Yogi Berra, the ex-baseball player with the nickname befitting a sporting philosopher, is credited with observing “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
And often that is correct, such as in pursuits like sports betting.
Consider examples like taking Kansas City to cover an 8.5-point spread against Cleveland in an NFL playoff game Sunday and having things in hand at the half, only to see KC quarterback Patrick Mahomes scuttle that by suffering a concussion and leaving the game. KC still won, just not by enough to cover the spread.
So, the Chiefs won, but their backers who gave the 8.5 points lost.
Some predictions are much easier than picking NFL games against the spread. I’m on the record for as much as the past 16 months assuring any who asked that Trump would not be re-elected as president because the Democrats realized they had let down their guard when Hillary Clinton lost to him, and would leave no stone unturned – legal or illegal – to prevent a recurrence.
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that came to pass.
I also predicted that for all the hype and expectation about election theft being corrected by courts or Congress, electoral votes would be counted and certified for Biden. I didn’t anticipate the Capitol incursion which gave the weak-kneed Republicans an out, but it would have gone down the same way, even without it.
Thank you again to our largely gutless Republicans at the national level.
There are more sure-pop predictions to be made about coming days, weeks, or months in the political sphere.
To start, Joe Biden will not make it four years as president. Whether he succumbs to disease, is deemed mentally incompetent by his own people, or meets a mysterious death – think Vince Foster’s convenient suicide – four years is not going to happen. Also:
- Biden will have numerous gaffes in his first State of the Union Address. The most amusing likely will be him again mixing up VP Kamala Harris and his wife, DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!!. Joe also might mis-speak yet again about being a Senator instead of President. Or he might again brag about having the best voter fraud organization in history. Make no mistake, Joe will jam his foot into his mouth at some point, but his Lamestream Media sycophants will ignore or misdirect the verbal farts much in the same way the elderly passing gas at family gatherings have relatives blame the dog to cover for them.
- Biden has made news by saying that he’s going to send a bill to Congress offering citizenship to 11 million illegal immigrants. Subsequent investigation will reveal that is a mere formality since those 11 million already were able to vote in the last election – all for Biden.
- Emboldened by the poll that showed that 65 percent of voters, regardless of party affiliation, approved of $2,000 per person stimulus handouts for the length of the COVID-19 pandemic and perhaps beyond, Biden will propose making them evergreen, as in never-ending. He also will ratchet up his $15 minimum wage to $35 an hour, thereby bring all into the middle class, or so his handlers tell him.
- Biden will criticize harshly the 10,000-plus mask-less citizens demonstrating over the weekend against virus lockdowns and urge them just to follow his request to wear a mask for 100 more days and all will be well. When his keepers tell Biden the demonstrations were in Vienna, Austria, Joe will blame the Russians.
- Hunter Biden will land numerous high-paying posts for which he exhibits no particular expertise. Asked about Hunter, Joe will blame the Russians.
- Heads of state visiting the White House will note how curious it is that Biden always serves them Chinese food. Both Joe and Hunter will blame the Russians.
- When mandated releases of government information regarding UFOs are made, revealing longstanding cover-ups by the United States, Biden will blame the Russians.
- House speaker Nancy Pelosi, taking a break from binge-eating high-priced ice cream, will pile on the language war in Congress that has ruled out such terms as chairman, seaman, mother, daughter, brother, etc., with one moron extending that to substituting for Amen at the end of a prayer. Henceforth, aMENdment, MANdates, MANsion, MANifest destiny, MENdicant state, noMENclature, yeoMANry, necroMANcy and the MANn act will need to have gender-neutral euphemisms drummed up for them, otherwise they cannot be spoken of in our hallowed halls. This time, Biden won’t blame the Russians, but it would be fitting if he did since Pelosi is taking a page from the communist playbook of the Russians and their ilk.
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