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AleisterCrowley
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Re: Trump

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Postby AleisterCrowley » January 20th, 2017, 8:47 am

What worries me is, he appears to be a bit, well, impulsive
On the other hand, I remember lots of people predicting Reagan would be a disaster, but he ended up being a pretty reasonable president

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Re: Trump

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Postby bungeejumper » January 20th, 2017, 9:21 am

Drain the swamp? Or swamp the drain?

I don't bet, so I don't necessarily understand everything, but I see that Paddy Power are offering 4/1 on an impeachment in the first six months. And even Ladbrokes are evens on an impeachment during the first term.

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Re: Trump

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Postby Biggles » January 20th, 2017, 1:36 pm

bungeejumper wrote:Drain the swamp?

I never did understand what that phrase meant, but his fans appeared to lap it up.

Originally I thought it was vaguely something to do with getting rid of establishment figures, graft, nepotism etc but, as he's appointed all his relatives to government posts and completely got rid of his business interests (to his family), I'm now completely unsure what he meant.

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Re: Trump

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Postby Biggles » January 20th, 2017, 1:46 pm

bungeejumper wrote:I don't bet, so I don't necessarily understand everything, but I see that Paddy Power are offering 4/1 on an impeachment in the first six months. And even Ladbrokes are evens on an impeachment during the first term.

Never mind that, way too bureaucratic and time-consuming; where can I get good odds on an assassination within the first ten minutes?

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Re: Trump

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Postby dionaeamuscipula » January 20th, 2017, 3:10 pm

Biggles wrote:
bungeejumper wrote:I don't bet, so I don't necessarily understand everything, but I see that Paddy Power are offering 4/1 on an impeachment in the first six months. And even Ladbrokes are evens on an impeachment during the first term.

Never mind that, way too bureaucratic and time-consuming; where can I get good odds on an assassination within the first ten minutes?


Not sure you'd get good enough odds. Ladbrokes are only quoting evens on him leaving the presidency through resignation or impeachment in his first term...

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Re: Trump

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Postby AleisterCrowley » January 20th, 2017, 3:51 pm

They should invite Kissinger along as well - surprised he was still around when I checked - Secretary of State for Nixon!

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Re: Trump

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Postby swill453 » January 20th, 2017, 3:52 pm

Snorvey wrote:So at 4.45 we'll have 6 living US presidents .... Clinton, Bush, Bush, Carter, Obama and Trump. Is that a record?

It's happened three times before apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Presidents_of_the_United_States

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Re: Trump

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Postby robbelg » January 20th, 2017, 4:00 pm

Snorvey wrote:So if anything untoward happens along the Ladbrokes betting lines and mike pence gets in we'll have a record.....(do you still stay president if you're kicked out?)



No you get to be an ex-president ( a la Nixon )

But yes it will be a new record

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Re: Trump

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Postby swill453 » January 20th, 2017, 4:08 pm

robbelg wrote:But yes it will be a new record

Well that would be an interesting bet. Whether Trump gets kicked out before Bush senior pops his clogs.

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Re: Trump

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Postby AleisterCrowley » January 20th, 2017, 4:12 pm

Trivia question;
Who is the only person to have served as US Vice President and US President without being elected to either office ?

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Re: Trump

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Postby AleisterCrowley » January 20th, 2017, 4:16 pm

There were two good options - and you got the wrong one :)

Clue: post-LBJ

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Re: Trump

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Postby PinkDalek » January 20th, 2017, 4:18 pm

AleisterCrowley wrote:There were two good options - and you got the wrong one :)

Clue: post-LBJ


The Great Gerald then!

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Re: Trump

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Postby AleisterCrowley » January 20th, 2017, 4:19 pm

Himself
Spiro resigned and he got the VP job. Then Tricky Dicky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford
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Re: Trump

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Postby PinkDalek » January 20th, 2017, 4:23 pm

We seem to be watching this inauguration thing. At least some of them look like they've not had face jobs.

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Re: Trump

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Postby melonfool » January 20th, 2017, 4:24 pm

Snorvey wrote:
He's promised to make America great again.


No, grate.

And they're certainly grating on me!

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Re: Trump

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Postby UncleEbenezer » January 20th, 2017, 5:37 pm

Good grief! Isn't the inauguration supposed to be top-grade choreographed glitz?

So how do they have a complete non-singer delivering their national anthem? Was it some Trump family member?

I can kind-of see that kind of thing happening in a British occasion: the political correctness of featuring someone on the basis of their disability, misfortune, or something. But Trump as champion of Political Correctness?

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Re: Trump

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Postby UncleEbenezer » January 20th, 2017, 5:39 pm

Snorvey wrote:I was hoping that they'd give Kanye a turn at it.

Erm, Kenya just had a turn ...

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Re: Trump

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Postby swill453 » January 20th, 2017, 6:03 pm

Well it could have been a disaster...

...but fortunately they put Pointless on BBC2.

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Re: Trump

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Postby stooz » January 20th, 2017, 11:54 pm

Rebecca Ferguson was asked to sing but she said only if she could sing a protest song.

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Re: Trump

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Postby zico » January 21st, 2017, 12:11 am

Some good Trump inauguration cartoons in the link below. It's best to laugh at times like this!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01 ... president/


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