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kentuck

(111,098 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:34 AM Jan 2017

What do you predict for the country six months from now?

Will we be in another war?

Will Donald Trump have lost even more credibility than he already has?

Will the economy be booming?

Will Trump still be friends with Putin?

Will Trump still be President?

Will there be a replacement for Obamacare (ACA)?

Will his Cabinet be intact or will some have resigned?

Will Trump be doing much better than anyone now thinks?

Will Hillary Clinton be investigated again?

What prediction do you have for six months down the road?

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What do you predict for the country six months from now? (Original Post) kentuck Jan 2017 OP
Complete division, financial crisis, a constitutional crisis of some kind, and on the verge of war. CanonRay Jan 2017 #1
I don't have a time line but my predictions are: Botany Jan 2017 #2
+1, very close to mine... the market is triple topped already... a sign of a drop.... how in the hel uponit7771 Jan 2017 #9
the courts are going to be buried in lawsuits and challenges nini Jan 2017 #3
Chaos, here and around the world. highplainsdem Jan 2017 #4
I will give it a shot DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #5
Chaos, total chaos milestogo Jan 2017 #6
I predict by next 'WEEK', the media and Dems will have huge guilt feelings... dmosh42 Jan 2017 #7
+1, the M$M keeps ignoring the emolument clause because they're too stupid to understand it... uponit7771 Jan 2017 #11
Nothing good Sherman A1 Jan 2017 #8
impossible to predict hollowdweller Jan 2017 #10
Just like the first six months of Hoover's administration (when both KingCharlemagne Jan 2017 #12
Confusion...undeclared civil war. MFM008 Jan 2017 #13
I think our democratic institutions will weaken much quicker than we suspect... First Speaker Jan 2017 #14
I think the GOP will remove him at right around the 6 month mark, Chemisse Jan 2017 #15
If he joins with the dems on min wage, health care and trade they will hollowdweller Jan 2017 #16
Times are much too unpredictable for such long range forecasts. bluedigger Jan 2017 #17
bread lines and tent camps Bonx Jan 2017 #18
Hmm. My tarot cards read... haele Jan 2017 #19
The key will be the headlines: MrScorpio Jan 2017 #20
It's going to be a long hot summer of civil unrest. hunter Jan 2017 #21
: Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2017 #22

CanonRay

(14,103 posts)
1. Complete division, financial crisis, a constitutional crisis of some kind, and on the verge of war.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:38 AM
Jan 2017

"It'll be great!"

Botany

(70,508 posts)
2. I don't have a time line but my predictions are:
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:39 AM
Jan 2017

The market will drop

The economy will shrink

The dollar will drop in value

Trump Hotels will be targets for terror attacks

We will be in a shooting war

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
9. +1, very close to mine... the market is triple topped already... a sign of a drop.... how in the hel
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:55 AM
Jan 2017

... hell does Benedict Donald beat 4.6% UE rate with a rising LFPR.. and a falling U6.

The GDP wont shrink right away but in 6 months we'll see a level off at LEAST especially if the Treasury decides to up bond rates. This would happen under Clinton too but she would not have her head up her ass and at least put out a plan to keep the GDP from falling too much. Trump will do a GDP kick but it'll be tax breaks to rich people which we all know how that works.... it doesn't.

I give the dollar the same amount of time before a drop but that's only if other countries don't start piling into again because of uncertainty globally because MiniPoot tweeted something stupid.

Trump hotels internationally will be a year before someone lets off a stink bomb in one or something.

The shooting war will be what Trump calls for after the false flag event... no one likes this guy



nini

(16,672 posts)
3. the courts are going to be buried in lawsuits and challenges
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:41 AM
Jan 2017

With California leading the way.

The cabinet picks will go away after they've been able to sell of assets tax free.



DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
5. I will give it a shot
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:42 AM
Jan 2017

What do you predict for the country six months from now?

Will we be in another war? NO

Will Donald Trump have lost even more credibility than he already has? YES

Will the economy be booming? NO *

Will Trump still be friends with Putin? YES

Will Trump still be President? NO

Will there be a replacement for Obamacare (ACA)? N0

Will his Cabinet be intact or will some have resigned? RESIGNATIONS

Will Trump be doing much better than anyone now thinks? NO

Will Hillary Clinton be investigated again?

What prediction do you have for six months down the road?

* Manufacturing only comprises 8.8% of jobs. There are only so much one offs he can do.

dmosh42

(2,217 posts)
7. I predict by next 'WEEK', the media and Dems will have huge guilt feelings...
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jan 2017

as they fail to challenge Trump on 'emolument clause', as Trump tells everyone to "go fu-- themselves" and continues on his way to make us
a third world nation.

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
11. +1, the M$M keeps ignoring the emolument clause because they're too stupid to understand it...
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:57 AM
Jan 2017

... or they're already bending over because they want access to his Band Of Bigots.

These people don't understand why and how much they sucketh

 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
10. impossible to predict
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:57 AM
Jan 2017

It could come out Trump is a russian plan and we'll have president Pence. Worse.

Trump could get us in a trade war with China and Mexico and their embargo of US agricultural goods and coal could screw 2 constituencies that voted for him.

We could have large numbers of troops on the ground in Syria and be looting oil from them with Russia.

Could be on the more democratic elements Trump has said about min wage, health and drug costs, protecting SS and medicare Trump defies his party and good things happen. Then the GOP uses what he dems won't impeaches him and we have Pence.

I DO think that whatever secrets that have dems so upset now, but that they won't use to stop him from being elected, that if he indulges in his more populist tendencies and works with dems over corporations his own party will not hesitate to use the same stuff on him.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
12. Just like the first six months of Hoover's administration (when both
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 12:11 PM
Jan 2017

bodies of Congress had Repuke majorities). irrational exuberance will have pushed markets to historic highs, so even shoeshine boys start buying stocks on margin and touting stock picks. And then comes October. All radical leftists (self included) will be disappeared, interned or underground. Pogroms underway or ready to be launched on Latinos, Muslims, possibly Asians, possibly blacks and Jews, probably LGBTQ.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
14. I think our democratic institutions will weaken much quicker than we suspect...
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 12:19 PM
Jan 2017

...no one predicted, on January 30, 1933, what was coming almost immediately. The Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act, the Night of the Long Knives--the German people, of course, didn't vote for all *that*. Of course not! And for those who say that America in 2017 isn't Germany in 1933, that *our* democracy is too strong for that to happen...well, the last 20 years have weakened liberal democracy. A lot. We'll see. I am very pessimistic. It could all collapse before we know it.

Chemisse

(30,813 posts)
15. I think the GOP will remove him at right around the 6 month mark,
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 12:33 PM
Jan 2017

Things will be an insane mess by then, and they will impeach him before he can do any more damage.

 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
16. If he joins with the dems on min wage, health care and trade they will
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 12:37 PM
Jan 2017

I can see him threatening to veto SS or Medicare reform if it would be unpopular and the GOP then using what the dems will not to remove him.

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
17. Times are much too unpredictable for such long range forecasts.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 12:44 PM
Jan 2017

Will we have a country this time tomorrow night?

haele

(12,657 posts)
19. Hmm. My tarot cards read...
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 12:54 PM
Jan 2017

Will we be in another war?
Not an international war, but an internal one; Trump's more virulent deplorables are going to get antsy and start pulling domestic terrorist shit because either they think they've got the green light to bash heads or they're not seeing the change they wanted to happen quickly enough. The rest of the world is, for the most part just going to sit back and watch us flail internally while they go about working on their own strategic goals.

Will Donald Trump have lost even more credibility than he already has?
Yes

Will the economy be booming?
No, it will be starting to contract, between inflation and uncertainty.

Will Trump still be friends with Putin?
He thinks he will. Putin will have abandoned him by then, going on to the next country to destabilize.

Will Trump still be President?
In Name and Signature only.

Will there be a replacement for Obamacare (ACA)?
No.

Will his Cabinet be intact or will some have resigned?
Half his Cabinet will still be open as appointees drop out or will still be in hearings.

Will Trump be doing much better than anyone now thinks?
No, he will be continuing to delegate and spending too much time either at his "I love Me" rallies or at his resorts and properties doing personal business.

Will Hillary Clinton be investigated again?
Yes, in a futile attempt to distract public opinion.

What prediction do you have for six months down the road?
The United States will be in a holding pattern while the GOP experiences serious infighting now that the figurative dog has finally caught the car.
They think they had a plan, but since most are fellow travelers rather than true believers, everyone's personal psychopathic agendas will be out in the open, and they're all going to be fighting over spoils.

Haele

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
20. The key will be the headlines:
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 01:03 PM
Jan 2017

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FDT.

hunter

(38,313 posts)
21. It's going to be a long hot summer of civil unrest.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:16 PM
Jan 2017

The inauguration protests are just a preview of what's ahead.

If the Republicans try to shut down recent progress in civil rights -- everything from inquiries into police violence and water quality, from legal abortion, from LGBT marriage, from legal cannabis, to the ACA -- then all hell is going to break loose, especially if police and National Guard respond with violence.

If anything good comes of this horror, it may be that the Republican Party will be severely damaged.

I'm not sure anything bad will happen to Trump. His handlers will have learned to handle him. He will be a compliant figurehead President as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were. That's the way the Republican Party likes them.

As Obama has been one of our nation's great Presidents, a true leader, fiercely intellectual and competent, Trump will be among our worst Presidents; a loser and a patsy. He's already become a tool, a puppet of the vipers who engineered his election.

Trump seems to have some major health issues. If he manages to survive the next four years he'll be a recluse in retirement.

Obama will still be a powerful force in politics, domestically and internationally, graciously accepting the torch Jimmy Carter has carried so brilliantly.

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