Is the US lastly prepared for his or her first-ever Madame President? Properly that’s one thing solely the presidential polls scheduled for winter this 12 months will reveal. Whereas political rallies, information hour debates and the reams and reams of statistical knowledge might provide you with a tough thought of the place the wind is swaying as of now, we have now a a lot trustier supply at hand who all the time is aware of what’s up. The Simpsons! Whereas we might say pun-intended, the jarring and downright eerie accuracy with which the 80s animated sitcom has been predicting key world occasions, makes it a slightly dependable supply (in hindsight in fact). From Joe Biden abruptly refusing to just accept the Democratic Social gathering nomination and as an alternative endorsing Kamala Harris to run for president to Trump’s voraciously backed run as POTUS, this is looking at The Simpsons’ unnerving knack for satirically ‘predicting the long run’.
Madame president?
As of immediately, the US of America is standing at the exact same crossroads that it was at again in 2016. Round 8 years in the past Hillary Clinton conceded to Trump, who loved a landslide victory spelling out the graduation of his polarising run as POTUS. After shedding to now-President Joe Biden in 2020, Trump has returned with a vengeance to say a possible second run for workplace. Whereas the nation (and the world) was gearing up for Biden vs Trump 2.0, in a nail-biting plot twist, Joe Biden has declared having withdrawn from the US Presidential race, endorsing his trusted Vice-President, Kamala Harris because the face of the Democrats as an alternative.
Whereas it is a second for the historical past books, the potential of it had already been predicted by The Simpsons — 24 years in the past! Episode 17 from season 11, which aired again in 2000 exhibits POTUS Lisa Simpson talking in regards to the funds disaster orchestrated by ‘President Trump’ which she now has to take care of. Lisa is being equated to Harris owing to the truth that the previous’s alternative of apparel, a purple pantsuit with a string of pearls, is eerily much like the purple Christopher John Rogers and Sergio Hudson blazer gown worn by the latter on inauguration day 2021.
Trump for President
Not too lengthy again, the web was abuzz with absolute shock over Donald Trump’s assassination try. A Pennsylvania rally organised on July 13 turned grim when a bullet grazed Trump’s proper ear mid-speech, making a bloody 2-cm wound. A number of breakdowns of the scenario since, reveal that the bullet was definitively geared toward his head, however missed him owing to an informal head tilt.
A sequence of photographs, presumably from The Simpsons, present the former-president in a coffin main many to consider that the present managed to foretell the assassination try on him. Although these photographs had been quickly debunked as faux, one can’t nonetheless overlook the truth that Trump’s presidential reign was predicted by The Simpsons a long time earlier than he ran for president, in a season 11 episode titled ‘Bart to the Future’.
Trump’s indictments
2023 was a completely loopy 12 months in US politics, with Trump being taken into custody on account of two prison federal prices and a pair of state prices. That is nonetheless a creating case. Protecting apart the small print for a similar, Trump being taken into custody too was predicted by The Simpsons, manner again in a 1994 episode from season 5, titled ‘Lisa vs Malibu Stacy’. Within the episode, Springfield’s TV anchor, Kent Brockman concludes his report by asserting that the president had been arrested. Evidently, the web jumped proper in, tying the assertion to Trump’s indictments.
Trump’s second run for workplace
The Simpsons not solely predicted Trump’s race for presidency, but in addition precisely predicted a nonconsecutive second presidential run in 2024. In a blink-and-you-miss shot from a 2015 Simpsons episode, Homer Simpson may be seen flying throughout an indication that reads ‘Trump 2024’. Thoughts you, this was 2 years earlier than he was sworn in for the primary time, because the forty fifth President of the US, in January 2017.
False alarm: Trump vs Biden’s presidential debate
‘Previous man yells at outdated man’ might seem to be an ageist and harsh description of the US presidential debate, spherical 1 of which was held on June 27 in Ohio, however, the web appears to agree. The talk was characterised by a a number of situations of each Trump and Biden talking over and interrupting each other. As per viral photographs doing the rounds of the web, a Simpsons episode featured a newspaper with the road, ‘outdated man yells at outdated man’ with a picture to go along with it. Very similar to the Simpson-coded photographs of Trump in a coffin, this too appeared fairly plausible. Nevertheless, the identical quickly stood debunked with the unique picture being revealed to be one man, not two, with the headline, ‘outdated man yells at cloud’.
However, situations like this stand testomony to the web’s frenzy over The Simpsons knack for predicting the long run — one thing that truly cannot be ignored. This additionally serves because the window to a parallel debate about sieving out truth from fiction, particularly with regards to occasions of worldwide significance, within the digital period.
Circling again to the US presidential elections, are you staff Trump or staff Kamala?
