|
Towards the beginning of the primaries, or maybe in one of the later debates, Trump will finally say the thing that will make him totally toxic and unacceptable to the GOP leadership. The GOP candidates will announce that they are uniting to keep him out. There are some meetings between the other campaigns in smoke-filled rooms to ensure that this is not only a safe bet but completely sure. Probably a bunch of people are promised Cabinet positions, and that means the person picked for President has to be a really smarmy deal-maker, someone like Christie or Bush. The unified party campaign manages to beat Trump's combined supporters. Hillary Clinton has a surprisingly weak showing among primary voters. Bernie Sanders, like Obama in2 008, has a super-energized campaign and he squeaks through to become the Dem nominee. Sanders has no cross-party appeal and Bush/Christie/Rubio/whoever is completely boring. Trump, as he threatened, enters the race as an independent. Millions of Americans tune in to watch Trump at the debates. He continues to say shocking things and a large percentage of the country loves it. After the second debate the numbers are Sanders 30%, GOP 30%, Trump 40%. DOnald Trump Becomes the Next President of the United States of America
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 15:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 2, 2024 04:06 |
|
|
No way Trump would steal that many dems, even from Sanders.
|
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 15:24
|
|
|
Sheng-ji Yang posted:No way Trump would steal that many dems, even from Sanders. Probably right, but on the other hand this is a really big country and I dont think anyone's ever polled the general public on "how much do you like billionaire assholes". Anyway, post your vision of 2016 if you got one
|
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 15:26
|
|
|
Nagato posted:Towards the beginning of the primaries, or maybe in one of the later debates, Trump will finally say the thing that will make him totally toxic and unacceptable to the GOP leadership. All of this accept for the more likely end result of Trump 20% GOP 35% Dem 45% Also, the candidate will definitely not be Christie. E: no loving way is trump and the GOP walking out of this election with 70% of the vote that is insane. Miltank has issued a correction as of 16:01 on Aug 8, 2015 |
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 15:53
|
|
|
Nobody wins in the electoral college and the House of Representatives gets to decide for the first time since 1824. PRESIDENT ZOMBIE JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 2016
|
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 16:19
|
|
|
yeah my fantasy prediction would basically be the op, except Sanders wins because Trump isn't stealing half the democratic vote.
|
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 16:24
|
|
|
Trump-Wolfowitz wins comfortably. Trump assassinated 2 months in.
|
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 20:54
|
|
|
Hillary Clinton will be elected as the 45th President of the United States.
|
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 21:00
|
|
|
Joementum posted:Hillary Clinton will be elected as the 45th President of the United States.
|
|
#
?
Aug 8, 2015 21:07
|
|
|
Sanders will come close to winning the primaries, then get killed by a team of assassins in a protracted battle atop a skyscraper, on national television.
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 01:04
|
|
|
Concordat posted:Sanders will come close to winning the primaries, then get killed by a team of
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 01:06
|
|
|
Jeb! elected pres, america prepares for third iraq war
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 01:22
|
|
|
Hill Dawg takes 300 electoral votes.
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 01:25
|
|
|
Trump ODs during the festivities of election night, yielding the Oval Office to Vice President "Diamond" Joe Biden.
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 03:45
|
|
|
Trump reveals his plans for getting Mexico to pay for the wall. It hinges entirely on intercepting the drug cartel's weed shipments and selling them ourselves.
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 03:52
|
|
|
Texas mails Utah its electoral votes with a card that says "go crazy little buddy"
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 04:59
|
|
|
Ebola/mushroom cloud 2016
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 05:10
|
|
|
100 HOGS AGREE posted:Trump reveals his plans for getting Mexico to pay for the wall. It hinges entirely on intercepting the drug cartel's cocaine shipments and snorting it
|
|
#
?
Aug 9, 2015 05:11
|
|
|
If it comes down to donald trump versus hillary clinton, trump will win the election.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 04:05
|
|
|
trump and sanders both fail to get nominated. the general election is hillary clinton vs generic republican, generic republican wins by a significant margin
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 05:56
|
|
|
In early 2016 Clinton is faltering from a series of missteps and general malaise among the Democrats who aren't a part of Bernie's ever-growing movement. Faced with a significant likelihood of losing the nomination, Bill begins taking the stage at rallies in key states while Hillary takes a page from the GOP 2000 primary's book and begins to turn personal in the torrent of attack ads her PACs are hitting Bernie with. His personal life and Leftist convictions are viciously turned against him; attacks against him, ostensibly Republican in origin, highlight his previous relationships and children born to multiple mothers. Ultimately, a good man running an honest campaign that resonates with people across the nation is ground down to dust and swept away by the financial oligarchy, and Hillary ascends to the nomination. As the primary begins in earnest for the GOP it is still Trump leading in polls, though by a far smaller margin which continues to decline. The Donald has pushed his fellow crazies out of the race and has annihilated Fiorina as a potential candidate in spite of Fox's attempts to play queenmaker. Jeb! remains of the three candidates seen as serious contenders, but only barely. Through a continuous stream of stuttering, charmless Bush-isms, inability to handle going off-script even on softball questions, and blatant idiocy evoking the most shameful memories of W, Jeb! is rapidly losing support among both Republican voters and the immortal Lich Kings which rule the party. Pulling from Jeb!'s numbers are Walker and Rubio, each growing stronger as they pander to different portions of the Republican base; Marco to the mainstream American conservative audience, including ethnic minorities, with the backing of the GOP establishment, and Walker, appealing to the most disgusting scumfuck shitbags in the Republican base while being backed by the unearned fortunes of the grotesque Brothers Koch. As voting begins however it becomes clear that Marco holds stronger, broader appeal to the masses and he rapidly out-paces Walker, with Trump having left the race shortly before voting began while he was still battling for highest in the polls, claiming that "Through my leadership as a very successful business man who happens to be really, really wealthy by the way, and that's not an accident, you don't make a net worth of ten BILLION dollars without knowing how to deal, okay, I have personally brought forth the issues most important to the American people, the most important issue, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, and I have forced the Republican party, and I mean let's get real, this was at pretty significant cost to me, I didn't go begging to the Koch brothers for money, I paid my money, my own money, and I gave up business partnerships that were maybe a little small-time, didn't make me a whole lot of money, but it was still costing me, and I used my abilities as a businessman who knows how to make deals, and frankly as a very smart man, I leveraged the Republicans into being accountable to the American people on this war, this border war, and thanks to all of the Trump supporters we made our voices heard and we aren't done yet, we are going to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Out of fear of the Clinton machine, an unholy alliance is made: Marco has won the nomination through his charisma and establishment support and it is Walker that is chosen to stand beside him, marrying the malice and gibbering insanity of the new Right to the cold, cynical sociopathy of the good ol' GOP, now forever chained to the malformed creature it created. Billions of dollars are spent by both sides of the general election in a bloody war of asinine identity politics. Clinton, despite finding the perfect focus-tested token VP and having the backing of Mammon, cannot find traction. No particular scandal sticks to her, the decades of poo poo thrown at her by Republicans has hardened into a non-stick shell, yet she flounders. Her opponent is a handsome young man of humble origins, part of the fastest-growing ethnic group in America, who can speak to the social conservatives and establishment types, and to keep the wingnut fringe from staying home or writing in Ron Paul he even struck a Faustian bargain with the babbling, soulless creatures of the void by bringing on an animated golem of the Koch's to be his running mate. Clinton is slowly discovering that it was not, in fact, black voters turning up for Obama based on race, or being backstabbed by certain elements of the DNC, or even not having a sufficiently powerful campaign machine that held her back in 2008. Rather, Democrats simply will not turn out for a transparently power-hungry sociopath with no real ideology, a political career built off backroom connections rather than merit, who's happy to fight dirty against better people, and who has the charisma of noted Purple Heart recipient and Herman Munster cosplayer John Kerry. Rubio narrowly wins, the price of ammo drops to its lowest in a decade, and throughout his eight years in office people on the left hold their breath in anticipation of WW3. It never comes. There's Iraq War 3: ISIS, but this time there are no kid gloves and while ISIS isn't completely destroyed it has been savaged so thoroughly it will never fully recover, while Iraq is left a shithole under the rule of a US-friendly Islamic dictator of some variety. Three Supreme Court justices have been appointed, abortion remains legal though ridiculously difficult bordering on impossible to access for many Americans, gays are still being married, and while weed isn't federally legal and there have been regional crackdowns by the Feds, enough states have legalized that it's expected to be legalized on a federal level along with other Drug War reforms under the next Democratic administration. Obamacare survives, though not unscathed, and the security state expands predictably while the economy avoids another depression, despite some major turmoil over energy concerns. Things are a little worse off in many regards than they were under Obama and the Supreme Court has both upheld Citizens United and expanded the rights of corporations, but some progress has been made through legislation pushed by a slightly strengthened leftist arm of the Democratic party. As lovely Republican presidential administrations go Rubio's has been fairly benign, following more or less the same economic agenda as his Democratic and Republican predecessors. As the Rubio administration enters its twilight months, people are upset that America has taken yet another shuffling step toward its decline and eventual fall, and there are populist politicians on the left speaking up for their base just as Bernie and Warren do today; people are angry, but they have hope. Hope, because the wingnuts lost. Under Rubio there was no abolition of Medicaid, no war started with Russia over their posturing in Eastern Europe, no war with Iran despite ongoing pressure from Israel, no Christian theocracy. Nothing more than a generically bad, but ultimately fixable, Republican presidency with control of the House. There was no apocalypse. Breaths are released, shoulders are relaxed, optimistic plans for rebuilding are made. They are fools. Rubio and his backers struck a deal eight years ago and while most have forgotten the implications by now, They have not. Their tendrils have already spread throughout the capitol, quiet things that lie hidden in shadows, whispering madness and promises into the ears of power. The Kochs have come to Washington.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 09:46
|
|
|
Trump wins by a landslide. Nominates himself as VP. Declares his first action in office is to appoint himself to all cabinet positions. His second action will be to shut down all Indian Casinos and make ATLANTIC CITY GREAT AGAIN. His third action will be to start a land war in Asia.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 09:58
|
|
|
bernie doesn't win the nomination but succeeds in pulling hillary's campaign rhetoric slightly to the left. trump flames out before iowa due to some combination of campaign infighting, pissing off the wrong people, and/or him finally saying enough dumb poo poo for his shtick to wear thin. with trump gone jeb becomes the early frontrunner but can't overcome the stink of dubya, accusations of RINOism, and his own lackluster debating skills. scott walker gets the nomination, is faced with the same dilemma as romney of having to tack to the center in the general while simultaneously throwing out enough red meat to get out the wingnut vote, and loses to hillary with an electoral map looking much like 2012's
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 14:35
|
|
|
Dangit Ronpaul posted:bernie doesn't win the nomination but succeeds in pulling hillary's campaign rhetoric slightly to the left. trump flames out before iowa due to some combination of campaign infighting, pissing off the wrong people, and/or him finally saying enough dumb poo poo for his shtick to wear thin. with trump gone jeb becomes the early frontrunner but can't overcome the stink of dubya, accusations of RINOism, and his own lackluster debating skills. scott walker gets the nomination, is faced with the same dilemma as romney of having to tack to the center in the general while simultaneously throwing out enough red meat to get out the wingnut vote, and loses to hillary with an electoral map looking much like 2012's yeah tihs is pretty much what's going to happen barring economic catastrophe, which i won't rule out
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 16:39
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:"Through my leadership as a very successful business man who happens to be really, really wealthy by the way, and that's not an accident, you don't make a net worth of ten BILLION dollars without knowing how to deal, okay, I have personally brought forth the issues most important to the American people, the most important issue, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, and I have forced the Republican party, and I mean let's get real, this was at pretty significant cost to me, I didn't go begging to the Koch brothers for money, I paid my money, my own money, and I gave up business partnerships that were maybe a little small-time, didn't make me a whole lot of money, but it was still costing me, and I used my abilities as a businessman who knows how to make deals, and frankly as a very smart man, I leveraged the Republicans into being accountable to the American people on this war, this border war, and thanks to all of the Trump supporters we made our voices heard and we aren't done yet, we are going to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" 
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 17:29
|
|
|
Bernie makes it through a few primaries but ultimately succumbs to Clinton, who has tacked slightly left. The Kochs unleash everything they've got and Hillary, assuming Dems will support her regardless, tacks back to the right. Dems stay home, Walker wins.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 17:43
|
|
|
Flambeau posted:Bernie makes it through a few primaries but ultimately succumbs to Clinton, who has tacked slightly left. The Kochs unleash everything they've got and Hillary, assuming Dems will support her regardless, tacks back to the right. Dems stay home, Walker wins. If I'm honest, this is my prediction, though I'm gonna throw a wildcard in there in place of Walker because I'm not ready to make a prediction on who will win the Republican nomination yet. It won't be Bush, Trump, Kasich, Huckabee, Christie, or Paul, and probably not anyone at the kid's table debate either, no matter how badly Fox News wants a Fiorina surge.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 17:53
|
|
|
Harrow posted:If I'm honest, this is my prediction, though I'm gonna throw a wildcard in there in place of Walker because I'm not ready to make a prediction on who will win the Republican nomination yet. It won't be Bush, Trump, Kasich, Huckabee, Christie, or Paul, and probably not anyone at the kid's table debate either, no matter how badly Fox News wants a Fiorina surge. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 18:02
|
|
|
PrBacterio posted:I mostly agree with this, except that I think out of the GOP candidates you mentioned, Kasich does has an outside chance to win the nomination, if the stars align just right; and also that, depending on who winds up as the GOP candidate, I don't think it's a given at all that Hillary will go on to lose the general, in spite of all her weaknesses. All of which taken together is a little bit scary though because out of the GOP field Kasich seems to me the by far strongest contender for the general I think Kasich could actually beat Clinton, if they got their respective party noms. That being said, I think Kasich's chances are pretty much zero, and the enthusiasm over his answers during the debate was largely just because it was in Ohio. There's no way the GOP base decided it was cool to have gay friends 
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 18:07
|
|
|
Trump will win and we will have 3 pages of permabans in the Leper Colony again.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 18:21
|
|
|
I'll concede that Walker may not get the nomination. If that's the case, Rubio will have managed to pull a sizable chuck of the socially-conservative Hispanic vote. Kasich can't offer the red meat that primary voters need. Jeb! is dead in the water (despite his war chest), Christie is angling for Attorney General, Cruz is unlikeable, Trump is a buffoon, and Fiorina has 0 experience. The rest of the field aren't even worth mentioning.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 18:27
|
|
|
Ted Cruz wins Iowa, Jeb! narrowly wins New Hampshire and then South Carolina by much more, mostly because of name recognition in a crowded field. The primary effectively ends there. After that, the election is pretty much a rerun of 2012, except with more apathy from voters in both parties towards their candidates. Turnout is the lowest it's been in a while, but Clinton wins.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 19:15
|
|
|
Hillary will win the presidential election of 2015. If you think anything else is going to happen... well, I'll be sure to invite you to my next pen-and-paper D&D campaign, considering just how invested you guys are in FANTASY.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 23:01
|
|
|
PrBacterio posted:I mostly agree with this, except that I think out of the GOP candidates you mentioned, Kasich does has an outside chance to win the nomination, if the stars align just right; and also that, depending on who winds up as the GOP candidate, I don't think it's a given at all that Hillary will go on to lose the general, in spite of all her weaknesses. All of which taken together is a little bit scary though because out of the GOP field Kasich seems to me the by far strongest contender for the general Gregoriev posted:I think Kasich could actually beat Clinton, if they got their respective party noms. That being said, I think Kasich's chances are pretty much zero, and the enthusiasm over his answers during the debate was largely just because it was in Ohio. There's no way the GOP base decided it was cool to have gay friends Yep, basically what Gregoriev said. Kasich could beat Clinton, but almost certainly won't get the nomination. The best chance he has is to beat out Jeb! at being the Romney this time around: the comparatively reasonable one who's left standing after everyone else flames out and/or slinks off in obscurity. I think it's more likely he'll end up a less likable Huntsman, though. I should've also added Cruz to my list of candidates who won't get the Republican nomination. It's between Bush, Rubio, and Walker, I'd bet, though Kasich could rise up to replace Bush if he falls too far thanks to being generally dopey and ineffective at campaigning. Black Numenorean posted:Hillary will win the presidential election of 2015. If you think anything else is going to happen... well, I'll be sure to invite you to my next pen-and-paper D&D campaign, considering just how invested you guys are in FANTASY. Clinton could realistically lose in the general. It would take a strong Republican campaign and a weak Democratic one, but it could happen. Clinton's campaign has been weak so far, but it's too early to make any claims about how she'd do in the general. Harrow has issued a correction as of 23:39 on Aug 12, 2015 |
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 23:37
|
|
|
A civil war will erupt in Ferguson and a single person will step forth to lead the rebellion against the establishment. The national Guard will be called in, wereupon this dark horse will negotiate a lasting peace, spring boarding his meteoric rise to power.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 23:37
|
|
|
And this great uniter's name? George Zimmerman.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2015 23:40
|
|
|
"Diamond Joe" Biden runs as VP for both parties, debates Paul Ryan again even though he's not running, drives his car into the White House pool.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2015 00:23
|
|
|
lambeth posted:"Diamond Joe" Biden runs as VP for both parties, debates Paul Ryan again even though he's not running, drives his car into the White House pool. given permanent special executive position as National Cool Uncle
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2015 00:29
|
|
|
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gazes across the border as Trump grows closer and closer to the White House. He begins calling and using Canadian diplomacy to talk to England, France, India, Pakistan, and other countries. At 10:36pm ESt November 8th 2016, Donald Trump is declared President. At 10:37, the nukes start falling.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2015 03:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 2, 2024 04:06 |
|
|
donal tromp will be elected and will sing the song that ends the world
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2015 03:31
|
|
