Summary
Trump snapped at a reporter who asked how much economic pain he was willing to inflict amid plunging markets triggered by his new tariffs.
Speaking after a weekend at his Florida resort, Trump dismissed speculation he was trying to crash the market, claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion” and spur U.S. manufacturing.
When asked about a pain threshold for Americans, he called the question “so stupid,” arguing economic “medicine” was necessary to reverse decades of “stupid leadership.”
He insisted the strategy would make the U.S. “solid and strong again.”
I don’t get it. If your position is that a temporary downturn is necessary then the question seems very sensible. And somehow Trump says it is necessary but asking about the maximum extent he’d go for is very stupid?
It’s very simple. His position is that whatever he does is perfect. If he openly considers the impacts of temporarily weakening the economy, and the consequences that go with retirees losing their homes, for example, he will have to admit imperfection. And he’s such a narcissist that he’s incapable of that. He can allude to some possible temporary badness as long as he doesn’t overly focus on it.
At the same time, because of his broken brain and his narcissism, facts are not facts. Everything is an opinion. Therefore, the reporter was expressing an opinion through their question, and they should have known that his opinion is more important than theirs.
It’s not supposed to be temporary. They want to destroy the economy. They want to destroy the entire system that FDR started. They want to tear down the US and their Western allies, that’s their true goal, and create something like Praxis in its place, a supposed libertarian paradise where every city and piece of land is controlled by a Corporation that has judicial and executive power over one territory, a fiefdom.
It’s technofeudalism, a form of facism,
https://www.praxisnation.com/
https://theplotagainstamerica.com/
https://time.com/6092844/peter-thiel-power-biography-the-contrarian/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feudalism
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
This also ties with Greenland,
https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-backed-startup-that-wanted-to-buy-greenland-is-thrilled-that-trump-wants-to-buy-greenland-2000548415
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/16/spiritual-case-greenland-trump-00198848
The Heritage Foundation, famous for Project 25, has its interests aligned with the technofeudalists because this measure will give enormous power to the Churches, which in essence are nothing more than Corporations too.
Opus Dei is one of the groups behind the Heritage Foundation’s Project 25, whose current president is Kevin Roberts, who has an extensive history of involvement with American Catholic organizations.
Here you can see Kevin Roberts speech at CIC (Opus Dei Headquarters on K Street, Washington DC) last year,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqgfhZpRZhg
Peter Thiel himself has connections to the Opus Dei,
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-final-conversations-of-a-dying-priest
https://www.project2025.observer/
And if you, my reader, still think this will be good for your small or medium-sized business. Remember. In a world where Corporations are Kingdoms, new entrepreneurs are separatists. They will be crushed.