Imaging travelling back in time when Obama was president and showing these posts to the people. Even the republicans would think that this is insane 
Is that Twitter account the real official white house twitter account or some kind of joke page? Serious question.
If it is real, then:
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Itâs real and the purpose of all of this is to trigger the response they currently get (#ownthelibs, #whatifbiden/obama)âŠ
I see it as entertainment but surely not as a source of serious information in the next 4 years.
If you are bold, youâll find a huge load of additional meme posts when browsing through their account.
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Well, it was after seeing the other posts on that account which led me to believe it was a joke account. 
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I think we need to acknowledge that current US administration knows very well how to keep their audience engaged and interested in their work. People who vote for them like such stuff.
Point is that there are lot of folks in US who think they need to be saved. And Trump is going to save them. In a way itâs also not a fake situation if we think about it. I might not agree with the approach and style but I do agree that serious problems in US needs to be addressed - immigration, deindustrialization, debt crisis etc. itâs high time someone do something about it.
I also have to say though the democrats run media channels can also do a better job. I saw an hour long interview with Trump and every question they asked was asked in negative style. And I have to say it must be very annoying for Trump too that he is only asked about bad things. If they (TV channels) want Americans to take then seriously, these channels should try to keep things balanced. Or else it annoys republicans even more.
Talking about investments -: it appears that so far US administration is testing their limits but not really trying to overrule the constitution. So maybe grabbing foreign assets is a bit less of an issue. That is comforting for me
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I mean the lightsaber color is appropriateâŠ
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I am investing âmindfullyâ for a bit more than 5 years. I was wondering when I will stop clutching onto financial media and news and thought that I will probably need another 5 years to reach the zen stage. Now I think I am much closer to it.
2020 was scary.
2022 was instructive.
2025 is such a shitshow that I am disgusted and donât want to have it in my already busy life.
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How were 2021, 2023-2024?
(Hint: lucrative as hell!)
For me personally 2021 was a learning time. 2022 - the graduation exam. 23-24 - staying on the track.
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Thatâs a good analogy, I started in 2022 but learning is right now for me. In many ways the last say 5 years could well be the best early learning experience an investor could ever get. War, pandemic, policy madness, extreme bull run all wound up in 5 short years that feel effing long.
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This is where Iâm at as well.
The connection of shitshow politics and my networth is something I donât want to affect me as much,
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Meaning? Your portfolio value will be affected by everything that happens, short term, but you donât have to be affected by either one 
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Itâs crazy how small the 2020 blip is.
Itâs more or less up and to the right all the way except for a few blips for dotcom boom, 2008 crash and the post-covid boom.
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Itâs that big 2000-2010 lost decade which is scary, but can be overcome within a few years with constant reinvestment.
Marketâs pricing in Buffettâs stepping down in December, making me think thatâs all the pricing in regarding Buffett thatâs ever going to happen. Buffett himself said he believed BRK blipping and quickly recovering when he died.
When an investor has invested at peak of bubble, their results are usually very different than others. Itâs unfortunate but unpredictable
The theoretical horror story of investing everything and your gold teeth, if you have any, at the peak is not the problem in my opinion as this is an unrealistic scenario. In 2023-2024 we were all investing regularly at the peak. And keeping at it makes one break water much faster than the index does (in between 1/2 to even 1/3 of the time - which can still be a long time to keep focus, and life may happen too and force your hand).
Itâs the sequence of returns risk that I consider scarier, but that can be mitigated (in theory).
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Yes thatâs why DCA is best because it averages out. And anyways very few start with a big pot to invest
Given the number of people starting investing in the post-covid boom with stimmy checks, I think it could be quite a realistic scenario!
But that post-covid boom is already running for a few years so even if one invested a big lump right after the covid v-recovery theyâd STILL be fine if we had a -50% over the next 12 months (which I very much doubt would happen anyway).
I think when people refer to investing at the top they think plugging 30 years of savings and loans on some hypothetical day before a meteor hits the earth, and the market tanks 3000% in a minute. We know reality not to be like that, the biggest single day fall in the S&P500 was -27% and we now have circuit breakers to stop this from happening.
I am exaggerating as usual, itâs my autism firing, I know what you mean!