Hi there! So, did you watch the presidential debate last night? I bet you did…
This is a perfect time to provide you with an interim report on the status of our STEEMBET on the outcome of the US Presidential Election.
Please note that you can still participate in the bet, by clicking here and upvoting both the post AND ONE of my comments which state the possible outcomes.
VOTES
So far, the post has received a total of 117 votes. As for the bet outcomes:
- CLINTON NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Total votes: 6. Qualifying votes: 5 ( @kimal73, @telos, @relativelyboston, @ivand83, @pataxis),
- TRUMP NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Total votes: 14. Qualifying votes: 12 ( @steempower, @ajvest, @gregory-f, @jennane, @dahaz159, @cryptohead, @stevescoins, @pollux.one, @keverw, @rada, @iggy, @wawacoffee),
- NEITHER OF THE ABOVE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Total votes: 4. Qualifying votes: 2 ( @nonlinearone, @mammasitta)
If you think you should be in the list of qualifying voters and you are not, please check if you have upvoted the post AND upvoted ONE AND ONLY ONE among the comments describing the possible outcomes AND you currently hold status 35 or higher.
For example, @writing currently doesn’t qualify because of status, but he eventually will if he attains status 35 before the end of the bet, while @alaqrab doesn’t qualify because he did not upvote the main post, which of course he can still do!
JACKPOT
The post has earned so far 4.461 SD and 4.752 STEEM. These funds have been transferred to the @steembets account and the SDs are being converted to STEEM using the internal 7-day procedure, in order to obtain an aggregate STEEM-only jackpot.
Based on current qualifying votes, the jackpot will be shared among 5 people if Clinton wins, among 12 people if Trump wins, or among 2 people if neither wins.
I listened to the debate and was disappointed in both candidates for different reasons. Trump was rude and did not answer the questions much of the time and Clinton failed to build a positive vision for her candidacy in a substantive way. All in all though I as an elder female who has been watching the decline of our society since the 70's because of short sighted, principle free, selfish, mysogonist, science denying, planet destroying conservative 'values' old white men who care for nothing but being ideologically supreme, no matter the cost to humans or the planet...... I know that Clinton will do less damage to our current society than Trump. She actually cares about people and the planet, maybe not as much as I would like, but more than Mr. Trump cares about anything other than his own 'brand'. I do not trust Trump to be a rational Commander in Chief or an adequate overseer of our Justice system, Public land protector, Leader of Education, or to invest in an equal and just society that values all it's people and environments and thinks about and acts to create a good society for our grandchildren to be able to thrive in....... ALL our grandchildren, not just wealthy white off spring, they don't need anymore priveleges, we must create an equal start for ALL our children.... Invest in stable nurturing environments for all children, support families, educate for the 21st century, invest in our collective future not just memememememymymymymymy. It takes a village, to raise children, care for elders and nurture our common environment..... my pov. oc
I had a choice of listening to the debate or cleaning up some baby vomit in the nursery.
I decided the vomit would be more entertaining.
I watch this election from another country so I don´t have direct knowledge or perception of all the candidates´ shortcomings, mistakes, etc. Broadly speaking, I feel this is yet another instance of "choosing the less detrimental one", which unfortunately is an attitude that most people in most countries deem appropriate when elections approach. Would a total boycott be a more useful attitude? Don´t know. Anarchy is a great concept, but I feel the most fruitful approach to instil "anarchy" into the system is acting from the blockchain side, building decentralized economic actors, than from the election side. At least at this stage.
No, I joined in #BOYCOTTHEDEBATE because I'm absolutely SICK of the MSM controlling the narrative. In fact, the name recognition generated by the MSM is the reason these candidates got elected by their parties (plus a ton of shady shit against Bernie.)
All Hail the US-MEDIA-In-Chief.
Edit: Clinton is the chosen candidate - Trump is just a tool in her
campaign.coronation.