Posted on 01/23/2017 11:30:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Bookies such as Paddy Power and William Hill are refusing to give a price on Trump being killed.
Fancy a flutter and want odds on Donald Trump to be assassinated? Well, you won't get them.
Around the time of Trump's inauguration as US president, there was a spike in searches for odds on his assassination. Some punters were even asking bookmakers on Twitter for odds on Trump to be killed before the end of his term.
But they didn't get any odds. Most were ignored, some got replies say they do not offer odds on things like that. The Betfair account flat out told one guy "no" when he asked for odds on Trump to be assassinated at his inauguration. So why can't you get them?
It's obvious, really: would you want to be the bookmaker known for offering odds on someone being murdered? It doesn't matter who it is, or how unpopular they are, it's pretty appalling taste.
And it would be terrible marketing. Even for a bookie that courts controversy like Paddy Power, known for its close-to-the-bone adverts, creating a betting market on someone's death would be way too far.
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"Even bookmakers have parameters of good taste," said Graham Sharpe, spokesman for William Hill. "Such a market would breach them. I cannot imagine why anyone would ever imagine we would accept such a bet."
But there are many less morbid ways you can bet on an early end to Trump's presidency. Betfair has a market on the year Trump will exit the White House. Ladbrokes has Trump at evens to leave office via impeachment or resignation before the end of his first term.
William Hill has it at 5/1 Trump will be impeached in his first term. Paddy Power has Trump to be impeached in his first term at 3/1, and 7/4 to not complete his first term in office.
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Let us continue to pray to Almighty God that He protect and prosper President Trump and Vice-President Pence, their families and their associates in the administration. Shadow them with your wings, O God. Keep them in your perfect peace. Amen.
They never had minds.
The Left is the true enemy of the nation.
And people were worried the whole time Obama was in office that some right-wing nut-job (their terms, not mine) would try something against their messiah. IIRC, the only one who got onto the grounds with a weapon was a left-wing nut-job...
My, these peace lovers are quite violent.
Removing the thread would be nice.
I'll go one better.....
The Left is the true enemy of the civilization.
Assassins can be assassinated preemptively.
One thing I will say. If President Trump were to be assassinated, it would be the start of a civil war that would result in the death of millions of Americans.
I didn't event quite enjoy watching the inauguration simply because I feared something terrible was going to happen
And then Pence would be President. He seems to set leftists off even more than Trump. Is that what they really want?
I believe God has protected Donald Trump and I pray for his ongoing protection.
If you don’t want to know what’s going on in the world, why are you here?
There is something wrong with International Business Times.
Here is what they did in 2015 (you can find it in FR):
1/2/2015
“In a stunningly dishonest, conspiracy-laden, and anti-Semitic article, the International Business Times accused Israel and the “Jewish people” for the horrific terrorist attack carried out in Paris yesterday....”
Odds of any bookies who took such bets, and of any leftist conspirators involved being instantly “terminated” if such a scenario occurred: 100%.
I wonder if the SS reads this site...they should, with all the nutty articles posted here...
Bookies have to be VERY careful about making bets that a bettor can actually act on (precisely why athletes are not allowed to bet on their own games).
I recall years ago there being much discussion about the prospects of an anonymous betting pool focused on assassinations, as a way of persuading hit men to take jobs. (Details escape me, been like 20 years.) For a bookie to take such a bet today would be tantamount to facilitating political murder: someone anonymously bets that a target will expire in a given timeframe, the bet is accepted (say, large numbers of Leftists chip in $1000 each on grounds that they’re betting he’ll live), hit happens, anonymous payout (Bitcoin, other arrangements), lots of feigned shock (and backroom partying) at the outcome.
He11 no those bets won’t be taken. If won, bookie gets charged with felony accessory to murder of government agent - goodbye.
Track records show that it is leftists who pull triggers in assassinations.
And just WHY are they bringing this up?
But michelle (michael) moore told us at the saturday woman’s rally that Vegas has set 4-to-1 odds against President Trump surviving for six months. S/he/it wouldn’t lie to us.
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