tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post5564489083567878586..comments2024-03-15T03:20:38.106-05:00Comments on Brains and Eggs: Is it too soon to gamble on 2020?PDiddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-36980047310663141852018-06-02T22:45:19.619-05:002018-06-02T22:45:19.619-05:00Ahh, i thought you were originally excluding super...Ahh, i thought you were originally excluding superdels on the first offer. If you weren't, and Ted still thinks that's unfair?Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-72521851646571136352018-06-02T18:09:09.113-05:002018-06-02T18:09:09.113-05:00Ted: If I want to donate money to a worthy cause, ...Ted: If I want to donate money to a worthy cause, it would be Puerto Rico and not you. There is nothing unreasonable about a straight-up, head to head bet as I proposed.<br /><br />You're just too chickenshit to take Biden, I guess.<br /><br />Gadfly: I wasn't excluding superdelegates in the first offer to Ted.PDiddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-2040755453385958132018-06-02T16:43:21.833-05:002018-06-02T16:43:21.833-05:00P-man, you're saying Biden vs. Bernie, straigh...P-man, you're saying Biden vs. Bernie, straight up odds, but the previous caveats, like excluding superdelegates? I'm down for that one, too.<br /><br />And, Ted, while you're here, feel free to answer my second comment, about the DNC considering violating at least the spirit of the First Amendment, and the body of the Constitution's "no religious test for office."Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-10253221425442558592018-06-02T13:32:17.786-05:002018-06-02T13:32:17.786-05:00You may be a high-roller, but I'm not. Let me ...You may be a high-roller, but I'm not. Let me know when you're ready to be reasonable.Ted McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15035498835671628943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-46479031805084918852018-06-02T13:00:33.123-05:002018-06-02T13:00:33.123-05:00You were the one so sure your candidate would win....<i>You were the one so sure your candidate would win.</i><br /><br />'Am', not 'were'.<br /><br /><i>I don't have a candidate yet.</i><br /><br />I could believe that if you didn't pimp Creepy Uncle Joe every other day.<br /><br /><i>I just think there's too many Democrats angry with Bernie for him to win.</i><br /><br />This is the first thing you've written that I agree with. But perhaps you should be <a href="http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2018/05/wearisome.html" rel="nofollow">reading Kuff, or the little old lady at the Beauty Shop</a> more often. She says that's fake news. And she and her husband are TDP officials (or used to be; certainly better connected than you or I).<br /><br />I think Democrats -- like you, for example -- are indeed carrying an unreasonable and unhealthy amount of bitterness toward the most popular politician in the country. So I think you've a point. You may even be correct. Which is why the odds should be in my favor.<br /><br /><i>How about keeping it simple. If Bernie wins, I pay you $40. If he loses, you pay me $40. If he doesn't run, the bet is off. Remember, I'm a retired guy living on a small fixed income.</i><br /><br />Ted, I suppose you don't know this about me: I'm a player. But instead of bragging, let me just say that the only way you'll get even money is to pick a horse. My horse against the field rates no less than 7-1, which <a href="https://www.paddypower.com/politics?tab=usa" rel="nofollow">I can get right now across the pond</a>.<br /><br />I should get half that, 3-1, to make this H2H worth my money. But because, you know, you're a low-roller on a pension ...<br /><br />Here's simple: You take Biden -- who's leading in the poll cited, whom (you have already blogged this) you think would defeat Sanders head-to-head in a polling matchup ... I'll take Bernie and we're on. Same restrictions apply. For the D nomination in 2020. And no money changes hands until that is determined. You good to go now?PDiddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-23166883330393831962018-06-02T10:06:50.256-05:002018-06-02T10:06:50.256-05:00You were the one so sure your candidate would win....You were the one so sure your candidate would win. I don't have a candidate yet. I just think there's too many Democrats angry with Bernie for him to win. How about keeping it simple. If Bernie wins, I pay you $40. If he loses, you pay me $40. If he doesn't run, the bet is off. Remember, I'm a retired guy living on a small fixed income.Ted McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15035498835671628943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-47216520927597025492018-06-02T09:26:30.193-05:002018-06-02T09:26:30.193-05:00So ... not that confident about "Never",...So ... not that confident about "Never", eh? LOL<br /><br />I thought you'd see this as an easy 50 clams, Ted. Care to counter or are we done with this charade of yours?PDiddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-30657438349384482192018-06-02T01:29:58.610-05:002018-06-02T01:29:58.610-05:00So, I'm supposed to bet $1000 to win $50? No w...So, I'm supposed to bet $1000 to win $50? No way. Ted McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15035498835671628943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-39735282523752429492018-06-01T20:33:22.637-05:002018-06-01T20:33:22.637-05:00Additional re Ted — as another secularist, that h...Additional re Ted — as another secularist, that he stuck by Hillz even with the DNC wanting to smear Sanders in the south as an atheist, which he ain't ... is, what, a "tell"? A tell that he's locked into DNC talking points, period.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-30781913391174232018-06-01T13:17:12.523-05:002018-06-01T13:17:12.523-05:00Hellz yes I want in on that bet and just told Ted ...Hellz yes I want in on that bet and just told Ted so, along with telling him, as you did, that Bernie's a real Dem. http://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2016/03/stop-bernies-not-democrat-bs.html<br /><br />On the age issue, totally with you, and wrote about that shortly after the 2016 dust settled. Either Bernie or Biden would be older in 2020 than the Schmuck Talk Express was in 2008. As old as Reagan was when his second term ended.<br /><br />On superdelegates, the Snooze's Leubsdorf just had a column defending them the other day. Funny how, even with Trump, nobody in the GOP is calling for superdels.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.com