Calipede here, this is my first time voting in person so I was admittedly a little out of my comfort zone.

I went to the poll worker and asked if I could exchange my mail in ballot for an in person ballot.

He asked if I had the ballot and envelope sealed and signed, I said no as I wasn't planning to do a drop-off, I wanted to vote in person.

He instructed me to put my ballot in the envelope, sign it, and put it in what looked like a drop box, then I got my sticker.

On my way out I saw the voting booths inside the community center.

My mail-in ballot was rejected in 2016 because my signature didn't match my DL, that's part of the reason I wanted to vote in person (among all the other fuckery). My ballot was also slightly stained because I had it on the counter because I wasn't planning on using it.

Is that normally how that works or was I coerced to do a mail in ballot drop-off instead of an in person vote?

Genuine question!

Are those things just not intrinsically connected to the stock market, job growth, interest rates, etc.? Has Trump simply created more than the plandemic took away?

Or is this a matter of "waiting for the other shoe to drop" and we're in for a rude awakening after it all catches up with us? Should I be moving a big chunk of my investments over to gold?

I've been trying to make sense of how we're seemingly doing so well and not well at the same time.