NON-POLITICAL Predictions for 2025

Not sure if these are political:

1. Trump takes over, nothing changes in your day to day life. Prices remain high on everyday goods, US citizens still feel the pinch.

2. Feds raise interest rates in 2025.

A few

1. KC over Minnesota in the Super Bowl. Detroit's D is just too banged up, Buffalo's D is just suspect, and Mahomes doesn't push himself in the regular season. Brady vs Mahomes as GOAT becomes a legit debate.

2. Josh Allen wins MVP. This isn't a reach, but Burrow would win MVP if half his team weren't sabotaging him.

3. Cleveland Cavaliers win their first championship since LeBron.

4. Speaking of LeBron, Bronny sucks, so LeBron says he'll play until he can play side-by-side with his son Bryce (who I hear is actually better).

5. Formerly-great strip club cities will continue to decline; unincorporated areas coming under new jurisdictions don't want the "nuisance." Grimy ass extras clubs (<$100 FS places probably staffed by sex slaves) will continue for the affordable price point, while escorting and sugaring take over the higher price point extras clubs.

6. I will club even less than I did in 2024. Skibum will retire and unretire from clubbing at least twice.

7. Off-the-wall bet on a major celebrity to die in 2025: Vince McMahon (all those roids over the years give him a heart attack)

8. The LA Dodgers will prove you _can_ buy a World Series title, sparking calls for a hard salary cap.

Hollywood throws in the towel on tentpole superhero movies, leading to an increase in remakes and makeovers of other older films.

AI tech companies start to contract in the same fashion as electric vehicles did as people realize that this technology is nowhere near as ready as the proponents try to claim.

Dwayne Johnson gives up on making terrible movies and enters politics. Many Hollywood leftists follow suit in an attempt to makeover the democrat party; they are also seeking second lives as Hollywood business contracts in the age of streaming

I do not think we will see it, but I would like to predict a national revolution in primary and secondary education. Not a political one about wokeness and snowflakes, but a reckoning that we are not doing well enough in educating our children, and the public makes true progress in aligning teachers, parents, and extracurriculars to help students succeed in learning math, science, history, arts, and business.

Stocks across the board end up losing 20% of their value. Inflation increases. Unemployment rises. Wages stagnate. layoffs increase. Its 1978 again.

1. NFC wins the Super Bowl

2. Braves win World Series

3. We get Joshua/Fury and Fury wins

4. We get Crawford/Canelo and Canelo shows there are weight classes for a reason

5. The O and Onyx will catch on in ATL and push Vivide to improve on the margins

6. Tattletales in ATL will start to struggle on dayshift

7. Synsations won't work that well in ATL

8. Bama wins national title in football

9. 2 Cinderella's play for National championship in college basketball and we get calls for NBA to take up the baseball rules for high schoolers and put the college kids back in the Olympics.

10. Lakers swing a big trade and lose to Boston in the Finals.

Speaking of steroids…..

Does anyone watch any of the Taylor Sheridan shows (Yellowstone, Landman, 1883, 1933, Lioness, Tulsa King, etc)

He has a habit of inserting himself into scenes recently to show off his new body. He’s 54 years old and is roided up to the max. I don’t care. But the guy is the hottest thing in television, making millions of dollars - so why risk anything with your health for the sake of vanity

^ Hell yeah, those are some damn good shows, along with the new Yellowstone 1923.

My Super Bowl pick is Kansas City, Chiefs over The Bills, with the score a combined 60 plus points.

My bet is Gayman has a stroke while trying to come up with an new angle to attack me.

Puddy Tat breakers his ankle rushing to be the first to respond to any poster who has something negative to say about Trump, or positive to say about the other side.

^ Whatever you say, gramps.
Chiefs can't play the Bills in the SB, they're both in AFC, sugar tits ;)

^Lmao.

KC wins their 3rd straight Super Bowl. Travis and Taylor call it quits. She writes a song about how much the NFL sucks.

^ if they break up she’ll do a double album worth of sad songs.

^^^ My bad mean't to type Detroit Lions, against K.C. Cheifs, must have been Siri screwing with me again LOL

^^^^^A lonely, pathetic, bitter, old man with a chip on his shoulder. He spends all day every day thinking about me and how miserable I make him simply by being. I win every time he posts about me.

LOL "Bills" and "Chiefs" sound nothing alike and are nowhere near each other on the keyboard.

Another prediction, 25 and that incel bitcoin fan who says dunking on people over BTC is "living his best life" will start more fights here out of sheer boredom.

Taylor Sheridan thought he was going to be a massively successful actor who could live full-time on a ranch and do a movie with Martin Scorcese every couple of year if he felt like it. He's not a very good actor, going back to Sons of Anarchy. However, he has created some great shows that could be even better if he just checked his ego and quit inserting himself as some Disney Girl Boss (unbeatable, flawless, etc) in every series.

I predict we CAN'T all get along. egos get in the way.

GAWKER comes back. Did anyone notice he posted a response to a Christmas thread?

I want to change my prediction, P. T. Gets all butthurt and calls me Gramps and Sugartits, showing us how he’s good at dishing it out, but he doesn’t take it very well.
😂

He's afraid to reference me now, so he ramps up his attacks on other conservatives, LOL. Sorry, puddy.

^ No worries. Gramps doesn't have a lot of business saying anyone else can "dish it out but can't take it." I've seen onions with thicker skin.

@Jascoi Your probably the only guy here who'll be 100 percent right

1. Booze in seattle sc’s will drive the issue of extras into a conflict with the liquor control board, resulting in a public shit shoe and a club getting shut down.

2. Trump will have a mutiny on his hands as the party divides up between pro immigration capitalists and anti immigrations protectionists. Popcorn sales to Libs go through the roof.

3. I give less of a fuck about everything.

1. Jack will continue to be delightful.

2. Wildebeest will continue to be delicious.

3. Princess Tay Tay and the football guy will break up and we’ll have a new multi-platinum album.

4. The ricks will continue to be amazingly amazing.

5. Teslas will continue to be badass. But not Cybertrucks. Only assholes drive Cybertrucks.

6. Zebras will still be assholes. In fact, they’ll continue being such assholes that Tesla won’t sell ‘em Cybertrucks even though those asshole zebras want to drive ‘em.

ROAR!!!

LEAVE BRONY JAMES ALONE! He won the CoD tournament during summer camp or whatever.

I can't believe some of y'all MFers thought any prediction that has words like "Trump" or "leftists" isn't political.

That's why I posted a link to the Political Predictions thread at the top, numbnutses! (is that a word?)

I'm predicting 2025 will be sluggish economically. We may actually be in the Goldilocks zone for strip clubs, where the girls are thirsty to earn those dollars instead of accustomed to easy cash, but also not so downtrodden as to give up dancing.

I actually think girls dabbling in OnlyFans may open more young women up to sex work in general. While most won't make the jump to in person stripping, and even fewer will make the transition to extras, I do think there is a long term trend of women being more open to doing sex work.

The flip side is I think there has been a real backlash against sex workers from young men. This is actually another reason some young women may choose stripping or sugaring, which can be more discreet than putting pictures or videos online and promoting oneself as a bop.

As noted by Puddy Tat, long term trends for opening new clubs remain dismal, even as plenty of commercial real estate remains unoccupied. Downtowns are full of fancy condos, new suburbs don't want to include strip clubs. Clubs will have to remain in industrial zones. Good clubs will thrive, badly managed clubs will continue to fold.

I'm going to pick Minnesota over KC for the Superbowl.

@JamesSD - we'll have to agree to disagree on football.

If nothing else, when I see a side-by-side of Sam Darnold and Patrick Mahomes, I'll feel like shit if I choose Minny.

Taylor Swift will buy her own town. Inell that don't live there will complain about it.

Speaking of musical performers, I feel like late 2025 we will see the concert ticket price bubble deflate. We saw concert goers reject paying hundreds for nosebleeds to see jlo and the black keys in 2024. 2024 was the last year of pent up demand post covid.

Some artists will still sell. But these prices aren't sustainable.

I see where tickets might go down, but Goo Goo Dolls at Red Rocks in August were $1,200.00 for 2.

2025 generational bull run.
Take max risk on all high risk asset classes.

$600 a ticket for the fucking goo goo dolls is exactly what I'm talking about. I actually saw them open for Bush during the sixteen stone tour, they were not bad. I've heard Red Rocks is an amazing venue. But again... $600 each for the Goo goo dolls?

I sincerely hope more bands do what The Cure managed to pull off in 2024 when it comes to pricing.

25 ends up more senile than SJG but wont leave TUSCL even with his degenerative disease and alcoholism

The Lakers pulled a big trade, I'm looking good early!

Six more weeks of winter, guaranteed. (Okay, I cheated. Phil already made his prediction.)