Interesting on the PredictIt stuff, I'm going to have to take a look relatively shortly to see if there's anything I can make some money on now. LOL. Seem to have missed the boat on that one. Making 9% (not sure if you're including CC rewards) is pretty nice, and there doesn't seem to be too many short term opportunities for that left. But that's life.
They finally paid out the popular vote bet, which means a few million bucks went from that into other bets bringing the prices on the easy ones up to $0.94-0.95, which makes it unprofitable for new deposits due to the withdrawal fees but acceptable to those who have funds already on the site.
In regards to NewsMax, pretty sure they're just going to try to be a OAN type news source where the only thing they really try to do is spew conspiracy theories about random shit that conservatives are talking about that day. Kinda assuming that the whole business plan is to try to siphon off some of the die hard conservatives from Fox and use that as a springboard to grow. In the short term that works with NewsMax, and I also assume OAN, though data on their viewers isn't publicly available. Long term? Who the hell knows, it'll still be able to bring those die hard Trumpers if Trump continues to tweet about them as his preferred source.
I guess I'm expecting too much, but how long can you scream about the dumbest possible conspiracies without ever showing any proof. When Trump has to leave the White House and there is no promised SCOTUS intervention, what are Newsmax or OAN people going to say? SCOTUS controlled by Democracts? Wasn't nominating 3 new judges Trump's greatest achievement?
Seems like a completely unsustainable path of lies. Maybe the viewers don't really care as long as they hear what they want to hear.
Still kinda confused on how the betting fees and stuff work, am going to have to dive into that again one of these days. I know you have a post on it, I'm just a bit slow when it comes to remembering all the time.
But in regards to Newsmax or OAN -- I have no idea how they've even lasted this long. It's batshit crazy to me how you could listen to a channel right now that is telling you that Trump won the election, when he just literally didn't. They're talking about how SCOTUS is going to hand a win to Trump, when for years Conservatives have complained about judges getting too involved in stopping President Trumps EO's.
Doesn't really seem sustainable to me, though I've been wrong many times before.
Ah, well that's a way to make illegal immigration a major issue for 2024 once Coronavirus dies down in the next year or so.
