Do you or those you know have US election contingency plans?

Viewing the events from the 51st state, aka Australia, that big island south west of Hawaii, I get the impression that the election is just a huge distraction. It bifurcates the population, manufactures various groups to be outraged by other groups.

The Blob goes about business as usual, humongously profitable for the globalists.

I think the far bigger question is how are the hundreds of thousands of people impacted by the hurricanes going to rebuild their destroyed lives and livelihoods. The Blob has conveniently forgotten about them, focusing instead on international misadventures.

I'm a US citizen living in the US. None of my plans are dependent on who becomes president. I'll just keep on doing what I do. I think this is true of those I know as well, regardless of their political stance, but it's hard to tell because it's not a topic of conversation. Most people I know just want the whole thing to be over.

Have a modest place in Western Europe, will relocate the family there and reevaluate in four years if necessary.

What does it actually mean when a thread is "Flagged"? This thread is marked as so, and often there is a comment explaining why the thread should be flagged, but I don't see one here.

Answers A through D are... nothing.

There's really nothing to do. Any actual changes will be slow to occur, and you'd need the details of how those changes will take effect to work on any mitigation.

My actions are exclusively financial. For context, my portfolio is currently high risk, high reward. Stocks, ETFs and Mutual Funds, zero leverage, no options.

a. If Harris wins, I plan to take a leveraged position in the S&P, as I expect the economy to be less volatile under her. I will begin monitoring small caps more closely.

b. If Trump wins, I will not take out a leverage. I do not have the gut strength. Potentially, I may make my portfolio slightly more conservative, but I am not yet sure. I'd expect oil to pump if he's elected, but I don't have interest in this.

c. Under both, I'd be eying opportunities to invest in domestic production. Democrats are pursing it via stuff like the CHIPS act, and conversely, if Trump's tariffs are enacted, it will look a lot more appealing to businesses

a) cheer, open a bottle of expensive champagne, and share it

b) groan, open a bottle of cheap whiskey, and drink it

c) get on with life, looking after the people around me as best I can

I know of one business in Minneapolis that has made plans (ie the communications are already written, extra private security headcounts have been scheduled) to shut down their locations in case of civil unrest of the sort in 2020. I'm not from there, so I don't know how likely this is.

a-d: I'll read the heated discussions online for a while and then do something else. Probably work.

Yes. I intend to immediately enact my UK immigration plans if Trump wins the election, or if he successfully steals it through legislative tricks. (And I also have an Australian visa application sitting somewhere in the queue, viability TBD.) At that point, the US that I know and care about is lost for several generations at minimum (if not forever) and I simply do not have the mental or emotional energy to remain politically invested.

d) left the Old Country long ago

This means that while to some degree I remain interested in, I am no longer committed to[0], the vagaries of a regime which, with its paucity of parties, shambles through a political Cupid Shuffle[1] every 4-8 years.

[0] compare the pig and the chicken at breakfast

[1] "...to the right, to the right / To the left, to the left,..."

I plan to drink a lot Tuesday night.