2022 has been an fascinating 12 months. Submit-Trump, post-COVID America hasn’t been all that it was cracked as much as be.
For thousands and thousands of Individuals, historic inflation, a teetering financial system and a persistent malaise has taken its toll.
Keep in mind the predictions of the roaring 20s? They’ve turned out to be extra just like the raging 20s and now, with one other presidential election looming, I am sorry to say, buckle up as a result of it is going to get bumpy – once more.
However all will not be misplaced. As we glance ahead with optimism, let’s first look again at those that made 2022 a tumultuous 12 months brimming with promise for higher days.
Winners Checklist:
1. Governor Ron DeSantis
If the mainstream media had it out for any Republican lawmaker in America, it was Ron DeSantis. And that is simply the best way he needs it.
From the nationwide uproar over Florida’s ‘Parental Rights in Training Act’ to pandemic insurance policies that bucked the pattern, DeSantis always discovered himself on the heart of the nationwide dialog. However for all of the crucial consideration he obtained, he got here out on high.
DeSantis received re-election in Florida’s gubernatorial race by the biggest margin in Florida in 40 years. He demonstrated that preventing the tradition wars with the identical fervor because the left could be a successful political technique.
He’s the Republican Social gathering’s Golden Boy and the 2024 GOP nomination is his to lose.
If the mainstream media had it out for any Republican lawmaker in America, it was Ron DeSantis. And that is simply the best way he needs it.
2. Ukraine
This subsequent choice on this winner’s listing may simply have been numbered with the losers. Ukraine has misplaced an estimated 100,000 troopers and 40,000 civilians in the midst of its struggle towards Russia. There’s motive to mourn for the nation and its folks.
However bear in mind how the 12 months started for this former Soviet satellite tv for pc and its comedian-turned-politician president.
What was purported to be a simple victory for Vladimir Putin has turn into an indication of Russian weak point and dysfunction. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inspirational handle to a joint session of Congress revealed a deep, bipartisan dedication to the Ukrainian trigger.
The struggle has floor to a stalemate and it’s unclear how the carnage ends, however within the eyes of the world the Ukrainians are heroes.
3. Joe Biden
I do know – I am shocked by this selection as nicely.
Regardless of his traditionally low approval rankings, tendency to placate the worst impulses of the progressive left, and his absolute laundry listing of gaffes, lies and fumbles – Joe Biden emerged from 2022 in a robust place.
Like Mr. Magoo, he one way or the other managed to blindly stumble previous falling anvils and dashing automobiles to steer the Democratic Social gathering to a strong midterm efficiency, sustaining management of the U.S. Senate and solely narrowly shedding the Home. The shock election outcomes left the Home Republican caucus in full chaos with no clear chief.
For now, Biden has silenced the general public debate over whether or not or not he ought to run for re-election and heading into 2024 the mainstream lapdog media will proceed giving him a go.
4. Tom Cruise
2022 wasn’t all politics and struggle – fortunately.
The film star lives!
On the ripe outdated age of 60, Tom Cruise made historical past. His film ‘High Gun: Maverick’ turned on the afterburners and have become Paramount’s highest grossing film ever taking in $1.2 billion globally.
Cruise is really certainly one of America’s final nice film stars with the gravitas to place followers within the theater seats. In an period the place actors shove their predominantly left-wing politics down viewers’ throats, ‘High Gun: Maverick’ and Cruise are a throwback to a different time.
Let’s hope that Cruise’s industrial success convinces extra Hollywood producers to depart their woke politics on the movie show doorways and begin producing content material that each one Individuals can take pleasure in.
On the ripe outdated age of 60, Tom Cruise made historical past. His film ‘High Gun: Maverick’ turned on the afterburners and have become Paramount’s highest grossing film ever taking in $1.2 billion globally.
5. Prince William and Kate Middleton
If Harry and Meghan satisfied thousands and thousands all over the world to query the British Royal household, Prince William and Kate Middleton have restored the religion.
In a 12 months marked by turmoil, they’ve remained steadfast of their dedication to the Crown. Will and Kate helped their nation mourn the lack of a generational chief in Queen Elizabeth II and they’re doing their half to usher in a brand new period beneath King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla.
At a time when so many search consideration by claiming victimhood, Will and Kate have embraced accountability. Fairly frankly, the royal household could be misplaced with out them, and I stay up for watching what they do in 2023.
If Harry and Meghan satisfied thousands and thousands all over the world to query the British Royal household, Prince William and Kate Middleton have restored the religion.
Losers Checklist:
1. Donald Trump
The rollout of Trump’s 2024 White Home run couldn’t have gone worse.
After positioning himself as a ‘kingmaker’ within the 2022 midterms, practically each Senate candidate that he endorsed misplaced. Trump adopted that embarrassing self-inflicted political face plant with an equally humiliating lackluster re-election announcement at Mar-a-Lago.
And who can overlook his intimate dinner with anti-Semite Kanye West, white supremacist Nick Fuentes and throughout clown Milo Yiannopoulos? If that was not sufficient, Trump tricked the nationwide media into masking his December announcement of digital buying and selling playing cards.
It is clear that Trump has misplaced his contact. Every little thing that labored for him in 2016 has poisoned the nicely for 2024. America is able to transfer on (see Ron DeSantis above).
The rollout of Trump’s 2024 White Home run couldn’t have gone worse.
2. Vice President Kamala Harris
A whopping 53% of Individuals maintain an unfavorable opinion of the present vp. That places Kamala Harris in the identical league as Donald Trump.
Biden tapped Harris to be the White Home border czar and the looming disaster has spiraled into some of the damaging failures of the administration up to now.
There’s a fixed rotation of high-level staffers out of her workplace – twelve to be precise. And it was even reported in Chris Whipple’s guide ‘The Battle of His Life’ that Biden has been irritated with Harris’ poor efficiency and referred to as her ‘a piece in progress.’
Then there are the cringy public appearances. Harris can’t appear to make it by means of a talking occasion with out awkwardly laughing like Joaquin Phoenix in ‘The Joker’ or spouting off some incomprehensible phrase salad.
One factor is for sure, any aspirations she had of ever changing into president are utterly off the desk.
3. Harry and Meghan
2022 began with Harry and Meghan’s recognition at a excessive water mark. After their bombshell interview with Oprah in March 2021, they inked multi-million greenback offers with Netflix, Spotify and Penguin Random Home.
In return, they spilled the royal household beans. The Sussexes seemingly traded of their lives as royals for starring roles in their very own actuality leisure empire – culminating in a six half, six hour Netflix docuseries.
And it was a public relations flop for Harry and Meghan. The crucial evaluations had been terrible. The viewers evaluations had been even worse.
Harry and Meghan recommended that they might disclose to America the inside workings of an institutionally racist British monarchy, however in the long run – America turned on them. The goodwill evaporated into skinny air.
2022 was the 12 months that Harry and Meghan misplaced America.
Even probably the most pro-Sussex publications modified their tunes. This week, the Washington DC insider web site Politico, deemed Markle a ‘narcissist,’ ranked her alongside Elon Musk, fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and Kayne West.
2022 was the 12 months that Harry and Meghan misplaced America.
4. Kanye West
We will all safely say that 2022 was additionally the start of the top of Kanye West’s profession.
Following a sequence of public tirades throughout which he spouted antisemitic nonsense, West was dropped by each model, file label and company related to him. We knew that West had really misplaced the plot when his insane ramblings grew to become an excessive amount of for, anticipate it, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
West is without doubt one of the nice musical geniuses of his technology, however sadly, he’ll extra possible be without end generally known as some of the unhinged celebrities of all time.
All of us hope for West and his household that he finds peace, seeks remedy and a life away from the highlight in 2023.
We will all safely say that 2022 was additionally the start of the top of Kanye West’s profession.
5. Twitter
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has revealed to be true what many have lengthy suspected – that sure Silicon Valley tech firms are biased towards Republicans, conservatives and just about anybody who doesn’t repeat the Democratic Social gathering line.
From the censorship of reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer to the silencing of public well being professionals who questioned the knowledge of COVID lockdown insurance policies, Twitter, in cooperation with highly effective authorities pursuits, manipulated public discourse.
Whereas extra unbiased reporting is required earlier than I can attain agency conclusions, these have been chilling revelations. If the FBI and different U.S. legislation enforcement businesses took it upon themselves to behave as speech police with out oversight – then all of us should thank Musk for blowing the lid off a real menace to American democracy.
On this approach, Twitter’s loss is America’s acquire.
And with that I hope everybody a contented New 12 months – and provide a toast to a extra peaceable, extra affluent and fewer aggravating 2023!
