{"id":76339,"date":"2021-01-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76339"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:08","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76339","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let&#8217;s get everyone&#8217;s predictions for the new year on record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll start:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>After nine months of whinging &#8220;2020 is the <em>worst year ever<\/em>&#8220;, Americans will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75263\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"75263\">discover<\/a> that events don&#8217;t read calendars.  Things&#8217;ll stop sucking pretty much whenever they stop sucking. <\/li><li>Joe Biden will come out of the White House basement no more often after being sworn in than he did before.  <\/li><li>Nonetheless, his mental decline will become so apparent that by autumn, the Democrats will attempt to remove him using the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/constitution\/amendment-25\/\">25th Amendment<\/a>.  Of course, if Biden doesn&#8217;t resign, and Harris and the Cabinet have to vote to remove Biden under Section 4, while the Veep and Cabinet can temporarily remove him, throwing the issue to Congress&#8230;where a 2\/3 vote is required to permanently replace Biden with Harris.  Which presents Mitch McConnell with a bit of a dilemma:  would it be better to leave Biden in place as leader of the Democrat party, flailing and walking into walls and wandering into odd tangents, or install a &#8220;president&#8221; who never got over 5% of the vote in any primary and is pushing an agenda that would motivate Republicans and conservatives like nothing since Obamacare? <\/li><li>Americans, fatigued by over a year of restrictions that, outside of a few liberty-first states, and armed with the gradually escaping knowledge that T-cell immunity has made vast swathes of the population already functionally immune, will start to treat Covid restrictions the way their great-grandparents treated prohibition. <\/li><li>While waiting for America&#8217;s idiot ruling class to wake up and smell the public health coffee (ew), China will gobble up vast shares of the world market. <\/li><li>With the trials pushed back to the start of summer, the George Floyd trial&#8217;s verdicts will lead to rioting that make Minneapolitans look on the last week of May 2020 as the good old days.   By 2030, Minneapolis will be generally revealed to be a failed city along the lines of Detroit, Newark and NOLA. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Your turn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s get everyone&#8217;s predictions for the new year on record. I&#8217;ll start: After nine months of whinging &#8220;2020 is the worst year ever&#8220;, Americans will discover that events don&#8217;t read calendars. Things&#8217;ll stop sucking pretty much whenever they stop sucking. Joe Biden will come out of the White House basement no more often after being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-76339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-history-and-its-making","tag-george-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76340,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76339\/revisions\/76340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}