America Decides 2024 Will Be Bad; Skips to 2025
The American people decided that 2024 was not looking promising. High inflation, high interest rates, a presidential election with two bad choices, crushing student loan debt, a couple wars underway, and general discontentment everywhere led Americans to decide to just skip it. In a nationwide referendum held in early December, US voters decided to avoid 2024 completely. The United States will start New Year's Day on January 1, 2025, while the rest of the world will stay one year behind. The United Nations held an emergency meeting to protest the United States' cavalier attitude to standard time-keeping. The US State Department received money from Congress to promote 2025 to other nations and attempt to get them to join the US in 2025. The President spoke at length in a televised address about the benefits of skipping 2024 completely, including no US president election or election advertising to worry about (he won), inflation went down, the wars ended, and everyone was happy.