I bought two 16TB hard drives that I intend to fill with the content I generally pull down as I need it. Game roms, books, videos, a backup of Wikipedia(real). I’m already about 80% of the way there with preserving what I want to preserve. The other 16TB drive will be a copy. I can keep it in or around my toolbox at work just in case anything happens at the house, fire or flood, whatever.

I don’t seriously consider content being harder to acquire in the Trump presidency considering that’s mostly the Middle East, India and Romania if SoulSeek is anything to go by, but it gives me peace of mind.

As for spending… what spending?

I’m poor, but I already only spend on utility and literally nothing else. It’s helpful, really. I don’t buy crap and always have money for what I need, but I know I’m the minority, here. I’m always willing to suffer if it means I have headroom, to my family’s constant worry.

I cook constantly. I bake about two loaves of bread a week. My house generates baked goods on a constant basis for everyone around it, and I sell here and there. Flour is cheap, making variety is easy and everyone loves it.

You wanna survive this shit?

• quit streaming anything, pirate everything
• effort is money
• you don’t need it
• only pay bills that can’t be garnished or risk repossession
• name brand means poison
• see an ad? Never buy the product. Fuck em.

Run as close to the grain as possible. Don’t buy their shit. Don’t buy anything they’re associated with and if they try to control something, starve yourself of it. Fuck em. Don’t let the bastards win.

I think it’s going to hurt me as a retail worker. Any retail worker knows, that your pay is usually based on how well your store is doing. And your store’s profit is tied to the purse of the corporation that in turn, pays you. Now if Trump is dead set serious on wiping Immigrants out of the workforce and not willing to raise the wage and combat inflation (we know he won’t). That just means the corporations will start cutting jobs than doing what’s right.

And if hundreds of retail jobs are cut, so there will be store closures. Store closures happen, you’re out of work because people will not want to pay the high prices of inflation once everything is in full swing.

So, I don’t know how I’m preparing for this. It’s going to upset a lot of my plans going into next year if my store is affected. I work at Wal-Mart and basically their stance is they’re going to raise prices so we can expect to see jobs cut and store closures because of underperforming profits of said stores. Simply because a so-called “businessman” doesn’t know how the fuck tariffs work.

As a shopper. I guess it’s back to relying on Dollar Tree again…

I’d mostly just be shocked a politician followed through on campaign promises

Moved forward large purchases that cannot be delayed 5 years.

I am not changing my investments. My predictions on market impacts tend to be wrong. The stock market and the economy are not the same thing (market can be up during recession).

I am working to get healthier and update vaccinations. I don’t know what is coming but being able to run, climb, and lift are versatile.

I’m lookin into and learning more about mini greenhouses and how/what is easy to start growing. If i am successful i want to show others in my town how to break some of kroger’s grip cuz shit’s getting real out here. It feels like something im maybe capable of, so i guess I’m starting by pretending i can.

Gettin into mycology. Oyster mushrooms are a good meat substitute, and easy to grow

Upping my smelting and casting game to start producing gears and gear-based machinery

Whatever happens happens. Don’t really care that much anymore.

Business won’t let him do most of that. It was just loud fake superficial concepts of plans . His real task is staying in power. I think our biggest concern now is loss of immigrants.

ETA- i was initially pretty concerned and wanted to really cut back spending and increase savings. We will likely do some of that, but we’re still planning little holiday trips and doing work on the house.

the most expensive item I own is a bicycle and I’ve never had savings. i’m already $30k+ in debt so whatever

im not, none of that shit is going to happen

Death to America

i’m gonna move to china as soon as physically possible

I may buy more dried fruit and bulk t-shirts.

Somebody should make a website that tracks prices on goods and other items from the day Trump becomes president and throughout his term.

He said he would lower prices. His politics says the opposite. Let’s see.

American

savings or investments

I don’t understand