"2021 is the year of Thunderdome.
BEIJING Biden and POTUS enter .... only one leaves."
Posted on 01/02/2021 6:04:03 AM PST by Kaslin
What a difference a terrible year makes.
Last year at this time, my wife, Colleen the travel agent, and I were getting ready to take 40 of her clients on a 15-day cruise out of Dubai to India and back.
This year, thanks to the COVID-19 virus and the strict lockdowns imposed to fight it, the world's travel industry barely exists and Colleen and I will be spending January under house arrest.
Unfortunately, house arrest has become the new normal for 40 million Californians.
We've been locked down, masked up and ordered to stay in our basements for so long by Gov. Gavin Newsom that many of us have forgotten what freedom feels like or what it's like to simply eat in a restaurant.
The news is filled with stories of people and businesses leaving this state in droves because it has become so unlivable in so many ways.
Californians who can afford it are moving to red states like Arizona, Texas and Florida, where taxes are lower, homes are cheaper and governors are not nannies and wannabe dictators.
Life in Los Angeles is especially unpleasant, which is why I've rented an escape house for my family two hours away in the sleepy Santa Ynez Valley.
Most of L.A's 10 million people are not so lucky.
They're stuck living 24/7 in a locked down city with tens of thousands of homeless people and drug addicts living under overpasses and on the sidewalks.
But many well-to-do citizens are buying second homes outside the city in places like Palm Springs, Desert Springs and up here in the Santa Ynez Valley.
My friends here in Santa Ynez tell me the local real estate market is on fire. Houses sell in a day. One real estate guy predicts home prices will double in two years.
Ditto for homes in Palm Springs and other places close enough to L.A. for people to commute to but far enough away to escape the slow-motion destruction of a great city.
Life has gotten so depressing in L.A. that a friend of mine flew five hours to Miami just so he could eat dinner inside a restaurant.
That's the kind of madness that 2020 has brought us.
Some folks are saying that the COVID-19 vaccines will let people go back to normal in 2021.
But based on what our future pessimist-in-chief Joe Biden has been saying, I don't think that's going to happen.
Listening to his dark speeches about the sad state of the union, how it's only going to get worse and what dumb things he plans to do about it is like listening to Jimmy Carter squared.
Carter had his problems in the late 1970s with a high Misery Index, which was a way to gauge the economic conditions of the average American based on the inflation rate plus the unemployment rate.
But the future Biden is talking about will be Total Misery for all Americans.
optimistic and upbeat.
Other presidents - most recently my father, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama - looked on the bright and hopeful side of things.
Biden is the opposite. He looks on the dark side, the Jimmy Carter side.
He and the liberal media sing the same grim tune - that things are bad and they're going to be bad in the future, maybe forever.
On Jan. 20 we're going to lose the only guy in Washington who was consistently optimistic in 2020, one of the most horrible years in our history.
I'm an optimist and I used to think 2021 couldn't be any worse than 2020.
But with Biden and his crew about to take charge of our lives, now I'm not so sure.
"2021 is the year of Thunderdome.
BEIJING Biden and POTUS enter .... only one leaves."
It will be better in 2021! /s
Hold muh beer
What you depict is militant black power, the Africanization forces that have taken control of American cities
With Demento and Kameltoe in power? Yes.. it can definitely go further south.
People of ALL COLORS have had it.
Those who traffic, kill, eat, desecrate CHILDREN
must die along with those protected them.
All People of All Colors Agree.
C’est finis. The die has been cast.
“Californians who can afford it are moving to red states like Arizona, Texas and Florida, where taxes are lower, homes are cheaper and governors are not nannies and wannabe dictators.”
Yet, curiously, they continue their hard-left voting patterns in hopes of turning those states into California-like hellholes unsuitable for human habitation.
I can attest to those home prices in areas outside of Los Angeles - I live in one and recently sold a home in another.
The home we sold came on the market on a Tuesday with six viewings, by Wednesday morning we had four offers, one of which was in cash (for a home over a million dollars). Short bidding war ensured, the cash buyer upped the offer by $100,000 and the home was sold by Thursday. The buyer couldn’t believe his good fortune.
The neighborhood we currently live in is going through the same process - homes sold in one day with multiple offers - new neighbor said she had to fend off 14 competitors before she was able to buy her current home.
The first thing people are doing, what I’m seeing, is putting security fencing and putting cameras around their properties - there are homeless moving into our area, and everywhere else. The police here are good about not letting them set up encampments in our parks or allowing old campers and RVs to move onto our streets. Don’t know how long they can hold out, it seems the homeless have all the rights in this state, homeowners none.
On the question! Hell yes it can!!! And it probably will be worse!
2020 is going to be better than any future year that he isn’t President. We are heading down.
The evidence I have viewed is that the minority of the black minority who “have had it” are so few as to have absolutely no voice in the matter.
The minotity majority have destroyed cities and will continue to do so unabated. Abatement will exacerbate the destruction of the cities and of America
Black Lives Matter simply because they are de facto American enemies intent on destroying America
Yes, even in deep blue California, all of us have had it.
We recently defeated an initiative that would have taken us back to the “glory days” of rampant Affirmative Action, we defeated an initiative on rent control and another one one that would have been the start of dismantling Prop 13, which keeps the greedy pols here from constantly raising our property taxes, which are already sky high
As someone said to me the other day .... “I believe we are beginning our 40 years of wandering in the wilderness” ...
2021 unfortunately will get very violent. Places will need national guard detachments, but they won’t know exactly where to deploy.
2021 sez “Hold ma beer” . . . . . .
Yeah but when Camelface Harris takes over as president, nothing will get better.
“will need national guard detachments”
demented joe and commie-la will use them against us.
I’m one of the minority in California who’s life has been virtually unaffected by COVID-19. I’ve worked four different jobs (at the same time) and left my house every single day. Yes, I’ve had to wear a mask and haven’t dined out much but I’ve even found places to get around that.
Many prophecies paint a gruesome picture. Just research it.
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