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Following the recent revelations about Donald Trump paying hush money to the porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their reputed affair, the marriage of Donald and Melania Trump has come under scrutiny. If you have no ethical or moral qualms about betting on the divorce of a couple then you might be interested in the above betting markets from Paddy Power.

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  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,809
    If you have no ethical or moral qualms

    I'm sure I have some hanging around somewhere, but they tend to get in the way.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,809
    But don't political wives (and it would usually be wives given female and gay leaders would be rare) tend to stick it out until after a term has ended when a scandal breaks?
  • brendan16brendan16 Posts: 2,315
    HIllary never left Bill despite all his alleged philandering - are we really now reduced to betting when Melania might leave Trump?

    I rather doubt it - she is First Lady of the United States (not bad for a Model born in Slovenia) and has a young son. They may well divorce one day - but I doubt it will be while he is in the White House,
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 32,723
    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,334
    edited January 2018
    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No President has ever got divorced in office*, but two I think were married in office, both were widowers.

    *Reagan and Trump are the only Presidents who have been divorced, both were before they took office.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
  • EssexitEssexit Posts: 1,963
    kle4 said:

    But don't political wives (and it would usually be wives given female and gay leaders would be rare) tend to stick it out until after a term has ended when a scandal breaks?

    I'd be wary of using any 'don't/doesn't...tend to...?' statements in relation to the Trump presidency.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,334
    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    Until Trump.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,374
    kle4 said:

    If you have no ethical or moral qualms

    I'm sure I have some hanging around somewhere, but they tend to get in the way.

    Someone asked me the difference between ethics and morals.

    I replied that there isn't a TV programme called 'The Only Way is Morals'.

    That's the sort of insight you get by studying PPE.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    Until Trump.
    Indeed.
    Wonder if the prospect of breaking yet another mould tempts him ?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,334
    SandyRentool said:

    kle4 said:

    If you have no ethical or moral qualms

    I'm sure I have some hanging around somewhere, but they tend to get in the way.

    Someone asked me the difference between ethics and morals.

    I replied that there isn't a TV programme called 'The Only Way is Morals'.

    That's the sort of insight you get by studying PPE.
    Bah, Ethics is a county down South, full of chavs who look like they have been gang banged by wotsits.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    SandyRentool said:

    kle4 said:

    If you have no ethical or moral qualms

    I'm sure I have some hanging around somewhere, but they tend to get in the way.

    Someone asked me the difference between ethics and morals.

    I replied that there isn't a TV programme called 'The Only Way is Morals'.

    That's the sort of insight you get by studying PPE.
    Bah, Ethics is a county down South, full of chavs who look like they have been gang banged by wotsits.
    And 'Ee, thicks' how its inhabitants are described in Yorkshire ?
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 32,723
    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    Ta. Just for reference, when was the last unmarried US president? I assume there must have been one at some point in the last 200 odd years but as far as I know everyone post War has been married.
  • EssexitEssexit Posts: 1,963
    SandyRentool said:

    kle4 said:

    If you have no ethical or moral qualms

    I'm sure I have some hanging around somewhere, but they tend to get in the way.

    Someone asked me the difference between ethics and morals.

    I replied that there isn't a TV programme called 'The Only Way is Morals'.

    That's the sort of insight you get by studying PPE.
    Morals is what you need when playing Scrabble in Welsh.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    edited January 2018
    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    Ta. Just for reference, when was the last unmarried US president? I assume there must have been one at some point in the last 200 odd years but as far as I know everyone post War has been married.
    Can't remember. There was one allegedly gay unmarried one a long time back.

    (edit.. google... Buchanan.)
    https://www.theroot.com/could-a-bachelor-win-the-presidency-1790895071
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,510
    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,720
    FPT, spoken Latin, it really is a wonderful language to hear sung, or chanted, even though it sounds like you're summoning the devil.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    Sandpit said:

    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).

    Setting off a med media scramble to get the scoop....
    Rumoured current WH staffer.... and I guess if you look only at those who have been around for a while and not been sacked, that might narrow the field a bit... allegedly.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Good afternoon, everyone.

    Paddy Power the only bookie doing this?
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,720
    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 120,334
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Good afternoon, everyone.

    Paddy Power the only bookie doing this?

    As far as I am aware the famously Publicity Shy Paddy Power are the only bookies offering these markets.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,344
    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    Ta. Just for reference, when was the last unmarried US president? I assume there must have been one at some point in the last 200 odd years but as far as I know everyone post War has been married.
    Can't remember. There was one allegedly gay unmarried one a long time back.

    (edit.. google... Buchanan.)
    https://www.theroot.com/could-a-bachelor-win-the-presidency-1790895071
    Updike wrote a novel that centred around Buchanan.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_of_the_Ford_Administration

    (that's enough US literature - ed)
  • tysontyson Posts: 6,120
    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    That said....but apparently Ronnie was the only faithful husband whislt POTUS....

  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,510
    edited January 2018
    Nigelb said:

    Sandpit said:

    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).

    Setting off a med media scramble to get the scoop....
    Rumoured current WH staffer.... and I guess if you look only at those who have been around for a while and not been sacked, that might narrow the field a bit... allegedly.
    HH or KC then?

    It’s true that roughly every 15 years Trump replaces his wife with a 30 year old woman. In which case the former...
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Mr. Eagles, cheers.

    On the topic at hand, I suspect she'll stay but those odds are relatively good. If I had a PP account it'd be tempting but not a slam dunk.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,746
    Sandpit said:

    Nigelb said:

    Sandpit said:

    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).

    Setting off a med media scramble to get the scoop....
    Rumoured current WH staffer.... and I guess if you look only at those who have been around for a while and not been sacked, that might narrow the field a bit... allegedly.
    HH or KC then?

    It’s true that roughly every 15 years Trump replaces his wife with a 30 year old woman. In which case the former...
    https://qz.com/1182382/donald-trump-hope-hicks-and-sarah-huckabee-sanders-finally-a-photo-as-the-rumors-describe-it/
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 49,557
    Sean_F said:

    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.

    A man marrying his mistress is creating a job vacancy...

    It does boggle my mind that supposedly Christian Evangelicals can so enthusiastically support such an amoral sinner.

  • tysontyson Posts: 6,120
    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Mr. Tyson, Adones?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,510
    Foxy said:

    Sean_F said:

    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.

    A man marrying his mistress is creating a job vacancy...

    It does boggle my mind that supposedly Christian Evangelicals can so enthusiastically support such an amoral sinner.
    It always amazes me that such women marry a man that they *KNOW* is unfaithful to his wife.
  • tysontyson Posts: 6,120
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Mr. Tyson, Adones?

  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,602
    Unless Melania gets a marriage proposal from a multi millionaire with a net worth of at least $100 million and a penthouse in Manhattan, she will not be leaving Trump
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,602
    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    tyson said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    That said....but apparently Ronnie was the only faithful husband whislt POTUS....

    That sounds highly unlikely. Washington would probably have self combusted at the very suggestion.

    Though admittedly Jefferson set an early precedent for such things.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    HYUFD said:

    Unless Melania gets a marriage proposal from a multi millionaire with a net worth of at least $100 million and a penthouse in Manhattan, she will not be leaving Trump

    *Net* worth ?
    After/if Mueller concludes his investigation, that could conceivably be quite different...
  • tysontyson Posts: 6,120
    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    There must be more to life than having a flabby, old, orange piece of fat heaving and grunting ontop of you....the fact that Melania allows or has allowed Donald Trump to fuck her exposes the gross corruption at the heart of capitalism....

  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Mr. Sandpit, does it? Guaranteed money in a divorce, comfortable lifestyle without that.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,510
    edited January 2018
    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    If I were Melania, I’d make him choose:

    1. I’ll go now (or when you stand down) and quietly, in exchange for setting aside the prenup and we split on half of everything.
    Or
    2. I’ll be the bitch you can’t get rid of, in court and on the TV every day challenging everything you say and being a massive distraction to your life and work as President.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,154
    Nigelb said:

    tyson said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    That said....but apparently Ronnie was the only faithful husband whislt POTUS....

    That sounds highly unlikely. Washington would probably have self combusted at the very suggestion.

    Though admittedly Jefferson set an early precedent for such things.
    Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt led separate lives in the White House. Of Kennedy's use of his position to seduce teenage interns the less said the better.

    Would be surprised if Truman had a mistress while in the White House though.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    tyson said:

    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    There must be more to life than having a flabby, old, orange piece of fat heaving and grunting ontop of you....the fact that Melania allows or has allowed Donald Trump to fuck her exposes the gross corruption at the heart of capitalism....

    I don't think the sex life of billionaires says anything about capitalism whatsoever.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 124,602
    tyson said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    That said....but apparently Ronnie was the only faithful husband whislt POTUS....

    Ford, Truman, Carter, maybe Obama and George W Bush and Nixon too
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,154
    tyson said:

    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    There must be more to life than having a flabby, old, orange piece of fat heaving and grunting ontop of you....the fact that Melania allows or has allowed Donald Trump to fuck her exposes the gross corruption at the heart of capitalism....

    Since he has fucked every American in many and original ways over the last year why should the Slovenians be exempt?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,154
    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    That said....but apparently Ronnie was the only faithful husband whislt POTUS....

    Ford, Truman, Carter, maybe Obama and George W Bush and Nixon too
    Ford in fairness was not exactly there for very long. He didn't have much time for shenanigans (although that didn't stop Kennedy).
  • Ishmael_ZIshmael_Z Posts: 8,981
    HYUFD said:

    Unless Melania gets a marriage proposal from a multi millionaire with a net worth of at least $100 million and a penthouse in Manhattan, she will not be leaving Trump

    I doubt she would come away from a divorce with less than 5 times that if she retained a halfway competent lawyer.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,714
    Sandpit said:

    Foxy said:

    Sean_F said:

    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.

    A man marrying his mistress is creating a job vacancy...

    It does boggle my mind that supposedly Christian Evangelicals can so enthusiastically support such an amoral sinner.
    It always amazes me that such women marry a man that they *KNOW* is unfaithful to his wife.
    MONEY
  • The_TaxmanThe_Taxman Posts: 2,979
    tyson said:

    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    There must be more to life than having a flabby, old, orange piece of fat heaving and grunting ontop of you....the fact that Melania allows or has allowed Donald Trump to fuck her exposes the gross corruption at the heart of capitalism....

    I think I read somewhere that Trump insisted either orally or in legal contract that his wife maintain a particular body type during the marriage irrespective of whether she had children or not. If this is true, other stipulations might be he can do X , Y or Z with who ever he wants. Trump maybe rubbish at averting government shut downs but in his marriage he has all the power. So I doubt divorce is on the cards as they do have a young son as well.
  • Ishmael_ZIshmael_Z Posts: 8,981
    Philip_Thompson said:

    tyson said:

    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    There must be more to life than having a flabby, old, orange piece of fat heaving and grunting ontop of you....the fact that Melania allows or has allowed Donald Trump to fuck her exposes the gross corruption at the heart of capitalism....

    I don't think the sex life of billionaires says anything about capitalism whatsoever.
    Gorbachev was apparently asked what would have happened if the Russian rather than the US president had been assassinated in 1963 and answered, “I do not think Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Khrushchev.’’
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    ydoethur said:

    Nigelb said:

    tyson said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    That said....but apparently Ronnie was the only faithful husband whislt POTUS....

    That sounds highly unlikely. Washington would probably have self combusted at the very suggestion.

    Though admittedly Jefferson set an early precedent for such things.
    Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt led separate lives in the White House. Of Kennedy's use of his position to seduce teenage interns the less said the better.

    Would be surprised if Truman had a mistress while in the White House though.
    The wider Washington family did not always display his presidential starchiness:
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-washingtons-biracial-family-new-recognition-180960553/

    Hard to imagine that John Adams misbehaved in the White House.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,818
    SPD votes for coalition.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    Ishmael_Z said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    tyson said:

    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    There must be more to life than having a flabby, old, orange piece of fat heaving and grunting ontop of you....the fact that Melania allows or has allowed Donald Trump to fuck her exposes the gross corruption at the heart of capitalism....

    I don't think the sex life of billionaires says anything about capitalism whatsoever.
    Gorbachev was apparently asked what would have happened if the Russian rather than the US president had been assassinated in 1963 and answered, “I do not think Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Khrushchev.’’
    LOL. Hadn't heard that.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/polhomeeditor/status/955099987062480898
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Boo. SPD votes for Grand Coalition talks:
    https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/955100120214900736
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/955101169323528193
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,809
    williamglenn said:

    SPD votes for coalition.

    I feel for them. Punished badly after the last one, but the public not fans of not having one either, and no one really wanting new elections.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,154
    So the AfD will become the Opposition?

    That could be - interesting.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Mr. Doethur, does the Bundestag have an Official Opposition?
  • tysontyson Posts: 6,120
    Ishmael_Z said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    tyson said:

    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    There must be more to life than having a flabby, old, orange piece of fat heaving and grunting ontop of you....the fact that Melania allows or has allowed Donald Trump to fuck her exposes the gross corruption at the heart of capitalism....

    I don't think the sex life of billionaires says anything about capitalism whatsoever.
    Gorbachev was apparently asked what would have happened if the Russian rather than the US president had been assassinated in 1963 and answered, “I do not think Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Khrushchev.’’
    Ishmael_Z said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    tyson said:

    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    There must be more to life than having a flabby, old, orange piece of fat heaving and grunting ontop of you....the fact that Melania allows or has allowed Donald Trump to fuck her exposes the gross corruption at the heart of capitalism....

    I don't think the sex life of billionaires says anything about capitalism whatsoever.
    Gorbachev was apparently asked what would have happened if the Russian rather than the US president had been assassinated in 1963 and answered, “I do not think Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Khrushchev.’’
    If I could do one of those little yellow childish things with clapping hands I would do so.....
    If

    That said what ever happens to the ever so eccentric Plato?

  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 29,387
    tyson said:

    Nigelb said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Not up on US political history really so excuse my ignorance. Has any US president got divorced whilst in office?

    No, and Reagan was, I believe, the only divorcee.
    That said....but apparently Ronnie was the only faithful husband whislt POTUS....

    Phonecall for Tyson...they say they are from 'Carter-Ruck'!
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,818
    kle4 said:

    williamglenn said:

    SPD votes for coalition.

    I feel for them. Punished badly after the last one, but the public not fans of not having one either, and no one really wanting new elections.
    They could try to put all the blame on the FDP for blowing up the Jamaica deal for no good reason.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,154
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Mr. Doethur, does the Bundestag have an Official Opposition?

    Officially no. However, they will have certain key roles:

    http://www.dw.com/en/what-is-the-role-of-germanys-parliamentary-opposition/a-40615464
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,344
    The_Taxman said:


    I think I read somewhere that Trump insisted either orally

    I bet he did.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,809
    williamglenn said:

    kle4 said:

    williamglenn said:

    SPD votes for coalition.

    I feel for them. Punished badly after the last one, but the public not fans of not having one either, and no one really wanting new elections.
    They could try to put all the blame on the FDP for blowing up the Jamaica deal for no good reason.
    Sure, but that would not excuse them refusing a coalition now, even if they had assumed it would not be necessary had the FDP played ball. I don't know how the German public would react, but clearly the party is worried it would not be positively.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Mr. Doethur, cheers.

    Mr. Tyson, she was suspended (unsure if she still is) and has yet to return.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,720
    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    Smell the green aftershave.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,720
    Foxy said:

    Sean_F said:

    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.

    A man marrying his mistress is creating a job vacancy...

    It does boggle my mind that supposedly Christian Evangelicals can so enthusiastically support such an amoral sinner.

    Martin Luther championed Philip of Hesse when he committed bigamy.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,929
    Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    Sean_F said:

    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.

    A man marrying his mistress is creating a job vacancy...

    It does boggle my mind that supposedly Christian Evangelicals can so enthusiastically support such an amoral sinner.

    Martin Luther championed Philip of Hesse when he committed bigamy.
    Luther was a nutjob.

  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    The robot bet would have tempted me if it was before the end of Trump's first term but 2018 is just too soon.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,720
    williamglenn said:

    kle4 said:

    williamglenn said:

    SPD votes for coalition.

    I feel for them. Punished badly after the last one, but the public not fans of not having one either, and no one really wanting new elections.
    They could try to put all the blame on the FDP for blowing up the Jamaica deal for no good reason.
    There is no common ground between the Greens and FDP. The election result left no coherent majority in place.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    brendan16 said:

    HIllary never left Bill despite all his alleged philandering - are we really now reduced to betting when Melania might leave Trump?

    I rather doubt it - she is First Lady of the United States (not bad for a Model born in Slovenia) and has a young son. They may well divorce one day - but I doubt it will be while he is in the White House,

    The argument for doing it now, is Trump is currently rich and not in prison. It might be smart to get half his fortune, while he still has one...
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 49,557
    edited January 2018
    Sandpit said:

    HYUFD said:

    tyson said:

    Could anyone blame the very beautiful Melania leaving that repulsive fat tub of foul lard? How she could let him dip his geriatric dipstick anywhere near her defies logic, Trump makes Berlusconi or Prince Charles seem like sexy adonisis by comparison.

    What first attracted you to the billionaire Donald Trump Melania?
    If I were Melania, I’d make him choose:

    1. I’ll go now (or when you stand down) and quietly, in exchange for setting aside the prenup and we split on half of everything.
    Or
    2. I’ll be the bitch you can’t get rid of, in court and on the TV every day challenging everything you say and being a massive distraction to your life and work as President.
    She seems too much of a doormat for 2).

    She will put up with him, but live even more a separate life.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,761
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron-spotted-wearing-flat-11889482

    A member of the played a fookin Blinder
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,818
    Scott_P said:

    brendan16 said:

    HIllary never left Bill despite all his alleged philandering - are we really now reduced to betting when Melania might leave Trump?

    I rather doubt it - she is First Lady of the United States (not bad for a Model born in Slovenia) and has a young son. They may well divorce one day - but I doubt it will be while he is in the White House,

    The argument for doing it now, is Trump is currently rich and not in prison. It might be smart to get half his fortune, while he still has one...
    Trump would probably turn finding a replacement FLOTUS into a kind of reality show.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/polhomeeditor/status/955099987062480898

    That's not fair on Boris. He is simply staying the official government policy as said by Prime Minister May repeatedly from Florence onwards. Nothing has changed in that regard.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,809
    bigjohnowls said:

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron-spotted-wearing-flat-11889482

    A member of the played a fookin Blinder

    Even for a silly story is that news?!
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    malcolmg said:

    Sandpit said:

    Foxy said:

    Sean_F said:

    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.

    A man marrying his mistress is creating a job vacancy...

    It does boggle my mind that supposedly Christian Evangelicals can so enthusiastically support such an amoral sinner.
    It always amazes me that such women marry a man that they *KNOW* is unfaithful to his wife.
    MONEY
    POWER.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 53,254
    kle4 said:

    bigjohnowls said:

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron-spotted-wearing-flat-11889482

    A member of the played a fookin Blinder

    Even for a silly story is that news?!
    He's going to need to be a helluva lot more animated than that, if he wants a job there as Mickey Mouse......
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,761
    kle4 said:

    bigjohnowls said:

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron-spotted-wearing-flat-11889482

    A member of the played a fookin Blinder

    Even for a silly story is that news?!
    Not really but neither is a non existant list
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,818
    Philip_Thompson said:

    malcolmg said:

    Sandpit said:

    Foxy said:

    Sean_F said:

    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.

    A man marrying his mistress is creating a job vacancy...

    It does boggle my mind that supposedly Christian Evangelicals can so enthusiastically support such an amoral sinner.
    It always amazes me that such women marry a man that they *KNOW* is unfaithful to his wife.
    MONEY
    POWER.
    GLORY.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Nigelb said:

    Sandpit said:

    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).

    Setting off a med media scramble to get the scoop....
    Rumoured current WH staffer.... and I guess if you look only at those who have been around for a while and not been sacked, that might narrow the field a bit... allegedly.
    You might Hope so
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,761
    https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/955100333323247619

    Good news for Die Linke very bad news for SPD
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,818
    Charles said:

    Nigelb said:

    Sandpit said:

    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).

    Setting off a med media scramble to get the scoop....
    Rumoured current WH staffer.... and I guess if you look only at those who have been around for a while and not been sacked, that might narrow the field a bit... allegedly.
    You might Hope so
    We shouldn't listen to the word of some hick reporter.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Mr. Owls, I would've preferred Merkel to go, to be honest. Anyway, it may help the AfD as well.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,714
    williamglenn said:

    Philip_Thompson said:

    malcolmg said:

    Sandpit said:

    Foxy said:

    Sean_F said:

    I think Melania knew what she was marrying.

    A man marrying his mistress is creating a job vacancy...

    It does boggle my mind that supposedly Christian Evangelicals can so enthusiastically support such an amoral sinner.
    It always amazes me that such women marry a man that they *KNOW* is unfaithful to his wife.
    MONEY
    POWER.
    GLORY.
    Money normally gives you both those as a bonus.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    williamglenn said:

    Charles said:

    Nigelb said:

    Sandpit said:

    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).

    Setting off a med media scramble to get the scoop....
    Rumoured current WH staffer.... and I guess if you look only at those who have been around for a while and not been sacked, that might narrow the field a bit... allegedly.
    You might Hope so
    We shouldn't listen to the word of some hick reporter.
    There’s more than one... it should be Hicks
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 53,254
    bigjohnowls said:

    https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/955100333323247619

    Good news for Die Linke very bad news for SPD

    As some 40%+ of the SPD voting members are saying. That is not going to be a happy family.....
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,154
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Mr. Owls, I would've preferred Merkel to go, to be honest. Anyway, it may help the AfD as well.

    Is that a reflection of your current betting position, a reflection of the fact that Merkel looks time-expired or a bit of both?
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,720
    bigjohnowls said:

    https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/955100333323247619

    Good news for Die Linke very bad news for SPD

    Yes.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,069
    Mr. Doethur, betting position. I hedged, so I'm flat if she stays, but ahead if she goes.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,746
    williamglenn said:

    SPD votes for coalition.

    Not quite. SPD vote for talks about coalition.

    I've mixed feelings about this. I'm a Social Democrat and I think Europe at its best is basically a Social Democracy so I'd like to see Merkel (and particularly Schauble) fall. On the other hand I have a pile on Merkel as next Chancellor.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,864
    Sandpit said:

    Nigelb said:

    Sandpit said:

    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).

    Setting off a med media scramble to get the scoop....
    Rumoured current WH staffer.... and I guess if you look only at those who have been around for a while and not been sacked, that might narrow the field a bit... allegedly.
    HH or KC then?

    It’s true that roughly every 15 years Trump replaces his wife with a 30 year old woman. In which case the former...
    I think she has a bit more taste, to be honest.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,510
    rcs1000 said:

    Sandpit said:

    Nigelb said:

    Sandpit said:

    There was an astonishing interview by Bill Maher of Michael Woolf, author of the latest Trump book on Friday.

    Woolf basically said that Trump is having a current affair but he couldn’t back it up enough to publish it.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291225/Author-Michael-Wolff-implies-Trump-having-affair.html
    (I know it’s the Daily Mail but they’ve got the video that I know isn’t geoblocked in UK).

    Setting off a med media scramble to get the scoop....
    Rumoured current WH staffer.... and I guess if you look only at those who have been around for a while and not been sacked, that might narrow the field a bit... allegedly.
    HH or KC then?

    It’s true that roughly every 15 years Trump replaces his wife with a 30 year old woman. In which case the former...
    I think she has a bit more taste, to be honest.
    You’d Hope so.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    https://twitter.com/michaellcrick/status/955122523171061763
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,818
    Unanimous apart from his own vote.

    UKIP to the knackers yard.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,761
    On Topic

    I had to read the header twice to spot TSE's subtler than a subtle things joke!!!

    Must resume our dating now Mrs BJ is OK to be left for a few hours.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    Oh goody, looks like UKIP are going to give us more entertainment.
  • EssexitEssexit Posts: 1,963
    williamglenn said:

    Unanimous apart from his own vote.

    UKIP to the knackers yard.

    Sad to watch now. Farage should've stayed on with a view to disbanding the party on Brexit day.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,818
    Essexit said:

    williamglenn said:

    Unanimous apart from his own vote.

    UKIP to the knackers yard.

    Sad to watch now. Farage should've stayed on with a view to disbanding the party on Brexit day.
    If Farage does launch a new party it will be very interesting to see how he positions it. In fact probably the most important question in British politics over the next couple of weeks.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,761
    Richard_Nabavi said:

    Oh goody, looks like UKIP are going to give us more entertainment.

    UKIP's demise is excellent news for the Tories and makes Corbyn's job of becoming PM more difficult
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Scott_P said:

    https://twitter.com/michaellcrick/status/955122523171061763

    How are they supposed to live without him?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,809
    bigjohnowls said:

    Richard_Nabavi said:

    Oh goody, looks like UKIP are going to give us more entertainment.

    UKIP's demise is excellent news for the Tories and makes Corbyn's job of becoming PM more difficult
    I'd have thought it may be more difficult to predict - surely Tories have regained a lot of the former Tory UKIPers, Labour's position may be unclear but Corbyn is pretty Brexity, and in any case those remaining with UKIP at present might include a sizable number determined not to vote for one of the big two under any circumstances.
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