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Originally Posted by winn dixie
Not so fast. After reading the fine print. That bet was Biden v trumpf!
The bet was nullified when Biden dropped out.
Yssup is free and clear !
I'll say it for him!
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I'm not sure WD. What ICU wrote and Yssup booked was,
If Mr. Biden is sworn in as President, I will not contribute to this forum for ten days. I expect to hear that YR will agree to the same ten days of forum silence in the event that Mr. Trump is sworn in.
If you interpret that literally, at such time as Trump is sworn in, Yssup doesn't contribute for 10 days. And at such time as Biden is sworn in ICU doesn't participate. The fact that Biden withdrew is irrelevant. Maybe in fact that was part of ICU's reasoning. You had two old geezers running for president, and maybe ICU figured Yssup's old geezer would croak first.
Yes, perhaps there is some basis to declare the bet null and void. However, Yssup is an honorable man. If he owned casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey that went bankrupt and a little old lady lost her life savings in Yssup Casino bonds, I figure he'd make her whole, even if not required to do so by law. As such I suspect he'll honor the bet, even though he has an out.
Logic would dictate "the forum" refers to "The Political Forum." And so Yssup should be free to publish in the Sand Box and other areas of the site during the 10 days, and you and I and others should be free to follow him in those other venues. Perhaps ICU, in a spirit of magnanimity after Trump's victory, could clarify that's the case.
Then we could have a big Kumbaya moment! And that could be a harbinger of a bright future for America, where red and blue live together in perfect harmony! In separate states of course, and with separate systems of taxation and budgeting.
