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The 2023 Predictions Thread

arthwollipot

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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 will end with Russian forces withdrawing. Russia will counterattack in January, but this will not be successful.
  • There will be a mass shooting in Canada in the first half of the year, possibly in or near Toronto.
  • There will be a scandal in the world of international cricket.
  • A volcanic eruption somewhere unexpected, possibly Samoa.
  • A new discovery will rock the world of vertebrate palaeontology and turn certain assumptions on their heads.

What do you think is going to happen? Break out your crystal balls and Tarot cards now.
 
-- One mass-shooting per day in the USA, with 3 or more people dead per incident, and more injured. At least one school massacre included. The shooters will all have legal weapons.

-- Donald Trump will not be the next Republican presidential nominee. However he will carry on blustering that he is while he circles the drain endlessly due to all his court cases.
 
arthwollipot said:
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 will end with Russian forces withdrawing. Russia will counterattack in January, but this will not be successful.
  • There will be a mass shooting in Canada in the first half of the year, possibly in or near Toronto.
  • There will be a scandal in the world of international cricket.
  • A volcanic eruption somewhere unexpected, possibly Samoa.
  • A new discovery will rock the world of vertebrate palaeontology and turn certain assumptions on their heads.

What do you think is going to happen? Break out your crystal balls and Tarot cards now.
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Low hanging fruit Wolli. All are eminently feasible.

How about:

* "Sovereign citizen" wins court case. Taxation refunded to millions.
 
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One or more shootings in Germany involving Reichsburger.

Oil and prices drop, electricity prices don't.
 
I polished my crystal ball and dealt the tarot cards.

China's economy will self-combust, sending the world into the worst recession since 1929.

The war in Ukraine will continue. Pakistan and Afghanistan will go to war.

Biden will die in office. Specifically, on the toilet in his office.

Late 2023 will usher in the strongest El Nino ever.

I'll try to add some good news tomorrow.

Oh, I have one - King Charles will croak and William becomes King Billy the somethingth.
 
I'll make a bet against the Biden prediction; not because I think it won't happen, but because you will never be able to prove that that's where it did happen.
 
1. 2023 new fashion trend: wearing desserts! Apple pies, layer cakes, brownies...all of these and more will be worn by luminous celebrities!

2. Elon Musk will announce he's seeking gender reassignment.

3. A new respiratory illness carried by walruses will emerge in humans.

4. J.K. Rowling will announce she's seeking gender reassignment.

5. Elon Musk will drop her $40,000 designer apple pie she's wearing as a hat when she is overcome by a walrus-virus coughing fit.
 
Norman Alexander said:
-- Donald Trump will not be the next Republican presidential nominee. However he will carry on blustering that he is while he circles the drain endlessly due to all his court cases.
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That's a no-brainer, because the nominee won't be selected until 2024.

The Atheist said:
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Oh, I have one - King Charles will croak and William becomes King Billy the somethingth.
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William V, I think. IV was the second son of George III.

Meanwhile, I'll confine mine to the Republican US House of Representatives:
-- Many, many, MANY hours will be spent investigating Hunter Biden, to no result whatsoever.
-- EmptyG will get her committee assignments back, and act like a fool in the meetings.
-- A serious effort will be made to impeach Joe Biden, for fathering Hunter.
-- They'll shut down the government at least once.
 
I will make my predictions so specific that no one will doubt my prophetic powers!

- A magnitude 6.4 earthquake centered 23 miles east of St, Louis Missouri will not occur at 3:04 AM EDT on June 12, 2023.

- A banquet of endangered escargots served to the visiting Prime Minister of Singapore will not embroil Barbara Pompili, the French Minister of Ecological Transition, in controversy on June 12, 2023.

- Elon Musk and Tom Brady will not announce their engagement, following a year-long secret romance, at a fundraiser to benefit rare French snail species endangered by a Missouri earthquake, on June 12, 2023.

- "Brusky," as they will come to be known, will attempt to start a family using robo-womb technology under development by Musk start-up HuxleyBro, which will be funded by profits from the phenomenal success of SpaceX's Twitter Remover app.

- No one will remember or mention these predictions on June 12, 2023.
 
Easy one:

Donald Trump will issue a second set of NFT self deifications.
One image will feature Trump riding a velociraptor.
In another he'll be wearing mech-armor.
In yet another he'll be nailed on a cross as the sacrificial god for America's sins.

Thousands of MAGA chumps will buy this crap.
 
Myriad said:
I will make my predictions so specific that no one will doubt my prophetic powers!

- A magnitude 6.4 earthquake centered 23 miles east of St, Louis Missouri will not occur at 3:04 AM EDT on June 12, 2023.

- A banquet of endangered escargots served to the visiting Prime Minister of Singapore will not embroil Barbara Pompili, the French Minister of Ecological Transition, in controversy on June 12, 2023.

- Elon Musk and Tom Brady will not announce their engagement, following a year-long secret romance, at a fundraiser to benefit rare French snail species endangered by a Missouri earthquake, on June 12, 2023.

- "Brusky," as they will come to be known, will attempt to start a family using robo-womb technology under development by Musk start-up HuxleyBro, which will be funded by profits from the phenomenal success of SpaceX's Twitter Remover app.

- No one will remember or mention these predictions on June 12, 2023.
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I'd like to point out, 23 miles EAST of St. Louis is 23 miles into Illinois.
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Trump and family will voluntarily relocate to Saudi Arabia so he can concentrate on his new endeavor, staying out of the United States penal system.

Elon Musk will begin to display some unusual behavior.

A previously thought extinct species will be found alive, possibly living in a retirement community in Florida.
 
On April 30th of next year, their will be a sunrise and sunset at EVERY LOCATION IN THE WORLD (with a view of the horizon, of course - no, "but what if someone's in a cave", BS allowed).

The phenomenon of the Sun doing so, including traveling across the daytime sky will be dismissed by scientists as an illusion due to point of reference. Some people won't believe them.

On April 31st, none of that will happen.
 
Elon Musk will be ousted as CEO of Tesla.

The Ashes series will be tied meaning Australia will retain them

France will win the RWC

Twitter will go bankrupt

Tr*mp will not be indicted personally for any crimes

Putin will leave office, probably through an open window.

jeremyp will double his post count* post 500 times on IS.

* ****. I've got 2,141, I'm not going to double that in a year.
 
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