This is pretty hilarious…. In case you don’t know, Elon Musk has the sense of humor of a junior high boy, and I’ll take it! We need more humor, especially these days. Elon made comedy LEGAL again on Twitter/X and I love it. But his particular sense of humor does rest roughly in the 7th grade boy level, with a particular obsession over the numbers 69 and 420, numbers Elon has even used in the past and caused him to run afoul of the SEC with this Tweet: Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2018 So 420 is a commonly known reference to smoking the hippie lettuce, which Elon has been known to do. Remember this? And then I’m not explaining what 69 means, figure that one out on your own! I’m trying to run a classy publication here! But Elon constantly jokes about both numbers and recently had this funny post saying we were only 2.42% until the “prophecy will be fulfilled”: Just 2.42% to go and the prophecy will be fulfilled https://t.co/f8VF9VvEr6 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2024 Gotta admit, that’s pretty funny! He posted it again yesterday: 69.420% coming soon https://t.co/Kq8a3Hdzfu — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2024 From yesterday, President Trump is down a bit on Polymarket…. Currently he’s at 64.3% odds of winning: And while he previously had all 6 swing states in his favor, Michigan has recently dropped back to the Communist: This was the report I brought you just five days ago: President Trump Hits New Record In Betting Markets, Now All Six Swing States Too! President Trump Hits New Record In Betting Markets, Now All Six Swing States Too! I have a fantastic news to share with you all... While the betting markets do not guarantee the results of the election, as the saying goes "the house never loses" and "Vegas is rarely wrong". So I do like to follow them, and the best place I like to watch is Polymarket. First up, we start with the big one, the betting odds for the Presidential Election, which now have President Trump in a commanding 65% to %35 lead: But that's not all.... The last time I checked, President Trump was trailing in two battleground states, Nevada and Michigan, but now he's leading in all six swing states -- many by extremely large margins -- look at Georgia: The only metric where he's not leading is in the expected Popular Vote Winner, but (1) that is irrelevant because only the Electoral College matters, and (2) I suspect when all the dust settles after the election, President Trump may just win this one too! But that's still not all.... Perhaps the best news of all is in the Balance of Power estimates. This is where we see if President Trump and the Republicans will face a divided Congress or whether we could have a clear mandate across the Presidency and both the Senate and House. And while the House is very thin margin right now, all three are currently tilting RED: Now let's go a little deeper into the story, because there is more at play here than just the stats. It appears a "whale" has been making very large bets recently for President Trump. In fact, CNBC reports a French trader has recently placed over $28 million worth of bets this week for President Trump: A stark shift toward former President Donald Trump on the political gambling platform Polymarket this month stoked scrutiny about four accounts that have collectively spent over $28 million betting on the Republican nominee to win the 2024 presidential election. Polymarket on Thursday confirmed what a number of experts have suspected: All four accounts are controlled by a single trader. A company spokesperson in a statement to CNBC described the whale as a French national with “extensive trading experience and a financial services background.” The statement said the trader’s accounts were funded from a “well-known centralized crypto exchange,” which other outlets have identified as the U.S.-based exchange Kraken. The company insisted that it has found no evidence that the trader is trying to juice Trump’s odds on the political betting market. An investigation involving third-party experts “to date has not identified any information to suggest that this user manipulated, or attempted to manipulate, the market,” Polymarket said. The New York Times, which reported Polymarket’s statement earlier Thursday morning, said the company worked with the investigations firm Nardello & Company. The scrutiny on the Polymarket trades comes as political betting markets have taken on a much more prominent role in the 2024 election cycle. Trump’s supporters have touted Polymarket’s widening odds gap with Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris as evidence that Trump’s support is growing — even though the shift diverges from most national polls, which show a neck-and-neck race, well within the margin of error. Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and one of the biggest financial backers of Trump’s White House bid, asserted on X, the social media platform he owns, that the betting markets are “more accurate than polls, as actual money is on the line.” Polymarket in Thursday’s statement emphasized that “prediction markets are not opinion polls—they measure the likelihood of an event occurring rather than the percentage of people who intend to take an action such as, in this case, voting on Election Day.” “Unfortunately, this fundamental misunderstanding is responsible for much of the misinformation about Polymarket and other prediction market platforms,” the company said. As of Thursday morning, the accounts’ total position on the presidential election bet was valued at about $28.6 million, according to Polymarket data. The four accounts — Fredi9999, Theo4, PrincessCaro and Michie — are among the top five holders on the pro-Trump side of Polymarket’s bet on who will win the race for the White House. The trader’s accounts have also bet over $7 million that Trump will win the popular vote over Harris. This brings up all sorts of questions.... Do these big bets mean the data is skewed unnaturally to President Trump?  Should the numbers not be trusted? Or perhaps if someone has $28 million to bet on something so speculative, should we assume this is a very smart person who has accumulated all this wealth and they're probably not frivolous enough to risk parting with that money unless they have an extremely high degree of confidence? Which do you think is more likely? And who is this French whale anyway? Forbes has some more information: The growing election betting platform Polymarket confirmed to several news outlets one person based in France is behind many of the recent wagers placed on former President Donald Trump returning to the oval office, putting to rest speculation about whether the “whale” placing multimillion-dollar bets on the election was illegally doing so stateside. A French national is behind four of the five biggest Polymarket bettors on a Trump victory next month, a company spokesperson told several outlets Thursday. Those four accounts – Fredi9999, Theo4, PrincessCaro and Michie – have a combined $28.6 million on Trump election bets, according to CNBC, making up four of the five largest holders of Trump victory shares. That makes up more than 1% of the $2.4 billion wagered on Polymarket’s $2.4 billion presidential election winner market. The big Trump backer is someone with “extensive trading experience and a financial services background,” a Polymarket spokesperson told Bloomberg, adding the trader “is taking a directional position based on personal views of the election.” The blockchain-based platform “has not identified any information to suggest that this user manipulated, or attempted to manipulate, the market,” the spokesperson added. Assisting Polymarket in the probe was corporate investigations firm Nardello & Company, according to the New York Times, which first reported the identity of the Trump whale.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions for the eighth time in franchise history. 

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Cookbook author Martha Stewart is very unhappy with the final version of her new Netflix documentary, “Martha,” claiming she made requests that director R.J. Cutler did not honor. “Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those,” the 83-year-old celebrity told The New York Times in an interview published Wednesday. “And he refused. I hate those last scenes. Hate them.” Stewart said she was happy with parts of the project, including the first half, but took issue with some elements that made the final cut. The TV personality especially didn’t care for how much of the documentary focused on her trial and time spent in prison for her involvement in an insider trading scheme.  MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “It was not that important,” Stewart told the outlet. “The trial and the actual incarceration was less than two years out of an 83-year life. I considered it a vacation, to tell you the truth… the trial itself was extremely boring. Even the judge fell asleep. R.J. didn’t even put that in. The judge was asleep at the bench. I wrote it in my diary every day.” The celeb called out other decisions, including Cutler’s choice not to include her grandchildren, or take most of the material used in the documentary from her personal archive. Stewart had also requested that the project include rap music. “I said to R.J., ‘An essential part of the film is that you play rap music.’ Dr. Dre will probably score it, or [Snoop Dogg] or Fredwreck. I said, ‘I want that music.’ And then he gets some lousy classical score in there, which has nothing to do with me,” she added. Even though she’s not happy with it, Stewart said she hopes the documentary will positively impact viewers. “So many girls have already told me — young women — that watching it gave them a strength that they didn’t know they had,” she told NYT. “And that’s the thing I like most about the documentary. It really shows a strong woman standing up for herself and living through horror as well as some huge success.” Cutler has yet to address Stewart’s criticisms but has said he’s “really proud” of the film. “I admire Martha’s courage in entrusting me to make it. I’m not surprised that it’s hard for her to see aspects of it,” the director said.

Several people were arrested in Los Angeles after the Dodgers won the World Series on Wednesday for the eighth time in franchise history. Following the win, crowds took to the streets, with some becoming violent and looting stores, ABC 7 reported. Six people were arrested after a crowd broke into a Nike store downtown and stole merchandise. A total of 12 people were arrested during the night. There was also video of people throwing objects at police officers after they were told to leave an area, the Associated Press reported. Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Officer Drake Madison told the AP that people were arrested for failing to disperse, receiving stolen property, and commercial burglary. Just after midnight, a “hostile crowd”  surrounded a city bus. Metro officials told ABC that the bus driver and five passengers on board were able to evacuate before the bus was set on fire. Fireworks set the bus on fire. pic.twitter.com/FDq5sqhtc7 — Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) October 31, 2024 “Metro is disappointed and angered by the senseless act of vandalism on one of our buses following the Dodgers World Series Win earlier this evening,” the agency told the outlet in a statement. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Even though a bus was set on fire, no arrests were made in that incident. MTA bus exploded. pic.twitter.com/D3EJEqF03X — Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) October 31, 2024 Several streets were also taken over downtown, forcing police to use less-lethal munitions to control the crowds that became hostile and violent, Madison told the AP. Madison added that over the next couple of days, police will try to identify who was responsible for additional crimes. The Dodgers will hold a parade on Friday to celebrate their win over the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series, the AP reported. The parade will be followed by a celebration at Dodger Stadium, but because of the timing of the events and inevitable downtown traffic, fans won’t be able to attend both events. The World Series began on a high note, with Freddie Freeman hitting a grand slam in Game 1 to give the Dodgers their first of three straight wins in the series. The Yankees won Game 4, but the Dodgers came back to clinch the series in Game 5. Freeman was named the series’ Most Valuable Player. The series was not without controversy, however. During Game 4, Yankees fans were ejected from the game for interfering with a catch made by Dodgers star Mookie Betts. Betts caught a foul ball hit by Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres, but a fan reached over the wall and tried to pry the ball out of Betts’ glove, The Daily Wire reported. Another Yankees fan then pulled on Betts’ arm, causing him to drop the ball.