Apocalypse Watch Editor
For the last 8 years, I've added to this same article, reviewing the previous year and adding new predictions. For 2024-25, we get the condensed version. I’ve added comments for Final 2024, as of 30 DEC 24, to the 2023 and 2024 entries. My 2025 predictions are at the end of the article. Trying to keep it short. We'll look at our 2023 and 2024 predictions, how they scored, and drop 2023 for the 2025 update in July.
Let’s get into it:
Truth Social:
2023-1: Early in his 2024 campaign, Trump and Devin Nunes purge “Truth Social” employees once the extent of CIA and FBI infiltration becomes clear.
Update July 2024: This still might happen, although it’s a little late to do it early in the campaign.
Final 2024: Didn’t hear about anything like this happening. Truth Social is on its way to becoming a non-factor. A clear miss.
Criminal Media Collapse:
2023-2: More criminal media collusion with US government, big tech, big pharma and the Chinese Communist party is exposed, readership/viewers continues to plummet.
Update July 2024: More people break their criminal media conditioning. This will continue to hit criminal media corporation bottom lines. Some of the more blatant liars (CNN) are already beginning to back away from the constant woke agenda propaganda as their viewership drops. However, not one of the major criminal propaganda enterprises will revert to actual news as long as they’re being paid to badmouth Donald Trump.
Final 2024: Criminal media outlets on the verge of collapse as of 30 DEC 24: CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, Politico, Disney, ABC, NBC, CBS. Podcasters are pulling in more viewers than the traditional media outlets. Podcast participation was one of the keys to Trump winning in 2024. On target.
European Unrest:
2023-3: Food and energy shortages brought about by “climate-friendly” legislation leads to rioting and violent unrest in Europe.
Update July 2024: Close call for 2023. I still think we’re going to see more of this in 2024. Specifically, France and Germany will see a lot of street protest action.
Final 2024: I didn’t see as much of this as I expected. I think the globalists brought the situation to the brink of explosion and then backed off out of fear. A miss.
Cashless Society:
2023-4: Stacking functions: In parallel with “vaccine passports,” the digital dollar, or whatever Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) arises, electronic forms of identification will lead to more direct control of individuals by global government agencies. It doesn’t take much imagination, or just a look at how Canada froze the assets of protesting truckers, to see how easy it will be to lock an individual’s bank accounts so they can’t eat, buy fuel or pay their utilities if they refuse to do something like take a vaccine or turn over their firearms.
Update July 2024: The governments of the world keep trying to put us all on a digital currency and carbon credits. As long as the drug cartels, mafia and corrupt government officials are dealing in cash, we don’t have to worry about it all that much. However, globalists will work on putting a system in place to track the rest of us while the criminals launder dollars into digital.
Final 2024: An ongoing battle. More and more businesses (Starbucks…) stop taking cash. Currently in a holding pattern.
Trump in Danger:
2023-5: If it looks like Trump will take the election, they (democrats, deep state, globalists, criminal media) will take more physical action. May not happen until 2024.
Update July 2024: The democrats and the deep state have done everything but put Trump in jail and/or try for a JFK style solution. (Not that we’ve heard about.) It’s clear Trump owns the majority of legitimate voters. I suspect an attempt to physically halt his progress.
Final 2024: I’m sure anybody could have called this because it’s so clearly the next step after they (the deep state, Dims, media) couldn’t get Trump in jail. Direct Hit! (To the right ear.)
EPA Mandates:
2023-6: EPA mandates to require certain percentages of renewable energy on state grids leads to massive power outages and innumerable deaths from cold and/or heat. Fuel shortages create situations where backup power generation fails.
Update July 2024: We saw this happen in Texas. The world is simply not ready to go full solar, wind or geothermal energy. The consumer rejection of electric vehicles is telling. The basic infrastructure to support an economy with all electric vehicles doesn’t exist. Investments in clean energy falter and fail.
Final 2024: With Trump expected to quash the 2035 EV mandate, automotive manufacturers are dropping EV’s like they’re diseased rodents. The business side of “clean energy” understands that we’re not ready. The governments of the world need to pull their collective heads out of their asses and build the infrastructure to support an EV mandate. On targer.
UFOs and UAPs:
2023-7: There’s been a lot of noise in the US government about “UAP” and “UFO” disclosure. But, we haven’t heard the truth in 75 years, why start now? Cover-up continues.
Update July 2024: In 2023, we heard from the Pentagon, Congress, NASA and NORAD on the subject of UFOs. The military created the AARO (All-domain Anomaly Research Office) to address the UFO/UAP situation. Two high-profile UFO whistleblowers testified before Congress. This amazing parody of disclosure gave us hours of hearsay testimony and grainy videos of pixelated dots in the sky. The military and DHS continue to push the “UFOs could be a threat” narrative as a scare tactic to increase funding. Otherwise, cover-up continues, nothing happens. On target.
(Interesting note 1 JAN 24: I wanted to verify the AARO acronym and agency purpose for this article. ChatGPT had no information on the AARO. I then asked BARD, Google’s entry into the chat AI race, about the AARO. On the first ask, BARD delivered a paragraph about the AARO being a government office under the Secretary of Defense and a list of duties and responsibilities. Then it erased that response and said, “I'm not able to help with that, as I'm only a language model.” I got the same results on a second attempt: Answer, then erasure and excuse. A message popped up on the display, saying BARD had been updated. My third ask pulled the information I needed. What’s up with that? Did the AI not want me to have that information in the beginning, then deem it harmless and let me have it?)
Final 2024: (The Google Gemini AI (formerly BARD) now gives general information on the AARO without having to ask three times. I have written several articles on lying AI, Gemini being one of the worst.) Summary: The U.S. government is still actively involved in covering up and hiding information on extraterrestrial visitation and UFOs.
Pandemic of the Unvaccinated:
2023-8: The division of the vaccinated and unvaccinated continues in spite of direct evidence that the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was a complete lie.
Update July 2024: COVID Vaccine side-effects and vaccine sudden death syndrom eventually go mainstream. Lawsuits are filed and criminal cases against big pharma, government agencies and criminal media outlets land in court. Those who willingly took the vaccine will continue to believe in it. Those who were “forced” in order to keep their jobs, will start to push back and join class action suits against the government and big pharma. Those who refused to take the vaccine, lost jobs or professions, income, etc., will join those class actions.
Final 2024: Literally dozens of lawsuits and litigation are on-going in this respect. However, many are “settled” when a government body (FDA, HHS) slaps a big pharma company with a small fine and calls it good. With Trump in office, and Robert Kennedy Jr. as head of HHS, I hope to see the big pharma/DC revolving door slammed shut and accountability reinstated. A miss.
More Moon:
2023-9: The moon. Still nothing. I really expected new information or missions to the moon, for a variety of reasons. A lot of people making noise about Mars. The best place to launch a mission to Mars would be from the moon. There's thangs going on that we don't know.
Update July 2024: Several countries are still trying to get a lander on the moon. Several landers sent by other countries blew up this year trying to land their craft. Several companies are taking investments for mining asteroids. Elon Musk still wants to go to Mars. Maybe this is the year we discover what’s on the moon that kept us away for 50 years.
Final 2024: No movement on this one. We’ve given Ukraine enough money to start a colony on the Moon. What is keeping us from going back? It’s not money. It’s not technology. It’s not a lack of qualified personnel or volunteers. So what is it that’s keeping us off the Moon? Waiting.
The Fall of DEI:
2023-10: The more people vote with their money, the more woke businesses will fail. Those businesses that get back to basic entertainment and customer service and stop shoving the liberal agenda in our faces might make it.
Update July 2024: Disney has already admitted their woke policies and entertainment agenda have practically bankrupted the corporation. Marvel and DC aren’t far behind Disney in losing their core fan base because of their liberal, woke policies and movies. Consumers vote with their wallets to drive wokeness leftism from family entertainment.
Final 2024: Disney is suffering the effects of their woke agenda, as are many other criminal media concerns. In addition, many businesses and universities have dumped their DEI programs once they figured out how badly they cut into profits and public image. Forward progress.
Persecution of Climate Deniers:
2023-11: Our US government continues to drive a wedge between demographic groups. The COVID op is over; the ramifications of it still pertinent. I won’t say it failed when 80-percent of the country took an experimental vaccination, the long-term effects of which are only starting
to materialize. To shift focus from the increasing mortality of the vaccinated, climate deniers will be targeted.
Update July 2024: Deflection is the name of the game, as climate deniers are vilified as the new unvaccinated. Governments and criminal media go after those who contradict the climate narrative, using those attacks as a distraction from the emerging data on vaccine malfeasance.
Final 2024: We’ve seen some of this happening, people being vilified as non-believers. However, more and more professors, scientists and researchers continue to come out in defiance of the “climate change” narrative. The stupid has reached a point where any time John Kerry or Al Gore say anything, they’re slapped down as globalist ass clowns. I like it.
Pureblood Parties:
2023-12: With more and more evidence of vaccine malfeasance, showing that vaccinated individuals are more likely to catch, transmit and possibly die from COVID, unvaccinated people will start to avoid gatherings of the injected. I expect to see Pureblood parties in our future.
Update July 2024: I’m happy this didn’t happen. I have seen no evidence of Pureblood parties or unvaxxed folks avoiding the vaxxed. Let’s see how it goes when more horrifying vaccine stats hit the media.
Final 2024: Happening as I write this. Big pharma, the criminal media and government agencies are doing everything they can to suppress the data on vaccine injuries and pharmaceutical company malfeasance. They can’t keep it all covered up. The biggest podcasters and bloggers (Rogan, Jones, Posobiec, Carlson) are blasting out the truth and the facts. People are getting the message in spite of the censorship and pushback. Happening now.
Trump Wins:
2023-13: Trump has already thrown his hat into the ring. If Desantis decides to run and/or gets the Republican nomination, Trump will run as an independent, splitting the vote and handing the White House to Biden again.
Update July 2024: Fortunately, this didn’t happen. The democrats are still 100-percent invested in finding some way, short of the JFK option, of removing Trump from the ticket. Their plethora of frivolous lawsuits gets no traction, other than distraction. Trump takes the GOP nomination.
Final 2024: As we know, Trump won the Nov. 5 election by a landslide, in spite of the attempts by the opposition to cheat at every level. Direct hit.
More Climate Shenanigans:
2023-14: Worldwide food and fuel shortages create unrest across Europe and the Middle East. The US will only suffer minor inconveniences…this year. More food processing facilities and clearing houses will “catch fire” or otherwise be shut down, pointing to a rough 2024.
Update July 2024: Global leaders are saying, “We’ve got to stop farming or people will starve.” They’re actually saying that, and they think we’re stupid enough to believe it. Those climate nazis continue to push their agenda.
Final 2024: As noted in #11. The stupid has reached a point where any time John Kerry or Al Gore (or Klaus Schwab) say anything, they’re slapped down as globalist clowns. For the initial prediction: A Miss.
Russia Wins in Ukraine:
2023-15: The Russians defeat the Ukrainians, taking control of the country.
Update July 2024: I expected the Ukraine War to be over within a couple of months. It’s been nearly 2 years. The Biden administration is saying if we don't keep sending money and aid to Ukraine, they'll put American troops on the ground. They really don't want to give up their money laundering operation. Regardless, it can’t last much longer. The Ukrainians will surrender to the Russians 29 FEB 24. Ukraine will lose the Donbas region and Crimea permanently. Russia will occupy the country.
Final 2024: Ok, so I missed this by a year. Going all in: Ukraine and Russia reach an accord by 28 FEB 25. Ukraine will lose the Donbas region and Crimea permanently. Russia will NOT occupy the country. They pull out, leaving forces to protect captured territory. Trump makes it happen. A clear miss.
China and Taiwan:
2023-16: China annexes Taiwan. North Korea stirs up trouble on the Korean Peninsula as a distraction. The US does nothing about Taiwan.
Update July 2024: Near miss. We heard a lot of noise, on and off, about this last year. China held some aggressive military exercises around Taiwan. They’re ready whenever the opportunity arises. If the U.S. gets entrenched in an Israeli or Ukrainian regional conflict, China will use the opening to invade Taiwan.
Final 2024: Chinese navy assets continue to patrol around the island nation. The U.S. somehow managed to limit involvement in Ukraine, Korea and the Middle East. China is waiting to pounce. Still, a clear miss.
Censorship:
2023-17: Following the disclosure of the Twitter files and subsequent release of information from Facebook, the FBI is subject to Congressional hearings on election interference and usurpation of individual rights to free speech. There’s a lot of noise, but ultimately, nothing happens.
Update July 2024: A direct hit. Following House and Senate hearings on this subject, nothing continues to happen. The FBI and other government agencies are above the law and untouchable as long as Biden’s cronies run things. That means, until Trump gets elected, again. Which is why all their resources are aimed at keeping Trump from being elected.
Final 2024: More Congressional hearings. Lots of testimony. Wailing and gnashing of teeth! And, nothing continues to happen. Not one person or entity indicted or fined. Right on target.
Predictions as of 1 JAN 24:
Trump VP:
New 2024-1: Trump picks Vivek Ramaswamy as his VP running mate.
Final 2024: Wrong: It was J.D. Vance. He wasn’t even on my radar.
Trump Wins:
New 2024-2: Trump and Ramaswamy win the November election in spite of massive cheating and election fraud perpetrated by the Democrat voter fraud machine.
Final 2024: Other than Vance as VP, nailed this one.
Election Fraud:
New 2024-3: Deep state democrat voter fraud and election interference are exposed and prosecuted.
Final 2024: Ongoing. There’s a lot of noise about cracking down on election fraud. But not a lot happening. A few county and state-level prosecution.
DOGE Prediction:
New 2024-4: Trump assigns Vivek Ramaswamy the unenviable task of cleaning the swamp. Ramaswamy starts with the DHS, targeting the FBI, IRS, ATF and DEA. Agents and office personnel are retired or released from 80-percent of positions. Next: the EPA.
Final 2024: While I thought Ramaswamy would be the VP, I still nailed it with this one. Vivek and Elon Musk as heads of the Department of Government Efficiency is very much what I was predicting.
Trump Removal:
New 2024-5: Deep state assassination attempts against Trump escalate to the point Trump’s personal security detail has to fight off an attack by the Secret Service.
Final 2024: I couldn’t have got closer to this one without having the script for the August attempt on Trump’s life. If you do not believe the Secret Service (at some level) was complicit in the August assassination attempt against Trump, you need to go back and review the evidence.
Epstein and Diddy Lists:
New 2024-6: The DOJ continues to make noise about releasing the “Epstein Client List.” Even if it actually happens, which is doubtful, the justice system ignores it, Congress does nothing, and the news media is silent. The mechanisms and offices in place to address and prosecute this level of criminal behavior are filled by people on the list. Nothing happens.
Final 2024: Still no list. And now we have the “Diddy” list. The Trump Team is making noises about releasing both lists. My prediction is that it DOES NOT HAPPEN. Someone has too much dirt on everyone.
New 2024-7: Israel clears out the last of the Hamas strongholds in Gaza by the end of the year. Meanwhile, the U.N. whines, and cries, and fires off several scathing resolutions against Israel for being so mean to those poor terrorists. Israel gives the U.N. a giant double-barrel middle finger and keeps going until the job is done.
Final 2024: Complete and on target. As of Dec. 24, Israel was pulling troops out of Gaza after the elimination of known Hamas leaders. The fighting continues, but Israel has captured all Hamas territory in the strip.
Cannabis:
New 2024-8: Possibly for 2025...Once Trump takes office, cannabis is removed from the Schedule 1 Drug list.
Final 2024: Moving this to 2025-1
New Predictions for 2025:
Cannabis:
2025-1: Once Trump takes office, cannabis is removed from the Schedule 1 Drug list.
Get Trump:
2025-2: The deep state, unwilling to take the loss, makes another attempt on Trump. One before Jan. 20 and another before the end of 2025.
JFK Files:
2025-3: Per his promise to Robert Kennedy Jr., the Trump Administration releases the remaining JFK assassination files. The data is redacted, incomplete and corrupted to the point it’s practically useless.
More Moon:
2025-4: The Moon. Nobody goes to the Moon. Elon Musk and Space X are on the brink of developing reusable heat shields for atmospheric re-entry, China has had an unmanned probe on the dark side since 2019. Yet, no one, that we are aware of, has set foot on the Moon since 1972.
DOGE:
2025-6: DOGE doesn’t do anything. Nobody in Washington D.C. is willing to cut spending. DOGE is bogged down by legal shenanigans by every level of government, from small field offices never heard from before to the House and the Senate. Everybody talks a good game; nobody actually does anything. Deficit spending and budgetary thievery continue unabated.
Department of Education:
2025-7: Nothing happens with the Department of Education. Blue State whining wins over the DOGE attempt to disband the department. Business as usual; indoctrination rather than education continues.
Trump Inauguration:
2025-8: Trump Inauguration is delayed as Democrats try to use election fraud scheme to prevent him taking office. (Per ER)
Hamas Hostages:
2025-9: The Hamas Hostages are returned as soon as Trump takes office. If not, Trump goes scorched earth on the terrorist organization to get them back. (Per TDS)
Kamala Takes Office:
2025-10: Biden resigns and gives Kamala Harris the Office of the President for one or more days before the Trump inauguration. (Per ER)
Deep State Virus:
2025-11: The Deep State, in another attempt to shackle the Trump Administration, releases another deadly world-wide virus. (Per ER)
Bigfoot:
2025-12: Evidence of Bigfoot emerges from East Mountain, in central Arkansas: A grainy photograph or shaky, pixelated video. (Per TDS)
(John P. Smith is a military trained journalist living in northern Arkansas. He is host of the Apocalypse Watch and Johnny Watcher shows. Visit the website for more information and links to the most recent podcasts. www.apocalypsewatch.news. Check out his new book, available on Amazon as paperback or Kindle: Conspiracy 101: Welcome to the Conspiratorium)