May 23, 2025
There’s no hoarier cliché than to submit a column full of the predictions as your last column of the year, and since I like my clichés hoary, here’s a column full of my 2021 predictions as my last column of the year.
Grandpa Badfinger Will Not Be President Next New Year’s Eve.
Grandpa Badfinger Will Not Be President Next New Year’s Eve.

There’s no hoarier cliché than to submit a column full of the predictions as your last column of the year, and since I like my clichés hoary, here’s a column full of my 2021 predictions as my last column of the year. 

I predict pain.

Here are the specifics.

10.  No Krakens. Sorry.

Let’s get this out-of-the-way. I predict President Asterisk will be inaugurated in January despite the massive cheating and incompetence that stole the election from the American people. Yeah, I know it’s not fair or right, but that’s my assessment of what will happen, and if you want smoke blown up your Swalwell, keep walking. While it is 2020, and it is Trump, and therefore anything can happen, I still think it is highly unlikely that any kind of constitutional maneuver or even the most meritorious court challenge is going to validate Donald Trump’s victory in the last election, even though it’s painfully clear that he did win and was only deprived of the victory by a combination of incompetence, scams and outright fraud. And I predict many Americans will refuse to accept this ancient pervert as their president. I know I will never name him without adding an *. I also know I’m not going to rest until the left pays. How about you?

9.  Durham Will Do Nothing

Santa Claus. The Easter Bunny. Durham the Avenger.

Nothing will happen to the real crooks. Nada. Zip. Zilch. What investigations the Asterisk Administration doesn’t order shut down will be closed out without action in the name of “preserving our institutions.” You might think justice and accountability are the best institutional preservatives, but that’s your wacky non-swamp thinking at work. The real answer is to cover it up and blame you for caring. What this will do is make us hate them even more for their corruption, incompetence, and arrogance, if that’s possible. Good. Just remember what Johnny Lydon (née Rotten) sang – anger is an energy. Use it.

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