TRUMP- My 2 cents worth

[bodie54]

Yeah, and you don’t want our guns either.

I wish I was going to be around long enough to make a future bet on this with you, but it appears that's unlikely. I'd be willing to go six figures and even give you odds.

 

[Jack Davenport]

I wish I was going to be around long enough to make a future bet on this with you, but it appears that's unlikely. I'd be willing to go six figures and even give you odds.

Of course you would. If I won, I’d have no way to enforce the wager.

 

[bodie54]

Of course you would. If I won, I’d have no way to enforce the wager.

Yeah actually we could arrange something. A simple contract. The money placed in a trust account that divests to the winner (or their estate, or designated beneficiary) on a specific future date. Are you interested?

 

[Jack Davenport]

Yeah actually we could arrange something. A simple contract. The money placed in a trust account that divests to the winner (or their estate, or designated beneficiary) on a specific future date. Are you interested?

No. Read my comment again, I think my comment about “ enforcing” the wager went right by you. So let me get this straight, you are willing to enter into a 6 figure wager based upon members of the left not going for gun confiscation and this may happen four years from now or 50 years from now. I have to set up a blind trust (I would insist on this)and wait for this to unfold and if necessary, my heirs will either be notified that I entered into some wager that I either won or lost.

Then there is the question of the timeline. I have thousands of dollars tied up in a trust that may not be resolved for many years to come. :1orglaugh

Find something else to bet me $1000.00 dollars over. This scheme you have makes my head hurt.

 

[bodie54]

No, I was thinking more like picking a date 10 years from now. Say ten years to the day from the date the contract is executed. The wager would be on whether or not the 2nd amendment will have been repealed/private gun ownership banned by that day.

Yes we can designate who we want as beneficiaries in case either of us deceases before the 10 years are up.

You make a good point about parking that much money for that length of time. We could do an interest bearing trust but still our liquidity could be affected. So how about we arrive at a number that wouldn't have as much impact in that way yet still be substantive. Say maybe 20K? Or whatever number you're comfortable with.

I don't know why it made your head hurt. It's a pretty simple proposition, really :dunno:

 

[Jack Davenport]

No, I was thinking more like picking a date 10 years from now. Say ten years to the day from the date the contract is executed. The wager would be on whether or not the 2nd amendment will have been repealed/private gun ownership banned by that day.

Yes we can designate who we want as beneficiaries in case either of us deceases before the 10 years are up.

You make a good point about parking that much money for that length of time. We could do an interest bearing trust but still our liquidity could be affected. So how about we arrive at a number that wouldn't have as much impact in that way yet still be substantive. Say maybe 20K? Or whatever number you're comfortable with.

I don't know why it made your head hurt. It's a pretty simple proposition, really :dunno:

Saying that “ you want our guns” is not equal to “ you’ll get our guns”. I’m not going to go so far off of the deep end as to move even 20 grand into a trust for an internet wager on gun control.

I’ll wager my usual $1000.00 dollars on Donald Trump’s re-election. I feel that no one on the Democrat horizon can beat him.

If you feel differently and want to accept that bet, consider it a virtual handshake.

To repeat, you want our guns, I’ve never believed that you’ll get them. And I am certainly not going to move thousands of dollars around on liberal ambition.

 

[xfire]

 

[sean miguel]

 

[Jack Davenport]

Wahahahahahahaha

:rofl: :1orglaugh

 

[xfire]

You can't make this shit up. :1orglaugh

http://thehill.com/regulation/court...g-that-gorsuch-is-becoming-too-liberal-report

 

[HansMoleman]

Saying that “ you want our guns” is not equal to “ you’ll get our guns”. I’m not going to go so far off of the deep end as to move even 20 grand into a trust for an internet wager on gun control.

I’ll wager my usual $1000.00 dollars on Donald Trump’s re-election. I feel that no one on the Democrat horizon can beat him.

If you feel differently and want to accept that bet, consider it a virtual handshake.

To repeat, you want our guns, I’ve never believed that you’ll get them. And I am certainly not going to move thousands of dollars around on liberal ambition.

If you feel strongly you could always make that bet on a prediction market. Currently the odds are 50/50 that Trump will be the Republican nomine in 2020 and a 43% chance that Republicans win in 2020. If you're right, there is money to be made.

 

[sean miguel]

so a foreign national in the United States commits a home burglary but should be allowed to remain here.

let's campaign on this.

 

[Jack Davenport]

If you feel strongly you could always make that bet on a prediction market. Currently the odds are 50/50 that Trump will be the Republican nomine in 2020 and a 43% chance that Republicans win in 2020. If you're right, there is money to be made.

I believe Bodie would honor the bet. I don’t believe for a moment that many others would. I already won a $1000.00 bet with someone on the board and then she wanted to bet again a week before the presidential election., when Hillary Clinton was polling about 6 points ahead.
She welshed on the first $1000.00 that I won and I figured that I’d never see the money anyway so I offered her double or nothing thinking Hillary was gonna win and to let her off of the hook. She was so sure pantsuit would win she jumped all over it.

The rest is history and she dropped off the face of the earth for about 6 months licking her wounds. If the results had been reversed, You’d be hearing how I didn’t honor my wager.

 

[sean miguel]

 

[xfire]

 

[bodie54]

I’ll wager my usual $1000.00 dollars on Donald Trump’s re-election. I feel that no one on the Democrat horizon can beat him.
If you feel differently and want to accept that bet, consider it a virtual handshake.

Tempting.
There are a number of trails I could see leading to that not happening.
I'm glad you didn't offer me this bet after the first republican debate in 2016. I'd have wanted to increase it to 10K ... :wallet:

To repeat, you want our guns, I’ve never believed that you’ll get them. And I am certainly not going to move thousands of dollars around on liberal ambition.

So what do you envision happening within the next decade? Failed attempts at repeal? A civil war?

 

[Jack Davenport]

Tempting.
There are a number of trails I could see leading to that not happening.
I'm glad you didn't offer me this bet after the first republican debate in 2016. I'd have wanted to increase it to 10K ... :wallet:



So what do you envision happening within the next decade? Failed attempts at repeal? A civil war?

Democrats will have to control both houses and the White House to attempt sweeping unconstitutional gun legislation. Then the makeup of SCOTUS plays a role. If the left were successful in both legislation and a liberal majority court, enforcement of gun laws would lead to civil war. Yes.

No way a repeal makes it through state ratification.

 

[bodie54]

Democrats will have to control both houses and the White House to attempt sweeping unconstitutional gun legislation. Then the makeup of SCOTUS plays a role. If the left were successful in both legislation and a liberal majority court, enforcement of gun laws would lead to civil war. Yes.

No way a repeal makes it through state ratification.

So in the end I guess we can agree the 2nd amendment is safe.

 

[Jack Davenport]

So in the end I guess we can agree the 2nd amendment is safe.

That was never the argument. The argument was over ambition by the left.

 

[bodie54]

Well, you're still wrong about that. But you seem to need to believe it, so :dunno: