Biggest losers of 2022

2022 had way more losers than winners...

Coming in with a dishonorable mention - The GOP Senate

Well can be no question that Mitch and the rest of the GOP Senate grasped defeat from the jaws of victory in the 2022 midterms. While some will point to bad candidates, one cannot help but wonder what would have happened if McConnell had put more effort in getting people like Herschel Walker elected, rather than focusing on making sure RINO Lisa Murkowski was not replaced with a real Conservative. But the midterm election aside, the GOP showed no backbone this year and several members of the caucus voting in the 1.7 trillion dollar spending bill at the end of the year just puts a stamp on how poorly they did in 2022.

Also receiving a dishonorable mention - Doctor Fauci

Fauci has arguably been a bigger loser the past couple of years, but overall much of it came to a head in 2022 We found out that he has been outright lying about everything from his own investing in gain of function testing, to hiding the origins of Covid, to literally conspiring with social media to shut down honest medical advice that he preferred not be provided. Meanwhile the reality is that we are finding out that our Covid response was statistically one of the worst of all first world countries. The man went from maybe the most well respected medical adviser in the world to a man whose corruption and incompetence is still being unpeeled layer by layer.

Another dishonorable mention - Donald Trump

I might take some heat on this one, but Trump had a bad year. You cannot hide from the fact that his endorsements of several candidates probably did more than even the old guard GOP establishment to ensure that the GOP did not retake the Senate or win a larger House majority. You cannot also not hide the fact that his legal problems have escalated to the point where there is another special council in place. He has arguably lost his status as GOP frontrunner to Ron DeSantis which may matter more to hm than anything else. Lastly, the Democrats releasing his tax returns on the last business day of the year just puts another bow on top of the poor year he has had.

Coming in at 5th place - the Crypto FXT scandal

Who knew that crypto was largely a scam or at least had the inherent ability to become a scam? Well probably many reasonable investors who were not out to make a quick buck certainly did. But apparently this slid by many, many Americans who have now lost billions due to the fraud of FXT and their faithful leader Sam Bankman-Fried. Bankman-Fried is out on bail right now, but is expected to lose at trial and spend quite some time in jail. Meanwhile millions of people across the globe will have lost unknown amounts of money in this and other similar investments.

Coming in at 4th place - Liz Cheney

Well I suppose Cheney could write a book called "how to blow a promising political career over spite and hate". I am guessing it might sell a few copies. But Liz Cheney did just that in 2022. She blew it. Cheney was at one time talked about as a potential Republican Presidential candidate. Now the question is whether or not she even is a Republican. She lost her primary so she didn't even get a chance to move on to the General. Her participation in the Jan 6th commission was a disgrace and I am not sure where she goes from here? Possibly hunting with her dad?

Coming in at 3rd place - Jan 6th commission

When you turn to the page in the dictionary where it refers to the words "dud" and "embarrassment" I am pretty sure you see a picture of the Jan 6th commission. The commission might be getting a lifetime achievement award and likely would have remained for a lifetime had the Democrats stayed in charge for a lifetime. I mean, how many promises of exciting new never before released information can be provided without actually releasing anything new? Well because the commission is coming to a close we will never actually know. Because I am quite sure we would still be hearing about new evidence (that didn't actually exist) well into 2023 had they been allowed to continue.

First Runner Up - The FBI

Well on the same theme, if you go to the word "corruption" in the dictionary you will probably find this emblem staring back at you. Just when you didn't think it could get worse for the FBI, you find out that they have literally planted their people within the social media platform management to control what Americans are allowed to see and read. So after a few years of falsely accusing Presidents of colluding with the Russians, spying on Americans without due process, and all sort of other fun stuff, they have moved on to being our own version of the Nazi regime style thought police. Oh... and they got caught.

The 2022 loser of the year - Social Media

Parag Agrawal is pictured here and deservedly so. He ran Twitter for approximately a year and managed to take a 70 billion dollar company, run it into the ground, and then was forced by judiciary responsibility to sell it for 44 billion (a loss of 26 billion) to Elon Musk.

All in a year's work!

As we all well know now, Elon Musk has spent the past few weeks exposing the crazy partisan and childish manner in which the format was being run. But the most alarming thing was not how poorly Twitter was run, or how they politicized the format by colluding with our Democrats and others in government to control content, but rather the fact that Twitter was not alone in their politicization and unfair censoring of information. While Twitter was undoubtably the worse, Facebook and other platforms were also colluding with the same people to control what Americans were allowed to say or see.

And after lying, denying, deflecting, and otherwise stomping their collective feet like children... they also got caught... red-handed.

Anyways... I am sure there are plenty more I missed!

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