If our readers are anything like us then you spent the majority of the weekend taking down Christmas decorations and carefully organizing them, despite the knowledge that they’ll somehow become messy again by next December.
That means the new year has officially started, which makes it time for our third-annual special edition of This Week in the New Normal. The one time a year where This Week looks forward instead of back and we try and predict what’s coming.
Welcome to This Year in the New Normal, and here are our picks for the potential major stories of 2024.
1. US Presidential “Election” and the Decline of the US Empire
An easy one to start off: It’s election year in the US. That means non-stop coverage of which candidates said this about that, endless reporting of (probably entirely invented) polling figures and a few hours of excitement in November when they tell you what color tie the globalist puppet will be wearing for the next four years.
In case the sarcasm was not clear enough:
Democracy is not at stake, democracy is dead, buried, and the 2020 “election” was the establishment pissing on its grave.
This coming election will be rigged. How obviously and in which direction is as yet unclear (I genuinely think they might go back to Trump), and it arguably matters less than it has ever done.
To steal the tagline from Alien vs Predator: Whoever “wins”, we lose.
A more interesting & subtle narrative to observe will be the decline of the US as an imperial power, and how stage-managed it will be. After all, the decline and fall of the US could be used to sell the idea the “right side” has won.
What part will the so-called “election” play in fall of the US? Will we see more January 6th-like incidents and unrest? Is there a chance the election is postponed altogether in response to some as-yet unknown “emergency?
Were Trump and Biden selected in order to discredit the presidency and smooth the way for a change of system? If so, will this trend continue?
Questions 2024 has yet to answer.
Bold Prediction: By the end of the year, we will see mainstream articles both mourning and celebrating the end of US hegemony, and others welcoming the “post Imperial age” and/or “multipolar” or “multilateral” world.
2. AI: Rise of the Machines
2023 was the birthyear of AI in the public consciousness. Everyone was talking about AI art, ChatGPT and so on. Fear of AI allegedly spawned both the Screen Actors and Writer’s Guild strikes that halted Hollywood production in the late summer/early autumn.
The media is full of warnings about it, claiming that AI will make it impossible to know who’s human and who is not.
This is partly true, but it has been so for years. It is no longer safe, or perhaps rational, to believe what you see.
…but we suggest that’s not why the warnings are there.
In 2024 we expect this story to gather pace, and wouldn’t be surprised to see one or two staged “crises” in which AI is reportedly to blame. Maybe a “hack” or a “leak” or a major website like PayPal or VISA crashing briefly due to some AI “attack”.
In the end it will all be about surveillance and digital IDs.
Bold Prediction: By this time next year most social media and online businesses will require some form of digital “proof of humanity” before you can use their services, perhaps relying on a new form of digital identity document.
Lab Grown Meat On Supermarket Shelves
The last we heard of cultivated or “lab-grown” meat, it was being banned in Italy. Good news for everyone, especially Italians.
Then, just before the new year, fake meat was back on the media menu.
On December 19th Forbes reported a US-based “cultivated meat company” had achieved “price parity”.
On December 27th PBS asked “How is Lab Grown Meat Made and Will People Accept it?”
On December 29th a Scotsman column asked “Will King Charles give royal seal of approval to ‘lab-grown’ meat that could help save the planet?”
The same day Longevity Tech asked “Is Lab-grown meat healthier than real meat?”
(sidebar – One minor prediction is that they will stop using the word “real” to differentiate meat from cultivated cell cubes. Expect words like “traditional”, “old-fashioned” or “non-renewable meat” to take over.)
This is no mistake of timing. The narrative is cynically being aligned with the new year to catch people in their annual “self improvement” phase. After all, it’s well known the global population of gym-going teetotal vegans quadruples on January 1st and goes back to normal by February.
…so this one isn’t so much a prediction as an observation: This trend will continue, at least until the spring.
My original “bold prediction” was going to be that 2024 would see lab grown meat labelled “vegan”…but that already happened in 2023. So…
Bold Prediction: By the end of the year at least a handful of countries will have fully approved lab grown meat, and one major fast food chain will be advertising their use of it.
All told, it looks like OffG is in for a busy year, and we didn’t even cover the looming war in Taiwan or the spike in “lableaks” which might cause the next “pandemic”.
Good times ahead. Happy New Year everyone.
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They’re going to rig the election FOR Trump? Sure, Jan.
They might let Trump win and then pull the plug on the economy and all the looming wars and blame the entire mess on him, proving that only the sociopaths can run the country.
Count on continuous urban riots and mass shootings by mentally deranged socialists along with gang warfare in most sanctuary cities.
Remember that it doesn’t matter who the president is as long as the swamp runs the machinery of government.
How certain are you that he’s not controlled opposition? They get him in and they can bump up the economy a bit and increase their skimming operations, before they crash the whole thing. Never underestimate their greed. It was the cheese that got them into evil in the first place. Well, that and their penchant for pederasty.
Spot on Lurker, made me laugh
They almost certainly are going to rig the election for Trump this year, just as they did in 2016. Trump is just another NWO puppet, which is a requirement to get anywhere near the White House. They need Trump back in office to neutralize the Right during the upcoming climate lockdowns, just as he neutralized them during the scamdemic lockdowns in 2020.
If they rigged it for Drumpf in 2016, why not now?
The inability to parse data isn’t the province of liberals alone, don’t cha know…
The federal election doesn’t mean shit. People would be better served focusing their energies at the township or municipal level. In the end, voting and government are nothing short of adults LARPing.
same goes for the local level
What, no prognostications about an increase in “died suddenly” occurrences, or an exponential explosion of adverse side effects from the new mRNA injections being pushed on a gullible public for colds, the flu and other respiratory conditions? I suspect the astute folks at Off Guardian take it for granted there will be more wars breaking out all over the planet as the American Empire desperately tries to cling to its slipping global hegemony. It’s a given the economy will suffer as inflation (stagflation) and debt overload continue to be a major problem for ordinary Americans. Insanity like Modern Monetary Theory will continue as will the incessant gaslighing and lies about almost everything; but these are easy to predict. Happy New Year! Stay healthy, stay sane, engage in mental decolonization, free your mind the rest will follow.
This is all falsely-framed argument about the only real question, which is whether humanity needs leaders:
“Think what it implies when you say that a country needs leaders. In your day-to-day life, you interact with all sorts of other individuals. And that’s all society is: the collective name for lots of INDIVIDUALS. But for some inexplicable reason, we’re taught to believe that one huge, arbitrarily chosen assortment of individuals (the “citizens” of one human livestock farm–I mean, “country”) need some control freaks acting as intermediaries in order to interact with a different arbitrarily chosen assortment of individuals (the “citizens” of some other human livestock farm–I mean, “country”). Because gee, how could I and some random person in the middle of China possibly leave each other alone if we didn’t each have a gang of narcissistic sociopaths claiming to “represent” us? Oh, wait a minute. That’s exactly how and why pretty much ALL wars happen: because different gangs of power-happy psychos pit their pawns against each other in violent conflict, while claiming to “represent” subsets of humanity. One more example of how “government” is a problem posing as its own solution.”
― Larken Rose
“Some of us realize the self-evident truth that no election, no constitution, no legislation, and no other pseudo-religious political ritual can bestow upon anyone the right to rule another. Nothing can make a man into a rightful master; nothing can make a man into a rightful slave.” ― Larken Rose, The Iron Web
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2978257.Larken_Rose