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01-22-2021 , 05:54 PM
Pokershares just paid off in advance "Will Donald Trump be President of the USA on February 1st 2021?" Much different then last time, and greatly appreciated
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I know Mike Mcdonald is reading this, so just a shoutout, as I had complained last time
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01-22-2021 , 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by cokeboy99
He offered me April 15, 2021. If Biden is still President, I win. If Harris or anyone else is President, he wins. I snap accepted. I had planned to offer longer but I wasn't arguing. His thought is if Biden is forced out, it will be sooner rather than later. He is all about the 25th amendment conspiracy.
Wow. Please God tell me you didn't get even money.
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01-22-2021 , 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
Wow. Please God tell me you didn't get even money.
Straight up. Mine against his. Not a large dollar amount but it felt like free money.
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01-22-2021 , 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
If anyone is interested in betting that trump will be kicked out of office in the next couple months I am interested in betting against it.
Why would anyone be interested in betting that Trump will be kicked out of office in the next couple of months. What office are we talking about? His office in Mar-a-lago?
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01-22-2021 , 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by SwoopAE
The MLK Jr endorsement should help. I like Yang and hope he wins but don't have any real insight into his chances in the NYC mayoral race
I have a bit on insight on this. Yang has the right people behind him to navigate NYC politics, but I share the questions about how popular Yang is outside the internet. For that reason, I'm staying away from affirmative bets up or down on Yang.

But Scott Springer will not win. That much I feel certain about. So I'm maxing No on him.
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01-22-2021 , 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by NotSoFarOff
I don't think I've ever seen McConnell promote something and then vote the other way. I think he sees Trump as a dangerous nuisance at this point and is willing to vote him out of the party.

I think he saw that on "insurrection day" the middle right distancing itself from the far right. He saw his party potentially getting splintered and the best way to solve that problem is to remove Trump from the equation.
Bolded is far from obvious.
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01-22-2021 , 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Rococo
Why would anyone be interested in betting that Trump will be kicked out of office in the next couple of months. What office are we talking about? His office in Mar-a-lago?
Dems are currently trying to kick him out of the presidency. If you are in the presidential betting thread you probably should have heard by now about how they are trying to impeach him out of the office.
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01-22-2021 , 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
Betting on politics is one thing. Betting on the ethics of a politician is a whole other.
All I hear is you don't actually believe what you claimed in your post because you're not willing to bet on it
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01-22-2021 , 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by cokeboy99
He offered me April 15, 2021. If Biden is still President, I win. If Harris or anyone else is President, he wins. I snap accepted. I had planned to offer longer but I wasn't arguing. His thought is if Biden is forced out, it will be sooner rather than later. He is all about the 25th amendment conspiracy.
That's a print obviously glgl you're probably like a 98-99% fav range given it's a month or so. I assume at his age Biden is maybe 1-2% to die per year in his current health of old age, (which will obv go up once he's in his 80s or if he develops a serious health condition etc) and maybe let's say 0.5-1% chance of assassinations coups etc any given year then slim to negligible chance of whatever other shenanigans
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01-23-2021 , 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
Dems are currently trying to kick him out of the presidency. If you are in the presidential betting thread you probably should have heard by now about how they are trying to impeach him out of the office.
Yeah, that isn't getting kicked out of office. That is getting convicted in the Senate. Or maybe you are advancing the technical argument that conviction is improper if the person has already left office.

In any case, I actually agree with you that Trump will not be convicted. No one ever went broke betting against Senate Republicans doing the right thing.
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01-23-2021 , 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Rococo
But Scott Springer will not win. That much I feel certain about. So I'm maxing No on him.
Why so much certainty? I'm not a fan, but I think Stringer is one of the frontrunners, such as if voters decide to go with a somewhat traditional safe politician or as a RCV beneficiary.
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01-24-2021 , 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Original Position
Why so much certainty? I'm not a fan, but I think Stringer is one of the frontrunners, such as if voters decide to go with a somewhat traditional safe politician or as a RCV beneficiary.
Springer has had a lifetime to excite people and he has never done it. And he is very much perceived as a Manhattan guy, which is the wrong vibe for this primary.
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01-24-2021 , 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Rococo
Springer has had a lifetime to excite people and he has never done it. And he is very much perceived as a Manhattan guy, which is the wrong vibe for this primary.
You could be right - a lot has changed recently in NYC politics. I'm mainly looking at his political experience, which looks superior to anyone else running. I'll note that every Democratic nominee since Koch was previously either public advocate, borough president, or city comptroller.
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01-27-2021 , 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by NotSoFarOff
I don't think I've ever seen McConnell promote something and then vote the other way. I think he sees Trump as a dangerous nuisance at this point and is willing to vote him out of the party.

I think he saw that on "insurrection day" the middle right distancing itself from the far right. He saw his party potentially getting splintered and the best way to solve that problem is to remove Trump from the equation.
I guess there is a first time for everything.
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01-27-2021 , 06:25 PM
I saw a Reddit comment that pretty much sums up McConnell

'It's almost like Mitch McConnell is a duplicitous piece of ****'

I don't get it like what is even the point for him to consider convicting trump pissing off some of his base only to backflip if he had no intention of following through
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01-28-2021 , 01:20 PM
Biden made a mistake in his speech recently, but it actually was correct, he knowingly or unknowingly made a comment which taps right all the way in to some thing so lovely wanted, you really have to take a step back and appreciate it.

Biden said in his recent speech about "Plaines trains and... Buses". not automobiles, which is the correct term.

The moment he said that I snap thought about the cybertruck and how a cyber bus would pan over so many cool things,
- a national symbol of group, together, US we each are equal participating in new in future, not just people that can afford an expensive automobile.
- a conversation starter like no other, you sit in a Cybertruck you are going to make a new friend 100% your going to get the idea, your going to get motivated, excited dreamy!
- it maybe some thing helpful to tesla in regards to increasing revenue streams.
- cyberbus > cyberbike

this guy does a break down about it,



hopefully feel good jo speaks to Elon and asks whats the status of the Cyberbus?

Would love to ride share in a cyberbus, would be amazing big concept idea for society to digest, at least a supposed step in the right direction surely, automobiles tell a story and our bus the same.

A cyber bus would change history, you jump in that thing with strong back support with fellow Americans or were ever you are in the world? your going to notice that real good feeling in your guts,

like some one invested a billion dollars in you, huge feel good product, everybody would win.

Last edited by Balla Shusher; 01-28-2021 at 01:28 PM.
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01-28-2021 , 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by SwoopAE
I saw a Reddit comment that pretty much sums up McConnell

'It's almost like Mitch McConnell is a duplicitous piece of ****'

I don't get it like what is even the point for him to consider convicting trump pissing off some of his base only to backflip if he had no intention of following through
If someone says they will consider convicting him and few days later decides not to convict it is probably safe to say they were one of the few that looked at the evidence.

Are they going to try to kick all the politicians out of power that are accused of encouraging political violence or are they only doing this for trump?
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