http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2893233Bouncy Ball Sat Jan-01-05 09:08 PM
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Your predictions for the bush administration for the year 2005?
Edited on Sat Jan-01-05 09:11 PM by Bouncy Ball
Post 'em here!
Be Brave (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-01-05 09:11 PM
nce, it's pure speculation, but it will be like the Republican revolution of the mid-1990s
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pamela Sat Jan-01-05 09:27 PM
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10. I predict...
Bush will appear in public badly bruised, once again, sometime within the first 3 months of '05. This will be followed by another lame-assed pretzel/bike excuse but suspicions will be raised about his health. There will be another incident this summer which will result in MSM attention. August will be spent with tabloid-like speculation about his mental health and drinking. In September, Bush will reveal a "medical" explanation. The public will be stunned that the condition was known before the election and kept from the American people but the MSM will spin it as an act of courage. Most of Dumbfuckistan will buy this but doubts will linger.
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eSTIV Sat Jan-01-05 10:24 PM
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14. The Korean Peninsula
Expect an upswing of saber-rattling and tension as we prepare our return to Indo-China.
Fuck you, George.
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two gun sid Sat Jan-01-05 11:08 PM
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15. I think I'll
go with the Arab astrologer that said chimp would die.
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Miami Liberal Sat Jan-01-05 11:32 PM
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16. Bush* will self destruct
I'm dedicating this post to him because it's my 666th post.
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0007 Sun Jan-02-05 07:48 AM
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18. junior, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the whole flock are arrested for war crimes
Edited on Sun Jan-02-05 07:56 AM by 0007
and sent to the Hague to rot. Ann Coulter becomes the new ice skating sensation or pool shooting champ.
The World begins to like America a little better.
Inside dope from Drudge Nostradamus!
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peacebird Sun Jan-02-05 08:00 AM
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19. my most fervent hope is that the lot of them be tried for war crimes
but even in my wildest dreams i just don't see it happening. but i fully expect bushco to wildly overreach in the coming year since they seem convinced they have a "mandate" - in so doing they will further alienate the rest of the world and all but the blindest followers.
the rest of the world may decide to cut their losses and let the dollar and the US sink into the crapper, perhaps feeling that the Asian and European markets can prevent global economic catastrophe.
in the US there will be further economic hardship, a recession if not depression.
oh - and i think bush will look for ways to shut down the internet except for "shopping" and business. he won't be able to do this of course, but he will certainly try.
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Pegleg Thd Sun Jan-02-05 08:47 AM
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20. One thing for sure
Anything that does happen this year will Not be good for the average 'merican.........................
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The_brave_48_percent Sun Jan-02-05 04:29 PM
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23. My prediction
has ne1 ever seen the movie "DR. Strangelove"
that is our future
goodbye world...i hardly knew ya
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deadparrot Sun Jan-02-05 04:35 PM
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24. Another invasion, and a draft.
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Zech Marquis Sun Jan-02-05 04:39 PM
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25. my predictions
1) hate to say this, but Iraq will simply fall into civil war. even more death and destruction for all involved...
2) the US economy and stock market will crash-HARD. The Dollar wil become as useful as toilet paper...
3) the GOP will split--hell it's already started!
4) some kind of national tax hike (sales tax likely), presented as doing the "right thing" :puke:
* might not finish 2005 in office--I just don't see another 4 complete years of his fucking up things...
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knight_of_the_star Sun Jan-02-05 05:01 PM
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26. I see the beginnings of a new revolution
People will get sick of the bullshit coming out of his mouth and Congress will swing solidly against him. Impeachment hearing for Bush and the rest of his cabinet will begin, and by mid to late 2007 the whole lot will be sent to the Hague to stand trial for their crimes.
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indepat Sun Jan-02-05 05:27 PM
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27. Dollar down, gold and silver up, stock market down after a short
honeymoon, economy sags, morale down, antipathy for the US up. See, only a genius could have sorted all this out.
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adigal Wed Jan-05-05 05:01 AM
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31. Moderates who voted for Bush will run...fast!!!!
All of those who voted for Bush who are moderates will be horrified at what they have wrought and many will run away. Look how his approval rating has fallen already, and that was before his tsunami gaffe. He is going to go down and down, and then memos re: torture and his approval will surface, and moderates repubs will not want to go down for him.
He will not serve a full term.
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Indiana_Dem Fri Dec-31-04 09:52 PM
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1. Ok I'll predict
I'll predict:
1. the oil will be up to at $60/barrel by this time next year preceded by a price dip for awhile this year sometime.
2. We will not be out of Iraq by this time next year
3. The Senior Citizens of this country will realize they've been tricked regarding the Medicare Prescription Drug program.
4. The price of clothing will drop due to the end of the textile trade importing laws with China expiring tonight and many in the U.S. will lose jobs because of it. (heard on the news today)
5. Half of this country will still be asleep and think Bush is the greatest.
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driver8 Sat Jan-01-05 12:28 AM
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5. Art Bell often does week-ends on Coast to Coast.
My predictions:
Some how, some way...Bush is going down.
NY Yankees will not win World Series with Randy Johnson.
Pittsburgh Steelers will win Super Bowl.
I will reach 1,000 posts on DU.
Bush is going down.
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fortyfeetunder Fri Dec-31-04 10:29 PM
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3. I'll predict
BAD NEWS
1) Stock market crash, taking the Dow below 5000, and NASDAQ to about 1000 mid-year.
2) Retribution atttack in Iraq resulting in deaths of >100 US servicepeople.
3) Cheney has serious medical condition which may force him to resign.
4) The draft will be reinstated by May 2005.
GOOD NEWS
1) HIV vaccine clears test trials
2) Bush's idea to privatize SS is thwarted permanently. Is told behind the scenes he is an effing dipshit to ever have suggested that.
3) Bush has to repeal tax cuts.
4) Kenny Boy Lay gets his ass thrown in jail.
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DBoon Fri Dec-31-04 10:31 PM
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4. The Euro wil be at $1.50
- We will have bombed suspected nuclear facilities in Iran
- People who are neither Muslim nor of Middle Eastern descent will be detained without access to attorneys on undisclosed charges.
- The author of a best selling work critical of Bush will be found dead of "suicide"
- The FDA will declare that arsenic is an essential nutrient, and will allow unlimited amounts of it in well water in states that voted Democratic
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jdots Sat Jan-01-05 01:01 AM
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6. here are a few
#1 The neocons will march thru the world leaving a trail of destruction till infighting disrupts the action.
#2 Americans of all political and " Kultural " camps will realize why the crash of 1929 was called a " Depression" and ended because there were no anti-depressants at the time.
#3 The bad sci fi plot that has become the reality of the world will be changed to plot # 6a= Earthlings become a food sorce for an advanced life form the center of the galaxy called the " Trickle Downs "
#4 M.T.V.'s new show " The Real World Life on the Street "
gets pulled after 3 weeks of very low ratings .
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Eric J in MN Tue Dec-28-04 01:31 AM
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1. Both New York, NY and St. Paul, MN elect new mayor (nt)
Edited on Tue Dec-28-04 01:31 AM by Eric J in MN
nt
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Elise (289 posts) Tue Dec-28-04 01:32 AM
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2. Concerning national 'events':
I predict a further swing to the right in the USA before the pendulum effect takes hold and we begin the turnaround. This will (hopefully) occur in time for the 2006 elections.
Personally, I predict I will be married (for the 2nd time) by the end of 2005.
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Selatius Tue Dec-28-04 01:39 AM
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3. My predictions: Same shit, different day
Bush and Co. are gonna try and ram through their pet projects through Congress, and we're still gonna be dying in a far off land called Iraq, not to mention Afghanistan.
I'm not going to touch the draft or things like martial law, since that would largely be affected by there being another terrorist attack in this country. It'd be a convenient way to introduce one or the other in the height of the "rally around the flag" effect.
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radfringe Tue Dec-28-04 01:39 AM
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4. mine
-- Invasion of Iran and/or Syria by the end of the year
-- Iraq will still be a mess
-- Jobs will be even more difficult to find as more companies export jobs overseas
-- the FED will raise interest rates at least one more time, by summer they will hold it steady and then drop it 1/4point by September -- citing the weakening dollar, budget deficit, job creation as concerns
-- More proof of vote tampering and voter intimidation from 2004 pResidential election will hit the papers, but don't look for anything meaningful to be done about it.
-- the "big" scandal story will be about FDA rubber stamping drug approval. bush* will blather about accountability and his echo chamber will blame it all on Clinton.
-- there will be a loosely scattered rebellion in Congress among the Repugs against bush*'s court nominees and other legislation, but political pressure and intimidation will bring them "back into the fold"
-- a couple of "surprise" resignations from the bush* cabinet.
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roguevalley Tue Dec-28-04 01:50 AM
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5. HUGE economic crash as the Chinese switch from $$ to euros.
Bush won't be able to cope and the wheels will come off the wagon. Scandal, scandal, scandal. The repigs in his party that still have a dash of soul will move away from him and he will be seen to be the naked little beast that he is.
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shraby Tue Dec-28-04 01:57 AM
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8. The election debacle
will simmer and grow into a huge scandal that takes a bunch of Republicans down the tubes. Some will resign, some will be jailed.
The Plame case will come to a head and there will be indictments up into the white house. Could even get Cheney.
The whole torture business will be brought out, Bush will be impeached over it and several will go to jail..Gonzales, Rummy are two of the ones who will be jailed, possibly Gen. Miller and Gen. Myers, maybe Sanchez too.
The AIPAC/Franklin spy scandal will toss a few more into jail. Possibly Feith and those under him.
Let's face it, we have one of the biggest cabals of crooks in high places and they're luck can't hold out too much longer...too many things have been simmering for too long and they have made too many enemies.
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orpupilofnature57 Tue Dec-28-04 01:51 AM
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6. Shrubs neurosis rears it's ugly head enough, so that it becomes...
Edited on Tue Dec-28-04 01:53 AM by orpupilofnature57
Apparent IMPEACHMENT is a viable option.
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Is It Fascism Yet Tue Dec-28-04 01:51 AM
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7. I predict sun young moon will come out of his exile in Kalmykia and exert
Edited on Tue Dec-28-04 01:53 AM by Is It Fascism Yet
himself trying to make his influence in Washington known and accepted. The man didn't buy himself a newspaper, (The Washington Times), and a president (The Son of a Bush), and have himself crowned "Emperor of the Universe" by a bunch of Washington Congressmen Flunkies for nothing you know!
http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=131Hell's bells he's 80 something and he wants a chance to show off the president in his pocket before he dies, the insidious bastid!
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solinvictus Tue Dec-28-04 02:03 AM
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9. A few
1) More outsourcing
2) more theocracy through the "faith based" shell game
3) more dead Americans coming home from Iraq
4) increasing numbers of working poor who are unable to afford housing
I don't see good things for anyone under this regime.
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Dangerman Tue Dec-28-04 02:38 AM
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10. One...
The January 30 elections in Iraq will be canceled.
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proud2Blib Tue Dec-28-04 02:45 AM
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11. * is going down
n/t
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indigobusiness Tue Dec-28-04 04:08 AM
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13. Flu epidemic in February--bad because different strain from vaccine
Edited on Tue Dec-28-04 04:39 AM by indigobusiness
Bird flu makes it to the US, also.
Dengue fever(breakbone fever)in Fla and Texas reaches alarming proportions by August.
Dollar collapse.
Rampant foreclosures and mass homelessness.
First paroxysms of economic depression.
Bush is reviled on all sides.
Impeachment looms.
Cheney heart attack.
Castro parties like it's 1999.
Kim Jong Il wins the Nobel Peace Prize and teams with Martha Stewart to bring origami and organic gardening to North Korea.
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shayes51 Tue Dec-28-04 04:33 AM
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14. Buyers' Remorse from the Red States
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JI7 Tue Dec-28-04 04:35 AM
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15. Cheif Justice Antonin Scalia
though the court still fails to overturn Roe v Wade disappointing right wing fundies.
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NJCher Tue Dec-28-04 05:09 AM
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16. I'm going beyond 2005
Are you going to save this thread URL and bring it up later in the year and maybe next year?
Here are my predictions:
--dollar collapse
--bush inaugurated but election fraud continues to gain steam
--eventually bush abandoned by his supporters; he either resigns in disgrace (2006) or more likely, leaves because of "health" reasons.
--continued investigation into voting fraud moves more and more Americans away from the republican camp
--liebrals screwed again in 2006 and 08
--complete revolution in 2012; the people take back their government
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That is all I could find in my search.
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