{"id":19290,"date":"2025-12-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=19290"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:27:11","slug":"did-i-predict-it-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/did-i-predict-it-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Did I predict it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 24th, 2024, eleven days after the Butler Pennsylvania assassination attempt on President Trump&#8217;s life, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/lets-play-the-prediction-game-shall-we\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/lets-play-the-prediction-game-shall-we\/\">posted the following prediction<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9. In the first year of Trump&#8217;s second term in office, at least one of the following three things will happen: A second global pandemic,<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A domestic terrorist attack on the scale of 9\/11, or<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>No, thank goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A major banking collapse and\/or sovereign debt crisis that destroys the global economy.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>No, though not for lack of trying. Seriously, I think this was one of the biggest unspoken goals of the Schumer shutdown earlier this year: to crash Trump&#8217;s economy in a way that benefits Democrats in the 2026 midterms. Thankfully, it seems to have failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it looks like this prediction was a swing and a miss\u2014though it could just be that the timing is off. After all, the day after the 2020 elections, I predicted in my personal journal that we were about to experience a rash of major political assassinations, but that didn&#8217;t start to play out until after the 2024 elections. The hardest part about making predictions is the timing, so it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me at all if one (or all) of these things happen by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 24th, 2024, eleven days after the Butler Pennsylvania assassination attempt on President Trump&#8217;s life, I posted the following prediction: 9. In the first year of Trump&#8217;s second term in office, at least one of the following three things will happen: A second global pandemic, Nope. A domestic terrorist attack on the scale of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/did-i-predict-it-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did I predict it?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[457,414,1137],"class_list":["post-19290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-current-events","tag-politics","tag-predictions","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-518","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22530,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19290\/revisions\/22530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}