PREDICTIONS THREAD (v.2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 18:27
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will both sides accept the results?
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a strong showing for Trump, Republican victory, the House Congress still in play
a Kamala Harris fanatic
'going to be a landslide'
https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1854349128186372485
Peanut the Squirrel and Racoons?
SWAT - Can Peanut the Rescue Squirrel Rescue USA from Scourge of Militarized Policing
https://old.bitchute.com/video/fGxqUA9Hi5sZ/
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Feel bad for people like that. If he's not still wearing a face mask when he leaves his house today, he probably still was at the beginning of 2024 anyhow.
Maybe he'll stop listening to everything the Media says. They lie chronically about everything.
The Media knew full well it was a Trump blowout on Tuesday.
And we saw how CNN and MSNBC held out until after 5AM to admit that Trump won the race when it was fully clear to everyone that Trump won sometime during the 1AM hour when it was announced by the NYT that Trump won Maine District 2 and Alaska hadn't been counted yet. At that point Pennsylvania was almost finished counting and was listed as "Very Likely Trump".
Very shortly after, Pennsylvania was called for Trump and he was down only by the 3 points he was going to get in Alaska and they just wouldn't call it for Trump. This nonsense went on for HOURS. I joked and said I was going to get a great laugh if they had to admit that Trump won because he flipped Wisconsin before they admit he won Alaska and that was EXACTLY what happened. Even the NYT didn't admit the Trump win until Wisconsin flipped.
I documented all of that in the Election thread as it was playing out. You can see the exact moment that Trump actually won.
This poor guy probably was up until 5 AM thinking she still had a chance.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President. 
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Biden rushing assistance to Ukraine, with aid uncertain under Trump
https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-plans-rush-military-aid-ukra
ine-by-inauguration-day-politico-reports-2024-11-06/
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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Biden rushing assistance to Ukraine, with aid uncertain under Trump
https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-plans-rush-military-aid-ukra
ine-by-inauguration-day-politico-reports-2024-11-06/
Your last Hurrah.
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quoting
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't think Elon wants to ever be a politician or a bureaucrat himself, but if I was Vivek I wouldn't be too happy right now unless there was a real plan already laid out for this.
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Donald Trump’s approach to US space policy could throw up some surprises, especially with Elon Musk on board
https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-approach-to-us-space-policy-
could-throw-up-some-surprises-especially-with-elon-musk-on-board-243435
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Efficiency drive
Vice-president-elect J.D. Vance will chair the National Space Council, which develops policy on civil, commercial, international and national security. Many of the first Trump administration’s space policy successes can be traced to the council. Given the influence Musk seems likely to have in the new administration, the National Space Council could be seen as duplicating or being in conflict with the objectives of SpaceX’s founder.
Musk will co-lead the department of government efficiency, which will “dismantle government bureaucracy” and “slash excess regulations”, among other things. So could the council become a casualty of these drives? If it survives, its future potential depends on who is named as the executive secretary, a position that has significant power.
Invasive alien species could cost EU billions by 2040
https://www.futurity.org/biological-invasions-money-european-union-294
3522/
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almost at the end of Year for Hollywood and Global Cinema
So can Hollywood take the Top10 or will YOLO, Successor, Pegasus 2 stay...still not sure where to place Venom-3 seen as the Japanese Sony studio bought the Spider-Man brand.
There is a small possibility another indie film from Europe or Japan or Skorea or China can push into the Top10 before End of Year but I think its very unlikely
'YOLO' is the one to beat from the trailer it looks like a female boxing comedy drama
the Chinese picture characters translate as 'A Hot', 'Spicy', 'Boiling', 'Burning Life'
highest-grossing Chinese film in 2024.
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Euro space fantasy, esa? Are they achievable?
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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
almost at the end of Year for Hollywood and Global Cinema
So can Hollywood take the Top10 or will YOLO, Successor, Pegasus 2 stay...still not sure where to place Venom-3 seen as the Japanese Sony studio bought the Spider-Man brand.
There is a small possibility another indie film from Europe or Japan or Skorea or China can push into the Top10 before End of Year but I think its very unlikely
'YOLO' is the one to beat from the trailer it looks like a female boxing comedy drama
the Chinese picture characters translate as 'A Hot', 'Spicy', 'Boiling', 'Burning Life'
highest-grossing Chinese film in 2024.
Nah. Pegasus 2 was done the second that Moana 2 dropped. I just checked right now and Moana 2 is only $1 Million behind it.
YOLO and Successor will be 8th and 9th place after Moana 2 kicks the other two down.
Looking at Wicked, I was probably wrong on that one. The $9 Million it made on Friday was a hard crash from the last Friday, but it does mean that it will probably make at least as much all weekend combined as it did last Friday.
That's a bad fall. -70% and that doesn't include a Preview Thursday, so a straight -70% drop is HUGELY terrible.
But it will still be at least another $20 Million in the states after the weekend is over. That will put it in 13th place for the year, with somewhere in the area of $410-$415 Million worldwide.
I'm fairly confident at this point that Wicked would have enough gas left in the tank to beat both remaining Chinese movies, as it would only need roughly $50 Million more to get there. If this were the end of summer and the kids went back to school, it probably wouldn't make it, but I expect this to be shown in theaters at least until after New Years and Christmas Break could give it the last few bumps it needed to do it. Especially if we're not putting out anything else all year that has a chance of knocking the Chinese movies completely out of the top 10.
And though I haven't heard anybody specifically say it, I assume that this is the type of movie that the real fans of go back to see every weekend. I'm sure the repeat viewings on this one are much higher than your average non-Marvel film, or any film post End Game.
And even if Wicked does beat both Chinese movies, they'd better hope that they can gross at least $400 Million in the sequel plus inflation, because they need $875 Million at least to break even on both of them. And I've also heard my assumptions were right and the marketing budget for Wicked was insane, so all told they probably need to make a solid Billion on this for anybody to walk away thinking this wasn't a waste of time and money.
And at this point, I have to admit that failure on Wicked 2 is what I'm rooting for. Nothing against the movie, but my predictions about movies and the real world have been pretty damn spot on all year long.
I don't believe I ever stated anywhere that I thought Wicked would never cross $400 Million, but I would be lying to you if I said I thought it had a chance, especially after it was clear there was no international interest for it. The only way I redeem myself on this one now is if the 2nd movie is a failure and/or whenever the real numbers finally come out we find out that the 2 movies combined cost a lot more than $350 Million to make.
But I hate leaving things open like that and have no real desire to have any outstanding tick tock threads of my own, so maybe I'll just take the loss on Wicked for now and maybe in a year or two when the sequel comes out it falls on its face and I get a good laugh out of it.
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