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Are you prepared for the unthinkable? Is your portfolio prepared in case Donald Trump, rather than Hillary Clinton, wins the White House on Nov. 8?

Very few are. But after this weekend, they need to be.

The video footage of Hillary Clintons health episode on Sunday morning is not good. A member of the public, using a cellphone camera, filmed the former secretary of state being helped into a van by aides after apparently being overcome by heat at the 9/11 ceremony. She had left the event abruptly.

The so-called optics are damaging. And in the age of the internet, this clip can and will be repeated over and over and over.

If Hillary Clinton were a 45-year-old sports enthusiast whose health was not in question, this might be a storm in a teacup. But she is 68 and the Trump campaign was already flinging around health scares (some obviously bogus).

The incident comes as opinion polls show the election is down to a few percentage points. And Clinton was already on the defensive, after saying Friday that Donald Trump voters divide into two groups extremists, aka deplorables, and the rest.

(Ill confess I dont get this controversy. Her statement is so obviously true that its banal. Indeed, try rebutting it with a straight face. No, hardly any of Trumps supporters are extremists. Go to a Trump rally and you wont see any. Or: Well, racists and misogynists arent deplorable. Really? Critics tried to focus on Clintons claim that half of Trumps supporters fell into each camp but this is patently a figure of speech, like saying half my relatives are morons, and the rest are idiots. Only a twit thinks you mean 50% and 50%. Not that facts or logic have anything to do with this election anymore.)

Financial markets have been far too complacent about the likelihood of a Hillary Clinton victory on Election Day. It is far from a dead certainty especially now. Betting at Predictit, the elections market, now give Trump a one-in-three chance of winning.

What would that mean for investors?

Youd better brace yourself for a lot of volatility. Markets dont like unpleasant surprises. They hate uncertainty. And a possible Trump victory would mean both. Hillary Clinton is largely a known quantity. Trump isnt. The outside world is hardly likely to stay calm at the news that the U.S. government, nukes and all, is being handed over to an unstable, inexperienced TV personality with a quick temper and a long line of incendiary threats. You should expect stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities to react.

A money manager I spoke to last week said if Trump looks like hes winning, hed bet on three things: Gold, guns and germs or in other words gold, defense stocks and health-care stocks.

He figures Trumps election would cause a dollar panic which would be good for gold (and other hard currencies, such as the Swiss franc). Trump has already vowed to essentially launch currency wars against trading partners such as China and Japan.

Defense contractors should do well: Trump has promised to raise U.S. defense spending drastically. (Note: Gun makers like Sturm, Ruger & Co. RGR, -2.51% on the other hand, might suffer. They typically do best when their customers panic about Democrats in the White House, and rush out to stock up before the long expected ban.)

Meanwhile, a Trump victory would be bound to put the entire health-care industry in the spotlight, including the insurers, the major drug companies, biotechs and others. Investors have been wary of these stocks for fear that a President Clinton would try to bring down health-care costs by pressuring their high prices, costs and profit margins. Its hard to be sure what Trump would do, but he has promised to push for massive deregulation.

The implications of a Trump victory wouldnt end there. It could upend everything from construction stocks, thanks to Trumps alleged wall with Mexico, to Moscow, where investors would hope for an end to Western sanctions. Interesting times.

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It is far easier to argue that your opponent is not fit to serve if you can provide confidence that you are fit to serve yourself.

That's part of how Sunday's medical episode involving Hillary Clinton, followed by contradictory and incomplete explanations from Clinton's campaign, makes for a major campaign moment that has the potential to upend the race to the White House.

Fitness now takes on literal meaning and outsize importance in a tumultuous campaign that already seemed to see everything. Questions about Clinton's health figure to compete for space with how Clinton's campaign handled the fallout, for at least the next few days, if not right through Election Day.

One bad health spell assuming it's only that could have the impact of legitimizing concerns raised by Donald Trump that Clinton has been seeking to delegitimize. It puts Clinton's allies in an awkward spot in what was already set to be a difficult phase of her campaign.

In a measure of how difficult this may be for Clinton to muddle through, Trump and his campaign have shown uncharacteristic initial restraint. They realize that this is a mess of Clinton's creation and that how she deals with it could have far-reaching ramifications for the balance of the race.

Within moments of the episode, the Clinton campaign went into a vaguely familiar lockdown mode. When word did emerge from the campaign, the official account was that Clinton felt overheated at a 9/11 remembrance event and was feeling "much better" a story that seemed incomplete in light of video evidence that quickly surfaced.

Hours later came word that as that she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday and placed on antibiotics. This came after days when coughing fits bad enough to stop her from continuing at public events were blamed on allergies.

All this may have been hard enough to believe on its face had Clinton and her aides not had a history of misleading the press and public when it comes to her health. The full story of her fainting spell in 2012, when she was secretary of state, may still not be known, and it began to be told only when glasses she wore in public testimony revealed a more complicated truth.

Earlier this year, in relation to the unrelated matter of her personal email, Clinton declared that she was the "most transparent official in modern times." That statement strains basic credulity now more than ever.

Clinton allies will argue that she has provided more health-related details, not to mention vastly more financial and professional information, than Trump. That is inarguable.

It is also, for now, beside the point. After just this one ill-timed health scare and in the course of just a few hours, Clinton's campaign reinforced concerns about her honesty and accountability. The timing also happened to play into a Trump campaign line of attack about her stamina and overall health.

Just last week, when asked about her health, Clinton declared, "I'm not concerned about the conspiracy theories."

But when events and actions reinforce those storylines, it's time to be concerned. Those theories will harden and go mainstream, until or unless the campaign addresses them not with accusations and partial accounts but with solid information.

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Hillary Clinton, speaking Friday at a big-ticket fundraiser in New York City, said half of Donald Trumps supporters could be categorized into a basket of deplorables, implying that his backers hold irredeemable views on issues of race, gender and religion.

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The Democratic nominee spoke to donors about some of the "racist, sexist, homophobic" backers of Trump's campaign, but called for empathy for "th...

To just be grossly generalist, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables, Clinton told donors gathered at a Manhattan restaurant. Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up.

He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million, she continued, referencing Trumps campaign hire of Breitbart News Steve Bannon. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric.

The Democratic nominee noted that some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but they are not America.

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Clinton, who was introduced by celebrities Laverne Cox and BarbraStreisand, went on to describe the other basket.

The other basket, and I know because I look at this crowd, I see friends from all over America hereBut that other basket of people are people who feel that government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, she said. They are just desperate for change. Doesnt really even matter where it comes from.

In a statement Saturday afternoon,Clinton later walked back her estimate that half of Trumps supporters were deplorable,saying it was wrong.

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Last night I was grossly generalistic, and thats never a good idea. I regret saying half -- that was wrong, she wrote. Butshe went on to list other deplorable developments in the Trump campaign, including his hiring of a major advocate for the alt-right, his attack on a federal judge for his Mexican heritage, and his criticisms of a Gold Star Muslim family.

I wont stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign, she promised.

Outrage spread on Twitter almost immediately after Clintons basket of deplorables line, which GOP pollster Frank Luntznoted was similar to the campaign-sinking 47 percent comments made by Mitt Romney in 2012.

Trumps children mocked Clinton further on Twitter, using trendinghashtags like #basketofdeplorables to defend their father:

Trump even fired back at Clinton on the social media platform, blasting Clinton Saturday morning that she had been SO INSULTING to my supporters.

Later in the afternoon, Trump said he has respect for all of Clintons supporters, though they will never vote for me:

In a longer statement released after his tweets, Trump called Clintons remarks the worst mistake of the political season.

[I]nstead of owning up to this grotesque attack on American voters, she tries to turn it around with a pathetic rehash of the words and insults used in her failing campaign? Trump said. For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans.

The Clinton campaign, for itspart, has backed their candidates comments, saying that while Trumps supporters dont all fit into that category, several are part of the so-calledalt-right hate movement.

Clinton spokesperson Nick Merrill tweeted this late Friday night:

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Andrew Anglin Daily Stormer August 14, 2016

Yeah, whatever, Cernovich is a kike.

This video is still crucial.

And hes the best sort of kike.

He has a Paki GF. Just like the DS number one kike, Anthony Weiner the masturbating autist.

These Hillary health issues really need to be a top focus. The bitch is literally dying.

What on earth is going on with Hillary Clinton? Mike Cernovich joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss Donald Trump supporters being assaulted in California at #WeHoTrump event, the controversy around Hillary Clintons health, Clintons previous blood clot and falls, the Democratic candidate freezing during sparsely attended campaign events, panic from the political establishment and liberal bias in the mainstream media.

Mike Cernovich is a lawyer and the author of Gorilla Mindset: How to Control Your Thoughts and Emotions to Live Life on Your Terms. Order Gorilla Mindset on Amazon: http://www.fdrurl.com/gorilla-mindset

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Hillary Clintons health has become a major issue of the campaign trail, with doctors and other medical professionals weighing in with diagnoses like Parkinsonsdisease, seizures and post-concussion syndrome.

So, what better way to reassure American voters than to tell them she could hardly get up after the Democratic National Convention? Yeah, theres pretty muchany better way to reassure American voters, but thats what Hillary told them about her health, because thats how she rolls.

According to the Washington Examiner, Hillsdecided to engage in this fun piece of self-sabotage during her campaigns With Her podcast (a riff on Hillarys electrifyingly-bland campaign slogan, Im With Her).

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By the end of those two weeks thats exactly how I felt, it was, Oh my gosh, I dont know that I can get up, let alone what I will do if I am vertical, Hillary said.

I, knock on wood, am pretty lucky because I have a lot of stamina and endurance, which is necessary in the kind of campaign Im engaged in, she continued, conveniently neglecting to add the part about doctors with diazepam pens and being helped up stairs.

She then discussed her health and fitness regimen, and actuallymanaged to make things worse by sounding like what your grandmother tells youabout her routine at the retirement home while the two of you are havinglunch at IHOP.

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But I also try to eat right, not always succeeding but try, try to get enough sleep, try to get exercise, Hillary said. Now Im not going to pretend that I like it because I dont but between yoga and walking, getting on the treadmill, some weights, I try to keep up.

I would have loved to have seen her advisers faces after that one. Ouch.

Ill give her this much:this is the first time during the campaign Ive been absolutely sure shes being even partially honest.

Hillary Clintons run for the presidency is like bringing a drunk womanin a bathrobeas a driver forthe Indianapolis 500 with a jet-powered lawnmower as hercar. There are so many things to disqualify her that you cant you really cant pick just one.

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However, her health is as good a place as any to start, seeing as how the evidence seems to indicate that no matter what you think about her possibly-criminal endeavors or cynical career of expedient compromise, she still could be disqualified from the office by the fact that shes not physicallyable to fulfill it.

Hillary has refused to explain her increasingly bizarre health scares to the American public, instead pretending that nothing is wrong. And maybe she feels that way, since she didnt realize howadmitting she wasexhausted from the mild rigors of a convention where she had to make one speech would go over with the American people.

News flash, Hillaristas: the presidency is a lot more strenuousthan a political convention. Until Americagets a full and thorough explanation of why she needs to be helped up stairs and has a handler with a mysterious injection pen standing next to her, inter alia, she ought to be considered unfit for the office shes running for.

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