prediction thread

This is where we try to beat the psychics at their own game. What do you think will happen in 2023? (Note: this was an annual tradition a little while ago, but it has been allowed to lapse in the last few years. I am herewith taking up the mantle.) Here are my predictions: The war in Ukraine...

The date of 'ousting' includes plain resignation or the announcement of the start of Tory voting for his successor. Maybe keep your predictions to a half of a single month, though it's more a bit of fun (if anything in his administration can be described as 'fun') than an actual competition*...

Some speech trump gave recently (I don't remember which), or maybe a short group of tweets with a slightly less berserk & more giving-up tone than they'd been for a while, struck me as if the rage he'd been showing for days was burning him out. Maybe it was just that he was at a certain point in...

How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic We asked 12 leading global thinkers for their predictions To help us make sense of the ground shifting beneath our feet as this crisis unfolds, Foreign Policy asked 12 leading thinkers from around the world to weigh in with their...

Not going to do a poll because I probably don't know enough names to suggest. If you do, go for it. First, I think it's a safe bet that they'll go for some diversity. With all the remaining viable candidates being old, that certainly means it'll be someone younger. Probably a minority and/or...

Well, I certainly screwed up when I started this poll! It was the wrong question! So, (rule of) when will the trial actually begin?

If you have 2020 vision you can see as well as expected. So the year will be 2020 soon so you should have 2020 vision as to what will happen in 2020. Use this thread for your 2020 predictions with 2020 vision. My predictions include - Scott Morrison will cease to be PM of Australia - Trump...

Was thinking about what else Johnson could come up with as his bribes for when the next GE is called. Given the news today I reckon it's going to be cancellation of HS2 and the third runway at Heathrow. Anyone else want to bet on what else ?

I sure hope it's 100%. I want to see him end up in prison and die there broken and bankrupt. I want to live to dance upon his grave.

I knew Trump would back down on the Mexico tariff threats. He predictably was looking for attention. As soon as he isn't the top headline he looks for another attention getting tactic. Cue the threat of tariffs on all of Mexican goods. Tariffs on Mexico was a bad idea, the GOP legislators knew...

When does Roe v Wade get thrown out? With a SCOTUS now built on solidly anti-abortion conservatives, I can see a 5-4 vote devolving legislation to states happening in the very near future. I reckon the Red Team will be looking for a judgement before the 2020 election, so my pick is within one...

Since no one else has started this thread I did. What will happen in 2019? My predictions - Labor government elected in Australia, but the get less than a 12 seat majority. There are also 6+ 'independents' elected to the lower house. - This forum will have about 800 active members at the end of...

Just thought it would be fun to do a little poll, and of course a transparent one so we can point and laugh when we have the answer. I'm in for "reelected".

So who will end up taking Jeff Sessions Alabama senate seat? The election is next Tuesday. Will it be democrat Doug Jones or republican and known pedophile Roy Moore?

On December 6th, Time will announce 2017's "Person of the Year". Trump tweeted the other day that they told him he'll be it a second year in a row, and that he declined. Time informed him that he is mistaken. So who will it be? Remember that this is not the Nobel Prize for greatness, nor a...

Since there does not appear to be a thread on the topic so far, this is it. We have had similar threads every year for at least the last 7 years. Okay, let's all summon up our psychic powers (the professionals say we ALL have them, and they wouldn't lie, would they?) and let's offer up some...

A lot of people are speculating on what sort of presidency The Donald will have and which of his "policy positions" he will actually implement or attempt to implement. As we grieve or rejoice today, what do we seriously think he will be able to accomplish? Make your predictions on the next 4...

It's simple: Record your prediction for the Electoral College results of the Presidential Election (currently scheduled for November 8). Break it down by state if you want. Go ahead and predict the popular vote as well. Pro/anti-candidate arguments aren't required because we have four...

Who do you think will be Hillary Clinton's Running Mate?

Place your bets for California's Democratic Primary. It's really just that simple. Vote above. ETA: California allows early voting up to 4 weeks before the primary. An independent voter must ask for a Democratic ballot at the polls. California's population is 38.6% Hispanic, 6.5% black...

What will happen at the Democratic Convention? Who will be the nominee?

What will happen at the 2016 Republican Convention? Who will be the nominee?

Post em if you got em: Dem: Hillary squeaks by in Iowa (less than 5 points), thanks to a phenomenal ground-game that is more like an invading army. However, everyone loves an underdog, and the real story will be Bernie's close 2nd place finish. Bernie rides the media wave and coasts to an easy...

Since there does not appear to be a thread on the topic so far, this is it. We have had similar threads every year for at least the last 6 years. Okay, let's all summon up our psychic powers (the professionals say we ALL have them, and they wouldn't lie, would they?) and let's offer up some...

Over here in Blighty it is billed as a Jeb v Hillary contest. No one else is getting any airtime so I have no idea who the serious challengers are and how likely they are to win. I was going to do a poll but it appears there are shedloads of Republican and Democratic candidates. So instead...

Be specific. On July 16, 2015, at 1857 Eastern daylight saving time, (6:57 pm), the title of #1 bestselling nonfiction book on the New York Times bestsellers list will contain a vowel. I will double down and also predict that the author's family name contains two or more letters, and that at...

Inspired by the thread on Asimov's predictions for 2014, which he made in 1964. Make your predictions here, and maybe if this forum still exists and has members in 50 years, it will an amusing time capsule for them to see. Or perhaps it will be long-forgotten and/or deleted by then. Who knows...

A HIT! Spot on, in fact! My record for 2013 was not quite as remarkable as my record for 2012, but I still demonstrated prescience greater than many self-proclaimed "psychics," those wimps. For 2014, I offer the following SERIOUS predictions for actual events that may or may not come to pass...

On another forum, there was a discussion about thread necromancy, and when it was appropriate. Someone mentioned a situation where there was a discussion about what the world would be like in 10 years, that was revived 10 years after it was originally posted. Assuming that the JREF Forum...

(I looked for someone beating me to this since I think we do it most years, but didn't see anything) Undoubtedly numerous psychics will be putting out their 2013 predictions with a mix of inevitable, vague, and specific enough to check on (aka eventually wrong). Let's see if we can do better...