The War Room Bet Thread

[Lead]

You seem pretty confident. Willing to make an av or sig bet? Loser takes an av of the winner of the presidential election.

Doubles down as the polls narrow

The thread plot thicken

 

[Anung Un Rama]

What's the details of said bet?

Jack believes the Clinton rhetoric that she is anti-TPP. I proposed an AV bet that Clinton would support TPP once elected.

 

[HereticBD]

You seem pretty confident. Willing to make an av or sig bet? Loser takes an av of the winner of the presidential election.

I'm only confident in the race being tight, and that it always has been. I don't for a second believe that Trump had a two point lead after his convention, that evaporated and turned into a double digit deficit after Clinton's convention, and now that lead has evaporated seemingly overnight, and now Trump is up by a few imaginary "points".

I was just teasing that guy. Personally, I think the polls are a bunch of bullshit(have said it from the outset), and I find it funny how the shoe is on the other foot, and the Libs are losing their minds over some stat made up for the media. Isn't it convenient how close the polls get, the nearer the main event showdown gets? Hmmm....

Sig bet? Ask me November 1st.

 

[Lead]

Jack believes the Clinton rhetoric that she is anti-TPP. I proposed an AV bet that Clinton would support TPP once elected.

He does? I thought I had a conversation about her pivoting on that for the primary because of the pressure with the public on trade lately and I thought he agreed she was for it. Maybe I took the lack of mention as confirmation mistakenly. How would you guys determine she supported it or didn't and in what time frame?

 

[Anung Un Rama]

He does? I thought I had a conversation about her pivoting on that for the primary because of the pressure with the public on trade lately and I thought he agreed she was for it. Maybe I took the lack of mention as confirmation mistakenly. How would you guys determine she supported it or didn't and in what time frame?

No, he has defended her platform and refused to acknowledge what everybody else has, that she flipped on TPP to counter Sanders.
If she didn't reverse her opposition to the TPP in 2 years I would concede.

 

[VivaRevolution]

He does? I thought I had a conversation about her pivoting on that for the primary because of the pressure with the public on trade lately and I thought he agreed she was for it. Maybe I took the lack of mention as confirmation mistakenly. How would you guys determine she supported it or didn't and in what time frame?

By not doing what Robert Reich is predicting she will do, which is publicly say she is against if asked, while using none of her bully pulpit or political machine power to oppose it.

She needs to use her bully pulpit to campaign against it, if she really is against it.

 

[Lead]

By not doing what Robert Reich is predicting she will do, which is publicly say she is against if asked, while using none of her bully pulpit or political machine power to oppose it.

She needs to use her bully pulpit to campaign against it, if she really is against it.

I'm just thinking of qualifications for a winner/loser here because politicians have a tendency to wiggle around questions which would make the premise of the bet fairly difficult if it all depends on a clear answer from one and also, you'd have to determine a time frame or limit and whether it factors in her possibly flipping back with a different comment.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

I'm just thinking of qualifications for a winner/loser here because politicians have a tendency to wiggle around questions which would make the premise of the bet fairly difficult if it all depends on a clear answer from one and also, you'd have to determine a time frame or limit and whether it factors in her possibly flipping back with a different comment.

I'll try to find the thread, but we were past that and haggling on the prize. I was pushing for an AV bet, he was hedging on a temporary WR ban (same duration as the AV bet).

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Just occurred to me. While the venerable @Lead banned bannings, he did not ban self-imposed exiles. That's a nice little loophole.

EDIT: Dafuq happened to the salad part?

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

I'm just thinking of qualifications for a winner/loser here because politicians have a tendency to wiggle around questions which would make the premise of the bet fairly difficult if it all depends on a clear answer from one and also, you'd have to determine a time frame or limit and whether it factors in her possibly flipping back with a different comment.

I nominate you as the arbiter of this bet

 

[Lead]

Just occurred to me. While the venerable @Lead banned bannings, he did not ban self-imposed exiles. That's a nice little loophole.

EDIT: Dafuq happened to the salad part?

It's true someone could uphold something on their own actions. The point was it won't be upheld by this thread if it involves lowering activity in the warroom (e-suicide, banning accounts, etc)

I've commented on this before but for some reason people on here have a similar experience to the Berenstain / Berenstein Bear phenomenon. My name has always been Lead yet people have a very clear memory of it having a second word attached to it. This is where it differs from poster to poster on what the word was. I see you thought it to be salad? I don't really have a solution to why this occurs other than maybe my username and account is so important, that it has created multiple alternate universes. That is my best guess.

Spoiler

 

[Lead]

I nominate you as the arbiter of this bet

I mean, the rules are clear in the OP. If Jack agrees, they will have to put it in the format suggested and then agree on the mod. You technically can determine the mod after the bet is over and there is a dispute but if there is a degree of subjectivity and you want to determine something like that early, you definitely can. Same rules apply for determining the mod though,

 

[Lead]

Hi @sodapopinski

Hi @DevilsLettuce

I have faith in the two of you to come up with bets for this thread so it doesn't reach 1000 posts with only a one way bet currently in play.

 

[in the]

I bet my life against another poster's life that Trump wins the election.

Loser must join ISIS and be martyred in the name of Imam Merkel.

 

[Lead]

I bet my life against another poster's life that Trump wins the election.

Loser must join ISIS and be martyred in the name of Imam Merkel.

We gotta be clearer with details here. What type of matyring would occur here. Can the person join from afar or must he travel to the Middle East. Will the more detailed I get with this trigger more red flags at the NSA? Does Merkel need to be present for this as well.

 

[in the]

We gotta be clearer with details here. What type of matyring would occur here. Can the person join from afar or must he travel to the Middle East. Will the more detailed I get with this trigger more red flags at the NSA? Does Merkel need to be present for this as well.

Mama Merkel just has to be in our hearts, just a notch below the Prophet (PBUH).

Any martyring, just as long as the death is fighting Dar al-Harb in the only caliphate in the world. Loser must travel to ISIS territory.

 

[Lead]

Mama Merkel just has to be in our hearts, just a notch below the Prophet (PBUH).

Any martyring, just as long as the death is fighting Dar al-Harb in the only caliphate in the world. Loser must travel to ISIS territory.

I think you're missing an opportunity here for a trial by combat involved in that bet.


I have a bet for you. I bet that you at some point will post something from twitter in said future. If I'm correct, you have to continue posting in the War Room.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

We gotta be clearer with details here. What type of matyring would occur here. Can the person join from afar or must he travel to the Middle East. Will the more detailed I get with this trigger more red flags at the NSA? Does Merkel need to be present for this as well.

Hey what happened to the salad ?

 

[in the]

I think you're missing an opportunity here for a trial by combat involved in that bet.


I have a bet for you. I bet that you at some point will post something from twitter in said future. If I'm correct, you have to continue posting in the War Room.

lol. Deal, I guess. I got so busy at work that I only posted on here about fantasy football. It was a nice break tbh.

 

[Lead]

Hey what happened to the salad ?

I've commented on this before but for some reason people on here have a similar experience to the Berenstain / Berenstein Bear phenomenon. My name has always been Lead yet people have a very clear memory of it having a second word attached to it. This is where it differs from poster to poster on what the word was, but most infer it was "salad" I don't really have a solution to why this occurs other than maybe my username and account is so important, that it has created multiple alternate universes. That is my best guess.