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No, you're not, and yes I am telling you how you feel.
This is, for lack of a better word, "cope".
Even if you think some of this stuff is cool, you can't be so stupid as to just ignore all the economic damage around you. That does affect you, whether you have the conviction to admit it or not. At the end of the day, you _will_ suffer. There is no pride in being both a loser and a coward.
It would be best to just be a loser.
As for "economic damage", this is where you really diverge from reality.
The S&P 500 has risen back to pre-Liberation Day tariff announcement levels.
Gasoline prices are down.
Egg prices are down.
April jobs report is out, beating projections by 44,000 jobs.
The media's economic fear-mongering never materialized.
So yes, the US economy effects me -- all in a good way right now. President Trump's agenda is working. The people wishing otherwise will be the ones who need to cope.
So, you should be thanking his opposition for forcing his hand in this. You're welcome. If we did not complain enough, then the tariffs would still be proposed and we'd be fucked. Luckily, he backtracked 99% of it.
And, nothing has actually went into effect yet. What you're missing is that the economic disaster we've seen is just from him threatening it. Yeah, nothing material has happened yet. So however bad it was, it can only get worse when his awful, awful economic policy comes to fruition.
Also, GDP is down Q1 2025. We're almost certainly going to enter a recession, it's mostly a question of how bad it's going to be. Have fun!
This doesn’t necessarily mean we shouldn’t have it—a right doesn’t necessarily need to be useful—but that justification’s not great.
And anyway, if you feel that strongly about it, go round up an armed militia and see how far you get. You’re going to need the support of a not insignificant fraction of your fellow citizens, so you’d better get your story straight.
That is to say, you’d better have a rigorous alternative you think will persuade others, and you’re willing to bet your life on.
We learned it from watching Trump back in 2016.