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John Clark

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Jan 2, 2026, 3:16:35 PM (8 days ago) Jan 2
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I predict that 2025 will be the last normal year that any of us ever see. What do I mean by "normal"?  I can't give a precise definition but four or five years from now when reflecting on the past everybody will agree with me, assuming that four or five years from now there will still be human beings around. 

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John Clark

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Jan 3, 2026, 5:48:10 AM (8 days ago) Jan 3
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I will make two more predictions: 

1) The idea of Universal Basic Income will start to become mainstream but Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 1600 Percent will not embrace the idea because if he doesn't even understand how percentages work then he certainly can't understand the gargantuan economic and social disruptions that AI will produce. 

2) As a result of #1 on January 1, 2027 the popularity of the current president will be at its lowest level that any president has had in the last 50 years. 

By the way, I woke up this morning and learned that we are now at war with Venezuela. Venezuela?! That will probably cause He Who Must Not Be Named popularity to jump upward, but it will be temporary, by January 1, 2027 it will either be ancient history or we will become mired in yet another pointless guerrilla war, so I'm sticking with my prediction. 

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I predict that 2025 will be the last normal year that any of us ever see. What do I mean by "normal"?  I can't give a precise definition but four or five years from now when reflecting on the past everybody will agree with me, assuming that four or five years from now there will still be human beings around. 


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