Trump Presidency Predictions Thread - Page 51 - Politics and Economics

Fox's primetime viewership averaged only 2.4 million in 2016.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national...crown-for-2016

The majority of the network's programming is awful, but I don't see how it's possible for them to be moving the needle that much when so few people are actually watching.

03-03-2017 , 07:14 PM

#1252

ymmv

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Originally Posted by stinkubus

1. Fox has by far the most effective messaging of any news network

2. People watch it and then share on facebook, twitter, etc.

3. Current POTUS watches Fox religiously and then literally tweets to his tens of millions of followers what he just watched, and/or repeats it in televised speeches.

03-03-2017 , 07:19 PM

#1253

einbert

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stinkubus

Example (not Fox News, but you get the idea of how this works)

https://twitter.com/kevincollier/sta...28392086708224

03-03-2017 , 07:22 PM

#1254

sofocused978

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In for the Oprah freebies

03-03-2017 , 07:30 PM

#1255

markksman

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

prediction:

the russians will again launch a coordinated infowar campaign on social media to screw with the democratic primary candidates and we end up with some spoiler like oprah

Would be cool to have our first billionaire president.

03-03-2017 , 09:19 PM

#1256

Max Cut

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tromp would be absolutely gutted to hear that

Spoiler:

03-13-2017 , 01:28 PM

#1257

ScreaminAsian

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prediction:

trump will soon start labeling low-level career government employees as "traitors" who need to be stopped

03-21-2017 , 08:36 PM

#1258

ScreaminAsian

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prediction:

2018 rolls around and trump isn't impeached. democratic candidates and activists get REKT on social media by the russian troll army, just incessant nonsense convincing millions of eligible voters that don't follow the news to stay home because "they're both the same" or "the system is rigged". democrats cry foul and demand something be done, and the republicans reply that the democrats are desperately trying to come up with reasons for why they're losing, and that the american people have spoken, and also, uh, hello?, that happened 2 years ago and we investigated and found no evidence

05-10-2017 , 05:30 PM

#1259

ScreaminAsian

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prediction:

trump ends up firing everyone that testifies in front of congress about russia

05-12-2017 , 08:00 PM

#1260

LostOstrich

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex Wice

The following is speculation:

The stock market is propped up by 0% rates. It will crash slowly in a huge bubble that threatens the dollar. Bitcoin will reach an ATH. Trump will mostly be blamed initially, but some will point to his prescient comments about the market. However, the short of it is that people will rally behind Trump. Social security and Medicare will be affected substantially. Trump will eventually finger and take on the Fed through historic speeches. If he doesn't die like many before him who have challenged central banking, then he will curtail the system whereby the govt lends money from private banks instead of just printing it themselves. He will also invest heavily in infrastructure. These two things will lead to enormous American prosperity.

Trump will also make inner cities better, in terms of crime, education, and unemployment. He won't go after gay marriage, drugs, or abortion at a supreme court or federal level, with the exception that he may legalize all or a substantial class of drugs in his second term. ISIS will be defeated swiftly, and standstill relations between Russia will improve. America will no longer be involved in fighting in 7 countries as they are now. NATO will be renegotiated, or the current terms will be enforced better than they are now.

Healthcare outcomes re insurance will improve, but only a little. Education outcomes for K-8 will improve substantially. Race relations will be better, and people slowly over time will shift their opinion and applaud his "unifying" rhetoric. His success will merit a political dynasty, and he will easily win a second term, in part due to getting large numbers of the black and other minority votes. His opponent, who will not be a crony or corrupt, will be seen and labeled as ineffective, putting the country back into gridlock that we've worked hard to jostle it from, and that's what the race will be decided on (assuming he's alive of course.)

The biggest clue is the FBI. If the FBI finds the massive level of corruption in the Clinton Foundation and many people go down, then Trump is more likely to do better things. If only a couple people go down, then people are "playing ball" and it's more likely to be status quo.

People will claim their opposition was just politicking (or won't even recall having been staunchly opposed to Trump) and won't have to answer for their uninformed comments like "the world is doomed".

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nailed it

05-12-2017 , 08:08 PM

#1261

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Originally Posted by LostOstrich

nailed it

That post is amazing.

05-12-2017 , 08:33 PM

#1262

LostOstrich

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#withfewexceptions

05-15-2017 , 11:24 AM

#1263

SuperUberBob

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AW got paid though

Gonna have to skim through the thread for lolz

05-20-2017 , 03:40 PM

#1264

ScreaminAsian

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prediction:

steve bannon is the white house advisor currently under federal investigation rn. the russians used brightbart and infowars to spread disinformation and discredit the american media, steve bannon has been an agent for the russians for years.

05-20-2017 , 03:42 PM

#1265

SuperUberBob

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*cheers*

coup coup coup coup coup coup

05-20-2017 , 05:08 PM

#1266

ScreaminAsian

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prediction:

trump doesn't resign but is somehow removed from office, then goes on a tour of the country hosting anti-government rallies where he tells the people how swampy DC is and how no one can't trust it and all the other RT talking points

05-29-2017 , 09:04 PM

#1267

vixticator

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Quote:

Originally Posted by vixticator

Didn't even notice this thread until now. Zikzak is entirely correct, as far as what I would 'predict'. I said during the Republican primary when like 9 people were left Donald Trump was nothing less than an existential threat to the Republic itself (that the global order follows is a given). In the long thread I claimed that the only way to prevent such an outcome is nothing short of forced capitulation towards a constitutional truce... literally before inauguration day. This is a pipe dream, but it is not impossible.

The revolutionary left wants to fight, and so do many Trumpists. There's simply been no indication at any point during both the primary and the general that Donald Trump doesn't see himself as this brand of authoritarian leader. If you want to cite his victory speech, fine. But, uh, when he WASN'T running for POTUS he was praising authoritarian regimes crushing internal dissent.

Allow me to repeat myself: when he WASN'T running for POTUS he was praising authoritarian regimes crushing internal dissent. He genuinely admirers Vladimir Putin. This is not him leveraging a détente. It's just... not.

Republicans who are supposed to be our guardians of the constitutional and Global Order literally conceded to Donald Trump at every single stage. If you think they will fight later you are the king of fooldom in your personal domain. The reason they will capitulate at every turn is that Donald Trump is the voice of the people who elected him, and they aren't. Donald Trump has humiliated all of his confederates. Chris Christie and Mike Pence have been humiliated the most. not going to explain it. You either paid attention or not. Who humiliates their closest allies on big stages? It is not in good fun. We know what types of leaders do this. It's behavior exclusive to tyrants.

The einbert crowd is even more myopic than the domer crowd. Donald Trump did not seek to become president in order to rubber stamp Paul Ryan's agenda. He came to rule. Yes, I said rule. He's going to do **** like threaten the life of a sitting Senator within 6 months of office.

He will give the green light to law enforcement to commit atrocities everywhere civil unrest exists. If he's not immediately removed from office, the world ends in nuclear holocaust.

howdy how's life? good? cool. bye again.

05-29-2017 , 09:07 PM

#1268

Our House

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Originally Posted by vixticator

howdy how's life? good? cool. bye again.

Come back in 2 months. You might be wrong about the sitting Senator.

05-29-2017 , 09:08 PM

#1269

wiper

still catching up

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vixxx

05-29-2017 , 09:54 PM

#1270

vixticator

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Our House

Come back in 2 months. You might be wrong about the sitting Senator.

Heh.

**** is getting wild really, really fast. Domestic terrorism is accelerating rapidly. The administration condones all of it. The networks are growing stronger, they're getting bolder. All the clowns wishing that POTUS would condemn any of these activities are not currently, and never will pay attention. These are the loudest voices. Let's all talk about popcicles all weekend, all this horse****. The longer opposition forces sit on their hands, only letting free to write eulogies, uh, well, the administration is intentionally trying to provoke a civil war. Folks need to stop marching, start camping, start showing forcing acts. Waiting until peak crisis is unthinkable. However bad the downward spiral can and will become, people are refusing to acknowledge, refusing to act, and have decided to cross their fingers and wish upon a star every day.

Good luck with that.

But, it's worse. Oh, it's much worse.

The collapse of global order is alarming well beyond the level folks are concerned (that is: not at all). The USA is the most powerful global actor in world history. It is not close. Worldwide systemic failure of the post-WWII 'peace' is KIND OF a bad idea. Because, well, gee, I wonder why. Hmm. I'll have to think. COULD BE that this is a well studied field and the answer is [cliffs]: uh oh.

Other than that, life is great. Enjoy the NBA Finals.

Go Cavs.

05-29-2017 , 10:23 PM

#1271

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Originally Posted by LostOstrich

nailed it

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatkid

That post is amazing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LostOstrich

#withfewexceptions

lol

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

AW got paid though

Gonna have to skim through the thread for lolz

Jon E Favreau had a good line that went something like, 'trump is a low information voter who somehow became president.' I had a line that the reason these idiots predicted a trump win is because they their finger on the pulse of what all the idiots are thinking. I don't think any of this is a joke anymore; it's actually the inside knowledge they were working with.

07-06-2017 , 05:59 PM

#1272

ScreaminAsian

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Prediction:

trump will come out of his meeting with putin with the belief that russian sanctions are far too harsh for proper effective dealmaking. the kind of dealmaking donald trump just HAS to do. he's compelled to make deals, it's an art for him.

07-06-2017 , 06:05 PM

#1273

ScreaminAsian

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Prediction:

in a staged and fully-choreographed photo-op for russian media, donald trump allows vladimir putin to put him in a headlock and give him a noogie

07-06-2017 , 10:15 PM

#1274

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Quote:

Originally Posted by darthwager

so who ever posts the best meme with cnn and trump and infowars gets 20k deadline is next Friday. if you win i want a cut... gl gents.. and dont be afraid to quiote and share the post.

details of give away at 8:00 mins in