I predict that there will be a movie where the characters wear masks and socially distance. It'll be like an artsy indie movie about how we live in a society and you'll watch it because everyone will be sharing their takes and you don't wanna be out of the loop and the movie will be ok.

  • OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Some of my predictions

    • COVID relief bill early on after Biden's inauguration which will just be tax credits and at the expense of that senile old ghoul getting to finally defund Social Security or at the bare minimum, medicaid instead. This will be the first of many grievances of Biden's presidency which will lead to people saying "at least with Trump I got a $1,200 check."

    • More unemployment, more evictions and jobs getting shut down due to the pandemic. Government won't do anything about it, which will lead to a lot of grievances with Biden's administration.

    • Biden/Harris bipartisanship bill with the GOP to extend the PATRIOT Act and NDAA in mass efforts to squash the protest movement. Hard to really make guesses at what the bill will say, but it will be extreme measures that ensures military police even more rights when it comes to showing brutal force to protesters. My guess is that they'll try to criminalize the phrase ACAB and the bill argues that the chanting of the phrase will be a threat of domestic terrorism and/or pushing for life imprisonment threats to protesters detained.

    • Sometime during the year, another murder of an unarmed black man by police which will instigate new protests and potential riots which will lead to Biden getting on television and calling them THUGS and LOOTERS. Liberals online will openly cheer for the protests to be arrested.

    • By the fall, a lot of grievances with Biden and his austerity being pushed out and how life has only gotten worse in the first year of his presidency. He will be unpopular by that point, I have no doubt. Around this time, I expect a lot of Trump whitewashing with talks about how "he wasn't that bad, it was the coronavirus that made everything go to hell". I expect something like this, cause Biden don't have the charisma of Obama and Dems are expected to actually do something, which we know they won't.

    • captchaintherye [any]
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      COVID relief bill early on after Biden’s inauguration which will just be tax credits and at the expense of that senile old ghoul getting to finally defund Social Security or at the bare minimum, medicaid instead. This will be the first of many grievances of Biden’s presidency which will lead to people saying “at least with Trump I got a $1,200 check.”

      I have a feeling that a lot of people with normie politics or just not plugged in as us, are going to look back at April and May and the stimulus and $600 PUA payments as "the good old days" (not necessarily tying it to Trump and liking Trump, just that's how bad Biden is going to be)

      The $1,200 stimulus, I think, is a perfect microcosm of the Biden/Trump dynamic. You had libs persuading lefties to vote for Trump because Trump is so horrible, but Trump did a small handful of things, like the stimulus, which was just fucking crumbs and sucked and should not be congratulated for it, but it's more than I think Biden is going to do. Or trying to pull out of Afghanistan and the Pentagon won't let him, while Biden will be fully on board.

      There's nothing about Trump that's good, but he would occasionally get his dick caught in the fan of right-wing creep because he's so fucking stupid, and any attempt he'd make at "presidenting" would occasionally cause chaos. Biden, by contrast, is probably going to seal himself in his senility bunker on Day One and hand the keys to the country over some John Bolton/Jamie Dimo-esque neoliberal nightmare. Which will increase the efficiency of the death machine one hundred fold.

      I think shit is gonna get way worse under Biden, not because Trump is good, but because Trump is fucking stupid and fucked things up just enough to prevent apocalypse. The same vile ghouls will be in place running things but they will have a president who's cooperative and not a monkey wrench now.