Trump will not be selected in 2024 for president. Biden will not be reselected. Kamala will not be selected. Desantis will not be selected. Hillary will not be selected.
The figure will in some respects be similar to mitt romney, but a lot more moderate and 'inspirational' (a white obama). He will come out of left field and the right will be fooled by him.
A senate candidate (congress member) or an existing senator will face a massive scandal and ultimately go to prison for bribery networks and other charges. The scandal will engulf and entangle dozens of figures in congress and the senate threatening the credibility of both parties.
The smith-mundt modernanization act will be repealed, with heavy resistance from the CIA, and DOJ, as well as the media itself.
BTC will hover between $23k to $37k.
A city and region within either oregon or washington state will experience a large scale industrial disaster, equivalent to the level of contamination found in some superfund sites.
Saudi Arabia will join BRICs to gain a more favorable position before other middle eastern nations are able to join first.
Belgium or a nation that is similarly geographically, historically, geopolitically, and economically positioned, will experience nuclear terrorism. Russia will be blamed, but the charges will not stick. The perpetrators thereafter will remain apparently unknown and for years, until eventually the international right is blamed by western regimes. It will turn out to have been environmentalists, armed by western agencies in collaboration with particular middle eastern nation's intelligence.
The border will be opened wide, though general amnesty will not pass. It will become a common crossing for muslims fleeing war in their home countries.
Technocratic surveillance will ramp up significantly, as will restrictive environmental policies (limiting camping in many states fo carbon emissions). Governors will be slow to stop this federal interference, despite any words to the contrary. Satellites normally used for monitoring wild fires, will instead be used in conjunction with land management to crack down on "illegal camping". We will see some examples of overreach here, regarding camping, gun ranges, and farming on private property.
There will be mass retirements of existing police owing both to pension uncertainty and renewed attempts to "root out right wing extremist hate groups." 2023-2024 are the year that "the thin blue line" and "back the blue" cease to generally move the needle for the majority of conservatives, with an even split among them on the issue.
The national average for gas will reach $4.13 and stay there for some time (early 2024).
We will see a new wave of bankruptcies and the homeless crisis become exponential. There will be talk of if we are "potentially heading toward another 2008", while talk among regular people will be about how 2008 is already repeating.
The war in sudan will intensify enormously, and russia will clean its hands of the matter. The u.s. will seize this chaos as a distraction and a new potential excuse to extend and renew operations in the middle east.
Edit: The pacific will experience a major fishery collapse due to overfishing by asian nations.
[ - ] prototype [op] 1 point 2.1 yearsMay 2, 2023 07:02:53 ago (+1/-0)
95% of the citizens don’t even know it exists. Why would they repeal it?
Is 95% accurate though. Put a hundred people in a room I'd say maybe two or three people would have heard about it. Maybe I'm more cynical though.
Call it a hunch. With the pendulum currently heading for "one step back" (in the familiar one step back, two steps 'forward' scheme), some group will have to take the fall for the last coupe decades of social destruction and decay. The FBI is unlikely to bear the brunt of that. In fact I think they'll come out any social backlash mostly intact. That leaves corporations, or corporate mouth pieces. Everyones got something on everyone else in DC, so punishment is strictly off the board. But people still want blood so some sort of change will be in order, if not just to keep the looting going.
Enter "doing something" policies. Corporate can still be blamed for government malfeasance, if only because of "bad policy" as proxy. It makes sense in light of the disinformation witch hunt, that eventually they'll move to the opposite extreme. And some elements of decoupling from israeli and chinese influence are already occuring.
With traditional media dying anyway, this seems like the ultimate in red-herring "reliefs" the regime can offer a pissed off populace, without meaningfully rocking the boat.
In any case this is mostly post-facto justification for what amounted to a hunch.
[ + ] AntiPostmodernist
[ - ] AntiPostmodernist 1 point 2.1 yearsMay 2, 2023 08:18:41 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] prototype
[ - ] prototype [op] 0 points 2.1 yearsMay 3, 2023 01:43:08 ago (+0/-0)
Ok, I'll loan it to you but first you have to do me a favor and return to 1978 to prevent mine.
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[ - ] Name 1 point 2.1 yearsMay 2, 2023 05:26:11 ago (+1/-0)
95% of the citizens don’t even know it exists. Why would they repeal it?
[ + ] prototype
[ - ] prototype [op] 1 point 2.1 yearsMay 2, 2023 07:02:53 ago (+1/-0)
Is 95% accurate though. Put a hundred people in a room I'd say maybe two or three people would have heard about it.
Maybe I'm more cynical though.
Call it a hunch. With the pendulum currently heading for "one step back" (in the familiar one step back, two steps 'forward' scheme), some group will have to take the fall for the last coupe decades of social destruction and decay. The FBI is unlikely to bear the brunt of that. In fact I think they'll come out any social backlash mostly intact. That leaves corporations, or corporate mouth pieces. Everyones got something on everyone else in DC, so punishment is strictly off the board. But people still want blood so some sort of change will be in order, if not just to keep the looting going.
Enter "doing something" policies. Corporate can still be blamed for government malfeasance, if only because of "bad policy" as proxy. It makes sense in light of the disinformation witch hunt, that eventually they'll move to the opposite extreme.
And some elements of decoupling from israeli and chinese influence are already occuring.
With traditional media dying anyway, this seems like the ultimate in red-herring "reliefs" the regime can offer a pissed off populace, without meaningfully rocking the boat.
In any case this is mostly post-facto justification for what amounted to a hunch.