
With only a few days left of 2022, and, with seemingly nothing more that Ex-and-Wannabe-Again-POTUS (XWAP)could possibly say to rivet Life in the Boomer Lane’s attention, he has gone and done it again. His Christmas Eve Rant was an eye opener, not because he trashed the usual suspects, while glorifying himself, but because he has finally revealed himself to be clairvoyant.
For those who put the word “clairvoyant” into the general basket of psychics, tarot card readers, past life regressors, mediums, speaking-to-the-dead folks, horoscope readers, automatic writers, reiki masters, fortune tellers, extra sensory perceptionists, people who move stuff without touching it, and vegans, we must clarify what it actually means to be clairvoyant.
A clairvoyant is a person who has a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact. This is big. This is Nostradamus stuff. This goes way beyond any other kind of psychic ability. And for a POTUS-type human PTH), this could have an impact on the entire planet. This POTUS-type human, knowing everything that would happen, could either take action to prevent bad shit from happening, or if, in spite of some mighty fine films that depict that, The PTH would at least be able to prepare us for bad shit. Wars could be totally avoided, or, at the very least, people could be told exactly when the war would start and they could make plans to be elsewhere. Back in olden times, disease would have been eradicated, or, at the very least, everyone would be told to bathe regularly and watch out for rats.
Let’s take COVID, for instance. We could have averted the entire thing. Or, we could have been told by XWAP that we didn’t really have to zap our mail in the microwave or out it in quarantine for several days before opening it. We didn’t have to drive around with all of our groceries in the trunk for a week or scrubbing it down with disinfectant before eating anything. We could have been told that we really did have to wear masks and stay away from others and get the vaccine as soon as it came out. And, mst important of all, he could have passed on re-Tweeting the false COVID claims spewed by Dr Immanuel. All of this would have avoided a lot of misery and anger and death.
Then let’s look at the 2020 election. Here was POTUS’ biggest failure. He would have known what would happen, and he could have prepared for it, to make sure the results were in his favor. Of course, that would mean we would have four more years of the rabid dog constantly biting our ankles, so maybe that was for the best. LBL will let that one ride.
And, of course, there were lots of more mundane things. LBL remembers the day a photo was snapped of XWAP’s head being subjected to a rogue gust of air and the entire do being catapulted into the air. Why didn’t he just wear a hat that day? And why didn’t he tell Melania to ditch the “I really don’t care” jacket and substitute it for one that proclaimed “I really care a lot.”
LBL has been thinking a lot about all this, when she isn’t staring at the mountains of holiday cookies, chocolate, banana bread, Hanukkah gelt, and ice cream, that seem to keep getting larger as each day goes by. She especially thinks about the amount of time, money, and emotional energy spent in all the impeachment hearings, research, document creation, sexual molestation victim testimonies, and media reports regarding all the never-ending nefarious activities of our XWAP. Instead, everyone should have been focused on the most important item: We had a POTUS who knew about everything before it would happen. Why didn’t he share this with us? If LBL had these types of abilities, she might have happily changed her aversion to large Halloween pumpkins before such aversion resulted in her breaking her neck trying to sidestep one.
Keith
December 28, 2022
Renee, great post. Michael Lewis penned a well-researched book called “The Premonition: a pandemic story” which speaks with a cadre of people who were no longer in federal government roles who informally came together to research the COVID pandemic and offer input. Eventually, people in the administration started listening to them, but would often not follow their guidance.
In short, fighting a pandemic is a lot like fighting a forest fire – you have to contain it at all costs. Overtime, the data reveals that shutting schools down first is a very effective solution as kids sit too close to each other in class and pass the germs back and forth. They also shared the data tends to lag what is happening. For example, by the time travel from China was shut down, COVID was already here. And, one key failure was not testing folks who did leave a second time once they landed in the US and isolating and tracking them. This was an abysmal failure in judgment.
The failures were many, but the naysaying and not shooting straight with people from the outset was harmful. In fact, the former president held several pep rallies in February, 2020 after he confirmed later he was told of the COVID risk earlier that month. He put his most loyal followers in danger without their knowledge just to hear applause.
To his credit, he did later push hard for the vaccine creation, but the naysaying still harms us to this day and was at odds with that direction.
Keith
Life in the Boomer Lane
December 30, 2022
The forest fire analogy is a good one. And, as awful as Trump was, I don’t think any president could have gone through this without some missteps. Hopefully, we have learned something from all this. And hopefully, the next one won’t be even more powerful.
Keith
December 30, 2022
Renee, well said. An epidemiologist noted that one key requirement to success in better handling pandemics is to shoot straight with people, which was not done here. They would then listen and cooperate if told the truth, not the political convenient truth.
Many of this cadre of experts had been pulled together by George W. Bush for a pandemic preparedness planning effort. By the time the last former president came along and let many folks go on top of Obama letting some go, we had little knowledge in the administration on what to do. These folks informally studied the COVID issue beginning in December, 2019 and started tracking it and letting some folks know it was coming.
“60 Minutes” reported later there was a mask manufacturer in January, 2020 who said to the White House he had four production lines idled (because of buyers shifting to cheaper overseas masks) that he could get started in a few days with some funding. The White House did not get back to him, so he followed up and was told they were not interested. As late as February 27, 2020 the last former president was telling his biggest fans it was still a Democrat hoax and would blow over. That was the date of the first known death, but likely masked there were 200 more at that time. Then the word exponentiate hits and the virus took off and the deaths mounted.
We missed so much time to stave off more of the virus affect and failed. And, you are right any administration would have issue, because another key is to admit what is not working and change tactics. Keith
Twindaddy
December 28, 2022
See, none of that matters. He’s as bad a clairvoyant as he was a president and business man. BUT…for some reason, his base consumes his BS without question. But what if he IS clairvoyant and is simply doing everything he does to lead us to civil war so he can get what he really wants? Dictatorship and the expulsion of the constitution.
Life in the Boomer Lane
December 30, 2022
It’s a horrible thought, all right. I’m less inclined to believe that, given recent events and the awareness that the mayhem-advocating voices on social media are actually bots and human bots. Dealing with those should be our target.
David
December 29, 2022
I said this before and I’ll say it again… Without the 70-80M+ base of nutcases XWAP would have never been POTUS… In at least a minimalists’ perspective XWAP is just as scary and despotic as is his Russian counterpart… Maybe more so… the 40ft sloop is getting every more ready… Your post was perfect for a: year-in-review… (a horror story)…
Life in the Boomer Lane
December 30, 2022
Fascinating and scary to think of what will become of these folks when he is gone. Will they just drift off and become absorbed by other groups, like the Maya, or will they start their own cult of T? Or will they all become avid wrestling fans, hoping to catch a glimpse of him at a match?