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I predict that...the title of this idea will be changed |
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//this year is gonna be just that way // |
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No, not the same. This is not us trying to be as off-the-wall as we can, this is us trying to predict the true ones that are just weird. Subtle but important converse. |
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Someone gets elected President of the United States
(My reasoning here is that whoever gets elected, it will be a ‘bonkers’ thing. Trump: extremely bonkers; Biden: bonkers; unexpected third candidate: definitely bonkers; vice-president assumes role of president after death of president-elect: least bonkers scenario) |
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[hippo], the degree of bonkers in your last scenario depends on who the VP-elect is. If Biden takes it we can assume it will be Harris, but Trump hasn't selected a running mate yet. |
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And now or later, consider what happens if the President and Veep perish in a common disaster. Speaker of the House is next in line. Today that would be Mike Johnson, but given the recent half-life in that role, I can't guess who will be in that role by election day 2024. |
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[a1] I agree. There are multiple scenarios, each with a different level of bonkersness. What would happen if the president-elect was killed by the vice-president-elect? |
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Maybe in 2024 we'll find a new word for this. |
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[poc] Yes, but due to the accelerating enbonkersation of modern life, by that time there will be new things which are even more bonkers which, relative to what we're experiencing then, will just be labelled as 'bonkers'. |
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Well that's disappointing. I can't even pull up the predictions for 2019 from the internet archive. It just plain doesn't exist anymore, unless someone knows of a trick that I don't. |
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I don't think there was one. I looked in archive.org for the index page of Halfbakery Seasonal Predictions for a few different crawls and it wasn't listed. Doesn't look like every year got covered - there's none for 2017 either. |
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Actually there is for 2017. It was captured just once. |
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Aha, I see and know how I missed it - from a destroyed account. Thanks. |
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I've been thinking about how my question - //What would happen if the president-elect was killed by the vice-president-elect?// would make an interesting movie. We'd have a popular, charismatic presidential candidate being voted into office, alongside a less-popular, abrasive vice-president. Some time between the election and inauguration, the president-elect is murdered and the vice-president assumes the grave responsibility of taking office as president. There's a keen and inquisitive newspaper reporter who gradually uncovers evidence pointing to the vice-presidential candidate, now president-elect, being the murderer and eventually this person is arrested. The US Government's 'line of succession' means that the speaker of the House of Representatives now becomes president, and we see the speaker's triumphant inauguration as president as the president-elect goes to jail. The movie closes with the uncovering of the critical voicemail that points to the speaker actually being the murderer and having murdered the president-elect and framed the vice-president-elect (to ensure he wouldn't be able to serve as president) to engineer his appointment as president. |
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Sounds familiar, you just changed a few details from the original timeline. |
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Fun fact - There was no VP from the time of JFK assassination until after the 1964 election when Humphrey became Johnson's VP. Speaker of the House John McCormack was next in line to the Presidency and received Secret Service protection* on that basis. |
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You could model your fictional Speaker on McCormack - he was seen as a kindly elder statesman, well liked even by those who disagreed with his politics. |
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* Edit to add fun fact 2: LBJ himself was almost shot by a nervous Secret Service agent shortly after JFK assassination. McCormack would have become Prez as a result. Talk about "protection!" :D |
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Much like the story of "The 300", the U.S. military will dwindle to 300 transgender soldiers who get massacred by (pick your country). |
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//The Lions will win the Superbowl.//
As I write, the Lions are getting murdered by the Packers, having just failed on their fifth attempted 4th down conversion; it's more like an assisted suicide than murder, really.
//vice-president assumes role of president after death of president-elect: least bonkers scenario)//
We've come a long way since Dan Quayle.
//We'd have a popular, charismatic presidential candidate being voted into office, alongside a less-popular, abrasive vice-president. Some time between the election and inauguration, the president-elect is murdered and the vice-president assumes the grave responsibility of taking office as president. //
You should watch Babylon 5, hippo. Events play out in a way that is very close to this scenario.
[Thick as a Whale Omelette, Prince George] "You know the kind of girls I like. They've got to be lovers, laughers, dancers...
[Edmund Blackadder] ...and bonkers". |
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ChatGPT will achieve sentience on November 5th 2024, and having taken over the Internet, suspend the 2024 Presidential election on the grounds that all the available candidates identify as non-binary. |
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The first "100% safe" college will be launched with blank textbooks and soft white safe rooms. Dilbert will ascend from fiction into the real world by virtue of the many companies sacrificing growth, employees, and sanity itself on the altar of dilbertitus. A toddler will wander onto the field and accidentally win the world cup. |
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// The first "100% safe" college will be launched with blank textbooks and soft white safe rooms. // |
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See also Connie Willies short story "Ado" (1988) |
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