It’s true. Your aMCC is malleable. Do something challenging and meaningful (or even just challenging) every day. Don’t injure yourself or die doing it please. And still get rest and sleep, relate & recreate, but don’t let the sloth-slingers drag you down. Striving gives you life.
It's time for a gut check. It's been almost 9 months into Trump 2.0, and absolutely none of the doom, fear porn, or predicted horror shows of life under a Trump administration have come to pass. The doomers and panicans have been absolutely wrong on everything. Every. Single. Thing.
Let's name just a few areas where they have been wrong:
1. We aren't in a depression/recession
2. Shelves are not empty
3. Unemployment is not a major concern
4. The stock market did not crash
5. Interest rates are not going up
6. Egg prices are down
7. Gasoline is down, wholesale is at $1.82/gal
8. Oil isn't $100/brl. It's actually below $60/brl
9. The deficit isn't increasing. It actually decreased.
10. We aren't in WW3 or 4 or whatever crazy number they come up with next.
11. There is no major Middle East war with Iran.
12. Russian tanks are not rolling across Europe.
13. China has not invaded Taiwan.
14. North Korea is not at war with the South.
15. The southern border IS secured.
16. Canada and Mexico tariffs have not hurt the USA.
17. The lawfare has not stopped Trump's blitzkrieg.
18. The resistance is dead. It's dead, Jim
19. The opposition to Trump is decreasing, not increasing.
20. The world doesn't hate the US, nor are they laughing at the US 🇺🇸
21. The FED caved
22. The OBBB passed with much of the MAGA agenda codified.
23. The Senate did not stop Trump's appointments
24. Speaker Johnson was not some swamp creature.
25. Massie and Paul were clowns, not principled men.
26. Trump has not made himself king.
27. Trump's DOJ is arresting people in the conspiracy, but not arresting everyone who opposes him.
28. J6ERS WERE PARDONED
29. There has been no chaos in the WH or with staffing
30. The trucking industry hasn't imploded.
31. There are no massive concentration camps of millions of illegals.
32. Deportations have been mostly the worst of the worst.
33. Self deportations is a thing now.
34. Natural disasters have been handled well, and FEMA has been somewhat reformed.
35. Housing prices are coming down, not going up
36. Grocery prices are stable.
37. Inflation is controlled
38. Trump is getting results and not being stonewalled by the dead resistance. It's dead, Jim.
39. China's economy isn't swamping us in a trade war. They are actually in a deflationary event and hurting.
40. Nato is actually paying 5% and not broken up.
41. The EU caved on trade
42. I mean, should I go on?
At some point, any sane person should come to the conclusion after 9 months of failed doomerism that Trump isn't going to destroy the country. That orange man isn't bad enough to go to defcon 1 over and instead is a very active president who has the best interests of the country in mind. You can agree or disagree with those polices on what is best for America, but if you are sane and reasonable, you can not claim Trump is some existential threat to the country that must be stopped at all costs or opposed on everything just because he is the one that mentioned it. This reflex by the anti trumpers is getting old and tired and frankly, boring.
The TDS suffers among us have no factual ground to sustain themselves, and TDS has morphed into some weird irrational mental illness.
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