(adj) Coined in November 2003 by Slate Magazine writer Daniel Gross. "Bushenfreude" describes pissed off yuppies, POYs, who perpetuate, "...the phenomenon whereby high-income beneficiaries of the Bush tax cuts use their windfalls to fund Democratic candidates." The word is a combo of "Bush" & the German word: "schadenfreude," which means somebody taking pleasure in someone else's pain. Many POYs hate Bush but love the benjamins his tax policies have let them keep. They express their hatred of the person who enabled them to make their money and keep it by donating it to those who want him out of the White House.
Person 1: "What it up with all these $11-cup-of-coffee-sipping, Volvo SUV driving, yuppie house-flippers who hate Bush? Don't they know that he has kept the IRS outta their koolaid for over six years?"
Person 2: "Bushenfreude, bro. They're just having too much fun shitting themselves with glee over Bush's inability to speak English clearly and also very fashionably hating everything else connected with him to see that all that bank they have now was because Bush told the IRS that their scrilla was all nunya.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”