Please take a day or ten to think your decision through as emotionlessly as possible. You could seriously affect your financial health if you make this decision based on feelings that may not align with reality.
You should check out Reddit, people are talking about leaving the country, stockpiling weapons to protect their lgbtq+ family members, I even saw one women saying she was scheduling a hysterectomy so she doesn't die due to lack of reproductive care.
They are probably all just temporary dramatic outbursts, but still, everyone needs to take a breath. If you didn't have any media you probably wouldn't have even noticed the Trump -> Biden transition.
The guy literally has never conceded defeat from 2020. They marched in the capitol building with confederate flags. He has an enemies list and a clear agenda to avoid prison. He has compliant congress to back him and everyone is on board with the crazy. He won the popular vote FFS.
Yeah you wouldn't know any of that if you hadn't viewed it through a screen. The capitol insurrection had 0 effect on you other than making you angry when you saw it on TV.
This is a bad take. You're essentially making the claim that you shouldn't care about something unless it happens within your immediate vicinity or you are directly affected. Replace "viewed it through a screen" with "read it in a newspaper" or "heard about it from a friend" and the statement is more bad.
Revolutions have happened over less. The King of France lost his head because a small group of angry women marched on his palace, changing the course of history. Even if the net impact of this event is small, it is still _important_ and worthy of awareness.
Trump almost lost his head when they kept trying to assassinate him. His head almost got exploded on live TV and it was barely a news cycle. Dems joked about how they're mad the shooter missed, then went back to pretending they're saving democracy. That's so much worse than the guys walking around the capitol building and shuffling papers, yet people only remember the date of the great January 6th nothingburger because it's the one convenient to the establishment.
I clearly cannot speak to others. I can say that in my friend circles (very left) the _two_ trump assassination attempts were taken quite seriously and we were pulling up live feeds of it within 5 minutes of it being announced.
I generally don't subscribe to the "this event is more important than the news cycles let it be" thought. Its argument boils down to strawman or quickly circles to "news bubbles are a problem".
> That's so much worse than the guys walking around the capitol building and shuffling papers, yet people only remember the date of the great January 6th nothingburger because it's the one convenient to the establishment.
I don't think that's a fair characterization of the day. Security personnel were _murdered_ in the _capital building_. Six people died. President Trump himself labeled it as the "Save America Rally". The _stated_ goal was to defraud an election. I'm sorry, I don't subscribe to your view that it was an event blown out of proportion. It is very much just as noteworthy as every Revolution Precursor I have ever heard.
As an aside, I find the comparison of the Trump Assassination Attempt and the Jan 6 Uprising as if one is more important than the other is false. Both are very much reprehensible acts of political violence aimed at destabilizing the American institution. Bluntly, they both terrify me. That one seems "overblown" says more about your political beliefs than you think.
Sure, but will it still be considered an all-time high in a year? Will the alternative investment even beat inflation? All I'm saying is be careful. I have experience here, having parked money outside of the market for a few years because of a gut feeling that never materialized. If you don't need in the money in the short-term, the conventional wisdom is "time in the market beats timing the market".
I assume the markets will do great in the short term until MAGA takes power and starts breaking everything. I'll miss the volatility and fade any stress. I've made a bunch of money and have no worries.
Like by having money to do things. It might be better to put it into DJT for a couple years, but careful with the risk. I'm sure the markets will be fine short term ... until they aren't. Just as it was before ... and how it is every time modern GOP has power. They crush the economy. All red states are in the shitter. Blue states swim in $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
