The GOP lost in impressively gigantic fashion in the latest midterms. Historic losses. Bigly losing. As Jimmy Kimmel gleefully observed, Trump got his ass handed to him. So what does this mean for Trump, alpha male of the Republicans and all the alpha-wannabes in his orbit?
It means the knives are out For the Alpha Males!
Most of the alphas started trying to assassinate each other so quickly they barely had to time to take a deep breath as news of the latest flip from red-to-blue hit their screens.
Trump immediately lashed out at the candidates he had seemingly hand-picked. And that’s what it’s like playing the alpha game. You get hand-picked to escape the alpha’s barbs, or so you think. Next thing you know, you’re eviscerated in public.
Among the former alpha-adjacents Trump took after was Greg Abbott, long-time governor of Texas and proud of sponsor of gratuitous cruelty. Abbott joined the bigly losing crowd, so Trump decided to carve him up and serve him to reporters as a blood offering of shame.
Trump also waved his now impotent sharp weapons at Fox News Channel, presumably for not being foolish enough to think that Trump was going to win everything. So guess what the pundits at FNC, such as Jesse Watters, did? They pulled out their long blades and thrust them merrily into the entire Republican party.
JD Vance, Alpha Male in Waiting, Leads the Charge
Meanwhile, JD Vance, calculating alpha-male-in-waiting, whipped out his switchblade and plunged it into Trump so rapidly that even the most cynical of careerists found themselves breathless with admiration.
The poor erstwhile GOP candidates and their minions, far from accepting Trump’s swipes, immediately pulled out their own knives and starting cutting at everything within reach, including, anonymously, Trump himself.
Trump’s alpha female, Susie Wiles (no, Natalie Harp is not an alpha) is a now human dart board. So many people want to plunge a weapon into her career’s heart that the line supposedly reaches around the block.
No wait! That’s the line to murder Pete Hegseth! Susie Wiles is already bleeding on the floor, stabbed to death by Trump and Stephen Miller, her deputy. Now Stephen Miller will be Chief of Staff for Trump and next in line to find out exactly what striving to be an alpha really means.
Hegseth, the most alpha-idolizing alpha wanna-be of all, is still everyone’s favorite scapegoat though. There’s even talk that the current GOP-majority house could impeach the man and savor every drop of blood they wrest out of the incompetent ass-kissing poser.
Of course, the professional knife-wielders in the MAGAverse, the influencers and pundits like Megyn Kelly, are going full gang-banger, piling on to slice and dice the people they fawned over until 2 seconds after the results came in.
And many White House staffers, the people at the bottom of the food chain, are so demoralized and fed up they want nothing more than to escape before they get cut up themselves. Don’t slip on the blood on the floor on your way out Harmeet Dhillon!
Quite an active 24 hours for the alpha male contingent!
What’s the moral of these stories? Well, there plenty of potential morals, but I’m only going to pull out one.
Because there’s a bunch of stuff out in the internet manosphere or whatever you want to call it about ‘alpha’ males and how fun it is to be one. How it kicks ass and pays off. How people admire alphas. How young men should strive for alpha-dom.
The raw reality is that the hype is bullshit. In real life, the mythical alpha male is found in just a few places. Prison, that’s a big one for alpha males. Trump and Andrew Tate would both be there if the system was working and they both may be there soon. The Proud Boys – same. Oath Keepers. Etc.
Alpha males often land in criminal gangs on their way to prison and/or death. Cartels are full of them. Life is often nasty, brutish, and short for true alpha males.
The third place is corporate America. The folks climbing toward the C-suite or who have made it there already. It’s often said that many of the most famous business leaders are psychopaths. Just as many want to be alpha males (or females).
Finally, there are dictators, authoritarians, and their entourages. Putin’s an example of that.
Maybe you aspire to prison, a criminal gang, the corporate C-suite or to be a dictator. Here’s the thing though. Almost everyone who plays the alpha male game gets cut down early. I’ve seen so many corporate strivers get permanently 86’d that I’ve completely lost count.
How Long Does An Alpha Male Last? Ask Julius Caesar
There are literally more famous actors, rappers, and professional tennis players than truly long-lived alpha guys or gals. There are some, folks who rule their own corporate roost for a decade or more. There are a few dictators and authoritarians who hang on for quite a while in the number one position.
Comparatively quite a while that is. Trump’s had a decade, not of rule, just of cosplaying dictator. Netanyahu 14 years. Hitler 11 years. Caesar, the prototypical alpha male, and inspiration for the ‘knives out’ catchphrase, lasted only 5 years in power.
Western civilization’s most famous alpha male lasted just 5 years. A decade or so for others. Big deal. That’s nothing in the span of a human life. Some very successful dictators get 2 decades. Stalin got 30. It can be done. But it hardly ever is.
Striving to be an alpha male or female is a losing proposition for almost everyone. It’s an invitation to get stabbed. In the back. In the front. In public. Behind closed doors.
To get kicked. And whipped. Humiliated. Exiled. Jailed. Killed. Forgotten.
There are 3 potential fates for an alpha male or alpha-in-line.
They are:
- Death.
- Disgrace.
- Escape.
After all the hype – that’s it. Those are the options.
This is not a moral assessment. It’s just logic and pragmatism.
The essence of being ‘alpha’ is to fight for dominance over others.
To defend your alpha status, you must fight challengers who want to take your rank for themselves. Each fight must have an outcome. Logically, if you can win the battle and remain the alpha, then you can lose the battle and kiss your alpha ass goodbye. That’s it.
You have no choice but to keep fighting until you lose. Or until you quit the game. The minute you stop fighting, you’re not the alpha male.
You can quit the game by dying. You can lose a fight for dominance by dying. Or you can lose a fight, not die and simply experience the disgrace of losing your alpha status. Those are your options. Death or disgrace.
Unless you decide to escape the game. Quit. Quit and enjoy a quieter, more peaceful, better life afterward.
The winning strategy in the alpha game is not to play.
To flip a well-known adage, you don’t lose 100% of the battles you don’t engage in.
Truly successful people don’t play the alpha game.
They play a different game.
They find people they love. They raise their kids. All the while, they behave in a reasonably cooperative fashion. And when the knives come out – someone else gets stabbed.
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