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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2025/12/31/wrong-predictions-   
   never-mind-n2668698   
      
   End of the year predictions about the future have been around at least   
   since the days of Nostradamus, but what about past predictions? There were   
   plenty of predictions that electing Donald Trump the first time and then   
   reelecting him would cause economic Armageddon.   
      
   Democrats and their media mouthpieces have consistently predicted monetary   
   collapse from President Trump's policies. This year alone, editorials in   
   The New York Times, the Washington Post and most "reporting" by mainstream   
   networks have claimed with absolute certainty that the president's tariffs   
   would tank the economy.   
      
   Now comes a column in the Washington Post by author and investor Zachary   
   Karabell, who writes "The Edgy Optimist" on Substack. He says that after   
   Trump's tariff announcement last April 2, "Most observers predicted   
   sharply higher inflation, domestic and global economic contraction, and   
   widespread spikes in unemployment. None of that happened."   
      
   In fact, inflation is way down from what it was during the Biden   
   administration, the stock market is setting new records, gas prices have   
   dropped way below what they were during the Biden years, and prices for   
   groceries are starting to fall, though less quickly. Karabell writes:   
   "2025 ends on a positive note for the economy, in terms of the numbers and   
   relative to expectations in April. That should be celebrated."   
      
   It would be if Democrats and the media were honest. Don't look for them to   
   change their tune. Don't expect any editorials that say "we were wrong and   
   Trump was right." Instead, expect the media and Democrats channeling the   
   Gilda Radner character Emily Litella on a long ago "Saturday Night Live."   
   When confronted by Chevy Chase that her editorial response was wrong, she   
   responded "never mind."   
      
   Being a liberal means never having to say you were wrong, much less   
   apologize. Consider what New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman   
   wrote after Donald Trump was first elected president in 2016: "Now comes   
   the mother of all adverse effects -- and what it brings with it is a   
   regime that will be ignorant of economic policy and hostile to any effort   
   to make it work. So we are very probably looking at a global recession,   
   with no end in sight."   
      
   Krugman doubled down on his prediction of economic disaster if Trump was   
   reelected in 2024. Wrong again.   
      
   Never mind.   
      
   The refusal to credit the other party or a person with a different   
   philosophy when successful is a major reason polls show voter disgust with   
   and distrust of Washington and the media. Nothing changes because voters   
   keep electing mostly the same people and even though ratings for the   
   mainstream media remain low, most who practice what was once called the   
   craft of journalism share the same worldview.   
      
   The line Democrats and the media are now promoting is that people aren't   
   "feeling" the improved economy. When they start to feel it, likely by next   
   spring, what will their line be then? One safe prediction is they will   
   find something else, hoping Democrats will win congressional majorities   
   and restart the investigation and impeachment machine.   
      
   Should anyone dare to challenge how wrong these false prophets have been   
   in the past and even the present, don't expect to hear or read any self-   
   reflection, much less an apology, or admission of error. Better for them   
   to ignore success and stick with the Epstein files, even if their wishful   
   thinking should fail to tie Trump to any illegal behavior, making for an   
   unhappy 2026.   
      
      
   --   
   November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look   
   forward to America being great again.   
      
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama   
   / Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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