# Weird things happening recently - maybe Trump will win? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796 "2016-11-06T10:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/1 "2016-11-06T10:44:46Z")
Some odd things have happened recently: [ul] [li]The Cubs win![/li][li]A British tennis player is now ranked World #1 (Go Andy!)[/li][li]The Bundy boys and their pals, who trashed federal property in full public view, get off scot free.[/li][/ul] These are things which are not meant to happen. Perhaps odd things, like their bad thing cousins, always come in threes and that is an end to it. Alternatively perhaps the planets have slipped out of alignment and strange is the new normal. I guess we shall find out after Tuesday… ---
**Author:** ![Toastmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Toastmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toastmaker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/2 "2016-11-06T18:16:32Z")
Yes. . odd things. I think very little of Trump’s personality but his election would be much better than Hillary Clinton assuming that job ! However, I think she’ll barely win and if she doesn’t - you can add Trump to your “odd stuff happening” list !! ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/3 "2016-11-06T18:47:52Z")
I’ve just checked carefully, and in the month preceding the last 5 presidential elections, nothing weird happened anywhere in the world. I think you must be right. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/4 "2016-11-07T00:29:14Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I’ve just checked carefully, and in the month preceding the last 5 presidential elections, nothing weird happened anywhere in the world. That in itself is weird, so he must be right! ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/5 "2016-11-07T00:32:31Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > That in itself is weird, so he must be right! But hang on, if a lack of weirdness is weird, don’t the weird precursors this time around signal a return to normality after the 5 prior anomalously weird-presursor-free elections? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/6 "2016-11-07T02:14:38Z")
Not only did the Cubs win but they beat the second-longest-WS-drought team, the Indians. I am pretty convinced the world’s gonna end, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/7 "2016-11-07T02:31:59Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I am pretty convinced the world’s gonna end, myself. My astronomy book says that a red giant will destroy the earth. A 'uuuuuge red giant! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/8 "2016-11-07T06:05:12Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > My astronomy book says that a red giant will destroy the earth. A 'uuuuuge red giant! Not Orange? We might just be Okay. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/9 "2016-11-07T12:42:17Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Not only did the Cubs win but they beat the second-longest-WS-drought team, the Indians. An even longer losing streak fell on Sat 5th Nov. [Ireland beats New Zealand at rugby (union) for first time in 111 years](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ireland-beats-new-zealand-at-rugby-for-first-time-in-111-years/) at Soldier Field, Chicago and ended the All Blacks’ record run of 18 straight test wins. The world has certainly (temporarily) ended for the Kiwis. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/10 "2016-11-07T13:29:02Z")
We’ve already had the Brexit disaster, the Colombian vote against the FARC peace treaty, and other “no way!!” type of moments this year. Heck, David Bowie died. I will be curled up in a fetal position, whimpering, until all of this is over. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/11 "2016-11-07T19:03:55Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > [Ireland beats New Zealand at rugby (union) for first time in 111 years](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ireland-beats-new-zealand-at-rugby-for-first-time-in-111-years/) at Soldier Field, Chicago and ended the All Blacks’ record run of 18 straight test wins. A friend went to Chicago for that match and ended up also experiencing the aftermath of the Series. What a weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-happening-recently-maybe-trump-will-win/770796/12 "2016-11-07T20:20:12Z")
I guess it’s already old news, but let’s not forget that Leicester City are the EPL champions.