There are two things scheduled for next Monday. One is the football playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs. This game will not be shown on national television unless you pay for Peacock Streaming service. It used to be that DirectTV had a monopoly on “out of market broadcasts.” Now ESPN has games, Apple TV has Games, YouTube has games and even Peacock has games. There are reports Peacock paid $100 million for this. It will be interesting to see how this works out.

Another factor is the weather. It is going to be brutally cold in Kansas City. The current forecast is for the temperature to be a high of 5f and a low of -5f. Normally we would love to watch that game, because we enjoy seeing multi-millionaire NFL spoiled brats suffer. But that does not mean I am willing to sign up for Peacock to watch one football game.

The other thing scheduled for Monday is the Iowa caucuses. The forecast for Kansas City is toasty compared to the forecast for Iowa. The high temperature is predicted to be 0f with a low of -12f. One notes that this forecast is for Des Moines, which is in the SOUTHERN half of Iowa. The northern Sun Belt, places like Mason City, Iowa will be even colder with a high of -3f and a low of – 10f. The wind speed will be about 16 mph, so it will feel even colder.

Remember in Iowa if you want to vote, you must show up, in person, at night. Ron DeSantis, who is from Florida, says his people are guaranteed to show up without regard to the weather. The MSM is convinced that Haley came out ahead in the debate last night. But the snap poll taken by the Dail Mail had 55% saying DeSantis won and 31% saying Haley one. Somebody is really wrong here.

By Tuesday morning either the KC Chiefs or the Miami Dolphins will be so yesterday. What will the NFL do if there are no more opportunities for Taylor Swift to showcase her ruby red ice-cold lips?

Meanwhile all those politicians and their supporting staff, who have been living in Iowa for what seems like forever will be leaving town on a Jet Plane. Don’t know when they’ll be back again. With this weather, no one will even pretend to hate to go. Suddenly on New Hampshire will matter, until that doesn’t matter either. The next really big day is probably Super Tuesday and by the end of March, odds are someone will be the Republican nominee. Most people assume that will be Donald Trump, but this is a time when things can change, literally overnight.

In the meantime, Democrats are terrified at the thought of another Biden – Harris ticket, but they keep looking for another sail, somewhere on the horizon, finding nothing. Those who were still clinging to the myth of Joe Biden being in charge had the illusion shattered when the Secretary of Defense was in the hospital, in ICU, and he never even bothered to tell Joe. At this point, it is unclear whether he told anyone. But then it’s not like the Secretary of Defense is an important cabinet position.

The bottom line is that the start of 2024 is already very, very cold and that is likely to make things very very hot. Ice hot!

TDM