A long article. Well worth going to the link to read the whole thing.
Sorry, but I never read a single word after an author uses “CE” to mark time.
Not interested.
I predict that Mrs. Evan’s third grade class will remove President Trump from their class ballots because, well, that’s what 8 year olds do.
I predict that Joe Biden will walk up to the presidential podium, urinate, and then attempt to flush with the microphone.
I predict that Hillary Clinton will be an asshole.
OK.
That was an easy one.
She’s always an asshole.
Well, to start with, James, it’s 2024 AD NOT 2024 CE.
There’s your first clue.
I like hot and cold running water, living in a warm and dry dwelling, eating my fill of food I like, Costco and supermarkets, cars, freeways, cellphones, medical care and flying to places to visit and indoor plumbing. Now we are being taken over by a generation that has no idea where any of those things come from but think they can do better by constructing a fantasy utopia where all of those amenities will be provided to everyone without effort and in equal proportions. All they will accomplish is poverty, suffering and denial of that standard of living to everyone, and totalitarian oppression that will micromanage our lives with unfeeling incompetence. Whoops.
Thanks for posting this. Very very good.
On Ukraine:
The so-called “free world” was unbothered by Ukraine during the decades it was a province of the Soviet Union, nor during centuries prior when it was a backwater of the Romanov monarchy. Ukraine didn’t cause any problems for us, or anybody else all that time, nor after the Soviet collapse when it became a sovereign state. We made it a problem in 2014 by mounting the color revolution against President Viktor Yanukovych and then installing a set of puppet presidents who we directed to antagonize the Russian-speaking people of Ukraine’s Donbas region.
We adopted the stupid plan to try and enlist Ukraine into NATO, when Russia made it clear that was unacceptable. We persisted and prodded Ukraine to attack Donbas with rockets and artillery for eight years, and blew off the Minsk accord that would have settled the Ukraine-in-NATO quarrel. And finally, the Russians had enough and moved militarily to assert the proposition that Ukraine was and remains within their sphere-of-influence — just as we claim the countries of Latin America are in ours under the Monroe Doctrine.
After two years of real shootin’ war, Ukraine’s death toll is around half a million; Russia’s is way less than that, and altogether, including refugees who left, Ukraine has lost nearly half its population, formerly 32-million. The Russians are firmly in control of the battle space now. They have reserve troops, armaments and equipment, and a substantial arms manufacturing infrastructure to back that up. The Ukrainians are left with just about nothing. It’s only a question of time before Ukraine will have to seek terms for concluding this fiasco. The USA is currently pretending to shift to a stance that would join whatever that negotiation amounts to, but we have no leverage left in the matter. The upshot is another military humiliation for America on “Joe Biden’s” watch. I believe President Putin will resist the urge to rub it in — for the simple reason, as any reader of history knows, that the victor must give the loser a way out, to save face, or at least pretend to. If I were Mr. Putin, I would be respectful of America’s current deeply psychotic condition.
The news media has already pretty much memory-holed Ukraine. It’s off the front page and the first ten minutes of CNN. Two years ago, the US propaganda-industrial complex ramped up vast sentiment for helping Ukraine in its supposedly valiant struggle. $200-billion later we have zip to show for it. Now everyone sees what actually happened and recognizes it as just another trademark “Joe Biden” disaster. There are no blue and yellow Ukraine flags still hanging from the porches and windows here. It’s over.
NAILED IT. Absolutely nailed it!
I predict that Cheechandchong Peng, the grand Pooba of China, will threaten to invade Belgium.
I predict that Anthony Fauci will become the spokesman for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
>> their own self-disgust, moral failure, peevish discontents, petty hatreds, willful profanations …
exactly
Still trying to figure out the Texas reference of “peccary testicles and mesquite pods” in the second line.
My prediction for 2024: starting about a week into November, personal inventories of ammunition will begin a sudden and steep decline but, good news for reloaders, empty brass will begin to increase
About a third of the way through 2024 and I am not optimistic. It is worse than I thought it would be.