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2025 Has Arrived (part 2)

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Tuesday we forecasted the first six months of 2025.  Today we tackle the back half.

Tuesday night Trump rallied behind Mike Johnson, so prediction number one might ring true even before the New Year begins.

July

The Arizona Diamondbacks open a nine-game lead over the LA Dodgers as Shohei Ohtani misses five straight games attending a Lamaze retreat.  Trump pardons all but the last six J6 convicted felons.  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau goes public with his relationship with RuPaul.  Ann’ecdote, the first named hurricane of the Atlantic season scrapes Key West and fizzles.  Aaron Rodgers announces his retirement.

August

The NY city trash workers strike enters week three.  Mayor Eric Adams finds the situation untenable saying, “This place stinks worse than our pro football teams.”  JD Vance casts the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to institute voter ID laws consistent in all 50 states.  California says it won’t comply.  Number one overall NFL draft pick Sheddur Sanders holds out of the NE Patriots camp threatening to enter the transfer portal seeking more money.

September

Shohei Sadaharu Oh Ohtani, 12 pounds 10 ounces and 24 inches long, was born two weeks early.   Droughtaggeddon finally relents in Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa but a nationwide corn shortage worsens.  Bill Gates peddles Beyond Corn.  Kamala Harris’ book Aged Like Fine Wine debuts at number one on the NYT bestseller list.  President Trump awards The Village People the Congressional Medal of Honor.

October

Vivek Ramaswamy resigns from DOGE citing irreconcilable differences with Elon Musk.  The Yankees offer Son Oh Ohtani a three-year minor-league contract for 60 million.  The Arizona Diamondbacks win the World Series.  Elon announces xPhone 1 will go on sale for Christmas and include free internet access for life.  The 2026 federal budget is presented with spending requests planned down 11.7% and tax cuts galore.  Wall Street rallies the Dow back over 44k.

November

The Washington Commanders end Oct 9-0 but fall to the Carolina Panthers ensuring no team goes undefeated yet again.  The bird flu spreads to turkeys causing a nationwide beef shortage around Thanksgiving.  Bill Gates peddles Beyond Turkey.  Hunter Biden is detained trying to enter the White House, yelling, “I left some valuables here a while back.”  Karine Jean Pierre enters the book biz with Say It Ain’t So, Joe.  America takes the Panama Canal back.  Trump Enterprises purchases 12 acres from the US for $1 along the canal to build a mega hotel and casino complex.

December

The CFP Committee selects 5 SEC and 4 Big Ten teams for the expanded 16-team playoffs.  ESPN buys a financial stake in Alabama football.   Barron Trump launches a podcast.  The US Department of Defense says that the drones over New Jersey are mostly contained.  Trump’s executive order renames Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley.  Two days later bright orange lava erupts for the first time.

Happy New Year!!

Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

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Donald J. Trump wrote The Art of the Deal in 1987, which sold over a million copies and was number one on the New York Times best-seller list for 13 straight weeks.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was fifteen years old then.  Likely, The Art of the Deal was not on his high school English class reading list.  Perhaps it should have been, along with a speed reading course.

Though Johnson’s House Continuing Resolution blew up faster yesterday than he could have read it.  The 1500-plus page bill is was longer than three War and Peace novels.

When Elon Musk starts a Twitter war there is no peace.  Elon and Vivek dissected the bill.  In 280 characters or less, they told us that it was more Washington pork being force-fed to the American people who just voted to stop the DC hogs and their special interests.

Mike Johnson brokered a deal with the devil that offered everything from a Congressional member pay raise of 73k per public servant to a three million dollar study on molasses testing.

How about a new three-billion-dollar NFL stadium in DC?  If you have a House seat on the hill you get a sweet suite seat in the stadium.

All he needed and all America needed was funding to keep the government open till Trump got his feet under the Oval Office desk and some additional disaster relief for the two devastating hurricanes the southeast endured in September.

Instead, he chose to include Democrat-driven pet projects.  After the dawn of DOGE he should have known better.

Vote the straight party line on the lighter version of the bill and send it to the Senate.  The Senate is controlled by the Democrats until 1/2/25.  If they reject the bill and shut the government down it’s on them.  Government shutdowns aren’t shutdowns anyway, but politicians like to scare us.

Instead, he tried to please everyone which pleased no one once the richest and smartest man in the world spoke, er, tweeted.

Notably silent yesterday were the RINOs that would have voted with the Democrats to deliver the slab of bacon and run home for the holiday break.  Elon’s watching.  He has the money to primary you, fine folks, soon.  Don’t get him started.

Mike Johnson is gone sooner.  He won’t survive his 1/2 casting call.

Johnson didn’t read Trump’s book.  And, he wrote the wrong bill.

He didn’t read the will of the American people.  Enough already adding shamelessly to the debt.

Reading, writing, and arithmetic.

 

 

The Fight for our Democracy

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If you’re from the left you know  President Donald Trump stirred up his ultra MAGA loonies to storm the Capitol Building on 1/6/21.  He deserves to be impeached, indicted, tried, and convicted.  No sentence is too harsh for this treasonist act.

If you’re from the right you know that the Feds and Nancy Pelosi were heavily involved in staging J6 from the jump.  She refused National Guard help offered by Trump the night prior. This is all a part of a bigger plot to discredit Trump and keep him occupied so that he may never occupy the White House again.

It’s ping pong.

Turn on your favorite news channel and they’ll repeatedly show you evidence and put on “experts” 24/7 to validate what they want you to believe and what you want to believe.

Twitter knows you better than you do.  Every time you open a tweet, retweet a tweet, copy and paste a tweet, or open a video Twitter knows you even better than it did prior.  It, too, feeds you more of what you want to see, hear, and believe.

Objective, logical, balanced, and clear discussions are gone.  Any debate really means you hate.  Disinformation is slang for “I disagree with what you are saying.”

“The fight for our democracy” is a catchphrase now applied daily every single time one side wants to hysterically rile up its base.

There is no doubt that Hunter Biden, his friends, business associates, and hookers helped him show Chinese and Ukrainian businesses the benefits to have him on their board.  Or, better yet, they could “do some business” with his company and access to the then VP was theirs for the taking.

Don’t forget 10% for the big guy.  It’s all there on his laptop the right side howls.  Joe Biden says he never met one of Hunter’s business associates.  Ever.  Pictures of the same be damned.

Ironically, he’s never met his seventh grandchild either, but we digress.

The left says in spite of testimony under oath, emails, video of Joe bragging about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired, and Hunter’s repair shop laptop, there is no real evidence to connect any of these dots.

We could go on and on.  In ping pong, you have to win by two.

Meanwhile, we have a sitting president, whom the DNC shut down any competition to his renomination, who has the highest disfavorable ratings since Jimmy Carter ordered helicopters to land in Iran.  Bidenomics anyone?

On the flip side we have a twice impeached former president, now indicted for about the fourth time for god knows what, with a rabid base that has much fervor.  But beyond that 32% of the country, how much support does he have or can he garner?

One is an old 80, the other a spry 77.  Regardless, age is just a number.

Maybe it’s high time that some new blood and open thinking enter the arena to at least freshen the dialogue and reduce the diatribe.

That actually might make the media do its job.  Doubtful, but one can hope.

Give Robert Kennedy Jr a listen.  How about Vivek Ramaswamy?

Maybe you won’t agree with all of what they have to say.

But, maybe that’s better than believing everything that you hear from the same network or Twitter feed that you put on wash, rinse, and repeat daily.

It’s your serve.