Turns out the instances of us being right are stacking up.
That is, for crusty, conservative, lovably-ornery folks of our ilk.
(My late father-in-law once refused to debate a guy “of your ilk” in an Oklahoma bar. To which the guy replied, “You callin' me an ILK?”)
This week the new geniuses in Washington, (our side) announced that we probably shouldn't be recommending COVID vaccinations for little kids after all. They tend not to get COVID, and if they do, it's mild.
Go, our ilk!
Our guy, Trump, was in charge when the much-ballyhooed (nobody ballyhoos like Trump) “Warp Speed” project came up with a vaccine. But the drug companies – who didn't like our guy – wouldn't announce it until a week after the election, to screw our guy.
And it worked. He lost.
So that put the great orator of our times, Kamala Harris, in the vice presidency. And suddenly the woman who said before the election that she wouldn't be caught dead taking our guy's vaccine, started spouting the company line that everyone had to get vaccinated. Biden said if you took the the vaccine, you wouldn't get COVID (wrong) and you wouldn't give it to anyone else (wrong again).
Their side viewed it as an act of patriotism, or maybe just mandatory obedience, that we take the vaccine, and people lost their jobs because of it. A columnist in our local paper said those who didn't get vaccinated should be “made villains.”
Glad someone talked us out of taking the vaccine – still labeled “experimental” today – especially in light of the heart valve job I had to get a couple years ago.
So our side was right in our vaccine skepticism. And now both the FBI and CIA say, despite claims that it evolved naturally, COVID most likely escaped from that leaky lab in Wuhan, China, which we suspected all along. And we all got sick as a result of scientists fooling around with stuff better left alone.
Their side's guy – Obama- wanted nothing to do with playing around with deadly viruses. But the scientists in his own agencies reportedly weren't about to be told what to do by a mere president. So they figured out a way to fund “gain of function” research anyway.
And it looks like our own tax dollars played a part in making us all sick.
You'd think we'd be a lot madder about that than we are, making us sick and all. But governments can be amazingly stupid and stubborn, and today their side torches Teslas at the mere suggestion that our bloated federal bureaucracy might not be perfect in every way.
And now, in the biggest “we were right” moment of all, even their side is finally agreeing that Joe Biden was losing his marbles at a startling rate throughout his nightmare presidency.
My wife – a health care professional who spent plenty of time around old people, and people who had lost some or all of their marbles – announced over breakfast, early in the Biden administration, “No way that guy's getting elected to a second term. No way.”
And now, Jake Tapper, the guy who scolded Lara Trump for suggesting that Biden had cognitive problems, and accused her of mocking Biden's childhood stutter, has written a book documenting Biden's cognitive decline, and what it did to his presidency. Somewhere along the line Jake had an epiphany. Or he's a huge hypocrite.
So there have been plenty of opportunities for our side to say we were right, about vaccines, COVID, and the state of Joe's marbles.
(Looks like they kept his prostate cancer under their hats for years, because it would end his political career, making today's prognosis more grim than it had to be. It could have been treated successfully years ago, and you have to wonder why Dr. Jill Biden didn't intercede years ago, for the good of her husband.)
AND LASTLY, let me add one more small item.
The price of a dozen eggs – which some on their side predicted would go up under Trump - dropped another 51 cents this week at my local Walmart in Cheyenne, to $2.96.
No indications so far of our side getting tired of being right.
Dave Simpson can be reached at: DaveSimpson145@hotmail.com
