What’s interesting is that other then three minor places reporting in this. Not even a comment from the democratic party. Nothing in major news publications. Nothing on CNN that I can find. Nothing on AP or NPR. I’m questioning if this is even real.

As an American citizen. I support this message.

Exactly. Always follow the money.

I’m over 50 and they tried to ban Diary of Anne Frank when I was a kid. Sometimes they even succeeded.

Fucking idiots. Name one reason why kids shouldn’t read that book. They never could. Not a real reason anyway.

Over and over they try to ban books. The only thing that really changes is that they add books to the list.

Majority of those aren’t in my area. Not complaining about you posting it. Just stating that I live in the middle of no where.

Only way to destroy the US was from within.

LOL so already low approval ratings plunge further

Shocked I tell ya shocked!

Doge doing something stupid again

The next president can remove the benefits of ANY constitutional amendment. If the Supreme Court says no. The answer is “there’s precedent”, then just go out and do it anyway.

So yeah we are screwed .

Basically yes. As long as you are willing to watch your stocks it can work

Oh I would agree. I doubt we’ll see that kind of climb. I think those days are behind us for Tesla stock. But if they get rid of Elon I think we could see a solid slow steady climb.

Hopefully the new leader of that company focuses a little (read that as a LOT) more on quality control.

While that company has dropped a lot in value, let’s look at the deals that the US government is giving it for infrastructure. Let’s look at the factthat more and more people are buying electronic vehicles or I should say electric vehicles. Let’s look at where the Highpoint was for that stock and let’s look at where it is now. I don’t think the companies at a buy point yet. I do think it might be getting close to a buy a point. If they got rid of Elon Musk, people might be interested in buying those cars again. I could see that stock suddenly taking a jump in .

There is another item look at each individual day of that stock going back even over two months. Don’t look from one day into the next look at an individual day any day in the last two months. That stock will take a dip and then it will rise. So if you’re willing to sit in front of your computer, wait for the dip buy then sell it as soon as rises you should be able to make a bit of money. Now I’m I’m about ready to go into work so I can’t do the math to see what sort of percentage gain you would be looking at. On a day-to-day basis I mean. But just looking at a couple of days, you could be looking at one or 2% gain each time. And you don’t need to hit the absolute bottom and you don’t have to the absolute top , you’ll never do that. Just catch it at what you believe to be a low point set the sell point like 1.5 1.6% above that. It looks like that makes that change fairly quick from low to high. So you really wouldn’t have to be there that long.

Am I saying you should do that right now today not really. But for some easy gains it might be something you wanna look at. For long-term investing, I would say hold off until they get rid of musk… I would not hold that stock from one day into the next you’ll never see your money. But hey one or 2% a day is not bad returns.

As bad as they make websites doing it online is going to be basically impossible for most people anyway.

Same for the mail in forms.

I swear the people who design these things personally keep the cartels in business by the amount of Crack they do.

So length does matter. 😁

? Why would my money be worthless? That makes no sense.

I moved it from the s&p fund in the 401k to the money market account still in the 401k. If I have (for example) $100,000 right now and I put that into the money market account. Then the market crashes I basically still have the 100k . Now it bottoms out and I put the money back into the s&p. I just sold high and bought low. When the market rebounds I get the gain. How do I have less?

Now could I in theory miss the rebound? yes

Then I’d be out the money. Then I would have less than what I would’ve had I stayed in.

The if market tanks as bad as what I think it will. Then I have made the better decision.

No guarantees either way, but my gut instinct says we’re in for very bad next couple couple of months.

As for set it and forget it. That’s still stupid. Always watch a 401(k) to see. Are you really getting the best return on your money or should you be in a different fund within the 401(k).

Most times I would not put the money into a money market account. Most times I’ll just ride up and downs and come out better than the long run. But there are times it’s better to make a harsh decision.

I should have pulled my 401k (retirement plan) on Jan 1. I didn’t. I lost 17% since then. I pulled out and put it into a money market account. (Still in the 401k but heavily protected.) Will go back in maybe June.

Let’s take a look at what it would take to stop Trump.

The United States cannot vote a president out of office. There’s literally nothing in the constitution to allow it. You cannot do a recall vote on the president. You can on other offices such as senator and representative, but you can’t on the president. So voting him out is not an option there you have to wait 3+ years and hope we’re allowed to vote at that point.

A direct assault in the White House. This isn’t a movie. First, most liberals don’t own guns. Second most of them have never shot a gun.So you would somehow have to train a sizable force arm them, equip them and do it anyway where the FBI and CIA and the DOD don’t figure out what you’re doing.

Trust me, that’s not even a possibility they will come after you because they will figure it out.

But let’s say somehow, you did organize that level. By the time you started to move on the White House, the president would be alerted. Then the president will get on national TV and say everybody who believes in democracy should form a ring around the White House with as many guns that they can bring.

Now you’re not just fighting the Secret Service but you’re also fighting Secret Service police and a bunch of MAGA.

He’d also tell the American people he can’t order military to operate on American grounds, but they can definitely volunteer also show up. Now you have what half United States military in that area showing up to also defend the White House.

Like I said, this isn’t a movie you’re not getting anywhere near the White House if you’re an armed force.

So let’s look at Lonewolf shooters. You’d have to get two people trained up to be professional level snipers. And you’d have to take out both presidentand the vice president within seconds of each other. That isn’t even a real possibility. You might get one, but you won’t get the other. And the one is just as bad as the other. Because the moment you get the one the other one just goes into hiding and you’ll never get near.

Let’s look what it actually take to do that. You’d have to catch them both in the open at the same time. Plus you’d have to catch them in an area where a sniper could get to them. Do you know what the odds against that are.? You might as well just go to Vegas and start playing the roulette wheel and expect to win Several times in a row.

So that’s not an option.

The presidency Congress, and a number of judges are basically just allowing this to happen. So the legal avenues are basically gone.

So you say to do something. What options do you have?

For the record of anybody reading this or listening to this. I am not advocating taking out the president that is not what I’m doing. I’m simply trying to explain to this individual what he says do something. The founding fathers put into place the protections that we needed, which were forthe tricameral government to keep each other in check sadly though the system has failed. There really is nothing we can do. We can stand outside the White House and protest from now until election day 3+ years from now it isn’t going to change a damn thing.

First, everybody who stands out there that long would lose their jobs their houses their income and the businesses won’t be hurt at all because they just hire somebody new on. Second even if we did stand out there in protest that long do you think the president is going to listen? No he isn’t. He’s gonna do whatever he wants anyways.

So standing out there in protesting for 3+ years and losing your home when there’s no actual benefit in terms of having the president removed. What would be the actual benefit there?. Have your voice heard? Great your voice has been heard. Did it solve anything no.

Might make feel good as you’re yelling at the White House. But it didn’t actually change anything.

Organize a union? OK great how did that union force the president to do something at all? You have a lot of tech bros telling the president stop what he’s doing and he still doing it. You think he’s gonna listen to a bunch of peons out here?

There is really nothing that we can do. A large chunk of the US voted him in the office. Now everybody pays the consequences. I’m sorry, but there really is nothing that we can’t do. Hopefully the judges put a stop to this. But I don’t have any faith in it.

If the government shuts down there will literally be no one to slow trump down. They’ll be at home.

You ask “but if the government employees are at home who will do trumps dirty work?”

Answer “doge”

Answer "whoever else decides to join Trump "

At least with the government funded the employees have a chance to slow something down. Think it can’t get worse? Send the employees (government workers) home and watch.

They’ll give it to him.

I made this prediction back when he started saying he wanted to remove birth right citizenship. It’s just a matter of time

Not hearing about it and not listening are two separate things.