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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat 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?
CanonRay
(14,132 posts)"It'll be great!"
Botany
(70,635 posts)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
(90,370 posts)... 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)With California leading the way.
The cabinet picks will go away after they've been able to sell of assets tax free.
highplainsdem
(49,091 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)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.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)dmosh42
(2,217 posts)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
(90,370 posts)... 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
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)the specifics in many ways are simply meaningless.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)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)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.
MFM008
(19,829 posts)Nothing good.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...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
(30,821 posts)Things will be an insane mess by then, and they will impeach him before he can do any more damage.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)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
(17,090 posts)Will we have a country this time tomorrow night?
Bonx
(2,079 posts)haele
(12,688 posts)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
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hunter
(38,341 posts)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.