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THIS THREAD IS GOING TO BE HEAVILY MONITORED.

THIS IS FOR PEOPLE TO GIVE THEIR PREDICTIONS AS TO WHAT THE NEXT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL DO.

IF YOU DISAGREE WITH SOMEONE AND ATTACK THEM OR INSULT THEM YOUR POST WILL BE DELETED. THIS THREAD IS FOR YOU TO POST YOUR OPINION, NOT TO ATTACK OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINIONS, THERE ARE MANY OTHER THREADS FOR THAT.

TRY TO BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE AS TO WHAT YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN.

THERE WILL BE A CONTEST ASPECT TO THIS THREAD AND BY POSTING IN THIS THREAD YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES: 4 YEARS FROM THE DATE THIS THREAD WAS CREATED WE WILL BE VOTING ON WHO GOT THE MOST PREDICTIONS RIGHT AND WHO GOT THE MOST PREDICTIONS WRONG. THE WINNERS OF BOTH CATEGORIES AGREE TO MEET ME FOR A ROUND OF DRINKS.

ONLY PREDICTIONS MADE BEFORE 01/01/2025 WILL COUNT IN THE VOTING AND THEY MUST BE FOR THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER 01/01/2025.

ONLY PREDICTIONS MADE ABOUT POLICY AND/OR LEGISLATIVE CHANGES WILL COUNT.
 
The challenges and opposition by the FTC over the Kroger/Albertson's merger will be removed or watered down. This merger will happen and people especially in the PNW will see some of the highest costs of groceries in the country after Hawaii and Alaska.
 
Extensive evidence of massive electronic voter fraud in all of the swing states will be found and confirmed. I’m not able to predict one or the other outcome of this.
 
I've never wanted you to be more wrong, but since people were too fucking stupid to not know that'd happen, I'm afraid you're gonna be right.

Opinion: hate crimes will skyrocket because people elected a racist, bigoted, and misogynistic asshole.

Opinion: the racist, bigoted, misogynistic asshole (he doesn't have a last name anymore) will use the immunity given to him by the Supreme Court to do crimes in all 4 years of his presidency.

Opinion: he will try (most likely not succeed) in killing voting to install himself as a dictator

And I second the opinion of sly. Eggs will literally cost the 8 dollars they thought it did prior.

To people who voted for the racist, bigoted, misogynistic asshole, this is all your fault.
 
Oregon’s mail-in ballots will be deemed illegal by virtue of no longer complying to strict new federal voting laws which target states without ID laws.
 
Strenuus said:
Against the racist, bigoted, misogynistic asshole? Cause he won all the swing states.
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It seems improbable that state-level and lower democrats and progressive measures won in all of the swing states yet the presidential race went the other way in all of the swing states. I dunno I just thought I’d play a hunch.
 
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Everything Beagle said:
Oregon’s mail-in ballots will be deemed illegal by virtue of no longer complying to strict new federal voting laws which target states without ID laws.
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I will expand on this even further.

Because of the expanded voting laws, over 30% of US citizens will lose their voting rights by the next presidential election. This will be done by the requirement to provide a "valid ID." There will be a new federal verification requirement of all new or renewed state driver's licenses and IDs. There will be an additional fee charged by the federal government for this added security benefit. I'm guessing it will be around $200 added to the current fees charged by states to people getting or renewing their ID. Also, things like unpaid child support, unpaid taxes, unpaid tickets, unpaid criminal restitution, and unpaid federal student loans will be grounds for your license to become invalid or not to be issued at all.

This will directly result in an alarming amount of the oldest and poorest US citizens no longer being allowed to vote.
 
Strenuus said:
Opinion: hate crimes will skyrocket because people elected a racist, bigoted, and misogynistic asshole.
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I predict there will be no more federal hate crimes. People will only be prosecuted on their actions and not their motivation(s) for their actions. This will be declared a good thing.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
There will be an additional fee charged by the federal government for this added security benefit. I'm guessing it will be around $200 added to the current fees charged by states to people getting or renewing their ID.
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Elections cost money, right? Mailed pamphlets, vote counting software, labor cost, the state Secretary of State's travel & business lunches, etc. Why should we hard-working taxpayers pay for your luxury? You voters should pay a fee every time you vote, like maybe $80.

And what about campaign costs? A presidential election costs $5 billion for ads, paid by exploited contributors who must fund your entertainment. A special tax on voters could pay for that, relieving heroes like Musk who currently fund your fun. Just divide the $5 billion by the number of voters (say, 100 million) and pay the bill (another 50 bucks each).

Elections are determined on message boards, where they should be. For free.
 
Voter ID laws that will make it harder for students, Black people and poor people to vote
Supreme Court rules states and business can refuse to recognize same sex marriage
Replace civil servants with MAGA loyalists
Ending aid to Ukraine
Ending Affordable Care Act
Return of childhood illnesses due to no vaccine mandates
Use Comstock Act to de facto ban abortion without having to pass a law
Push for Christian indoctrination in school and taxpayer funded Christian school
Inflation
Skyrocketing national debt
Giant tax cut for rich
Ending renewable energy initiatives
Greatly weakening environmental laws
Make it harder to join unions
 
SlyPokerDog said:
The Trump administration will allow and encourage states to round up, transport, and dump illegal immigrants on select sanctuary cities, like NY, LA, San Fran, Seattle, and Portland.
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If you did your job, you'd camp out at the Greyhound station, and bribe them to sign up for this board and become Blazer fans. But nooo. You're at the pool at the top of the S2 skyscraper drinking with New York City plutocrats.
 
The West Coast will form the new Pacific Nation Cascadia and include Hawaii, California, Oregon and Washington State. It will be the new neutral, self sustaining breadbasket of the Pacific Rim and tolerance, equality and diversity will prevail. They will have open borders with Mexico and Canada and work permits will be given to any who want to work without fear of deportation. They will have no military but the greatest coast guard in the world. Damian Lillard will own the Trail Blazers
 
Trump will gift Ukraine to Putin or alternatively Putin will agree with Trump to stay out of Ukraine until he leaves office.

Trump will threatened to leave NATO and extort European countries out of large quantities of money. Some won't comply.

Trump will dismantle the education system and put some abomination in it's place.

  • Schools will no longer get federal funding or if they do it will based on loyalty to Trump's new rules
  • They will force people to pay on their student loans with threats of criminal conviction if they don't.
  • Bibles will be federally required for all school systems. The separation of church and school will be gone.
  • Teachers will be graded by tough merits, with many probably fired for not meeting certain expectations or for not going along with new ways. Many will quit.

There will attempts at mass deportation and exportation of immigrants to blue states/cities

There will be a national ban on abortions

It will be illegal to be LGBTQ

Trump's massive tarrifs will drive companies to manufacturer in countries not affected by the tarrifs. His tarrifs along with his massive deportation of migrant farmworkers will lead to the largest levels of inflation yet seen.

Trump will repeal Obamacare and replace it with a far worse version that covers almost nothing, allows the insurance companies to deny massive amounts of claims, and pharmaceutical companies to dramatically raise prices on prescription drugs.

He will put in place federal standards for elections that end mail in voting, and further supress and disenfranchise poor voters and voters of color.

Trump will place several more judges on the SC court to cement a majority. He may even with the help of the Congress and Senate try to force out liberal SC justices to replace them.

He will replace multitudes of people in federal positions with loyalists

Trump and his supporters in the government will put forth bills/enact laws to punish or censor the media.

Trump will go after those who tried to bring him to justice. They will lose their jobs and or be charged or jailed using vague reasonings.

Trump will try to have the constitution changed to stay in power and for other purposes. He may succeed.

Project 2025 will be instituted and found lawful by the supremacist court.

Everyone, even his loyal Maga followers will get screwed.

This is not a fun game.
 
Sports message boards will replace elections. Whoever runs them will have the keys to the kingdom. As Portland's #1 message board, we will decide that our leader Sly should run Portland. As reward for my ideas, he will make me the power behind the throne. I will legalize LSD and secede from the Union. Trump's forces will invade, but we will all live happily high in the misty mountains. Board members will become known worldwide as the best basketball players. When Trump triples tariffs on basketballs, our new regional sport will become wrestling on Mt. Tabor.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
The Trump administration will allow and encourage states to round up, transport, and dump illegal immigrants on select sanctuary cities, like NY, LA, San Fran, Seattle, and Portland.
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This is practically a given since 72 million people decided to elect a bigot.
 
Chris Craig said:
Trump will gift Ukraine to Putin or alternatively Putin will agree with Trump to stay out of Ukraine until he leaves office.

Trump will threatened to leave NATO and extort European countries out of large quantities of money. Some won't comply.

Trump will dismantle the education system and put some abomination in it's place.

  • Schools will no longer get federal funding or if they do it will based on loyalty to Trump's new rules
  • They will force people to pay on their student loans with threats of criminal conviction if they don't.
  • Bibles will be federally required for all school systems. The separation of church and school will be gone.
  • Teachers will be graded by tough merits, with many probably fired for not meeting certain expectations or for not going along with new ways. Many will quit.

There will attempts at mass deportation and exportation of immigrants to blue states/cities

There will be a national ban on abortions

It will be illegal to be LGBTQ

Trump's massive tarrifs will drive companies to manufacturer in countries not affected by the tarrifs. His tarrifs along with his massive deportation of migrant farmworkers will lead to the largest levels of inflation yet seen.

Trump will repeal Obamacare and replace it with a far worse version that covers almost nothing, allows the insurance companies to deny massive amounts of claims, and pharmaceutical companies to dramatically raise prices on prescription drugs.

He will put in place federal standards for elections that end mail in voting, and further supress and disenfranchise poor voters and voters of color.

Trump will place several more judges on the SC court to cement a majority. He may even with the help of the Congress and Senate try to force out liberal SC justices to replace them.

He will replace multitudes of people in federal positions with loyalists

Trump and his supporters in the government will put forth bills/enact laws to punish or censor the media.

Trump will go after those who tried to bring him to justice. They will lose their jobs and or be charged or jailed using vague reasonings.

Trump will try to have the constitution changed to stay in power and for other purposes. He may succeed.

Project 2025 will be instituted and found lawful by the supremacist court.

Everyone, even his loyal Maga followers will get screwed.

This is not a fun game.
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The education one is damning and will happen.

None of this is going to end well.

It's going to get WAY worse before it gets better.

And 72 million of them wanted this. Fuck them.
 
Ban gender affirming care for youth, ban trans athletes. Possibly ban for adults as well. End federal funds for colleges that teach curricula right opposed. Ban flying rainbow flag on government buildings. Greatly reduce food safety enforcement and end attempts to improve conditions of animals. No more federal funds to test rape kits.
 
Trump will not make much effort in the way of policy changes, but will primarily use the presidency to further his personal interests.

Democrats will use any/all means at their disposal to prevent Republicans from passing harmful legislation. 3 Republican senators will choose to vote with the Democrats to block the most egregious bills.

Trump's cabinet will revolt against him before the end of 2025. An attempt to enact the 25th amendment will be initiated before the end of 2026.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Trump will not make much effort in the way of policy changes, but will primarily use the presidency to further his personal interests.

Democrats will use any/all means at their disposal to prevent Republicans from passing harmful legislation. 3 Republican senators will choose to vote with the Democrats to block the most egregious bills.

Trump's cabinet will revolt against him before the end of 2025. An attempt to enact the 25th amendment will be initiated before the end of 2026.
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This sounds like a best case scenario.
 
OK, I'm ready to play this game. I found it too depressing at first but now I think it has a happy ending, just not for the United States. Ultimately, though, the world winds up in a little better shape, at least temporarily.

It might seem dystopic, but I think its reasonably likely.

By 2040, the United States will be no higher than the third most influential nation on earth and potentially as low as sixth or seventh.

The biggest thing is the U.S. will be subject to a culling -- some of it intentional, some of it through unintended consequences -- that will result in a major contraction in population over the next 10 years. I think the population will be under 300 million by 2034 and perhaps as low as 280 million.

First things first. The ACA will be repealed but not replaced. Social Security and Medicare will be privatized and largely downgraded. Fossil fuel extraction will be emphasized and incentives to develop renewable energy will be abandoned.

Trump will go through with his campaign promises to deport migrants -- legal and otherwise -- and will go through with even deporting birthright citizens, speeding ahead with that before the courts have an opportunity to stop him.

By 2028, SCOTUS will be 8-1 conservative judges.

He also will employ large tariffs, at least initially.

There will be a national abortion ban. Women's rights in general will diminish, if not legally certainly in a practical sense; for one thing, they won't be able to easily get divorced even from abusive marriages. Essentially, their major contribution to society will be as breeders.

LGBTQ rights will be rolled back. It might be something like Poland's LGBTQ-free zones, but trans care will be largely stopped, and gay marriage will be repealed.

Lots of Confederate monuments will be restored in the South.

It will be a period of deregulation, and federal agencies will be shut down or become largely ineffectual because of improper or apathetic management.

Trump will pull the U.S. out of NATO, despite the counsel of the Pentagon and security advisors.

Without even the threat of U.S. intervention, the Palestinian people will be effectively wiped off the face of the earth, and, left unchecked, Israel will officially annex Gaza and the West Bank. Russia will struggle but eventually win the war in Ukraine and bring it back into its territory.

However, seeing the difficulty Russia had in Ukraine, China will not attack Taiwan. It will posture, but it won't act.

Trump will not be around for the 2028 election. He'll either die of natural causes by his third year in office, be replaced by Vance and his technocratic backing because he is cognitively unable to perform his duties or possibly will just step aside when things becoming overwhelmingly difficult.

Now, here's what happens because of all this.

The U.S. will for all intents and purposes become engaged in a eugenics program. Latin Americans and Blacks will be deported in the millions and maybe tens of millions.

Millions more Americans will die from the lack of healthcare. Poorer people with pre-existing health conditions won't be able to get adequate care and will die at much higher rates than now, as will older Americans who won't be able to count on social safety nets.

The average life expectancy will plummet. Infant mortality rates will increase, as will suicide rates.

Speaking of which, pornography and marijuana bans will be implemented that will have an effect that will surprise the administration, as crime and suicide among younger white men, which already was high, skyrockets as they are unable to find meaning and fulfillment in the new system. Many of them now turn to pornography and weed as a way to alleviate their stress, but, without that option, they'll become increasingly violent. Much of this violence will be misogynistic in nature.

With environmental programs being pulled back, natural disasters continue to become more extreme. However, FEMA now is poorly funded and left, leaving southern states more susceptible to higher death counts, larger loss of property and even greater times to rebuild.

The rapid decrease in population will hurt the country's business's ability to fill jobs. That, in concert with rapidly rising inflation because of Trump's tariffs, will bring on the recession Biden was able to avoid, and it might even turn into a full-fledged depression.

More Americans die from lack of food and shelter.

Needing to replenish the population to fill labor needs, Trump, his successors and the Republicans will try to turn 180 degrees to bring migrants from all over the world into the country. However, that ship will have sailed, as the world's population will see a lack of stability here and instead will move to two or three other regions/countries.

Putin, feeling invincible after eventually defeating Ukraine, tests his luck by invading Poland, thinking it will be easy pickings without the shadow of U.S. intervention. He has, however, overplayed his hand -- the European Union by itself is easily powerful enough to destroy Putin's impotent, overrated Russian army. Putin is quickly defeated and never does turn to using nuclear weapons. Instead, he's assassinated, and more than 100 years after the initial promise, Russia finally becomes a social democracy much like the rest of Europe.

Having avoided the threat of own xenophobic right unlike the U.S., the EU welcomes migrants from all over the world, including the United States and once again returns to being the center of world power after about 80 years of U.S. dominance. Economically and socially, Europe thrives.

But nature abhors a vacuum, and there just are too many people to all cross into Europe. The other beneficiary of America's issues is the fledgling and growing East African Federation, which has been able to build in relative obscurity while the rest of the world has been in turmoil. Now, the opportunity exists to take a huge bound forward, and the new nation, with huge amounts of natural resources and very eager to bring in people from other cultures to add to its own, quickly establishes itself as a world economic power.

The United States, meanwhile, has become a nation of unbelievable extremes. No party holds power for more than four years, as progressive populists are swept into office in 2028 but, unable to undo the damage of the previous administration in three years, they're unable to convince Americans they are the answer, and the pendulum swings back to a new MAGA-like movement, which, like its predecessor, is completely unfit to lead and is voted out again in 2036. This process continues to play out for years as Americans are unable to think critically about policy nor remember the lessons of just the previous presidential elections.
 
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