It is notoriously difficult to predict the future, as evidenced
by the fact that predictions of election results should not be taken as Gospel,
even though people like Nate Silver often do better than other pollsters.
The best known “‘future predictor” during my lifetime was
Jeanne Dixon. Among other things, she predicted the assassination of JFK. Like Nostradamus,
she also had a lot of misses, including the fact that she predicted that Nixon
would win in 1960.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Dixon
In
the years since the publication of his Les Prophéties, Nostradamus
has attracted many supporters, who, along with some of the popular press,
credit him with having accurately predicted many major world events.
Academic
sources reject the notion that Nostradamus had any genuine supernatural
prophetic abilities and maintain that the associations made between world
events and Nostradamus's quatrains are the result of (sometimes deliberate)
misinterpretations or mistranslations.
These
academics also argue that Nostradamus's predictions are characteristically
vague, meaning they could be applied to virtually anything, and are useless for
determining whether their author had any real prophetic powers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus
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One of the newsletters I get occasionally is VOX, which just
published its hit and misses about 2024.
The folks at Vox made 24 predictions about 2024, and they got
it right 14 out of 24 times, for a winning percentage of .583.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/391440/2024-predictions-revisited-trump-politics-tech
I’m not smarter than anyone else but I will make a few predictions
about what is likely to happen in 2025 and beyond:
1)
Donald Trump will not finish his first term in
office. Either he’ll die in office, be removed by Congress, or thrown out by
our military leaders, so we won’t have to tolerate him for 4 more years.
2)
Inflation and unemployment will rise
3)
The Kansas City Chiefs will win the Superbowl
again, and possibly more than once
4)
The Democrats will regain both the House and the
Senate
5)
Sales of electric vehicles will be 15% of all
vehicle sales (up from 8.9% in 2024
6)
A new pope will be elected. (Pope Francis turned
88 years old in December. Since 2021, he has experienced a series of health
issues.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis#Health
7)
Iran will experience a change in leadership
8)
Pierre Trudeau will no longer be the Prime
Minister after November
9)
The U.S. government will nearly get shut down (again)
but will be saved by a bipartisan agreement of Democrats and non-MAGA
Republicans
10Cars
made in China and sold in America will exceed 200,000
(Volvo, Buick, Lincoln, Polestar and Cadillac currently sell cars
in America that are made in China)
Now that I have made MY predictions, what do YOU think will
happen in 2005?
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