“Poll: Donald Trump leads GOP field with widest margin so far”

That’s a headline not many people at the end of 2014 thought they would be reading in 2015. But this was the story that greeted readers of the CBS News website Dec. 15 of this year, proving yet again that the future has a sick sense of humor and takes your insistence that Trump could never be a legitimate US presidential candidate as a personal challenge.

But the future’s capricious nature has never stopped humanity from trying to predict what’s yet to come. Take this post by Reddit user -northlondonisred in the Ask Reddit community: “What are some headlines we can expect in 2016?“

Redditors had no problem tempting fate by trying to divine what stories and events will make news in the upcoming year. The guesses might lean more toward exercises in wishful thinking than in prognostication, but that doesn’t make them any less interesting or entertaining.

Here are a few of the highlights from the comments thread.

Politics

World Affairs

Entertainment

Science

Pop Culture

https://twitter.com/sparkpanda/status/661943818275708929

Check out the full Ask Reddit post for more 2016 headlines.