If (virtually) all US Presidents have been related, and – historically – the candidate with the most royal blood has won every US election since the country’s inception, then wouldn’t determining who has the most royal lineage between Camala and Trump foretell the outcome of the 2024 election?
Anyone have an idea of how to determine this?
raka_defocus on
Charlemagne is German, the germanic tribes are the bloodlines
Miner_Guyer on
If you assume 3 generations every 100 years and there’s 1200 years between now and Charlemagne, that’s 36 generations. Since each person has two parents and 4 grandparents, that logic says that a person would have 2^36 = 68,719,476,736 (68 **billion**) ancestors in 800 AD… compared to a world population of under half a billion.
Which is all to say that if you go back far enough, almost anyone can find a relation with European royalty at the time, it’s just a matter of finding the documentation to prove it to a reasonable degree. Hell, I’m reasonably sure that I’m a descendant of William the Conqueror.
As for the claim that the person with the most “royal genes” always wins the elections… I doubt that too, simply because that’s nearly impossible to quantitatively measure. Someone being related to Charlemagne would account for less than 0.0000000001% of their total bloodline. And where exactly does royalty end? Does a Duke count? A bastard child? The king of Wales?
before686entenz on
Rich people marry each other. It’s a small club. Queen Elizabeth 2 and her husband were only 4 generations apart.
Routine_Simple3988 on
“We don’t talk about Bruno” OP… 🥸
…I can tell by the dismissive tone and lack of earnest engagement by the gatekeepers. 😒
Dark_knightTJ on
except two
Aromatic-Leopard-600 on
Actually, with the exception of Martin Van Buren and Trump, all Presidents Are related. Though King John. I’m serious. Even Obama.
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If (virtually) all US Presidents have been related, and – historically – the candidate with the most royal blood has won every US election since the country’s inception, then wouldn’t determining who has the most royal lineage between Camala and Trump foretell the outcome of the 2024 election?
Anyone have an idea of how to determine this?
Charlemagne is German, the germanic tribes are the bloodlines
If you assume 3 generations every 100 years and there’s 1200 years between now and Charlemagne, that’s 36 generations. Since each person has two parents and 4 grandparents, that logic says that a person would have 2^36 = 68,719,476,736 (68 **billion**) ancestors in 800 AD… compared to a world population of under half a billion.
Which is all to say that if you go back far enough, almost anyone can find a relation with European royalty at the time, it’s just a matter of finding the documentation to prove it to a reasonable degree. Hell, I’m reasonably sure that I’m a descendant of William the Conqueror.
As for the claim that the person with the most “royal genes” always wins the elections… I doubt that too, simply because that’s nearly impossible to quantitatively measure. Someone being related to Charlemagne would account for less than 0.0000000001% of their total bloodline. And where exactly does royalty end? Does a Duke count? A bastard child? The king of Wales?
Rich people marry each other. It’s a small club. Queen Elizabeth 2 and her husband were only 4 generations apart.
“We don’t talk about Bruno” OP… 🥸
…I can tell by the dismissive tone and lack of earnest engagement by the gatekeepers. 😒
except two
Actually, with the exception of Martin Van Buren and Trump, all Presidents Are related. Though King John. I’m serious. Even Obama.