The Crazy 2020's

"This is a new scenario of yours truly, Vincent Lechner. It has nothing to do with 'Vincent's World' or it's predecessor 'The New World' in any shape or form. In fact, you can consider this as 'Vincent's World 2.0'. Nonetheless, hope you enjoy."The 2020's will most likely be considered as the most craziest decade of the 21st Century, by most historians. When the previous decade, the 2010's, came to an end, many thought that it was considerably the craziest decade the world had ever seen since the 1960's, with events such as the Arab Spring, the BP Oil Spill, the rise of ISIS, Trump becoming president of the United States, and even the emergence of movements such as #OccupyWallStreet, #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. Many thought no other decade would be any crazier in the 21st Century than the 2010's. However, they were wrong.

6 months into the new decade, already many unfortunate events have occurred. The CoViD-19 Pandemic, the death of George Floyd which led to a pretty long period of race riots in the US and eventually many parts of the world, and much more. The 2020 Olympics, which were set to be held in Tokyo, have been postponed due to the Pandemic.

Nobody knows how the rest of decade may play out. How will it go? We shall see.

2020 (August to December)

 * August: The Coronavirus has surged in numbers higher than 250,000 new cases, mainly due to the Re-Openings in the US happening too fast or the severity of the George Floyd Protests. To prepare for the second wave, states such as California, Florida and Texas shut down again to reduce the number of new cases surging. The Democratic National Convention is held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but social distancing measurements were strictly required. The Republican National Convention is held in Jacksonville, Florida after being relocated.
 * September: Schools are still closed due to the Pandemic, but a Vaccine is nearing completion, thanks to President Trump's "Operation Warp Speed" campaign. A terrorist plot to destroy the World Trade Center Mall during the 19th Anniversary of 9/11 is foiled by the NYPD, and the suspect is locked up to await trial. Speaking of Trials, the trial of R. Kelly is postponed to May of 2021 due to the Coronavirus.
 * October-November: On the 25th of October, a Vaccine is finally created and deployment begins shortly, proving Trump's "Operation Warp Speed" as a Success. However, things would become more chaotic, as on November 3rd, 2020, Trump was re-elected to a second term, defeating Joe Biden. As he celebrates his victory, he tweets "We win once again! May the left's tears flow as the Do-Nothing-Democrats get flushed down the drain while we celebrate our victory, KEEPING AMERICA GREAT!". Soon after, riots break out in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Minneapolis, Detroit, Seattle, and many more cities of the blue states. Little did anyone know, however, that this would lead to an even more unfortunate event. On the bright side, however, the Xbox Series X and PS5 are released, unleashing a new era of Video Game History.
 * December: The George Floyd Protests end (Finally!) and the last few countries infected with CoViD-19 fully recover. On the 17th of December, the CDC and WHO declare the Pandemic to have finally ended.

2021

 * January-February: Donald Trump is inaugurated for a second term, while the protests against him continue to sweep the United States. Around this time, IO Interactive's HITMAN 3 is released, generating positive reviews. In Trump's 2021 State of the Union Address, he mentions about how he plans to get the economy back up and running in the post-CoViD era, and how he plans to make more great things happen for America.
 * March-April: On March 11th, an assassination attempt against Chinese President Xi Jinping in Shanghai fails when the perpetrator throws a tear-gas grenade which fails to detonate. The perp is killed almost immediately by Shanghai Municipal Police. Jinping calls the attack an act of cowardice and treason, and states that he feels lucky to be alive and well. While Jinping had managed to survive an attempt on his life, however, the same sadly could not be said about Syria's Bashar al-Assad, when on March 30th, he is gunned down with an FN F2000 Assault Rifle by an ISIS supporter named Faiz al-Atif in Beirut, Lebanon's capital city. Faiz is quickly subdued by Assad's secret service and on April 19th, after a speedy trial, he is found guilty and is sentenced to death by hanging. President Trump tweets about the assassination of Assad, calling it a "Tragic event that has befell the nation of Syria".
 * May-July: A terrorist plot to bomb Tokyo Tower during the 2021 Olympics is foiled by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, on the 21st of May. On June 11th, another assassination attempt had occurred, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the target. The would-be assassin, George Samuel attempts to shoot Trudeau as he is making a speech in Vancouver with a vintage German pistol, a Mauser C-96. The gun fails to fire and is immediately wrestled to the ground by Trudeau's secret service. Samuel later admitted that he attempted to shoot Trudeau in order to gain attention from a Japanese Idol named Yuki Harumoto from the group "AKB48". US President Donald Trump condemns Samuel's actions by describing him as a "John Hinckley Wannabe". From June 11th to July 11th, Euro 2021 is held. Like The Tokyo Olympics, they have been postponed due to the CoViD-19 Pandemic. The 2020 Olympics also go ahead as scheduled, from July 23rd to August 8th.TokyoFireworks.jpg
 * August: The Tokyo Olympics come to a close on the 8th of August. Not much else happens for the rest of the month. Although the past months of July and August have not been eventful other than the Olympics taking place, the months of September and October would be the time when sh*t really hits the fan.181028134943-trump-rally-10-4-18-exlarge-169.jpg
 * September-October: On September 21st, 10 days after the 20th anniversary of 9/11, President Donald Trump is shot during a rally at the PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 12:21 PM by an Iranian nationalist named Reza Caspar with an AR-15 style sniper rifle, A GR-25, as an act of revenge for the death of General Qassem Soleimani. Caspar manages to escape the scene as he shot the president from a high vantage point, which was the rooftop of the U.S. Steel Tower, the tallest building in the city. Meanwhile, Trump was rushed to the nearby Allegheny General Hospital to be treated. Despite the doctor's best efforts, however, they are unable to save the president. Trump was pronounced dead at 2:34 PM. Vice President Mike Pence, who was visiting the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL at the time of the assassination, was quickly relocated to a safe area, and traveled back to Washington D.C. where he was eventually sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. For the first time in nearly 60 years since John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, a president of the United States had been assassinated. While most of the country was in shock and sadness to have lost a president to an assassin's bullet, those who protested against him (i. e., Radical liberals and Social Justice Warriors) celebrated with joy. Even though they weren't that happy with Trump's VP now being president, they were glad to not have to deal with President Trump anymore. As videos of the protesters celebrated circulated on Twitter and YouTube, many people, such as #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano and Trump's election opponents Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden called the celebrations of Trump's death sickening. A worldwide manhunt had been commenced to look for the suspected assassin the following day. The state funeral for Trump was held on September 27th. World leaders such as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and many others attended the event. Controversially, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the event as well. For the first time since 1881 after President Garfield's assassination, The White House was draped in black mourning adornments for president Trump's funeral. Trump was buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Queens, NY. On October 12th, Disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is killed during a prison transport ambush done by members of the infamous MS-13 gang disguised as emergency first responders in Tifton, Georgia. The doctor who was convicted of sexually assaulting around 125-160 gymnasts was shot by one of the members with a Colt M1911 pistol during a brutal argument. After the incident, a search for the perpetrators would go on for sometime. Meanwhile, Nassar's body was eventually cremated, with his ashes being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. On October 24th, Jörg Meuthen was elected as the new Chancellor of Germany.
 * November-December: Nearly 2 months after the assassination of Donald Trump, President Mike Pence appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson as his Vice President. Carson was sworn in on November 10th, just a day before Veteran's Day, as the country's first black Vice President, as well as the second oldest to take the office at the age of 70, just 1 year short behind Alben Barkley, who was 71. He was also the first doctor to take the office. A few days later on the 15th, a major terrorist plot to bomb Times Square during the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is foiled by the NYPD. On December 12th, Trump's assassin, Reza Caspar had been tracked down by the FBI in a hideout in the Italian Island of Sicily. However, arriving at the scene, he was found dead, possibly from suicide. He was found stabbed in the neck with a butterfly knife. In his suicide note, he wrote how he would never forgive himself for committing an act of violence, and felt that even if he managed to avenge General Soleimani, he would be treated as only a martyr in his home country in Iran, but not in the rest of the world. He felt as though he would never be able to see himself the same way again after what he did. On December 25th, Christmas Day, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, passes away peacefully at the age of 100.

2022

 * January-February: The funeral for Prince Philip is held on the 5th of January. On January 14th, The Berlin U-Bahn became a target in a terrorist firebombing attack perpetrated by a fanatic of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS, named Lukas Weber, Killing 11 people and injuring 15. Chancellor Meuthen denounced the attacks and called for a lock-down of the city to look for the perpetrator, whom they found on the 21st, hiding in the abandoned Teufelsberg hill just outside the German capital. On February 2nd, Mike Pence gave his first State of the Union address, stating how he is helping the US heal its wounds after the assassination of Donald Trump. From the 4th of February to the 20th, the 2022 Winter Olympics were held in Beijing, China.
 * March-April: After 11 years, the 6th Final Destination film is released in theaters on March 14th. On March 22nd, US President Mike Pence signed into law the Pandemic Response and Containment Act (PRCA for short), which would help the United States be better prepared for potential pandemics in the future, and give the CDC and WHO more powers to predict and prevent future outbreaks of diseases, such as SARS-CoV or Ebola. On April 14th, a major highway pileup occurs on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway, involving 243 vehicles, killing 19 people and injuring 36.
 * May-June: On May 9th, a mass shooting involving multiple firearms takes place at the California Plaza Shopping Mall in Los Angeles, California, killing 88 people and wounding 117. The shooter was a 51-year old white supremacist and a hardcore Trump supporter named Timothy Kovacks. His reason for committing such a horrible crime was due to him buying in a far right conspiracy theory that the Democrats may have been behind Trump's assassination, and that Reza Caspar's suicide was most likely staged. Because he believed it was true, he wanted to shoot up a busy mall in the city of Los Angeles, a Democrat-run city, as an act of revenge. Just after he was immobilized by the LAPD with a stun gun, he shouted "I AM A REPUBLICAN HERO! I HAVE AVENGED MY PRESIDENT AND MY LAND! AMERICA WILL ONE DAY BE GREAT AGAIN!". Kovacks used a multitude of weapons, such as an MP5, an FN-F2000, a Glock 18 Pistol and a Sawed-off Shotgun. He would be found guilty of 88 counts of murder, as well as owning a stash of unlicensed weapons. He would later be sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection on August 28th, 2027, making him the first in California since Clarence Ray Allen in 2006, as well as the 2nd oldest. On June 19th, President Mike Pence announced that he would not run for a second term in 2024 due to the increase of division in American politics. He believes that if he were to win re-election, the country would suffer a civil war. He plans to endorse a safe and trustworthy candidate in 2024, Democratic or Republican.
 * July-September: The month of July in 2022 is rather quiet. Not much happens, other than a small outbreak of Ebola that occurs in Ethiopia. Luckily, because a vaccine was made for Ebola in late 2019, the disease does not go very far into infecting other countries. In August, a plot to bomb the Sydney Opera House is foiled by the NSW Police Force. On September 18th, a freight train collides with a commuter train on the Bordeaux Railway Bridge just outside Montreal. 18 People were killed, and 52 more were injured in the accident, and 107 were reported missing. The cause of the crash was most likely due to a signalling error.
 * October-December: The former Japanese emperor Akihito passes away on October 19th, just 2 months prior to his 89th birthday. A state funeral is held on the 27th. On November 8th, the US Midterm elections were held, with the Republicans retaking the House, and the Democrats taking the Senate. Earlier in the year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would not be running for re-election, as she planned to retire from politics and spend more time with her family. With Republicans now taking the house again, Utah State Senator Mitt Romney was chosen as Speaker of the House. On November 30th, after 70 years of being on the British throne, Queen Elizabeth II finally passed away in her sleep in Buckingham Palace. As a result, Operation London Bridge had went into effect, and the funeral was held on December 8th. The Queen's son, Prince Charles, becomes King, and the UK anthem is changed to "Long Live The King". It is an end of an era and the beginning of something new.