Posted on 11/16/2016 7:58:18 AM PST by Kaslin
The ones with “skin in the game” were the voters.
That he has a weekly column to fill if he wants to get paid.
I did see many references to foreign betting sites.
I love the smell of NeverTrumps crapping their pants in the morning!
But he didn’t scream, “Not my president” call for secession , assassination, or riot. What is wrong with him?
He is a libertarian jerkoff with crow shit on his chin. If he really paid attention to the betting market, he'd know that over the last week leading up to the election, 92% of ALL bets went to Trump.
They were all small bets, just like Brexit.
Okay, perhaps so.
The Stossel site is the one I was referencing, and it had way lopsided figures on it. I believe it’s this Stossel that was involved in it.
I could be wrong.
His comparison with “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”? is faulty.
One is about predicting the future the other is about knowledge of facts.
Stossel always did think he was the smartest guy in the room, maybe even the country.
Dear Mr Stossel, you were watching the wrong crowd. I watched every Trump rally from day one and I KNEW he would win. 100%
IMO, leveraging Betting Theory is more in line with the Invisible Hand of capitalism than it is with the “intelligence” of a crowd, which is quite a different thing. The “invisible Hand” uses knowledge held by large numbers of people using their own money to vote for what products in what volume they want to obtain.
The USS Scorpion was lost in 1968, and they had no idea of where to search for the wreck. They utilized a wide variety of methods to narrow the area and locate her, and one of those methods included betting by the various searchers on different scenarios to provide clues and data.
They used the same types of techniques to find the nuclear weapons lost when a B-52 and a KC-135 collided while refueling off Spain, and found those very quickly using betting techniques. They bet on wind conditions, currents, position and direction of the planes, and so on.
Pretty impressive stuff.
Stossel is one of the more benign ones.
Yet another finger-pointing, excuse making Yidiot. Get the EFF out of here you whiney, slimey, hook-beaked, skinflint, Clinton-sucking bastard! Screw your useless excuses for why you're a know-nothing piece of sh*t, just go flush your stink-stained gasser down the toilet!
What a vile chunk of human garbage wasting MY oxygen.
I would think someone with your brains would understand that the "Free market betting" sites are just poll sites.
And they are rigged by someone who is willing to dump a couple million into the pool. Do you think that if they are willing to spend millions on their candidate they are not willing to rig the betting odds?
Are you so removed from reality that you have some delusion that it is Joe Six-Packs that are making up the majority of the bets?
This is the problem with people who are enamored with labels rather then reality.
News Flash Stossel, The Democratic Republic of Wherever is neither a democracy or a republic.
Crony Capitalism is still socialism.
And election betting pools are just another propaganda tool.
“And they were all betting sites from overseas.”
Indeed. I actually simplified the analysis I posted. In reality, there was a bit more to the rigged odds than just crooked money, namely a LOT of stupid money was bet on Hillary, because the libs outside of the U.S. have an even more distorted view of U.S. news than we do, because THEIR media is even more distorted and biased than ours, first picking up the biased and distorted news stories from U.S. news sources, and then distorting and biasing THAT already distorted and biased news EVEN MORE before foisting it off on their own readers.
So I was betting against both crooked AND stupid money, with odds incredibly in my favor.
He posted the odds that were in favor for President elect Trump later on
Notice the times
Yes it was and I am not a libertarian fan, but John Stossel is my favorite libertarian.
Who says he bet on it? It was other fools who did. Maybe you was one of them, who knows?
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