In the 1960’s, there was a TV show called That Was The Week That Was, which was a satirical review of current events, especially politics, and which featured songs by Tom Lehrer.  Looking back on the colossal shit show that’s been 2020, it occurred to me that 2020 is the year that wasn’t.  It wasn’t supposed to go the way it went.  2020 has been a lost year in so many respects.  Our kids lost a year of education, because virtual learning is virtually useless.  Our economy, not to say the stock market, which has yet to feel the pain, has suffered enormous damage that will take years to remedy.  Our cities lost the ability to enforce the law.  All of us lost our freedom to come and go, or even to enjoy a simple meal in a restaurant.  2020 was the year that sports shut down, then reappeared in empty stadiums, with fake crowd noise.  Worst of all, in 2020, we lost a President who was the only breath of fresh air in the foul stench that is Washington, D.C.  2020 was supposed to be the Year of the Rat, but turned out to be the Year of the Wuhan bat – if you want to believe that crap.  Or maybe just the Year of the Chinese Red Death.  The year began innocently enough, with the usual predictions.  The super-leftist website Vox, which hates all things conservative, made 18 predictions for 2020, crowing that 12 of their 16 2019 predictions had come true.  Like most things in 2020, Vox came up short, their record dropping to 50%.  Here’s what Vox predicted for 2020.

1.  Donald Trump will win reelection.  Vox noted incumbency, the growing economy, low unemployment, and peace as the deciding factors.  Wrong.  The Wuhan virus, plus vote fraud overrode all the positives, as the sneaking, lying Chinese hoped it would.

2.  Joe Biden will be the Democrat nominee.  This was an easy one, given the field of whackos, has beens, and light weights he was running against.

3.  The GOP holds the Senate.  They got this one right, at least so far.  If the Dems manage to steal the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia, like they did the presidential race, who knows?

4.  Trump will not get a new Supreme Court appointment. Wrong.  Vox calculated the odds of Ruth Bader Ginsburg dying at 8.2%.  She beat the odds.

5.  The Supreme Court will allow more abortion restrictions.  Wrong.  The Court struck down restrictions in Louisiana.

6.  The Democratic primary will be settled on Super Tuesday.  Not a big stretch.  See Number 2 above.

7.  The number of people in global poverty will fall.  Wrong.  Due to the Wuhan, poverty is up 1.9%.  Thanks again China.

8.  Brexit (finally) happens (with 95% probability).
Wrong.  The British Establishment has no more respect for the will of the voters than the scum that run the U.S.

9.  No US troops land in Iran.  There was never much chance of this with Trump.  But never mind invasion.  With the incoming Harris/Biden Administration, any chance of confronting and controlling those murdering bastards falls to zero.

10.  China’s internment camps for Muslims will remain open.  Here, Vox criticized Trump’s tough talk about the Chinese as toothless.  They suggested Trump might veto Congress’s 2020 Uiger Human Rights Policy Act.  They got that wrong.  He signed it 6/17/20.  But the camps remain open, and Biden likely will send China money to hire more guards.

11.  Netanyahu will not be unseated as Israeli prime minister.  Wrong.  This is a mixed bag.  One election ushered in a coalition government with rotating PM’s. That Failed.  A new election is scheduled for February.

12.  No gene drives to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes will be launched in any part of the world.
I’ll give them this one.  Malaria?  What’s malaria?  In 2020, there is no disease but one disease, and Covid is its name.

13.  No new CRISPR-edited babies will be born. Wrong.  I wasn’t familiar with the the concept of gene-edited babies.  Vox cited a global backlash, but China announced a new gene-edited baby in November.  Not a surprise.  The Chinese have distracted the globe from any backlash by infecting it with the Wuhan.  If they admit to one, the lying Chinese sacks of shit probably have an army of gene-edited robots.

14.  The number of drug-resistant infections will increase.  Vox was right, but for the wrong reason.   Once again the Wuhan is responsible for the spread of such antibiotic resistant bugs such as candida auris, and something they’re calling super gonorrhea.  Good job China.

15.  Facial recognition will be banned in at least three more cities.  Vox cited concerns for privacy and misidentification of people of color.  In 2020, those were the least of our concerns.  But, New Orleans, Portland and Madison, Wisconsin banned it.  Banning facial recognition would have been bad enough, but we had the 2020 insanity of defunding the police, decriminalizing crime, and tolerating rioting, looting and arson.  Facial recognition wouldn’t work anyway.   The lawless bastards of Antifa all wear black masks.

16.  Global carbon emissions will increase.  Wrong.
Emissions were down 7% due to Wuhan lockdowns.  Thanks again China.

17.  Average world temperatures will increase relative to 2019.  Wrong.  They say figures don’t lie, but liars figure.  The July 2020 global land and ocean surface temperature  merely tied the 2016 second-highest July temperature in the 140 years that records have been kept.  Think it’s hot now?  Take a look at 1934.  In any case, 140 years is insignificant in the scheme of global history, during which time the temperatures have gone up and down drastically without any input from Man.

18. California has a wildfire among the 10 most destructive in state history.  This one was too easy to predict.  In fact, most of the worst fires were set.  I don’t think we should blame global warming for making arson more efficient.  The fires keep getting worse because of California’s nutty environmental policies.  100% sustainable energy means not enough energy, and rolling blackouts.  Their water policy causes needless droughts.  So, Californians, to paraphrase Shakespeare, “the fault lies not in the carbon emissions, but in yourselves.”

Unlike Vox, I’m making only one prediction for 2021.  It just has to be better than 2020.  So, before the swearing in of corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden, let’s swear out the year 2020.  2020, cursed year of unrelenting shit, get the F**k out, and take with you the Chinese bats, the ventilators, the masks, the lock downs, Governor Cuomo and his brother Fredo, the hand-washing PSA’s, the words “new normal, the school closures, the restaurant restrictions, the empty stadiums, Dr. Birx’s scarves, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and most of all Dr. Fauci.  Ship one and all the Hell out of here, and give us back our lives.  Amen.  2020 has ended.  Go on a cruise.