Republican insiders watching President Donald Trump’s grip on power slip ahead of the midterms have started to use burner phones while it’s believed that some staffers are wagering on prediction markets, according to a report.
Polymarket, an online prediction market platform, has suggested as of Tuesday that Democrats have an 84 percent chance of taking control of the House and 51 percent chance of winning back the Senate, The i Paper reported. Democrats need three House seats and four Senate seats to flip Congress to blue.
Trump’s dropping approval rating and the Iran war have left Republicans increasingly concerned about November.
Now this is the kind of perverse incentive I can get behind! Bet against the GOP and then do your best to make it happen from inside!
Every career political person who exists inside the middle of the government system is like this … they really don’t care what party is in power, they just hedge their bets on what’s going to happen in the next year or two in order to plan for their exit or continued support.
The Fourth Reich could move in, call for martial law, start up concentration camps, begin WWIII and take power over the United States government and these government people would figure out ways to squeeze themselves somewhere into the system and keep their job.
Same thing happened in 1930s Germany … many or most Germans probably didn’t like what was happening but they figured if they just stuck under the radar, they’d keep their jobs, make money, feed their family and wait it out … then when the war changed everything, they were at the front of the line to figure out ways to get back into the same government positions and keep doing what they always did before.
