Why must evangelicals have all the fun in this department? Each of us makes predictions about the future when planning ahead or trying to invest our hard-earned dough, but some people do this on a professional basis (weather forecasters, financiers, actuaries, futurologists, science fiction writers, etc.), and sometimes they can be amazingly accurate. Let's make this an armchair sport regarding election outcomes and politics. A few years later, looking back, we'll be able to see how we do, and probably get a good laugh in the process. Remember to date your submission. I'll make mine soon.
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You don't have to be psychic to make correct predictions. The best way to predict the future is to look at the past. To make accurate predictions, all you need to do is predict a recurrence of something that has already happened numerous times.
I predict that in the near future, Donald Trump will say something utterly ridiculous, and his fans will applaud.
In the upcoming election, dozens of Republicans will lose, but will refuse to admit that they lost. They will make unfounded claims of voter fraud and cheating.
Also in the near future, I predict that there will be a mass shooting somewhere in the United States. Republicans will respond with "thoughts and prayers", and absolutely nothing else.
Next summer there will be record high temperatures, droughts, and several devastating wildfires. And many Republicans will continue to deny the existence of climate change.
One of the most accurate futuristic science fiction stories was a short story called "A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster. It's basically about the era of home computers and the Internet, and it was written in the 1940's!
When you have 30 minutes to spare, here is a dramatized adaptation from an episode of a weekly 1950's radio series called "Dimension X":
https://youtu.be/xhzcTmHB61I?t=31
I'm sure you'll agree that the accuracy of this story is astonishing.
The GOP will lose. Former RNC members are calling out DeSantis and Trump for being un-Christian. They have no platform except "repress people" and their tainted hate rallies are all they have left. They celebrated the attack on Pelosi's husband. Here is their new flag.
Nov. 6, 2022
I'm a pessimistic liberal, so I hope for the best but expect the worst. It's far better than being an optimistic liberal, which would mean being horribly disappointed time and time again. At least, being pessimistic means that when things go wrong, I can say, "I told you so!" and if anything goes the way it should, then I'm very pleasantly surprised. Being pessimistic also means that when things go wrong, I remain relatively unruffled, though I've been known to hurl caustic invective and half-eaten meatballs at the TV screen. So here's my gloomy predictions. I do look forward to the occasional pleasant surprise, but ... Murphy's Law rules.
US domestic:
In the coming election (Nov. 2022), the Republican Party will take control of Congress.
After the election, but before the "lame duck" session ends, there will be a last-ditch effort to indict Trump on various charges.
In 2023, the Supreme Court will, through its ruling on the Moore v. Harper case, make the "independent state legislature" theory the law of the land, thereby effectively making state legislatures the ultimate arbiters of all elections in their states and eliminating the power of the popular vote in presidential elections.
In 2023 and 2024, Congress will impeach Pres. Biden as "payback" for what happened to Trump, but the Senate still will not be able to convict and remove him.
In 2023, and 2024, Congress will also launch "investigations" on Hunter Biden.
Congress meanwhile will set up various committees to "investigate" and "verify" that the 2020 election was "stolen."
In 2023 and 2024, Trump will be convicted of one or another set of charges, whereupon the Republican-led Congress will seek to impeach relevant justices and DOJ officials.
In 2024, Trump will be named the Republican candidate for President, whether or not he has been convicted of a crime or is in the process of being tried.
He will also be elected president.
One of Trump's first acts after his re-election, if not the very first, will be to pardon all of the Capitol rioters.
In 2025, the new administration and Republican Congress will pass an anti-abortion law at the federal level.
In the same year, they will also introduce a bill to ban contraceptives, but it will not pass the first time. The bill will be repeatedly introduced thereafter, until it passes in the more distant future.
They will also gut Social Security or eliminate it entirely.
The new administration and Republican Congress, with Supreme Court approval, will designate Christianity as the state religion.
A ban on all immigration, either temporary or permanent, will be imposed.
The Republican Party, led by conservative zealots, will achieve complete domination, having redesigned the election system to make it impossible for them to lose Congress or the Presidency at any time in the foreseeable future.
By 2030, the world's first trillionaire will have emerged.
International (Asia):
China in 2024 will see the Republican victory as heralding a period of internal upheaval in the US, so it will launch into its final preparations for invading Taiwan.
China will invade Taiwan in 2027, one year before the end of Xi Jinping’s current term. President Trump will talk big and make a show of responding, but delay the actual deployment, giving the Chinese the advantage.
Republicans will try to pin the blame for the loss of Taiwan on Biden and any remaining Democrats.
During the invasion of Taiwan, any one of the "interested parties"—China, the US, or Taiwan itself—whether by accident of war or by deliberate action, destroy Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing facilities, thus plunging the world economy into a severe, prolonged recession, if not an outright depression, because the resulting shortage of advanced semiconductors will make it impossible to produce automobiles and a host of other products.
During the invasion of Taiwan, China will also attack US bases in Guam and Okinawa. Japan will respond swiftly once its territory is attacked, and Australia will also join in the defense.
The outcome of the struggle will be that: (a) China gains control of Taiwan; (b) a massive number of Taiwanese flee the island and settle elsewhere, mostly the US and Canada; (c) China-US trade is severed, and US and other Western-aligned businesses lose their investments in China, as they did in 1949; (d) world trade becomes polarized, as China-dominated East and Southeast Asia and Russia form their own trade bloc separate from the rest of the world.
China will begin mandating that each married couple produces two children.
International (Europe):
The 2022-23 lame duck session of Congress will budget for a large amount of aid to continue going to Ukraine in the following fiscal year, but the Republican majority in 2023 will do its utmost to prevent any of that aid from reaching Ukraine.
Ukraine, after several years of holding out against Russia, will be left suddenly "high and dry" when the US becomes preoccupied in the Pacific in 2027, after which it will fall. When that happens, the Republicans will blame Biden and any remaining Democrats for it.
Russia will then march on to retake the Baltic states and Moldavia.
There! Those are my worse-case scenario predictions for the future. I hope they are all wrong, and that I can look back on these and have a good laugh at them ... but I'm not optimistic.
Nov 6 2022
Ok. Here goes. Donald Trump will be president again. Either elected or by coup. He is the Antichrist mentioned in the Bible. The election loss was the head wound on the Bible and he will recover when he makes it back. He will pardon himself and others and change the constitution to eliminate term limits and be dictator. Israel will acknowledge him as the messiah. He will start WWIII. Now go read the biblical description of the Antichrist. His traits. He is not handsome and charismatic as in the movies. He is Trump. He will somehow gain world power. We will have martial law and those who don’t worship him and take his mark are fucked.