Prediction 2019 (a little late, and a total freakin' vanity)

various | January 1st, 2019, Belated Happy New Year! | various

[SunkenCiv]

Pretty much any subject, stupid humor is fine, general stupidity not so much, and please no snarking, that's directed at you snarky SOBs.

Someone used to do a thread like this every year, but, alas, he got banned. The good news (for me, anyway) is I just noticed that a really big butthole (not the same FReeper) got banned for NeverTrumping back in 2016, and I hadn't missed the ******* at all.

That got me thinking, because the predictions thread guy also got booted for NeverTrumpism, if memory serves (not sure, I think I'd already been kicked out for something else, and no, I've been on the Trump Train throughout the 2016 campaign and to this day), but I miss his predictions threads.

1. The wall will be begun and nearly completed by the end of 2019.
2. Legal challenges to the construction of the wall will fail.
3. Impeachment will fail so hard, it will never even get started.
4. The shutdown will continue until a substantial part of the wall gets built, and perhaps thereafter.
5. President Trump's popularity will grow the more the wall is completed.
6. President Trump will refuse to send US troops or other aid to Venezuela, citing our border wall as being the priority.
7. In Venezuela, there will be a civil war between factions of the military, one of which will initially support Maduro, then remove his ass. Iran and Russia will continue to be involved in Venezuelan affairs.
8. President Trump will withdraw US forces from Afghanistan as well as Iraq/Syria.
9. A half dozen or more nations will announce the move of their embassies in Israel to Jerusalem.
10. The Philippines's president Duterte will make an official visit to the US, for a meeting with President Trump.
11. The witch hunt against Israeli PM Netanyahu will end well for him, leaving him in better political shape than before. The 2019 elections will go well for him.
12. The Three Amigos (Russia, Iran, and Turkey) will continue to operate as a sort of triumvirat regarding Syria and to some degree Iraq. Three and a Half Amigos will continue to be used to refer to (in order) Putin, the Shiite-head, Erdogan, and Assad.
13. The BJP will wind up forming the next gov't in India (2019 is an election year there as well), despite a scare from the phony-baloney Gandhi family (she was the daughter of Nehru, and picked up the Gandhi surname from her husband who was unrelated to Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi).
14. In France, Macron will NOT step down, and the Yellow Vest protests will continue and increase.
15. A couple of national leaders will die in unrelated, separate plane crashes.
16. Discovery of the wreckage of MH370 will be announced three or four more times during 2019 (the newest one right now is that the plane was hjiacked but crashed near Madagascar).
17. SpaceX will launch humans into space for the first time -- aboard a Falcon 9 -- and dock with the ISS. The Falcon Heavy will be launched two or three times during 2019. The "hopper" version of the SpaceX "Starship" will begin testing in the last third of 2019.
18. At least one of the candidates will be ineligible because of foreign birth; at least one more will be ineligible due to age; Demwits despise the Constitution, so no surprise there.
19. The price of crude will slide all the way through the summer, at least.
20. Despite further decreases in the cost of gasoline/crude oil, General Electric (airliner engines), General Motors, and Ford stock will continue their downward spirals.
21. Despite further decreases in the cost of gasoline/crude oil, electric vehicles will soon become much more commonly seen throughout most of the US.
22. Apple, Inc. will introduce its first A-chip based MacOS product(s?) and an updated iPhone SE, both of which will sell well. The new model AirPods will be intro'd, will do okay, leading to a large, reasonably priced aftermarket for the original model.
23. Meanwhile, Samsung's spectacular $2000 phone will fail.
24. A large number of mobile phones manufactured in China will drop off the face of the US market (because they're undifferentiated and/or they are junk).
25. Netflix will have a very good year, all patriotic Americans will not enjoy that.
26. YouTube's $40-a-month subscription service will end, not with a bang but a whimper.
27. Twitter's board will finally rid itself of Twitter's founder, in an attempt to repair its reputation. Fail.
28. Facebook will experience serious competition for the first time; in the EU, it will be investigated and tried for monopolistic practices and fake "fake news" charges.
29. Laz will hit it.
30. President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) -- Pelosi called it a "scam" -- will expire December 31, 2025, IOW, during the first term of the next President.
31. Bottled water and various other non-carbonated beverages have (mostly) not had bottle/can deposits; the Demagogic Party will start a well-orchestrated campaign (with help from their media shills) to put deposts on all beverage containers.
32. Absolutely NOTHING of significance will be found by the Oak Island treasure hunters.
33. RBG will not remain on the SCOTUS by the end of 2019.
34. The "leadership" in the Demagogic Party is in a vice between the leftist insurgents supported by Soros, and their own inability to get anything done.
35. Fragmentation of the Demagogic Party will continue along racial and gender lines.
36. The number of Demwit candidates for the 2020 presidential primary season will rise as high as 20. Looks high, looks low, don't know what the spread is. :^)
37. At this point, Perdogg would be bringing up professional and college sports predictions, but I couldn't possibly give less of a **** than I do.

[SunkenCiv]

Here's the first page of search hits using "Prediction" in titles, in the FR search engine:

• Kamala Harris: Mum on Presidential Run, Border Wall prediction [01/08/2019 9:39:48 AM PST]
• Why Goldman Just Drastically Slashed Its Oil Price Prediction [01/07/2019 7:36:43 AM PST]
• My Prediction [01/04/2019 7:54:26 AM PST]
• 1019 first quarter prediction. [12/27/2018 12:23:49 PM PST]
• California Gov. Jerry Brown Issues Another Bogus Global Warming Prediction [11/21/2018 9:46:59 AM PST]
• VERY Nice Prediction, Mary Matalin... [11/05/2018 1:12:33 PM PST]
• vanity Prediction [11/03/2018 10:35:01 PM PDT]
• HA Goodman: My prediction (GOP retains House) will be right. (video) [11/02/2018 9:56:02 AM PDT]
• House of Representative, Election Prediction, Update 11/01/2018 [11/01/2018 4:44:24 PM PDT]
• Nate Silver: "Trumpian News Cycle" Makes 2018 Prediction Difficult; Expect "An October Surprise(tr) [10/21/2018 1:46:47 PM PDT]
• Prediction: Migrant Caravan Will Arrive at Border Timed to the Election [10/20/2018 5:05:34 PM PDT]
• House of Representative, Election Prediction [10/11/2018 6:14:41 PM PDT]
• Scarborough's Wild Prediction: Nikki Haley Running in 2020—Trump Isn't! [10/10/2018 4:42:03 AM PDT]
• Katie Pavlich: "Prediction: Senator Lindsey Graham is going to Attorney General and Nikki Haley..." [10/09/2018 10:46:24 AM PDT]
• Time for a prediction thread on the vote. Place yer bets! [10/04/2018 10:13:18 AM PDT]
• Mid-Term Prediction: HUGE RED WAVE to Hit America After Disgusting Kavanaugh Attacks … [10/02/2018 7:31:00 AM PDT]
• Prediction: Future Supreme Court nominees will have minimal Senate hearings. [09/26/2018 1:13:45 PM PDT]
• vanity - Prediction Thread.... [09/21/2018 11:57:06 AM PDT]
• Natie “The Nebbish” Silver’s prediction of 35 seat Democrat pickups is an unsupported lie [08/17/2018 11:18:35 AM PDT]
• What You Need to Know About the Growth and Influence of Political Prediction Betting [08/08/2018 2:36:56 PM PDT]

[SunkenCiv]

2019 predictions

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[SunkenCiv]

Probably the plane landed on North Andaman, and the xenophobic isolated sociopathic tribe which lives on the island killed the crew and passengers.

Pilot calls for new search for missing MH370 around Madagascar as he claims flight was hijacked

[TADSLOS]

#29 is a given. Hardly a prediction.

[SunkenCiv]

Natie “The Nebbish” Silver’s prediction of 35 seat Democrat pickups is an unsupported lie
vanity | August 17, 2018 | By Kevin Collins
Posted on 08/17/2018 11:18:35 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3680034/posts

[SunkenCiv]

He talks a good game, but I don't think he's hittin' it as much as he wants.

[SunkenCiv]

and, from some wangdoodle:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3663681/posts

[arthurus]

RBG will not remain on the SCOTUS by the end of 2019.

Unless the Democrats can hide her demise which they will try to do through November 2020 or until the Senate determines that a SCOTUS appointment has to wait for the next President. RGB can be kept "alive" but sending in her opinions andeven questions to attorneys by email. She doesn't have to actually be present. I believe she has already done that once and Oliver Wendell Holmes did it for a while though he used snail mail as email wasn't reliable back then.

[Redcitizen]

14.In France, Macron will NOT step down, and the Yellow Vest protests will continue and increase.

Protests still going on.

[SunkenCiv]

What's Going On With SpaceX's Stainless Steel Starship?

[SunkenCiv]

SpaceX successfully test fires Falcon 9 rocket for Dragon 2
by Staff Writers
Los Angeles (Sputnik) Jan 28, 2019
(Crew Dragon/Dragon 2, launch delayed until no earlier than February 16)
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SpaceX_successfully_test_fires_Falcon_9_rocket_for_Dragon_2_999.html

Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
January 25, 2019
Stephen Clark
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/01/25/falcon-9-rocket-fires-engines-in-key-test-ahead-of-crew-dragon-demo-flight/

[SunkenCiv]

• Egypt's rights record seen as worse than under Mubarak: Macron
• SKULL CRACK - Cop Needlessly Strikes Down Female Yellow Vest with Baton, Cheap Shot

[entropy12]

Bump on #13

I own a few oil stocks, so hope the price of oil goes north hehe..

#21 : electric cars are due for a rude shock when battery replacement will become necessary.

#33 : RBG will kept alive with a breathing machine and a food tube until January 2021. Democraps will have a cow if Trump gets to replace her.

Predictions plus $3:50 will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

[Redcitizen]

I agree that was a cheap shot.

If the yellow vests had guns, they would make more progress.

[Redcitizen]

[SunkenCiv]

“a rude shock” — cute.

Solid State Batteries Just Around the Corner?
June 4, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTcFsJas2LU

Solid State Batteries - has Goodenough nailed it again??
Oct 7, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLxkO0w6B4

Panasonic says solid-state batteries are still 10 years off
Eric C. Evarts
Nov 15, 2018
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1119946_panasonic-says-solid-state-batteries-are-still-10-years-off

China starts solid-state battery production, pushing energy density higher
Fred Lambert
Nov. 20th 2018
https://electrek.co/2018/11/20/china-production-solid-state-batteries/

Solid-state batteries ready to debut in home appliances
TDK reduces the devices to fingertip-size, with the ability to recharge 1,000 times
MASAYA SATO, Nikkei staff writer
November 22, 2018
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Trends/Solid-state-batteries-ready-to-debut-in-home-appliances

(the subtitle on the first one, from August, is “ just received a small sample Solid State Battery and it works!”)

[SunkenCiv]

If they'd just gang up on and kill some of the gubmint thugs with their bare hands, they also would make progress, because there'd be no one willing to defend the Imperium.

[SunkenCiv]

MH370 latest: Debris washed up on Madagascar beach ‘most likely’ from missing flight
Sophie Williams
Monday 7 January 2019
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/debris-washed-up-on-madagascar-beach-most-likely-from-missing-flight-mh370-according-to-malaysian-a4031906.html

MH370 news: Will items found in Madagascar finally SOLVE Malaysia Airlines mystery?
By Ciaran McGrath
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1052030/mh370-malaysia-airlines-madagascar-mystery-australia

[SunkenCiv]

As bad as the book was (there was a sequel, even worse), the movie was truly awful.

[Redcitizen]

Compared to the stuff that we see in theaters today, that movie was okay. But I must confess I do like some cheesy sci fi movies. I’ll probably be first in line for the latest Godzilla movie coming out soon.