Politico: Trump impeached? You can bet on it

[brooklynite]

There’s already talk of impeachment, just three weeks into Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency. In fact, many are already betting on it.

Gambling houses all over the world are taking in action on whether Trump, inaugurated just last month, will resign or be impeached. And the odds aren’t as long as you might think.

Ladbrokes, the British oddsmaking giant, has Trump’s chances of leaving office via resignation or impeachment and removal at just 11-to-10, or just a little worse than even money. The odds of Trump being impeached this year in the House of Representatives are only 4-to-1, according to the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, despite GOP control of the chamber. You can win $180 on a $100 bet with Bovada, the online gaming site, that Trump won’t make it through a full term — though the bet is off if Trump passes away during the next four years.

All in all, Trump has meant big business for the international gambling industry. There’s always been betting on politics — mostly as a novelty around election season — but professional bookies say Trump’s unlikely victory and tumultuous transition mean that gamblers are jonesing to wager on his presidency.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-impeachment-bets-234931

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Given the Pence nightmare, there are only two reasons I will like an impeachment

1. will make nuclear war a little less likely, a little

2. watching this criminal, this liar, this horrible horrible man meltdown due to impeachment, would be wonderful

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. If they can only take Ryand and McConnell down with him. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Ryan lives to do two things, take our Medicare and Social Security, and until he does

he will not rest.

[bdamomma]

16. Ryan won't rest if he takes

down Medicare and SS his constituents will never let him forget.

Unless he has that mentality of "picking yourself up by the boot straps" isn't that these white repigs believe in.

[Eliot Rosewater]

18. Problem is he will blame liberals. He will take everything and each time

say he had no choice, liberals designed the program so poorly he had no choice.

He will do it, they will buy it.

[Laffy Kat]

7. Ain't that the truth.

Would love to see him shamed from the WH. Hopefully jailed as well.

[backscatter712]

15. We need to make sure the impeachment hurts the entire GOP.

If we put Trump like an albatross around the GOP's neck as he's removed from office, then even if Pence replaces him, he'll have much less power.

[Eliot Rosewater]

17. Great point. What do we know about Pence and

fuckface's supporters?

Pence hates gay people, so do the supporters.

Pence hates black people, so do the supporters.

Pence wants to take away his supporters Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

Now, can we show them this somehow? We cant survive if these supporters dont start waking up, I just dont see how.

[KentuckyWoman]

4. No chance in hell.

They may hospitalize him or they may do away with him but they won't impeach him.

[2naSalit]

11. I think the latter is most likely, which would

be the one and only public service they could be credited with.

[meadowlander]

13. Yes, and they'll make it look like the democrats did it

so that they can harness the energy from his martyrdom.

It's the only scenario that extracts the Republican party from this mess with a shred of credibility left.

[jeanmarc]

5. Ladbrokes needs to account for spineless GOPers

No way I'm making an even money bet on impeachment. I guess throwing in resignation does sweeten the bet, but I can see the Donald just never doing the job and never quitting, kind of like he's doing right now.

[brooklynite]

14. Probably why it's a safe bet to take...

[Laffy Kat]

6. Can't happen fast enough, IMO. nt

[Orsino]

8. There's been talk of impeaching Hillary Clinton for a quarter-century or more.

Impeachment seems an appropriate remedy for a Trump presidency, but I'd be happy just to see a majority in Congress begin taking his offenses seriously.

[libtodeath]

9. Repuke traitors in congress will never do it.

[yuiyoshida]

12. This! The House and Senate is OWNED by the Republicans...

No way will they let this happen. Trump is a DISTRACTION. WHILE he is doing his antics, they are DISABLING THE GOVERNMENT on their own terms.

[Initech]

10. He probably could given his "diet".