UK Bookies Offering 50/1 For Trump to Win a Third Term

[MechAg94]

https://summit.news/2020/01/13/uk-bookies-offering-50-1-for-trump-to-win-a-third-term/

UK betting firm Ladbrokes is offering odds of 50/1 for Donald Trump to win a third term in office.

The bookmakers are offering the bet for Trump “to be sitting president on Feb 1st 2025 in 3rd term.” Trump is also at 10/1 to the the Republican nominee in 2024.

I am thinking this is a good bet.  They mention President Trump has joked about a 3rd term and mentioned in 2 or 3 more times.  Personally, I think he says it to poke at leftists as much as anything. 

What are the odds they will pay up in 5 years? 

Other odds being offered by Ladbrokes include Mike Pence at 5/2 to succeed Trump as president.

[Angel Eyes]

Third term??

I'll take that bet.

[K Frame]

Well, apparently the Brits understand the US Constitution about as well as the left does, which is not one bit.

22nd Amendment, anyone?

[MechAg94]

When Obama was in office, there were people opposed to him who speculated that he would try to stay in office.  Now that President Trump is here, there are people on the left doing the same speculation about him. 

Maybe by the time we get to President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho people won't care. 

[Angel Eyes]

When Obama was in office, there were people opposed to him who speculated that he would try to stay in office.  Now that President Trump is here, there are people on the left doing the same speculation about him. 

That's nothing new.

Around 2007, a certain leftist co-worker was absolutely convinced that Bush and Cheney were going to concoct a false-flag op (just like they did on 9/11  ) and use it as an excuse to suspend elections, making Bush El Presidente for life.

After Obama got elected, I asked him why none of that happened.  He just glared at me.

[K Frame]

When Obama was in office, there were people opposed to him who speculated that he would try to stay in office.  Now that President Trump is here, there are people on the left doing the same speculation about him.  

I've been hearing that bullshit since Jimmy Carter was president. It's probably been said about EVERY president by whomever hates that particular president at that particular moment.

It's always something along the lines of "President X is going to suspend elections and declare martial law!"

The Howler Monkeys of Doom have been singing this since at least 1978. The words are the same, it's just the chorus that changes.

[K Frame]

Speaking of which...

Where the hell are my howler monkeys of doom?

I should have howler monkeys of doom as my image!


Ah, OK, I think I figured it out. The site where that image is hosted is prohibited at my office, so it's not passing that information along to my work computer.

[charby]

I remember scuttle about a 3rd term for Reagan too.

[K Frame]

For Bush II and Obama it was "they're going to stage another terrorist attack on the homeland as the means to seizing power!"

[TommyGunn]

Speaking of which...

Where the hell are my howler monkeys of doom?

I should have howler monkeys of doom as my image!


Ah, OK, I think I figured it out. The site where that image is hosted is prohibited at my office, so it's not passing that information along to my work computer.

I see your howler monkeys of doom.  I want one as an emotional support animal.  

[K Frame]

I see your howler monkeys.  I want one as an emotional support animal.  

Yeah, I figured it out. Blocked by the filters here at my office.

[HankB]

The 1944 Election was still held - giving FDR his 4th term - while WWII was still going on.

If we could hold an election during WWII, I don't see anything short of something like a major nuclear exchange, eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, or a major asteroid impact stopping an election today; certainly not a terrorist op, false flag or otherwise.

[MechAg94]

I see your howler monkeys of doom.  I want one as an emotional support animal.  

I might want to hunt/shoot them, I don't want them in my area.  

[K Frame]

I see your howler monkeys of doom.  I want one as an emotional support animal.  

 

[K Frame]

The 1944 Election was still held - giving FDR his 4th term - while WWII was still going on.

If we could hold an election during WWII, I don't see anything short of something like a major nuclear exchange, eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, or a major asteroid impact stopping an election today; certainly not a terrorist op, false flag or otherwise.

The election in the middle of WW II was nothing.

The US held an orderly election in the middle of the freaking Civil War with one half of the country doing their level best to kill the other half and lots of bodies falling on both sides. As far as I know, every Union soldier in the field who wanted to was able to vote.

If that didn't derail the election cycle, I don't think anything will short of a cataclysmic even like what you mention would.

[Ron]

Don Jr is on deck

[Perd Hapley]

The election in the middle of WW II was nothing.

The US held an orderly election in the middle of the freaking Civil War with one half of the country doing their level best to kill the other half and lots of bodies falling on both sides. As far as I know, every Union soldier in the field who wanted to was able to vote.

If that didn't derail the election cycle, I don't think anything will short of a cataclysmic even like what you mention would.

Did the black Union soldiers vote?

[K Frame]

Did the black Union soldiers vote?

You know... I don't know the answer to that.


OK, found this article on the subject, and it's interesting...

The researcher claims that as many as 20% of soldiers chose not to vote for various reasons. And, it makes it sound as if no, black soldiers did not vote, my guess because they weren't considered to be citizens under the Constitution at that time.

https://www.historynet.com/fresh-look-1864-soldiers-vote-interview-jonathan-w-white.htm

[Perd Hapley]

You know... I don't know the answer to that.


OK, found this article on the subject, and it's interesting...

The researcher claims that as many as 20% of soldiers chose not to vote for various reasons. And, it makes it sound as if no, black soldiers did not vote, my guess because they weren't considered to be citizens under the Constitution at that time.

https://www.historynet.com/fresh-look-1864-soldiers-vote-interview-jonathan-w-white.htm

The only thing I've read that deals with that kind of question is "Justifying the Founders." West suggested that the property/class limitations on the franchise were replaced by race and sex limits, in the post-Revolutionary era. So it wasn't so much a Constititutional question as something that happened organically at the state level. According to West, there were examples of blacks and women voting very early in American history, but that went away until after the Civil War, and then the early beginnings of women's suffrage out west.

[K Frame]

Yes, it varied, state by state, over the years.

But, regarding voting by soldiers in the Civil War, it appears that they would have been voting under the rules of their home states. It's possible that many blacks wouldn't have been considered residents of a particular state, depending on how the state counted them.

Here's another article that discusses it in the larger context of military voting today. Interesting stuff.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/11/ensuring-soldiers-a-chance-to-vote-was-a-challenge-in-the-civil-war-it-still-is-today/

[gunsmith]

ladbrokes will pay, its very reputable - I'm not sure about odds, so like at 50 to one, if you bet one hundred you get five thousand?
thats a good deal!
 Trump will be to busy doing other trumpian stuff to even bother running or wanting a third term.
However, if he does?? he has my vote for sure, just to annoy the left hahahahahah

[Perd Hapley]

That's nothing new.

Around 2007, a certain leftist co-worker was absolutely convinced that Bush and Cheney were going to concoct a false-flag op (just like they did on 9/11   ) and use it as an excuse to suspend elections, making Bush El Presidente for life.

After Obama got elected, I asked him why none of that happened.  He just glared at me.

A guy I work with predicted Trump would be removed (or at least impeached) within 2 years. I haven't asked him about it. I just don't feel like embarrassing him, and I generally don't raise politics at work.

It's still possible to find the people that expect Trump to sign off after one term. I never did understand that one.