I recently saw someone creating a bingo chart for 2025 so I decided to create one for 2026 (image of this post). What are your predictions for 2026?

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    A Public US Person Gets Shot belongs in the FREE SPACE box, because it’s a given.

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    Politics:

    • Democrats take back House, Republicans barely cling to Senate.
    • Donald Trump dies at somepoint
    • Republicans start seeing losses in other fields of political power, but rural counties will still place faith in them.
    • Vladimir Putin starts considering nuclear weapons as a last resort to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
    • China starts making moves to Taiwan

    Celebrity Deaths:

    • Rob Halford passes away
    • Keith Richards passes away

    Sports:

    • Jacksonville Jaguars gets their first Super Bowl
    • Oklahoma City Thunder are NBA Finals Champions
    • Either Seattle Mariners or Toronto Blue Jays finally get the job done for a World Series
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    Trump does something stupid.

    Nah. Too easy.

    Trump is no longer in office. Death, mental incapacity, whatever. There. That’s my guess.

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    A few more

    • The US withdraws from NATO causing it to fall apart
    • The US annexes Greenland
    • The US invades Venezuela
    • A country exits the EU
    • A major financial crash in the west
    • Israel and the US attack Iran
    • Far right parties form governments in major European countries
    • Organized resistance of the AFU collapses
    • Ukraine goes bankrupt due to insufficient funding from the west
    • There’s a major break up between the US and Europe
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    I had to look up ‘enhanced games’

    Back in the day, someone suggested that people should read a lot of science fiction books so they’d be ready for the changes the future would bring.

    I should have read no science fiction, because I am constantly being disappointed by what people decide to do with tech.

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      I had to look it up too.

      I was thinking “who the fuck thinks it’s a good idea to run an Olympics-style sporting event that encourages PED use?” until I got to this part in the article:

      “…with backing by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr…”

      Oh, okay, that makes sense. It’s just backed by two of the worst people on the planet. They’re probably hoping to see people die in these games.

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        It’s just backed by two of the worst people on the planet. They’re probably hoping to see people die in these games.

        They probably took Squid Game as a fun suggestion.

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          Some Onion-style editorial suggested referring to murdered school children as ‘patriot angels’ because they died defending the 2A. Charlie Kirk said pretty much the same thing with no irony.

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    Democrats do not pass electoral reform in the states they control and then scream bloody murder about the spoiler effect that comes along with the voting system they refuse to replace.

    Electoral Reform Videos

    First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)

    Videos on alternative electoral systems

    STAR voting

    Alternative vote

    Ranked Choice voting

    Range Voting

    Single Transferable Vote

    Mixed Member Proportional representation

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    I dont care. Whatever it is, I wont be focusing on it. Being pulled into that drama is pointless.

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    The Australian government will do nothing of note, because the scapegoating of the prime minister by the press wasted all of the government’s political capital that they were saving up for some big swings.

    Combustion engine cars become basically irrelevant outside of the US, Canada, and EU. Because if a country doesn’t have a domestic car industry then cheap Chinese ev’s are just better. In Australia you can see quite a lot of them.

    For a big swing, I’m going with Trump dying. He’s pretty old, does not live a very healthy lifestyle, and he’s got some pretty rabid followers. I’ll hedge my bets and say Trump or Musk.