It's that time of year again where I look back at what I thought 2021 was going to be like, and I was, for better or worse, more accurate than a coin flip. Yay! Let's run down the list:
1) Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20th.
Correct and Thank God, but we know now just how close we came to this not happening, and if we don't punish the monsters responsible for nearly pulling off a coup, it will be much worse next time.
2) Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock will win the Georgia runoffs and Mitch McConnell will be relegated to Senate Minority Leader.
Correct. Thanks, Donald Trump!
3) Even if Dems get the Senate back, the filibuster and the current size of SCOTUS will remain.
Correct. This was near certain with a 50-50 Senate including Manchin and Sinema.
4) The total US death toll from COVID-19 will surpass 1 million Americans by the end of the year.
Half-point: And only because it was 825K and not quite a million, but my reasoning that the anti-vax idiots would martyr themselves was correct.
5) The Roberts Court will allow states to regulate abortion out of existence.
Correct. It's happening in Texas right now.
6) Donald Trump will not be indicted.
Correct. He was not.
7) Hunter Biden will be indicted.
My first real miss of the year, Incorrect.
8) No movie will break $100 million at the box office in 2021.
Incorrect, as Spider-Man No Way Home made over a billion, but I was mostly right up until December. I wish I was wrong, because it means movie theaters are back to normal in the era of highly transmissible Omicron.
9) The Dow Jones will be under 25,000 by the end of the year.
Incorrect, but we do have a serious inflation problem. However, the DJIA was up a whopping 18%+ for the year under Biden.
10) ZVTS will make it through 2021.
Correct, if I'm writing this and you're reading this, I'm right.
Total score: 6.5 out of ten.
Not my best year, but not my worst, either. 2022 predictions will be up later tonight.
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