tter. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now.

Terrific. Well, let's jump right into it, shall we?

Apparently I'm very good at guessing how many calendars I'll sell in a year because we got right up to the limit. But there are still a few more. So I wouldn't wait if you don't have your Dilbert calendar. Amazon.com is the only place you can get it.

How about some end-of-year predictions? I always hate those, but they seem traditional. I'm going to say the obvious. 2026 will be the year of the self-driving car. I don't believe there will be robot butlers. So I'm going to say no robot butlers yet. I think the economy will surprise us, but I don't know which direction. It'll either be better than we think or worse than we think. No one can predict the economy.

Further, I predict that the topic of election rigging will become a much bigger story. And if you haven't caught up with Patrick Byrne, he was the CEO of Overstock.com. If you don't know his story, you really should catch up to it because I don't know what's true. I have no idea if his version of events captures what really happened, but he's very convincing. He's been saying it for a while, but now I think he can say it and people can run with it. So he's got this story about Venezuela being involved with the voting machines, Chinese components, and a Serbian data center. They got taken down just before they could influence the election in 2024. Is any of that true? I don't know. But I gotta say, he's very credible sounding and there's nothing about him that suggests he's making it up and he does seem to know. So I feel like this will be the year he breaks through to make that a bigger story.

And then I think the fact that we know everything else in the world is rigged as we're watching all these stories about corruption, I think that makes it easier for people to believe that the elections were rigged because I've been saying something now for a while, a few years, that nobody else picks up on. Have you noticed this? This is what I say. I say, "What are the odds that every other institution is corrupt, but our elections are not?" What are the odds of that? If you didn't know anything about election security, you'd never seen any story about it. How would you believe that it's not corrupt when everything else is?

Now, I might have been a little ahead of the game. Because the other thing I say which sets you up for that thing I just said is that whenever you have the following situation, you have corruption. There's a lot of money involved. There's lots of people involved. The stakes are high. Money or power. And you just wait because there's and assume there's no audit control because even where there are audits the audits don't catch stuff as we've seen. So if you take that as your starting point that everything is corrupt and that there's a reason built into why it's corrupt. It's not chance. It's not a weird coincidence. It's that everything that has that element to it always becomes corrupt every time.

Now add to that what I've also been saying. What is the reason for electronic voting machines? What would be the legitimate reason? And there is none. The only reason for voting machines is to cheat because they're not cheaper. They're not more reliable. They're not faster. They're not anything. So put those three axioms together, right? Everything that has this nature is rigged or fraudulent. Voting machines don't have any other purpose that we can see. And then elections sort of just fall into that category. You know, the thing that can't be explained unless there's massive fraud going on.

Now, that doesn't mean that the only fraud is the machines. It would suggest that in every way that an election can be rigged, probably is. Now, I do not claim that the only bad people in the country are Democrats, but maybe it doesn't seem likely that the only bad people are Democrats, but in my bubble, that's true.

Well, David Moss, a user on X, just completed a self-driving Tesla to drive across the entire United States without ever engaging with the car. So this was the day that somebody drove the entire coast to coast and didn't touch the steering wheel. That includes parking. It includes supercharging. So it's pretty easy to predict that this will be the year of the self-driving car.

All right, here's a question I asked myself. How many fake news stories will I fall for in the coming year? So apparently the other day, maybe yesterday, I posted, I reposted, but to my credit with skepticism, a story about som