Post your 2016 Predictions here

[rjh01]

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 predictions for 2016.

My predictions are generally so wrong I should say what I do not want to happen as my predictions.

1. Federal election will happen. Liberals will win easily.
2. SSM will not happen in Australia.
3. IS will still be a major terrorist group.
4. Iraq will still have many foreign soldiers.

 

[shemp]

5. Donald Trump's remaining hair will fall out. He will cover it up with a live muskrat. He will win the nomination and name the muskrat as his running mate.
6. Ben Carson and his messianic complex will run an independent candidacy.
7. The New England Patriots and Tom Brady will win another Super Bowl. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will claim that Brady's jockstrap was overinflated and suspend him again. The case will drag on all summer, until Brady goes nude on TV and proves he's got the goods to fill it.

 

[Sherlock]

Not a single psychic will publicly go on record before me (and not likely before Christmas 2015) accurately predicting the day Malaysia flight 370 will be found, nor publicly on the record cite an accurate location within 50 square miles of the planes larger fuselage section. My best guess: May 4, 2016 (this date is based at the area of recovery), with a longitude and latitude near (-34.741612, 94.735107), matching GPS coordinates at 34° 44' 29.8032'' S94° 44' 6.3852'' E.

 

[shemp]

Not a single psychic will publicly go on record before me (and not likely before Christmas 2015) accurately predicting the day Malaysia flight 370 will be found, nor publicly on the record cite an accurate location within 50 square miles of the planes larger fuselage section. My best guess: May 4, 2016 (this date is based at the area of recovery), with a longitude and latitude near (-34.741612, 94.735107), matching GPS coordinates at 34° 44' 29.8032'' S94° 44' 6.3852'' E.

I'll go with the antipodes of that location.

 

[Crossbow]

I have two 2016 predictions:

The first is that Donald Trump will appear in Sharknado 4 thereby making this film the best film of all time.

The second is that potato dicking will be continue to be seen on the Forum.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I predict 2016 will end on or about Jan. 1, 2017.

 

[Trebuchet]

Barrack HUSSEIN Obama will declare martial law and make himself President for Life, using his armies of Mooslims hidden in the national parks and ghetto gangbangers. Or not.

OK, seriously:
Someone will be elected POTUS. If it's Trump, I'll be looking for real estate in Victoria, BC.
The middle east will continue to be a mess.
SpaceX will launch some rockets. NASA's SLS will continue going nowhere fast.

 

[John Jones]

I have been making the same prediction for 18 years, and I have never been wrong:

Planet X will not show up in 2016. Nancy and the Zetas wrong again!

 

[Cosmic Yak]

1. FEMA death camps. For sure. Got to be. Alex Jones has predicted this will happen any day now, for the last 400 years. Surely this time he'll get it right.
2. All the skeptibunkerdenialistpoopyheads will be stunned into silence by a David Attenborough-style broadcast from a softly-talking, camouflage-clad presenter sitting among a family of Bigfoots as they strip the bark from trees and eat it like cotton candy.
3. More seriously, marijuana will continue to be legalised across the globe.
4. Daesh will continue to attract recruits, especially as western leaders continue to believe that bombing Syria will somehow simultaneously defeat Daesh in the field and diminish the feelings of persecution by the west prevalent among the world's Muslims.
5. Donald Trump.

 

[rjh01]

All this talk about Donald Trump. He will be the USA's next president.

 

[captain koolaid]

Platform shoes, bellbottom trousers and wing collared shirts will come back in style. As will the phrase... "jive turkey".

You heard it here first, groovy guys and foxy chicks.

 

[arthwollipot]

I actually dug out my Tarot cards for this and made a three-card draw, representing the past, present and future. Since the entire reading is for the future though, the interpretation is how the past and present will influence the future.

For the past, I drew the Six of Wands. This card represents setting off on an undertaking - gathering your strength and going on a voyage, with a difficult challenge at the end of it but also potentially great rewards for those who are bold and strong.

For the present, the Star. This major arcana shows a beacon or guiding light - an influence from outside us that shows us the proper direction that we should go. We follow the Star not because we are forced to but because we know it shows us the way home.

For the present, the Queen of Swords. This queen is strong, intelligent and resourceful. She carries a sword, but she prefers to think her way through her problems. She is a strong leader, and will go to war if she has to, but only if she has to.

These cards have shown be that the world has become tired of war. It will of course still be necessary, but the wars in the Middle East and Africa will take up less of our attention as our leaders shift our focus to home. Strong female leaders will emerge.

Here are my specific predictions:

• Equal marriage will become law in Australia, as it will in many other countries that do not currently recognise it.
• Foreign intervention in the wars in the Middle East will be drawn down. ISIS will slow their expansion and consolidate their core areas.
• Hilary Clinton will win the US election. Other female leaders will rise across the world.
• Focus will be renewed on aid and development. Foreign aid budgets will begin to increase again across the world.
• More movies, TV shows and video games will be published that have strong feminist themes and powerful female characters. Someone in the MRA movement will be prompted to propose an equivalent of the Bechdel Test for men. He will be loudly derided on social media.

 

[Trebuchet]

You've got two "presents". I assume the second one is the future. I was going to put in Hillary as the Queen of Swords but I think that's where you've gone anyhow.

 

[arthwollipot]

You've got two "presents". I assume the second one is the future.

Agh! Braino! Yes, the second one is the future.

 

[arthwollipot]

I was going to put in Hillary as the Queen of Swords but I think that's where you've gone anyhow.

Hilary is the Queen of Swords, but so also are a lot of other people. For example, this spread suggests to me that Bill Shorten will resign as the leader of the Australian Labor Party and Tanya Plibersek will lead the party into the next election.

I don't think that's the case - I think Albo will take it instead, but Plibersek (or maybe even Penny Wong) could be the Queen of Swords. I'd vote for Penny.

 

[Loss Leader]

First, a look at my 2015 predictions:

2015:

1. A sequel will become the largest opening-week US grossing movie ever (non-adjusted dollars).

An absolute hit. Both the number 1 and 2 movies this year were sequels: Jurassic World and Star Wars.

2. A celebrity's injury will cause California to pass a strict paparazzi law.

Nope.

3. Jeb Bush will spend the entire year being coy about whether he's running for President.

Well, this is a hit if you consider Jeb's low energy campaign as coy. Most people just call it losing.

4. A North Korean sub will sink under mysterious circumstances.

No, even if you count this.

5. Natalie Portman will dump her loser husband, run off with me and we will raise her baby Jewish.

This did not happen.


And now for 2016:

1. US and Russian ground forces will directly exchange gunfire.

2. A gun bill will pass into law and quickly be suspended by several federal courts.

3. The World Series will be won by Toronto.

4. The TV show "Fuller House" will be horrible.

5. Jimmy Carter will die.

6. The Best Picture and Best Director Oscars will be for different movies.

7. I will personally hand Amy Adams a fifty dollar bill.

 

[Axxman300]

China's economy will tank, sending the US election spinning in a different direction.

El Nino will cost the western US billions of dollars in damage.

 

[Aridas]

The world as we know it now will come to an end.

 

[leafman91]

Not a single psychic will publicly go on record before me (and not likely before Christmas 2015) accurately predicting the day Malaysia flight 370 will be found, nor publicly on the record cite an accurate location within 50 square miles of the planes larger fuselage section.

Well, not with that attitude

My predictions:

Donald Trump will crash and burn shortly before the GOP primaries wrap up. If he does it in Florida then he and Newt Gingrich can like, form a club.

North Korea will threaten "grave and serious consequences" for the United States and South Korea in response to the USA's annual joint military excercises with South Korea in the area

Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic Nomination

The world will not end. Because I said so.

I will consider starting anew with a fresh username for this site. It's been 6 years since my last visit! Note, I do not hope to predict my final decision.

Some of the frogs in my garden will die.

Elder Scolls VI: Argonia will be released towards the end of the year, around November-ish. A new Call Of Duty will be released, for the last time.

My head will get worse, and then better.

Half-Life 3 will be announced as in development.

There will be a moderate-to-major earthquake on the San Andreas faultline. Not "The Big One", but big enough to cause some major property damage and garner some media attention.

Kim Dotcom will attempt to flee from extradition by doing some very illegal things. His success is not guaranteed.

There's gonna be another mass-shooting in America. I don't predict this out of spite, but merely out of expectation that the trend will continue.

New Zealand will have one of the coldest winters since records began, which will manifest some weeks later as a a dip in our national economy.

Justin Bieber will attempt to recover his own brand image and reinvent himself as a more mature, respectable artist. All bets are off on whether this succeeds.

The scientific community will eventually discover upon a hypothesis on the nature of physics which allows for faster-than-light travel, which neatly fits most of the evidence already available for existing physics models. It will be the subject of ridicule and controversy for the next few decades.

Someone, inevitably, will be outraged on the internet.

...that's all I got.

 

[leafman91]

I dunno, if I were to come back here, would it do me good to keep the same username? I've sort of grown out of it, but accompanied with it are all the arguments and philosophisms and mistakes and memories of my previous time here.

One the one hand, I'm sure I can find a name that sounds less silly, 6 years onward. On the other, I don't really want to discard the past that I have here. It may not be shining, or even very good, but it holds lessons by example. And it holds a little part of me, of who I was.

Also omg I just saw my tagline under the post and remembered that song existed.