Dear Friends,
It seems to me, this year, 2020 is going to be a rootin tootin year. There are so many swinging swords of Damocles with fraying threads, no one knows which one will fall, the election should turn out to be quite a show stopper what with the open vote fraud, rigging, busing voters and tampering that the democrats will do. In space the paradigm could be shifted again with more companies entering the commercial space economy. With the economic expansion being the longest in history, will it continue expanding in 2020, or has it already began to go into recession? This year starts with riots across the planet. Even as war rocks the Middle East again. Every year portends to be momentous, but I would say that 2020 is shaping up to be a bang up year for the news cycle.
Politically, the impeachment of Donald Trump will get all the news at the beginning of the year, but will be relegated to a side show later on. The real show stopper this year will be what will Barr and Durham do? Will they charge the too big to be charged, with the crimes they are obviously guilty of, or will they cover up for them… as the Inspector General did? If Charges do flow from the Department of “justice,” will they hold top officials accountable… or make examples of the janitors? If top officials are charged, there will be a firestorm. The media that calls itself unbiased will lose it. They will scream like scalded cats, but in unison, at the outrage that people who are too big to punish, are being punished. Then there is the election… politically, 2020 will be a watershed year, for good or bad.
This year will be the biggest in history for vote fraud. The democrat’s scorched earth policy against their political foes leaves them no choice. They have alienated the American people, and so they will need fraudulent votes, busing voters, election tampering, hacking… and have a few boxes of ballots already filled out like 2018, if they need them… to drag the democrats over the top. In places like California where the one party state has codified election rigging, democrats will again win in a landslide, regardless of the votes of the people. I predict this year will expose the open hatred the progressive faction has for the voter. So. look for huge scandals to break after the 2020 election, regarding every means of election tampering there is, as the media ties to cover them up.
If we are to believe the numbers, and we know what Wikileaks said about government economic numbers, we are in the longest economic expansion in history. Since it is the nature of an economy to expand, retract for a bit, then expand even further, we can expect a recession sometime… no matter what the people in power do. It is like jumping off a cliff and expecting to fly. Even as many economists claim the planet is already in recession. With record money printing by the central banks of the world, coupled with mind boggling debt, both government and private, we could be looking at a major correction in 2020. Nevertheless, if a recession does happen this year, the government’s response will be critical to the next economic expansion.
On a more positive note, in space, we stand to watch another paradigm shift happen before our very eyes. Space X has completely upended the old paradigm of throwing away rockets after the first use and has made them reusable. That paradigm shift hasn’t even penetrated the marketplace and Space X is doing it again. If they can bring off Starship and Superheavy, Musk will have in one step made Heinlein’s Space Family Stone possible. There will be inventions that we cannot imagine, crimes against humanity, and there could be natural disasters. The small waves that propagate history, sometimes combine to make a tsunami of change, 2020 may be such a year. The US election, Pacific tension, economy, space, Middle East wars, European collapse… all say this will be an interesting year.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
