Where angels fear to tread, I boldly go with my predictions for the coming year:
- Joe Biden will not be President on December 31, 2021.
- The Republicans will retain control of the Senate.
- Violent riots will recur in 2021 as Leftists increase pressure on the Biden administration.
- Pope Francis will resign.
- Mainland China will attempt an unsuccessful invasion of Taiwan.
- The White Sox will not win the World Series.
- Trump TV will become a reality.
- The Biden administration will add ten trillion dollars in debt during the coming year.
- Evidence will mount that the 2020 US Presidential election was stolen.
- McClarey will be wrong in some of his predictions.
Mostly agree with your choices Donald. The addition of 10 trillion in national debt is problematic if Republicans hold the senate. I would replace it with the prediction that Covid or something like it will still be with us along with masking wearing and lockdowns. I also predict that 2021 will be worse overall than 2020.
I trust you are right on 2, 4 and 9 . . . I think that #1 is a probability and that we are going to be in the soup, either way.
We’ve seen how well the experts managed the recent China virus responses. Give them more power!
The country is in the of best hands. Ask Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen.
Re: Additional $10 trillion added to the deficit. Where is the money going? Will it do any good? The bigger catastrophe will be when deflation [their greatest fear] and depression hit the World instead of inflation.
History. in January 1919 Germany, an ounce of gold could be bought for 170 marks. In November 1923, gold cost 87 trillion marks the ounce.
We Know What They Did Last November. And, don’t tell me China Joe won. The lie insults my intelligence and make me very angry.
P.S. I’m so old! I remember the 1980’s and 1990’s when inflation and unemployment were simultaneously rampant. The 30 year fixed rate home loan rate was anywhere from 14% to 18% depending on the year. If you were working and had some money left over from paying high living expenses and taxes, six month FDIC-insured bank, time deposit earned you around 12% [today you get 0.1%].
Marshall Taylor has an interesting podcast regarding #4 will Pope Frances resign?
https://taylormarshall.com/2020/12/609-pope-francis-will-resign-dr-taylor-marshall-responds-rumor-podcast.html
I don’t see China unsuccessfully invading anyone, because I don’t think they would act if there were a chance of failure. If China could see itself being at the end of 2021 and moving forward all its goals except Taiwan, it’d follow that path. They’d have to be panicking to start a risky war. Now, if you’re predicting something that would get China into a panic, that’s an even bolder prediction.
Pinky, I agree. Biden would, of course, bow down to his employers wishes and not stand up for Taiwan or the Chinese people on the mainland.
One of Jimmy Carter’s remaining legacies will finally payoff for the CCP. His legacy is the dubious (unconstitutional) unilateral quitting of a signed, Senate approved treaty, the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, will give Biden all the cover he needs to not support Taiwan.
I don’t see how the Republican keep the Senate. If you let the Presidential fraud stand, as there’s no reason to not cheat in the Senate runoffs, is there?
Joe Biden will not be President on December 31, 2021.
Depends on how fast he’s tanking and who controls his person. If he’s in the dynamic state Ronald Reagan was in from about May of 1993 to about March of 1995, no amount of Adderall and careful staging and media fraud is going to hide his impairment.
The Republicans will retain control of the Senate.
I’d like to think so, but Georgia’s now closely divided and they’ve just gotten away with blatant ballot-box stuffing. Trafalgar puts the race as very close – i.e. within the margin of fraud. Ossoff and Warnock are ghastly characters who shouldn’t be competitive anywhere. I sometimes feel like an alien in my own country.
Violent riots will recur in 2021 as Leftists increase pressure on the Biden administration.
Disagree. You have riots because local officials insist police stand down. The local officials are not antagonists of Biden. If you have riots, it’s because they’re fools or they’re anxious about currying favor with the worst elements in their base.
Pope Francis will resign.
An ordinary man his age has shy of a 10% chance of dying in the coming year. I’d wager that more likely than an abdication. A man Benedict’s age has, roughly speaking, a 22% chance of dying in the coming year).
Mainland China will attempt an unsuccessful invasion of Taiwan.
Wouldn’t surprise me. They’re flexing their muscles. They’re just gratuitously abusive of everyone.
The White Sox will not win the World Series.
[Don’t care]
Trump TV will become a reality.
He’ll be contending with the regulatory state and Hawaiian judges. You realize partisan Democrats want Trump in prison, even though they cannot offer a coherent and nonrisible argument as to why he should be there.
The Biden administration will add ten trillion dollars in debt during the coming year.
Sounds high. But nothing would surprise. Our political class is godawful.
Evidence will mount that the 2020 US Presidential election was stolen.
It may. Partisan Democrats will still tell you the contention is ‘baseless’. The same people swallowed the tall tales of Christine Blasey Fraud.
McClarey will be wrong in some of his predictions.
Like the rest of us.
>>Joe Biden will not be President on December 31, 2021.
–He won’t make it to the midterms, but he’ll be President on New Year’s Eve next year.
>>>The Republicans will retain control of the Senate.
–Not at all confident, between Democratic chicanery and the Wood-Powell Axis of Loony. I’m going to disagree.
>>>Violent riots will recur in 2021 as Leftists increase pressure on the Biden administration.
–Concur. The attack on the gas lines in Colorado is the shape of things to come.
>>>Pope Francis will resign.
–The worst prediction on the list. He will never relinquish the reins voluntarily.
>>>Mainland China will attempt an unsuccessful invasion of Taiwan.
—I want to say “No chance,” but with a compliant Sleepy Joe at the helm of Taiwan’s armorer, yeah…could happen. I will still say no, but it’s not from high confidence.
>>>The White Sox will not win the World Series.
—Agree. I think the Yankees grab their first in a little over a decade.
>>>Trump TV will become a reality.
—Good enough odds–concur.
>>>The Biden administration will add ten trillion dollars in debt during the coming year.
—Disagree, even if they take both Georgia seats. But I can see 2.5 trillion.
>>>Evidence will mount that the 2020 US Presidential election was stolen.
—Gonna say no–at least nothing solid.
>>>McClarey will be wrong in some of his predictions.
—I’ll buy this one.
I notice you didn’t attempt to predict who WILL be president a year from today….the most obvious answer would be (ugh) Kamala Harris, with a small but non-zero chance of Donald Trump if the electoral vote is successfully challenged (not betting on that). However, I wouldn’t rule out some combination of ill health and scandal forcing BOTH Biden and Harris to resign and elevating whomever Harris appoints VP to the presidency…. just as Gerald Ford went from congressman to VP to POTUS in less than 10 months.
I think sooner or later, somebody is going to start bragging about how they conspired to deny the Bad Orange Man a second term, and they were right to do so, because OrangeMan Bad.
1 Biden? My oldest thinks it won’t be until after the 2022 midterms.
2 The GOP and the senate may be in jeopardy due to McConnell’s missteps.
3 Likely. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me.
4 No clue. That’s outside my realm of guessing.
5 Not sure about that. Why bother? It seems the whole world is beating a path to China’s door. Why invest in a fishing rod when the fish are willing to jump into the boat?
6 Unless Cleveland wins the Super Bowl.
7 Wouldn’t surprise me.
8 Seems about right, though I wonder if ten trillion is enough of an estimate.
9 I still don’t think it was stolen as much as it was gamed.
10 If you’re like me, that’s almost certainly the best prediction on the list.
However, I wouldn’t rule out some combination of ill health and scandal forcing BOTH Biden and Harris to resign and elevating whomever Harris appoints VP to the presidency…. just as Gerald Ford went from congressman to VP to POTUS in less than 10 months.
Ford was never much of an electoral politician, but he was the Republican floor leader in the House. Nixon’s preferred candidate was John Connolly, who could not be nominated because he was soon to be facing criminal charges.
The choice of Agnew was a lark for Nixon, one he later regretted. The White House tapes indicate Nixon wasn’t pleased that a Republican US Attorney had allowed his staff prosecutors to open an investigation of public contracting in Baltimore. At the same time, the Nixon camarilla never did much about it. Agnew was expendable. I’m guessing Harris was slipped in by whatever cabal is calling the shots around Biden, and isn’t expendable. The culture of the Democratic Party is such that I doubt a prosecutor in Washington or Frisco would be shaking the trees and they’d be told to cease and desist if they did.
I do wish we could get rid of the notionally elected vice presidency. Appointed vice presidents granted supervisory authority over portfolios of federal agency would be fine. This nonsense office is just a problem. We’d be better off if in the event of a vacancy and appointed VP or cabinet secretary took over for a period of months and the state legislatures convened to elect a new president.
Biden? My oldest thinks it won’t be until after the 2022 midterms.
I think that’s the goal. Hard to know whether Biden is capable of it, or if his handlers are capable of covering for him for that long.
The White Sox will not win the World Series because the Cubs beat them in seven games.
Th e Pope will not resign, he is having to much fun. (He is, nobody else is.)