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2020-04-03, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Simpsons Predicted Just About Everything
I suspect that that line was intended as a joke at the expense of another prominent political figure, who I shall not name for forum rules reasons but is probably not that hard to guess at.
Also, bearing in mind that Lisa was either 7 or 8 at the time the "prediction" was made (2000), Lisa can't become president until, at the earliest, 2029 (being the first inauguration after the first election in which she'd be eligible). That would make sense with the timeline in the episode.
If we assume that Lisa followed {scrubbed} directly (which was the implication in the episode) then for the "prediction" to come true, {scrubbed}, and then the president from 2021-25 would have to be a non-straight woman to fulfil the other part of the "prediction". All of which seems, for various reasons, vanishingly improbable.
So in fact the "prediction" was wrong anywayLast edited by Peelee; 2020-08-03 at 12:52 AM.
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2020-04-03, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Simpsons Predicted Just About Everything
The Mod on the Silver Mountain: The line between Simpsons politics and real-life politics has been getting too fine for a bit now, let's step it back.
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2020-04-03, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Simpsons Predicted Just About Everything
Originally Posted by Themrys
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2020-04-16, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Simpsons Predicted Just About Everything
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2020-04-17, 03:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-17, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Simpsons Predicted Just About Everything
The world is a lot more predictable than most people give it credit. You just need a little experience and a watchful eye.
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2020-04-18, 05:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Simpsons Predicted Just About Everything
The characters never age in our terms, but the episodes are always set in the contemporary-at-release "present", except when they're explicitly not. For the purposes of an individual episode, time passes and is expected to pass normally. When events from the future or past are shown, the characters are aged correspondingly. Sometimes they even specify a year - Lisa's Wedding, for instance, which is explicitly set in 2010, released in 1995, and the characters are all aged up by 15 years.
So I think it's fair. Otherwise Lisa could never be President anyway, because she'd never get beyond 8.GITP Blood Bowl Manager Cup
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2020-04-20, 03:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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