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So, is it possible to buy an insurance policy that would pay out in the event of Trump being elected.
We've booked flights to the USA next year and just say he was elected and the country turned to sh*te, I'd rather not go.
I'm guessing that the premium would be the prohibitive factor, and as stated in the title I'm only half serious just wondered if it was possible
Just go to the bookies and put on a bet that will pay out the equivalent of your holiday value if trump wins
The issue would be the subjectivity of 'shit'. Lloyd's of London specialise in random insurance like this, but it would need defining what the grounds for a claim would be.
Yeah I had wondered about that as another option!
They're not going to vote him in though.... Are they??
You can't really insure against you deciding you'd rather not do something
BoardinBob has the best idea.
You can't really insure against you deciding you'd rather not do something
This +1, America will still be the same before/if/after Trump. Like Brexit, unless you go looking for them deliberately you'll probably never find anyone who'll vote for him.
Just go to the bookies and put on a bet that will pay out the equivalent of your holiday value if trump wins
That's basically how insurance works anyway, so you'd probably get the same price.
If Trump wins not much is going to happen by next Summer, he would only take over in January.
The cost of outting a bet on Trump winning is going to cost nearly as much as the holiday, it won't work as "insurance"
You'd be better off buying cancellation insurance and then being unable to go for some reason
just say he was elected and the country turned to sh*te, I'd rather not go.
How much worse do you think it could get?
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[quote=sturdylad said]They're not going to vote him in though.... Are they??
My American wife was adamant about this.
Until we voted for Brexit, now a lot of Americans who follow world affairs are pretty scared about what the unintelligensia will do over there too. It could happen.
So what if Hillary gets in and the country turns to shit?
I don't fully understand US politics and how it works but I'm reliably informed that the US President has less power than our PM. I don't think the US President has any power whatsoever to do something unilaterally unlike our PM and has to get everything through both houses before it can be implemented. Whereas our PM can take the country to war without even taking it to a vote in Parliament. So even if Trump gets in and tries to implement some of the hare-brained schemes he's waffled on about in the campaign he is unlikely to get most of it actually through both houses. I don't think even most Republican Senators actually believe in what he's threatened to do if he gets into office. I think in both cases it is a case of the least worse out of a bad bunch of candidates. US politics seems to be suffering the same problems UK politics is suffering. Who in their right mind would choose to be a politician these days due to the battering they get in the press and from the public. It's a risky business. So we're left with the dross who have nothing better to do.
We're supposed to be going to the States next summer, to Washington DC, New York and North Carolina.
I think it'll be scarier over there if Trump loses, because all the crazies will be angry.
Yeah but at least you'll be away from the crazies here when they work out that brexit isn't going to happen 🙂
But American crazies are armed...
...you'll probably never find anyone who'll vote for him.
We were in a bar in the US in August playing pool with a couple of guys and got onto the subject, they were pro-Trump, because he wouldn't mess with the second amendment. But it's ok, they had surrendered their guns on the way into the bar.