(DC demonstration on Saturday. The Presidential motorcade paid a visit).
I am writing this morning with a heavy heart. I was wrong in a crucial prediction.

Don’t be alarmed. I stand by my previous predictions of a significant Trump win at midnight on election day. I was right. It was not until the votes flipped by algorithm to the Biden campaign in the Dominion voting machines and ancillary traditional bogus votes arrived during the early hours of the next morning. Our Congresswoman was reelected after trailing all night, and everyone else who voted late for the dynamic former Vice President, whose unrestrained campaigning convinced hundreds of thousands of voters to show up late to election day.

I will not proclaim the accuracy of my prediction until someone with actual authority declares a President elect. At this point, I have to say that The Plan is going pretty well, and my applause to its architects. It is entirely possible that we could see a President Biden for a while, with the Senate tied and Vice President Harris (in her role as President of the Senate) casting the deciding vote on all sorts of exciting legislation. It will be great progress, and will help ensure we are no longer troubled by chief executives who actually improve the economy, avoid wars in places I would not return to on a bet, and who lower taxes while defending our various borders.

Whew.

But my point in following all this highly humorous carnival has been to determine if it is safe to venture out to try to work, if our Governor says it is OK to do so. I made my prediction for “safety” for DC area commuters this week on the assumption that the BLM/Antifa folks would be told to stay out of view until the threat of public disorder was again welcome to the new leadership.

What I discounted was the obvious.

Demonstrations through the summer of this depressing year were composed mostly of partisans for the left. I thought the Charlottesville confrontation early on with the fascists marching with torches to defend a statue of Robert E. Lee was an odd thing. Being rooted in the past, I thought it was likely a false flag. My suspicions seemed to be confirmed over the rest of the riotous summer, with crowds running up a couple billion dollars in property damages in “mostly peaceful” protests.

The right seemed to mostly confine big crowds to rallies conducted by Mr. Trump. With his media-declared defeat, I thought things would be quiet this week as the many moving parts continue to move. Supporters of the current president announced large, peaceful demonstrations in Washington DC this weekend, and whether directed or inspired, the BLM and Antifa crowds showed up to attack them. It was only commercial-grade fireworks and random opportunistic beatings. That has been the fashion this season, and there may be more to come today.

Mayor Bowser is all in with some “emergency” edicts that would curtail any demonstrations not favorable to her rule, but people showed up anyway, just as other people did all summer. She did not protest then. I would have to look at my notes to be sure.

So, an update is required. If you are commuting across the District on this partly cloudy Sunday, avoid crowds. Or join one of them.

It is adding to the general sense of merriment in the overturning of a couple million votes, which we are told didn’t happen.

It is almost like people don’t trust their own government any more. I have felt that way before, but it was in 1968.

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