Legal Insurrection authors’ predictions for 2023
All the Legal Insurrection authors – including me – offer prognostications for 2023.
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All the Legal Insurrection authors – including me – offer prognostications for 2023.
Those all seem resonable except I’m a bit skeptical of 4.
4. China will “invade” Taiwan, likely by engineering some sort of coup or massive civil unrest, with the PRC “invited” in to help restore order. The PRC will promise a Hong Kong style transition with no disruption of the semiconductor industry. The U.S. will not do anything.
While I have absolutely zero doubt that China would want to try something like that, I’m uncertain as to how likley such a gambit would be to succeed. It seems to me that China would have to have assets with fairly comprehensive penetration of the Taiwanese government at the highest levles, not just a handful of sympthasizers as well as agents. They may indeed have that, I honestly don’t know. But if they do, what’s the hold up? Why wait until 2023?
I noticed this in Johanna Markind’s list.
or it may say, Grutter’s reference to 25 years is a hard deadline, and schools may no longer discriminate as of 2028.
I’m surprised no one ever seems to bring this up even on the right. I’ve wondered if part of the current social hysteria over racism is an attempt to neuter a future action to end all affirmative action as proscribed by the SC.
My fearless predictions for 2023.
1. Something will happen that no one saw coming. 🙂
2. The recession will be blunted by tax money raining down on the economy. Anti-fossil fuels actions by Biden will drive energy prices back up, making stagflation worse.
3. Interest rate increases by the Fed will eventually crush most borrowing and then the hard times will begin. Sept. or Oct. of 2023?
4. The drawbacks (high prices, short range, recharging time, battery fires, poor performance in cold weather, etc.) of EVs will become more apparent. Sales will stagnate or decline.
5. The Republican House investigations will reveal how corrupt our government has become. It will all be covered up by the MSM and big tech. At least 51% of voters will not get the message.
6. Inflation in Washington state will be driven higher by government largesse plus the new, highest in the nation, minimum wage.
7. China won’t invade Taiwan. The Covid wave now sweeping the country will create a great deal of chaos that will demand all the CCP’s attention and resources for the next year.
My crystal ball is growing fuzzy, I’d better quit until it clears up. 🙂
My Prediction: 2023 is here whether we like it or not.
Quick predictions, as I generally agree with much of what has been said above.
1. China’s Covid epidemic will prevent them from invading Taiwan, and might possibly lead to Xi’s overthrow. Things will be getting worse in China, socially, politically, and health-wise.
2. Stalemate in Ukraine continues, likely leading to more support going there from the US and NATO countries. I’d like to believe Putin will lose power, but his detractors keep falling out windows, so there might not be anyone left to engineer a coup.
3. The economy will get worse in the US, and Biden’s attempts to revive it will only make matters worse. Stagflation.
4. The energy sector will become increasingly thorny: fuel prices will climb and electric vehicles will become less dependable, especially in cold weather. Expect growing electoral pressure to hold back the transition to EVs.