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Huh. One thing brought a smile to my face today, at least: realizing that when I totaled up my current savings, I forgot to include $125 I still had stuck in PredictIt, so it's effectively a windfall.

I made something like a 30% profit there -- by betting on the most cynical possible slate of "the GOP will do fuck-all to punish Trump." Which means there are people out there who actually thought they'd serve justice. Wow.

"No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses." -- HL Mencken, a real piece of shit who nonetheless got this one right

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