This year has been strange in many ways, but one bit of weirdness that has gone unnoticed is the paucity of predictions for the coming year. For as long as anyone reading this has been alive, this time of year has featured both year in review content and predictions content. This year both have been limited. Maybe the awfulness of 2020 is keeping people from thinking much about it. The wild unpredictability we have seen has probably made forecasters squeamish about predicting anything.
The Light of Lagos was pretty much a dud last year. The omens got some of the Democrat primary right, but not enough to claim a victory. Biden did struggle and Warren flamed out early. Buttigieg did better in Iowa than most expected, but Sanders was the story until the party rigged the system to install Biden. No one predicted Biden would win the nomination and no one ever imagined that buffoon as president, so the omens can be forgiven for missing that one.
The prediction about Conservative Inc. has been spot on, but that was easy money, so no victory lap there. It will be interesting to see how they try to pump air back into their thing, given the mood of most right-wing whites these days. On the other hand, as long as the money from rich people keeps flowing into their rackets, it probably does not matter all that much. The rich people pay them to play a role and they will play the role, even if the audience has walked out of the theater.
Then there is the fact that a lot of whites are so beaten down and desperate, they will cling to civic nationalism until their dying breath. Everyone should read the comments at Breitbart or National Review once in a while, just to be reminded of this. Granted, many of them move their lips when they read, but most are just frozen in time by a fear of what is happening all around them. Unless and until there is a credible alternative, in terms of organizations, Conservative Inc. will stagger on.
On the sporting front, the Premiere League did not have their first transgender player, but the whole league is gay now, so that’s close enough. The Light of Lagos really hates English soccer. So much so there will be no references to footie, football or the beautiful game in the future. That said, you have to wonder how the English soccer fans are making it through Covid without the ability to attend games or get plastered at the pub watching their team. Boris is playing with fire over there.
The predictions on Brexit were a swing and miss. It is hard to know what is in the deal Boris took from the Euros, but it is probably less than was promised. The deal sailed through Parliament with the support of Farage. He has been the most hawkish on this of all British politicians. He may simply be thinking a flawed deal is better than no deal. Half a loaf is better than no loaf. Still, the omens were wrong about how this would play out, so it goes in the loss column.
The impeachment fiasco played out as predicted, but that was easy money, so no victory lap there either. The real shocker is in how the whole thing was thrown down the memory hole so quickly. No one talks about it. It’s like how someone gets crazy drunk at a party and makes a fool of himself. The next day there is some ribbing from friends, but then it is forgotten. The Democrats danced around with a lampshade on their heads and after it was over, everyone forgot about it.
Now, the big hit was the Barr stuff. It is amazing how so many people thought something would happen with that charade for so long. When Trump brought Barr in it seemed like something would happen, but it quickly became clear that it was just another coverup. Barr was brought in to make sure the truth of the FBI corruption never saw the light of day. You have to wonder if Trump was too stupid to see what was happening or that he signed off on it, despite his tweets.
The omens were mostly wrong on the election. Net out the obvious fraud and the results would have been in line with what was predicted, but that is what is called a gratuitous assertion. The fact is, the result was nothing like what was predicted, so it goes in the loss column. The main takeaway is that most people went to bed on election night thinking Trump won another squeaker, only to learn the next day that mysterious ballots were found to snatch the victory away. Truly incredible.
Of course, the big miss was the Covid panic and how it has been used to turn much of America into a penal colony. No one predicted it, because such a thing seemed implausible just a year ago. It really is shocking to think about how much has changed in just 12 months. This time last year people were planning vacations, walking around with no curfew, having people over to their homes. If someone had predicted this, they would have been dismissed as a crazy person.
That’s probably why there has not been the usual flood of predictions. Usually, predictions are a projection of current trends. All the current trends are as ugly as the people who rule over us. Who wants to think about what comes next with the Covid stuff or how the empire with fare with a dementia patient in charge? Given how bad things got so quickly, who wants to think about what comes next? This has been an ugly year, made uglier by the thought that things will probably get worse.
That brings up something else. Every year the television networks spend forty-eight hours doing New Year’s celebrations. They have live shots from around the world and people reporting at various events. All of that will be cancelled this year. The bars will be empty in most of the country. One of the consequences of the Covid tyranny is that people will not even get to pretend that next year will bring better days. Instead of coming into the new year with hope, most people are pessimistic.
That said, the future will belong to those who keep their wits about them and their eyes trained on the horizon, as the world goes to pieces. Much of what is happening has been predicted for a long time on this side of the great divide. It is not coming about exactly as anyone expected, but the unravelling has begun. What comes next is the fight over who decides what comes next. We’re all alive, which means we can still fight and as long as we can fight, the future belongs to us.
Happy New Year.
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This year has been strange in many ways, but one bit of weirdness that has gone unnoticed is the paucity of predictions for the coming year.
Hmm… Yes, same in Denmark. Good catch.
We’re in uncharted territory now.
My exhilaration is tempered by the near-certainty it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Herr Krull:
Godt nytår til dig.
One thing is for sure. Things have become so stressful, people have forgotten about other things to worry about. How many times do we wake up in the middle of the night and worry about some aspect of current affairs?
Here’s a prediction: alcohol sales will be brisk in the coming year.
Things have become so stressful, people have forgotten about other things to worry about.
Like mass migration?
How very conventient.
Like your neighbor’s daughter’s black boyfriend.
Him too, yes.
Gimmiegrants will be totally exempt from any vax requirements cuz rayciss.
Just watch.
In Denmark, the lockdowns were temporarily rescinded during Ramadan. I’m quite certain the same will be the case next year, so we’ll have a month of summer freedom to look forward to.
Eat your heart out if your country is not enriched mohammadanically!
It breaks my heart to see a place like Malmö ( large swaths of it, anyway) turned into a middle eastern slum in less than a generation.
No fuss over them except for purposes of Democratic representation. Sort of like the slaves.
Alcohol sales will be brisk, and ammo will get harder to find. If the dollar collapses, then our currency will be a mixture of alcohol, ammo, and toilet paper rolls.
Ammo is gone already. You have to be on the lookout for reloading supplies. It’s unreal.
Word to the wise: stock up on home winemaking supplies. Plant the orchard and the vineyard. Learn how to culture yeast.
I think the reason no one’s making predictions is because they’re all so terrifying.
No one with influence of any political persuasion has said anything about wrapping up this covid nonsense. Thats what is scary to me. There is no mainstream discussion of an end
I’ve been called a conspiracy nut many times. People are not so quick to dismiss me now. I continue to present the facts in a calm and rational manner.
New Year’s joke.
If you thought 2020 was bad wait till it turns 21 and starts drinking
Predictions?
There are no predictions.
There is only Covid.
2020 has surely been one for the record books and I don’t look fondly towards this soon to be new year. One thing I will say is I don’t think this election hoax/fraud is an absolute done deal. More and more s*** is oozing out and this next week or two may tell the tale. No matter how it finally falls out, there are going to be tens of millions of pissed off people. As Z has said we may look back on this past year as not so bad after all.
The thing is hardly anybody in power wants to do anything about it. I’m guessing it’ll come down to civil unrest forcing the military to pick a side.
I had a premonition in the fall of 2019 that something bad was going to happen late winter early spring 2020. I was sure it was going to be world wide and very bad. I told others about it and they remember me telling them. Kind of scary.
Have anything new to tell us, Nostradamus?
Oh please. Anyone that didn’t know we were headed for disaster had their head buried in the sand. It was just a method and the scale that was a mystery
The toughest thing about Kung Flu predictions is that sane people are very bad at predicting the behavior of the truly insane. You assume some motive, some connections, some *anything* to tether it to reality…and it never comes. I remember a buddy in college who started dating a borderline. This is like that. The look in that dude’s eyes when he realized that *nothing* was off the table — she could, and would, do absolutely *anything* — was probably my most beneficial lesson from undergrad.
Hope she was hot, at least.
“This has been an ugly year, made uglier by the thought that things will probably get worse.” You’ll hit a home run with this prediction. Would anyone else agree that even this “ugly year” was predictable? Maybe not specifically for 2020 or COVID per se, but the fact that mainstream Americans have been systematically softened by their meds, their “education” and addiction to 7/24 propaganda. Seems that mainstream America is begging for totalitarianism, as long as their dear-leader wears the appropriate Red or Blue uniform. Weren’t eventual lockdowns, governmental fatwas, and woke-insanity baked in the democracy cake, long before we… Read more »
Sir, I have enjoyed your content and podcast more and more over the last year. You really should be “Tucker” in a perfect world but we all know that isn’t really possible anymore. The audience definitely left the theater for Fox News but, as you said, their billionaire NeoCon slant will always allow them to present themselves as the televised voice of Conservatives. As for curfews and lockdown culture, I live (as you do) in one of America’s extremely enriched diverse cities, so prison culture and hip hop culture has always been extremely in-your-face for me. But even this time… Read more »
Besides 2003, when my wife moved in with her boyfriend, this has been my worse year. Which is interesting, because in terms of scope and uniqueness, 2020 should have been worse.
Goes to show you how evil no-fault divorce is,, I suppose!
Well I believe Skynet will finally be implemented. The bad is the almost total annihilation of humanity. The good, it solves our immigration and diversity problems.
In reality, this and recent years will look like halcyon days compared to what’s coming. That could bode well in creating strong people capable of a decent resistance movement. On the other hand the docile and compliant masses will demonstrate once again their propensity to accept more strident and totalitarian rules as normal. Faith in the transcendent must return.
Amen. Without faith in a higher power evil people will attempt anything and normal people won’t have the balls to stand up to them.
PREDICTION? What the hell, here goes: At the risk of revealing myself to be a clueless old Civnat Boomer fool, I hereby make this prediction for the new year: Trump will be President for the next four years. Please downvote me for this foolishness. But remember, you heard it here first.
No downvote here. I hope you’re right even if I lost faith a while back.
I upvoted you for your humility
My prediction for 2021is that the CoVid hysteria will begin fading by the spring and be completely memory holed by late summer. All the anxiety over compelled vaccination will come to naught and be forgotten even sooner.
All that will be replaced by a drumbeat for war and anti-war protests with the surprise twist that the anti-war activist will include large numbers of Trumpists. This time it will be the a United uniparty against a mostly United people.
I dont think people want vocid to end…
2020 will become 2021
2020 gets to its drinking age.
With the nut jobs still driving the car.
Could be an eventful year.
Happy New Year to all!
The powers that be will use the promise of a return to normal to wring all kinds of concessions out of a desperate public. Bait and switch will be the modus operandi.
Kamela Harris will be President before the end of 2021. Beware the Ides of March, Mr. Biden.
Even though I’ve made the long journey from practically a commie to whatever it is we are calling ourselves today- I spent a long time parked in the CivNat special handicapped space. (Full disclosure- I taught Z’s bete noir Jonah Goldberg in high school, so I’ve always had a soft spot for him) Fact is, I still have a hangover from my CivNat days, because, even though I now believe most if not all of the things discussed here- race realism, that IQ is real, that the people who rule us pretty much hate us, that, as Z says, we’re… Read more »
Really, by whom and what did they preidict?
This is the first year in our lifetimes where perhaps a majority of people anticipate the upcoming year will manage to be worse than the horrorshow that is drawing to a close. Maybe that is a good thing, too. Pretty well agree with most of what you wrote except: Unless and until there is a credible alternative, in terms of organizations, Conservative Inc. will stagger on. Con, Inc., is dead now and the shuffling zombie should not be mistaken for something alive. Those commenters to NR and Breitbart are about as representative of America as the leftists on Twitter. People… Read more »
I dont know, I’ve emailed the pres of the virginia. Civil defense league about the election fraud. He says, “no party is perfect, andis promoting the latest round of republican candidates to protect our rights. Two women….