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[Uncle Sparky]

[Dauphin]

I thought it was “****ing moron”.

[pchang]

Well, Rex Tillerson did call him an idiot.

[giblets]

Now if we could just get him into a spat with oil companies...

[Uncle Sparky]

Trump doing the right thing as an act of vengeance against Big Pharma for failing to announce a vaccine before the election.
Lower drug prices as an act of personal vengeance... could not possibly have written something like that five years ago. Now it’s ho-hum.

[Uncle Sparky]

While we are all enjoying ex-president Donald Trump's current tantrums, I think back to the mid 2000, when Apprentice 'star' Trump was nominated for (and lost) television's Emmy awards, twice. Remember how he whined about being robbed and cheated back then? I do.

And now, Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo is to receive a special Emmy for his CORONA-19 briefings earlier this year... Do you think Trump will offer him a congratulatory phone call?

[Dauphin]

Make Britain England again!

[pchang]

Make Britain, Britain again!

[Dauphin]

About 10% chance before 2025, 20% before 2030. I don't think it a particularly liquid market though.

[giblets]

Do the betting markets have Ireland being unified?

[Dauphin]

No deal, WTO terms, or Australia-style deal, whatever you call it, is the minor problem. It looks increasingly likely that Scotland will 'take back control', declare independence and rejoin the EU. The margin according to polls is about 10% to leave now, with betting markets saying a 50:50 succesful leave vote in the next couple of years (which includes a chance there is no vote).

A lot of that shift is driven by Brexit.

[Dinner]

It means WTO terms.

[giblets]

So is this a "no deal" brexit?

[Dauphin]

Well the U.K. sure has ****ed itself.

[Uncle Sparky]

'Prosper' is probably the verb form of 'Prospero': a half mad wizard exiled to a bleak island far from civilization