ it was always about grievance.
It turns out that at least this guy actually, seemingly CAN'T say these things, since you're too chickenshit to do it on the record. But that's not surprising; he could just as easily have done it pre-Trump, had he the power of his diseased convictions.
Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars
The comments by these men are an example of the sexism and misogyny that still rears its ugly head within many of our financial institutions. Trump has given these men the permission to treat people like trash. Places of employment should have better standards than this.
I always wonder what these kind of people mean when they say "America". What do they love? Apparently not the people, the historic institutions, the cultural output, the environment...
Best novel you could possibly read about bankers (set in Dublin, written in c. 2010). The author declared that some of the real specimens said things so outrageous no-one would find them credible within the book.
Their whole lives, beginning in their stunted adolescence, revolves around being able to escape the consequences of their shitty behavior. These are the losers that @governor.ca.gov hopes to appeal to by platforming those nazis Bannon & Kirk. All he had to do was admit that he too is a nazi.
When my kids were little I didn’t police their language but I did tell them some terms are used out of laziness or a desire to hurt, when they can demonstrate more thoughtful and articulate ways to express themselves and lift others up.
Not sure why these Wall Street homies think Donald Trump being in office means women won’t come home with them just to steal something, wipe their toothbrush on their assholes, and bounce. #wouldbeashame
These guys have always existed. Their views haven't changed since high school, and they never will. Sometimes they have to play it soft, sometimes they get to let rip: that's the only difference. And whether Americans want to admit it or not, the US economic system is built around their prejudices.
I guess it's a 2 way street, you can now call them wanker and small di k and all other horrible adjectives to crush their fragile ego and all in the name of freedom!
For if ever the king has gained any success against Athens, it has been by bribing the basest of the Hellenes to betray their countrymen; in no other way has he ever succeeded.
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Probably up for more of this type of trade off.
Losing relative wealth would be a tragedy, but trillions of taxes mostly paid by poors means relative wealth is climbing.
"Something something parents' rights."
Good, I’m not a banker.
I done believe you FA'ed
And now you be FO'ing.
Cons for the GOP: They are going to be called retards.
See how long you aren't cancelled.
Grotesque humans.
Same guys who’d be helpless when society collapses.
"cancelled" implies real long term consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfu_iFS-UY8&t=41s
Seems like there were few concerns about broader issues as the sold mbs to pension funds & small towns when anyone who thought about it for 30 secs knew they would fail
It's not that they get criticized, fired, or even ignored, it's that a few people aren't kissing their ass for it.
He wears diapers !
Yummy
I get why.
Historically, people (I use the term advisedly) like this were conveniently easy to identify when the pendulum swung, and the *real* liberation did its work.
Fuck Trumplethinskin
Nice one
Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars
https://x.com/erikmbaker/status/1907797498288054495
I wish someone had told these guys.