Ep. 79: Our Official Predictions For 2026! (Shit’s Gonna Be Fucking Crazy)

The Opinionated Ogre Podcast is 100% listener-supported. Please help us continue to inform/amuse/outrage you by becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year (a 17% discount!)! If not, it’s all good. Welcome to the Ogre Nation anyway!Welp! Here we are, the end of 2025. Honestly, goodbye and good riddance. No one liked you. Will 2026 be any better? Well… bit of a mixed bag there. We’re not going to enjoy next year, either, but you know who’s going to enjoy it even less? The fucking fascists. They’ve made our lives a living hell, and in 2026, we get to return the favor with interest. What’s that going to look like? Settle in and let us peer into the future together…Here are the Top Ten OgPod Predictions for what’s coming down the road!Ogre Nation Future Forecast!4:14 - 10:05 1. The regime is going to lash out in desperation, but there are a lot of roadblocks to their plan for a permanent authoritarian takeover.10:06 - 16:12 2. The 2026 midterms are going to be a total wipeout for the fascist fucks of the GOP, no matter how hard they try to cheat.16:13 - 25:24 3. The economy is collapsing, and 2026 is almost certainly going to see major disruptions on par with (but probably worse than) 2008-2009.25:25 - 29:00 4. The No Kings protests will pass 10-15 million, causing the regime to panic and push more people into the streets to protest.29:01 - 32:58 5. ICE will reach new depths of violence and depravity.32:59 - 38:17 6. The Anti-Israeli movement and the legacy press will be used to whitewash Republican Nazis.38:18 - 40:48 7. Trump’s declining health and cognitive collapse will be impossible to hide.40:49 - 42:33 8. JD Vance will ramp up his campaign to be Trump’s successor, and that won’t go well. At all.42:34 - 53:00 9. The Epstein files will only become a bigger and uglier scandal.53:01 - 55:16 10. Corporate America is going to rediscover its love of democracy and diversity as the regime stumbles and fails.55:17 - 59:10 Conclusion/The last Ogre Rant of 2025. Get full access to The Opinionated Ogre at opinionatedogre.substack.com/subscribe